Kathryn Grayson credited as playing...
Magnolia Hawks
- Gaylord Ravenal: [borrowing Magnolia's jewels so that he can pawn them] Don't worry darling, it's only temporary. I'll get them back for you.
- Magnolia: Everything can be temporary - -except us.
- Magnolia: [to Gaylord Ravenal] I know there's no other woman. No flesh-and-blood woman! I always wished there were. I'd know how to fight that. But I can't fight this Lady Luck of yours, this - fancy queen in her green felt dress. When you talked about her just now, I can't put that look in your eyes. She's whipped me. For days and nights now, and weeks and months, she's whipped me and I won't be whipped anymore!
- Gaylord Ravenal: Why do you want to be an actress?
- Magnolia: Why? Well, I mean, well, the ordinary person wouldn't understand. I mean, that is, a person outside the profession.
- Gaylord Ravenal: No? Well, you want to be an actress because it makes everything become true - every exciting thing you ever heard about, even if its make believe. Isn't that it?
- Magnolia: Yes, that is it. How did you know?
- Gaylord Ravenal: For instance, right now, you'd like to be Romeo and Juliet.
- Magnolia: How are your others?
- Gaylord Ravenal: Huh? What's that, honey?
- Magnolia: Your other bets! Yesterday's and last night's and all those "one last round before we break it up" bets! Were they just as good?
- Magnolia: Why do you love Steve so much? The way you were just now, for instance.
- Julie: Oh, Steve, I love him because - oh, I don't know, I - he's not a very good actor onstage. You know, he's not a very good actor offstage either. But, he's *all* mine - and, sometimes, his eyes are like a little boys.
- Magnolia: There! Could you ever think of loving anyone else?
- Julie: [singing] Oh listen, sister, I love my mister man and I can't tell you why, Dere ain't no reason why I should love dat man, It must be sumpin' dat de angels done plan...
- Magnolia: He's a no account river rat who's been botherin' Julie and she'd have nothing to do with him! He's mean and he's ugly!
- Gaylord Ravenal: [singing] Couldn't you?
- Magnolia: Couldn't I?
- Gaylord Ravenal, Magnolia: Couldn't we?
- Gaylord Ravenal: Make believe our lips are blending, In a phantom kiss, or two, or three...
- Jake Green: What kinda songs do you sing?
- Magnolia: Eh, negro songs, mostly, and spirituals.
- Jake Green: Jazzbo singer, huh?