Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
Ann Sothern: Frances Cooke
Quotes
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Dick Smith : All right if I smoke now?
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Go ahead, if you think you're so hot.
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Photographer : Hey, what's your name - I told you to hold her there.
Dick Smith : The name's Smith.
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : You sure it isn't locksmith?
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : My father used to say, "A smart man knows that money can buy anything, so he doesn't have to prove it."
Dick Smith : Well, mine used to say, "Money makes a man go for it."
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Uh, Mr. Philbean. Mr. Smith is thinking of quitting.
Lucius Philbean - Dick's Valet : Oh, really? I hardly think so.
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Oh, yes. He's got a better offer.
Lucius Philbean - Dick's Valet : Oh, that's fine. I could secure droves of turkey gobblers.
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Baron Enrico Torene : On the mezzanine is the wonderful egg show.
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Egg show? Oh, I thought you said wonderful late show.
Baron Enrico Torene : Oh, si, si. Marvelous egg show. I hope you already have had a good dinner. For perhaps the lecture, she's a bit lately.
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Oh, gee, Gwen. I wish I could wear this dress out tonight.
Gwen : Well, why don't you? Your boss'll never know. He's too full of emolument.
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : This stuff'll nail your hair right into your scalp.
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Gwen : [Hearing the telephone ring] Ooow, somebody's calling.
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Ooow, goodie.
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Besides, I don't go out with guys that earn seven fifty and day - some days.
Gwen : Hmmm, but in the end you'll run true to form. Some big slug'll come along that needs mothering, and you'll wake up one morning and find you've taken on the job for life.
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Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Male models all look alike to me - million dollar profiles and dollar and a quarter brains.
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Dick Smith : You mean you'd really go to bat for me?
Frances 'Cookie' Cooke : Well, you were nice to get me my job. Anyway, you're such a nitwit that you need a manager.