Sally (1929)

Marilyn Miller: Sally

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• Sally : Have you ordered?

  Otis Hooper : Let me see, let me see. Let me see, eh, cream of tomato soup? No. Chicken consume? No. Spaghetti, tomato salad and a glass of buttermilk.

  Sally : Yes sir.

  Otis Hooper : Hey, just a minute, What do you think? I forgot all about the baby here. Can you imagine that? What'll you have Rosie? Go easy.

  Rosie : I'll have chicken.

  Otis Hooper : A chicken sandwich.

  Rosie : Chicken a la Maryland. Who do you think you're out with? Your swell society dame at the Ten Spot?

  Otis Hooper : That's right, you're wrong again: Mrs. Ten Brock.

• Blair Farell : Sally Green is a pretty name.

  Sally : That isn't all of it. My full name is Sally Bowling Green.

• Blair Farell : How long have you been here?

  Sally : About a week.

  Blair Farell : If I'd a known that, I'd of met you about a week sooner.

• Sally : [singing]  I don't care for that thrill sensation, Everybody gets from aviation, All I want to do do do is dance...

• Sally : [singing]  Don't care for bridge or polo, Tennis or roulette, Don't want to sing a solo, In an operette, To play in melodrama, That would bore me, I can get my feet, To do my acting for me, All I want to do do do is dance.

• Sally : [after being spoken to in French, while impersonating as Madame Noskerova]  I'm sunk!

  Otis Hooper : Say, Oui.

  Sally : [to Mrs. Tim Brock]  Oui.

  Otis Hooper : Oh, yes, she's right. Oui, oui!

• 'Pops' Shendorff : You look as innocent as - as a primrose.

  Sally : [impersonating Madame Noskerova]  I am just the opposite of primrose! There is nothing prim about me.

• Sally : [singing while impersonating Madame Noskerova]  Look at me, No one knows, I'm just a wild, wild rose...

• Sally : [singing]  Here is a girl...

  Blair Farell : Here is the boy, Here is the moon, If I am dreaming, Don't wake me too soon.

• Sally : I see! As long as you thought I was a terrible person, you were crazy about me! But, now you're not interested in me any more. I'm not good enough for you!

• Otis Hooper : Cast a fond loving eye on that, honey.

  Sally : What is it?

  Otis Hooper : What is it? Why, it's a contract that features you in the Ziegfeld Follies!

• Otis Hooper : Listen, you know what this means? This is an opportunity of a lifetime! Why, you'll be the biggest hit on Broadway!

  Sally : You - think so, Ollie?

  Otis Hooper : Do I think so? I know it! This fellow, Ziggy, is just crazy about you!