Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Ginger Rogers: Glory Eden
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Quotes
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Glory Eden : I wanna sin and suffer, and now I'm only sufferin'.
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Glory Eden : I want a playboy.
Samuel Ipswich : A what?
Glory Eden : An international playboy. All the girls got 'em. I think they're cute.
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Glory Eden : Me, that's what I'm thinking of! Me! Dens of iniquity, gambling, dives... That's what I want!
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Glory Eden : Oh, I don't care what color he is as long as he takes me to Harlem.
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Elmerada de Leon : Now tell me everything. You can trust Elmerada. All the movie stars say, "You can trust Elmerada". I know them all. I eat with them, I sleep with them...
Glory Eden : You sleep with them?
Elmerada de Leon : [embarrassed, hand to mouth] Why...
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Jim Davey : Smokin' and drinkin' and...
Glory Eden : Smokin' and drinkin' and... men!
Jim Davey : And men? H... H... How many?
Glory Eden : Hmm, I don't remember. Hundreds!
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Glory Eden : [singing] My imaginary sweetheart, I imagine that you're real, You're everything I want you to be...
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Glory Eden : Yes, here we are! Other people are in nightclubs and speakeasies and Harlem! But, here we are!
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Glory Eden : I don't want to be a purity girl! I want to be like other girls! I want - I want a sweetheart!
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Herbert Childress : You better hurry dear and change.
Glory Eden : Change?
Herbert Childress : Your gown!
Glory Eden : What's the matter with it?
Herbert Childress : Elmerada will expect to see you in negligee.
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Glory Eden : I thought I'd drink champagne, and lobster, and wear a black velvet dress without any back, and long earrings, and - go to the devil! And you won't even take me to Harlem.
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Glory Eden : I like these Anglo Saxons!
Samuel Ipswich : Say, they are white, aren't they.
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Herbert Childress : When I've taken such pains!
Glory Eden : Well, you've certainly given plenty!
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Glory Eden : A little kitchen, with shining pots and pans, and Ginger Bread in the oven - that's the life I want.
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Glory Eden : Can I smoke? Can I drink? What about morality?
O'Connor : Absolutely no morality!
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Glory Eden : Hooray for hooch and Harlem!
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Jim Davey : Stop it!
Glory Eden : Make me! Make me! You great big - I'll dance if I like. If I want to dance - let go of me!
[Jim picks her up, places her over his knee, and starts spanking her behind]
Glory Eden : Stop it! Stop it!
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Glory Eden : Oh, I wish Jim were here. He just *loves* hot Ginger Bread!
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Glory Eden : But, I thought we were going to...
Jim Davey : I got everything greased!
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Jim Davey : [listening to Vera sing a jazzy version of "My Imaginary Sweetheart" on the radio] Say, she makes you feel kind of - they oughtin' a let her do that on the air.
Glory Eden : It's disgusting!
O'Connor : Think of it. Every man in the country listening to that creature - and in your place. It's an insult, really!