Baby Face Harrington (1935)

Charles Butterworth: Willie Harrington

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Quotes 

• Millicent : Oh, Willie, you've got to wake up. Other men are doing things, why can't you?

  Willie : Well, what about our home? We've got a car and a radio and a vacuum cleaner.

  Millicent : There's a mortgage on - on the home! The vacuum cleaner's worn out and the car's practically a wreck!

  Willie : The radio okay?

• Willie : Now, you ought not keep a loaded gun around the house like this. You can never tell. It might have bullets in it.

• Willie : I kinda thought if I got in my pajamas, they wouldn't take me to jail.

• Millicent : Oh, here they are now. Oh, Judge, I'm so glad.

  Ronald : I had to go down to the picture show to get him.

  Willie : Oh, it's Jean Harlow tonight, isn't it?

• Willie : I robbed a man.

  Mullens : You what?

  Willie : Stuck him up. Clipped him for two Gs.

• Willie : I got a sort of a press clipping here.

  Mullens : Let's see it.

  Willie : This fella says I got a spilt personality.

  Mullens : Oh, you mean a sissy.

  Willie : Oh, no, it's a term used by Psychiatrists.

• Willie : [tying a noose to hang himself] 

  Rocky : As long as you're going to do it yourself, let me see that knot. Well, that ain't no good. A friend of mine back in Kansas City hung hisself with a knot like this and just barely made it.

  Willie : Did he manage it single-handed?

  Rocky : No, not exactly. There was a couple other guys and the warden.