Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Glenda Farrell: Genevieve Larkin
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Quotes
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Hugo : Now, you know what to do, don't you?
Genevieve Larkin : Yes.
Morty Wethered : Well, if she doesn't, she's changed a lot in the last few days.
Genevieve Larkin : Oh, it's so hard to be good under the capitalistic system.
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Genevieve Larkin : What are you doing?
Norma Perry : I'm doing nothing in this world but looking for a job.
Genevieve Larkin : They don't advertise for chorus girls. They just whisper it.
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Genevieve Larkin : Six months ago, she was working for a seamstress. Now she's engaged to a broker.
Norma Perry : How'd she get such a break?
Genevieve Larkin : One day, my children, the broker ripped his pants. The rest is history. And I've come to the opinion she's got the right idea. That's only way to get ahead in this business.
Norma Perry : Work for a seamstress?
Genevieve Larkin : Yeah - no. Be a gold digger.
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Genevieve Larkin : Whoever heard of an insurance salesman with a dime?
Andy 'Boop' Oglethorpe : They have expense accounts - and we can get dinner. I never did like starving.
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Genevieve Larkin : What's life insurance got to do with a girl that looks like you?
Norma Perry : Well, it's a job.
Genevieve Larkin : If you get it. When they start passing out jobs in a mens washroom, a new day has dawned.
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Genevieve Larkin : What's Sally supposed to do? Twiddle her thumbs?
Morty Wethered : Sally can twiddle anything she wants.
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Andy Callahan : Do you type?
Genevieve Larkin : It's not one of the things I do best.
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Genevieve Larkin : Norma, I don't think this is the right place for you.
Norma Perry : Well, I'm sure it will be all right if Mr. Callahan will have me.
Andy Callahan : Okay. We'll give you a whirl. Salary is 22.50 a week.
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Morty Wethered : Gen, you've got to think of something, my mind is blank.
Genevieve Larkin : J.J. is likely to find that out too.
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Morty Wethered : Gen, you're a genius.
Genevieve Larkin : Just don't you forget it.
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Genevieve Larkin : Is that J.J. Hobart?
Morty Wethered : That's the guy.
Genevieve Larkin : That old fellow? Why, Morty, he's got two feet in the grave already.
Morty Wethered : Well, all we've got to do is to make him lie down in it.
Genevieve Larkin : Don't you worry. I'll have him pull the dirt in over him.
Morty Wethered : Good girl.
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Andy Callahan : I've tried out a lot of girls around here but none of them had any zip for an insurance agency. You've got it!
Genevieve Larkin : And I'm gonna keep it.
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Morty Wethered : I don't feel like napping just now, Miss...
Genevieve Larkin : Larkin. Genevieve Larkin.
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Genevieve Larkin : You can throw down that pencil of Commerce now and climb back into a pair of shorts.
Norma Perry : Why? What's happened?
Genevieve Larkin : Well, Mr. Wethered, the new boyfriend, is a partner of J.J. Hobart, the producer - and J.J. is putting on a show.
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Genevieve Larkin : Well, if anybody wants it, we'll find them.
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Genevieve Larkin : You make me so ashamed of myself.
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J.J. Hobart : What is it, tag day?
Genevieve Larkin : Oh, yes. Yes. And I can't do it, I really can't. You know, some of the girls have gone over their quota three times. But I just can't do a thing like that unless I really like the man.
J.J. Hobart : Oh, of course. Huh?
Genevieve Larkin : Well, it's all right for Mrs. Quimby, Mrs. Sage Quimby, to tell us how to do it. But after all, all she has to do is tell us.
J.J. Hobart : Exactly. Huh?
Genevieve Larkin : You see, the last time we had tag day, Mrs. Quimby got the idea of having a kissing booth in the bazaar. Then she thought that if we girls went out in public and did what the girls did in the booth, we'd sell more tags, you see? She made me promise and, oh, I just can't do it.
J.J. Hobart : No, that's all right. I'll buy a tag and you - you don't have to kiss me unless you want to.
Genevieve Larkin : Oh-oh, but I promised Mrs. Quimby!