Playmates (1941)

Patsy Kelly: Lulu Monahan

Quotes 

• Mr. Nelson Pennypacker : I agree with you. Barrymore's a great actor.

  Lulu Monahan : Oh, you can say that again. And when he's on the air for you, he'll sell more of your Vitamin L tablets...

  Mr. Nelson Pennypacker : Not Vitamin L, Vitamin A!

  Lulu Monahan : Well, they taste like L to me. Ha ha ha! Some joke, huh?

• John Barrymore : Kay Kyser. Kay Kyser! What Machiavellian mental gymnastics led you to associate me with an ether polluting, ear drum destroying, mob haranguing, buffoon - like Kay Kyser!

  Lulu Monahan : Will you stop screaming and listen for a minute.

  John Barrymore : Get away from me! Foul harpy! I have played "Hamlet" before Kings and Queens. Had them groveling at me feet in abject worship.

  Lulu Monahan : Yes, I know that...

  John Barrymore : And you sacrilegiously affiliate me magic name with a barefoot bumpkin, a bifocal billy goat, from the hills of North Carolina! Where to this day, civilization has not yet penetrated.

• Lulu Monahan : Hey, Mister, want to dance?

  Peter Lindsay : Well, call me a Zulu, if it isn't LuLu. Hello, Irish. How are you?

  Lulu Monahan : Still, punchy, Pete.

• Mr. Nelson Pennypacker : Kay Kyser, now, if I could get him for my radio program...

  Lulu Monahan : Well, you can't, so relax. But, you can get Barrymore!

  Mr. Nelson Pennypacker : So you've been telling me.

  Lulu Monahan : Ah, look, Mr. Pennypacker, if you wanna make your vitamin tablets a class product, you need an artist like my client. Why, you should have seen him in Shakespeare's "Thirteenth Night."

  Mr. Nelson Pennypacker : That's "Twelfth Night."

  Lulu Monahan : Well, he was so good they held him over.

• Lulu Monahan : That guy burns me up.

  Peter Lindsay : Well, what you need is something to cool you off. Give her a Tom Collins, Pee Wee.

  Lulu Monahan : And drop an aspirin in it.

• Lulu Monahan : Look, Pennypacker wants to sign you for two years at big dough. You have got to get back in the public eye!

  John Barrymore : I have been in the public eye so long, it is permanently bloodshot!

• Lulu Monahan : You help me build up this gag with Kyser and you'll have a nice, juicy, big radio deal and your worries'll be over!

  John Barrymore : But, why Kyser? I would rather be found lying on a flop house floor getting stiff with rigor mortis.

  Lulu Monahan : You can get stiff with anybody you want; but, Kyser has news value. And we're gonna cash in on it if I have to bust a girdle trying!

• Lulu Monahan : Mr. Pennypacker, you want a name. Well, two months from now, Barrymore's name will be hotter than July in St. Louis!

• Lulu Monahan : Incidentally, you're supposed to be playing up to Kyser, not his girl.

  John Barrymore : An occasional tête-à-tête with Miss Simms is nothing that should arouse your evangelistic fervor. I am entitled to some compensation for associating with this Dixieland Macbeth.

  Lulu Monahan : Hmm. Love finds Andy hardening of the arteries.

• Lulu Monahan : If you must play Romeo, pick out a Juliet in your own division. Canvas his grandma.

  John Barrymore : You would have me encourage that Confederate Mother Machree?

• John Barrymore : If I have to take desperate measures, I will.

  Lulu Monahan : Now, don't do anything that might get you in trouble later.

  John Barrymore : What could get me in more trouble than playing Shakespeare with that syncopated cotton picker?

• John Barrymore : I agreed to appear in a festival in return for a promised contract with Mr. Nickelstasher.

  Lulu Monahan : That's Pennypacker!