Easy Living (1937 film) Quotes

Easy Living (1937 film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Easy Living completed its run in 1970.

It features Arthur Hornblow Jr. as producer, Ralph Rainger in charge of musical score, and Ted Tetzlaff as head of cinematography.

Easy Living (1937 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Easy Living (1937 film) is 88 minutes long. Easy Living (1937 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Franklin Pangborn as Van Buren, Jean Arthur as Mary Smith, Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball, Luis Alberni as Mr. Louis Louis, Ray Milland as John Ball Jr., Mary Nash as Mrs. Ball, William Demarest as Wallace Whistling, Barlowe Borland as Mr. Gurney, and Robert Greig as Butler.

Easy Living (1937 film) Quotes

Luis Alberni as Mr. Louis Louis

• (Luis Alberni) "A beautiful young girl like you has got to have a background. Dis is what you call a background."
• (Jean Arthur) "I should say it is."
• (Luis Alberni) "No matter where you look, you never find another background that goes so far back."

• (Luis Alberni) "Please do me a favor and I'll take a peek, huh?"
• (Jean Arthur) "At what?"
• (Luis Alberni) "Dis way, I'll show you. Dis way. After you. Dis way. Dis way."

• (Luis Alberni) "You look exactly as I thought; only, a hundred per cent much better."

• (Luis Alberni) "How can such a phenomenon be a flop?"

• (Luis Alberni) "Miss Smith, I'm a man like this, I don't beat around de bush to come in the back door. I tell you, this is where you belong and this is where you have to be."
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, I'm perfectly willing."

• (Luis Alberni) "Did you see the papers?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Yes, I saw the headline."
• (Luis Alberni) "It says that certain party is tottering. And every time he's tottering, I am tittering."
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, did something happen to your hotel, Mr. Louis?"
• (Luis Alberni) "Oh, if he's in the soup, the hotel Louis is blewy."

• (Luis Alberni) "What are you paying now? I mean rent. Rent."
• (Jean Arthur) "Seven dollars."
• (Luis Alberni) "Seven dollar. Sev; One, two, three, four, five, six; seven?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Yes, with breakfast, one egg."
• (Luis Alberni) "Let me see. Seven dollars. Seven times seven. Fifty-six minus; My dear young lady, could you make --"
• (Jean Arthur) "Not seven times seven, Mr. Louis. One times seven. Seven dollars a week."
• (Luis Alberni) "A week?"
• (Jean Arthur) "With breakfast."
• (Luis Alberni) "Oh, one egg. Seven dollars a week with a gymnasium. You driving a hard bargain, my dear young lady. Seven dollars a week."
• (Jean Arthur) "But, Mr. Louis, I --"
• (Luis Alberni) "It is yours."
• (Jean Arthur) "But, I don't want --"
• (Luis Alberni) "It is yours. You want breakfast, you got it."
• (Jean Arthur) "But, look, I --"
• (Luis Alberni) "I; I want you here. One egg, Two eggs. Three eggs. Ostrich egg. What do I care? I'll send a truck and move you immediates."

• (Luis Alberni) "May I make a suggestion? A little bottle of 1923 Mumms? Don't you think?"
• (Edward Arnold) "No. I do not. I think she should have Georges Goulet 1919."
• (Luis Alberni) "With guinea hen?"
• (Edward Arnold) "You heard me."

• (Luis Alberni) "When everything was going so nice."
• (Nervous Hotel Registrant) "Every cloud has a silver lining in it."
• (Luis Alberni) "Never mind the weather. We've got a lot of things to worry about."

• (Luis Alberni) "Gasbox."
• (Jean Arthur) "What?"
• (Luis Alberni) "They tell me it works with gas, but I don't believe it."

Jean Arthur as Mary Smith

• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, hello. Hello, Santa Claus."
• (Edward Arnold) "How do you do? How are you getting along?"
• (Jean Arthur) "All right."
• (Luis Alberni) "You know each other, eh? Well-well-well-well."

• (Jean Arthur) "Some people develop sooner than others, that's all. But, when those others are developed, why, they're just as well developed as the others, you see what I mean. It's like now you take; you take a chicken. Well, a chicken reaches maturity at; well, whenever it is; but, on the other hand, a horse; oh, a horse takes much longer."

• (Jean Arthur) "I owe for the week."
• (Luis Alberni) "Vell, vell, ve'll pay it."
• (Jean Arthur) "Vhy? Eh, why? Why?"
• (Luis Alberni) "Why? I'll tell you why. I don't beat around de backdoor to come down in de corn chutes."

• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, you mean you want me to boost your hotel?"
• (Luis Alberni) "That's the exact word. I could not have said that in ten years. Boost it in the right place and; soon."
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Louis."
• (Luis Alberni) "And loud."
• (Jean Arthur) "And loud."
• (Luis Alberni) "And how."
• (Jean Arthur) "And how."

• (Jean Arthur) "Johnny, this is were we came in."

• (Jean Arthur) "You don't have to get mad just because you're so stupid."

• (Jean Arthur) ""Cocktail waitress. Twelve dollars and tips."; Oh, must have curves."
• (Ray Milland) "Well, you've; got them, haven't you?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, thank you, Johnny."
• (Ray Milland) ""Let us teach you tattooing." No."

• (Jean Arthur) "You know, he did say something about telling somebody something or other; but, then, he said he shouldn't mention names and he was sorry or something. I don't know."
• (Ray Milland) "Who?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Mr. Louis, you know, I think the guys crazy."
• (Ray Milland) "No-no-no-no-no. What name did he mention that he said you shouldn't mention?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, he said; B-B-Bull."
• (Ray Milland) "Bull?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Yeah."
• (Ray Milland) "That's funny. My name's Ball."

• (Jean Arthur) "What sables?"
• (Luis Alberni) "My dear young lady, we are all alone. Will you please cut the tragedy."
• (Jean Arthur) "Why, I haven't got any sables?"
• (Luis Alberni) "I am trying to give you my friendship and she plays Puss Around The Corner."

• (Unnamed) "Oh, you've got to see Mr. Ball. Would you like to see him in person?"
• (Jean Arthur) "No. No, in the movies."

• (Jean Arthur) "You know, I think I'm kinda dumb sometimes, myself."
• (Ray Milland) "You're awfully sweet."
• (Jean Arthur) "Do you think so, Johnny?"
• (Ray Milland) "Yes."

• (Jean Arthur) "I mean your father."
• (Ray Milland) "Did I say he was dead?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, well you said: poor old father."
• (Ray Milland) "Well, you don't have to be dead to be: poor old father. You don't even have to be poor"
• (Jean Arthur) "I suppose you don't have to be old, either."
• (Ray Milland) "Not so, apparently."
• (Jean Arthur) "Well, I wouldn't go around saying, "poor old father," squeezing sympathy out of people."

• (Jean Arthur) "Don't you like this one either?"
• (Edward Arnold) "I do not. It looks like a salt shaker."
• (Franklin Pangborn) "Well, we think its very recherché."
• (Edward Arnold) "That's the trouble with it."

Barlowe Borland as Mr. Gurney

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Ray Milland as John Ball Jr.

• (Ray Milland) "Why'd you take the coat?"
• (Jean Arthur) "I didn't want to. But, your father kept saying I shouldn't be a smarty and that I shouldn't know all the answers and, besides, you don't know what a fur coat means to a girl who never even had a tippet."

• (Ray Milland) "You know, there's something awfully phony about this."
• (Jean Arthur) "You're just beginning to find that out?"

• (Ray Milland) "I remember there was a fellow in college called Underdunk who had the longest --"
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, shut up."
• (Ray Milland) "Come to think of it, it wasn't Underdunk. It was Overdunk."

• (Ray Milland) "That's one of the finest suppers I ever supped. What? That's not right. Yes, it is to. Supped."
• (Jean Arthur) "You know, it's just like Arabian Nights or something. Except you don't look much like a Prince Charming."

Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball

• (Edward Arnold) "You're foreclosed. I'm doing you a favor."
• (Luis Alberni) "Oh, Mr. B., please. give me six months."
• (Edward Arnold) "Oh, not on your tintype."

• (Edward Arnold) "I've waited for 20 years to find out that I was the father of a; of a butterfly; a muttonhead."

• (Edward Arnold) "Say, what's going on around here?"

• (Edward Arnold) "Did you come here to pay or what?"
• (Luis Alberni) "Yes. I come here to pay my respects. Because; and the whole world of financials --"
• (Edward Arnold) "Listen you. You're three years behind on your first mortgage, two years behind on your second, and one year behind on your third."

Franklin Pangborn as Van Buren

• (Franklin Pangborn) "The bull of broad street -- with a girl -- in the sable-est sable coat they ever sabled."

• (Franklin Pangborn) "Brute."

• (Franklin Pangborn) "Louis, who do you suppose was in my Salon this morning?"
• (Luis Alberni) "What I suppose was in your Salon? What I need is something in my Salon. Something like, eh, like a convention. And quick."
• (Franklin Pangborn) "You'll never guess?"
• (Luis Alberni) "All right, all right. I'll play a little with you. Who?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "The bull of broad street."
• (Luis Alberni) "Who?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "The bull of broad street. With a chicken."
• (Luis Alberni) "Chickens? Bulls? What do I care?; - You don't mean the Ball of bull street?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "That's just what I'm trying to tell you."
• (Luis Alberni) "With his wife?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "With a dancing partner."
• (Luis Alberni) "You got the dope? The dame's name? The hangout? Etc.? Etc.?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "I have. But, I haven't the slightest idea of parting with a scrap of it."
• (Luis Alberni) "Mr. Van Burens, with a little corruption from you --"

• (Franklin Pangborn) "Where-ever there's smoke, there must be -- somebody smoking."

• (Nervous Hotel Registrant) "What's the matter?"
• (Franklin Pangborn) "Yes?"
• (Luis Alberni) "Oh. This time the goose is geese or vice versa."

Mary Nash as Mrs. Ball

• (Mary Nash) "You're not as smart as people think you are."
• (Edward Arnold) "Oh, that's right. That's right."

William Demarest as Wallace Whistling

• (William Demarest) "I don't know who you got living here; but, I tell you the old man don't buy fur coats for dames. If anybody knew, it would be me. Wouldn't it?"
• (Luis Alberni) "I'm telling you: she is, she does; but, you don't."
• (William Demarest) "I don't what?"
• (Luis Alberni) "You don't know what's going on in New York."
• (William Demarest) "I don't know what's going on in New York?"
• (Luis Alberni) "You just ain't up to date."

Robert Greig as Butler

• (Robert Greig) ""What leading international financier has gone pfoof with his wife over a beautiful girl? And followed her over to the hotel Louis?"; - Uh-hu. Many things are clear today, which previously were murky."

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