On with the Show! (1929)

Betty Compson: Nita French

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Quotes 

• Sam Bloom : Well, if it isn't little Nita French, herself.

  Nita : In the flesh, baby. In the flesh.

• Sarah : Miss French, I've asked you and asked you and asked you to take your suitcases and junk out of my dressing room and I shan't ask you again.

  Nita : Can I depend on that?

  Sarah : Jerry, I can't work with that woman! She's driving me crazy! Cluttering up my room with her things! I won't stand it! I won't...

  Nita : Don't hysterics me, darling. I'm a woman myself.

  [walks away] 

  Sarah : Well, I hope you have gall stones.

• Nita : I'm desperate!

  Chorus Girl : We haven't been paid for two weeks.

  Harold : What about Mother?

  Kitty : What about Dad?

  Nita : What about me?

  Sarah : Oh, for Pete's sake, kids, stop worrying about the robbery. The Show has got to go on!

• Jerry : Nita, aren't you due on? The second act is nearly over.

  Nita : Just in a few minutes.

  Jerry : But, you're not dressed?

  Nita : Well, what woman is nowadays?

  Jerry : Oh, quit cracking wise.

  Nita : Oh, listen to the slave driver. Where's your whip?

  Sam Bloom : Don't mind him. He's in trouble.

  Nita : Aren't we all!

• Nita : Oh, go get yourself a pair of scissors and cut some paper dolls!

• Jerry : Be a good scout. Be human.

  Nita : Listen, do I get my dough or shall I put my clothes on and go home? You know, I'm catching cold sittin' around here.

  Sarah : Cold? I'm getting pneumonia looking at you.

• Nita : Kid, the more a woman's been around, the easier she is to get around.

• Nita : You tell Kitty that everything is jake - and that I'll do everything in the world for her.

• Jimmy : What happened between you and Wallace?

  Nita : He hit me, the egg. He struck a defenseless woman.

  Jerry : And what did you do?

  Nita : Oh, I stayed within the law, all right. He'll live. Yep, he hit me and I mopped up the dressing room with him.

  Sam Bloom : Why all this battle between you two?

  Nita : The best reason in the world: we are married.

• Jimmy : You kept it a secret long enough.

  Nita : Say, you'd keep it a secret too if you were married to that kippered herring.

• Nita : You know, I was all through with this business. Ready to eat and grow fat. But, I promised to love, honor, and obey the little rat, so I took off my clothes and went to work.

• Jerry : Gee, Nita, you're a peach.

  Nita : Ah, don't get gooey.

• Durant : Please, Nita.

  Nita : Oh, is Mama's little boy going home to his beddies and his Ovaltine?

  Durant : Please don't, Nita. This is most humiliating.

  Nita : Well, Mama won't hit you again - now. Mama wants you to get better - so that she can take another pop at ya just for luck!

• Nita : Well, I'm not going to slop over about it. I always did hate sentiment.