- Dixie Donegan: Would you mind if a girl wrote the words to your tune?
- Eddie Crane: Of course not. There's Dorothy Fields. She's one of the best in the business.
- Dixie Donegan: Well, could you get her?
- Eddie Crane: No. She's tied up.
- Dixie Donegan: Oh, I know it's ridiculous for me to think that you could think that I could write some words; but, the melody kept saying the words over and over all the time while you were playing and before I knew it, I had a song.
- Marilyn Marsh: Park Avenue was clustered around Eddie like flies around honey. Every phony in the phony 400.
- Dixie Donegan: I wanna work, Eddie. I'm a worker. I can't stand this routine of bouncing red balloons in the air. But it's your idea of a merry-go-round, darling. So you ride on it.
- Eddie Crane: Oh, I get it. My balloons, *my* merry-go-round. As if you weren't having a good time yourself. If that isn't a typical feminine attitude, always making the man the heavy.
- Dixie Donegan: Darling, any calls for me?
- Marilyn Marsh: Yeah, phone's been jangling like an ambulance.
- Max Milton: What matters to us is that they've given the world another great song. And when you hear Dixie sing it, I think you'll feel as I do: that this isn't just another work by two songwriters. It's as if they had a hundred million collaborators. The Americans who feel in their hearts what Eddie and Dixie have written so beautifully in their song. I refer to the tender and affectionate salute to a lost city. "The Last Time I Saw Paris."
- Dixie Donegan: [singing] A lady known as Paris, Romantic and charming, Has left her old companions, And faded from view, Lonely men with lonely eyes, Are seeking her in vain, Her streets are where they were, But there's no sign of her, She has left The Seine, The last time I saw Paris, Her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart In every street café, The last time saw Paris...
- Marilyn Marsh: [composing] La-da-da-da, La-da-da-da, My one and only, I am so lonely, I can't believe that it's really you, Somehow it's just too good to be true, You are the sweetest, You are so lovely, So sweet and lovely, Oh, sweet and lovely
- Eddie Crane: Hey. "Oh, sweet and lovely."
- Marilyn Marsh: Oh, sweet and lovely, Can it be true, You are the one, Baby, be mine, Baby, be mine. Oh, sweet and lovely, Baby, be mine, Baby, be good, Lady, be good
- Eddie Crane: That's it. "Lady, be good"
- Marilyn Marsh: Oh, sweet and lovely, Lady, be good
- Eddie Crane: Yeah!
- Marilyn Marsh: Oh, sweet and lovely, Lady, be good, Oh, lady, be good, to me. How's that? I am so awfully, Misunderstood, So, lady, be good, to me. Oh, I don't know what to say now? Oh, please have some pity. Pity, pity, pity. What rhymes with pity?
- Eddie Crane: Eh, kitty, ditty, witty, city.
- Marilyn Marsh: City. Oh, please have some pity, I'm all alone in this big city. Wait a minute. I got myself all alone now. I'm just a lonesome, Babe in the wood, So lady, be good to me.
- Eddie Crane: Oh, honey, that's swell!
- Eddie Crane: I guess you both must think I'm kind of daffy.
- Marilyn Marsh: You want the truth?
- Eddie Crane: What?
- Marilyn Marsh: You are.
- Eddie Crane: Who's daffy?
- Marilyn Marsh: You are.
- Marilyn Marsh: Say, Red.
- Joe 'Red' Willet: Yes?
- Marilyn Marsh: Why don't you open that little door and fly back into the clock.
- Marilyn Marsh: Ohh Dixie, something awful has just happened. That was Eddie on the phone, he's got a gun and he's on his way over here.
- Dixie Donegan: A gun, what for?
- Marilyn Marsh: He's gonna shoot somebody - - probably you.
- Dixie Donegan: Me?
- Marilyn Marsh: Yes. Come on!
- Dixie Donegan: Marilyn, you didn't tell him about the ring?
- Marilyn Marsh: Well, I, I might have mentioned it, but I didn't know he was a killer!
- Dixie Donegan: [distressed] Uh...
- Marilyn Marsh: Come on, Dixie, help me get into my things, I don't want to get shot looking like this.
- Eddie Crane: In this business you've gotta have a hookup, a team. There's no sense in writing a tune then peddling it like a hot fur coat from one guy to another hoping to get a fluke hit. You've gotta work with somebody until you've built a style and a quality that's recognizable. Look at George Gershwin. He had his brother Ira. There's Rodgers and Hart, Kern and Hammerstein. Oh, what's the use? There are a dozen more. They work together. One helps the other and they go places.
- Joe 'Red' Willet: Eddie come up the hard way. When I plugged his first number 10 years ago, he didn't have a cot to sleep in. You can't blame him if he wants to eat caviar and go to Lady Triple Chin's house parties.
- Marilyn Marsh: I'm thinking of Dixie. It's tough on her.
- Joe 'Red' Willet: Well, it's like the gag: You don't run after a streetcar once you've caught it.
- Eddie Crane: Well, you know I'd never stand in the way of what you wanna do.
- Dixie Donegan: That's white of you, Eddie.
- Eddie Crane: Say, Dixie, wasn't it a swell party? Everybody said they couldn't have had a better time. Did you meet that real live countess?
- Dixie Donegan: You mean the lady with the slight mustache?
- Dixie Donegan: Don't forget, we have to be ready early tonight. We're going to Westchester.
- Marilyn Marsh: I'll jump right in the tub with the lilacs.
- Eddie Crane: Hey, don't throw that away. It's the first eight bars of a new tune.
- Dixie Donegan: New? It's been hanging around here for over a year.
- Eddie Crane: I know, but I was gonna work on it tomorrow.
- Dixie Donegan: Oh, yeah, mañana.
- Eddie Crane: Don't throw away anything with notes on it. It might go down in history.
- Dixie Donegan: Mm-hm. You and Beethoven.
- Master of Ceremonies: And now I'd like to present, for the first time at the Club Sirocco, three solid citizens who are definitely out of this world. And at all times, they are really cookin' with gas. Ladies and gentlemen, the Berry Brothers.
- James Berry: [singing] Ah, You'll never know, If an apple is ripe, Till you bite it, You bite it...
- Dixie Donegan: Oh, Eddie, I don't feel like it. I'm not in the mood.
- Eddie Crane: Oh, you can do it, kid. Get in there and slug. Come on, Dixie.
- Judge Murdock: Now look here, young fellow, contrary to your conception, this is a court of law and not a matrimonial pinball game. I'm not here to establish a record for marital hits and home runs. But I'm here to mete out justice to the best of my ability from the evidence presented.
- The Singer: [singing] And every time I hear a band, Start playing, Whether it be fast or sweet and low, From the very moment it starts beating, Everything about me starts repeating, Drums roll, Saxes moan, Trumpets blare, Fascinatin' rhythm, You got me on the go, Fascinatin' rhythm, I'm all a quiver...
- Eddie Crane: Darling, I can't stand it any longer. I'm going crazy living alone.
- Dixie Donegan: You won't have to anymore.
- Eddie Crane: Hey, wait a minute. We're not married.
- Dixie Donegan: Eddie? Will you do me a favor? Will you keep right on thinking we're not?
- Joe 'Red' Willet: You know, you're going to ruin your appetite if you don't stop eating between bites.
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