Henrietta Clemp Quotes in Hollywood Party (1934)

Henrietta Clemp: Harvey, we can't afford to mix with strangers.

Harvey Clemp: If we only went with our friends, we'd be pretty lonesome.

Harvey Clemp: My name's Harvey Clemp. I'm the millionaire oil king from Clemp City, Oklahoma. This is my wife, Henrietta, the oil queen. Henrietta, this is Jake.

Henrietta Clemp: How do you do?

Henrietta Clemp: This may be madness to you Harvey Clemp, but it's bologna to me.

Harvey Clemp: Henrietta you astound me. Why the place is littered with movie stars. And that makes some litter.

Durante: [after Mrs. Clemp sings "I've Had My Moments"] I'm gonna take ya under my wing and develop ya!

Henrietta Clemp: Do you think my personality and figure will appeal to the public?

Durante: You'll knock 'em for a ghoul, I tell ya! You'll be a double-feature.

Henrietta Clemp: Won't Clemp City be amazed. Maybe I'll be America's Sweetheart!

Durante: You'll be everybody's sweetheart! Your picture will be on every ash can.

Henrietta Clemp: My Dream Producer!

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: I wonder who they are.

Producer Buddy Goldfarb: Oklahoma oil doing Hollywood; slug nutty about royalty, movie stars. titles, and that sort of thing.

Harvey Clemp: [to Jake the Cabbie] Pardon me, but do you know where the great Schnarzan lives?

Jake the Cabbie: Yes, sir.

Harvey Clemp: Sorry young man, but I didn't get your name.

Jake the Cabbie: Jake.

Harvey Clemp: My name's Harvey Clemp, I'm the millionaire oil king from Clemp City, Oklahoma. This is my wife, Henrietta, the oil queen. Henrietta, this is Jake.

Henrietta Clemp: How do you do?

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: That gives me an idea.

[pauses]

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: Don't worry, Mr. Goldfarb, I'll crash Schnarzan's party, all right.

Henrietta Clemp: My husband is the multi-est millionaire in Oklahoma. Show the man, Harvey.

Harvey Clemp: [takes out a $1000 dollar bill, and tears it up] A thousand dollar bill. You can't do that unless you're a millionaire.

Producer Buddy Goldfarb: They'll recognize you at the party, everybody knows Liondora.

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: Ah, but I will not be Liondora. I will be the Grand Royal Duke, Spiros Demitros Nikolaus Forfoite Forenikus from southern part Europe, good old Peloponnesius!

Linda Clemp: Oh, it's wonderful! What did you expect, Auntie?

Henrietta Clemp: Nobility running around: a duke, an earl, a marquis. I want to hobnob with nibs, I want to run shoulders with royalty. I want a title.

Harvey Clemp: How about "Came the Dawn"?

Henrietta Clemp: [sighs] Oh!

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: [Egyptian-style music plays in the background as Henrietta reclines on a lounge chair] Oh, is beautiful, is wonderful. What a night, what a night. Oh, the moon is so marshmallow in the fragrance of your hair.

Henrietta Clemp: Oh, your Grace, I guess I was just made for love.

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: Oh you sweet honey bunch doughnuts, you can't be for to hide your feelings when soul is respond to soul. You have heart, you have fire, you make me for to burn.

Henrietta Clemp: Oh, Grace!

Henrietta Clemp: Don't call me Grace, to you I am just plain Nicolaus.

Henrietta Clemp: Nico... laus?

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: From southern part Europe, good old Pelopennesius.

Henrietta Clemp: Pelopennesius, what a beautiful name. How lovely, how romantic.

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: Oh, Henrietta.

Henrietta Clemp: You mustn't, Grace.

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: [Bob Benson sees Nicolaus making advances on Henrietta from behind a trellis] Call me, call me Nicolaus.

Henrietta Clemp: No, I like Pelopennesus better.

Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke: [Nicolaus starts getting fresh with Henrietta] Oh, let me for to grab your lipstick!

Henrietta Clemp: Oh no, no no,Oh! No, I mustn't!

[Benson goes off to get Harvey Clemp]

Henrietta Clemp: How can I ever repay you? Why, if there's anything you want, just ask for it.

Durante: Anything?

Henrietta Clemp: Anything.

Durante: Then get your husband to give me those lions! I gotta get some lions to fight with, it's my career! I must find a lion to replace Anatole!

Henrietta Clemp: Anatole?

Durante: [points to a lion-skin rug] That's Anatole. I owe my success to him, he was the first lion I ever conquered with my bare fists. I beat him to a rug. Anatole, he charged me from behind a tree, I gave the famous Schnarzan call, and then... and then I leaped. I got him by the throat. It was me and the lion.

Durante: [picks up the lion skin rug] I gave him the jungle ji-jitsu,

Henrietta Clemp: Wow!

Henrietta Clemp: Then Anatole... was a dead cat. It was another Schnarzan triumph, just another chapter in my memory book. I have no fear of man, woman, nor beast; that's the way of the Durantes.

Henrietta Clemp: And after you cornered Anatole, what did you do?

Durante: I gave him a chance to rest, and then I pounced on him again -

[One of the lions shows up in the room]

Henrietta Clemp: Aah!

Durante: Egad! You brute, I'm double crossed! Oww!

[Jimmy and the lion wrestle down the staircase]

Durante: [Jimmy lands at the bottom of the stairs with the lion on top of him] Ow! You big brute! Ouch! Wait till I get on top! I'll mangle you from bone to bone!

Durante: [Jimmy stands up and wrestles the lion] There's no room for both of us! Ouch! Ouch! Ow!