Knapp Quotes in Hollywood Party (1934)

Knapp: Now, when the Baron arrives, entertain him - the same way you did Bernard Shaw and Professor Einstein.

Durante: You mean make the crumb my house guest?

Knapp: Exactly! And don't forget, the Baron arrives tomorrow.

Durante: Then we'll have to work fast. I'll get a flock of beautiful girls to give him a real African welcome! Then we'll throw the biggest affair since the Boston Tea Party!

Knapp: Jimmy - you're a genius.

Durante: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Knapp: Here's where you come in. Get busy with Mrs. Clemp. Do your stuff!

Durante: You mean, Don Juan?

Knapp: You're better than Don Juan.

Durante: I'm Don Two.

Harvey Clemp: Beg pardon, we haven't met. I'm Harvey Clemp, the oil king. Look, a thousand-dollar bill.

[tears up the bill]

Harvey Clemp: You can't do that unless you're a multimillionaire.

Baron Munchausen: A millionaire! Somebody give him a slipper, quick. Elsie, move over, sit down,.

[to Harvey]

Baron Munchausen: You eat, some champagne in the glass.

Knapp: Baron, don't forget our deal at hand: deliver the lions to the studio in the morning and get our check for fifty grand.

Baron Munchausen: I will, thank you.

Harvey Clemp: I'll give 60.

Knapp: I'll make it 70.

Harvey Clemp: 80.

Knapp: 90.

Harvey Clemp: 100.

Knapp: 110.

Harvey Clemp: 130.

Baron Munchausen: Wait, you skipped 120.

Knapp: 120.

Harvey Clemp: 110.

Knapp: 100.

Harvey Clemp: 90.

Knapp: 80.

Harvey Clemp: 70.

Baron Munchausen: Wait, gentlemen, you're going backwards. We was up to 130,000.

Harvey Clemp: Go ahead anyway, I'll give you the 140.

Knapp: I'll make it 150, and that's all that we can afford.

Baron Munchausen: Can I hear 160, could I hear 155? Going, wenting, leaving, could I please hear 155? Going, going...

Harvey Clemp: I'd rather make it 175.

Baron Munchausen: Sold! Sold to the gentleman on my right for $175,000.

Harvey Clemp: I want to congratulate you Baron, I think you made a mighty good sale there.

[first lines]

Knapp: Ah! How's business?

Theatre Manager: Swell, it's Garbo.

Knapp: It'll be even better next week when you play my new Schnarzan picture. What a star, what a star!

Knapp: [looks at watch] Oh, has the trailer gone on yet?

Theatre Manager: You'll just about catch it.

Knapp: Good.

Durante: [to his butler] Fetch me my slippers.

Durante: How are you, Knapp? What a day!

[Jimmy sits down]

Knapp: Jimmy, this is getting serious! Your public is turning away from you. They say your lions are moth-eaten, toothless, and half of them have the mange.

Durante: The mange, huh? Well, they didn't get it from me!

[Jimmy's butler starts to pull his polo boots off his feet]

Knapp: But look, something's got to be done on it, look at that.

[Knapp hands Jimmy a newspaper, which he promptly reads]

Durante: Right on the front page.

[mumbles indeterminately to himself]

Durante: What does it say?

Knapp: [reads from the newspaper] "Baron Munchausen arrives in Hollywood tomorrow, with a cargo of wild jungle beasts." Jimmy, this Baron has the greatest bunch of lions in captivity.

Durante: Well, why not get in touch with him and use his lions?

Knapp: That's what I'm leading up to; Buddy Goldfarb may have the same idea about Liondora.

Durante: Liondora! My hated rival.

Knapp: Why not beat Goldfarb and Liondora to it? We've got to get those lions before they do. Now when the Baron arrives, entertain him the same way you did uh... Bernard Shaw, and Professor Einstein.

Durante: You mean: make the crumb my house guest?

Knapp: Exactly, and don't forget: the Baron arrives tomorrow.

Durante: Then we'll have to work fast. I'll get a flock of beautiful girls and give him a real African welcome. Then we'll throw the biggest affair since the Boston Tea Party!

Knapp: Jimmy, you're a genius!

Durante: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Durante: Knapp.

Knapp: Jimmy, well?

Durante: Everything is gonna be okay, I gave the Baron the Royal suite.

Knapp: That's the idea; treat him right, and you'll get the lions, and your future's insured.

Knapp: [lion roars from inside his pen] Now that's what I mean. Imagine the kick your public will get when they see you fighting a lion like that. Teeth that can bite, claws that can rip. What a kick when they see you with your head right in his very jaws!

Durante: [gasps] He might break my neck!

Knapp: There's the thrill of it! I'm willing to take any risk to make a big picture. Why, you'll be the season's sensation! Every newspaper will print your name.

Durante: [disgustedly] Yeah, in the obituary column!

Durante: Let's stroll.