Newspaper Editor Quotes in To Please a Lady (1950)

Mike Brannan: [Angry about a newspaper headline about him] Did Regina Forbes tell you to print that?

Newspaper Editor: Nobody tells me what to print. One of my reporters thought he recognized you. We checked up. You'll always be recognized. You were a war hero.

Newspaper editor: There's only one thing more, Mr. Governor - the marriage!

Gov. McGinty: What's the matter with the marriage? She's married to Norval Jones, she always has been! The guy married them, didn't he? The boy signed his right name, didn't he?

Newspaper editor: But he gave his name as Ratzkywatzky!

Gov. McGinty: He was trying to say Jones, he stuttered!

The Boss: What are you looking for, a needle from a haystack?

Newspaper editor: Then how about the first Ratzkywatzky?

Gov. McGinty: He's annulled!

The Boss: Shnook!

Newspaper editor: Who annulled?

Gov. McGinty: The judge, who do you suppose?

The Boss: Retroactive!

Gov. McGinty: Will you get Mendoza on the phone?

The Boss: I'm getting him.

Gov. McGinty: He's out of the picture!

The Boss: Was never in it!

[first lines]

Newspaper Editor: Ain't it pretty!

[shows staff the newspaper's front page mock-up with screamer headline "JONATHAN REYNOLDS DEAD"]

[praying]

Newspaper Editor: As long as he has to go, please let him go no later than 9:20 - that dirty Herald has been getting all the breaks

[phone rings]

Newspaper Editor: Yeah? What do you mean he isn't dead yet? Frank, I gotta have some action!

Newspaper Editor: He's gonna die for me, exclusive!

Newspaper Editor: [checking over Parker's resume] Look, Parker, I-I'm not looking for writers. I'm looking for ideas. Ideas with heart. If you pitch me a... a great idea with heart, you get to write it. That's the wonderful world of freelance.

Parker Concorde: Well, actually, I'm working on this... psychic hotline article.

Newspaper Editor: Good. How's it end?

Parker Concorde: How does it end? I don't know. I haven't gotten that far.

Newspaper Editor: Well, you can't write it if you don't know how it ends - Journalism 101.

Parker Concorde: I... wha... I guess I missed class that day.