Fanny Brice credited as playing...
Olga Chekaloff
- Olga Chekaloff: You make trouble for me? How do you like that? In Russia I vas bitten by a volfhound, my mother vas lost in a snowstorm, my father vas sent to Siberia, your mother and father are yelling their heads off, you sister's taking her singing lessons, I've got exactly four squabs and I can't find out how many's for dinner! And you're gonna make trouble for me?
- Hillary Bellaire: Olga!
- Olga Chekaloff: All right, all right, I know, my cap's on crooked.
- Hillary Bellaire: Good heavens, what next?
- Olga Chekaloff: Meatballs!
- Taxi driver: Look, Toots, what about this 2.85? I gotta get going, I've been here twenty minutes already.
- Olga Chekaloff: You've been here tventy minutes? I've been here eleven years. I stopped yelling for my money ten years ago.
- Madame Le Brouchette: It should be:
- [singing]
- Madame Le Brouchette: The one I love -
- Olga Chekaloff: [Pats her shoulder] Eat your spaghetti!
- Diana Bellaire: Olga, this isn't what I want. I said strawberry jam.
- Olga Chekaloff: You said blackberry, but I gave you the raspberry.
- Diana Bellaire: Olga, your cap is on crooked.
- John Fleming: Olga?
- Olga Chekaloff: Yes, sir?
- John Fleming: What do *you* think of Mr. Bellaire's play?
- Olga Chekaloff: Vell, it depends on how I feel. Sometimes I feel it ain't so bad and sometimes I feel it ain't so good. But I don't like to say.
- John Fleming: Speak up! What's wrong with it?
- Olga Chekaloff: Vell, since you asked me, he goes to her and he says, "Darling, vere utterly mad, you know." Den, she says, "All my life I been a slave. Fea-red, bound by convenchens." Convenchens? Who knows vhat dat means anyvay? It's ridiculous! In de first place, people don't talk like dat. And, in de second place - people don't talk like dat. Convenchens?
- Olga Chekaloff: Suspended again?
- Judy Bellaire: Not suspended, expelled.
- Olga Chekaloff: Good! You got a diploma?
- Judy Bellaire: Miss Colvin said that if I kept on the way I was going, I'd come to a bad end.
- Olga Chekaloff: Don't you vorry, darling. That's vhat they said about me.
- Olga Chekaloff: Vhat am I, iron? Who don't tink about love? Morning, noon, and night - especially night. I can remember, vell, it was summer, de moon, de river, Boris vas teaching me how to act. He said I had to lurn all about life and luv. Oh, boy, did I lurn.
- Olga Chekaloff: Vhat a coincidence. Only last veek I dreamed I vas in my big, golden bed eatin' caviar and Boris was pourin' me tea. There ve vere. Just the four of us. Lemon and tea, Boris and me. I-yi-yi-yi...
- Olga Chekaloff: Mr. Bellaire, the monkey men are here.
- Hillary Bellaire: The monkey men? What the devil do we want with monkey men?
- Diana Bellaire: We need another monkey. The one we rehearsed with last night, bit poor, dear Jerrold.
- Hillary Bellaire: Good! I'll give the monkey a run of the play contract. Send the monkeys away.
- Olga Chekaloff: Yes sir. Ders one thing ve don't need in dis house, it's more monkeys.
- Olga Chekaloff: [singing] Quainty, dainty me, Gentle as can be, I'm even shy whenever I express myself, I'm so demure I blush when I undress myself...
- Olga Chekaloff: [singing] I flutter like a butterfly so daintily, But somehow no one ever flutters after me..
- Judy Bellaire: This is the chance I've been waiting for all my life!
- Olga Chekaloff: All her life. Listen to her. All your life? You haven't lived yet!
