Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
William Blees: Eddie
Quotes
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Eddie : What's buzzin', cousin?
Nifty Sullivan : It's a girl named Nina.
Happy McScud : Another pigeon. Why don't you go on a diet?
Nifty Sullivan : I was seating with Nina, seat 13; suddenly, I fell out of my trousers.
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Nat : That's Nifty Sullivan for ya. Hoofing his way through life, swiping music. Why without those tunes he steals at the symphony concerts every week, we'd starve.
Eddie : Yeah, you gotta hand it to a guy who can whip "The Barber of Seville" into "Once Over Lightly With You, Baby." Boy, that's genius!
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Karanina 'Nina' Novak : One night King Stephan heard me sing and he - he went - oh, how you say - uh - nuts?
Happy McScud : That's right, nuts.
Eddie : Gee, that's somethin'.
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Happy McScud : [singing] Somethings happened to the Conga, Harlem's gone and changed it
Nifty Sullivan : Here's the way to do the Conga, Since they rearranged it
Eddie : Be like all those hip chicks
Nat : Get your one, two, three kicks
Happy McScud , Nifty Sullivan , Eddie , Nat : Boogie Woogie Conga, Come on all you hep cats, Get the latest step that's, Breakin' up the nation, Boogie Woogie Conga, First the Latin's had it, Harlem's gone and nabbed it, Boogie syncopation...
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Eddie : This is serious. He always calls himself a pianist.
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Eddie : That ain't the old Nifty I used to know - with a carnation in his buttonhole and a chisel up his sleeve.