Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): I’m tending bar one time down in the lower East side in New York … a tough felona comes in there by the name of Chicago Molly. Squawk Mulligan, bartender: YOU knocked her down? Uh, may I? Cuthbert J. Twillie: I don't mean some woman out in China. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): I will be all things to you: father, mother, husband, counselor, jackanapes, bartender …

[to barfly] Since she wrote her own material, there was no separation between the lady (what a feeble word) and her scandalous dialogue. West: "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie") and disrupted the high-class aims of gangster Raft. But I was the one started kicking her!

Flower Belle: No, your honor, I'm doin' my best to hide it! 1940 film by Edward F. Cline My Little Chickadee Directed byEdward F. Cline Produced byLester Cowan Written byMae West W. C. Fields StarringMae West W. C. Fields Music byFrank Skinner CinematographyJoseph A. Valentine Edited byEdward Curtiss Distributed byUniversal Pictures Release date February 9, 1940 Running time 84 minutes CountryUnited States Budget$625,000 Box office$2 million My Little Chickadee is a 1940 American comedy-western film starring Mae West and W. C. Fields… ");b!=Array.prototype&&b!=Object.prototype&&(b[c]=a.value)},h="undefined"!=typeof window&&window===this?this:"undefined"!=typeof global&&null!=global?global:this,k=["String","prototype","repeat"],l=0;lb||1342177279>>=1)c+=c;return a};q!=p&&null!=q&&g(h,n,{configurable:!0,writable:!0,value:q});var t=this;function u(b,c){var a=b.split(". Cary Grant is the bemused recipient of West's attention. Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): Two and two is four and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. Squawk Mulligan, bartender: I’ll say she came back! Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): Come, my phlox, my flower! MovieQuotes.com © 1998-2020 | All rights reserved. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): I’ve been worried about you, my little peachfuzz. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): You’re kinda cute yourself. Funny movie quotes from ‘My Little Chickadee’, a classic comedy starring W. C. Fields and Mae West. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): You’d be surprised. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): Why I almost broke my great toe.

Your email address will not be published. Cuthbert J. Twillie: During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. I am a good boy. Wayne Carter: I think you could turn a man’s head very easily if he wasn’t careful. The first half of the picture is an unremarkable gangster comedy: George Raft in his usual inert form, Constance Cummings the good girl, capable comic support from Roscoe Karns and Alison Skipworth. West's style is undiminished (she was in her mid-forties already), although by this time the Production Code--concocted in part as a horrified response to her first films--was trimming her entendres.

Flower Belle Lee: Two and two are four and five will give you ten if you play your cards right. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): If a thing is worth having, it’s worth cheating for. Mrs. Gideon: Well! It’s up along there somewhere. I'm No Angel followed her first starring vehicle (She Done Him Wrong, not included here), and its lunatic plot--Mae as a lion tamer taken up by New York society--does nothing to slow the barrage of sexual innuendo. Flower Belle: Well, there’s no fun in being too careful. Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields): I don’t mean some woman out in China. //