Cocktail Hour (1933)

Muriel Kirkland: Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns

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Quotes 

• Cynthia Warren : Oh, Olga, have you ever been in love?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Many times.

  Cynthia Warren : Tell me about it.

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Men are all alike - one day they kiss you... and the next day they kick you.

  Cynthia Warren : Well, you can see them every other day, can't you?

• Randolph Morgan : You're not the same girl you were when you landed here from the farm. Why don't you take your vacation on the farm - with me?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : No, thanks. If I were home now it would be hog feeding time. Isn't that pretty? There's always some special time for women to worry about: breakfast time, laundry time, feeding time for the stock, feeding time for the men. Thank heavens I'm free of all that. It's going to be cocktail time for me!

• Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Just getting up or going to bed?

  Cynthia Warren : Both.

• Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : [cocktail toast]  Here's to that inferior animal: man.

  Cynthia Warren : To his ultimate defeat.

• Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Take two men. If one of them fell in love with a girl and the other one knew that his friend was making a mistake, he'd tell, wouldn't he?

  Cynthia Warren : Why, of course he would.

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Not always.

• Cynthia Warren : I'm more accustomed to painting leggy females.

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Oh, you say that as if you dislike women.

  Cynthia Warren : Well, I can't say I'm crazy about them. Are you?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : They bore me. Also, they dislike me and I'm human enough to resent when I am resented. Do stay and have a cocktail with me.

• Cynthia Warren : I wonder what a man would do in a case like this?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Grab himself the first dizzy blonde he met, go somewhere, and get ossified.

  Cynthia Warren : Not a bad idea. I'm going to get so cockeyed tonight that they'll have to put me to bed with a sponge.

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : That's the stuff to feed the troops!

• Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : [Suddenly dropping her phony Russian accent]  Say, do you mind if I stop being Russian for awhile?

  Cynthia Warren : [shocked]  You mean you're not Russian?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Oh, professionally, yes, but, oh, it gets a little exhausting at times... I was born in Kansas.

  Cynthia Warren : Shades of Topeka! So was I!

  [they shake hands warmly] 

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Well, that, and the fact that we're on our own, ought to be something to start with.

  Cynthia Warren : What's your name... Olga Raimoff?

  Olga Raimoff aka Tessie Burns : Pretty, isn't it? So musical. Well, to let you know the worst, my real name is Tessie Burns.

  Cynthia Warren : "Tessie"?

  [lets out a laugh] 

  Cynthia Warren : Lady, you extinguish me!