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I had one summer in Stock in New Jersey and last season I had a swell spot in a show in New York...

7 seconds sound clip from the Lady Gangster movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:12:46 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Seems silly now, but I thought I needed a stage name. I even thought I could act.

- We all used to think so.

- I remember during my last year in school how good you were in that comedy part.

- What happened to me here was tragedy.

- As bad as all that?

- Not all the time, of course.

- I had one summer in Stock in New Jersey and last season I had a swell spot in a show in New York...

- But after a couple of weeks, it folded, then it was one agent's office after another, until finally it came to an occasional week in a nightclub.

- It's the same old story, Ken. Small-town girl goes to city, comes the dawn, and all that she's got left is her grouch money.

- Her what?

- Oh, grouch money. That's what show people call their savings for a really rainy day.

- To me, it was money to go home on.

[...]

Lady Gangster (1942) Sound Clip

Lady Gangster (1942) poster

Audio quotes from the movie Lady Gangster (1942), based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye.

Actors: Faye Emerson (Dorothy Drew Burton), Julie Bishop (Myrtle Reed), Jackie Gleason (Wilson)

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