Movie Quote of the Day (‘My Little Chickadee,’ As Mae West Teaches Math Her Way)

(An out-of-town gold digger in the West vows to tame a class of rowdy adolescent boys who have driven the local schoolmarm into a nervous breakdown.)

Schoolboy [uncredited]: “We was doin' arithmetic on the blackboard when Miss Foster took sick.”

Flower Belle Lee [played by Mae West]: “Oh, arithmetic... I was always pretty good at figures myself.”— My Little Chickadee (1940), screenplay by Mae West and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline