Al Jolson (Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin) The Jazz Singer, (1927) First line in a sound feature
"I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you."
Groucho Marx (Mr. Hammer) to Margaret Dumont (Mrs. Potter) The Cocoanuts (1929)
"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"
Jean Harlow (Helen) to Ben Lyon (Monte Rutledge), Hell's Angels (1930)
"Mother of Mercy is this the end of Rico?"
Edward G. Robinson (Caesar Enrico Bandelli), as he dies in the movie's finale, Little Caesar (1930) Last line
"Listen to them, Children of the Night, What music they make."
Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula) talking about wolves, Dracula (1931)
"It's alive, It's alive!"
Colin Clive (Henry Frankenstein) on creating his monster, Frankenstein, (1931)
"I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair."
Bette Davis (Madge), Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
"Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."
Lewis Stone (Dr. Otternschlag) Grand Hotel (1932)
"I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse."
Groucho Marx (Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff) to Zeppo Marx (Frank Wagstaff), Horse Feathers (1932)
Cloakroom Girl: "Goodness, what beautiful Diamonds!"
Mae West: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
Night After Night (1932)
Jean Harlow: "I was reading a book the other day..... Do you know the guy said that machinery is going to take the profession of everybody."
Marie Dressler: "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never to worry about."
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Margaret Dumont: "Oh, Your Excellency!"
Groucho Marx: "You aren't that bad yourself."
Duck Soup (1933)
"And, Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
Warner Baxter (Julian Marsh) to Ruby Keeler (Peggy Sawyer), 42nd Street (1933)
"Change is the fool's name for fate."
Fred Astaire (Guy Holden) to Edward Everett Horton (Egbert Fitzgerald), The Gay Divorce (1933)
"We'll begin with a reign of terror---- a few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men. Just to show we make no distinction."
Claude Rains (Jack Griffin) to William Harrigan (Kemp), The Invisible Man (1933)
"Beulah, peel me a grape."
Mae West (Tira) to Gertrude Howard (Beulah)." I'm No Angel (1933)
Charles Laughton:What is the law?"
Bela Lugosi: "Not to run on all fours. That is the law. Are we not men.
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
Robert Armstrong (Carl Denham) to a police officer, concerning King Kong's death in the finale. King Kong (1933)
"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"
Mae West (Lady Lou) to Cary Grant (Captain Cummings), She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Hardy to Laurel, Sons of the Desert (1933)
"My soul, woman, I give you three murders and you're still not satisfied."
William Powell (Nick Charles) to Myrna Loy (Nora Charles), The Thin Man (1934)
"Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb."
Cluadette Colbert (Ellie Andrews) to Clark Gable (Peter Warne), on raising her skirt to hitch a ride. It Happend One Night (1934)
"The only fun I get is feeding the goldfish, and they only eat once a day."
Bette Davis (Marie Roark), Bordertown (1935)
"Twas I informed on your son, Mrs. McPhillip. Forgive me."
Victor McLaglen (Gypo Nolan) to Una O'Connor (Mrs. McPhillip) The Informer (1935)
"I'll take my chance against the law, You'll take yours against the sea."
Clark Gable (Fletcher Christian) to Charles Laughton (Captain Bligh), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Groucho Marx:"Have you got any milk fed chickens?"
Waiter:"Yes, sir."
Marx:"Well, squeeze the milk out of one and bring me a glass."
A Night at the Opera (1935)
"It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
Ronald Colman (Sidney Carton), A Tale of Two Cities (1935) last line.
"Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Bates."
Eric Blore (Bates) to Fred Astaire (Jerry Travers) Top Hat (1935)
"I've got to have more steps. I need more steps. I've got to get higher, higher!"
William, Powell (Florenz Ziegfield) The Great Ziegfield (1936), last line
"Why, everybody in Mandrake Falls is pixilated--- except us."
Margaret Seddon (Jane Faulkner) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
"Never give a sucker an even break"
W.C. Fields (Professor Eusyace McGargle) to Rochelle Hudson (Poppy), Poppy (1936)
"Is it this or that---- all the universe or nothing? Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?"
Raymond Massey (John/Oswald Cabal) to Edward Chapman (Pippa/Raymond Passworthy), Things to Come (1936 UK), last line
"To you, my little prairie flower: I'm thinkin of you every hour. Though now you're just a friend to me, I wonder what the end will be. Oh, you would make my life devine if you change your name to mine."
Ralph Bellamy (Daniel Leeson) to Irene Dunne (Lucy Warriner), The Awful Truth (1937)
"O-Lan, you are the earth"
Paul Muni (Wang Lang) to Luise Rainer (O-Lan), The Good Earth (1937) last line