Animal Crackers (1930)

Lillian Roth: Arabella Rittenhouse

Photos 

Quotes 

• Arabella Rittenhouse : May I present Mr. Parker.

  Mrs. Whitehead : Oh, of the, eh, Massachusetts Parkers?

  John Parker : Why, no.

  Mrs. Whitehead : Oh, then the, eh, Southern Parkers?

  Arabella Rittenhouse : Oh, no, the Central Parkers. You know, the, eh, benches and trees.

  Mrs. Whitehead : I see!

  [Mrs. Whitehead leaves] 

  Arabella Rittenhouse : Meow! Oh, I don't like that woman!

• John Parker : Do you really love me?

  Arabella Rittenhouse : Why don't you marry me and find out.

  John Parker : Marry you? Heh! On what! Last year I sold two paintings. One at a hundred and one at fifty. Could we live on a hundred and fifty dollars a year?

  Arabella Rittenhouse : Well, we wouldn't need any money. I've got a charge account in every shop on Fifth Avenue.

  John Parker : Well, if I had any brains, I'd give up painting and get a regular job. You know, I had a cousin who made $50,000 on Wall Street last year.

  Arabella Rittenhouse : I don't want to marry your cousin. I'm a darn fool. I want to marry you.

• Arabella Rittenhouse : [singing]  When we pet, close in your arms you hold me. I forget, all that my mother told me...

• Arabella Rittenhouse : Oh, Mr. Raviola!

  Ravelli : Ravelli, Ravelli.

  Arabella Rittenhouse : Oh, eh, Mr. Ravelli, I want you to do something for me.

• Arabella Rittenhouse : I'll get Capt. Spaulding. He'll get to the bottom of this!

• Capt. Spaulding : [Parker picks up a painting]  I tell you, it didn't take that long to find him.

  John Parker : That's right, this is it!

  Capt. Spaulding : Yeah, that's it, but which one is it?

  John Parker : Captain, this is the one that was just taken from my room!

  Capt. Spaulding : Well, we've got that back, maybe I got my watch back.

  [checks his pocket] 

  Capt. Spaulding : Now the fob is gone! Well, I... still got the pocket. Anything I retain now is velvet... except the coat, that's Prince Albert.

  Capt. Spaulding : [glances at the camera, breaking the fourth wall]  Well, all the jokes can't be that good; you've got to expect that once in a while.

  John Parker : Say, if we can find the fellow that painted this picture, well, we'd have a pretty good clue.

  Capt. Spaulding : What did you say?

  John Parker : I said, if we could find the fellow that painted this picture, we'd have a pretty good clue!

  Capt. Spaulding : You just said that! What a dull conversationalist you turned out to be. Let me see that a minute, will you? Say, this is signed 'Beaugard'! There's the criminal: Beaugard!

  Arabella Rittenhouse : No, Beaugard is dead!

  Capt. Spaulding : Beaugard is dead? Then it's murder! Now we've got something!