Riffraff (1935)

Jean Harlow: Hattie Muller

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Quotes 

• Lil : I don't know what you want to keep his picture stuck in the mirror for. Why don't you throw it away, then?

  [starts to remove a photo of Dutch] 

  Hattie : Oh, leave it there. It reminds me not to like him!

• Dutch Muller : [lifting the fox that Hattie is wearing around her neck, given to her by Nick]  Where did you get the skunk?

  Hattie : [outraged]  Skunk!

• Lil : Have a good time at the ball?

  Hattie : Oh, I made out. Take a squint at that?

  Lil : What is it? An advertisement?

  Hattie : Nah, I was elected Miss Hook and Ladder Company No. 7, that's all.

• Hattie : What do you want?

  'Pops' : Loan me two bits.

  Hattie : Nothin' doing. Go ask the government.

• Hattie : Hiya, Dutch.

  Dutch Muller : Hello, Squirt.

• Dutch Muller : Shove off!

  [pushes Hattie to the ground] 

  Hattie : Why, you dirty woman beater!

  Lil : Gee, Hattie, are you hurt?

  [to Dutch] 

  Lil : You beast!

  Hattie : That big ape couldn't hurt me.

  [rubbing her behind] 

• Hattie : You gonna give me the air?

  Nick Lewis : Who, me? Oh, no! Nick only give you something what you like.

• Hattie : I sure did hit him in the mush with that mackerel!

• Hattie : [to Nick]  Come on. Why waste time with this riffraff?

  Dutch Muller : Look who's calling me riffraff? That cheap little tuna tinner, tryin' to red apple on the boss.

  Hattie : Yeah, well it looks to me like them red apples is sour grapes to you!

• Dutch Muller : Come on, honey, wet that whistle.

  Hattie : Why should I?

  Dutch Muller : Cause, you sweetness, I asked you to. Come on.

• Dutch Muller : [dancing]  That's swell stink-up you got in your hair.

  Hattie : Like it?

  Dutch Muller : You know, this is hard to take.

• Dutch Muller : [Hattie kicks Dutch]  Ow! You little mule. Go on. Go on, keep it up. I love it. I love dames with spirit! Dames and fishes!

  Hattie : Take your hands off of me! Let me go!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, now, you ain't really gonna get sore at me, are you honey?

  Hattie : You bet I am!

• Hattie : Them was the only furs I ever had.

  Dutch Muller : Aw, you don't have to take nothin' from that big ape. You know, there's other guys can buy you furs, if they wanna.

  Hattie : Yeah, well, I don't see 'em doin' it.

  Dutch Muller : You know, I know a lot of dames who would rather have a guy's arms around 'em, keepin' 'em warm. Sure, anybody can buy a dame a fur piece.

• Lil : What did Dutch Muller say?

  Hattie : That false alarm, if he'd come near the place they'd a turn the hose on him.

  Lil : He's going out with the fleet this morning for tuna.

  Hattie : Yeah, I know. I'm gonna throw my arms around his neck with my head on his shoulder and tell him to go jump down a whale.

  Lil : It makes you feel better, don't it honey, runnin' a guy down when you're stuck on him.

  Hattie : Who? Dutch Muller? The "Big I Am"? I don't mean nuthin' to him and he means less to me. So, that makes us both happy.

• Nick Lewis : Hattie, you're smart girl. You know Dutch is no good for a swell baby doll like you! But, honey, you got what it takes for Nick. He like to do something nice for you.

  Hattie : What are you workin' up to?

  Nick Lewis : Oh, no, no, no. Don't catch me on the wrong side up. Nick just want for to send you to night school. Make you his private stenographer. Then, you work in nice, clean office.

  Hattie : No thanks, Nick. I'll stick to the fishes. They ain't got hands.

• Hattie : Boy, that's keen!

• Hattie : Oh, takin' dough from dames, huh?

• Hattie : I got to be goin'.

  Dutch Muller : Aw, you ain't goin' no place. That stink-up is drivin' me screwy. Want to slip me a little kiss?

  [long kiss] 

  Dutch Muller : Looks like you and me been wastin' a lot of time.

  Hattie : Yeah. Well, it's takin' you a long while to find that out.

• Dutch Muller : [kiss]  Who you gonna marry now? Who you gonna marry now?

  Hattie : Dutch?

  Dutch Muller : Yeah, you're gonna marry me, ain't ya?

  Hattie : Dutch! Oh, Dutch!

  [kiss] 

• Dutch Muller : What are you blubberin' about?

  Hattie : I can't help it. I've been crazy about you all my life. My whole life!

  Dutch Muller : Did you think I didn't know it?

  Hattie : We ain't never gonna fight any more are we?

  Dutch Muller : I'll say we ain't! Come on, shut off the tears, baby!

• Dutch Muller : You brought me luck tonight. I don't know why you shouldn't keep right on doin' it.

  Hattie : I see. So, that's the reason, huh?

  Dutch Muller : Yeah! You're gonna do all right with me. Come on, slip us a little kiss.

  [Hattie slaps him instead] 

  Dutch Muller : Hey, what's the idea?

  Hattie : What a big swell headed lug! What do ya think I am? Just an old rabbit's foot to bring you luck?

  Dutch Muller : Well, sure. Why not?

  Hattie : I don't have to marry you nor no other guy to bring him luck. There's plenty of 'em goofy about me!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, I see. You've been readin' them 'True Love Confession' magazines, huh? You want one of them oily guys that drools at the mouth. Say, listen, I don't ever get gabby about the way I feel and I do all right!

• Hattie : You let go of me, Dutch Muller!

  Dutch Muller : Aw, quit your kiddin'. You know you love it!

  Hattie : Take your hands off of me! I hate the touch of ya!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, I suppose you like the touch of that dressed up can of tuna, huh?

• Dutch Muller : It's yours, Squirt. All of it.

  Hattie Muller : Oh!

• Dutch Muller : Don't tell me you're sore?

  Hattie Muller : [sarcastically]  Sore. Why should I be so when you call a strike in honor of our weddin'?

  Dutch Muller : Oh, come on, Squirt. Don't worry about the strike. Let me worry about it. That's my business. You just look after your wifely duties.

  [kiss] 

  Dutch Muller : Take off your clothes, Mrs. Muller, and stay awhile.

• Hattie Muller : I didn't want to hurt you.

  Dutch Muller : You didn't want to hurt me? You talk as if they licked me!

• Hattie Muller : Tell him to buy himself a hat, if he can find one big enough to fit him!

• Hattie Muller : That's swell, Dutch. Simply, swell.

  Dutch Muller : Sure! Sure! Then we'll go to Mexico. We'll live in the soft. Why, there's nothin' to it. All you have to do down there is just grab the stuff off the trees.

  Hattie Muller : [unimpressed]  Like a coupla gypsies. Bummin' our way.

• Hattie Muller : The dizzy dope! Aw, what's the use of kiddin' myself? I'll never get over 'im. What a sap I was.

• Dutch Muller : Hello, Squirt.

  Hattie Muller : "Hello, Squirt." Aw, I dreamed about you sayin' that, like you used to when we woke up in the mornin's.

  Dutch Muller : Yeah, that's right, Squirt.

• Hattie Muller : Say, you ain't tryin' to pull a powder on me, are ya?

  Dutch Muller : Aw, Squirt, don't be daffy.

  Hattie Muller : While I was restin' my chin on them bars up there, you wasn't doin' the same on some dame's neck, was ya? So, that's it. You went and got tied up!

  Dutch Muller : Aw, shut up, Squirt. It's been you all along.

  Hattie Muller : Yeah, me lost in the back of that big, square head of your's!

• Hattie : [after an discordant visit with Dutch, Hattie laments to fellow prisoner]  Ohh, why do I keep on thinkin' about him? What do you do to forget a guy like that?

  Sadie : I cut his throat... that didn't do no good.