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Film Quotes by Hugh Herbert

12 quotes
Sh! The Octopus
Year: 1937

Director:
William C. McGann
Vesta Vernoff: [after discovering the "body" of her stepfather] Poor Nannie!
Detective Dempsey: Who's Nannie?
Detective Harold Kelly: Nannie's a goat! Whooooooo!
Four's a Crowd
Year: 1938

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Patterson 'Pat' Buckley: Mr. Jenkins, I don't want to embarrass you, but they really want to get married first.
[slips money into Mr. Jenkins's hand]
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Oh, I see, sparring for your liberty, eh? Well, I don't blame you, I don't blame you...
-- Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd (1938)
The Merry Frinks
Year: 1934

Director:
Alfred E. Green
Hattie 'Mom' Frink: If you lose this job, its curtains. There isn't another paper in town that will take you back, and I mean that Joe.
Joe 'Poppa' Frink: Yeah, well, maybe somebody will start a new paper!
One Rainy Afternoon
Year: 1936

Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Yvonne: Do you think they will send him to jail?
Toto: Oh sure, he hasn't got a chance. Now if he were only a murderer...
The Black Cat
Year: 1941

Director:
Albert S. Rogell
Hubert Smith: [driving in the rain over a bumpy road] As an antique dealer, Mr. Penny, what do you think of this road?
Mr. Penny: Oh, I'd hate to meet the worms that made these holes. Whoo-hoo!
-- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)
The Great Waltz
Year: 1938

Director:
Julien Duvivier*Victor Fleming*Josef von Sternberg
Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher: He must be full of marches after a revolution like this.
-- Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz (1938)
The Great Waltz
Year: 1938

Director:
Julien Duvivier*Victor Fleming*Josef von Sternberg
Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher: Mark my words, young man, if it hasn't got the imprint of Hofbauer, it isn't even music.
-- Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz (1938)
The Black Cat
Year: 1941

Director:
Albert S. Rogell
Mr. Penny: [looking at the cats on the grounds after the rainstorm] It looks like it's been raining cats and cats around here.
-- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)
The Black Cat
Year: 1941

Director:
Albert S. Rogell
Mr. Penny: [referring to Abigail] What a puss! Like a lemon rinse!
-- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)
Four's a Crowd
Year: 1938

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Sarah? Sarah?
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: What?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Couple'a chumps on the way, wanna get hitched.
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: At this hour?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Why not? you caught me at half-past two in the morning in a weak moment.
-- Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd (1938)