Dale Van Gorder: Auntie... That painting moved!


--Una Merkel (as ) in The Bat Whispers

Dixie Dare: Honey, why don't you get wise to yourself? This town's full of men who'd go goofy over you if you'd let 'em; so let 'em! Oh, don't take 'em too seriously; just kid 'em along and get what you can out of 'em. Say, if I had your looks I'd wear ermine underwear.
Marion Cullen: Well, maybe you would, Dixie, but I'm not the type.
Dixie Dare: You're telling me that after the way Humphries's been givin' you the eye the last three weeks?
Marion Cullen: Now you're imagining things.
Dixie Dare: So's Humphries.


--Una Merkel (as ) in They Call It Sin

Effie Perrine: Sam, it's a gorgeous new customer.
Sam Spade: Gorgeous?
Effie Perrine: A knockout.
Sam Spade: Send her right in, honey.
Effie Perrine: [to the off-screen customer] Will you step in, please?
[Joel Cairo walks in.]


--Una Merkel (as Effie Perine) in The Maltese Falcon

Fritzi 'Muggins' Kiffmeyer: Oh, there he is, the sweetheart!
Duke Bradley: Who, your husband?
Fritzi 'Muggins' Kiffmeyer: No, that colt!


--Una Merkel (as ) in Saratoga

Fritzi 'Muggins' Kiffmeyer: We women can do things to a man we love that men wouldn't do to a rattlesnake.


--Una Merkel (as ) in Saratoga

Georgia Latham: I'll call you Godfrey. It'll sound like I'm swearing.


--Una Merkel (as ) in Murder in the Private Car

Jenny Saks: Can we visit the brig? There's a man I'd like to see in it. Uh, I mean, I want to see a man who's in it.


--Una Merkel (as Jenny Saks) in Born to Dance

Joan O'Day: [to Gus] If ya HAD a brain, I'd brain ya!


--Una Merkel (as ) in Have a Heart

Mariah Popham: You never can look on the dark side, livin' with Mr. Popham.
Margaret Carey: Well, he certainly keeps our spirits up.
Mariah Popham: That's because you don't get him steady. Hopefulness meals, hopefulness days, hopefulness nights, nothin' but one everlastin' stream of hopefulness! Even when he was a boy, Mr. Popham always looked on the bright side whether there was any or not. Oh, his ma and pa got terrible sick of it!
Margaret Carey: It's mighty wonderful, seeing the bright side of everything.
Mariah Popham: Mighty tiring! Now I believe in a cloud that's a first-class cloud, clean and black all the way through. I get mighty tired of Mr. Popham and his silver linings!
Nancy Carey: Well, we all believe in silver linings and rainbows--
Mariah Popham: Well, I don't! I expect the worst and I ain't never been disappointed!


--Una Merkel (as Mariah Popham) in Summer Magic

Myrtle Sousé: I'll starve myself to death, it's the easiest way out. It's not so difficult to do. I tried it yesterday afternoon.


--Una Merkel (as Myrtle Sousè) in The Bank Dick