The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Genevieve Tobin: Della Street

Quotes 

• Detective Johnson : Who was that on the phone?

  Della Street : Well, it was the garbage man. I told him to bring up enough for four.

• Col. Bradbury : [after finding Perry passed out on his office floor]  Is this the office of the eminent attorney Perry Mason or an insane asylum?

  Della Street : Sometimes I wonder.

• Perry Mason : No beer. No wine. No liqueur. Now I'm gonna break your heart. No whiskey!

  Perry Mason : Are there any other liquids?

  Della Street : Milk.

  Perry Mason : Milk? You mean that unpalatable by-product of the cow?

• Dr. Croker : No excitement whatsoever, and no stimulants.

  Perry Mason : Did you get that, Miss Street? No stimulants and no excitement. I'll have to get rid of you.

  Della Street : Thank you, you flatterer.

• Col. Bradbury : There's a body in there on the floor.

  Della Street : Tch-tch-tch-tch-tch. I have to speak to that janitor about cleaning up. He's been very careless lately.

• Della Street : Pardon me, Squawman, while I relieve you of your tepee.

• Perry Mason : The gentleman is here.

  Della Street : [laughs]  Don't lie to me. You're no gentleman. You're Perry Mason.

• Della Street : [big smile]  Ah-ha, getting a verbal spanking?

• Della Street : What are clover dales, daddy?

• Della Street : Didn't your mother ever teach you never to grab?

• Detective Johnson : Headquarters just wants to a questioning. Sort of, informal.

  Perry Mason : I'd like it better formal.

  Della Street : Oh, if its formal, I can wear my new evening gown. Can't I, daddy?

• Della Street : I've awfully sorry to have to inform you, but, I've been a very *naughty* girl.

• Col. Bradbury : I want to see Mason right away. Where is he?

  Della Street : He's out.

  Col. Bradbury : Are you sure he isn't in there? Drunk?

  Della Street : Oh, I'm sure he isn't in there. But, I can't guarantee that he's not drunk.

• Detective Johnson : Your confession?

  Perry Mason : Certainly, I can confess, if I want to. Where's your book, Della?

  Della Street : Right here, where it fell the other night, when you and I were - oh, I forgot, this is your confession.

• [last lines] 

  Della Street : Well, you just solved one mystery.

  [bites her lip] 

  Perry Mason : Ah ha, that's what I thought.