Bette Davis inFog Over Frisco (1934, dir. William Dieterle)

“Now darling, don’t start moralizing.”

Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, dir. William Dieterle) 

“Why was I not made of stone, like thee?”

Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, dir. William Dieterle) (via)

“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”

Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, dir. William Dieterle) (via)

“Why was I not made of stone, like thee?”

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt ) (via)