The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Frances Mercer: Helen Frayne

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Quotes 

• Helen Frayne : If you kill her, you have to kill all of us!

  Dora Fenton : Oh! You're always talking communism.

• Melsa Manton : Helen, you search the upstairs.

  Helen Frayne : Oh, no! I was never much of an individualist. If the upstairs has to be searched, we'll search it together.

  Dora Fenton : Why, that's communism!

• Helen Frayne : Look! I found a bloodstain!

  Dora Fenton : How can that be blood, it's blue!

  Gloria Hamilton : Maybe he shot Mrs. Astor.

• Dora Fenton : You know, psychiatrists say hate's just a step away from love.

  Helen Frayne : Yeah, but it's the lull in between that drives you crazy.

• Melsa Manton : Hilda, the door!

  Hilda : [already on her way to answer it]  I heard it. I ain't deaf. Sometimes I wished I was.

  Kit Beverly : [tagging along after Hilda, talking with her mouth full]  Have you another piece of cake, Hilda?

  Hilda : Yes, I have, but the kitchen's closed for the night.

  Melsa Manton : Hilda! Miss Beverly is our guest!

  Hilda : *I* didn't ask 'er up!

  Helen Frayne : Comes the revolution and we'll stop being exploited by our help.

  Melsa Manton : In my house the revolution is here.

• Peter Ames : [Melsa has been knocked unconscious and Peter is concerned]  Get some water... Melsa. Oh, Melsa, darling, please, please don't be dead.

  Helen Frayne : Here it is.

  [Helen hands Peter a glass of water, Peter throws water in Melsa's face. She awakens, spluttering] 

  Peter Ames : It's all right. It's distilled water.