Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Monty Woolley: Madden Thomas

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Quotes 

• Madden Thomas : [while working as a department store Santa, Madden Thomas, who has been secretly drinking, belches loudly. A customer gasps]  What did you expect, Madame? Chimes?

• [last lines] 

  Madden Thomas : Come, my dear, to my reluctant arms!

• Kathy Thomas : And Maddy! Please, nothing but lemonade.

  Madden Thomas : How sharper than a serpent's tooth.

• Madden Thomas : What was success but a straight jacket? Why should I put it on again? Failure emancipated me, sure as Lincoln freed the slaves.