The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton1938

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 American screwball comedy-mystery film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames. Melsa and her debutante friends hunt for … more »



Melsa Manton:
[has just discovered Fonda is faking being near death, to pump her for information] Are you still in pain, sweet?

Peter Ames:
[from hospital bed, faintly] Oh its nothing, nothing... only when I move... but its nothing...

Melsa Manton:
[hovering over hospital bed] Peter, perhaps I did wrong in not telling Inspector Brent everything.

Peter Ames:
You mean you held something back?

Melsa Manton:
Yes Peter.

Peter Ames:
[this is what he's hoping to hear] Oh sweet, you're so clever.

Melsa Manton:
Remember when I went into Ronnie Beldon's apartment?

Peter Ames:
Yes dear.

Melsa Manton:
When I went into the bathroom, I found something.

Peter Ames:
In the bathroom?

Melsa Manton:
Yes, floating around in a foot of water in the bathtub.

Peter Ames:
Louder, dear, I can hardly hear you.

Melsa Manton:
[ominously] I'll come closer.

Peter Ames:
Tell me dear, what was it?

Melsa Manton:
[yelling] The Normandie, you black-hearted faker, in full sail! [stabs him in the leg with a fork]

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