Curtain at Eight (1933)

Natalie Moorhead: Alma Jenkins Thornton

Quotes 

• Alma Jenkins Thornton : A wife has some rights, particularly an undivorced wife.

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : If Doris Manning smelled a rat, she'd back out like that

  [he snaps his fingers] 

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : And we can't afford to lose the Manning millions, can we, Dear?

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : Keep on, keep on, you'll throw a monkey wrench into the whole works.

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : Oh, you'd find words to soothe the troubled waters. Your lips fairly drool honey when they want to. That's how you got me.

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : I wish some of the same could get rid of you.

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : [mockingly]  Ah, what is life without you, my Sweet? Each hour away from you is a nightmare, torn with despair. Each day a Purgatory of waiting, waiting for night and the sweet caress of your tender lips. You cackling boudoir rooster!

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : [she resumes mocking him]  I was the only woman in your life. The glorious sunburst on the dark horizon of your lonely days. And the very night you married me, you had dates with two of your ex-sweeties!

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : [still mocking him]  Oh, but Darling, don't you understand, these other women, they mean nothing to me. They're just stepping stones on the pathway to our happiness. And I fell for it. I believed you, you bedroom Ananias. I loved you. I laugh myself sick when I think about it now. But I used to sit in my room and cry over you. Till I got next to him and me. You big Baboon! But you're going to pay for every bit of unhappiness you caused me and you're going to pay for it the only way it hurts you - through your pocketbook.

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : Alright, alright. You're getting yours, aren't you?

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : You've held out on my cut for the last four weeks. And unless you kick in, I'm going to move in and stay in. Now what about my dough, Big Boy, what about it?

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : I had to pay...

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : Oh, don't lie to me. You gambled it away. I know when, how and with whom. You've lost three salary cheques, one after another. And last night, you gave a certain well-known gentleman a cheque that'll still be bouncing when Gabriel toots his horn!

  Wylie Thornton - Actor : Listen, Alma...

  Alma Jenkins Thornton : I'll do the talking, you flannel-mouthed Romeo. Wylie Thornton, matinee idol, pride of every kitchen mechanic and points south. Why you worn out Adonis, pull any fast stuff on me and I'll lay you out among the lilies - and little Alma Thornton is the one that can do it!