Ball of Fire (1941)

Mary Field: Miss Totten

Quotes 

• Miss Totten : Father had just one reason for ever starting this unfortunate enterprise: vanity. He broke a blood vessel because he found his name was omitted from the Encyclopedia of Britannica, because thirty pages were devoted to Thomas Alva Edison, seventeen to Alexander Graham Bell, but not one line to Daniel S. Totten, the inventor of the electric toaster.

• Larsen : We've had quite enough of your activities. It has cost the estate some $300,000 to at last have its name spread across every tabloid in New York.

  [reading from a newspaper] 

  Larsen : "Night Club Babe Hides Out In Totten Foundation."

  Miss Totten : And this one!

  Larsen : Yes. "Professor Bridegroom Carries Ball Of Fire Across State Line."