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"Russell Hicks — George Hastings"
"Chico Marx — Ravelli"
"Groucho Marx — Wolf J. Flywheel"
"Paul Stanton — Arthur Hastings"
"[to Ravelli] Why don't you assist Basil Rathbone and leave me alone?"
"Margaret Dumont — Martha Phelps"
"With gorgeous girls! Cute cut-ups! Lovely lasses!"
"Where everything is a good buy. Goodbye!"
"Virginia Grey — Joan Sutton"
"Douglas Dumbrille — Mr. Grover"
"Harpo Marx — Wacky"
"Tony Martin — Tommy Rogers"
"It's a gift from a grateful client. They hanged him last year."
"Anna Demetrio — Maria"
"Marion Martin — Peggy Arden"
"Virginia O'Brien — Kitty"
"Henry Armetta — Giuseppi"
"Gorgeous Girls! Uproarious Fun! The Big Musical Show!"
"Song hits galore! 1000 laughs to a customer. Sale on howls! Sensational close-out on roars! Special fun and music bargains. Hurry hurry every laugh must go! No mail or phone orders please! Beauties and cuties!"
"William Tannen — Fred Sutton"
"Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it."
"Do you realize that there are thousands of children lining the streets? Children who have waited weeks just to see you? You are a disgrace to the tradition of Christmas! And I shall not allow you to malign me in public!"
"(To Sawyer)--"You have no more right to analyze Alfred than a dentist has to remove a gall bladder!""
"Jerome Cowan - Dist. Atty. Thomas Mara"
"Philip Tonge - Julian Shellhammer"
"William Frawley - Charlie Halloran"
"Gene Lockhart - Judge Henry X. Harper"
"Maureen O'Hara - Doris Walker"
"Natalie Wood - Susan Walker"
"You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle."
"Susan, I speak French but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc!"
"Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."
"Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile."
"Porter Hall - Granville Sawyer"
"Mr. Shellhammer: But... but maybe he's only a little crazy like painters or composers or... or some of those men in Washington."
"Alfred, Macy janitor: Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same - don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck."
"John Payne - Fred Gailey"
"Edmund Gwenn - Kris Kringle"
"Joss Ackland (uncredited) - Victor Landberg"
"Allison Janney - Brazen Woman in Cole's Christmas Shopping Center"
"Robert Prosky - Judge Henry Harper"
"Jack McGee - Tony Falacchi"
"Simon Jones - Donald Shellhammer"
"J. T. Walsh - Ed Collins"
"James Remar - Jack Duff"
"Mara Wilson - Susan Walker"
"Elizabeth Perkins - Dorey Walker"
"If you really believe, anything can happen."
"Richard Attenborough - Kris Kringle"
"Dylan McDermott - Bryan Bedford"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.