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  • 4 months ago
A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.

Director: Dorothy Arzner

Writer: Tess Slesinger, Bradbury Foote, Ferenc Molnár

Stars: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Transcript
00:00That's all, no more beds.
00:30Number 30.
00:32Number 3, repeats.
00:34Amalia, your luck improves with every glass of champagne.
00:39And Rudy, the champagne improves with every roll of the wheel.
00:42Cash service for me.
00:46Special bets?
00:48Very superior waiter.
00:50Thank you, sir.
00:51Probably a very superior man.
00:53What a pity, no one will ever know.
00:55Please don't stop playing for my sake.
00:59In fact, I have to be up at dawn.
01:01I do nothing for anyone else's sake.
01:03The last time I did, I got married.
01:06I mean, I could take a taxi home.
01:07No, Rudy. These are not ours to be wasted in playing.
01:10Into each life, there come a few nights such as this.
01:12Nights in which everything you touch is gold.
01:14Everything you do is right.
01:16Invariably followed the next morning by a severe headache.
01:19What do I do with my power?
01:20What do I do with my omnipotence?
01:22Dive and debate with a lovesick young aristocrat
01:25whose only thought is of tomorrow and the Tyrell.
01:27And his lovely Maddalena.
01:29You'll admit, with all that to think of,
01:31I've listened very attentively to your naïve champagne philosophy.
01:34Naïve?
01:35What's so naïve about it?
01:37You promised we wouldn't go into it again.
01:38I insist on knowing.
01:40Sir?
01:40Well?
01:41No.
01:43You save your money, young man?
01:45No, sir.
01:45You support a sick mother?
01:47No, sir. No one.
01:48Perhaps you're working your way through school?
01:50No, sir.
01:51You have no ambition of any kind?
01:53No, sir.
01:54Good.
01:55There's an enormous dip for you.
01:56Squander it.
01:57Yes, sir.
01:58What do you mean, naïve?
02:00Well, after all, all that about life is a great roulette wheel.
02:03Life is a great roulette wheel.
02:06And the human is a little ball, worthless in himself,
02:08bouncing helplessly from slot to slot.
02:11Where will he end, in wealth or poverty?
02:13Is Rudy Powell the desirable young aristocrat, or...
02:17I was offering the waiter.
02:19Your number, my friend, didn't turn up.
02:21More champagne.
02:25And the cheque.
02:26Yes, sir.
02:27Rudy Powell and the waiter.
02:29Alike at the start and now so different.
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