Midnight (1939 film) Quotes

Midnight (1939 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Midnight stopped airing in 1970.

It features Arthur Hornblow, Jr. as producer, Frederick Hollander in charge of musical score, and Charles Lang as head of cinematography.

Midnight (1939 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Midnight (1939 film) is 94 minutes long. Midnight (1939 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Claudette Colbert as Eve Peabody, Monty Woolley as Judge, Don Ameche as Tibor Czerny, Hedda Hopper as Stephanie, Rex O'Malley as Marcel, Francis Lederer as Jacques Picot, Mary Astor as Helene Flammarion, Elaine Barrie as Simone, and John Barrymore as Georges Flammarion.

Midnight (1939 film) Quotes

Mary Astor as Helene Flammarion

• (Mary Astor) "Poor Jacques. Oh, my soul, this is heaven. Baroness Czerny indeed. Of all the impudence. The consummate impudence. We'll take this with us."
• (Rex O'Malley) "Now, Helene, don't let's hush this up and don't let's wait until tomorrow. Go on, let's have a lovely scandal."

• (Mary Astor) "Odd, her coming here alone."
• (Rex O'Malley) "I notice she didn't go home alone."

Hedda Hopper as Stephanie

• (Unnamed) "That's la conga."
• (Hedda Hopper) "La conga. Come on, everybody do la conga."

• (Hedda Hopper) "Oh, dear. If ever a woman needed a new hat, it is I. I'm being SUED; for fifty thousand francs."
• (Mary Astor) "No."
• (Elaine Barrie) "By whom?"
• (Hedda Hopper) "By the Archduchess of Mendola. You know that creature I had thrown out last night? And I thought it was that "Eve Peabody"? Ha. It really WAS the Archduchess of Mendola."

• (Hedda Hopper) "Before we go any further, I'd like your attention one moment more. Is there anybody in this room named -- Eve Peabody? No? Well, does anyone here know a Miss Eve Peabody? Well, I won't trouble the rest of you any further. Now, my dear, Chopin's 11th Prelude."
• (Unnamed) "It is the 12th and it is an Etude."
• (Unnamed) "Huh."

Claudette Colbert as Eve Peabody

• (Claudette Colbert) "I landed a lord, almost."
• (Don Ameche) "Almost?"
• (Claudette Colbert) "Well, the family came between us. His mother came to my hotel and offered me a bribe."
• (Don Ameche) "You threw her out, I hope."
• (Claudette Colbert) "How could I, with my hands full of money?"

• (Claudette Colbert) "Listen. Back in New York, whenever I managed to crash a party full of luscious big-hearted millionaires, there was always sure to be some snub-faced kid in the orchestra playing traps. And so at four in the morning, when the wise girls were skipping off to Connecticut to marry those millionaires, I'd be with him in some nightspot learning tricks on the kettledrum. And he always had a nose like yours."

• (Claudette Colbert) "When I married, I didn't realize that in the Czerny family there was a streak of -- shall we say, eccentricity? And yet, I had warning. Why else should his grandfather have sent me, as an engagement present, one roller skate; covered with Thousand Island dressing?"
• (Francis Lederer) "What?"
• (John Barrymore) "Of course, of course I'd forgotten. The Czerny's are all like that. You know, I met an old aunt; the Countess Antonia. I thought she was an Indian. It turned out, that she used paprika instead of face powder."

• (Claudette Colbert) "Well. So this, as they say, is Paris, huh?"
• (Train guard) "Yes, madame."
• (Claudette Colbert) "Well, from here it looks an awful lot like a rainy night in Kokomo, Indiana."

• (Claudette Colbert) "Oh, I think it's a dream on you. You know, it -- it does something for your face: it gives you a chin."

Monty Woolley as Judge

• (Monty Woolley) "It's a confounded nuisance, but it's the law."

Francis Lederer as Jacques Picot

• (Francis Lederer) "I'm terribly sorry. It's difficult to concentrate on cards -- sometimes."
• (Claudette Colbert) "Naturally, when you're worrying about the future of the ostrich plume."
• (Mary Astor) "I don't think that's very funny."
• (Francis Lederer) "I do."
• (Claudette Colbert) "Well, thanks."

• (Francis Lederer) "You're wonderful."
• (Claudette Colbert) "You're magnificent."
• (Mary Astor) "You're talking across the board."

• (Francis Lederer) "Well, it's --"
• (Claudette Colbert) "Oh, I think it's a dream on you. You know, it does something for your face. It gives you a chin."

Elaine Barrie as Simone

• (Elaine Barrie) "Well, where in the world did you get THAT hat? It looks positively moldy."
• (Customer in hat store) "Well, I bought it from you three days ago."

John Barrymore as Georges Flammarion

• (John Barrymore) "Did you ever find that "Eve Peabody"?"
• (Hedda Hopper) "Finally. I had her thrown out. She was a horrible old woman. Roger found her in the powder room. Imagine. You know, she claimed to be the Archduchess of Mendola."

Rex O'Malley as Marcel

• (Rex O'Malley) "Madame? A word with you."
• (Claudette Colbert) "With me?"
• (Rex O'Malley) "Yes, with you."
• (Claudette Colbert) "I thought so. Well, all right, let's get it over with."

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