Midnight (1939)
Hedda Hopper: Stephanie
Quotes
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Georges Flammarion : The ground has just opened under our feet.
Eve Peabody : Well... and me all set to jump for that tub of butter.
Georges Flammarion : We've landed in something, all right, but it's not butter.
Eve Peabody : Here they come.
Georges Flammarion : I'll stand by you as best I can.
Helene Flammarion : Ladies and gentlemen, may I have a word, please. I want to tell you something which I think will both interest and amuse you. Under our roof tonight, we have, as a guest, a person claiming one of the oldest names in the Almanach de Gotha.
[Crowd mutters]
Helene Flammarion : I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Hungarian aristocracy, but let me assure you that in all middle Europe there is no family...
Servant : Baron Tibor Czerny.
[Crowd gasps and mutters loudly]
Stephanie : Well.
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Stephanie : 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.
Prince Potopienko : It is the 12th and it is an Etude!
[Shrugs shoulders]
Prince Potopienko : Huh!
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Georges Flammarion : [Guests are filing out of Stephanie's musical soiree] Did you ever find that "Eve Peabody"?
Stephanie : 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.
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Stephanie : [In Simone's hat shop] Oh, dear! If ever a woman needed a new hat, it is I. I'm being SUED - for fifty thousand francs.
Helene Flammarion : [Shocked] No!
Simone : By whom?
Stephanie : 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.
