The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Van Johnson: Charles Wills
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Quotes
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Helen Ellswirth : Do you mind if Paul takes me home?
Charles Wills : Paul who?
Helen Ellswirth : Paul anybody. Party like this, must be at least 6 or 7 Pauls
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Charles Wills : You're a girl after my own heart.
Helen Ellswirth : Make no mistake, I'm after it.
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Helen Ellswirth : Suppose time runs out on us.
Charles Wills : You're just having a bad day, darling. Tomorrow will...
Helen Ellswirth : I've been having a bad day for a year now. Maybe I'm growing up
Charles Wills : It's too late to grow up.
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James Ellswirth : Helen tells me that you're a very serious-minded man, hard-working, industrious.
Charles Wills : Well I try to be sir.
James Ellswirth : I tell you frankly, these were not the qualities I'd hoped for in a son-in-law. I'll uh, go even further. They're, uh, not the qualities to make Helen happy.
Charles Wills : Oh, well, sir, I - eh - I'm going to work in a Paris news agency. I'll be surrounded by carefree, irresponsible characters. Some of it is bound to rub off on me.
James Ellswirth : Hmm. Well, let us hope so.
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Charles Wills : What kind of wife are you, dancing with other men?
Helen Ellswirth : The average kind. Neglected.
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Helen Ellswirth : What did you put into that kiss?
Charles Wills : Well, why don't you come here and find out.
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Charles Wills : I'm peculiar that's why. I used up a year of my life trying to write a book. For some unaccountable reason I thought somebody would want to publish it.
James Ellswirth : My boy, you're not in the least peculiar. You're merely naive. Now I knew a publisher once and he made it a rule never to read a manuscript. Oh, he'd smell it and weigh it and feel it and taste it. But read it, no. Now if it smelled and felt and tasted like garbage, he'd publish it. Would you like to know the secret of success, my boy? Mediocrity! To be a rich writer, you've got to remember your three "r"s: riches, ruffians and rape.
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Maurice : That lady over there. I do say, uh, she gives you the eye.
Charles Wills : That one? She's not even smiling at me.
Maurice : The eye without a smile, is the most dangerous eye.
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Marion Ellswirth : Let's go to my Father's celebration.
Charles Wills : Well, where would he get enough whiskey for a party.
Marion Ellswirth : Ha, ha. You don't know my father.
Charles Wills : [toast] To fathers!
Marion Ellswirth : To men!
Claude Matine : To Frenchmen!
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Charles Wills : [after Helen's given birth] Hiya, fatso.
Helen Ellswirth : Fatso is right. Look at me! Bulging out of my own clothes.
Charles Wills : I happen to be insane about each every bulge.
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Helen Ellswirth : [looking in the mirror, after giving birth to Vicki] I'll never, never be a size 10 again.
Charles Wills : Vicki will be exactly like you. Then I'll be surrounded by beautiful women.
Helen Ellswirth : That compliment and a martini would just about square you for putting me in jail for nine months.
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Charles Wills : Is something wrong?
Lorraine Quarl : Is something right?
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Charles Wills : Well, where are you going?
Helen Ellswirth : To do something important - buy a new hat.
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Charles Wills : For the first time in my life, I wish I had lots of money. Oh, money!
Helen Ellswirth : Daddy says, it isn't what you have, it's what you owe.
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Charles Wills : What'd I do?
Helen Ellswirth : That, I'd be very interested to know.
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Charles Wills : Is it Sunday already? What happened to Friday and Saturday?
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Helen Ellswirth : [Charlie kisses Helen's forehead] Do that again.
Charles Wills : Thought you were asleep?
Helen Ellswirth : Only my eyes.
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Helen Ellswirth : Now that the war in Europe is over, what are you going to do?
Charles Wills : Try to stay out of the war in the Pacific.
Helen Ellswirth : That's very sensible.
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Charles Wills : 'll take you home.
Helen Ellswirth : Did you read Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again"?
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Charles Wills : We could have gotten killed!
Helen Ellswirth : It's a wonderful way to make a living, isn't it?
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James Ellswirth : Forgive me, but, uh, I'm rather enjoying playing the anxious father. After all, it's Helen's first marriage, you know.
Charles Wills : Only marriage, sir.
James Ellswirth : Tut, tut! No arrogance, please.
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Charles Wills : According to our files, you were married four times.
Lorraine Quarl : Three. Annulments don't count.
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Lorraine Quarl : Paris is beautiful. American women love French men. French men love American women. Prices are too high. I haven't picked out my next husband yet. Might be the bartender, at least he has talent.
Charles Wills : You've been interviewed before.
Lorraine Quarl : The last time, an hour ago. He wasn't very young or very attractive. The interview was very, very short. But then, take your time.
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City Editor : Charlie, uh, run down to the police station will you?
Charles Wills : What for?
City Editor : Oh, some crazy American dame. Seems she held up traffic by taking a dive into a fountain at noon, today.
Charles Wills : Not much of a story is it?
City Editor : No, but you know how Americans in Paris love to read about Americans in Paris.
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Charles Wills : First trip to Paris?
Lorraine Quarl : Oh, no, no. First divorce here, that's all.
Charles Wills : Why did you choose Paris?
Lorraine Quarl : I get saddle sores in Reno and I lose too much money in Las Vegas.
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Charles Wills : That office is awful cold and dingy at this hour of the morning.
Lorraine Quarl : You'd be surprised how often I've been cold and dingy.
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Lorraine Quarl : How is Helen?
Charles Wills : Oh, now what's one little wife among all your husbands?
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Charles Wills : Now what's the matter?
[imitating Helen]
Charles Wills : Oh, Charlie, how could you?
[imitating himself]
Charles Wills : Don't Charlie me, sister. What about you? I'm sick and tired of you sitting around these crummy cafes day and night, the darling of every phony, petted by writers who don't write, adored by painters who don't paint.
[imitating Helen]
Charles Wills : And what do you write? Interviews with useless, sloppy women.
[imitating himself]
Charles Wills : Well, at least I don't jump into fountains and lap up all the liquor in Paris!
[imitating Helen]
Charles Wills : Well, why don't you ask me why I drink, why I jump in the fountains?
[imitating himself]
Charles Wills : That's right, blame me. Blame me. Did I want to stay in Paris? What right have you to criticize me?
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Charles Wills : How do you make out?
Paul Lane : Brilliantly.
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Lorraine Quarl : Oh, it's so good to have my arms around you again.
Charles Wills : Oh, well, you've got me confused with somebody else. We never got that far.
Lorraine Quarl : Why not?
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Helen Ellswirth : I'm only trying to help.
Charles Wills : Help what?
Helen Ellswirth : You, me, us. I don't know.
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Charles Wills : Wouldn't that be reasonable?
Helen Ellswirth : You'll find a reason to make it reasonable.
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Helen Ellswirth : Charlie, I'd like to go home.
Charles Wills : Home?
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Charles Wills : I want to go home. All the way home.