Love Me Tonight (1932)
Joseph Cawthorn: Dr. Armand de Fontinac
Quotes
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Dr. Armand de Fontinac : A peach must be eaten, a drum must be beaten, and a woman needs something like that.
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Princess Jeanette : I'm wasting away, for three years I've starved. Alone, no joy I've tasted.
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : With eyes, and red lips, and a figure like that! You're not wasted away. You're just wasted!
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Dr. Armand de Fontinac : And now my dear, remove your dress.
Princess Jeanette : My what?
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : Your dress. There's no occasion for distress.
Princess Jeanette : Is that necessary?
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : Very. Yes. As long as professional ethics apply, I'll see you with only a doctor's eye.
Princess Jeanette : Oh, dear.
[disrobes]
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : The doctor's eye is satisfied. Now I'll hear your heart. Don't sigh. Very good. Nothing wrong here. Now I'll take your pulse, my dear. Perfectly regular, right on the tick. Madam, oh Madam, you cannot be sick.
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Dr. Armand de Fontinac : How old are you?
Princess Jeanette : I'm twenty-two. While other people dance, I feel so dead at night.
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : At twenty-two? Well this won't do. Are you married?
Princess Jeanette : My husband died three years ago. At sixteen I was wed.
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : You've been a widow for three years?
Princess Jeanette : Three years the Prince is dead.
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : Were you very happy with your spouse?
Princess Jeanette : He was a son of noble house. It was a happiness of great peace. Rochambeau, my better half. And here you have his photograph.
Dr. Armand de Fontinac : How old was your bridge-groom, dear?
Princess Jeanette : Seventy-two.