The Room Upstairs (1946)

Marlene Dietrich: Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante

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• Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Something you want, sir?

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Have you lost something?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : A four-leaf clover.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : It's a clover made of silver.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Here it is! Very pretty, but a shame it's made of silver.

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Why?

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : They say silver doesn't bring happiness.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What would you like? It seems they serve a nice port here, but, I prefer Pernod.

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Then I'll have a Pernod.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Are you a foreigner?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : No, but I was born in Australia.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : I think life's beautiful, don't you?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Yes, but, I find people depressing.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : That is right sometimes. Often they don't know what their 10 fingers are for. I"m a hands-on person. With my bricks, I'm as happy as a little kid.

• Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Nest's are great. There! Look, on the top branch.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Ah, yes, looks like it's been empty for ages. That'a a tit's nest.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What are you thinking about?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Nothing, just the things that happen for people in hotel bedrooms.

• Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : You don't need to be sad. What's important is not to love, but to be loved. You can think of me. When you're alone, talk to me. Dream of doing wonderful things for me, extraordinary things. All right? So, why be sad?

• Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : What pleasure is there in dominating what we despise?

• Monsieur de Laubry - le consul : He wears his heart on his sleeve; but, the sleeve is dirty, like his hands.

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Not as bad as a dirty mind.

  Monsieur de Laubry - le consul : In the smart salons, a dirty mind stands out less than dirty fingernails.