Trapeze (1956)

Thomas Gomez: Bouglione

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• Lola : Monsieur Bouglione, how do you like? Beautiful, yes? You want us? By opening night, magnificent. I tell you, these boys...

  Bouglione : What they do, I see. What do you do?

  Lola : Me? I show you. Hey-hup! Hey-hup! Hup! Alley-hup! Ah-hup! Hup!

• Mike Ribble : You think they'll pay more to see her in spangles than they would to see a triple? Well, you're wrong!

  Bouglione : I fill my circus in my way or I empty it in my way. In my circus there's room for *only* my way.

• Tino Orsini : Mr. Bouglione, how'd you like my act?

  Bouglione : What act?

  Tino Orsini : Ribble and Orsini.

  Bouglione : You come here, do two flips on the bar, make one pass, right away you got an act. Congratulations. Wonderful. One of you runs before he can walk, the other a cripple!

• Lola : We do business, monsieur?

  Bouglione : I see these boys work before. Where'd they find you - an Italiana?

  Lola : They're lucky, no?

• Mike Ribble : [to Lola]  Let's you and I drink to Ribble and Orsini, the first pure act in years.

  Bouglione : Let's hope the public like it. They never asked for purity before.

• Bouglione : Things have changed. Why stick to a two act? The people want color, light, sparkle, something pleasing to the eye. A bit of feminine beauty like Lola here. Think it over, Mike, while I go congratulate your boy. I have great hopes for this act.

• Bouglione : I give you my word, the act will be improved.

  Mike Ribble : Improved? By a dame? I'm tryin' to give you a pure trapeze act...

  Bouglione : I know all about your act, its purity, its perfection. I also know what the public wants.

• Bouglione : Mike is too busy to speak. Your other, beautiful partner is with him. Leave him to her.

  Tino Orsini : Lola's with him?

  Bouglione : Sure she's with him. She can handle him. She can handle all of us.