The Female Animal (1958)

Jan Sterling: Lily Frayne

Quotes 

• Lily Frayne : [Lily Frayne and her date, Pepe, are at the restaurant bar; Pepe looks troubled as he examines a bracelet on his wrist]  I don't know why you're objecting to that slave bracelet. I buy one for all my friends. I used to wear two or three of them myself around my ankle in the old days. Everybody wears them.

  Pepe, Lily's Gigolo : Mon cher, please, I'm bored hearing about "The Stone Age."

  Lily Frayne : [shakes her diamond-covered hand at Pepe]  That's where these rocks came from, lover, and don't forget it.

  [turns to Bartender] 

  Lily Frayne : Darling, give Lily a shot for her bronchitis.

  Bartender : Of course, Miss Frayne.

  Lily Frayne : It's the sea air. I don't know why I live here.

  Bartender : I thought you liked the beach.

  Lily Frayne : Oh, I do, darling, I do.

  [glances at Pepe] 

  Lily Frayne : But it's so boring. Nothing to do night or day but go to bed.

  Bartender : Why don't you make another picture, Miss Frayne? I thought you were great in "Salammbô."

  Lily Frayne : Lubitsch did, too, darling. Lubitsch did, too. We were giants in those days. Now you could put the whole bunch under a card table and nobody'd muss a hair.

  [glances at Pepe] 

  Lily Frayne : Did you ever see me in "Salammbô," darling?

  Pepe, Lily's Gigolo : Sorry, I wasn't born then.

  Lily Frayne : [angry]  Well, I was only eleven myself! They called me "Little Lily Frayne." I was the first child star ever to be chased around a desk.

• Lily Frayne : You must be in pictures, or, should be.

• Lily Frayne : My dear boy, one does need a little talent in this business; but, not necessarily for acting.

• Lily Frayne : How exciting for you angel. He's a little rude, but, so virile. Some people are just rude - period.

• Lily Frayne : Life can be so boring. I adore the clean, limbed American type too. Somehow, I always end up with veal scallopini in sideburns.

  Vanessa Windsor : Leaping to conclusions again, Lily?

  Lily Frayne : What else is there to leap at, except, men?

• Lily Frayne : That's the one thing I really learned about men in Hollywood. Success goes to their little heads. And one morning they're off with the car and their gold cufflinks and your heart and that's that. Keep 'em sharecropping, dear. It's the only way.

• Lily Frayne : I told you not to talk that phony French! It sounds as if you're calling me an old cow - which you probably are.