My chauffer! My skipper!

Kayleigh 2022-10-10 20:38:56

"Midnight", what a classic screwball comedy combination.
Director Mitchell Leisen, Screenwriter Billy Wilder! The heroine Claudette Colbert, the charming violinist in Lubitsch's "The Smiling Captain". The actor Don Ameche, the Cliff who attracts bees and butterflies in Lubitsch's only color film "Heaven Waits".
One American in Monte Carlo! Or the beauties of the casino frustrations in Paris! I just thought of every detail, my dear Lord Lubitsch!
The first scene of Claudette Colbert's sleepy eyes and pear flowers is the most pitiful. The newspapers above her head wandered the street, and she was a desolate beauty, which attracted Mr. Chauffer, who was nibbling on bread and doing business. Of course, at the end of the story, Eve not only took the captain's taxi, but also took a life lesson about the importance of money and love, and stepped out of court with Tibor to get married!
I have to mention that the nobleman played by John Barrymore is trying to save his cheating wife. He is really old and strong

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Midnight quotes

  • Eve Peabody: When I married, I didn't realize that in the Czerny family there was a streak of... shall we say, eccentricity? And yet, I had warning. Why else should his grandfather have sent me, as an engagement present, one roller skate - covered with Thousand Island dressing?

    Jacques Picot: [Shocked] What?

    Georges Flammarion: Of course, of course I'd forgotten! The Czerny's are all like that. You know, I met an old aunt - the Countess Antonia. I thought she was an Indian. It turned out, that she used paprika instead of face powder.

  • Eve Peabody: I need a taxi to find myself a job and I need a job to pay for the taxi. No taxi, no job. No job, no soap.