The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Marcelle Corday: Marie

Quotes 

• Anna Held : [on the phone with Ziegfeld after learning of his marriage to Billie Burke]  Hello, Flo... Yes. Here's Anna... I'm so happy for you today, I could not help calling you and congratulate you... Wonderful, Flo! Never better in my whole life!... I'm so excited about my new plans! I'm going to Paris... Yes, for a few weeks, and then I can get back, and then I'm doing a new show, and... Oh, it's all so wonderful! I'm so happy!... Yes... And I hope you are happy, too... Yes?... Oh, I'm so glad for you, Flo... Sounds funny for ex-husband and ex-wife to tell how happy they are, oui?... Yes, Flo... Goodbye, Flo... Goodbye...

  [She hangs up] 

  Anna Held : Darling...

  [she falls to her bed, sobbing] 

  Marie : My poor, petite! If you love him so, why did you divorce him?

  Anna Held : Because I thought it would bring him back to me. I was sure that it would bring him back to me.

  [she cries] 

• Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : America's a big country, Miss Held. We still have many producers in the West putting on shows for the Indians.

  Anna Held : Indians? Do you mean the savages?

  Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Yes.

  Anna Held : Did you hear that, Marie?

  Marie : Oui, Madame.

  Anna Held : I do not think I will like America.

• Anna Held : [phone rings, Marie answers it]  Oh, those reporters again. Tell them no. Positively no. I do not want to speak to them.

  Marie : Madame, it is Monsieur Ziegfeld.

  Anna Held : I don't want to speak to him either. I never wish to speak to him again! Where is he?

  Marie : Downstairs in the lobby, madame.

  Anna Held : Tell him to come up.