The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)

Edward Everett Horton: Count Humbert

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• Prof. Kornish : How long has he been like this?

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : All day long.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Isn't there anything we can do?

  Prof. Kornish : I don't know. In my whole life I've never seen anybody so drunk.

• Duchess Anna of Elberfield : Poor Alfred. He never has any fun. It takes him three days to pass out. Three days to come to.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : And then, it's always Sunday.

  Prof. Kornish : Sunday. Very bad timing.

• Duchess Anna of Elberfield : He doesn't eat. He doesn't talk. He doesn't go any place.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : He doesn't go any place!

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : He just takes a brandy bottle and goes to bed with it.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Says he hates to sleep alone.

  Prof. Kornish : That's bad. Very bad, in deed. A young man like that. He'll be a dipsomaniac.

• Prof. Kornish : Count, have you ever done any fox hunting?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Oh, what a question. Fox hunting. Glorious sport, isn't it? Why, when I was Chancellor...

  Prof. Kornish : Yes, yes. yes. But, would it be a glorious sport, if the fox pursued you?

• Duchess Anna of Elberfield : What did he say?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : He wants that girl for supper tonight.

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : He wants that girl for supper tonight?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : He wants that girl for supper tonight.

• Duchess Anna of Elberfield : You're a very fortunate young lady, Miss Ellis.

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : And a very nervous one. You see, I've never met royalty before. I don't think I'll know how to act. We haven't any royalty in America.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Well, I don't want to tell you how to run your country, but that is a mistake. A smart, well-dressed royalty - awfully good for the tourist trade.

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : Well, we're getting along...

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Oh, well... mmm-hmm... well, of course, if you're satisfied just to be getting along'!

• Miss Dorothy Ellis : We haven't any royalty in America.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Well, I don't want to tell you how to run your country; but, that is a mistake. A smart, well-dressed royalty - awfully good for the tourist trade.

• Miss Dorothy Ellis : Later that night we went to an amusement park. Oh, we had such fun. We rode on the roller coaster twelve times!

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : The roller coaster?

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : Yes.

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : You realize he's the last of the Brugers?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : And would be very awkward for a fourteen hundred year old family to come to an end on a roller coaster.

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : What did you do next?

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : We ate frankfurters.

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield , Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Frankfurters?

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : Three each.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Three each?

  Duchess Anna of Elberfield : That's even more dangerous than roller coasters.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Oh, it's wicked - wicked.

• Duchess Anna of Elberfield : When do you see him again?

  Miss Dorothy Ellis : Tomorrow afternoon. There's no matinee. So, we're going on a picnic.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : A picnic? And eat more frankfurters?

• Alfred Bruger VII : Where's the yacht?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Oh, the yacht, why it's over there. It's in Deauville.

  Alfred Bruger VII : Is it ready for sail or are they scraping the bottom again?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Yes, your majesty.

  Alfred Bruger VII : What?

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : It's ready. Ready for sail, yes.

  Alfred Bruger VII : I don't want that bottom ever scraped again.

  Count Humbert Evel Bruger : No, your majesty.

• Count Humbert Evel Bruger : Anna and I have talked things over and we've decided you'd make a excellent ex-Queen!