Françoise Arnoul credited as playing...
Nini
- Henri Danglard: Would you like to become a dancer, miss?
- Nini: Everyone knows what that means.
- Mme Olympe, mère de Nini: She's my daughter.
- Henri Danglard: I'm very interested in her, madame.
- Mme Olympe, mère de Nini: My daughter is an honest girl.
- Henri Danglard: Ha-ha. I don't doubt it. What does she earn working for you?
- Mme Olympe, mère de Nini: She's not for sale.
- Henri Danglard: I want to give her a career.
- Mme Olympe, mère de Nini: She already has one. What kind of career?
- Henri Danglard: The finest of all, dear lady. The theater.
- Nini: It's expected among theater people. You have to do it or you get nowhere. That's what bothers me.
- Thérèse, blanchisseuse: If I were in your shoes...
- Nini: I always dreamed that Paulo would be the first. I'm afraid of looking foolish with Danglard.
- Thérèse, blanchisseuse: You've still got time to take a lesson before tonight.
- Nini: Listen to you!
- [Nini runs to the Boulangerie. Enters. Locks the door. Sneaks up to Paolo]
- Paulo, le boulanger: Nini!
- Nini: Where's your uncle?
- Paulo, le boulanger: Asleep upstairs.
- [Nini seductively walks into the back store room. Paulo follows]