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Death Takes a Holiday (1971)

Yvette Mimieux: Peggy Chapman

Death Takes a Holiday

Yvette Mimieux credited as playing...

Peggy Chapman

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  • David Smith: [Peggy has tried to throw herself off the cliff] Peggy! What were you trying to do?
  • Peggy Chapman: You know what I was trying to do.
  • David Smith: Why? Why would you want to?
  • Peggy Chapman: [she touches his face] I thought you'd look different... but you don't.
  • David Smith: He told you?
  • Peggy Chapman: Yes.
  • David Smith: And now?
  • Peggy Chapman: I don't know... I was so frightened at first, so many things bouncing around in my head and then... absolute stillness inside. There were no more questions I had to ask.
  • David Smith: But you still haven't told me why! Why this?
  • Peggy Chapman: Because I wanted to leave with you.
  • Peggy Chapman: There is a tragedy in dying... in dying not knowing absolute love.
  • [last lines]
  • David Smith: Peggy, if I don't stay I'll have to take you, and I can't! I love you, Peggy! I can't take all those years of living from you, not when you make them count for so much!
  • Peggy Chapman: David, I've waited for you all my life! Do you know what I'm saying? All my life!
  • [They embrace]
  • Peggy Chapman: If I go with you, can we be together as we are right now?
  • David Smith: Yes.
  • Peggy Chapman: For ever?
  • David Smith: More.
  • Peggy Chapman: Then I want to go with you. Now.
  • David Smith: Peggy, I can't promise you that it will be either more or less than you may have imagined.
  • Peggy Chapman: I know.
  • David Smith: You won't regret it?
  • Peggy Chapman: No... not with you.
  • David Smith: But you're so young! You've had so few years.
  • Peggy Chapman: Most people live 'til they're eighty and never know the fulfillment I've known. David... it's Christmas morning. I want to open the next package.
  • Peggy Chapman: [first lines, waking up on the beach after nearly drowning] I don't remember... the last thing I know I was in a big kelp bed. I remember thinking I'd never come up from down there. But here I am, aren't I... I guess.
  • John Cummings: You do take too many chances.
  • Peggy Chapman: Now how many is too many? I mean, you don't know until you take the last one, do you? And then that could be the first time or the hundredth
  • David Smith: [Peggy has asked him to tell her about himself] In my earliest recollected incarnation, I was the poet Euripedes. That was about 480 B.C. My next trip in was as John the Baptist.
  • [Peggy laughs]
  • David Smith: Not too happy a choice, as it turned out. And then somewhere around 810 I served a hitch in Charlemagne's army. Yes, I was a general, I think... at least I had a very fancy uniform.
  • Peggy Chapman: Wonderful! Because at this rate, we'll be here all night.
  • David Smith: Wait 'til I get to the fifteenth century. That was easily my best century.

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