Her Highness and the Bellboy
Her Highness and the Bellboy is a 1945 American romantic comedy film about a bellboy at a swanky New York hotel who starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
- Directed by Richard Thorpe. It was written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman.
Jimmy Dobson
[edit]- She's the unsnoodiest person I've ever known.
- She's not plump. She's not unplump either. Well - she's perfect.
Princess Veronica
[edit]- I'm sure he means every other word he says!
Other
[edit]- Mrs. Odell: I wish I'd been born a princess. Instead I was born tired.
- Countess Zoe: Think of what history would say: Her Majesty Veronica the First, received the news that she had become Queen, while she was carousing in a Chop Suey joint with a bellboy.
Dialogue
[edit]- Albert Weever: How's about a kiss?
- Princess Veronica: No, thank you.
- Albert Weever: The pleasure would be mutual.
- Jimmy Dobson: Don't mind Albert, he's harmless. He's just a bit babe-whacky, that's all.
- Princess Veronica: He's what?
- Jimmy Dobson: Dame dizzy! You know, he's got nights on his mind.
- Princess Veronica: Knights? On his mind?
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, he likes tomatoes.
- Princess Veronica: They're good for him.
- Jimmy Dobson: Not the kind Albert likes. Say, you're a foreigner, aren't you.
- Princess Veronica: Yes.
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, now, look Toots, I'll explain it to you. Over here, we have two kinds of tomatoes. One is the vegetable. The other is you.
- Princess Veronica: Me? I am a tomato?
- Jimmy Dobson: Oh, Grade A and extra fancy.
- Jimmy Dobson: You going somewhere special?
- Princess Veronica: No. Just for a walk.
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, I'll go with you.
- Princess Veronica: Why?
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, you're a stranger here. A babe like you with a face like that, has got to be awfully careful in a world like this.
- Princess Veronica: Careful of what?
- Jimmy Dobson: Oh, things.
- Princess Veronica: Things?
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, men. I'm sorry to say, that we can't be trusted.
- Princess Veronica: They are delicious, your hot dogs.
- Jimmy Dobson: You've never had one before?
- Princess Veronica: Never.
- Jimmy Dobson: Gee, babe, you just haven't been anywhere, have you?
- Baron Zoltan Faludi: Why do you think I followed you here?
- Princess Veronica: To make love to me.
- Baron Zoltan Faludi: [leans in] Just for a practice.
- Princess Veronica: You don't need any.
- Princess Veronica: Now, when you kiss a lady's hand, don't be so athletic about it - or, so noisy! Don't snatch it up as if it were cake and you were going to bite it. The lips are brought to the hand - and not the hand to the lips. Remember that, next time.
- Jimmy Dobson: Yes, your Highness. Could next time, be now?
- Princess Veronica: Very well. But, remember, don't snatch - and don't smack! Now, crisply. And slowly. [Jimmy's lips remain on her hand] But, not too slowly.
- Princess Veronica: Hi, babe!
- Albert Weever: Look, lady, I didn't know you was a Princess. I thought you was a woman!
- Princess Veronica: I'm both, Albert.
- Princess Veronica: There's nothing wrong with me, really.
- Jimmy Dobson: Are you sure?
- Princess Veronica: You see, well, the Budapest was Hungary and the Cairo got Madrid and wouldn't Lisbon. So, the Balkans couldn't Bucharest and that's what made Naples truer than Cologne.
- Jimmy Dobson: Oh. Oh, I see.
- Princess Veronica: You do?
- Jimmy Dobson: Oh, of Corsica.
- Jimmy Dobson: It's going to be a beautiful night, too. At least, that's my frank opinion.
- Princess Veronica: Mine too.
- Jimmy Dobson: Well, for stepping out, I mean.
- Princess Veronica: For what?
- Jimmy Dobson: For going somewhere and doing something.
- Princess Veronica: Oh, you want to step out tonight? Is that it?
- Jimmy Dobson: Yeah! That's it. That certainly is it.
- Princess Veronica: Well, then, step.
- Jimmy Dobson: Good evening, Mrs. Odell, how are you this evening?
- Mrs. Odell: Poorly!
- Jimmy Dobson: Aw, thats too bad. I guess working nights doesn't agree with you.
- Mrs. Odell: Neither does working days.
- Princess Veronica: Don't you know? A woman only gets really mad at a man if he doesn't want to kiss her.
- Albert Weever: Is that a fact? Gee, I'm glad to know that!
- Princess Veronica: He has intelligence, charm, a sense of humor.
- Countess Zoe: Well, what if he has? They are not what we require of our King.
Cast
[edit]- Hedy Lamarr - Princess Veronica
- Robert Walker - Jimmy Dobson
- June Allyson - Leslie Odell
- Carl Esmond - Baron Zoltan Faludi
- Agnes Moorehead - Countess Zoe
- Rags Ragland - Albert Weever
- Ludwig Stössel - Mr. Puft
- George Cleveland - Dr. Elfson
- Warner Anderson - Paul MacMillan
- Konstantin Shayne - Yanos Van Lankovitz
- Tom Trout - Hack
- Ben Lessy - Himself
- Patty Moore - Fae
- Edward Gargan - 1st Cop
