The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Poster

Luise Rainer: Anna Held

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  • 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] 

  • Anna Held : [singing]  I'm fond of games and fun you see, I wish you'd come and play with me, For I have such a way with me, A way with me, A way with me, I have such a nice little way with me, Do not think its wrong, I should like you to play with me, To play with me, To play with me, I wish you'd come and play with me, Play with me all the day long...

  • 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 : Did you not like my performance?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Yes and no.

    Anna Held : Yes and no. What shall that mean? Yes or no?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Well, both.

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : I'll present you on Broadway. In a great show, in the best theater, to the best people. I'll exploit you from coast to coast.

    Anna Held : Exploit? What is that?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : I'll put you over, I'll sell you

    Anna Held : Sell me?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : To the public. And I'll make them pay for you.

    Anna Held : And how much will you pay me?

  • Anna Held : I did not know Americans could be so gallant.

  • Anna Held : In Paris, I was a big success because they liked my voice. In London, I was a big success because they liked my singing. But in America, to be a big success, I need 20 gallons of milk and must sit in it!

  • Anna Held : Don't you like Monsieur Ziegfeld?

    Pierre : Oui, madame, that's the trouble. Everybody likes him, especially the ladies. Oh, madame, you'd never be happy with him. You'd never be able to hold him. Why, he attracts women like the flowers attract bees. Like the flypaper attract the flies.

    Anna Held : Well, that's all right. I've seen the flies on the flypaper and it seems to me they stick very well.

  • 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.

  • Anna Held : I will go back to France. Marie, pack the things! Quick! This time I mean it!

  • Anna Held : Marie, you go out for a while. He is my maid tonight. Go, go, go, go.

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Oh, I am, am I?

    Anna Held : Yes, you are. Later, I count all the diamonds in the bracelet and the necklace and give you a kiss you for each one.

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : What about the orchids? Don't I get anything for them?

    Anna Held : Oui. Oui. For each petal of each orchid, another kiss extra. So! Take off my stocking, please.

  • Anna Held : She's really quite beautiful, Flo, oui?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Yes, she is, isn't she?

    Anna Held : You're very much interested in her, oui?

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : I'm interested in all my girls, dear.

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Anna, please don't misjudge me. I couldn't help it. She's - she's drunk.

    Anna Held : Do you always do that when she is - drunk? The members of your company must enjoy that very much.

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