Reunion in France (1942)

Joan Crawford: Michele de la Becque

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Quotes 

• Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : This is very pretty.

  Martin : There's an exceptional view of the city.

  Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : I've seen Paris before.

  Martin : Not this Paris, mademoiselle.

  [Walking towards the door] 

  Martin : The bedroom suite is this way.

  Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : Wait. Martin, you've known me for a long time.

  Martin : When you were very little, you wanted to marry me so that you could always have chocolate pudding.

  Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : At my first ball, it was you who fastened my dress when it came undone.

  Martin : Such memories belong to another lifetime, mademoiselle. One which has come to an end. And which, unfortunately, some of us have outlived.

  Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : But why have our lifetimes come to an end, our private little worlds?

• Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : There is something you and/or the German army can do. Nevermind, I'm sure it's punishable by death.

• Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque : Being safe isn't nearly as important in this world as it used to be.

• [last lines] 

  Little Boy : [standing at the gate of their home with a little girl and another little boy]  Nazi traitors.

  [angrily spits on the ground and walks away along with the other children] 

  Robert Cortot : [consoles Michele]  We must only begin to worry when they no longer spit at us, and our Nazi friends.

  Michele de la Becque : Our Nazi friends... you knew I'd come back didn't you.

  Robert Cortot : You would've been safe in England.

  Michele de la Becque : Being safe in this world isn't nearly as important as it used to be. I belong in France, and I belong with you. Oh, I won't be much help, I know; but you won't be quite as lonely.

  Robert Cortot : How could I be with twice as many people in my world?

  Michele de la Becque : Our world, and all of us in love.

  [leans in to kiss Robert but hears and sees a skywriting plane flying overhead] 

  Michele de la Becque : Robert look, that plane!

  Robert Cortot : It is not your American if that's what you think. This one has come every morning now for a week. The fools don't even shoot at him because he doesn't drop bombs. If the Nazis only knew how dangerous he is to them; if they only knew France.

  [the plane's skywriting reads 'COURAGE' and the scene fades to 'The End']