The Glass Slipper (1955)

Keenan Wynn: Kovin

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Quotes 

• Kovin : [taps charles with his pipe]  You're not well Charles. You're not yourself... You know what ails you. Careful, Charles. Remember your special weakness.

  Prince Charles : [playing the melody to "climbing rose" on the piano]  She's frightened, sad and hurt. Afraid to hope, expecting ridicule. A tender heart half afraid to love.

  Kovin : Oh, Careful, Charles.

  Prince Charles : [upset, he stops playing]  Why be careful? Every man has his own special vulnerability. I once knew a man who couldn't resist fat women; women with rolls. Another who fell madly in love with everytime a woman slapped his face. Well this is mine.

  [smiles, and resumes playing, this time a more jovial variation of the tune] 

  Prince Charles : Why go against nature?

• Cousin Loulou : I should like to present my cousin Mrs. Sonder, and her two daughters Birdena and Serafina.

  Kovin : [interrupts, elbowing his way between Birdena and the Widow]  Charles. I beg your pardon.

  Birdena : It's a great privilege, Your Highness. I'm looking forward to hearing about your travels.

  Serafina : Oh yes! We're very fond of Paris.

  Prince Charles : Oh, you know Paris?

  Birdena : Oh, we don't precisely know Paris, but we're very devoted to it, aren't we, Cousin Loulou? It's so French!

• Kovin : Your Highness, she is the daughter of the Pasha of Giza on the Nile.

  Duke : Ah, Old Gizer! Oh, I know him well. I didn't know he had a daughter?

• Kovin : A Lady of great virtue. Splendid bloodline! She is one of eight children. Her mother was one of 14 children - all males. Very prolific family.

  Duke : Excellent, excellent.

  Kovin : Good stock.

  Duke : Good teeth, too. I noticed.

  Kovin : Fine hocks and splendid withers.