The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

Sybil Thorndike: The Queen Dowager

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• The Queen Dowager : Sweetly pretty. She should use more mascara. When one is young, one should use a lot of mascara. And when one is old, one should use much more!

• The Queen Dowager : Mr. Northbrook, who was that creature? Was it an anarchist?

  Northbrook : No, ma'am!

  The Queen Dowager : Then who was it?

  Northbrook : A young lady, ma'am, called Miss Elsie Marina.

  The Queen Dowager : [pause]  Ah. Fetch her to me.

• The Queen Dowager : Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended, the Vas Arabies'. Guns going off like kettledrums and infernal machines and the sky black with smoke. Happily, no fatalities. Except in the crowd. But it all left a very bad impression.

• The Queen Dowager : Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended in Bessarabia, with all the shots going off like bombs and the sky black with infernal machines. Happily, no fatalities, except in the crowd.

• The Queen Dowager : My dear, such a night. Not a wink of sleep. Some dreadful drunkard fiddling in the corridor for hours and hours and the night before too, only, not so long. I did not dare go out and stop him, in case he was an anarchist or a Republican or something. One never knows nowadays. So disturbing.