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Saratoga Trunk Page #10
- Year:
- 1945
- 135 min
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meet your dear mother.
Good morning, countess.
Comment ca va?
Bon jour,
madame.
Good morning,
clarissa.
Good morning.
May i present
mrs. Du chenfrais.
How do you do?
I hear you call yourself a countess.
No. I call myself
mrs. Du chenfrais.
Very clever.
Won't you
sit down?
You say you've been here
before, they tell me.
No. My dear husband
was here once.
Dear edouard-
the late comte.
couldn't find
your husband's signature
in the hotel register.
Isn't that odd?
His signature?
I've been coming to the
saratoga hotel for years.
I've met every
well-known person
that ever stopped here-
in my day, that is.
And i've searched the
registers, old and new...
but no
comte du chenfrais.
Are you sure
he stayed here?
Eh?
Incognito.
america on affairs of state,
it's sometimes wise
to discard titles.
Well, i'm quite sure
mother doesn't mean-
i'm quite sure that
mother does mean.
She doesn't mean a thing,
do you, clarissa?
I always did tell
dear etienne
that his passion for shunning
the limelight was silly.
Etienne?
And who is etienne?
Her husband.
I knew him well.
Didn't you say
edouard?
His intimates
called him etienne.
A pet name.
Clarissa, i always say
it doesn't pay to inquire
too closely into the background
Take you, clarissa.
You call yourself a lady,
but that doesn't necessarily
mean that you are one, does it?
I advise you to stay
out of this, sophie.
remark in all innocence
that my family
can remember
when your family
climbed out of the gutter.
Come,
mrs. Du chenfrais.
Shall we have
a bit of a chat?
That would be
charming.
Enchanted to have met you,
madame van steed.
You're all that your dear son
has led me to expect.
I hope you weren't
too sharp
with that very
provincial old lady.
Provincial old lady?
She's an old hellcat.
Thank you very much for
being helpful. Good-bye.
Nonsense, my girl. I want to
talk to you. It's important.
In the garden?
No. In your room.
We can talk better there.
If you'd asked me
who i'd rather be
than anyone else in the
world at this minute,
i'd say you.
Me? But why?
No reason.
No reason, my girl.
Except that you're young
and beautiful and smart,
and you've got two dashing
young men in love with you.
At least, poor bart would
dash if that old harridan
would let go of his coattails
long enough to let him dash.
And you'd be very rich
if you use some sense.
Angelique,
bring the coffee in here.
Yes, ma'am.
Just what is it
you want of me?
Money.
I have no money.
But you will have.
How?
Listening to me.
You have no money. Why haven't
you listened to yourself?
Because i'm not you. I explained
that to you a minute ago.
Tell your woman
to shut the door.
Doesn't matter.
She knows
everything.
She never talks.
No, thank you.
If you mean to harm me,
she'd be likely to kill you.
She'd make a little figure
like you out of soap,
and she'd stick pins into it,
and you'd sicken and die.
Not i. I've had pins
stuck in me all my life-
knives and everything
up to pickaxes.
All my life, mrs. Bellop,
i've been very direct.
If i wanted
to do a thing
and it was possible, i did
it. I say what i want to say.
That old lady
She makes no pretense.
I admire her for it.
I shall be grateful
if you'll be as honest.
You're right.
She hates you.
She wants to run you
out of saratoga,
and she'll do it
unless...
unless?
Look, my girl,
i know that you're no more
the countess de trumprechoochoo
than
i'm queen victoria.
But if i say you are,
if i stand up for you
against that old buzzard and her crew,
the world will
believe you are.
I've watched you, and i'll say
this, you've been wonderful-
bold and dramatic
and believable.
But from now on,
you're gonna need a
strong arm behind you,
and that handsome texan's
arm isn't gonna be enough.
It's got to be
a woman
that's smarter than old lady van steed
and somebody that
she's scared of.
That's me.
You saw it.
I look like
a wash woman,
but i've got family
and influence,
and all she's got are
two generations of money.
What do you want?
I know my way
around this world.
I know what it is
to be very rich,
and i know what it is
to be very poor.
I've lived on nothing
for years... in luxury.
Blackmail?
Oh, give me credit for
being smarter than that.
I make certain hotels
fashionable by touting for them.
I put saratoga
on the map.
I made newport, though i must
say i can't bear the place.
I've been everywhere. I know
europe, and i know america.
And if i give a party that
somebody else pays for,
everybody comes
because i'm giving it.
Don't ask me why.
I don't know.
I've got
nothing to lose
because
i live by my wits.
They can't take
those away from me.
And i say and i do
as i please
because i'm not
afraid of anybody.
It's a grand
feeling.
In a way,
you're just like i am.
I've always-
i know
all about you.
I have connections
in new orleans.
How much do you want?
Your name
was clio dulaine,
and now you want it to be
mrs. Bartholomew van steed.
I think you can get him
with my help,
though
why you want him
with that texan
around-
me, i'd marry him though
he hadn't a penny.
Those shoulders
and the way
he looks at you-
oh, me!
Always was a fool.
I'll take 25,000 down
on the day of the wedding
and 10,000 a year for life.
I don't want to be grasping.
How do you know that
i can't do this alone?
Try it.
Come in.
Edouard. Etienne.
Are you two
plotting something?
You look guilty
as all get out.
If i were only 25
years younger, my boy-
mrs. Bellop has offered
to be my chaperone.
A little late,
i'd say.
Not too late,
we hope.
Not too late
for what?
For social
success
and marriage
to someone
who's really
mad about her,
with
your blessing.
She's got that now.
I'll see you later.
I got to pack my bag.
Pardon me.
Clint!
tell you, honey.
I'm taking
a little trip.
Where?
Where are you going?
Albany.
What for? You used
to tell me everything.
What are you
keeping from me?
On business.
A couple of days.
Business?
Now, what business?
Cupidon will
take care of you.
And bart.
Want me
to go with you?
Now, look here, honey, you
can't go traveling around
with colonel
maroon,
a respectable widow
like you.
You set out to catch
yourself a millionaire.
You got him
roped and tied.
Now all you got to do is
cinch the saddle down on him.
Poor little bart.
In his place,
i sure would feel cheap
just for my money.
You never need
to fear.
If you win $500 at cards,
you feel yourself rich.
That sweet little woman in texas
has just such ambitions, i'm sure-
the one who makes those
ravishing white ties,
those blue
forget-me-nots.
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