The Princess Comes Across (1936)

Carole Lombard: Princess Olga

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Quotes 

• Film Man : Have you a favorite movie star, Princess?

  Princess Olga : Oh, yah yah.

  Film Man : Would it be a male star?

  Princess Olga : Oh sure.

  Film Man : If the question isn't too personal, the name?

  Princess Olga : Vee tell you. Mickey Moose-y.

• Lady Gertrude Allwyn : What is that?

  Princess Olga : Why it's one of those things, you know, one of those come-to-you go-from-you things.

  Lady Gertrude Allwyn : A concertina. And very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls.

• Princess Olga : Poor, dear Uncle Rudy. Somebody was always shooting at him.

  Morevitch : In my country, they shoot at everybody's uncle.

• King Mantell : Your Highness, there's something wrong with your tub.

  Princess Olga : Vat?

  King Mantell : Yes, you see, the water runs in and it runs out, but the trouble is it runs out faster than it runs in. I discovered it this morning when I was trying to take a bath. It can only draw about that much water

  [his fingers show an inch] 

  King Mantell : and you can't take a bath with that much water

  [shows an inch again] 

  Princess Olga : Vell, if you're a ploomb-er, why don't you fix it?

  King Mantell : Well, I'm not a ploomb-er, uh, I mean, a plumber, but I think I could fix it. Have you got a screwdriver?

  Lady Gertrude Allwyn : A screwdriver? Her Highness is not in the habit of going around with a screwdriver on her person.

  Princess Olga : [to Mantell]  Please go avay.

  King Mantell : Well, I was only trying to help, but may I suggest that when you want to take a bath, you should take a shower.

  [walks away] 

  King Mantell : Of course, there's always the ocean.

  [Exits] 

  Princess Olga : [dropping her phony Swedish accent]  I'd like to smack that guy right in the kisser.

• Princess Olga : Oh, my poof!

  [fishing out her sopping wet powder puff] 

  King Mantell : Your what?

  Princess Olga : My powder poof! It is vet!

  [squeezing it out onto his shoes] 

• Princess Olga : You enjoyed the cocktails, didn't you?

  Lady Gertrude Allwyn : The first two or three. After the fifth or sixth I was utterly bored.

• Princess Olga : I tink I smell a moose-y.

• Princess Olga : What do you expect me to do? Sit around and twiddle my thumbs?

  Lady Gertrude Allwyn : There are plenty of proper gentlemen on board without you drinking cocktails with a concertina squeezer.

• Princess Olga : I had a good time. Who said: uneasy lies the head that wears the crown?

  Lady Gertrude Allwyn : You know I was a married woman before I knew that Kings didn't sleep with their crowns on.

  Princess Olga : Where do they put them? Under the bed?

• King Mantell : If you're ever in any kind of trouble, you can count on me.

  Princess Olga : Oh, why do you think I should be in any trouble?

  King Mantell : Oh, I dunno. This is a strange ship, and there are some very odd people aboard.

  Princess Olga : Ja, and the oddest of them all is you.

• Princess Olga : Well, if you really know who the murderer is, why don't you tell them now?

  King Mantell : I would if I knew. The point is I don't.

  Princess Olga : Then why did you say you did?

  King Mantell : Because to catch a rat you have to have cheese.

  Princess Olga : I don't get it.

  King Mantell : I'm the cheese. When the rat comes to nibble, bang goes the trap.

  Princess Olga : With the cheese in it.

  King Mantell : Not if it's a smart piece of cheese.

• Princess Olga : Id like to smack that guy in the kisser.

• Princess Olga : Scram.

  King Mantell : What did you say?

  Princess Olga : Oh... Scrom. In Sweeden, it means the interview is ended.