The Happy Time (1952)
Louis Jourdan: Uncle Desmond Bonnard
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Quotes
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Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : [crying] I won't go back to school! I'll never go back to school! I didn't do it-it isn't fair! Why do I have to tell lies to escape a beating?
Jacques Bonnard : What-what's the matter? What happened? What is it at that school? Maman! Who beat you?
Susan Bonnard : Beating? What beating?
Jacques Bonnard : Come on, Bibi. Now, please, stop crying and tell us, what happened?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : What is this of a beating?
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : In school, the principal finds a dirty picture. It's from my 'Gay Paree' which I have taken there.
[Susan looks up at the brothers, reproachfully. The brothers look embarrassed]
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Now, wait. They are not dirty pictures in Le Gay Paree. They are, it is true, pictures of women with few clothes, but this is not dirty! Ah, no!
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But this is only the beginning! It is a picture of a girl, standing like so
[he gets up and imitates the pose; Susan looks shocked]
Susan Bonnard : Jacques!
Jacques Bonnard : This is not dirty.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But in this picture, on the head, instead of the face of the girl in the magazine, there's drawn the face of Miss Tate, my teacher.
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : This is... indelicate, but it is still not dirty.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But also with the pencil, many things have been added.
Uncle Louis Bonnard : THIS could be dirty.
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Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : It's not Uncle Desmond's fault! Only Peggy O'Hare's. When the principal asks her if I drew the picture, she says yes, I drew it! It's a lie, I didn't draw it!
Susan Bonnard : But why would Peggy tell a lie like that about you?
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : I don't understand! She kicks me, she trips me, she spills ink on my books!
[the brothers begin to exchange knowing smiles]
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : Why does she do this to me?
Jacques Bonnard : Ah!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Oh ho!
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But why?
Jacques Bonnard : Well, Bibi, it is that Peggy wishes to be your girl.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : My girl?
[pulling up his pant leg]
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : Look! Black and blue!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Well, it is how American women show affection.
[in Jacques' ear]
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : I have been in Detroit.
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Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : Your trip, Uncle Desmond-were there many adventures?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Well, you know, Bibi: where Desmond's horses trot, no grass will grow.
Jacques Bonnard : What are you doing in Ottawa? Have you lost your job?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : No, the sales manager lost his. Bibi, bring us some glasses.
Jacques Bonnard : What do you mean?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : He's dead. He has unscrewed his billiard table. So the office sent for me.
Jacques Bonnard : To offer you the job?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Well, an office, a desk, a secretary...
Jacques Bonnard : And you said yes!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : No, I said no.
Jacques Bonnard : You said no? Why?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : You should see the secretary.
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Uncle Desmond Bonnard : What's the occasion, this time?
Grandpere Bonnard : The Widow Latouche is waiting; I'm late.
Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Ho ho ho! It will unscrew your billiard table!
Uncle Louis Bonnard : Believe me, not even a young man can go out every night dancing and never sleep. Something will collapse: maybe the arteries or the veins...
Grandpere Bonnard : The one who knows of a better way to die-will he step forward?
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Uncle Desmond Bonnard : So, you think I'm a rogue, don't you?
Mignonette Chappuis : If I said 'yes,' it would only flatter you.