Jenny Lamour (1947)

Suzy Delair: Jenny Lamour

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• Dora Monier : Your arm a little higher. Higher. No, wait, I think you need to...

  Jenny Lamour : Ah, no, no. Just tell me what you want. I don't like being groped.

  Dora Monier : Oh, Maurice must love that.

  Jenny Lamour : With him, it's different, my dear. I can't get enough.

• Maurice Martineau : Why didn't Brignon invite me?

  Jenny Lamour : He doesn't even know you exist.

  Maurice Martineau : You didn't tell him you're married?

  Jenny Lamour : I'm not stupid.

• Maurice Martineau : Jenny, please, behave yourself.

  Jenny Lamour : What's wrong? Léo was teaching me a great song.

  Maurice Martineau : Using his hands?

  Léopardi : What a mind! You nitwit. Don't you know we sing with our hands in Marseilles?

  Maurice Martineau : Fine, but that's no reason to touch my wife's thighs.

  Jenny Lamour : He was keeping time.

  Léopardi : Let him talk, my dear. Imagine a whippersnapper jealous of an old fogy like me. It's flattering. Amazingly stupid, but flattering.

• Jenny Lamour : Stage fright makes me sweat. My undies are soaked.

  Léopardi : Let's see.

  Jenny Lamour : Oh! This shock would kill you.

• Jenny Lamour : I don't like you nosing into Maurice's business.

  Dora Monier : Don't be stupid. We're friends. Maurice and I were raised together.

  Jenny Lamour : Childhood friends, right! It starts with marbles and ends in the sack.

• Jenny Lamour : The truth is, he doesn't understand me.

  Dora Monier : He's a man. Men can't really understand us.

• Jenny Lamour : Silly! I only tease people I like.

• Jenny Lamour : It's him I love. Other men bore me. It's not just physical. It's spiritual. Without him, I'm lost. It may sound nuts to you, but Maurice is my flame. He may not burn bright, but he lights my way.

• Maurice Martineau : Tell me where you've been?

  Jenny Lamour : I had a drink with a very important man. So there!

  Maurice Martineau : Brignon?

  Jenny Lamour : Brignon? Why would you say that? I see. Of course, Dora ratted me out.

  Maurice Martineau : Don't say that. She did nothing wrong. She just did her duty. Brignon is dangerous scum.

  Jenny Lamour : She ought to know.

• Dora Monier : You have to go.

  Jenny Lamour : A bore?

  Dora Monier : A customer. A dirty old man who brings girls to photograph. And what girls!

  Jenny Lamour : Nice work.

  Dora Monier : I promise you, I don't do it for fun.

• Jenny Lamour : You think you're clever, don't you? I'll get him to forgive me.

  Maurice Martineau : Yes and I'll kill you both.

  Jenny Lamour : You idiot, then kill me. You'd be caught in no time. It'll be the guillotine for you.

  Maurice Martineau : I'd have an alibi.

  Jenny Lamour : You? You're too clumsy. You'd get the guillotine!

  Maurice Martineau : You'd like that.

• Jenny Lamour : Under Louis XV, I'd have been Madame de Pompadour. I'd have heated up their tights!

• L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine : Don't play the saint. I know your kind. You're a go-getter.

  Jenny Lamour : A go-getter? What's that supposed to mean? You poor man. I was born in the dead of winter in a two-room flat. Six of us lived there for 12 years. Twelve years of the landlord yelling for the rent. Stomach-aches because of bad meat. Washing ourselves in the sink. It took my dad six years to die in the back room. Is wanting to leave that go-getting?

  L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine : Of course.