The Happy Time (1952)
Kurt Kasznar: Uncle Louis Bonnard
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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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 Louis Bonnard : Believe me, there was a butterfly watching me on the porch.
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Uncle Louis Bonnard : Mademoiselle, to a man in my condition, the bite of a butterfly can be fatal.