Moulin Rouge (1934)

Constance Bennett: Helen Hall, Raquel

Photos 

Quotes 

• Douglas Hall : We understand each other now, don't we, dear?

  Helen Hall : Yes. Love conquers all I suppose.

  Victor Le Maire : Then there is no further question about the singing?

  Douglas Hall : None whatever. We're never going to mention it again. The way I feel about it is just because Helen was in a little act that played a few weeks...

  Helen Hall : 38 straight weeks, my sweetheart...

  Douglas Hall : Eight or nine years ago...

  Helen Hall : Five years ago, my precious. Exactly five...

  Douglas Hall : Oh, it was more than that, darling...

  Helen Hall : Five, my wonder man. We've been married four and it was the year before that.

• Helen Hall : It's no wonder wives get restless and lonely. Love isn't everything, you should know that. Wives like to be looked at once in a while and thought of. Yes, even admired. But husbands won't do it and other men musn't.

• Helen Hall : What worries me is I never thought of Doug as a... as a...

  Mrs. Morris : I believe the technical term is "chaser".

• Helen Hall : You know, Morris, there isn't a woman in the world who wouldn't give all she had to be in my shoes tonight. To be able to catch your own husband without his knowing it.

  Mrs. Morris : I could hae used some of that once or twice myself.

  Helen Hall : To see how he act, how he thinks, what he does with another woman.

  Mrs. Morris : There's no doubt about it, this is your night!

• Helen Hall : [Disguised as Raquel with a French accent]  Tell me, what eez she like, zees wife of yours?

  Douglas Hall : Uh, Helen is a very good sport.

  Helen Hall : Oh, what a terrible thing to say about any woman... a good sport. How cruel an American husband can be when he do not love hees wife.

  Douglas Hall : I'm sorry.

  Helen Hall : [Probing]  You don't love her, do you? Do you?

  Douglas Hall : You know, you're giving me a very strange feeling.

  Helen Hall : I mean to.

  Douglas Hall : The feeling is that maybe you shouldn't have come here.

  Helen Hall : Oh, because I make you theenk of her, yes?

  Douglas Hall : Yes.

  Helen Hall : [Softly to herself]  Good.

• Douglas Hall : Helen, you don't suppose for one minute that I didn't know it was you all the time.

  Helen Hall : Oh, you liar.

• Helen Hall : Molly, I'm a fool.

  Mrs. Morris : Afraid he will, or afraid he won't?

  Helen Hall : Oh, I don't know.