55 Days at Peking (1963)
Ava Gardner: Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
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Quotes
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Dr. Steinfeldt : [in the hospital, while the baroness refuses medical assistance] Don't you want to live?
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : I *have* lived!
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : You know, I think I'll get you to take me to San Francisco with you.
Maj. Matt Lewis : Oh? Why to San Francisco?
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Well, isn't that the place where they found all the gold?
Maj. Matt Lewis : [laughs]
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Baron Sergei Ivanoff : You're a fool. My conscience is clear. But, you have lost everything. You will end up *naked* in the streets.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Not entirely naked. I'll still have the necklace.
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Maj. Matt Lewis : Why don't we just go back to the hotel?
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Are you tired, Major?
Maj. Matt Lewis : Tired? No. Ready to turn in? Maybe.
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Maj. Matt Lewis : What happens to you in Tientsin?
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : I'll be entirely in your hands, Major.
Maj. Matt Lewis : You're in my hands now, but, you seem to keep slipping through my fingers.
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : What should I tell you, Major?
Maj. Matt Lewis : Well, that you're happy I'm with you.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Are you always this direct?
Maj. Matt Lewis : I'm a Marine, ma'am. I don't have much time.
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Do you always offer your life to strangers?
Maj. Matt Lewis : To soldiers, strangers make the best friends.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : I'm not in uniform, Major.
Maj. Matt Lewis : I like things fine, just the way they are.
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Don't laugh yet, Major. It's a very small room.
Maj. Matt Lewis : Well, I've been in tight places before.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : So have I, Major.
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : May I stay here with him?
Dr. Steinfeldt : Your dress is a breeding ground for germs!
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : I wanted to go to Tientsin with you. But, you want to stay here and play soldier.
Maj. Matt Lewis : I wear a uniform. That's the job they pay me to do!
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Well, then go and do it! And get out of my way. Have a nice war, soldier. A *real* nice war!
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Baron Sergei Ivanoff : Do you know why my brother died?
Maj. Matt Lewis : No.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Go on.
Baron Sergei Ivanoff : I can't go on...
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : He killed himself. Because I was unfaithful to him.
Maj. Matt Lewis : Let's forget it.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : The man was a general - a Chinese general. - - Cant's you imagine yourself in love with a Chinese girl? That's not the same. Is it?
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Even in wartimes, old man, a valuable gift placed high enough, can work miracles.
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Dr. Steinfeldt : In the weeks we have worked together, I have learned to care for you very much.
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : Oh, I'm glad you said that. A woman always likes to hear it.
