Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Georges Flammarion: The ground has just opened under our feet.
Eve Peabody: Well... and me all set to jump for that tub of butter.
Georges Flammarion: We`ve landed in something, all right, but it`s not butter.
Eve Peabody: Here they come.
Georges Flammarion: I`ll stand by you as best I can.
Helene Flammarion: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have a word, please. I want to tell you something which I think will both interest and amuse you. Under our roof tonight, we have, as a guest, a person claiming one of the oldest names in the Almanach de Gotha.
[Crowd mutters]
Helene Flammarion: I don`t know how many of you are familiar with the Hungarian aristocracy, but let me assure you that in all middle Europe there is no family...
Servant: Baron Tibor Czerny.
[Crowd gasps and mutters loudly]
Stephanie: Well. Helene Flammarion: Poor Jacques! Oh, my soul, this is heaven. Baroness Czerny indeed! Of all the impudence. The consummate impudence! We`ll take this with us.
Marcel: Now, Helene, don`t let`s hush this up and don`t let`s wait until tomorrow. Go on, let`s have a lovely scandal!
Roger: That`s la conga.
Stephanie: La conga. Come on, everybody do la conga.
Jacques Picot: [Trying to describe Helene`s hat] Well, it`s...
Eve Peabody: Oh, I think it`s a dream on you. You know, it does something for your face. It gives you a chin.
Simone: Well, where in the world did you get THAT hat? It looks positively moldy!
Customer in hat store: Well, I bought it from you three days ago.
Helene Flammarion: Odd, her coming here alone.
Marcel: I notice she didn`t go home alone.
Jacques Picot: You`re wonderful.
Eve Peabody: You`re magnificent.
Helene Flammarion: You`re talking across the board.
Jacques Picot: I`m terribly sorry. It`s difficult to concentrate on cards... sometimes.
Eve Peabody: [Referring to Jacques` dislike of Helene`s feathered hat] Naturally, when you`re worrying about the future of the ostrich plume.
Helene Flammarion: I don`t think that`s very funny.
Jacques Picot: I do.
Eve Peabody: Well, thanks.
Marcel: Madame? A word with you.
Eve Peabody: With me?
Marcel: Yes, with you.
Eve Peabody: I thought so. Well, all right, let`s get it over with.
Stephanie: Before we go any further, I`d like your attention one moment more. Is there anybody in this room named... Eve Peabody? No? Well, does anyone here know a Miss Eve Peabody? Well, I won`t trouble the rest of you any further. Now, my dear, Chopin`s 11th Prelude.
Prince Potopienko: It is the 12th and it is an Etude!
[Shrugs shoulders]
Prince Potopienko: Huh!
Eve Peabody: Listen. Back in New York, whenever I managed to crash a party full of luscious big-hearted millionaires, there was always sure to be some snub-faced kid in the orchestra playing traps. And so at four in the morning, when the wise girls were skipping off to Connecticut to marry those millionaires, I`d be with him in some nightspot learning tricks on the kettledrum. And he always had a nose like yours.
Eve Peabody: [Discussing her career as a gold-digger] I landed a lord, almost.
Tibor Czerny: Almost?
Eve Peabody: Well, the family came between us. His mother came to my hotel and offered me a bribe.
Tibor Czerny: You threw her out, I hope!
Eve Peabody: How could I, with my hands full of money?
Eve Peabody: Oh, I think it`s a dream on you. You know, it... it does something for your face: it gives you a chin.
Judge: It`s a confounded nuisance, but it`s the law.
Eve Peabody: [at the ball] Don`t forget, every Cinderella has her midnight.
Eve Peabody: From the moment you looked at me, I had an idea you had an idea.
advertisementEve Peabody: Well. So this, as they say, is Paris, huh?
Train guard: Yes, madame.
Eve Peabody: Well, from here it looks an awful lot like a rainy night in Kokomo, Indiana.
Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
On Thursday, September 28, 1939, Robert L. Buckner filed a plagiarism suit demanding an injunction against exhibition of the film, "Midnight," and an accounting and damages, in the U.S. Federal Court, against Paramount Pictures, Inc. and Charles Beahan. Plaintiff (Buckner)claims that in 1933 he and Beahan wrote a play entitled, "Dearly Beloved," and delivered a manuscript to Paramount. The complaint charges Paramount with infringing the play in the picture, "Midnight," and states that Beahan is named a defendant because he refuses to join the suit as a plaintiff.
After Wilder and Brackett fought with director Mitchell Leisen to make sure as much of their work made on the screen as possible, Wilder was convinced he had to direct the scripts they wrote and Brackett was convinced he had to produce.
When Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett turned in their script, the studio liked it, but felt it needed some work. The writers they hired to rewrite the script were: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. The studio sent them their own script to rewrite without knowing it. Wilder and Brackett simply retyped their original script and the studio loved the "rewrites" so much, they produced it with no further "changes".
Mary Astor`s pregnancy caused some filming problems.
Barbara Stanwyck was originally slated for the role of Eve Peabody, but was replaced by Claudette Colbert because of scheduling problems.
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