Spoke
December 3, 2007, 4:19pm
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The opening of the video for Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” features a short clip from an old movie. I believe Bette Davis is the female lead.
Dialogue:
Male lead: I came to say goodbye.
Female lead: And why, Boris, why?
Male lead: I’ve made up my mind. I’m going away.
Female lead: Then I shall be alone.
Male lead: That journey to the desert you’ve spoken of-- you will take it alone?
Female lead: What else can I do?
Male lead: Once, you said to me that peace and happiness might be found there. You gave me hope, and now-- now, we have to say goodbye.
Female lead: …Goodbye.
So what movie is that?
It’s Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in Garden of Allah .
I wasn’t sure if that was Dietrich or Garbo, but I knew that was Charles Boyer, so I went to IMDB and looked for a movie where he played a character named Boris.
Spoke
December 3, 2007, 5:17pm
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Ah. Thanks for the reasearch and the answer, AuntiePam .
(I hate to let bits of trivia like that elude me.)
Yeah, what **AuntiePam **said.
But I can understand how you’d confuse Bette Davis with Charles Boyer.
jayjay
December 3, 2007, 8:08pm
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panache45:
Yeah, what **AuntiePam **said.
But I can understand how you’d confuse Bette Davis with Charles Boyer.
“Don’t come viss me to ze cazbah…what a DUMP!”
Male lead: Once, you said to me that peace and happiness might be found there. You gave me hope, and now-- now, we have to say goodbye.
“When I spend 8 bucks on a dame, I don’t just go home with the morning paper, y’know what I mean?” *
“Um. Goodbye?”
*While we’re on Bette Davis movies.
Ha, I just stumbled on this thread after googling “I’ve made up my mind. I’m going away”, plus “Bette Davis”.
