# ID this old movie (Bette Davis, maybe?)

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**Created:** [December 3, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667 "2007-12-03T16:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/1 "2007-12-03T16:19:46Z")

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The opening of the [video for Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYxsUDZQ4Q) 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?

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/2 "2007-12-03T17:13:03Z")

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It’s Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in [Garden of Allah](http://imdb.com/title/tt0027657/).

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.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/3 "2007-12-03T17:17:50Z")

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Ah. Thanks for the reasearch and the answer, **AuntiePam**.

(I hate to let bits of trivia like that elude me.)

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/4 "2007-12-03T20:00:52Z")

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Yeah, what \*\*AuntiePam \*\*said.

But I can understand how you’d confuse Bette Davis with Charles Boyer.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/5 "2007-12-03T20:08:30Z")

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[QUOTE=panache45]  
Yeah, what \*\*AuntiePam \*\*said.

But I can understand how you’d confuse Bette Davis with Charles Boyer.  
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“Don’t come viss me to ze cazbah…what a DUMP!”

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/6 "2007-12-03T20:56:54Z")

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[QUOTE=spoke-]

**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.

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“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. 🙂

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-movie-bette-davis-maybe/428667/7 "2017-10-23T04:53:16Z")

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Ha, I just stumbled on this thread after googling “I’ve made up my mind. I’m going away”, plus “Bette Davis”.