# Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy is a 1945 American romantic comedy film about a bellboy at a swanky New York hotel who starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
    Directed by Richard Thorpe. It was written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman.

## Jimmy Dobson

* She's the unsnoodiest person I've ever known.
* She's not plump. She's not unplump either. Well - she's perfect.

## Princess Veronica

* I'm sure he means every other word he says!

## Other

* Mrs. Odell: I wish I'd been born a princess. Instead I was born tired.
* Countess Zoe: Think of what history would say: Her Majesty Veronica the First, received the news that she had become Queen, while she was carousing in a Chop Suey joint with a bellboy.

## Dialogue

    Albert Weever: How's about a kiss?
    Princess Veronica: No, thank you.
    Albert Weever: The pleasure would be mutual.
    Jimmy Dobson: Don't mind Albert, he's harmless. He's just a bit babe-whacky, that's all.
    Princess Veronica: He's what?
    Jimmy Dobson: Dame dizzy! You know, he's got nights on his mind.
    Princess Veronica: Knights? On his mind?
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, he likes tomatoes.
    Princess Veronica: They're good for him.
    Jimmy Dobson: Not the kind Albert likes. Say, you're a foreigner, aren't you.
    Princess Veronica: Yes.
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, now, look Toots, I'll explain it to you. Over here, we have two kinds of tomatoes. One is the vegetable. The other is you.
    Princess Veronica: Me? I am a tomato?
    Jimmy Dobson: Oh, Grade A and extra fancy.
    Jimmy Dobson: You going somewhere special?
    Princess Veronica: No. Just for a walk.
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, I'll go with you.
    Princess Veronica: Why?
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, you're a stranger here. A babe like you with a face like that, has got to be awfully careful in a world like this.
    Princess Veronica: Careful of what?
    Jimmy Dobson: Oh, things.
    Princess Veronica: Things?
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, men. I'm sorry to say, that we can't be trusted.
    Princess Veronica: They are delicious, your hot dogs.
    Jimmy Dobson: You've never had one before?
    Princess Veronica: Never.
    Jimmy Dobson: Gee, babe, you just haven't been anywhere, have you?
    Baron Zoltan Faludi: Why do you think I followed you here?
    Princess Veronica: To make love to me.
    Baron Zoltan Faludi: [leans in] Just for a practice.
    Princess Veronica: You don't need any.
    Princess Veronica: Now, when you kiss a lady's hand, don't be so athletic about it - or, so noisy! Don't snatch it up as if it were cake and you were going to bite it. The lips are brought to the hand - and not the hand to the lips. Remember that, next time.
    Jimmy Dobson: Yes, your Highness. Could next time, be now?
    Princess Veronica: Very well. But, remember, don't snatch - and don't smack! Now, crisply. And slowly. [Jimmy's lips remain on her hand] But, not too slowly.
    Princess Veronica: Hi, babe!
    Albert Weever: Look, lady, I didn't know you was a Princess. I thought you was a woman!
    Princess Veronica: I'm both, Albert.
    Princess Veronica: There's nothing wrong with me, really.
    Jimmy Dobson: Are you sure?
    Princess Veronica: You see, well, the Budapest was Hungary and the Cairo got Madrid and wouldn't Lisbon. So, the Balkans couldn't Bucharest and that's what made Naples truer than Cologne.
    Jimmy Dobson: Oh. Oh, I see.
    Princess Veronica: You do?
    Jimmy Dobson: Oh, of Corsica.
    Jimmy Dobson: It's going to be a beautiful night, too. At least, that's my frank opinion.
    Princess Veronica: Mine too.
    Jimmy Dobson: Well, for stepping out, I mean.
    Princess Veronica: For what?
    Jimmy Dobson: For going somewhere and doing something.
    Princess Veronica: Oh, you want to step out tonight? Is that it?
    Jimmy Dobson: Yeah! That's it. That certainly is it.
    Princess Veronica: Well, then, step.
    Jimmy Dobson: Good evening, Mrs. Odell, how are you this evening?
    Mrs. Odell: Poorly!
    Jimmy Dobson: Aw, thats too bad. I guess working nights doesn't agree with you.
    Mrs. Odell: Neither does working days.
    Princess Veronica: Don't you know? A woman only gets really mad at a man if he doesn't want to kiss her.
    Albert Weever: Is that a fact? Gee, I'm glad to know that!
    Princess Veronica: He has intelligence, charm, a sense of humor.
    Countess Zoe: Well, what if he has? They are not what we require of our King.

## Cast

* Hedy Lamarr - Princess Veronica
* Robert Walker - Jimmy Dobson
* June Allyson - Leslie Odell
* Carl Esmond - Baron Zoltan Faludi
* Agnes Moorehead - Countess Zoe
* Rags Ragland - Albert Weever
* Ludwig Stössel - Mr. Puft
* George Cleveland - Dr. Elfson
* Warner Anderson - Paul MacMillan
* Konstantin Shayne - Yanos Van Lankovitz
* Tom Trout - Hack
* Ben Lessy - Himself
* Patty Moore - Fae
* Edward Gargan - 1st Cop

## External links

* Her Highness and the Bellboy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Her Highness and the Bellboy at Allmovie