The Gift of Love (1978 TV Movie)

Robert Pierce: Franz Hollner

Quotes 

• Franz Hollner : Aren't you going to introduce us to your friend?

  Mary O'Halloran : Look whose forgotten me manners! My mother would be that ashamed!

  [to Beth] 

  Mary O'Halloran : Meet Franz Hollner, and Rudy...

  Rudi Miller : Miller.

  Mary O'Halloran : Miller. This is my friend, Beth Atherton.

  Rudi Miller : [to Beth]  Are you also an upstairs maid?

  Beth Atherton : Oh no, I'm...

  Mary O'Halloran : [Interrupts]  Oh no, Beth's a parlor maid!

  [Beth glares at her] 

  Rudi Miller : Well, with your beauty, you shall be Mistress of the House.

  [Takes Beth's hand. Kisses it] 

• Rudi Miller : You see? She is conceited, rude, impossible churlish girl!

  Franz Hollner : But adorable.

  Rudi Miller : I see nothing adorable with bad manners.

  Franz Hollner : This one has bad manners? The one last week has too many freckles? Sally's friend, that I introduced to you talks to much? You're impossible to please! Seems to me that you don't want to be please.

  Rudi Miller : Perhaps you forget I'm betrothed to Hilda. I cannot.

  Franz Hollner : What's that got to do with it? I have an arranged bride waiting for me at home too, but that doesn't mean I can't look at a pretty girl, does it? Look I'm in the United States. I work hard, send my money home. And when I have free time, I flirt a little. What harm can there be in that?

  Rudi Miller : [pause]  Franz, if you fall in love with one of these oh-so-pretty American girls, you will find out.

  Franz Hollner : [laughs]  Fall in love? I'm not planning to fall in love.

  Rudi Miller : I did not know one fell in love only if one planned to.

• Franz Hollner : [to Mary]  And when Rudy told me, I said he must be mistaken.

  Rudi Miller : There is no mistake. The young lady was playing a cruel trick common to people in her station!

  Franz Hollner : [to Mary]  And you allowed it, which forces me to change my estimation of you.

  Rudi Miller : I too would have though better of you.

  Mary O'Halloran : [Angry]  Stop, both of you! What you're saying to me, well maybe I deserve it. But all that stuff about Beth, that's just rubbish!

  [Mocking] 

  Mary O'Halloran : "A cruel trick common to people in her station." What station? This isn't Europe and all! She's not a princess, she's just a poor old orphan being forced to marry a man she doesn't love. So she hung out with me for a bit of fun.

  Rudi Miller : And represented herself as someone she was not!

  Mary O'Halloran : That was my idea, not hers!

  Rudi Miller : She did nothing to mistaken my belief she was a maid in this house!

  Mary O'Halloran : And why should she? And why should I be standing here, defending the two of you like I'm in a docket

  [sp?] 

  Mary O'Halloran : ? I would prefer that you both leave!

  [Pushes them away] 

  Franz Hollner : With pleasure.

  [They turn around, then look at Mary. They exit] 

  Mary O'Halloran : Foreigners!