Maurice Chevalier credited as playing...
Paul Barriere
- François Durnais, Paul Barriere: [singing] Montmart', Montmart', Where the quail never fail to win you, Where we say Oop-la!
- François Durnais: Where are you going, Mama?
- François Durnais, Paul Barriere: Montmart', Montmart', Montmart'
- Paul Barriere: Now, now, now. Wait a minute. The Can-Can is against the law. You know that, François.
- François Durnais: You mean you don't want to see it?
- Paul Barriere: Of course I do! Who doesn't? But, a man my position. If it becomes known that I watched the Can-Can - what does the law call it: lewd and lascivious performance - what could I say? How could I defend myself?
- Bailiff: The prisoners are charged with violation of the Public Morals Law of 1790, in that, they did willfully perform a lewd and lascivious dance, calculated to inflame the minds, souls and moral fibers of the spectators.
- Claudine: [excitedly] We did?
- Paul Barriere: May I ask, who filed this complaint?
- League president: We did, Monsieur Le President. We represent the League Against Filthy Dancing.
- Philipe Forrestier: [singing] Dress and let dress
- Paul Barriere: That's fine, But, strip and let strip, Live and let live
- Philipe Forrestier: Live and let live
- Philipe Forrestier, Paul Barriere: And remember this line:
- Paul Barriere: Your business
- Philipe Forrestier: Is my business and your business
- Paul Barriere: Is mine
- Philipe Forrestier, Paul Barriere: Your business is your business and my business is mine.
- François Durnais: I thought about ***, suicide, chronic alcoholism. But, none of those things satisfy me.
- Paul Barriere: No other schemes?
- François Durnais: Yes, one more. Forget she ever existed.