Jeanne Moreau: Grande Dame
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Grand Dame : I suppose your'e wondering why anyone my age would request an audience with the authors of children's stories.
Wilhelm Grimm : Your letter was most intriguing, madam.
Grand Dame : I find your collection of folk tales quite brilliant, actually.
Jacob Grimm : Thank you.
Grand Dame : But I must say, I was terribly disturbed when I read your version of The Little Cinder Girl.
Jacob Grimm : Well, there are those who swear that Perrault's telling with its Fairy Godmother and um... Magic pumpkins would be closer to the truth.
Wilhelm Grimm : Some claim the shoe was made of fur.
[Grande dame order the footman to bring the box to her.]
Wilhelm Grimm : Others insist it was glass. Well, I guess we'll never know.
Jacob Grimm : Forgive me, Your Majesty. Might I inquire about the painting? She's really quite, um... extraordinary.
Grand Dame : Her name was Danielle de Barbarac.
[the footman opens the box.]
Grand Dame : And this...
[Grande Dame pulls the mysterious item.]
Grand Dame : was her glass slipper.
[the Grimm Brothers look at each other in shock to see the slipper person.]
Grand Dame : Perhaps you will allow me to set the record straight?
Wilhelm Grimm : Then it's true, the story?
Grand Dame : Yes. Quite. Now then, what is that phrase you use? Oh, yes. Once upon a time, there lived a young girl who loved her father very much.
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[last lines]
Grand Dame : [voiceover] My great-great-grandmother's portrait hung in the university up until the revolution.
[the Brothers Grimm prepare to leave after Grande Dame concludes the story.]
Grand Dame : By then, the truth of the romance had been reduced to a simple fairy tale. And while Cinderella and her Prince did live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.
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Grand Dame : [voiceover; after Danielle looses Auguste.] It would be ten years before another man could enter her life. A man who was still a boy in many, many ways.
