Ariane Chavasse: They’re very odd people, you know. When they’re young, they have their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. I’m not even sure whether he has a heart.
Michel: What is he? A creature from outer space?
Ariane Chavasse: No. He’s an American.

– Ariane Chayasse (Audrey Hepburn), Michel (Van Doude), Love in the Afternoon (1957), screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, based on a novel by Claude Anet

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is movies written by I.A.L. “Izzy” Diamond, Billy Wilder’s longtime writing partner.

Trivia: The original ending of the film just showed the two lovers departing together on a train, which threatened to land the film on the Catholic Legion of Decency’s “Condemned List.” As a result, Maurice Chevalier was called back to do the voice-over heard at the close of the film, in which he reports that the couple are “now married and serving a life sentence in New York City.”