What""s happened? You look ill too.Armand: No, it""s seeing you like this, suffering.Marguerite: It""s nothing.It lasts only a minute.Armand: You""re killing yourself.Marguerite: If I am, you""re the only one who objects.Now, why don""t you go back and dance with one of those pretty girls.(She laughs) Come, I""ll go with you.(He embraces and kisses her hand.) What a child you are.Armand: Your hand""s so hot.Marguerite: Is that why you put tears on it and cool it?Armand: I know I don""t mean anything to you.I don""t count.But someone ought to look after you.And I could if you""d let me.Marguerite: Too much wine has made you sentimental.Armand: It wasn""t wine that made me come here every day for months o find out how you were.Marguerite: No, it couldn""t have been wine.So you""d really like o take care of me?Armand: Yes.Marguerite: All day, every day?Armand: All day, every day.Why not? (She laughs)Marguerite: Why should you care for a woman like me? I""m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.Although it was Griffith""s most expensive film to date (costing him $175,000, more than the entire cost of his 1915 classicThe Birth of a Nation (1915)), it was one of his most commercially successful films.Other comedies in 1934 that were juxtaposed and unusually successful includedThe Thin Man (1934), W.C.Fields""It""s A Gift (1934), and Howard Hawks""Twentieth Century (1934).For a six-year period, Dietrich was Svengali director von Sternberg""s favorite leading lady - this was their sixth film ogether (and last great collaboration).The surviving apes proceeded ahead and made it into he redwoods forests, followed by Will in a stolen CHP car.