“Remember what I’ve been telling you: it’s bluff–in America you’ve got to bluff.”
So Claudette Colbert tells Maurice Chevalier in 1930’s The Big Pond.
They’ve met in Paris, and then he’s coming over to learn the tricks of her father’s chewing gum empire. And if he makes good, Daddy-o will give his blessing.
The whole thing’s a set-up by Daddy-o, but Spoiler Alert and all that. . .
85 years later–no I won’t give a break from Trump–we’ve got a Chief Executive, an entire political party, taking those words very close to heart.