Mavi Boncuk |Movie Quotes from the Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
Trouble in Paradise (1932)[1]
The Baron/Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall): Do you remember the man who walked into the Bank of Constantinople[2], and walked out with the Bank of Constantinople?
[1] Trouble in Paradise (1932) is generally considered producer/director Ernst Lubitsch's greatest film - and his own personal favorite of all his works.
Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall and featuring Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder (A Becsületes Megtaláló) by Hungarian playwright László Aladár, the film is about a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner.
In 1991, Trouble in Paradise was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
[2] In 1872-3 the number of Société Anonyme banks in Constantinople rose from six to over sixteen. Among the most important new establishments were the Banque Austro-Ottomane and the Banque Austro-Turque –both of which reflected the attempt of Austrian capital, in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War to ‘usurp’ the power of the French in Constantinople.
The two Société Anonyme banks of the newcomer Greeks (which replaced their smaller in size financial brokerage houses in 1872) were the Banque de Constantinople founded by Syngros, Skouloudes, and Vlastos and the Société Ottoman de Change et de Valeurs set up by G.Koronios;. P.M. Klados; and P. Kamaras (who merged with the Anglo-Levantine A. J.F. Barker and the financial brokerage firm ‘Eugenide et Cie’.) It is known that from the inner core bankers Zarifis participated in the Banque de Constantinople, but it is not mentioned whether the other (inner core) limited liability partners of the two old financial brokerage houses participated in either of the two Société Anonyme banks of the newcomers .
Twenty percent of the shares of the Banque de Constantinople were privately placed in Constantinople through the Banque Impériale Ottomane (BIO); and slightly less than half of the total were offered for public subscription in London through Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt.
The Banque de Constantinople soon outdistanced its rival and became the ‘favori’ of the BIO, which in 1874 placed it as an intermediary in all of its dealings with the Ottoman Treasury. Also, shortly after it was founded, the Bank of Constantinople, through Zarifis and Zografos participated in the Tobacco Monopoly Concession of the Ottoman state. It was also among the founders of the Compagnie des Eaux de Constantinople along with the Comptoir National d’Escompte, the Société Générale de l’Empire Ottoman, the BIO, Zarifis, Camondo and others.
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