1 00:00:34,281 --> 00:00:36,570 Act 3, beginners, please. 2 00:00:50,798 --> 00:00:54,083 My God, what's happened to Karen Stone? 3 00:00:54,259 --> 00:00:57,095 - Yes, isn't it strange? - She used to be so wonderful. 4 00:00:57,262 --> 00:00:58,721 Well, you know, the time comes... 5 00:00:58,889 --> 00:01:01,510 when Mother Nature catches up with all you old gals. 6 00:01:01,683 --> 00:01:03,676 Oh, come now, she can't be that old. 7 00:01:03,852 --> 00:01:06,639 - Oh, she's 45. - And then some. 8 00:01:06,814 --> 00:01:08,356 Oh, really. 9 00:01:08,524 --> 00:01:12,356 - Darling, don't panic. - What's the difference? I'm just not right. 10 00:01:12,528 --> 00:01:15,529 Nonsense. You know better than that. 11 00:01:15,697 --> 00:01:18,485 - I just hate myself. - Now, stop this. 12 00:01:21,537 --> 00:01:24,870 You're going out on that stage. 13 00:01:27,042 --> 00:01:29,331 You're going to do the very best you can... 14 00:01:29,503 --> 00:01:31,828 and nobody could do more. 15 00:01:55,571 --> 00:01:57,362 Loved every moment of it, darling. 16 00:01:57,531 --> 00:01:59,987 You looked wonderful. 17 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:02,198 Aren't you pleased? 18 00:02:02,494 --> 00:02:04,403 What do we have to say to convince you? 19 00:02:04,580 --> 00:02:07,118 Just admit I'm a bad investment this time... 20 00:02:07,291 --> 00:02:10,909 and there's nothing to be done except pay off the actors and close the show. 21 00:02:11,086 --> 00:02:13,293 But the advance in New York is great. 22 00:02:13,464 --> 00:02:15,919 - Another theater party today? - Oh, Julia. 23 00:02:16,258 --> 00:02:18,167 You're both very sweet, but do you mind? 24 00:02:18,343 --> 00:02:20,716 I'm... I'm awfully tired. Can we talk about it tomorrow? 25 00:02:20,888 --> 00:02:21,930 - Lunch? - Yes. 26 00:02:22,097 --> 00:02:23,212 - Where? - Oh, anywhere. 27 00:02:23,390 --> 00:02:24,932 You choose someplace and call me. 28 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:26,927 - Good night, honey. - Good night, Campbell. 29 00:02:27,102 --> 00:02:29,771 - Honest, I loved every moment of it. - Thank you, Julia. 30 00:02:29,938 --> 00:02:31,598 - Good night. - Good night. 31 00:02:37,946 --> 00:02:39,773 Why, Meg. 32 00:02:40,449 --> 00:02:42,940 - You never told me you were coming. - I didn't know I was. 33 00:02:43,118 --> 00:02:46,570 I arrived this morning to interview senators who got back from Russia... 34 00:02:46,747 --> 00:02:48,870 and found you were opening tonight. 35 00:02:49,082 --> 00:02:50,790 Come in, darling. 36 00:02:55,047 --> 00:02:59,673 - Would you like a drink? - Yes, Scotch. I'll only stop a moment. 37 00:03:01,845 --> 00:03:03,719 I wish they hadn't told you. 38 00:03:05,807 --> 00:03:07,088 Do you? 39 00:03:07,267 --> 00:03:08,809 You want to talk about it? 40 00:03:09,186 --> 00:03:10,929 There's really nothing to say. 41 00:03:11,104 --> 00:03:14,308 I should've learnt my lesson the first time I tried to play Shakespeare. 42 00:03:14,483 --> 00:03:16,808 I thought you'd never played it before. 43 00:03:16,985 --> 00:03:18,978 Think again. 44 00:03:20,656 --> 00:03:22,695 You told me I had talent... 45 00:03:22,866 --> 00:03:25,025 but that I'd never make a classical actress. 46 00:03:25,202 --> 00:03:26,482 What, I? 47 00:03:28,413 --> 00:03:31,083 When we were at school together. 48 00:03:31,333 --> 00:03:34,369 And it was Rosalind then. 49 00:03:35,796 --> 00:03:37,835 Well, this time, my pet... 50 00:03:38,173 --> 00:03:41,838 to be honest with you, it's not a question of talent... 51 00:03:42,678 --> 00:03:44,670 but time of life. 52 00:03:55,691 --> 00:03:59,819 Why not take yourself to New York and something more suitable? 53 00:04:01,822 --> 00:04:04,360 You're tired and want me to go. 54 00:04:11,373 --> 00:04:13,864 I'll call you tomorrow and we'll have a little talk. 55 00:04:14,042 --> 00:04:15,453 Good night, my pet. 56 00:04:15,669 --> 00:04:17,543 Good night, Meg. 57 00:04:29,725 --> 00:04:31,005 Is this Mr. Tom Stone? 58 00:04:31,184 --> 00:04:32,976 Yes, operator, this is he. 59 00:04:33,145 --> 00:04:34,639 Tum 7 60 00:04:35,272 --> 00:04:36,683 Hello, Karen. 61 00:04:36,857 --> 00:04:39,264 - Darling, how are you feeling? - Fine. 62 00:04:39,443 --> 00:04:40,723 What did the doctor say? 63 00:04:40,902 --> 00:04:43,061 He wants to keep me in bed another couple of days. 64 00:04:43,238 --> 00:04:45,990 - And then? - I'll be on my feet again... 65 00:04:46,158 --> 00:04:47,818 and up in Washington, if you want. 66 00:04:47,993 --> 00:04:50,531 - No, darling, don't. - Why? 67 00:04:50,704 --> 00:04:54,120 Oh, Tom, tonight was worse than ever. Just awful, desperate. 68 00:04:54,291 --> 00:04:55,999 I could only just get through. 69 00:04:56,168 --> 00:04:58,077 Everybody is being unbearably kind... 70 00:04:58,253 --> 00:05:00,744 telling me I'll be all right, but I know I won't. 71 00:05:00,922 --> 00:05:04,173 And I'm just wasting your money and Campbell's. 72 00:05:04,509 --> 00:05:06,087 Tom... 73 00:05:06,428 --> 00:05:08,670 I want to take the show off. 74 00:05:09,890 --> 00:05:12,048 We could use my health, sweetheart. 75 00:05:12,225 --> 00:05:15,179 You're closing the play to look after your husband's heart. 76 00:05:15,437 --> 00:05:18,936 I need a vacation. We both need a long vacation. 77 00:05:19,107 --> 00:05:22,108 You'll want to get back to it all inside a month. 78 00:05:22,277 --> 00:05:25,314 No, not this time. 79 00:05:25,489 --> 00:05:27,777 Where would you like to go? 80 00:05:27,949 --> 00:05:29,776 Oh, I don't think I mind. 81 00:05:29,951 --> 00:05:33,783 As long as it's warm and... And far away. 82 00:05:48,136 --> 00:05:50,923 Tom. Darling? Darling. 83 00:05:51,098 --> 00:05:53,423 My husband's very ill. You'll have to make a landing. 84 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:54,881 Mrs. Stone, it's impossible. 85 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:57,633 There must be something you can do, somewhere you can land. 86 00:05:57,813 --> 00:05:59,556 - There's an island. Look. - Mrs. Stone... 87 00:05:59,731 --> 00:06:02,139 - it's impossible to make a landing. - There's an island. 88 00:06:02,317 --> 00:06:04,939 Tom. Tom. 89 00:06:06,154 --> 00:06:09,108 - You'd better get the emergency oxygen. - Emergency? Right away. 90 00:06:09,282 --> 00:06:12,367 Tell the captain to wire for a doctor to meet us when we land in Rome. 91 00:06:12,536 --> 00:06:13,994 Okay. 92 00:06:16,665 --> 00:06:19,500 - Rome Daily American. - Here, kid, give me one. 93 00:06:24,297 --> 00:06:26,504 Rome Daily American. 94 00:08:46,982 --> 00:08:50,766 Because so much of Rome seemed to exist in the past... 95 00:08:50,944 --> 00:08:53,517 Mrs. Stone decided it was, perhaps... 96 00:08:53,697 --> 00:08:56,947 both an appropriate and comfortable place to lead what she was sure... 97 00:08:57,117 --> 00:08:59,952 would be an almost posthumous existence. 98 00:09:01,997 --> 00:09:03,823 For more than two centuries... 99 00:09:03,999 --> 00:09:06,075 the immense cascade of stone stairs... 100 00:09:06,251 --> 00:09:10,331 descending from Trinita dei Monti to the Piazza di Spagna... 101 00:09:10,505 --> 00:09:13,708 has been a favorite place of assignation. 102 00:09:29,190 --> 00:09:32,310 A multitude of assorted humanity comes every day... 103 00:09:32,819 --> 00:09:34,693 to crouch in the sun... 104 00:09:34,863 --> 00:09:37,152 to seek fulfillment of some desire... 105 00:09:37,657 --> 00:09:39,531 or to dream. 106 00:09:48,877 --> 00:09:51,498 And here, in one of the ancient palazzi... 107 00:09:51,671 --> 00:09:54,506 flanking the higher reaches of this fountain of stairs... 108 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:58,716 Karen Stone chose to make her home. 109 00:09:59,596 --> 00:10:03,380 Simultaneously, a solitary young man... 110 00:10:03,558 --> 00:10:06,512 with no regular or legitimate occupation... 111 00:10:06,686 --> 00:10:09,391 had appeared on the Spanish Steps to spend all his time... 112 00:10:09,564 --> 00:10:11,853 keeping watch on Mrs. Stone's apartment... 113 00:10:12,317 --> 00:10:17,738 as if waiting to give or receive some kind of secret signal. 114 00:10:26,539 --> 00:10:29,624 What puzzled Mrs. Stone was why this strange youth... 115 00:10:29,793 --> 00:10:33,162 should make any impression on her consciousness. 116 00:10:33,338 --> 00:10:35,461 Self-knowledge was something that Karen Stone... 117 00:10:35,632 --> 00:10:37,921 had always been able to avoid. 118 00:10:38,093 --> 00:10:41,010 The obsessive, ruthless pursuit of her career... 119 00:10:41,179 --> 00:10:44,215 and the childlike adoration of an indulgent husband... 120 00:10:44,391 --> 00:10:46,300 had kept this proud and arrogant woman... 121 00:10:46,476 --> 00:10:49,975 from exploring the dark corners of her own nature. 122 00:11:27,392 --> 00:11:30,179 As her body began adjusting to its new condition... 123 00:11:30,353 --> 00:11:33,805 and herself to the upheavals which had so greatly unnerved her... 124 00:11:33,982 --> 00:11:36,603 Mrs. Stone was also becoming alarmingly conscious... 125 00:11:36,776 --> 00:11:39,611 of a sense of drifting, if not of drowning... 126 00:11:39,779 --> 00:11:44,026 in a universe of turbulently rushing fluids and vapors. 127 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,032 But now the drift was beginning to take direction. 128 00:11:48,204 --> 00:11:50,660 - Signora? - Come in, Mita. 129 00:11:54,419 --> 00:11:57,835 Contessa Terribili-Gonzales y Signore di Leo. 130 00:11:59,174 --> 00:12:03,254 Thank you. Tell them I'll be in in a minute and offer them a drink. 131 00:12:04,512 --> 00:12:06,635 Believe me, Paolo... 132 00:12:06,806 --> 00:12:10,756 nothing touches me more deeply than human loneliness. 133 00:12:10,935 --> 00:12:14,850 The first time I met Signora Stone, almost a year ago... 134 00:12:15,023 --> 00:12:18,474 I could hardly stop myself from weeping. 135 00:12:18,651 --> 00:12:21,605 This Signora Stone is a very great lady. 136 00:12:21,780 --> 00:12:24,946 She is very rich and famous... 137 00:12:25,116 --> 00:12:27,524 still quite beautiful. 138 00:12:27,702 --> 00:12:29,446 What makes her so lonely? 139 00:12:29,621 --> 00:12:34,698 Answer that and you'll solve one of the great mysteries of the human heart. 140 00:12:34,876 --> 00:12:36,869 This lady... 141 00:12:41,216 --> 00:12:44,217 Signora, signore, you would like a drink? 142 00:12:44,385 --> 00:12:47,055 - Negroni. - Whiskey. 143 00:12:54,521 --> 00:12:58,518 This lady lost her husband, gave up her career. 144 00:12:58,691 --> 00:13:00,399 Why did she do that? 145 00:13:01,653 --> 00:13:03,562 Youth is so impatient. 146 00:13:04,030 --> 00:13:08,194 You think it would be easy to go back and face that world on her own? 147 00:13:08,368 --> 00:13:10,242 Won't she have to face the world here? 148 00:13:11,246 --> 00:13:12,621 Yes. 149 00:13:14,249 --> 00:13:17,285 And with a little help from me... 150 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:20,165 I hope she'll succeed. 151 00:13:20,505 --> 00:13:22,663 I remember, Paolo... 152 00:13:22,841 --> 00:13:25,248 when my first husband died. 153 00:13:25,426 --> 00:13:28,511 I retired like Signora Stone. 154 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,681 I had to be forced back to life. 155 00:13:32,308 --> 00:13:34,550 That was in Budapest... 156 00:13:34,727 --> 00:13:38,096 years before I came to live in Italy. 157 00:13:40,150 --> 00:13:43,400 - Contessa. - Signora Stone. 158 00:13:43,570 --> 00:13:45,396 How are you? 159 00:13:45,572 --> 00:13:47,564 I breathe. 160 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:53,446 Signora, this is the young man I wanted so much to introduce to you. 161 00:13:53,621 --> 00:13:55,973 May I present Signore Paolo di Leo. 162 00:13:55,999 --> 00:13:57,623 - How do you do? - How do you do? 163 00:13:57,792 --> 00:13:59,868 Won't you sit down? 164 00:14:00,044 --> 00:14:04,338 I was telling my young friend that you have... 165 00:14:04,841 --> 00:14:08,541 You have the most elegant apartment in Rome. 166 00:14:09,429 --> 00:14:12,430 - Don't you admire it, Paolo? - Very nice. 167 00:14:12,599 --> 00:14:14,259 And so quiet. 168 00:14:14,434 --> 00:14:16,592 So peaceful. 169 00:14:16,769 --> 00:14:19,474 That's why Signora Stone chose it... 170 00:14:19,647 --> 00:14:23,147 to be by herself, away from people. 171 00:14:30,867 --> 00:14:32,527 Thank you. 172 00:14:34,621 --> 00:14:37,787 - You like to be by yourself? - Not particularly. 173 00:14:37,957 --> 00:14:39,749 But when everything around you changes... 174 00:14:39,918 --> 00:14:42,325 it takes a little time to get one's bearings. 175 00:14:42,587 --> 00:14:46,170 Deep wounds take time to heal. 176 00:14:48,009 --> 00:14:50,465 I think it's bad to be alone too much. 177 00:14:51,763 --> 00:14:53,471 I know. 178 00:14:55,767 --> 00:14:57,427 It makes you sad. 179 00:14:59,270 --> 00:15:01,975 Makes you drift. 180 00:15:03,233 --> 00:15:06,898 - Drift? - Yes, drift. 181 00:15:08,529 --> 00:15:11,021 Like a flower on a river? 182 00:15:11,199 --> 00:15:13,654 I always say there's only one view in Rome... 183 00:15:13,826 --> 00:15:16,531 which is even more beautiful than Signora Stone's. 184 00:15:16,704 --> 00:15:19,160 From the Casina d'Este. 185 00:15:19,332 --> 00:15:21,206 Very fine restaurant. 186 00:15:21,751 --> 00:15:23,744 In January, you can... 187 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,704 sit on the terrace and see something quite wonderful. 188 00:15:27,882 --> 00:15:30,089 Ten thousand... 189 00:15:34,764 --> 00:15:37,635 - Swallows? - Swallows. 190 00:15:37,809 --> 00:15:40,051 Ten thousand swallows... 191 00:15:40,228 --> 00:15:42,304 all flying away to the south. 192 00:15:42,772 --> 00:15:44,765 And almost any time of the year... 193 00:15:44,941 --> 00:15:48,891 you can enjoy a delicious risotto of veal. 194 00:15:50,655 --> 00:15:52,030 Have you never been there? 195 00:15:52,198 --> 00:15:55,899 No. No, I must try it sometime. 196 00:16:00,790 --> 00:16:04,159 Do you still go riding, signora, in the Borghese Gardens? 197 00:16:04,335 --> 00:16:05,877 Yes, sometimes. 198 00:16:07,255 --> 00:16:09,662 What other sports do you enjoy? 199 00:16:09,841 --> 00:16:11,169 Do you swim, perhaps? 200 00:16:11,676 --> 00:16:14,297 - Oh, yes. - What else? 201 00:16:14,470 --> 00:16:17,886 Nothing else, I... I suppose I'm lazy. 202 00:16:19,058 --> 00:16:21,929 Do you...? Do you like to lie in the sun? 203 00:16:22,103 --> 00:16:24,096 How lucky you are. 204 00:16:24,272 --> 00:16:25,434 Why? 205 00:16:25,606 --> 00:16:28,477 You have such a beautiful terrace for it. 206 00:16:30,403 --> 00:16:32,526 I don't have a terrace. 207 00:16:33,031 --> 00:16:35,782 - Come, Paolo. - You're leaving? 208 00:16:35,950 --> 00:16:39,699 Signora Barrow is expecting us for cocktails. 209 00:16:39,871 --> 00:16:41,531 You haven't forgotten? 210 00:16:42,248 --> 00:16:46,910 Signora Barrow is also a very charming American lady. 211 00:16:47,670 --> 00:16:49,959 Oh, I don't think I know her. 212 00:16:55,803 --> 00:16:58,721 Is an honor to have met you, signora. 213 00:16:58,890 --> 00:17:00,929 - My card. - Thank you. 214 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:02,974 Goodbye, my dear. 215 00:17:03,144 --> 00:17:04,804 Goodbye. 216 00:17:05,813 --> 00:17:08,269 Thank you for thinking of me. 217 00:17:14,322 --> 00:17:17,607 Now, how do you explain a woman like that? I tried everything. 218 00:17:17,784 --> 00:17:21,733 Dinner at the Casina d'Este, lie in the sun on the terrace, nothing. 219 00:17:21,913 --> 00:17:25,246 I warned you she was very proud. 220 00:17:25,416 --> 00:17:29,200 But when I had the inspiration about Signora Barrow... 221 00:17:29,379 --> 00:17:31,704 and invented the cocktail party... 222 00:17:31,881 --> 00:17:35,499 I could see she was a little... 223 00:17:35,676 --> 00:17:37,005 What? 224 00:17:37,178 --> 00:17:40,594 Well, a little something. 225 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:13,957 - Hello? - Signora Barrow? 226 00:18:14,132 --> 00:18:15,174 Oh, yes, contessa. 227 00:18:15,341 --> 00:18:18,342 - I have very good news for you. - Really? 228 00:18:18,511 --> 00:18:23,967 My friend Franco, the young nobleman, has finally returned from Spain. 229 00:18:24,142 --> 00:18:26,977 - Well, that's wonderful. Can he...? - Yes. 230 00:18:27,145 --> 00:18:28,473 - When? - In half an hour? 231 00:18:28,646 --> 00:18:31,219 - At Café Minerva? - We shall meet you there. 232 00:18:31,399 --> 00:18:33,688 - You're wonderful. - Goodbye. 233 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,407 If the signora likes you... 234 00:18:43,578 --> 00:18:47,077 she'll be very generous to you. 235 00:18:47,248 --> 00:18:50,783 But remember, we go fifty-fifty on everything... 236 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,368 and no tricks. 237 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,664 Contessa? 238 00:21:01,215 --> 00:21:04,418 Excuse me, signora. 239 00:21:05,386 --> 00:21:07,592 Excuse me, baron. 240 00:21:07,763 --> 00:21:12,472 I will have news for you both in just a few minutes. 241 00:21:32,246 --> 00:21:34,820 Still no words from the Signora Stone? 242 00:21:35,791 --> 00:21:39,919 No, and I have exactly $130 left in the world. 243 00:21:42,798 --> 00:21:47,176 You're such an extravagant boy, Paolo. 244 00:21:49,221 --> 00:21:53,848 The ruby cuff links from Signora Jamieson-Walker... 245 00:21:54,018 --> 00:21:56,770 didn't they fetch 2500? 246 00:21:57,313 --> 00:22:00,267 That was last season. I needed new clothes. 247 00:22:01,025 --> 00:22:03,101 I tell you, if something doesn't happen soon... 248 00:22:03,277 --> 00:22:05,815 I'm going to start hanging out at the galleria. 249 00:22:05,988 --> 00:22:08,479 Do that and you're finished. 250 00:22:08,783 --> 00:22:12,994 You want to end up walking the streets? A boy with only one shirt, no socks? 251 00:22:13,162 --> 00:22:15,202 I don't know. Maybe I do. 252 00:22:16,749 --> 00:22:19,157 I thought you're better than that. 253 00:22:19,335 --> 00:22:23,083 I hoped you would be strong enough to play for all or nothing. 254 00:22:24,006 --> 00:22:27,292 I admit, the usual strategy has failed. 255 00:22:27,468 --> 00:22:32,426 Unlike when I presented Franco to Signora Barrow. 256 00:22:33,391 --> 00:22:35,679 Sensational. 257 00:22:35,851 --> 00:22:39,137 I shall be eating again by the end of this month. 258 00:22:39,313 --> 00:22:43,263 - You always eat. - No, but real eat. 259 00:22:43,442 --> 00:22:45,067 Caviar... 260 00:22:45,236 --> 00:22:47,063 truffles... 261 00:22:47,863 --> 00:22:50,864 and some lobster. 262 00:22:55,663 --> 00:23:00,241 Will you stop thinking about eating and concentrate on me? 263 00:23:07,883 --> 00:23:11,798 You must invite Signora Stone to dinner. 264 00:23:11,971 --> 00:23:13,798 And pay? 265 00:23:15,349 --> 00:23:19,596 A short-term investment on a rising stock. 266 00:23:19,770 --> 00:23:25,974 Believe me, this woman is only beginning to find out what loneliness is. 267 00:23:27,403 --> 00:23:29,395 Telephone her... 268 00:23:29,572 --> 00:23:32,145 with your best voice. 269 00:23:32,908 --> 00:23:36,194 Caress her with your voice. 270 00:23:37,204 --> 00:23:39,363 Purr for her... 271 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:42,327 like little Ludwig. 272 00:23:44,336 --> 00:23:47,871 Or better still... 273 00:23:48,048 --> 00:23:51,880 arrange an accidental meeting. 274 00:23:52,052 --> 00:23:53,547 How? 275 00:23:54,513 --> 00:23:57,550 You have imagination, don't you? 276 00:23:58,017 --> 00:24:02,643 Think of somewhere the signora goes and go there too. 277 00:24:02,855 --> 00:24:08,609 That's how I caught my first husband, the Turkish general. 278 00:24:08,986 --> 00:24:14,360 I followed him to a notorious skating rink in Budapest. 279 00:24:20,122 --> 00:24:23,622 And now, go off. 280 00:24:23,793 --> 00:24:27,742 I have some arrangements to make with the Signora Jamieson-Walker... 281 00:24:27,922 --> 00:24:30,247 and the Baron Waldheim. 282 00:24:31,926 --> 00:24:34,761 You see, Paolo... 283 00:24:35,095 --> 00:24:36,969 I work. 284 00:24:38,182 --> 00:24:42,262 You are lazy. That's your trouble. 285 00:24:43,145 --> 00:24:46,395 And should you fail with Signora Stone... 286 00:24:46,565 --> 00:24:49,934 would you be interested in another proposition? 287 00:25:12,967 --> 00:25:15,208 - Contessa? - Roberto? 288 00:25:47,668 --> 00:25:51,369 Signora, I have an appointment for you this evening. 289 00:25:51,547 --> 00:25:55,082 - Ten o'clock, Café Minerva. - Thank you. 290 00:25:59,346 --> 00:26:01,006 Baron... 291 00:26:01,724 --> 00:26:06,053 for you, I need a little bit more time. 292 00:27:05,579 --> 00:27:08,580 - Oh, hello. - Hello. What's going on? 293 00:27:08,749 --> 00:27:10,208 Well, I got lost. 294 00:27:10,376 --> 00:27:13,377 All the trails seem to go in different ways. 295 00:27:19,301 --> 00:27:22,302 - Would you like a cigarette? - Oh, thank you. 296 00:27:22,471 --> 00:27:26,172 Wasn't that foolish? I just got sort of panicky. 297 00:27:27,935 --> 00:27:29,346 Thank you. 298 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,762 I don't think that was foolish. 299 00:27:31,939 --> 00:27:34,940 After all, you are all alone in a strange city. 300 00:27:35,109 --> 00:27:37,647 You're probably upset about something else. 301 00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:39,777 I have been that way, lost, perhaps... 302 00:27:39,947 --> 00:27:42,983 and get all upset about nothing. 303 00:27:43,158 --> 00:27:45,614 - But you are fine now. - Yes, thank you. 304 00:27:45,786 --> 00:27:47,695 Well, I'm glad I was here. 305 00:27:47,871 --> 00:27:51,999 Tell me, Mr. Leo, how's it happen that you are here? 306 00:27:53,961 --> 00:27:56,250 I wanted to see you again. 307 00:27:57,423 --> 00:28:00,626 You know I have been here four times? 308 00:28:00,801 --> 00:28:03,339 Will you have dinner with me tonight? 309 00:28:04,221 --> 00:28:05,715 Why? 310 00:28:05,889 --> 00:28:08,725 For a very simple reason: I would like it. 311 00:28:08,892 --> 00:28:12,096 Well, I'm sorry, I'm busy tonight. 312 00:28:14,606 --> 00:28:16,564 You don't trust me? 313 00:28:17,651 --> 00:28:19,062 Why? 314 00:28:19,862 --> 00:28:23,065 Why? I met you through the contessa. 315 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,280 Well, I... 316 00:28:25,451 --> 00:28:28,286 I've heard many bad things about the contessa... 317 00:28:28,454 --> 00:28:31,455 but do you think I am like that? 318 00:29:08,619 --> 00:29:11,370 Karen. Karen Stone. 319 00:29:13,332 --> 00:29:14,411 Why, Meg. 320 00:29:18,170 --> 00:29:19,545 - So it's true. - What? 321 00:29:19,713 --> 00:29:20,958 But you're still here. 322 00:29:21,131 --> 00:29:23,088 Nobody in New York seemed to be sure. 323 00:29:23,258 --> 00:29:25,714 You don't answer anyone's letters, mine included. 324 00:29:25,886 --> 00:29:27,713 This is Paolo di Leo, Miss Bishop. 325 00:29:27,888 --> 00:29:30,593 - How do you do? - Hello. 326 00:29:30,766 --> 00:29:33,257 - So you really like Rome? - I love it, don't you? 327 00:29:33,435 --> 00:29:36,222 Depends what you come up against. There's a lot of corruption. 328 00:29:36,396 --> 00:29:39,730 If you don't believe me, talk to the social-survey team I've been pumping. 329 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,189 - They're bursting with... - How long are you here for? 330 00:29:42,361 --> 00:29:44,686 I don't know yet. I hope to see Nehru next month. 331 00:29:44,863 --> 00:29:47,615 If that falls through, I may take a gander at the Middle East. 332 00:29:47,783 --> 00:29:49,775 - But we must get together. - Well, of course. 333 00:29:49,952 --> 00:29:52,739 Well, when? How about tomorrow, say, 7:00? 334 00:29:52,913 --> 00:29:54,407 Still at the same apartment? 335 00:29:54,581 --> 00:29:56,870 Yes, yes, I am. That'll be wonderful. 336 00:29:57,042 --> 00:29:58,536 Well, I want to hear everything. 337 00:29:59,044 --> 00:30:01,998 - Till tomorrow, then. - Till tomorrow, darling. 338 00:30:03,257 --> 00:30:05,498 Delighted to have met you. 339 00:30:16,937 --> 00:30:18,562 Thank you. 340 00:30:27,573 --> 00:30:31,191 Would you like a cocktail, signora? A Negroni? 341 00:30:32,911 --> 00:30:34,619 How did you know I like Negroni? 342 00:30:35,164 --> 00:30:38,367 The first time I saw you in your apartment, you drank one. 343 00:31:11,783 --> 00:31:13,491 Signore. 344 00:31:22,211 --> 00:31:24,203 Who was your friend? Is she a journalist? 345 00:31:24,379 --> 00:31:27,879 Yes. Politics, that kind of thing. 346 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:31,751 I don't really want to see her alone tomorrow. She'll pump me. 347 00:31:33,263 --> 00:31:36,015 What could she possibly ask you that you don't want to answer? 348 00:31:37,142 --> 00:31:39,811 I just don't feel like one of those women's talks. 349 00:31:39,978 --> 00:31:42,979 What I've been doing, who I've been seeing... 350 00:31:43,357 --> 00:31:45,314 why I'm drifting. 351 00:31:46,235 --> 00:31:47,978 When I told you I was drifting... 352 00:31:48,987 --> 00:31:51,027 did you understand? 353 00:31:52,032 --> 00:31:54,523 Not why it made you sad. 354 00:31:55,494 --> 00:31:57,321 I too am drifting, signora. 355 00:31:57,996 --> 00:31:59,372 The whole world. 356 00:31:59,539 --> 00:32:02,291 Everybody, the stars, everything is drifting. 357 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,498 Is it so bad to drift? 358 00:32:06,088 --> 00:32:07,368 Is it so unhappy? 359 00:32:09,132 --> 00:32:10,591 Yes... 360 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:13,048 when you've nowhere to go. 361 00:32:15,514 --> 00:32:17,921 Your hand is a fist. 362 00:32:19,226 --> 00:32:20,803 Open it. 363 00:32:20,978 --> 00:32:22,721 Give it to me. 364 00:32:35,951 --> 00:32:38,276 It is a beautiful night. 365 00:32:42,291 --> 00:32:44,995 Thank you for inviting me to dinner. 366 00:32:45,168 --> 00:32:48,584 Look, your hand is a fist again. 367 00:32:51,008 --> 00:32:54,341 The contessa told me that your husband was much older than you. 368 00:32:54,511 --> 00:32:59,422 - Is that true? - Twenty years. 369 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,553 - But you loved him. - Very much. 370 00:33:03,603 --> 00:33:05,680 I didn't know how much until he died. 371 00:33:05,856 --> 00:33:08,857 Good night. Thank you again. 372 00:33:47,272 --> 00:33:48,315 Mrs. Stone? 373 00:33:58,367 --> 00:34:00,655 There'll never be energy like prewar Berlin. 374 00:34:00,827 --> 00:34:03,153 A real, wide-open nightclub. 375 00:34:03,330 --> 00:34:07,992 Rollie considers himself the Duncan Hines of the nightclubs. 376 00:34:08,168 --> 00:34:09,496 Oh, excuse me a moment. 377 00:34:09,669 --> 00:34:12,125 Meg, I'm so glad you could come. 378 00:34:12,297 --> 00:34:14,337 I didn't realize there was going to be a party. 379 00:34:14,508 --> 00:34:16,465 I wanted you to meet some of my friends. 380 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:19,422 Miss Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Griffing. 381 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,847 Rollie, you never told me that. 382 00:34:24,309 --> 00:34:26,634 - Hello. Hello. - Do you mean to say...? 383 00:34:35,695 --> 00:34:37,487 Don't you think it's chilly out here? 384 00:34:37,656 --> 00:34:38,901 No. 385 00:34:39,074 --> 00:34:41,612 Meg, what's the matter? 386 00:34:41,785 --> 00:34:45,450 Well, if you don't like the party, at least you can enjoy the view. 387 00:34:45,622 --> 00:34:48,327 - If you look over there, you can see... - Now, let's stop this. 388 00:34:49,126 --> 00:34:50,952 Tell your old friend what you're up to. 389 00:34:51,128 --> 00:34:52,705 Well, I don't know what you mean. 390 00:34:52,879 --> 00:34:56,213 - Have you really retired from the stage? - Yes. 391 00:34:56,383 --> 00:35:00,167 You told me you'd go on acting till you were 80 and they had to wheel you on. 392 00:35:00,345 --> 00:35:03,263 That was before I discovered I hadn't as much talent as I thought. 393 00:35:03,432 --> 00:35:06,302 Talent? Oh, what's talent? 394 00:35:06,476 --> 00:35:08,718 Being able to get away with something, that's all. 395 00:35:08,895 --> 00:35:11,766 You got away with some very effective performances. 396 00:35:11,940 --> 00:35:16,234 Of course, it was a mistake to play Rosalind so long after you left school. 397 00:35:16,987 --> 00:35:20,023 Paolo. You remember Miss Bishop? 398 00:35:20,532 --> 00:35:22,240 Hello. 399 00:35:23,410 --> 00:35:25,070 How do you do? 400 00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:29,697 It's chilly out here. I don't like a cold sun. 401 00:35:30,584 --> 00:35:33,538 - Would you like a drink? - No, thanks. 402 00:35:33,712 --> 00:35:37,544 - Negroni, Karen? - No. No, thank you. 403 00:35:56,276 --> 00:36:01,021 Isn't it odd how women of our age suddenly start looking for beauty in our...? 404 00:36:01,198 --> 00:36:03,439 Well, our male partners. 405 00:36:03,617 --> 00:36:06,902 I suppose after you've been married to that elderly invalid for 20 years... 406 00:36:07,078 --> 00:36:08,277 I loved Tom Stone. 407 00:36:08,455 --> 00:36:10,115 Oh, did you? 408 00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:13,411 Everyone thought you married him to avoid... 409 00:36:13,585 --> 00:36:15,910 - What? - Love. 410 00:36:17,506 --> 00:36:20,625 I think you depended on him, but that's different. 411 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,130 Now he's dead, what have you got to fall back on, except his filthy millions? 412 00:36:25,305 --> 00:36:27,761 - A great deal. - For instance? 413 00:36:27,933 --> 00:36:30,091 This country. These people. 414 00:36:30,268 --> 00:36:34,562 Look, of all the people in Italy, why did you have to pick on that bunch? 415 00:36:34,731 --> 00:36:38,978 The young ones are pretty, of course, and I'm told they make love very nicely... 416 00:36:39,986 --> 00:36:43,320 but is that enough to ask of a whole human society? 417 00:36:43,490 --> 00:36:44,949 I'm beginning to think so. 418 00:36:45,116 --> 00:36:47,489 Oh, you are such an escapist. 419 00:36:48,703 --> 00:36:53,200 You may have quit the stage, but you won't escape public attention. 420 00:36:53,375 --> 00:36:55,284 Don't you read the gossip columns? 421 00:36:55,460 --> 00:36:57,666 No. I've quit that too. 422 00:36:57,837 --> 00:37:01,503 Maybe you have, but they can still hurt you. 423 00:37:02,133 --> 00:37:04,803 I don't want them to hurt you. 424 00:37:04,970 --> 00:37:09,181 Oh, Karen, there isn't anybody who ever knew you and who ever loved you... 425 00:37:09,349 --> 00:37:11,009 Who are these people who love me? 426 00:37:11,184 --> 00:37:13,391 - I want names. - I can give you thousands. 427 00:37:13,562 --> 00:37:15,353 - You represented... - Various parts. 428 00:37:15,522 --> 00:37:18,558 Parts in the theater. Never, ever myself. 429 00:37:18,733 --> 00:37:20,144 And is this yourself? 430 00:37:20,318 --> 00:37:21,860 Or rather what you've become? 431 00:37:22,028 --> 00:37:23,606 A figure of fun. 432 00:37:23,780 --> 00:37:25,938 The stock character of a middle-aged woman... 433 00:37:26,116 --> 00:37:30,066 crazily infatuated with a succession of young boys? 434 00:37:47,929 --> 00:37:53,268 - Such a charming party. - Thank you. Excuse me. 435 00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:17,375 Karen. 436 00:38:22,922 --> 00:38:25,460 Karen, please. 437 00:39:41,418 --> 00:39:42,663 Renato, do you know her? 438 00:39:45,714 --> 00:39:48,668 She's not for you. She only does it for money. 439 00:39:50,635 --> 00:39:52,094 Terrible. 440 00:39:59,394 --> 00:40:02,348 Have you seen the American lady again this week? 441 00:40:02,522 --> 00:40:04,515 Signora Stone? 442 00:40:04,691 --> 00:40:06,351 Twice. 443 00:40:07,026 --> 00:40:11,107 Last night she took me to dinner at the Palazzi... 444 00:40:11,281 --> 00:40:16,192 and after that we went dancing to the Rugantino. 445 00:40:16,369 --> 00:40:18,077 And after that? 446 00:40:27,213 --> 00:40:28,494 Is she very rich? 447 00:40:31,885 --> 00:40:34,292 She has more money than all the others put together. 448 00:40:34,471 --> 00:40:37,970 - Then you'll see her again tonight? - She asked me, but I told her I was busy. 449 00:40:38,892 --> 00:40:40,137 Why? 450 00:40:40,310 --> 00:40:43,394 Because it keeps her interested, that's why. 451 00:40:46,649 --> 00:40:48,274 Do you know her? 452 00:40:49,068 --> 00:40:50,978 She used to work in a beauty shop. 453 00:40:51,154 --> 00:40:54,071 - Now she's got an old man, a millionaire. - No. 454 00:40:56,159 --> 00:40:57,819 Terrible. 455 00:40:58,495 --> 00:40:59,870 Terrible. 456 00:41:02,832 --> 00:41:05,703 Well, the wolf pack is back in Rome again. 457 00:41:05,877 --> 00:41:10,206 The Signora Jamieson-Walker and the baronessa have both been... 458 00:41:10,381 --> 00:41:12,339 sniffing at my door. 459 00:41:13,343 --> 00:41:18,301 This Signora Stone is different. She is a very great lady. 460 00:41:20,099 --> 00:41:22,341 I mean it. Do you know she is so famous... 461 00:41:22,519 --> 00:41:26,647 that she has to wear dark glasses so that people won't recognize her? 462 00:41:26,815 --> 00:41:28,190 Last night... 463 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,607 It is Signora Stone. 464 00:41:34,948 --> 00:41:36,905 I didn't know she was such a great lady. 465 00:43:38,863 --> 00:43:40,274 Paolo. 466 00:43:40,573 --> 00:43:42,198 - What is it? - Well, nothing. It's... 467 00:43:42,784 --> 00:43:46,651 It's just so silly. I just lost my sunglasses. 468 00:43:47,372 --> 00:43:49,945 - Well, I'm late for an appointment. - Paolo. 469 00:43:50,124 --> 00:43:51,832 Can we have dinner tomorrow night? 470 00:43:55,296 --> 00:43:57,503 Tomorrow night, I have another invitation. 471 00:44:00,176 --> 00:44:01,754 But I think I can put it off. 472 00:44:01,928 --> 00:44:03,505 When will you know? 473 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,803 I call you in the morning, huh? 474 00:45:10,830 --> 00:45:12,657 Good night, Paolo. 475 00:45:13,332 --> 00:45:14,661 I have noticed something. 476 00:45:14,834 --> 00:45:17,455 Even when you smile, you're not really happy. 477 00:45:17,628 --> 00:45:19,502 Why do you say that? 478 00:45:20,882 --> 00:45:23,124 Because your eyes are sad. 479 00:45:24,177 --> 00:45:26,668 Thank you for inviting me to dinner. 480 00:45:26,846 --> 00:45:28,922 It was a lovely evening. 481 00:45:33,352 --> 00:45:34,633 Paolo. 482 00:45:35,271 --> 00:45:37,228 If you were right and my eyes are sad... 483 00:45:38,024 --> 00:45:40,266 I suppose you think you know the reason. 484 00:45:41,694 --> 00:45:42,737 You are frightened. 485 00:45:43,780 --> 00:45:44,859 What of? 486 00:45:45,865 --> 00:45:46,980 Your feelings. 487 00:45:49,202 --> 00:45:50,660 Good night, Paolo. 488 00:46:53,975 --> 00:46:59,182 Listen, Paolo, there's no such thing as a great American lady. 489 00:46:59,355 --> 00:47:02,641 Great ladies do not occur in a nation less than 200 years old. 490 00:47:02,817 --> 00:47:07,526 I am telling you, she has given me nothing except my dinners. 491 00:47:08,865 --> 00:47:11,616 I don't believe you. 492 00:47:14,537 --> 00:47:18,285 Franco got $500 yesterday from Signora Barrow. 493 00:47:18,457 --> 00:47:23,416 That's different. This Signora Stone is not a wolf. 494 00:47:23,588 --> 00:47:29,708 I don't know, we have... We have dinner, then we go out dancing, and... 495 00:47:29,886 --> 00:47:31,925 I say good night at the door. 496 00:47:32,096 --> 00:47:38,597 All the others, the Signora Coogan, the baronessa, even the Jamieson-Walker. 497 00:47:38,769 --> 00:47:42,981 They were all at me like wolves from the very moment... 498 00:47:43,149 --> 00:47:47,811 Liar. Everyone knows you never gave in to any of them. 499 00:47:47,987 --> 00:47:49,814 Not even to Signora Jamieson-Walker... 500 00:47:49,989 --> 00:47:53,192 when she presented you with a pair of magnificent ruby cuff links. 501 00:47:53,367 --> 00:47:57,068 - Now, you tell me... - Which you tried to tell me were glass. 502 00:47:57,246 --> 00:47:59,239 Well, I thought they were. 503 00:48:00,833 --> 00:48:03,040 You know what I think? 504 00:48:04,086 --> 00:48:07,171 You are infatuated with Mrs. Stone. 505 00:48:07,340 --> 00:48:10,424 She's the only one you've actually gone to bed with... 506 00:48:10,593 --> 00:48:13,677 and are going to bed with, regularly, all the time. 507 00:48:13,846 --> 00:48:16,171 I will tell you something, I only wish it were true. 508 00:48:16,349 --> 00:48:19,100 Then why do you tell everybody, even your barber, that it is? 509 00:48:19,268 --> 00:48:21,676 Now, wait a minute, how do you know what I say to him? 510 00:48:21,854 --> 00:48:25,603 - What are you doing, spying on me? - Answer my question. 511 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,274 It's not true. 512 00:48:37,370 --> 00:48:40,454 You are feathering your nest. 513 00:48:40,623 --> 00:48:42,532 What about me? 514 00:48:42,708 --> 00:48:44,500 You're getting 50 percent of Franco. 515 00:48:44,669 --> 00:48:47,753 That's a lot more than 50 percent of nothing. 516 00:48:47,922 --> 00:48:51,920 You're the one that said, "Be patient, she is proud." 517 00:48:52,802 --> 00:48:56,052 - What is it, you think I would cheat you? - You have tried before. 518 00:48:56,222 --> 00:48:59,057 That is not true. I'm a di Leo. 519 00:48:59,225 --> 00:49:02,925 And I am a Gonzales, so... 520 00:49:06,274 --> 00:49:11,564 Listen, Paolo, when things went slowly with Signora Coogan... 521 00:49:11,737 --> 00:49:15,865 you invented such a convincing story, you remember, about the prince? 522 00:49:16,033 --> 00:49:20,113 - What about it? - Why don't you try it on Signora Stone. 523 00:49:20,288 --> 00:49:26,540 Only this time, have him steal a lot more money from your trusting friend. 524 00:49:59,452 --> 00:50:00,946 Karen. 525 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,196 How are you? You look wonderful. 526 00:50:03,372 --> 00:50:05,080 Lloyd, lovely to see you. 527 00:50:05,249 --> 00:50:07,787 - This is Mr. di Leo. Mr. Greener. - How do you do? 528 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,961 Mr. Greener presented me in my first play, Paolo. 529 00:50:11,130 --> 00:50:13,965 - Oh, what a lovely place. - Oh, I was so lucky to find it. 530 00:50:14,133 --> 00:50:16,541 And so convenient too. Only half an hour to the studio. 531 00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:17,798 Paolo. 532 00:50:18,679 --> 00:50:22,131 Paolo, how nice to see you. I haven't seen you for ages. 533 00:50:22,308 --> 00:50:25,262 May I present Mrs. Stone, Principessa Bonmeni. 534 00:50:25,436 --> 00:50:26,764 - How do you do? - How do you do? 535 00:50:26,937 --> 00:50:29,144 I've heard such interesting things about you. 536 00:50:29,315 --> 00:50:31,770 I want you to meet Barbara, the star of my new picture. 537 00:50:31,942 --> 00:50:34,350 I had a terrible time getting the studio to release me. 538 00:50:34,528 --> 00:50:37,233 - Yes, you would. And now you live here? - Well... 539 00:50:37,406 --> 00:50:41,321 What I'd really like to do is go to New York and study the Method. 540 00:50:41,494 --> 00:50:42,988 - You have never had...? - Hi, Lloyd. 541 00:50:43,162 --> 00:50:45,368 Barbara, I've got a great surprise for you. 542 00:50:45,539 --> 00:50:48,291 This is Karen Stone, my first and greatest leading lady. 543 00:50:48,667 --> 00:50:51,538 - How do you do? - How do you do? 544 00:50:51,712 --> 00:50:54,797 Oh, and this is Mr. di Leo. 545 00:50:54,965 --> 00:50:56,673 - How do you do? - How do you do? 546 00:50:56,842 --> 00:50:59,879 Excuse me a minute, and don't go away. 547 00:51:00,054 --> 00:51:03,754 That's a perfectly lovely dress. Did you get it in Rome? 548 00:51:03,933 --> 00:51:05,178 No, it came from Paris. 549 00:51:10,314 --> 00:51:14,015 It's such a thrill to meet you, even though I never saw you on the stage. 550 00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:15,937 Isn't that terrible? 551 00:51:16,112 --> 00:51:19,196 Why, not at all. I'm afraid I've never seen you on the screen. 552 00:51:21,283 --> 00:51:25,945 - May I get you a drink? - Yes, thank you, a very dry martini. 553 00:51:27,373 --> 00:51:30,042 I had a terrible time making up my mind. 554 00:51:30,209 --> 00:51:33,412 I think one needs stage experience before going into movies. 555 00:51:33,587 --> 00:51:36,956 - Karen, I'd like you to meet Contessa... - Oh, we are old friends. 556 00:51:37,133 --> 00:51:41,213 - Dear Signora Stone, how are you? - I'm well, and you? 557 00:51:41,387 --> 00:51:43,545 - And this is Barbara Bingham, my... - Yes. 558 00:51:43,722 --> 00:51:46,973 How do you do? You're quite lovely. 559 00:51:47,143 --> 00:51:50,476 - Telephone, signore, from New York. - I'll be right back. 560 00:51:50,646 --> 00:51:52,520 Aren't you a little hungry? 561 00:51:52,690 --> 00:51:54,232 Shall we have some lunch? 562 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:55,728 - Excuse me. - Sure. 563 00:52:00,573 --> 00:52:03,242 Before the baronessa lost all her money... 564 00:52:03,409 --> 00:52:08,569 the most elegant parties in the whole black world were given here. 565 00:52:08,747 --> 00:52:13,493 And now, at her age, she's got to go into business. 566 00:52:13,669 --> 00:52:15,958 She isn't the only one. 567 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:22,502 I understand that you have been seeing a good deal of young Paolo recently. 568 00:52:22,678 --> 00:52:24,587 We've had dinner together. 569 00:52:24,763 --> 00:52:26,507 You find him charming? 570 00:52:26,682 --> 00:52:29,090 Yes, I do. 571 00:52:29,268 --> 00:52:31,593 Everyone does. 572 00:52:31,896 --> 00:52:35,596 But there are certain things more important than charm. 573 00:52:35,774 --> 00:52:40,318 I'm afraid Paolo is really a little marchetta. 574 00:52:40,488 --> 00:52:43,109 - A what? - That's our word for a boy... 575 00:52:43,282 --> 00:52:48,110 who has no work, no money, but lives very well without them. 576 00:52:48,287 --> 00:52:50,860 How do you feel about such people? 577 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,328 I have nothing against them. 578 00:52:54,752 --> 00:52:58,999 Then make sure you get your money's worth. 579 00:52:59,173 --> 00:53:00,584 Thank you. 580 00:53:00,758 --> 00:53:03,545 Don't get cheated like Signora Coogan... 581 00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,803 when she took Paolo to Capri last summer. 582 00:53:06,972 --> 00:53:08,716 Contessa. 583 00:53:08,891 --> 00:53:14,478 They say she was the only one in the party Paolo didn't make love to. 584 00:53:14,647 --> 00:53:19,474 That poor thing, she broke out with such a horrible nervous eczema... 585 00:53:19,652 --> 00:53:24,812 flew straight to Africa and hid herself in the jungles. 586 00:53:25,241 --> 00:53:28,277 - Little ham? - No, thank you. 587 00:53:28,452 --> 00:53:32,580 However, there's one nice thing about Paolo. 588 00:53:32,748 --> 00:53:37,077 Signora Coogan had a great deal of very important jewelry... 589 00:53:37,253 --> 00:53:42,045 and she used to have it in her bathroom all night in a soap dish... 590 00:53:42,216 --> 00:53:44,968 without even locking the door. 591 00:53:45,135 --> 00:53:47,461 Paolo never touched it. 592 00:53:47,638 --> 00:53:50,674 He doesn't have light fingers. 593 00:53:51,183 --> 00:53:54,184 I don't think it would matter so much if he had. 594 00:53:54,478 --> 00:53:57,147 I don't understand you. 595 00:53:57,314 --> 00:53:59,936 People who are very beautiful make their own laws. 596 00:54:00,109 --> 00:54:01,817 Did you? 597 00:54:02,361 --> 00:54:05,196 In a way, when I was very beautiful. 598 00:54:05,364 --> 00:54:09,943 All the same, you're very wealthy and you must be careful. 599 00:54:10,244 --> 00:54:13,447 Has Paolo ever told you the story of his friend... 600 00:54:13,622 --> 00:54:18,035 who was cheated out of 10 million lire by a wicked prince? 601 00:54:18,210 --> 00:54:21,709 - No. - He will. 602 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:26,341 Oh, delicious lobster. 603 00:54:26,510 --> 00:54:30,674 And he will try to touch your heart so deeply with it... 604 00:54:30,848 --> 00:54:35,095 you will want to restore his friend's losses to him. 605 00:54:35,769 --> 00:54:39,601 I might be touched, but not for 10 million lire. 606 00:54:39,773 --> 00:54:44,934 You see, contessa, Americans aren't as romantic as their motion pictures. 607 00:54:51,535 --> 00:54:53,575 What a pity. 608 00:54:55,664 --> 00:54:57,242 Cigarette? 609 00:54:58,542 --> 00:55:00,416 Still got a headache? 610 00:55:01,462 --> 00:55:03,750 Too much to drink at lunch. 611 00:55:05,215 --> 00:55:07,457 I wanted to get drunk. 612 00:55:07,968 --> 00:55:09,795 I knew if I did, I would cry. 613 00:55:10,512 --> 00:55:11,888 Why? 614 00:55:12,056 --> 00:55:14,095 What about, Paolo? 615 00:55:15,100 --> 00:55:17,176 I didn't want to tell you this before. 616 00:55:17,353 --> 00:55:19,760 I didn't want to spoil your party. 617 00:55:20,147 --> 00:55:25,105 But a very good friend of mine, a terrible thing has happened to him. 618 00:55:29,073 --> 00:55:31,279 He has been... 619 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,034 speculating. 620 00:55:35,371 --> 00:55:39,831 And a prince told him... 621 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,167 that he could get a lot of whiskey at a very cheap price... 622 00:55:43,337 --> 00:55:46,670 from some Americans at the base in Naples... 623 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,044 and then he could sell them at a great profit. 624 00:55:50,469 --> 00:55:56,175 So Fabio, that's my friend, gave the prince 10 million lire for the stuff. 625 00:55:56,350 --> 00:55:59,801 The prince kept the money and Fabio came up with empty hands. 626 00:56:00,562 --> 00:56:02,354 Do you know why? 627 00:56:04,733 --> 00:56:08,398 The prince took cocaine. 628 00:56:09,113 --> 00:56:12,861 He spent all the money on dope and a woman. 629 00:56:14,201 --> 00:56:16,324 Your friend should have informed the police. 630 00:56:18,163 --> 00:56:21,782 He did. He knew somebody that was very important. 631 00:56:21,959 --> 00:56:25,375 But this man told Fabio, he said: 632 00:56:25,546 --> 00:56:29,590 "Fabio, you don't have a receipt, and you can't prove anything." 633 00:56:29,842 --> 00:56:31,502 And... 634 00:56:34,012 --> 00:56:35,970 Now he's ruined. 635 00:56:39,852 --> 00:56:43,849 How soon does your friend want the money? 636 00:56:49,903 --> 00:56:51,184 As soon as possible. 637 00:56:52,531 --> 00:56:56,066 He has nothing, and... 638 00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:02,165 I think if he has to wait much longer, I think he would kill himself. 639 00:57:02,332 --> 00:57:03,613 He's desperate. 640 00:57:04,001 --> 00:57:08,129 I was the first person that he called. 641 00:57:09,715 --> 00:57:14,092 What is money when it's a... A question of friendship? 642 00:57:16,722 --> 00:57:21,300 When it's that much money, I think it's usually more than friendship. 643 00:57:22,436 --> 00:57:24,393 What is more? 644 00:57:24,563 --> 00:57:26,852 Friendship is the most beautiful thing in the world. 645 00:57:28,901 --> 00:57:31,226 Who told you that, Paolo? 646 00:57:31,737 --> 00:57:33,564 Mrs. Coogan? 647 00:57:34,782 --> 00:57:39,740 You see, I don't leave my diamonds in a soap dish... 648 00:57:39,912 --> 00:57:45,250 and when the time comes when nobody desires me for myself... 649 00:57:45,417 --> 00:57:50,922 I'd rather not be desired at all. 650 01:01:05,617 --> 01:01:08,903 I'm going to walk a little, Giorgio. Will you follow? 651 01:01:23,010 --> 01:01:25,465 Karen. Karen. 652 01:01:25,637 --> 01:01:27,262 Karen Stone. 653 01:01:31,393 --> 01:01:34,477 Karen, how are you? You look like a million dollars. 654 01:01:34,646 --> 01:01:36,888 We've been asking about you everywhere. 655 01:01:37,065 --> 01:01:38,725 Did you see Meg before she left? 656 01:01:38,900 --> 01:01:40,525 Meg? Where did she go? 657 01:01:40,694 --> 01:01:43,979 Oh, someplace in the Middle East. She says it's a big trouble spot. 658 01:01:44,156 --> 01:01:47,988 I thought everywhere in the Middle East was a big trouble spot. 659 01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,117 - Julia. - Yes? 660 01:01:50,287 --> 01:01:53,490 Campbell, why... Forgive me, I didn't recognize you, I just... 661 01:01:53,665 --> 01:01:56,203 Well, is anything wrong, dear? 662 01:01:56,376 --> 01:01:58,914 Julia, there's something I want to tell you. 663 01:01:59,087 --> 01:02:02,041 Campbie, I need cigarettes. There's a place round that corner. 664 01:02:02,215 --> 01:02:03,840 Sure. 665 01:02:05,177 --> 01:02:07,715 Promise me you won't tell anyone. Not even Campbell. 666 01:02:07,888 --> 01:02:09,548 I don't want anyone to know... 667 01:02:09,723 --> 01:02:12,012 but I have been terribly ill. 668 01:02:12,184 --> 01:02:14,342 - No. - And they've taken some x-rays... 669 01:02:14,519 --> 01:02:16,642 and say that it isn't possible to operate. 670 01:02:16,813 --> 01:02:18,521 - Oh, darling... - Now, you see, darling... 671 01:02:18,690 --> 01:02:21,264 I don't want you to try to see me or to call me. 672 01:02:21,443 --> 01:02:23,270 I know you will understand. 673 01:02:23,445 --> 01:02:25,438 Oh, forgive me, there's my car. 674 01:02:45,383 --> 01:02:46,878 Where to, signora? 675 01:02:48,553 --> 01:02:51,044 Just drive. Just anywhere. 676 01:03:14,246 --> 01:03:16,155 I didn't know them. 677 01:03:16,706 --> 01:03:18,865 I didn't know them. 678 01:03:20,585 --> 01:03:22,874 Why did I make up that lie? 679 01:03:43,984 --> 01:03:45,478 Hello. 680 01:03:49,364 --> 01:03:52,199 What a bore. It's going to rain. 681 01:03:53,618 --> 01:03:54,899 You don't want it to rain? 682 01:03:55,078 --> 01:03:57,486 Well, of course not. I hate it. 683 01:03:59,457 --> 01:04:04,250 I don't suppose it should concern you that there is something to consider... 684 01:04:04,421 --> 01:04:07,505 in this country beside the amusement of rich foreigners. 685 01:04:07,674 --> 01:04:10,675 You don't care if the grain in the country is all drying up... 686 01:04:10,844 --> 01:04:14,427 or that the water supply is so low there's not even enough for electricity. 687 01:04:15,140 --> 01:04:19,303 Oh, Paolo. Since when have you been so interested in farmers and electricity? 688 01:04:19,686 --> 01:04:21,346 "Oh, Paolo." 689 01:04:21,521 --> 01:04:24,807 You rich American women, you think that you're the new conquerors of Rome. 690 01:04:25,483 --> 01:04:27,357 Well, you let me warn you something. 691 01:04:27,527 --> 01:04:29,816 This city is old. Three thousand years. 692 01:04:29,988 --> 01:04:34,531 And every one of its conquerors have went right back to the dust. 693 01:04:36,661 --> 01:04:41,074 Paolo, sometimes you're quite ridiculous. 694 01:04:42,751 --> 01:04:44,578 So are you. 695 01:04:44,753 --> 01:04:47,208 Like last night, for instance. 696 01:04:49,132 --> 01:04:51,504 What did I do last night? 697 01:04:51,676 --> 01:04:54,250 You asked me if I loved you. 698 01:04:54,971 --> 01:04:56,252 Was that so ridiculous? 699 01:04:58,183 --> 01:05:03,141 Beside my family, the only person that I ever loved was my second cousin... 700 01:05:03,313 --> 01:05:05,270 the Principessa di Leo. 701 01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,516 She was raped by your soldiers in Naples... 702 01:05:07,692 --> 01:05:10,362 and has spent the rest of her life in a convent. 703 01:05:10,528 --> 01:05:15,867 So you can laugh all you want to at me, but I don't love anybody. 704 01:05:27,754 --> 01:05:29,663 Swallows. 705 01:05:30,715 --> 01:05:32,174 Is it true they have no legs... 706 01:05:32,342 --> 01:05:34,667 that's why they stay in the air all the time? 707 01:05:34,844 --> 01:05:39,839 No. They stay in the air because they don't want to mix with American tourists. 708 01:06:15,468 --> 01:06:17,295 Paolo. 709 01:06:18,179 --> 01:06:19,804 Paolo? 710 01:06:20,265 --> 01:06:23,301 I've been thinking we ought to go to that tailor you told me about... 711 01:06:23,476 --> 01:06:25,268 and have you measured for new clothes. 712 01:06:25,437 --> 01:06:26,717 It is not important. 713 01:06:26,896 --> 01:06:29,103 Wouldn't you like to? 714 01:06:31,443 --> 01:06:33,020 You don't have to buy me clothes. 715 01:06:33,194 --> 01:06:35,270 I know, but I want to. 716 01:06:38,491 --> 01:06:43,284 Last Christmas, the Signora Coogan wanted to buy me an Alfa Romeo... 717 01:06:44,289 --> 01:06:47,290 but I couldn't accept it because I didn't love her. 718 01:06:50,170 --> 01:06:51,961 This is different. 719 01:06:53,131 --> 01:06:55,124 We love each other. 720 01:06:56,509 --> 01:07:00,044 Just now you said I was ridiculous to ask if you loved me. 721 01:07:01,222 --> 01:07:03,511 That's because you laughed at me. 722 01:07:07,645 --> 01:07:10,979 When you love somebody, you must not listen to what they say. 723 01:07:11,149 --> 01:07:15,977 They say things to hurt you because they don't want to be hurt themselves. 724 01:07:21,534 --> 01:07:24,738 You must look in their eyes and feel their heart. 725 01:07:29,209 --> 01:07:31,367 Why are you crying? 726 01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:39,174 I'm so happy. 727 01:07:44,349 --> 01:07:48,845 This has just arrived. The newest fabric. 728 01:07:50,355 --> 01:07:51,553 Is smart, no? 729 01:07:51,731 --> 01:07:53,475 - Do you like it, Paolo? - It's beautiful. 730 01:07:53,650 --> 01:07:56,816 Madame will see it is the finest cashmere. 731 01:07:56,986 --> 01:07:59,359 - Signore? - Yes, this one. I'll have this one. 732 01:07:59,531 --> 01:08:01,108 Please. 733 01:08:57,172 --> 01:09:00,754 Well, being under exclusive contract, you see... 734 01:09:00,925 --> 01:09:03,595 I had a terrible time getting the studio to release me. 735 01:09:03,970 --> 01:09:05,761 Tell me, what about future? 736 01:09:05,930 --> 01:09:10,676 What I'd really like to do is go to New York and study the Method. 737 01:10:13,164 --> 01:10:15,999 Paolo, how are you? 738 01:10:16,501 --> 01:10:18,908 Oh, I'd like you to meet... 739 01:10:29,389 --> 01:10:30,503 Paolo. 740 01:10:34,143 --> 01:10:35,342 Paolo. 741 01:10:49,701 --> 01:10:52,702 Signora Coogan, welcome back from Africa. 742 01:10:54,205 --> 01:10:56,198 Thank you, Paolo. 743 01:10:56,374 --> 01:10:58,830 You are looking wonderful, signora. 744 01:10:59,002 --> 01:11:01,671 The sunshine agreed with you. 745 01:11:03,047 --> 01:11:05,717 Baron, I thought you'd be in Cairo. 746 01:11:07,719 --> 01:11:08,917 Shortly. 747 01:11:09,095 --> 01:11:12,594 Paolo now moves in a very exclusive circle. 748 01:11:12,765 --> 01:11:15,470 One scarcely sees him anymore. 749 01:11:15,977 --> 01:11:17,685 - Ciao. - Paolo. 750 01:11:19,814 --> 01:11:21,522 Paolo. 751 01:11:28,364 --> 01:11:30,986 Why didn't you answer my note? 752 01:11:31,159 --> 01:11:34,113 We have an account to settle, you know. 753 01:11:34,287 --> 01:11:38,913 What has she given you? Cuff links? Dollars? 754 01:11:39,751 --> 01:11:41,957 You're a foolish boy, Paolo. 755 01:11:42,128 --> 01:11:44,500 You might need me again someday. 756 01:11:44,672 --> 01:11:48,290 All Rome is talking about your great lady. 757 01:11:48,468 --> 01:11:52,928 I wouldn't be surprised if she moved to Tangiers. 758 01:12:28,257 --> 01:12:30,795 Good evening, signora. 759 01:12:31,594 --> 01:12:34,465 - May I sit down? - Please, do. 760 01:12:34,639 --> 01:12:38,174 I just saw your charming friend Paolo. 761 01:12:38,810 --> 01:12:40,601 You look wonderful. 762 01:12:41,396 --> 01:12:43,305 I'm so glad. 763 01:12:48,653 --> 01:12:52,069 As you know, signora... 764 01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:55,858 since I lost my husband... 765 01:12:56,035 --> 01:12:59,202 life has not been easy for me... 766 01:12:59,372 --> 01:13:02,990 and frankly... 767 01:13:03,167 --> 01:13:06,868 it's never been more difficult than it is just now. 768 01:13:08,005 --> 01:13:10,841 Are you trying to touch me, contessa? 769 01:13:12,552 --> 01:13:16,466 - A thousand dollars? - I could let you have 500. 770 01:13:16,639 --> 01:13:20,008 - Seven-fifty. - Five hundred. 771 01:13:20,476 --> 01:13:22,184 When? Tomorrow? 772 01:13:23,271 --> 01:13:24,516 All right. 773 01:13:26,441 --> 01:13:28,848 You're most kind. 774 01:13:30,987 --> 01:13:33,738 Thank you very much. 775 01:13:46,627 --> 01:13:50,246 - What did she want? - Money. 776 01:13:51,257 --> 01:13:55,006 - Did you promise her any? - A little. 777 01:13:55,511 --> 01:13:57,219 Why? 778 01:14:18,701 --> 01:14:21,157 You should be careful of the contessa. 779 01:14:21,329 --> 01:14:22,787 Thank you. 780 01:14:22,955 --> 01:14:24,865 All Rome is talking about her. 781 01:14:25,249 --> 01:14:28,334 I would not be surprised if she moved to Tangiers. 782 01:14:28,503 --> 01:14:29,748 Signora Stone. 783 01:14:47,438 --> 01:14:50,439 You know, Renato, this picture of me is not really so good. 784 01:14:51,234 --> 01:14:54,768 He loves it. He carries that magazine around all the time. 785 01:14:55,279 --> 01:14:57,438 I have much better ones. 786 01:14:58,866 --> 01:15:00,775 - Are you finished? - Only a moment. 787 01:15:00,952 --> 01:15:02,612 No, no, no. 788 01:15:02,787 --> 01:15:04,530 Renato, I have to go to my tailors. 789 01:15:04,705 --> 01:15:07,541 You have no idea the trouble I've had with these people. 790 01:15:07,708 --> 01:15:09,950 The sleeves are too long on one jacket... 791 01:15:10,127 --> 01:15:12,998 and the shoulders too narrow on the other one. 792 01:15:13,172 --> 01:15:15,295 Did I show you this? 793 01:15:16,259 --> 01:15:18,631 A present? How many jewels? 794 01:15:18,803 --> 01:15:21,757 Thirty-eight, and the case is solid gold. 795 01:15:27,311 --> 01:15:29,637 Another present? 796 01:15:31,315 --> 01:15:33,059 How much did it cost? 797 01:15:36,070 --> 01:15:38,478 I forget. 798 01:15:38,656 --> 01:15:42,820 But we're going to change it for a more expensive one anyway. 799 01:15:46,247 --> 01:15:49,663 Oh, I forgot to tell you, Renato, I'm to have a charge account now. 800 01:15:49,834 --> 01:15:54,081 So you send the bill at the end of the month to Signora Stone, huh? 801 01:15:54,255 --> 01:15:57,007 - Ciao. - Ciao. 802 01:16:46,474 --> 01:16:48,051 Karen, look. 803 01:16:48,309 --> 01:16:49,554 Look. 804 01:16:58,152 --> 01:17:03,312 Well. I'm not used to wearing such expensive clothes. 805 01:18:24,655 --> 01:18:26,149 Are you alone? 806 01:18:26,323 --> 01:18:28,197 Magda, what do you want? 807 01:18:29,910 --> 01:18:35,450 The picture of you and Signora Stone on the cover of La Settimana... 808 01:18:35,833 --> 01:18:38,953 some people have found it quite sensational. 809 01:18:39,128 --> 01:18:40,207 I've seen better. 810 01:18:41,756 --> 01:18:43,962 All the same, Paolo... 811 01:18:44,133 --> 01:18:46,838 that picture makes it very clear. 812 01:18:47,011 --> 01:18:51,009 You're not just another beautiful young man. 813 01:18:51,724 --> 01:18:55,638 According to Miss Bingham, the movie star... 814 01:18:56,020 --> 01:18:57,680 you have a style. 815 01:18:58,647 --> 01:19:02,230 She says you have a screen personality... 816 01:19:02,401 --> 01:19:05,984 millions of women would respond to. 817 01:19:10,534 --> 01:19:15,280 I'm sure Miss Bingham would like to know you better. 818 01:19:15,873 --> 01:19:17,700 She's between husbands, you know. 819 01:19:18,542 --> 01:19:22,622 And she's terribly lonesome and bored at the moment. 820 01:19:23,380 --> 01:19:25,622 Anyway, Paolo... 821 01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,255 you might gain more from this... 822 01:19:28,427 --> 01:19:31,381 than you've managed to get out of Signora Stone. 823 01:19:32,139 --> 01:19:36,007 I'm not speaking of anything strictly material. 824 01:19:36,185 --> 01:19:37,228 Magda. 825 01:19:39,105 --> 01:19:41,014 Karen will be having some friends... 826 01:19:41,190 --> 01:19:45,686 to come here to see the moving pictures we have made. 827 01:19:45,861 --> 01:19:48,068 Perhaps you could invite Miss Bingham. 828 01:19:48,948 --> 01:19:52,815 - When? - Tomorrow night, 8:00. 829 01:19:52,993 --> 01:19:54,618 Very well. 830 01:19:54,787 --> 01:19:56,411 But listen, Paolo... 831 01:19:56,580 --> 01:19:58,240 we'll be friends again? 832 01:19:58,415 --> 01:19:59,660 Fifty-fifty? 833 01:20:00,292 --> 01:20:02,202 Haven't we always? 834 01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,150 - Who is this boy that follows you? - What? 835 01:20:32,324 --> 01:20:35,776 Well, you must have noticed him, he's everywhere we go. 836 01:20:36,162 --> 01:20:37,786 Come here. 837 01:20:48,549 --> 01:20:51,122 I never saw him before in my life. 838 01:20:52,970 --> 01:20:56,054 The trouble is you make a spectacle of yourself. 839 01:20:56,265 --> 01:20:57,925 - What do you mean? - A spectacle? 840 01:20:58,100 --> 01:21:00,259 That's something that's conspicuous. 841 01:21:00,436 --> 01:21:01,978 You. 842 01:21:03,230 --> 01:21:06,895 We're photographed in the magazines, pointed out in the streets. 843 01:21:07,067 --> 01:21:09,143 And you adore it. 844 01:21:10,446 --> 01:21:13,862 It's you they look at, Paolo, not at me. 845 01:21:14,825 --> 01:21:16,154 You don't hear the comments. 846 01:21:16,619 --> 01:21:17,994 Oh, yes, I do. 847 01:21:19,371 --> 01:21:20,616 "What a beautiful man." 848 01:21:20,789 --> 01:21:23,280 That's what they say on the café sidewalks. 849 01:21:23,459 --> 01:21:25,665 And you bask in it like a sunflower. 850 01:21:25,961 --> 01:21:29,959 If I'm conspicuous, it's because you've made me so. 851 01:21:31,592 --> 01:21:33,051 There's no use contradicting you. 852 01:21:33,219 --> 01:21:35,507 An American woman is never gonna admit she's wrong. 853 01:21:35,930 --> 01:21:38,053 But you don't hear all the comments. 854 01:21:38,224 --> 01:21:40,845 Last week, I was compelled to challenge a man to a duel... 855 01:21:41,018 --> 01:21:43,094 on account of a remark he made. 856 01:21:43,270 --> 01:21:44,433 You fought a duel? 857 01:21:44,605 --> 01:21:47,475 I sent a challenge and the man left Rome. 858 01:21:49,401 --> 01:21:51,690 And what was this remark? 859 01:21:51,862 --> 01:21:54,187 It's too disgusting. I can't repeat it. 860 01:22:00,704 --> 01:22:03,954 Has it ever occurred to you, Karen, that women of your kind... 861 01:22:04,124 --> 01:22:07,992 are very often found assassinated in bed? 862 01:22:08,712 --> 01:22:10,420 What? 863 01:22:11,507 --> 01:22:14,792 It's true. Only last week, on the French Riviera... 864 01:22:14,969 --> 01:22:20,888 a middle-aged woman was found in bed with her throat cut from ear to ear. 865 01:22:21,350 --> 01:22:25,300 There was no broken lock, no forced entrance... 866 01:22:26,272 --> 01:22:30,400 just stains of hair oil on the other pillow. 867 01:22:35,656 --> 01:22:38,989 Obviously, the lady had asked the assassin to come in. 868 01:22:40,995 --> 01:22:42,738 Does this mean you're going to kill me? 869 01:22:44,290 --> 01:22:47,244 That's right. Make a joke. Show your sense of humor. 870 01:22:47,418 --> 01:22:48,960 And then in three or four years... 871 01:22:49,128 --> 01:22:51,915 ll pick up a paper and read about your death. 872 01:22:55,301 --> 01:22:57,423 Three or four years is all I need. 873 01:22:57,594 --> 01:23:00,761 After that, a cut throat will be a convenience. 874 01:23:13,944 --> 01:23:15,522 Paolo. 875 01:24:05,496 --> 01:24:07,204 I'm sorry. 876 01:24:19,259 --> 01:24:20,884 Truly sorry. 877 01:24:22,721 --> 01:24:25,639 Will your beautiful new dress be all right? 878 01:24:29,603 --> 01:24:33,850 Paolo, you once told me you hurt me because you love me... 879 01:24:34,024 --> 01:24:36,895 and were afraid of being hurt yourself. 880 01:24:37,069 --> 01:24:40,485 Shall I never know you love me unless you hurt me? 881 01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:22,894 - I've found you at last. - Meg. 882 01:25:23,073 --> 01:25:26,110 Well, I've... I've been to a shindig at the Lebanese embassy. 883 01:25:26,285 --> 01:25:29,819 They insisted we all take home a piece of folk art. 884 01:25:29,997 --> 01:25:33,247 Karen, I'm going back to New York tonight. 885 01:25:33,417 --> 01:25:35,742 I couldn't leave without asking you to forgive me. 886 01:25:35,919 --> 01:25:38,589 Darling, we're old friends. Old enough to quarrel. 887 01:25:38,755 --> 01:25:40,250 - And make up? - Well, of course. 888 01:25:40,424 --> 01:25:43,378 I said more than I meant to. I'm sorry. 889 01:25:43,552 --> 01:25:45,545 - Good evening, Paolo... - Excuse me. 890 01:25:48,599 --> 01:25:50,757 Ciao, Amanda. 891 01:25:58,817 --> 01:26:03,396 - Karen, why don't you come too. - To New York? 892 01:26:04,323 --> 01:26:06,280 Before all your bridges are burned. 893 01:26:06,450 --> 01:26:07,909 I don't want to. 894 01:26:08,076 --> 01:26:11,077 I'm settled here. This is my home. 895 01:26:11,705 --> 01:26:15,655 Meg, I'm in love with Paolo. 896 01:26:17,085 --> 01:26:19,458 He obviously adores you. 897 01:26:19,630 --> 01:26:23,164 That's nothing. The girl's drunk and he's just trying to be polite, that's all. 898 01:26:23,342 --> 01:26:26,426 So polite he flirts with every woman who wants him to. 899 01:26:26,929 --> 01:26:28,802 Now, there's another word for that. 900 01:26:28,972 --> 01:26:30,170 It's not a pretty one. 901 01:26:30,349 --> 01:26:33,303 - Are we going to quarrel again? - No, I hope not. 902 01:26:33,477 --> 01:26:35,137 But I have to be honest with you. 903 01:26:35,312 --> 01:26:38,598 Every time you say that, you tell me something disagreeable. 904 01:26:38,774 --> 01:26:42,985 Why did you spread that absurd story about having an incurable disease? 905 01:26:43,153 --> 01:26:45,644 Oh, I didn't. I didn't spread any story. I... 906 01:26:45,822 --> 01:26:48,111 I just said that to Julia because... 907 01:26:48,283 --> 01:26:51,201 well, I was feeling happy and lightheaded that day, and I... 908 01:26:51,370 --> 01:26:53,991 I just didn't want her to try to see me, that's all. 909 01:26:54,164 --> 01:26:56,453 Well, you told the truth without meaning to. 910 01:26:57,751 --> 01:27:00,324 You are suffering from a disease, Karen. 911 01:27:01,338 --> 01:27:04,339 I just hope it's not too late to cure it. 912 01:27:07,844 --> 01:27:11,178 - Who is that girl, anyway? - I don't know. 913 01:27:12,474 --> 01:27:13,517 Karen. 914 01:27:59,396 --> 01:28:00,724 Why do you follow me? 915 01:28:03,358 --> 01:28:04,401 Karen. 916 01:28:05,527 --> 01:28:07,318 Karen. 917 01:28:13,744 --> 01:28:17,576 - Why you walk out like that? - Please call my car. 918 01:28:18,165 --> 01:28:21,201 - I did, it's late. We have to get back. - Why? 919 01:28:22,044 --> 01:28:24,961 You invited the contessa and some friends to look at our films. 920 01:28:25,130 --> 01:28:27,206 I invited? 921 01:28:27,382 --> 01:28:30,467 You invited, I invited, what difference does it make? 922 01:28:30,636 --> 01:28:33,720 - Karen... - Meg, will you please go away. 923 01:28:33,889 --> 01:28:37,258 Yes, go away. 924 01:28:40,937 --> 01:28:44,472 - They're going to be there in five minutes. - Where? 925 01:28:45,192 --> 01:28:47,065 At your apartment, where do you suppose? 926 01:28:47,611 --> 01:28:51,311 Paolo, why do you behave like this? 927 01:28:53,033 --> 01:28:54,860 There's your car. 928 01:28:55,035 --> 01:28:57,490 Paolo, I am not Mrs. Coogan. 929 01:28:57,663 --> 01:29:00,118 I'm not an old fool with nothing but money to give you. 930 01:29:00,791 --> 01:29:02,700 I don't know what you're talking about. 931 01:29:02,876 --> 01:29:04,454 Will you get in the car? 932 01:29:04,628 --> 01:29:08,127 Not until you look at me and tell me I'm not like her. 933 01:29:08,590 --> 01:29:11,674 - I never said you were. - But you're treating me as if I were. 934 01:29:11,843 --> 01:29:15,010 Ask anybody anywhere, anybody who's ever known me. 935 01:29:15,180 --> 01:29:17,636 I'm not Mrs. Coogan. 936 01:29:19,267 --> 01:29:22,601 You're not the first great lady that I've been out with. 937 01:29:23,522 --> 01:29:27,140 But you are the first that has made a spectacle of herself in public. 938 01:29:28,276 --> 01:29:30,518 Now, will you get in the car? 939 01:29:39,329 --> 01:29:41,238 More brandy, contessa? 940 01:29:41,415 --> 01:29:45,662 No, I mustn't. I had nothing to eat all day. 941 01:29:46,420 --> 01:29:50,963 You never saw Signora Stone on the stage, my dear? 942 01:29:51,133 --> 01:29:53,125 I have been told... 943 01:29:53,301 --> 01:29:57,595 that she was more a personality than an actress. 944 01:29:59,349 --> 01:30:01,840 Very beautiful, of course. 945 01:30:02,227 --> 01:30:04,848 I've seen her picture on the cover of lots of magazines. 946 01:30:05,021 --> 01:30:06,220 Yes. 947 01:30:06,398 --> 01:30:10,182 For years, she was one of America's 10 best-dressed women. 948 01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:13,646 - Even now, she wears beautiful clothes. - Very true. 949 01:30:13,822 --> 01:30:19,694 But recently I heard her described as a chicken hawk. 950 01:30:19,870 --> 01:30:21,578 Chicken hawk? What's that? 951 01:30:21,747 --> 01:30:24,498 You don't know what a chicken hawk is? 952 01:30:24,666 --> 01:30:28,616 Well, my dear Miss Bingham, then let me tell you. 953 01:30:29,087 --> 01:30:33,464 A chicken hawk is a bird of prey with a sharp beak... 954 01:30:33,633 --> 01:30:37,880 long claws and a terrible appetite. 955 01:30:40,265 --> 01:30:45,223 She feeds exclusively on the flesh of tender young chickens. 956 01:30:45,395 --> 01:30:50,900 Oddly enough, the species is American. 957 01:30:52,736 --> 01:30:56,520 But all the best young roosters are Italian. 958 01:30:57,199 --> 01:31:00,817 Trust you to know that, Rollie. 959 01:31:01,411 --> 01:31:03,902 Signorina Bingham, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. 960 01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,073 So nice to see you. 961 01:31:07,584 --> 01:31:09,458 Lucia. 962 01:31:11,755 --> 01:31:13,415 Roland. 963 01:31:14,049 --> 01:31:16,836 We have been amusing ourselves, Paolo. 964 01:31:17,010 --> 01:31:23,095 We have been looking through Signora Stone's theatrical souvenirs. 965 01:31:23,266 --> 01:31:29,554 I never realized the length... The extent of her career. 966 01:31:29,940 --> 01:31:33,474 Paolo, perhaps the contessa would like another drink. 967 01:31:33,652 --> 01:31:36,487 Karen. Hello. How are you? 968 01:31:36,655 --> 01:31:40,237 How nice to see you again, Miss Bingham. You started shooting your picture yet? 969 01:31:40,408 --> 01:31:42,448 They've had to postpone it a couple weeks bec... 970 01:31:42,619 --> 01:31:43,864 Rollo. 971 01:31:45,288 --> 01:31:46,830 Lucia. 972 01:31:48,500 --> 01:31:50,457 Please don't let me interrupt you. 973 01:31:50,627 --> 01:31:54,956 Dear Signora Stone, I was just telling Miss Bingham... 974 01:31:55,131 --> 01:31:59,129 about Signora Coogan's spectacular season in Capri. 975 01:31:59,302 --> 01:32:02,303 That ridiculous old woman. 976 01:32:12,357 --> 01:32:16,936 A friend of mine is starting a nightclub here that sounds rather promising. 977 01:32:17,112 --> 01:32:18,820 What kind of promising? 978 01:32:18,989 --> 01:32:20,399 It's called the Casbah. 979 01:32:20,574 --> 01:32:22,981 You leave your shoes with a veiled hostess... 980 01:32:23,159 --> 01:32:26,659 and then recline on magnificent cushions like a sheikh. 981 01:32:40,635 --> 01:32:42,961 Well, we are ready. 982 01:32:54,441 --> 01:32:56,848 That's Hadrian's Villa. 983 01:32:58,904 --> 01:33:02,688 - Who's that? - It's an Egyptian river god. 984 01:33:02,866 --> 01:33:04,443 Egyptian? 985 01:33:04,618 --> 01:33:06,610 The Romans conquered Egypt, you know. 986 01:33:09,956 --> 01:33:12,079 What's he holding? 987 01:33:12,584 --> 01:33:14,707 That's a cornucopia. 988 01:33:15,420 --> 01:33:17,080 Horn of plenty. 989 01:33:18,089 --> 01:33:21,921 There's a lot of Karen before we get to me. 990 01:33:22,093 --> 01:33:26,008 Why don't you come outside. I show you the Seven Hills of Rome. 991 01:33:34,481 --> 01:33:36,520 That's beautiful, Paolo. 992 01:33:37,609 --> 01:33:40,064 But where are you? 993 01:33:52,540 --> 01:33:55,210 There's Paolo. 994 01:34:35,083 --> 01:34:36,363 Good night. 995 01:34:36,543 --> 01:34:38,868 And thanks for everything. 996 01:34:46,636 --> 01:34:50,883 - Where has Miss Bingham gone? - She went back to her hotel. 997 01:34:53,893 --> 01:34:55,767 Why so quickly? 998 01:34:55,937 --> 01:34:58,808 I told her that you were hysterical. I advised her to leave. 999 01:34:58,982 --> 01:35:04,142 - Paolo, why have you done nothing but...? - Please, I have a terrible headache. 1000 01:35:04,863 --> 01:35:07,069 And you can't stay the night, that's it, isn't it? 1001 01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:08,651 But not because of any headache. 1002 01:35:08,825 --> 01:35:10,652 Because you made a date with that cheap... 1003 01:35:10,827 --> 01:35:13,911 Cheap is not a word, I think, that you should use. 1004 01:35:14,247 --> 01:35:17,533 Your friend the contessa is nothing but a female pimp... 1005 01:35:17,709 --> 01:35:20,663 with a stable of handsome boys she sells to the highest bidder. 1006 01:35:20,837 --> 01:35:22,415 I won't deal in that ugly traffic... 1007 01:35:22,589 --> 01:35:24,498 so she passes you on to someone who will. 1008 01:35:24,674 --> 01:35:26,833 I had no idea that your mind was such a cesspool. 1009 01:35:27,010 --> 01:35:29,927 If it's become one, it's because of my association... 1010 01:35:30,847 --> 01:35:32,306 You ought to leave Rome. 1011 01:35:32,474 --> 01:35:34,051 - You've ruined yourself here. - Paolo. 1012 01:35:34,225 --> 01:35:38,009 I would not be surprised if the police refused to renew your permit to stay. 1013 01:35:38,188 --> 01:35:41,105 That's between you and the police. But what I personally don't like... 1014 01:35:41,274 --> 01:35:42,353 is your dishonesty. 1015 01:35:42,525 --> 01:35:45,692 - Paolo, have you gone crazy? - No, and I haven't lost my memory, either. 1016 01:35:45,862 --> 01:35:48,483 A long time ago, you told me you'd help a friend of mine... 1017 01:35:48,656 --> 01:35:51,527 - who got in trouble with the prince. - Oh, I don't understand. 1018 01:35:51,701 --> 01:35:54,323 I... I thought there was something a... 1019 01:35:54,496 --> 01:35:56,702 - I demand to know... - You demand a lot of things... 1020 01:35:56,873 --> 01:35:59,708 you're so puffed up with being a great lady. 1021 01:36:01,544 --> 01:36:04,878 Rome is a very old city. Three thousand years. 1022 01:36:05,048 --> 01:36:07,206 How old are you, 50? 1023 01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:20,975 Go away. Now. All of you. 1024 01:36:21,147 --> 01:36:23,223 And take your little marchetta with you. 1025 01:37:37,557 --> 01:37:41,222 Rome is a very old city. Three thousand years. 1026 01:37:41,394 --> 01:37:43,137 How old are you, 50? 1027 01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:45,223 Fifty? 1028 01:37:45,899 --> 01:37:47,642 Fifty? 1029 01:37:49,277 --> 01:37:50,937 Fifty? 1030 01:38:01,122 --> 01:38:05,618 I'm leaving for New York tonight. Why don't you come too. 1031 01:38:05,793 --> 01:38:08,498 Before all your bridges are burned. 1032 01:38:26,648 --> 01:38:27,762 Hotel Excelsior. 1033 01:38:27,941 --> 01:38:29,684 Miss Bishop, please. 1034 01:38:36,324 --> 01:38:37,439 Hello, hello? 1035 01:38:37,617 --> 01:38:41,282 I am sorry. Miss Bishop left a few minutes ago for New York. 1036 01:38:41,454 --> 01:38:43,281 Thank you. 1037 01:38:52,674 --> 01:38:54,962 You like to be by yourself? 1038 01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:58,678 I think it's bad to be alone too much. 1039 01:38:59,347 --> 01:39:00,889 It makes you drift. 1040 01:39:02,392 --> 01:39:05,926 - Drift? - Yes, drift. 1041 01:39:14,862 --> 01:39:15,905 Drift. 1042 01:39:16,072 --> 01:39:18,397 It makes you drift. 1043 01:39:18,825 --> 01:39:20,319 Drift. 1044 01:39:20,618 --> 01:39:22,243 Drift. 1045 01:39:22,412 --> 01:39:23,787 Drift. 1046 01:39:35,049 --> 01:39:37,172 I too am drifting, signora. 1047 01:39:37,343 --> 01:39:42,171 The whole world. Everybody, the stars, everything is drifting. 1048 01:39:42,348 --> 01:39:44,388 Is it so bad to drift? 1049 01:40:01,909 --> 01:40:03,487 Paolo. 1050 01:41:06,516 --> 01:41:09,885 This is different. We love each other. 1051 01:42:27,597 --> 01:42:30,088 Three or four years is all I need. 1052 01:42:30,266 --> 01:42:33,433 After that, a cut throat will be a convenience. 1053 01:43:43,589 --> 01:43:45,665 Subtitles by SDI Media Group 1054 01:43:45,841 --> 01:43:47,918 [ENGLISH] 1055 01:43:47,942 --> 01:43:50,382 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) 23 fps. Duration 1:43:49