1 00:00:53,542 --> 00:00:57,458 Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident 2 00:00:57,542 --> 00:01:01,417 and you see yourself from the outside? 3 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,041 That's who you really are. 4 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,875 Excuse me. I'm supposed to pick up a dress. 5 00:01:18,291 --> 00:01:21,166 - Nothing owed. Your lady must have paid. 6 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:22,375 - Thank you. 7 00:01:42,625 --> 00:01:44,208 No, Geri. 8 00:01:44,291 --> 00:01:46,583 Girl, I'm not talking crazy, 9 00:01:46,667 --> 00:01:49,083 and I don't need you to come over. 10 00:01:49,166 --> 00:01:53,875 I just...need you to stay on the phone, okay? 11 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:57,709 I can't sleep, and I want to talk. 12 00:02:06,625 --> 00:02:08,417 - Ma'am. 13 00:02:11,375 --> 00:02:14,500 - My lady's going out for the evening. 14 00:02:14,583 --> 00:02:16,959 - May I have my room key, please? 15 00:02:19,834 --> 00:02:21,291 The stars continue to arrive 16 00:02:21,375 --> 00:02:24,041 at the 1955 Academy Awards here in New York 17 00:02:24,125 --> 00:02:25,417 and out in Los Angeles. 18 00:02:26,542 --> 00:02:29,083 - This is it, Dottie. 19 00:02:29,166 --> 00:02:31,667 - This is it. 20 00:02:36,917 --> 00:02:38,417 Tonight in New York City. 21 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:40,792 Ladies and gentlemen, the first-ever colored nominee 22 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:43,041 for Best Actress, Dorothy Dandridge, 23 00:02:43,125 --> 00:02:45,083 star of "Carmen Jones." 24 00:02:45,166 --> 00:02:48,917 She's arriving tonight with her sister Vivian Dandridge. 25 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,917 Dorothy, can we talk to you for a moment? 26 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,458 Dorothy, the world is watching. 27 00:02:52,542 --> 00:02:54,333 How does it feel? 28 00:02:54,417 --> 00:02:56,542 It feels like Christmas! 29 00:02:56,625 --> 00:02:57,959 - Thank you. - Thank you. 30 00:02:58,041 --> 00:03:01,667 - There she goes, Dorothy Dandridge, 31 00:03:01,750 --> 00:03:05,166 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 32 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:07,834 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 33 00:03:07,917 --> 00:03:09,959 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly... 34 00:03:10,041 --> 00:03:12,375 We love you, sugar. 35 00:03:12,458 --> 00:03:14,750 - We love you, Dorothy! 36 00:03:16,166 --> 00:03:18,250 - Hi. Thank you. 37 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:23,125 - Dorothy! 38 00:03:23,208 --> 00:03:25,291 Dorothy! 39 00:03:28,166 --> 00:03:30,083 - Come on, Dottie. 40 00:03:30,166 --> 00:03:32,208 Come on! 41 00:03:32,291 --> 00:03:33,500 Dottie! 42 00:03:33,583 --> 00:03:36,083 Would you please come on? 43 00:03:36,166 --> 00:03:37,500 - I can't do another! 44 00:03:37,583 --> 00:03:39,041 - Dottie, how many times you gonna get the chance 45 00:03:39,125 --> 00:03:40,542 to take another call at the Cotton? 46 00:03:40,625 --> 00:03:43,375 - We've done ten already, and my feet are swollen! 47 00:03:43,458 --> 00:03:45,000 - Oh, would you make her? - One more time, 48 00:03:45,083 --> 00:03:47,750 The Dandridge Sisters! - Come on! 49 00:04:02,083 --> 00:04:03,625 ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 50 00:04:05,792 --> 00:04:07,792 ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 51 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:11,458 ♪ So keep draggin' ♪ 52 00:04:11,542 --> 00:04:13,208 ♪ Your red wagon ♪ 53 00:04:13,291 --> 00:04:15,166 ♪ Along, along ♪ 54 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:18,750 ♪ Along ♪ 55 00:04:21,083 --> 00:04:23,458 1940's freshest faces, 56 00:04:23,542 --> 00:04:26,792 the lovely Dandridge Sisters! 57 00:04:29,166 --> 00:04:30,875 - Hey! Heh! 58 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:33,125 First rule of dancing offstage is landing on your feet. 59 00:04:33,208 --> 00:04:34,834 - You weren't there a second ago. 60 00:04:34,917 --> 00:04:36,917 - But I'm here now, and here I plan to stay. 61 00:04:38,208 --> 00:04:40,208 - Well, aren't you easy on the eyes? 62 00:04:40,291 --> 00:04:42,250 I'm Harold. - And I'm Fayard. 63 00:04:42,333 --> 00:04:43,583 We're the Nicholas Brothers. 64 00:04:43,667 --> 00:04:45,166 - Everybody knows the Nicholas Brothers. 65 00:04:45,250 --> 00:04:46,542 - You're famous. 66 00:04:46,625 --> 00:04:48,166 - Hey, Fayard, did you hear that? We're famous. 67 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:49,834 - Who's famous? - We're famous. 68 00:04:49,917 --> 00:04:51,250 - We're famous? - That's what she said. 69 00:04:51,333 --> 00:04:53,083 - Yeah? Well, nobody told me. 70 00:04:53,166 --> 00:04:54,208 - We held the record 71 00:04:54,291 --> 00:04:55,959 for the most calls at the Cotton Club. 72 00:04:56,041 --> 00:04:57,458 Well, till tonight. 73 00:04:57,542 --> 00:04:59,250 You sisters got us beat by two. 74 00:04:59,333 --> 00:05:00,792 - Oh, no, we're not sisters. 75 00:05:00,875 --> 00:05:02,250 Well, we are. - But not me. 76 00:05:02,333 --> 00:05:04,625 - It's just our stage name. 77 00:05:04,709 --> 00:05:07,166 - Ladies. Got to go, Harold. 78 00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:09,000 - Yeah. Cool your taps, Fayard. 79 00:05:09,083 --> 00:05:10,959 I say my brother and I hit the lucky 13 tonight. 80 00:05:11,041 --> 00:05:13,125 - What's so lucky about 13? 81 00:05:13,208 --> 00:05:14,291 - We hit it, you go with me 82 00:05:14,375 --> 00:05:15,583 to the picture show Friday night. 83 00:05:15,667 --> 00:05:16,750 - What makes you think 84 00:05:16,834 --> 00:05:18,083 I want to go anywhere with you? 85 00:05:18,166 --> 00:05:20,333 - I don't think. I know. 86 00:05:20,417 --> 00:05:22,125 There's no place like home. 87 00:05:22,208 --> 00:05:23,083 Ladies and gentlemen... 88 00:05:23,166 --> 00:05:24,250 - So what do you say? 89 00:05:24,333 --> 00:05:26,625 - You hit 13, you pick me up Friday night. 90 00:05:26,709 --> 00:05:29,166 - Friday night. - The one, the only, 91 00:05:29,250 --> 00:05:31,208 the Nicholas Brothers! - Let's go. 92 00:05:56,834 --> 00:05:58,792 - Oh! 93 00:05:58,875 --> 00:06:00,583 - Oh! - Aah! 94 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,458 - What did I tell you about getting your skirt snipped? 95 00:06:22,542 --> 00:06:23,875 - He's just being nice. 96 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:26,125 - Ain't no such thing as nice to a fox in a henhouse, 97 00:06:26,208 --> 00:06:28,583 even if it is a famous fox. You're here to work! 98 00:06:28,667 --> 00:06:30,333 Change your clothes, get your coats on. 99 00:06:30,417 --> 00:06:31,750 I want you in bed by 1:00. 100 00:06:31,834 --> 00:06:34,625 Mean old snake. 101 00:06:34,709 --> 00:06:36,542 Made us call her "Auntie." 102 00:06:36,625 --> 00:06:39,000 Remember that? Hmh! 103 00:06:39,083 --> 00:06:42,709 She wasn't nothing but Mama's special friend. 104 00:06:44,291 --> 00:06:46,125 Hmm. 105 00:06:46,208 --> 00:06:47,375 But that night, 106 00:06:47,458 --> 00:06:50,959 I barely even knew she was there. 107 00:07:01,250 --> 00:07:03,083 Ladies and gentlemen, 108 00:07:03,166 --> 00:07:05,166 the Nicholas Brothers! 109 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:07,166 Hey! 110 00:07:07,250 --> 00:07:08,417 We hit it. Lucky 13. 111 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:10,083 - Congratulations. 112 00:07:10,166 --> 00:07:11,667 - So where do I pick you up Friday night? 113 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:12,834 - Los Angeles. 114 00:07:12,917 --> 00:07:14,166 - L.A.? 115 00:07:14,250 --> 00:07:17,000 - That's where I'm gonna be come Friday night. 116 00:07:17,083 --> 00:07:18,500 Move it! 117 00:07:18,583 --> 00:07:20,166 - You know, a bad boy like you 118 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:22,750 don't want to mess with that girl, Harry. 119 00:07:22,834 --> 00:07:25,333 She's a good girl, sweet as pie. 120 00:07:29,709 --> 00:07:32,417 - Hmm. That ain't bad, either. 121 00:07:41,667 --> 00:07:43,208 - Thank you. - Ma'am. 122 00:07:44,750 --> 00:07:46,458 - Is Mama home? 123 00:07:46,542 --> 00:07:49,250 - No, she's where she always is, working. 124 00:07:49,333 --> 00:07:50,750 Excuse me. 125 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:54,375 If I remember correctly, 126 00:07:54,458 --> 00:07:56,625 I was promised a date for Friday, 127 00:07:56,709 --> 00:07:58,625 and this is Friday. 128 00:07:58,709 --> 00:08:02,208 That's...if it's all right with you, ma'am. 129 00:08:02,291 --> 00:08:04,959 And might I say you are looking lovely today? 130 00:08:05,041 --> 00:08:07,792 The sunshine agrees with you. 131 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:10,166 - Is that your car? 132 00:08:10,250 --> 00:08:11,625 - It's a beauty, isn't it? 133 00:08:11,709 --> 00:08:13,500 Cost a pretty penny, 134 00:08:13,583 --> 00:08:15,875 but it's only money. 135 00:08:20,542 --> 00:08:23,208 - Now, that is a man. 136 00:08:23,291 --> 00:08:24,333 Hmm? 137 00:08:24,417 --> 00:08:25,458 - Mm-hmm. 138 00:08:27,917 --> 00:08:29,709 Ooh! 139 00:08:29,792 --> 00:08:31,959 Hey, honey, you gonna sleep in this room 140 00:08:32,041 --> 00:08:34,583 with all them microbugs crawling all over you? 141 00:08:34,667 --> 00:08:37,333 I don't think they'll bother me, Hyacinth. 142 00:08:37,417 --> 00:08:41,000 Oh. Oh. Now...oh! 143 00:08:42,333 --> 00:08:43,834 You know, Dottie, 144 00:08:43,917 --> 00:08:47,291 I got a thing for you that just won't leave me alone. 145 00:08:47,375 --> 00:08:49,375 - Shh. Watch the movie. 146 00:08:49,458 --> 00:08:51,125 You know what I've done? 147 00:08:51,208 --> 00:08:53,250 I sprinkle him with Egyptian Nights, 148 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:56,667 and when he come to, we was living on 110th, 149 00:08:56,750 --> 00:08:58,417 overlooking the park. 150 00:08:59,750 --> 00:09:01,834 Of course, I had to pay the rent. 151 00:09:01,917 --> 00:09:04,667 Hey. 152 00:09:04,750 --> 00:09:06,917 Come on, let's go. I mean... 153 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,458 I got better things I can think of doing 154 00:09:08,542 --> 00:09:12,083 than sitting watching some old plantation mammy. 155 00:09:13,625 --> 00:09:16,083 - That plantation mammy is my mother. 156 00:09:16,166 --> 00:09:17,542 Yeah... 157 00:09:17,625 --> 00:09:20,375 - You really ought to try some. It never fails. 158 00:09:21,709 --> 00:09:23,959 - Dottie. Dottie. 159 00:09:24,041 --> 00:09:25,208 Dottie, I didn't know. 160 00:09:25,291 --> 00:09:26,625 Dottie, I'm sorry. I didn't know. 161 00:09:26,709 --> 00:09:28,208 - She didn't have a choice, you know. 162 00:09:28,291 --> 00:09:29,875 After my daddy left, she had to feed us, 163 00:09:29,959 --> 00:09:33,542 and playin' a maid is a world easier than bein' a maid. 164 00:09:33,625 --> 00:09:35,208 - Of course it is. Listen. 165 00:09:35,291 --> 00:09:37,500 I didn't mean any disrespect. 166 00:09:37,583 --> 00:09:39,083 Please don't be sore. 167 00:09:39,166 --> 00:09:41,291 - I'm not sore. - Yes, you are. 168 00:09:41,375 --> 00:09:44,208 It's your mother, and what I said was stupid. 169 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,625 Believe me, I know about being poor. 170 00:09:48,709 --> 00:09:49,875 - We were so poor, 171 00:09:49,959 --> 00:09:51,792 my mama put us on the Chitlin' Circuit. 172 00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:54,417 - We were on the Chitlin' Circuit, too, 173 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:56,125 only we were so poor, 174 00:09:56,208 --> 00:09:58,875 we couldn't afford the chitlins. 175 00:09:58,959 --> 00:10:00,583 - Well, we were so poor, we had to sleep 176 00:10:00,667 --> 00:10:03,291 four to a bed everywhere we went. 177 00:10:03,375 --> 00:10:05,166 - Dottie, we were so poor 178 00:10:05,250 --> 00:10:07,750 that my mother had to sew all of our costumes, 179 00:10:07,834 --> 00:10:09,250 and she couldn't sew. 180 00:10:09,333 --> 00:10:11,125 One pants leg was always coming out shorter 181 00:10:11,208 --> 00:10:12,583 than the other one. 182 00:10:12,667 --> 00:10:14,750 Fayard and I used to have to tap with one knee bent. 183 00:10:14,834 --> 00:10:17,041 See, that's where that step comes from. 184 00:10:17,125 --> 00:10:18,333 When you see us doing this... 185 00:10:18,417 --> 00:10:20,792 - That's where it comes from. 186 00:10:23,166 --> 00:10:25,208 - You're so crazy. 187 00:10:26,125 --> 00:10:27,959 - I'm only crazy 188 00:10:28,041 --> 00:10:30,166 when it comes to you. 189 00:10:47,959 --> 00:10:50,041 - You know what time it is? 190 00:10:51,375 --> 00:10:53,959 - We went for ice cream after the movie. 191 00:10:56,333 --> 00:10:58,333 - What else you go for? 192 00:10:58,417 --> 00:11:00,375 - Where's Mama? 193 00:11:00,458 --> 00:11:01,625 - Night shift. 194 00:11:02,625 --> 00:11:04,375 What you let him do to you? 195 00:11:04,458 --> 00:11:06,083 You let him stick it in you? 196 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:07,625 - I need to get... - I'm talking to you. 197 00:11:07,709 --> 00:11:10,000 - It was one kiss. That's all, one kiss. 198 00:11:10,083 --> 00:11:12,125 - You let him stick it in you. 199 00:11:12,208 --> 00:11:14,000 - No. - I know you did. 200 00:11:14,083 --> 00:11:17,291 I can smell the sex on you. 201 00:11:17,375 --> 00:11:20,000 And I'll be damned if I raise your brats 202 00:11:20,083 --> 00:11:23,834 after I wasted all this time raising you! 203 00:11:23,917 --> 00:11:26,750 Take off your drawers. I'm checking you. 204 00:11:26,834 --> 00:11:28,667 - No. 205 00:11:29,750 --> 00:11:31,959 I said take 'em off. 206 00:11:33,792 --> 00:11:34,834 - Get up here! 207 00:11:34,917 --> 00:11:37,125 Auntie! No! No! 208 00:11:37,208 --> 00:11:38,458 - Vivian! Oh! 209 00:11:38,542 --> 00:11:40,125 - You mind your business, Vivian! 210 00:11:41,583 --> 00:11:43,583 - Oh! - Spread your legs! 211 00:11:43,667 --> 00:11:45,333 - Vivvy! - Spread 'em! 212 00:11:46,917 --> 00:11:48,333 - Stop it! Stop! 213 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:05,000 - You're still a virgin. 214 00:12:10,291 --> 00:12:12,125 - What is wrong with you? 215 00:12:16,458 --> 00:12:18,667 - Yeah, you better hold her! Hold her! 216 00:12:18,750 --> 00:12:22,375 Next time you better be in this house when I tell you to! 217 00:12:22,458 --> 00:12:26,208 Dottie, come on. 218 00:12:26,291 --> 00:12:27,625 Are you all right? 219 00:12:28,667 --> 00:12:31,834 Auntie, she's just crazy. She's crazy. 220 00:12:31,917 --> 00:12:33,917 But that, what she did, it don't mean nothin'. 221 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,083 It don't mean nothin'. 222 00:12:37,166 --> 00:12:38,875 Didn't nothin' happen. 223 00:12:38,959 --> 00:12:41,125 Didn't happen. You hear me? 224 00:12:41,208 --> 00:12:42,834 Didn't happen. 225 00:12:42,917 --> 00:12:44,625 I can't wait to get out of here. 226 00:12:44,709 --> 00:12:46,417 When I'm rich and famous, she ain't gonna see 227 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:48,583 a dime of my money, you hear me? 228 00:12:48,667 --> 00:12:51,667 - Yeah, I hear. - Ain't gonna see a dime of it. 229 00:12:59,417 --> 00:13:00,625 Look at Daddy. 230 00:13:00,709 --> 00:13:03,208 Harold look just like him, don't he? 231 00:13:03,291 --> 00:13:04,917 Yeah. 232 00:13:17,041 --> 00:13:19,417 What are you two doing still up? 233 00:13:22,375 --> 00:13:24,458 I bought us some pie. 234 00:13:24,542 --> 00:13:26,542 It's still hot. 235 00:13:26,625 --> 00:13:28,458 Everything all right? 236 00:13:28,542 --> 00:13:29,959 - Everything's fine, Mama. 237 00:13:30,041 --> 00:13:31,792 - We just wanted to say good night. 238 00:13:31,875 --> 00:13:34,083 - Oh. My babies. 239 00:13:34,166 --> 00:13:37,625 Have your pie tonight. 240 00:13:42,041 --> 00:13:43,750 You know, Auntie does the best she can by us. 241 00:13:43,834 --> 00:13:46,750 I mean, she tries really hard. 242 00:13:46,834 --> 00:13:50,083 You do understand, don't you? 243 00:13:50,166 --> 00:13:51,542 Oh, well, good. 244 00:13:51,625 --> 00:13:55,417 You save me a piece. You know how I love pie. 245 00:14:02,583 --> 00:14:03,875 ♪ Dinner in the diner ♪ 246 00:14:03,959 --> 00:14:05,750 ♪ Nothing could be finer ♪ 247 00:14:05,834 --> 00:14:08,333 ♪ Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina ♪ 248 00:14:08,417 --> 00:14:10,083 - ♪ When you hear the whistle blowing ♪ 249 00:14:10,166 --> 00:14:12,792 ♪ Eight to the bar ♪ - ♪ Then you know ♪ 250 00:14:12,875 --> 00:14:14,375 ♪ That Tennessee is not very far ♪ 251 00:14:14,458 --> 00:14:17,500 ♪ Shuffle all the coal in, got to keep it rollin' ♪ 252 00:14:17,583 --> 00:14:20,458 - ♪ Whoa, whoa, Chattanooga, there you are ♪ 253 00:14:20,542 --> 00:14:22,333 ♪ Chattanooga choo choo ♪ 254 00:14:22,417 --> 00:14:24,500 ♪ There you are ♪ 255 00:14:38,250 --> 00:14:39,417 - Whoo! 256 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:40,667 - All right, Harold. Pick it up now. 257 00:14:40,750 --> 00:14:42,250 - I got it now. I got it, I got it. 258 00:14:42,333 --> 00:14:44,291 - Ha ha ha! - Whoo! 259 00:14:47,417 --> 00:14:48,959 Ha ha! 260 00:14:51,959 --> 00:14:53,667 Wait. That ain't in the number. 261 00:14:53,750 --> 00:14:55,208 Honey, hold this for me. 262 00:14:55,291 --> 00:14:56,792 Hat dance! 263 00:15:00,959 --> 00:15:02,041 All right, 264 00:15:02,125 --> 00:15:03,542 all right, enough. 265 00:15:03,625 --> 00:15:05,500 My wife'll kill me if I let you two 266 00:15:05,583 --> 00:15:06,875 dance me into my grave. 267 00:15:06,959 --> 00:15:08,917 Hey, Geri. 268 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,542 - Get back out there. 269 00:15:10,625 --> 00:15:12,166 You missed the last tap on your turn. 270 00:15:12,250 --> 00:15:13,875 - Oh. You know, that hurt. 271 00:15:13,959 --> 00:15:15,125 - Fayard. 272 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:21,750 - Geri, every day you sit here, 273 00:15:21,834 --> 00:15:23,917 bossing little Fayard around, 274 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,250 reading some old boring thing. 275 00:15:26,333 --> 00:15:28,083 - I boss Fayard because he likes to be bossed. 276 00:15:28,166 --> 00:15:30,208 And I read Frederick Douglass because I am trying 277 00:15:30,291 --> 00:15:32,041 to learn something about my people. 278 00:15:32,125 --> 00:15:33,250 Want to borrow it? 279 00:15:33,333 --> 00:15:35,000 - I'll tell you what you need to learn. 280 00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:37,250 You need to learn how to have some fun. 281 00:15:37,333 --> 00:15:38,792 Now, you and Fayard need to come out 282 00:15:38,875 --> 00:15:40,667 with me and Harold more often. 283 00:15:40,750 --> 00:15:44,291 Besides, we need a chaperone. 284 00:15:44,375 --> 00:15:47,750 Last night, he asked me to touch it. 285 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:50,875 - You guys haven't...Harold! 286 00:15:50,959 --> 00:15:52,500 Hey! 287 00:15:54,834 --> 00:15:56,917 I made him take me home. 288 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,834 Harold Nicholas took you home? 289 00:15:58,917 --> 00:16:01,959 Girl, what kind of spell are you puttin' on him? 290 00:16:02,041 --> 00:16:05,291 - Says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. 291 00:16:07,917 --> 00:16:09,875 - I'd rather be smart than beautiful. 292 00:16:09,959 --> 00:16:11,792 - Mmm, I'd rather be beautiful. 293 00:16:11,875 --> 00:16:13,792 - Oh, beauty fades. A woman gets old. 294 00:16:13,875 --> 00:16:15,709 - Mm-mm. I'm not getting old. 295 00:16:15,792 --> 00:16:18,375 I'm staying young and beautiful 296 00:16:18,458 --> 00:16:20,291 till the day I die. 297 00:16:22,125 --> 00:16:24,041 Besides, being smart doesn't get you 298 00:16:24,125 --> 00:16:27,083 an engagement ring from Harold Nicholas! 299 00:16:28,166 --> 00:16:29,834 - Oh, my God! Ha ha! 300 00:16:29,917 --> 00:16:31,667 Hey, hey, hey! 301 00:16:31,750 --> 00:16:33,333 How are we supposed to get any dancin' done 302 00:16:33,417 --> 00:16:35,291 with y'all making all that noise over there? 303 00:16:35,375 --> 00:16:36,834 - Oh, hush now. - Oh, quiet. 304 00:16:38,166 --> 00:16:39,458 ♪ Love ♪ 305 00:16:39,542 --> 00:16:41,875 - Congratulations. 306 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,542 ♪ Love ♪ 307 00:16:46,625 --> 00:16:49,375 ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 308 00:16:49,458 --> 00:16:51,625 Will you stop all that preenin' and fussin' 309 00:16:51,709 --> 00:16:53,208 before I mess up this hem? 310 00:16:53,291 --> 00:16:57,333 - I think Harold'll marry me with a torn hem, Mama. 311 00:16:57,417 --> 00:16:59,709 How do I look, Vivvy? - Perfect. 312 00:16:59,792 --> 00:17:01,583 - I make a beautiful bride. 313 00:17:01,667 --> 00:17:03,667 - Like an angel. 314 00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:07,417 Can you believe our baby is gettin' married? 315 00:17:08,583 --> 00:17:11,000 - I wish I had a daddy to give me away. 316 00:17:12,250 --> 00:17:14,125 - Cyril Dandridge was a fool, a no-good... 317 00:17:14,208 --> 00:17:16,333 - Mm-mm, mm-mm. Not today. 318 00:17:16,417 --> 00:17:18,917 Today is a happy day. Cyril is gone. 319 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,333 Same as bein' dead, 320 00:17:20,417 --> 00:17:21,834 and that's the way I like to think of it. 321 00:17:21,917 --> 00:17:24,166 Dead, with God and the good lamb. 322 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:26,959 - And anyway, Harold is not Cyril. 323 00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:28,792 - Honey, any man with 5 cents'll pay 324 00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:31,625 a colored woman's fare all the way to nowhere. 325 00:17:31,709 --> 00:17:35,041 You know what the chorus girls say about Harold? 326 00:17:35,125 --> 00:17:37,125 They say he's broken in every bed 327 00:17:37,208 --> 00:17:39,917 from here to New York City. 328 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,041 - That's right. They do say that. 329 00:17:41,125 --> 00:17:42,625 - And I don't care. 330 00:17:42,709 --> 00:17:45,417 - Sugar pie, don't you have somewhere you need to be? 331 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:47,875 - Harold Nicholas is the richest, 332 00:17:47,959 --> 00:17:49,917 most famous colored man in the world. 333 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,083 He could have any girl he wants, 334 00:17:52,166 --> 00:17:53,792 and he wants me. 335 00:17:53,875 --> 00:17:55,041 - Mmm. 336 00:17:55,125 --> 00:17:58,458 - Harold Nicholas wants me. 337 00:17:58,542 --> 00:18:01,583 Mm-hmm. - ♪ Love ♪ 338 00:18:01,667 --> 00:18:03,917 - ♪ Love ♪ 339 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,625 - ♪ Love ♪ 340 00:18:07,709 --> 00:18:11,375 - ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 341 00:18:14,834 --> 00:18:16,875 You were always lecturing us, Geri, 342 00:18:16,959 --> 00:18:19,208 about there being a war on. 343 00:18:19,291 --> 00:18:21,417 Remember? 344 00:18:23,083 --> 00:18:24,417 Who cared about all of that when there were 345 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,166 so many parties to step out to? 346 00:18:33,875 --> 00:18:35,417 Look at us. 347 00:18:37,667 --> 00:18:40,333 We were somethin'. 348 00:18:40,417 --> 00:18:41,583 - Dottie? 349 00:18:41,667 --> 00:18:42,917 What are you doin'? 350 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,583 Will you come to bed? 351 00:18:49,375 --> 00:18:51,125 Dottie, you need any help? 352 00:18:51,208 --> 00:18:52,792 - No, I'm...I'm fine. 353 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:56,291 - Then come on out and bring my beautiful wife with you. 354 00:18:56,375 --> 00:18:58,417 - Okay, I'm comin'. 355 00:19:10,125 --> 00:19:13,667 Ooh. I can't see. 356 00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:17,125 ♪ Just follow the sound of love ♪ 357 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:51,375 I love you. 358 00:19:51,458 --> 00:19:54,417 I love you so much. 359 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:56,583 - I love you, too. 360 00:20:01,375 --> 00:20:04,959 - Dottie, you gotta relax, baby, okay? 361 00:20:05,041 --> 00:20:07,166 Just relax, okay? 362 00:20:07,250 --> 00:20:08,500 - Okay. 363 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:13,250 - Spread your legs. 364 00:20:13,333 --> 00:20:14,625 - Spread your legs! - Aah! 365 00:20:14,709 --> 00:20:16,500 - No. Don't. - Spread your legs. 366 00:20:16,583 --> 00:20:18,417 - No! Don't. 367 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,542 Stop it! 368 00:20:20,625 --> 00:20:22,875 I said no. 369 00:20:22,959 --> 00:20:25,625 - Hey, we're married now. It's okay. 370 00:20:27,834 --> 00:20:28,667 Dottie, 371 00:20:28,750 --> 00:20:30,750 is there something wrong? 372 00:20:30,834 --> 00:20:32,625 You can tell me. 373 00:20:33,583 --> 00:20:36,125 - No. I just don't want to. 374 00:20:40,625 --> 00:20:44,041 - Dottie, you're... you're my wife now. 375 00:20:44,125 --> 00:20:45,959 What in the hell did you think 376 00:20:46,041 --> 00:20:47,792 marriage was gonna be about? 377 00:20:48,792 --> 00:20:51,500 It's about intimacy, 378 00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:53,583 and without it, we've got nothing. 379 00:20:56,166 --> 00:20:57,500 Dottie, without sex, 380 00:20:57,583 --> 00:20:59,709 marriage goes right down the drain. 381 00:21:01,542 --> 00:21:02,917 Okay? 382 00:21:04,583 --> 00:21:06,041 Come on, now. 383 00:21:07,917 --> 00:21:09,750 Don't be scared. 384 00:21:09,834 --> 00:21:13,000 You're gonna enjoy it, I promise you. 385 00:21:13,083 --> 00:21:15,083 I guarantee it. - Mm. 386 00:21:20,834 --> 00:21:22,583 No. No, Harold, I can't. 387 00:21:22,667 --> 00:21:24,583 No! No! No! 388 00:21:24,667 --> 00:21:26,250 Get off of me! - Dottie. 389 00:21:26,333 --> 00:21:27,375 - Get off of me! - Hey. 390 00:21:27,458 --> 00:21:30,750 - Get off of me! Get off of me! 391 00:21:33,458 --> 00:21:36,792 - What the hell am I doing? Am I crazy? 392 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:38,417 You don't want me. 393 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:41,625 Fine. 394 00:21:41,709 --> 00:21:44,208 Then it's over. 395 00:21:44,291 --> 00:21:46,333 We'll get the whole thing annulled. 396 00:21:46,417 --> 00:21:48,041 It's over. 397 00:21:54,709 --> 00:21:55,959 Good night. 398 00:22:25,208 --> 00:22:27,000 Harold. 399 00:22:27,083 --> 00:22:29,458 I'm sorry. 400 00:22:29,542 --> 00:22:31,750 I don't want an annulment. 401 00:22:31,834 --> 00:22:33,583 I just want you to understand 402 00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:36,834 that I had a different kind of life, that's all. 403 00:22:38,583 --> 00:22:41,417 Can you give me another chance? 404 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,583 Hmm? Can I try it again? 405 00:22:46,583 --> 00:22:48,667 Please? 406 00:22:56,917 --> 00:23:00,083 We try it again. 407 00:23:07,041 --> 00:23:09,458 - You have got to let us get you to a hospital. 408 00:23:09,542 --> 00:23:11,333 - No, no. 409 00:23:11,417 --> 00:23:14,083 Harold's coming. - Where in the hell is he? 410 00:23:14,166 --> 00:23:16,041 - Couldn't miss his golf game. 411 00:23:17,792 --> 00:23:19,417 - Vivvy, get her purse. 412 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,458 This little one is not waitin' for him, 413 00:23:21,542 --> 00:23:22,375 and neither can you. 414 00:23:22,458 --> 00:23:23,667 Come on. - No, Geri! 415 00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:25,000 - Come on. - No, Geri! I'm not going! 416 00:23:25,083 --> 00:23:26,375 - No, we've got to go. - No! 417 00:23:26,458 --> 00:23:28,291 - Come on. - I'm waiting for Harold! 418 00:23:33,709 --> 00:23:34,959 Hmm. 419 00:23:35,041 --> 00:23:37,166 - Mama, you're gonna wear a groove in the floor. 420 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:43,709 - Is it a boy or a girl? 421 00:23:43,792 --> 00:23:46,792 - She waited for you for hours...hours. 422 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:49,500 - Everything's all right, isn't it? 423 00:23:49,583 --> 00:23:51,875 Dottie? Everything's okay, isn't it? 424 00:23:51,959 --> 00:23:53,542 It's a girl. 425 00:23:53,625 --> 00:23:55,250 And she's fine. 426 00:23:55,333 --> 00:23:57,000 - No thanks to you. 427 00:23:58,333 --> 00:24:01,583 Go ahead. Have a look at her. 428 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:09,750 6 pounds, 2 ounces. 429 00:24:09,834 --> 00:24:12,500 I named her Harolyn, 430 00:24:12,583 --> 00:24:15,333 and we're going to call her Lynn. 431 00:24:17,166 --> 00:24:19,792 Harold wanted to send her to finishing school 432 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:21,458 in Switzerland. 433 00:24:22,875 --> 00:24:26,709 Thought she could learn to speak French. 434 00:24:26,792 --> 00:24:28,083 French. 435 00:24:30,834 --> 00:24:33,750 He always had big dreams. 436 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,667 Bigger than us. 437 00:24:48,041 --> 00:24:49,125 Lynn, honey? 438 00:24:49,208 --> 00:24:51,959 Can you speak to Dr. Carrington? 439 00:24:52,041 --> 00:24:53,291 Hmm? 440 00:24:53,375 --> 00:24:55,375 Lynn? 441 00:24:55,458 --> 00:24:57,125 Can you say Mama? Hmm? 442 00:24:57,208 --> 00:24:58,458 - Say Mama. 443 00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:03,834 - I guess some children are just slow to speak. 444 00:25:03,917 --> 00:25:07,792 - Mrs. Nicholas, I know this is very difficult for you, 445 00:25:07,875 --> 00:25:09,500 but she will never speak. 446 00:25:09,583 --> 00:25:11,083 - No. No, no, see, I... 447 00:25:11,166 --> 00:25:12,500 I've been to all these doctors 448 00:25:12,583 --> 00:25:14,125 and I have all these medicines. 449 00:25:14,208 --> 00:25:16,083 One doctor said that she needed sedatives, 450 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:19,083 another one said stimulants, and I've been massaging 451 00:25:19,166 --> 00:25:21,667 her forehead every morning just like Dr. Gray said. 452 00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:24,542 And Dr. Matthews said that he thought it was hot baths, 453 00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:26,375 so I've been giving her hot baths every night. 454 00:25:27,709 --> 00:25:29,250 And then we had, um, these tests done on her 455 00:25:29,333 --> 00:25:31,542 and they injected fluid in her spine, 456 00:25:31,625 --> 00:25:32,959 and that doctor said he thought 457 00:25:33,041 --> 00:25:34,667 that she just needed to eat a little bit more. 458 00:25:34,750 --> 00:25:36,500 - Mrs. Nicholas. - They were good doctors. 459 00:25:36,583 --> 00:25:38,959 - If they were such good doctors, why are you here? 460 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:44,709 - Because nobody's told me 461 00:25:44,792 --> 00:25:48,500 how to get my baby to call me Mama. 462 00:25:54,792 --> 00:25:57,709 - Dorothy, Lynn is mentally retarded. 463 00:25:57,792 --> 00:26:01,166 She has what we call anoxic brain damage. 464 00:26:01,250 --> 00:26:03,291 There wasn't a sufficient supply of oxygen for her 465 00:26:03,375 --> 00:26:05,041 during delivery. 466 00:26:05,125 --> 00:26:07,083 - I was late getting her to the hospital. 467 00:26:07,166 --> 00:26:08,750 Do you think it...it was my fault, wasn't it? 468 00:26:08,834 --> 00:26:09,709 No. 469 00:26:09,792 --> 00:26:11,166 No one knows what causes it, 470 00:26:11,250 --> 00:26:14,166 but I'm sure that that had nothing to do with it. 471 00:26:14,250 --> 00:26:15,875 - Well, what's the treatment, Doctor? 472 00:26:15,959 --> 00:26:17,583 Because if it's money, that's not an issue... 473 00:26:17,667 --> 00:26:18,709 Dorothy. 474 00:26:18,792 --> 00:26:20,583 Her brain will never develop. 475 00:26:20,667 --> 00:26:22,417 She'll be four years old forever. 476 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:25,917 - But, I mean...but they... they said that... 477 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,583 - I'm sorry. 478 00:26:28,667 --> 00:26:30,792 I'm a mother myself. 479 00:26:30,875 --> 00:26:32,875 My advice to you is to put her in an institution 480 00:26:32,959 --> 00:26:35,250 where she can get the best possible care. 481 00:26:35,333 --> 00:26:37,083 - I can't do that. 482 00:26:37,166 --> 00:26:39,125 - You're a young woman. You can have other children. 483 00:26:45,208 --> 00:26:46,250 - Lynn? 484 00:26:46,333 --> 00:26:48,625 Lynn, honey, try another note. 485 00:26:48,709 --> 00:26:49,750 Come on, sweetie. 486 00:26:49,834 --> 00:26:51,375 There are other notes for you to play. 487 00:26:51,458 --> 00:26:53,750 - Dottie, we should take the doctor's advice 488 00:26:53,834 --> 00:26:55,417 and put her in an institution. 489 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:56,959 She knows best. 490 00:26:57,041 --> 00:26:58,500 The state'll pay for it. 491 00:26:58,583 --> 00:26:59,959 - The state pays for what? 492 00:27:00,041 --> 00:27:02,417 It's our child. She belongs with us. 493 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,417 - We belong in Paris. That's where we belong. 494 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:06,500 - Paris? 495 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,917 What are you talking about? 496 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,125 - Dottie, it's a whole different ball game over there. 497 00:27:12,208 --> 00:27:13,625 See, they don't know the difference 498 00:27:13,709 --> 00:27:15,375 between black and white, and when they do, 499 00:27:15,458 --> 00:27:18,125 it's because they're treating us better than they do their own. 500 00:27:18,208 --> 00:27:20,166 - I can't go live in Paris. 501 00:27:20,250 --> 00:27:22,250 Lynn is gonna need special care. 502 00:27:22,333 --> 00:27:23,458 - Get special care. 503 00:27:23,542 --> 00:27:24,959 - Not in an institution! 504 00:27:26,959 --> 00:27:29,959 - She doesn't even know that we're here. 505 00:27:31,583 --> 00:27:34,875 - I can't even believe this is what you're saying. 506 00:27:37,917 --> 00:27:39,041 - When will you join me? 507 00:27:39,125 --> 00:27:42,834 - I'm her mother, and you are her father. 508 00:27:42,917 --> 00:27:45,166 - And I married you, 509 00:27:45,250 --> 00:27:47,166 not this. 510 00:27:47,250 --> 00:27:49,917 - Well, I am this. What are you? 511 00:27:51,166 --> 00:27:54,000 - I'm Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, 512 00:27:54,083 --> 00:27:57,000 and maybe that's all I'm supposed to be. 513 00:27:57,083 --> 00:27:59,375 I'll send you money from Paris. 514 00:28:19,709 --> 00:28:23,542 The best part was she didn't know he was gone. 515 00:28:23,625 --> 00:28:27,458 So she never even missed him. 516 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,917 How many times did I tell you, Geri, 517 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,041 that the next man would be different? 518 00:28:42,542 --> 00:28:43,959 It's funny. 519 00:28:44,041 --> 00:28:46,333 You never notice the good ones when you should. 520 00:29:02,375 --> 00:29:05,875 - Listen, so, uh, we're just taking a cigarette break? 521 00:29:05,959 --> 00:29:07,041 - All right. - Ha ha! 522 00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:08,709 Not ready to leave yet, are you? 523 00:29:08,792 --> 00:29:10,041 Oh, no, no, no. 524 00:29:16,792 --> 00:29:20,625 - Welcome to Fillmore's Ring-a-ding swing-a-ding. 525 00:29:20,709 --> 00:29:22,250 - Thanks. 526 00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:23,667 Ring-a-ding much. 527 00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:26,125 Where is Swing-a-ding Phil, anyway? 528 00:29:26,208 --> 00:29:28,333 - Coo-chee-cooin' the elephant. 529 00:29:28,417 --> 00:29:29,834 - Hmm? - You know. 530 00:29:29,917 --> 00:29:31,083 Ticklin' the ivories. 531 00:29:31,166 --> 00:29:32,959 - Funny, in my day, we used to call it 532 00:29:33,041 --> 00:29:34,208 playing the piano. 533 00:29:34,291 --> 00:29:37,125 - When was your day? - Preceding thy genesis. 534 00:29:37,208 --> 00:29:38,125 - Huh? 535 00:29:38,208 --> 00:29:39,417 - Before you were born. 536 00:29:42,875 --> 00:29:45,667 Sorry. 'Scuse me. 537 00:29:46,709 --> 00:29:47,875 'Scuse me. 538 00:29:50,041 --> 00:29:51,166 'Scuse me. 539 00:29:55,375 --> 00:29:57,625 Nice party, Phil. 540 00:29:57,709 --> 00:29:58,875 - Earl. 541 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Have a drink. Have a couple. 542 00:30:02,083 --> 00:30:04,083 Oops! 543 00:30:04,166 --> 00:30:06,458 Ha ha ha! 544 00:30:06,542 --> 00:30:08,291 - I didn't come for a drink, Phil, 545 00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:09,834 and I didn't come for a party. 546 00:30:09,917 --> 00:30:12,000 I left a meeting because you said there was a girl 547 00:30:12,083 --> 00:30:14,083 I just had to hear. 548 00:30:14,166 --> 00:30:17,000 - Aw, Earl, don't be mad. 549 00:30:17,083 --> 00:30:21,750 - I manage your music career, Phil, not your harem tryouts. 550 00:30:21,834 --> 00:30:23,625 - Oh, well, uh, 551 00:30:23,709 --> 00:30:26,625 girl's around here somewhere. 552 00:30:26,709 --> 00:30:28,291 - Good night, Phil. 553 00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:43,417 ♪ I can only give you ♪ 554 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,667 ♪ Country walks in springtime ♪ 555 00:30:47,750 --> 00:30:50,583 ♪ And a hand to hold ♪ 556 00:30:50,667 --> 00:30:54,583 ♪ When leaves begin to fall ♪ 557 00:30:54,667 --> 00:30:58,667 ♪ And a love whose burning light ♪ 558 00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:02,166 ♪ Will warm the winter night ♪ 559 00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:06,000 ♪ That's all ♪ 560 00:31:06,083 --> 00:31:09,500 ♪ That's all ♪ 561 00:31:09,583 --> 00:31:13,083 ♪ There are those, I am sure ♪ 562 00:31:13,166 --> 00:31:16,500 ♪ Who have told you ♪ 563 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:20,333 ♪ They would give you the world ♪ 564 00:31:20,417 --> 00:31:23,542 ♪ For a toy ♪ 565 00:31:23,625 --> 00:31:27,500 ♪ All I have are these arms ♪ 566 00:31:27,583 --> 00:31:30,834 ♪ To enfold you ♪ 567 00:31:43,291 --> 00:31:45,208 - All right. Who was that? 568 00:31:45,291 --> 00:31:47,208 - Just legs from my harem. 569 00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:59,125 - Which one of you was just singing? 570 00:31:59,208 --> 00:32:01,041 - Why do you want to know? 571 00:32:01,125 --> 00:32:03,959 - Because whoever sang that song, 572 00:32:04,041 --> 00:32:05,834 I'm gonna make her a star. 573 00:32:05,917 --> 00:32:07,917 - Well, we don't even know your name. 574 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,792 - I'm Earl Mills. I'm a music manager. 575 00:32:11,875 --> 00:32:13,834 - Well, Earl Mills, the music manager, 576 00:32:13,917 --> 00:32:15,750 I'm Ava Gardner. 577 00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:18,917 - My name's Marilyn Monroe. 578 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,583 - I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 579 00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:27,875 - You got a face like an angel, you know that? 580 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,333 You sang that song. 581 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:40,250 - I'm not a singer, Mr. Mills, I'm an actress. 582 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:42,250 - Of course you are, but, uh, 583 00:32:42,333 --> 00:32:44,667 maybe between movie roles you'd like to sing a little bit. 584 00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:47,959 - No, I'm a serious actress. I'm studying at the Actors Lab. 585 00:32:48,041 --> 00:32:50,458 - Ooh. My, my. Actors Lab. 586 00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:53,583 Look, forgive me, but things'll go better for you 587 00:32:53,667 --> 00:32:55,625 in this business if you're a singer. 588 00:32:55,709 --> 00:32:58,333 - I've got a major role in a major motion picture. 589 00:32:58,417 --> 00:32:59,875 Starts shooting next week. 590 00:32:59,959 --> 00:33:01,417 - Hey. 591 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,625 What's the big role? 592 00:33:03,709 --> 00:33:05,291 - Queen Melmendi. 593 00:33:08,834 --> 00:33:09,834 - Ah. 594 00:33:39,667 --> 00:33:41,709 - Geez! - Cut! 595 00:33:41,792 --> 00:33:44,250 Look, will somebody please pre-cut the ropes? 596 00:33:44,333 --> 00:33:46,125 I mean, Lex is fumbling all over the place! 597 00:33:46,208 --> 00:33:47,750 Yeah, okay, do it! 598 00:33:47,834 --> 00:33:49,500 - Yes, sir, yes, sir. Right away. 599 00:33:49,583 --> 00:33:51,667 Tommy? - Excuse me. 600 00:33:51,750 --> 00:33:53,917 - What? - I was wondering. 601 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,375 Queen Melmendi is queen of the jungle, right? 602 00:33:56,458 --> 00:33:59,000 Well, if she lives here, then why does she need Tarzan 603 00:33:59,083 --> 00:34:00,375 to help her find her way through it? 604 00:34:00,458 --> 00:34:02,667 - What's your name? - Dorothy. 605 00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:05,041 - Dorothy. Okay. Dorothy, sweetheart? 606 00:34:05,125 --> 00:34:06,375 Can you do something for me, please? 607 00:34:06,458 --> 00:34:08,291 - Mm-hmm. - Good. Would you go lie down, 608 00:34:08,375 --> 00:34:09,583 let me see more skin than cloth, 609 00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:12,792 and keep the queen of the fucking Congo quiet? 610 00:34:12,875 --> 00:34:14,709 Jimmy, fetch me a Coca-Cola! 611 00:34:14,792 --> 00:34:16,667 Coming up, sir. 612 00:34:16,750 --> 00:34:18,375 - Look, I want to see more skin, okay? 613 00:34:18,458 --> 00:34:19,834 I don't care what we have to do... 614 00:34:19,917 --> 00:34:23,125 - Hey, Sammy, got a smoke? - Sure thing. 615 00:34:32,959 --> 00:34:34,959 - Boy, that was, uh... 616 00:34:36,625 --> 00:34:38,333 What happened to your face? 617 00:34:38,417 --> 00:34:41,291 - Guess I wasn't black enough to lead the tribe. 618 00:34:42,458 --> 00:34:45,208 - Go ahead, say it. You were right. 619 00:34:45,291 --> 00:34:46,917 - I was right. 620 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,041 But you were right, too, you know. 621 00:34:49,125 --> 00:34:51,083 Queen Melmendi would definitely know the way 622 00:34:51,166 --> 00:34:52,917 out of her own jungle. 623 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,041 I'm willing to bet... 624 00:34:56,583 --> 00:34:58,417 She still does. 625 00:35:06,959 --> 00:35:08,500 Come on. Just give me one last hug. 626 00:35:08,583 --> 00:35:11,125 Come on, sweetheart. Thank you. 627 00:35:11,208 --> 00:35:12,166 Oh! 628 00:35:12,250 --> 00:35:13,375 - Dottie Mae, honey, let's go. 629 00:35:13,458 --> 00:35:15,333 You're gonna miss your plane. 630 00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:18,500 - Mmm. 631 00:35:19,875 --> 00:35:22,083 Okay, sweetheart, listen. 632 00:35:22,166 --> 00:35:24,917 Your nurse, she's very nice, honey. 633 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,750 She's even got a piano. Ha! 634 00:35:27,834 --> 00:35:30,208 You're gonna like living here. 635 00:35:30,291 --> 00:35:32,458 I know you will. Look, look. 636 00:35:32,542 --> 00:35:33,625 Remember the locket 637 00:35:33,709 --> 00:35:35,542 I gave you, huh? 638 00:35:35,625 --> 00:35:37,542 This means... 639 00:35:37,625 --> 00:35:40,250 - That I belong to you 640 00:35:40,333 --> 00:35:43,125 and you belong to me, okay? 641 00:35:43,208 --> 00:35:45,583 And when you miss me, you just grab it, 642 00:35:45,667 --> 00:35:48,834 you just hold on to it real tight, okay? 643 00:35:48,917 --> 00:35:50,542 And I'll be there. 644 00:35:50,625 --> 00:35:53,083 Okay? 645 00:35:54,208 --> 00:35:56,000 Come with me, Lynn. 646 00:36:05,959 --> 00:36:07,625 - I don't know, Mama. 647 00:36:07,709 --> 00:36:09,542 Maybe I should stay here and help her or somethin'. 648 00:36:09,625 --> 00:36:11,333 - Now, Dottie Mae, we talked about this. 649 00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:13,208 You're not gettin' enough from your divorce settlement. 650 00:36:13,291 --> 00:36:16,333 You don't work, you're not gonna be able to pay that nurse. 651 00:36:16,417 --> 00:36:19,875 I'd take care of Lynn myself, I would, 652 00:36:19,959 --> 00:36:21,000 but I gotta work, too. 653 00:36:21,083 --> 00:36:23,959 I'm always at the studios. 654 00:36:24,041 --> 00:36:27,291 Now, you got to think of your career first. 655 00:36:29,083 --> 00:36:31,792 Dottie Mae, that child don't even know who you are. 656 00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:35,166 - It's so hard for me just to leave her, Mama. 657 00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:38,041 I know, baby, I know, 658 00:36:38,125 --> 00:36:39,834 but you got to pull yourself together, honey. 659 00:36:39,917 --> 00:36:42,834 We cannot keep Miami Beach a-waitin'. 660 00:36:42,917 --> 00:36:45,667 Take her in the house, honey. Take her on in the house. 661 00:36:56,125 --> 00:36:59,834 It's great to be back here in Miami Beach... 662 00:36:59,917 --> 00:37:01,500 - Uh... 663 00:37:01,583 --> 00:37:03,500 we're gonna be staying at a hotel. 664 00:37:03,583 --> 00:37:06,542 It's, uh, just outside the city limits. 665 00:37:06,625 --> 00:37:07,834 - Mm-hmm. 666 00:37:07,917 --> 00:37:10,500 - And, uh, I...I think we should probably use 667 00:37:10,583 --> 00:37:12,208 the service entrance when we come in here, 668 00:37:12,291 --> 00:37:14,333 - don't you think? - Mm-hmm. 669 00:37:14,417 --> 00:37:17,417 - Oh, and don't...don't talk to any of the patrons... 670 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:20,458 - Earl, just say it. 671 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:21,625 - What? 672 00:37:21,709 --> 00:37:24,542 - You think I've never been to the South? 673 00:37:24,625 --> 00:37:26,208 I can't stay in Miami Beach, 674 00:37:26,291 --> 00:37:27,667 I can't use the front entrance, 675 00:37:27,750 --> 00:37:30,500 and I can't speak to the patrons, right? 676 00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:33,917 This isn't a tan, Earl. 677 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,667 I'm a Negro, a colored girl. 678 00:37:35,750 --> 00:37:37,250 You did happen to notice that, didn't you? 679 00:37:37,333 --> 00:37:38,875 - I noticed. 680 00:37:38,959 --> 00:37:40,417 - Now, listen, if we're going to work together, 681 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,083 you can't tiptoe around me. 682 00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:45,750 You have to say it straight out. 683 00:37:45,834 --> 00:37:47,417 - Yes, ma'am. - Good. 684 00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:48,709 Now, come on, honey. 685 00:37:48,792 --> 00:37:50,625 Zip me up so I can run to the bathroom. 686 00:37:50,709 --> 00:37:52,250 Come on. 687 00:37:57,208 --> 00:37:59,083 - This is your bathroom. 688 00:38:00,291 --> 00:38:03,625 You told me to say it straight out. 689 00:38:03,709 --> 00:38:04,583 Angel face. 690 00:38:04,667 --> 00:38:05,959 - I think President Truman's 691 00:38:06,041 --> 00:38:07,917 done a lot for the country. 692 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,709 For one, he moved to the city. 693 00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:14,208 You're a wonderful crowd, and this is a classy joint. 694 00:38:14,291 --> 00:38:15,542 - Dorothy, wait. 695 00:38:15,625 --> 00:38:16,792 They even have midget waiters here. 696 00:38:16,875 --> 00:38:18,291 - What? 697 00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:19,750 - Look at this place. 698 00:38:19,834 --> 00:38:22,291 - I asked one waiter to put a phone on my table, 699 00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:25,291 but he couldn't get the booth off the wall. 700 00:38:26,709 --> 00:38:28,875 Boy, can the people drink here. 701 00:38:28,959 --> 00:38:30,625 One guy stumbled out of here last night, 702 00:38:30,709 --> 00:38:33,625 bumped into a uniformed man outside. 703 00:38:33,709 --> 00:38:34,667 He say, "Hey, buddy"... 704 00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:36,291 - I can't perform here. 705 00:38:36,375 --> 00:38:39,083 - I've seen worse. At least they paid. 706 00:38:39,166 --> 00:38:40,834 - You go find the owner, and you tell him 707 00:38:40,917 --> 00:38:43,667 I'm not performing inside this disaster area! 708 00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:46,291 - Oh, really? There's the owner right there. 709 00:38:46,375 --> 00:38:49,125 You want to ruin your career, you can tell him yourself. 710 00:38:49,208 --> 00:38:50,125 - Fine. I will. 711 00:38:50,208 --> 00:38:51,750 - Dorothy, wait, wait. 712 00:38:51,834 --> 00:38:53,291 I was kidding. Let me handle this. 713 00:38:53,375 --> 00:38:54,583 - Mr. Scott? - No. Dorothy. 714 00:38:54,667 --> 00:38:56,166 - Mr. Scott? - I'll handle it. 715 00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:58,083 - Dandridge. Good. You're on right after this joke. 716 00:38:58,166 --> 00:38:59,834 - I'm the manager. She's not going on after him... 717 00:38:59,917 --> 00:39:01,542 - Because I'm not performing! - Shh! 718 00:39:01,625 --> 00:39:03,333 - What did you say? - She won't work in a place 719 00:39:03,417 --> 00:39:05,500 where she has to enter stage rear, sleep outside the city... 720 00:39:05,583 --> 00:39:06,750 - Or use a Dixie cup! 721 00:39:06,834 --> 00:39:09,250 - Quiet. Or use a Dixie cup. 722 00:39:11,166 --> 00:39:12,834 All right. - What? 723 00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:14,667 He says, "Don't worry. I'll see you on Friday." 724 00:39:15,834 --> 00:39:17,959 - You see that man sitting at table two? 725 00:39:18,041 --> 00:39:20,000 That's the city building commissioner. 726 00:39:20,083 --> 00:39:22,542 When he found out I was opening a club 727 00:39:22,625 --> 00:39:25,333 where colored acts share dressing rooms with whites, 728 00:39:25,417 --> 00:39:28,417 he held up my construction permits until tonight, 729 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,625 and most of these people are his friends. 730 00:39:32,417 --> 00:39:34,333 You see that busboy there? 731 00:39:34,417 --> 00:39:36,333 His name is Corey Williams. 732 00:39:36,417 --> 00:39:38,959 He earned the Silver Star at Guadalcanal, 733 00:39:39,041 --> 00:39:42,000 came home, got his degree on the GI Bill. 734 00:39:42,083 --> 00:39:44,000 But no one would hire him 735 00:39:44,083 --> 00:39:45,917 except me. 736 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,834 Now, I tried to get as many of my friends here 737 00:39:47,917 --> 00:39:50,542 to support what I'm trying to do, 738 00:39:50,625 --> 00:39:54,000 but tonight my friends are few and far between. 739 00:39:54,083 --> 00:39:56,500 So if you don't wanna perform, 740 00:39:56,583 --> 00:39:58,458 I don't blame you, 741 00:39:58,542 --> 00:40:00,041 but don't blame me. 742 00:40:02,542 --> 00:40:03,667 - Well, it's been a pleasure 743 00:40:03,750 --> 00:40:05,375 playing the Miami Beach Mortuary. 744 00:40:05,458 --> 00:40:07,041 May you all rest in peace. 745 00:40:07,125 --> 00:40:09,000 Good night, ladies and gentlemen. 746 00:40:16,792 --> 00:40:17,709 - Hey. Hey, hey, hey. 747 00:40:17,792 --> 00:40:20,291 - Oh. Got any advice? 748 00:40:20,375 --> 00:40:22,417 - Yeah. Kill 'em. 749 00:40:24,917 --> 00:40:25,750 - Thank you. 750 00:40:46,375 --> 00:40:47,417 - Good evening. 751 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:49,291 I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 752 00:41:02,375 --> 00:41:06,667 ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 753 00:41:06,750 --> 00:41:08,959 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 754 00:41:10,542 --> 00:41:14,250 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 755 00:41:14,333 --> 00:41:16,166 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 756 00:41:17,291 --> 00:41:18,917 ♪ What I've got ♪ 757 00:41:32,667 --> 00:41:34,792 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 758 00:41:34,875 --> 00:41:37,083 ♪ I've got music ♪ 759 00:41:37,166 --> 00:41:38,166 ♪ I got my man ♪ 760 00:41:38,250 --> 00:41:40,750 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 761 00:41:40,834 --> 00:41:42,834 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 762 00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,834 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 763 00:41:44,917 --> 00:41:46,250 ♪ I got my man ♪ 764 00:41:46,333 --> 00:41:48,583 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 765 00:41:48,667 --> 00:41:51,166 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 766 00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:52,917 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 767 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 768 00:41:57,083 --> 00:41:59,041 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 769 00:41:59,125 --> 00:42:01,041 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 770 00:42:01,125 --> 00:42:02,333 ♪ I got my man ♪ 771 00:42:02,417 --> 00:42:04,917 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 772 00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:34,834 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 773 00:42:34,917 --> 00:42:36,917 ♪ I've got music ♪ 774 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,125 ♪ I got my man ♪ 775 00:42:39,208 --> 00:42:40,917 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 776 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,959 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 777 00:42:46,041 --> 00:42:48,917 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 778 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,959 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 779 00:42:53,041 --> 00:42:54,667 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 780 00:42:54,750 --> 00:42:57,667 ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 781 00:42:57,750 --> 00:43:00,542 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 782 00:43:00,625 --> 00:43:04,250 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 783 00:43:04,333 --> 00:43:06,291 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 784 00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:08,750 ♪ Ooh, what a man ♪ 785 00:43:08,834 --> 00:43:12,166 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 786 00:43:12,250 --> 00:43:15,792 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 787 00:43:15,875 --> 00:43:17,750 ♪ Anything ♪ 788 00:43:24,458 --> 00:43:25,750 ♪ Anything ♪ 789 00:43:25,834 --> 00:43:33,041 ♪ More ♪ 790 00:44:06,792 --> 00:44:08,291 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 791 00:44:08,375 --> 00:44:10,625 ♪ I've got music ♪ 792 00:44:10,709 --> 00:44:12,542 ♪ I got my man ♪ 793 00:44:12,625 --> 00:44:14,125 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 794 00:44:14,208 --> 00:44:19,709 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 795 00:44:19,792 --> 00:44:22,458 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 796 00:44:22,542 --> 00:44:26,625 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 797 00:44:26,709 --> 00:44:29,375 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 798 00:44:29,458 --> 00:44:31,333 ♪ 'Cause I got rhythm ♪ 799 00:44:31,417 --> 00:44:34,125 ♪ It makes me happy... ♪ 800 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000 - Mmm. 801 00:44:41,125 --> 00:44:43,000 Audrey Hepburn's playing Sabrina. 802 00:44:43,083 --> 00:44:44,625 Mm-hmm? 803 00:44:44,709 --> 00:44:45,750 - And Ava Gardner, 804 00:44:45,834 --> 00:44:47,792 she's got another film now... - Vivvy. 805 00:44:47,875 --> 00:44:50,333 - I can't help it if your name's not in here. 806 00:44:50,417 --> 00:44:51,834 - I'll get another role soon. 807 00:44:51,917 --> 00:44:54,333 - Oh, yeah, I see right here where Hollywood's 808 00:44:54,417 --> 00:44:56,417 just begging Negroes to star in their films. 809 00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:58,583 - Why do you have to be so gloomy? 810 00:44:58,667 --> 00:45:01,000 - Because I haven't worked in two years, 811 00:45:01,083 --> 00:45:03,834 and let's not mention your last big role. 812 00:45:03,917 --> 00:45:08,333 - "Bright Road"? That was a very important film. 813 00:45:08,417 --> 00:45:10,041 - Important to who? 814 00:45:10,125 --> 00:45:11,375 It's practically breaking records 815 00:45:11,458 --> 00:45:14,000 for the lowest box office in the South. 816 00:45:14,083 --> 00:45:15,333 - Thank you, Vivvy. 817 00:45:15,417 --> 00:45:18,667 That was the cherry on the pie of my week. 818 00:45:18,750 --> 00:45:21,834 - I am having a really great day. 819 00:45:27,333 --> 00:45:28,625 Okay, I'll tell ya. 820 00:45:28,709 --> 00:45:31,875 Fox is doing a film of Bizet's "Carmen." 821 00:45:31,959 --> 00:45:34,625 Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. 822 00:45:35,583 --> 00:45:36,875 - Whoop-de-doo. 823 00:45:38,333 --> 00:45:40,000 - Oh, that's right. I didn't say. 824 00:45:40,083 --> 00:45:43,000 They're using an all-Negro cast. 825 00:45:49,458 --> 00:45:50,875 Yeah. 826 00:45:50,959 --> 00:45:53,000 - Do you know how many colored actresses want this part? 827 00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:54,083 Every colored actress: 828 00:45:54,166 --> 00:45:56,500 Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, everybody. 829 00:45:56,583 --> 00:45:57,750 "Carmen Jones" is the best part 830 00:45:57,834 --> 00:45:59,917 for a Negro actress in years. Ever. 831 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,750 Hey, she is Carmen. 832 00:46:01,834 --> 00:46:03,333 - You should have seen her run at La Vie en Rose. 833 00:46:03,417 --> 00:46:05,542 They were literally handing out the "Kinsey" sex report 834 00:46:05,625 --> 00:46:06,875 at the door, she's so hot. 835 00:46:06,959 --> 00:46:08,583 - Okay, that was New York, not Hollywood. 836 00:46:08,667 --> 00:46:09,959 That was a nightclub and not high drama. 837 00:46:10,041 --> 00:46:11,500 And I've seen her last two pictures, 838 00:46:11,583 --> 00:46:13,375 and that's all, folks. 839 00:46:13,458 --> 00:46:16,291 - Oh, come on, she's been shoved into nothing but banana hats 840 00:46:16,375 --> 00:46:19,417 and curled slippers for a year, and you know it, Joey. 841 00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:20,625 Now, come on. 842 00:46:20,709 --> 00:46:22,208 Joey, just get her a reading with Preminger. 843 00:46:22,291 --> 00:46:23,542 That's all I'm asking. 844 00:46:23,625 --> 00:46:24,959 - Just a reading? 845 00:46:25,041 --> 00:46:26,750 Just Otto Preminger? 846 00:46:26,834 --> 00:46:28,959 Do you know what I do every morning, Earl? 847 00:46:29,041 --> 00:46:30,417 - No, Joe. 848 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:32,208 - I get up every morning at 5:00 am when it's still dark, 849 00:46:32,291 --> 00:46:33,959 and I drive all the way from the Valley to the studio, 850 00:46:34,041 --> 00:46:36,375 and along the way, I see faces. 851 00:46:36,458 --> 00:46:38,917 Faces on billboards, faces on bench ads. 852 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,959 Familiar faces. 853 00:46:41,041 --> 00:46:42,166 Famous faces. 854 00:46:42,250 --> 00:46:44,959 The faces of movie stars. 855 00:46:45,041 --> 00:46:46,959 The faces that I see out of my car window 856 00:46:47,041 --> 00:46:49,917 are the faces for whom I get readings with Otto Preminger. 857 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,625 And not once, in all my drives, 858 00:46:51,709 --> 00:46:53,959 have I ever seen the face 859 00:46:54,041 --> 00:46:56,792 of Dorothy Dandridge. 860 00:46:56,875 --> 00:46:58,625 Now, good night. 861 00:47:54,583 --> 00:47:58,709 - I wonder, why did Joey Young decide to get me a reading? 862 00:47:58,792 --> 00:48:02,375 - Apparently he saw you from his car window one morning. 863 00:48:02,458 --> 00:48:04,083 No kidding? 864 00:48:04,166 --> 00:48:05,375 - No kidding. 865 00:48:07,750 --> 00:48:10,166 - Mr. Preminger will see you now. 866 00:48:17,792 --> 00:48:18,792 - What? 867 00:48:18,875 --> 00:48:20,583 - I just realized this is the moment 868 00:48:20,667 --> 00:48:22,750 I've always dreamed of. 869 00:48:22,834 --> 00:48:24,625 - Your reading with Preminger? 870 00:48:24,709 --> 00:48:26,709 - A chance. 871 00:48:30,208 --> 00:48:31,667 - Oh... 872 00:48:31,750 --> 00:48:34,125 let me handle this, will ya? 873 00:49:19,709 --> 00:49:21,166 Mr. Preminger? 874 00:49:29,417 --> 00:49:31,208 - Mr. Preminger, 875 00:49:31,291 --> 00:49:34,291 I'd like you to meet Carmen Jones. 876 00:49:34,375 --> 00:49:36,917 - Ooh. Ha ha ha. 877 00:49:40,417 --> 00:49:42,417 Carmen Jones? 878 00:49:44,750 --> 00:49:46,083 No. 879 00:49:46,166 --> 00:49:49,875 I will give her a reading for the role of Cindy Lou. 880 00:49:49,959 --> 00:49:52,625 - Cindy Lou? 881 00:49:52,709 --> 00:49:54,125 Isn't that the sweet girl 882 00:49:54,208 --> 00:49:55,625 that gets dumped for Carmen? 883 00:49:55,709 --> 00:49:57,083 - There must be a misunderstanding. 884 00:49:57,166 --> 00:49:58,291 - 'Scuse me? 885 00:49:58,375 --> 00:49:59,834 - I said there must be a misunderstanding. 886 00:49:59,917 --> 00:50:01,125 Miss Dandridge is here 887 00:50:01,208 --> 00:50:03,542 to read for the part of Carmen. 888 00:50:03,625 --> 00:50:05,000 - You have come into my office, 889 00:50:05,083 --> 00:50:06,959 but you have not brought Carmen with you. 890 00:50:07,041 --> 00:50:09,834 You have brought yourself with you. 891 00:50:09,917 --> 00:50:13,041 Good little girl, nice gloves... 892 00:50:13,125 --> 00:50:17,000 asking for a reading for the role of a wild woman. 893 00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:18,875 You are not Carmen. You're Cindy Lou. 894 00:50:18,959 --> 00:50:20,375 - But Mister... - Dorothy is an actress, 895 00:50:20,458 --> 00:50:22,583 Mr. Preminger. - She is Cindy Lou. 896 00:50:24,333 --> 00:50:26,166 - I'm sure if you'd just give her the opportunity... 897 00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:27,667 - This is final. 898 00:50:32,583 --> 00:50:34,291 - You know what you are, Mr. Preminger? 899 00:50:34,375 --> 00:50:36,208 - Dorothy. - You're a bulldog. 900 00:50:36,291 --> 00:50:38,333 You're a big, fat bulldog! 901 00:50:38,417 --> 00:50:40,375 That's what you are. 902 00:50:40,458 --> 00:50:42,166 - What did you call me? 903 00:50:42,250 --> 00:50:43,959 - A bulldog. 904 00:50:46,208 --> 00:50:47,542 She's...nervous. 905 00:50:47,625 --> 00:50:50,250 Thank you for your time. 906 00:50:50,333 --> 00:50:52,709 Cindy Lou. 907 00:50:52,792 --> 00:50:54,959 We'll look at Cindy Lou. 908 00:51:02,458 --> 00:51:04,000 Oh, she's on every page. 909 00:51:04,083 --> 00:51:05,542 Look at this! - What part? 910 00:51:05,625 --> 00:51:08,041 Who's gonna play this part? I can play this part. 911 00:51:08,125 --> 00:51:09,959 They'd never see me, though, would they, Mama? 912 00:51:10,041 --> 00:51:12,250 - I'm not going back to read for Cindy Lou. 913 00:51:12,333 --> 00:51:14,709 Don't know why you're still lookin' at that. 914 00:51:14,792 --> 00:51:17,166 - You should be grateful he's considering you for a part. 915 00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:18,583 I couldn't get an audition if I tried. 916 00:51:18,667 --> 00:51:20,500 - I don't want to be Cindy Lou. 917 00:51:20,583 --> 00:51:22,291 So that's what you gonna do? 918 00:51:22,375 --> 00:51:23,875 Just give up? 919 00:51:23,959 --> 00:51:25,625 - He won't give me a chance, Mama. 920 00:51:25,709 --> 00:51:27,583 - Well, if you're waitin' for them to give you a chance, 921 00:51:27,667 --> 00:51:29,208 you're gonna have a hard row to hoe. 922 00:51:29,291 --> 00:51:31,250 Honey, you have got to take your chances. 923 00:51:31,333 --> 00:51:33,667 Now, you think about Carmen. 924 00:51:33,750 --> 00:51:37,625 This girl is all about sex. 925 00:51:37,709 --> 00:51:39,417 She looks like sex. 926 00:51:39,500 --> 00:51:42,875 She smells like sex. 927 00:51:42,959 --> 00:51:46,083 She even moves, you know, she moves like sex. 928 00:51:46,166 --> 00:51:48,125 - Mm-hmm, that's the way. 929 00:51:48,208 --> 00:51:50,417 Use the equipment Mama gave you. 930 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:54,041 You got to walk in there like Carmen. 931 00:51:54,125 --> 00:51:56,417 - But that old bulldog won't even let me read for Carmen. 932 00:51:56,500 --> 00:51:58,750 - Honey, we're not talkin' 'bout readin'. 933 00:51:58,834 --> 00:52:01,875 We're talkin' 'bout walkin'. 934 00:52:05,333 --> 00:52:07,458 Now, you can get this part. 935 00:52:07,542 --> 00:52:08,750 - By walkin'. 936 00:52:13,542 --> 00:52:16,542 Have you seen my man? 937 00:52:29,542 --> 00:52:32,458 That Carmen Jones snatched him from me, 938 00:52:32,542 --> 00:52:35,583 and I'm lost over what to do about it. 939 00:52:37,166 --> 00:52:38,625 Can't decide 940 00:52:38,709 --> 00:52:41,959 if it's better me follow him up to the Windy City... 941 00:52:43,667 --> 00:52:46,041 Or should I wait... 942 00:52:47,208 --> 00:52:51,583 For him to come back to his happy hearth and home? 943 00:52:51,667 --> 00:52:53,917 Tell me what to do. 944 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,792 I'm Cindy Lou. 945 00:52:58,959 --> 00:53:00,625 - The hell you are. 946 00:53:06,917 --> 00:53:09,333 - Girl, I was Carmen. 947 00:53:09,417 --> 00:53:11,000 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you this?" 948 00:53:11,083 --> 00:53:12,667 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you that?" 949 00:53:12,750 --> 00:53:14,250 Remember, they hired that opera singer 950 00:53:14,333 --> 00:53:17,083 to come do my movie singin' for me? 951 00:53:17,166 --> 00:53:19,291 Mm-hmm. 952 00:53:19,375 --> 00:53:21,417 They did. 953 00:53:22,291 --> 00:53:25,166 Then one morning I woke up, 954 00:53:25,250 --> 00:53:27,542 and I just couldn't breathe. 955 00:53:27,625 --> 00:53:31,083 - What are you telling me? She won't make the picture? 956 00:53:31,166 --> 00:53:33,542 I start shooting tomorrow! Wonderful! 957 00:53:33,625 --> 00:53:35,375 Where is she? - She won't do it. 958 00:53:35,458 --> 00:53:37,333 I've talked to her three times. 959 00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:38,583 She won't do it. 960 00:53:38,667 --> 00:53:40,250 She doesn't want to anger the Negro community. 961 00:53:40,333 --> 00:53:43,709 - "Anger the Negro community." That's ridiculous! 962 00:53:43,792 --> 00:53:46,000 The first all-Negro film! 963 00:53:46,083 --> 00:53:47,875 First released by a major studio! 964 00:53:47,959 --> 00:53:50,041 - Yes, in which she plays a Negro whore. 965 00:53:50,125 --> 00:53:52,375 - It's not a whore! It's a woman, not a whore. 966 00:53:52,458 --> 00:53:55,583 - Otto, Otto. A critic suggested 967 00:53:55,667 --> 00:53:57,458 that Hollywood depicts all Negro women 968 00:53:57,542 --> 00:54:00,542 as either mammies or prostitutes. 969 00:54:00,625 --> 00:54:02,375 - Yeah, but this is... it confuse me. 970 00:54:02,458 --> 00:54:03,959 First the studio won't approve the film 971 00:54:04,041 --> 00:54:05,500 because it's all-Negro. 972 00:54:05,583 --> 00:54:06,875 Then they will do the film, 973 00:54:06,959 --> 00:54:10,250 but only if the NAACP also approves. 974 00:54:10,333 --> 00:54:12,458 Now Miss Dandridge won't make the film 975 00:54:12,542 --> 00:54:14,792 because even though the NAACP 976 00:54:14,875 --> 00:54:18,125 and the studio approve... 977 00:54:18,208 --> 00:54:21,417 one man who writes one article does not. 978 00:54:28,083 --> 00:54:29,875 She's scared, yes? 979 00:54:31,291 --> 00:54:34,166 - Yeah. Terrified. 980 00:54:52,375 --> 00:54:54,709 Otto. 981 00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:59,083 You're not really the asshole you seem to be, are you? 982 00:54:59,166 --> 00:55:02,625 - This, little gentleman, is something neither you 983 00:55:02,709 --> 00:55:06,875 nor anyone else will ever know. 984 00:55:17,208 --> 00:55:19,250 - Earl, go away! 985 00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:21,458 I've already made up my mind! 986 00:55:21,542 --> 00:55:23,959 It's not Earl. Open. 987 00:55:34,834 --> 00:55:36,208 Miss Dandridge. 988 00:55:38,709 --> 00:55:40,041 - Call me Dorothy. 989 00:55:40,125 --> 00:55:43,125 Most...directors that barge in my house usually do. 990 00:56:02,083 --> 00:56:04,458 - You decline to play Carmen? 991 00:56:04,542 --> 00:56:07,041 - I've already proven I could get the part. 992 00:56:07,125 --> 00:56:09,500 No real reason for me to play it. 993 00:56:09,583 --> 00:56:10,667 - Hmm. 994 00:56:11,959 --> 00:56:15,291 Maybe you are not good enough to play the role. 995 00:56:15,375 --> 00:56:17,834 Maybe you have no talent. 996 00:56:17,917 --> 00:56:20,959 - I've got more talent than anybody in this town. 997 00:56:21,041 --> 00:56:23,250 You won't find a better Carmen than me. 998 00:56:23,333 --> 00:56:26,250 - So, you know you can do it, I know you can do it. 999 00:56:26,333 --> 00:56:29,625 That's not your fear. It's the gamble. 1000 00:56:31,792 --> 00:56:33,583 - What would you know about that? 1001 00:56:33,667 --> 00:56:36,917 - I, too, am taking big gambles on this picture. 1002 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,208 If it doesn't work, 1003 00:56:38,291 --> 00:56:40,875 then everybody will say Otto Preminger is a fool 1004 00:56:40,959 --> 00:56:44,166 thinking he can make a all-Negro musical. 1005 00:56:44,250 --> 00:56:47,083 And if I succeed, then I will be a genius. 1006 00:56:48,291 --> 00:56:51,959 You know how I know it will work? 1007 00:56:52,041 --> 00:56:54,500 Because I have my Carmen. 1008 00:56:56,667 --> 00:56:58,625 I have you. 1009 00:57:07,709 --> 00:57:09,250 - What if they don't like me? 1010 00:57:09,333 --> 00:57:11,250 - They will love you. 1011 00:57:11,333 --> 00:57:13,667 I will make them love you. 1012 00:57:14,667 --> 00:57:17,166 I may be a...old bulldog, 1013 00:57:17,250 --> 00:57:20,000 with a bald head, but this is what I can do. 1014 00:57:20,083 --> 00:57:21,458 - I didn't mean to say that. 1015 00:57:21,542 --> 00:57:24,333 - No, no. It's all right. I know I'm ugly. 1016 00:57:24,417 --> 00:57:28,250 My gift is to bring the beauty 1017 00:57:28,333 --> 00:57:30,500 to the world. 1018 00:57:33,166 --> 00:57:34,875 I know women. 1019 00:57:34,959 --> 00:57:37,333 I know how to light them, to shoot them, 1020 00:57:37,417 --> 00:57:40,041 to create them for the screen. 1021 00:57:40,125 --> 00:57:42,291 And if you let me, 1022 00:57:42,375 --> 00:57:45,291 I will seduce the audience for you. 1023 00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:46,959 I will make sure 1024 00:57:47,041 --> 00:57:50,333 that they will never forget the name Dorothy Dandridge. 1025 00:57:50,417 --> 00:57:53,125 I will make the name shine brighter 1026 00:57:53,208 --> 00:57:56,250 than all the lights here 1027 00:57:56,333 --> 00:57:58,417 in our city. 1028 00:58:00,166 --> 00:58:01,291 - Otto... 1029 00:58:02,750 --> 00:58:05,375 You're not so ugly. 1030 00:58:22,166 --> 00:58:24,417 - Sir, we're ready to go. Are you? 1031 00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,417 - Are we ready? Really? I don't think so. 1032 00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,125 I mean, this has to be here. Move it. 1033 00:58:29,208 --> 00:58:31,250 The food has to steam, steam! 1034 00:58:31,333 --> 00:58:33,291 It's...it's hot, not cold. 1035 00:58:33,375 --> 00:58:34,709 What about here, the flowers? 1036 00:58:34,792 --> 00:58:37,333 That's ridiculous! Get rid of them. 1037 00:58:37,417 --> 00:58:39,417 We are not in a restaurant. We are in a mess hall. 1038 00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:41,125 What's here? That's red. 1039 00:58:41,208 --> 00:58:44,000 I said no one wears red. Put a...a blue scarf... 1040 00:58:44,083 --> 00:58:45,709 - You know what? Forget about it. - I'll take that. 1041 00:58:45,792 --> 00:58:47,083 - Put that to the back. 1042 00:58:47,166 --> 00:58:49,792 And where's my coffee? Is that too much to... 1043 00:58:49,875 --> 00:58:51,542 - Right here, sir. - Cup of coffee? 1044 00:58:51,625 --> 00:58:52,917 Where's Miss Dandridge? 1045 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:53,875 - Still in her dressing room, sir. 1046 00:58:53,959 --> 00:58:55,208 - Oh, that's fine. 1047 00:58:55,291 --> 00:58:56,875 Well, please let her know that we are ready 1048 00:58:56,959 --> 00:58:58,375 and she should join us. 1049 00:58:58,458 --> 00:58:59,542 Not bad. 1050 00:58:59,625 --> 00:59:01,875 She's late for the first shooting day. 1051 00:59:01,959 --> 00:59:04,250 Who else is late here? 1052 00:59:05,417 --> 00:59:07,250 - Otto... - Who the hell are you? 1053 00:59:07,333 --> 00:59:10,458 - I'm Earl. - Get just out of my way. 1054 00:59:16,625 --> 00:59:18,750 Good day, Miss Dandridge. 1055 00:59:18,834 --> 00:59:21,542 - Good day, Mr. Preminger. 1056 00:59:21,625 --> 00:59:23,542 Oh, this is ridiculous. 1057 00:59:23,625 --> 00:59:25,583 I'm gonna lay it out. 1058 00:59:29,667 --> 00:59:31,667 - I have to tell you, 1059 00:59:31,750 --> 00:59:32,917 rule number one: 1060 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,125 never be late on a set. 1061 00:59:38,959 --> 00:59:41,375 - Okay, folks, quiet down, settle down. 1062 00:59:41,458 --> 00:59:43,083 Okay, this is gonna be for picture, 1063 00:59:43,166 --> 00:59:45,250 ladies and gentlemen. Let's make it a good one. 1064 00:59:45,333 --> 00:59:48,083 Folks, just like I said, just like we rehearsed. 1065 00:59:48,166 --> 00:59:50,083 Okay? Nice, comfortable meal. - Thank you. 1066 00:59:50,166 --> 00:59:51,750 Nice conversation. No extra noise. 1067 00:59:51,834 --> 00:59:53,583 No silverware clattering, none of that, okay? 1068 00:59:53,667 --> 00:59:57,166 We'll do that later. Okay! First positions, everybody. 1069 01:00:04,458 --> 01:00:06,750 You look as good as me. 1070 01:00:11,917 --> 01:00:13,166 - Roll 'em. 1071 01:00:13,250 --> 01:00:14,250 - Roll 'em! 1072 01:00:14,333 --> 01:00:15,917 Speed. 1073 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,375 - Scene 30, take one. Marker. 1074 01:00:18,458 --> 01:00:19,667 - Background! 1075 01:00:22,083 --> 01:00:23,166 - Action! 1076 01:00:31,834 --> 01:00:33,834 - Hmm. Congratulations, Corporal. 1077 01:00:33,917 --> 01:00:35,625 That Airs Corps sure was smart in pickin' you out 1078 01:00:35,709 --> 01:00:37,750 of this whole outfit for the officers' flying school. 1079 01:00:37,834 --> 01:00:39,417 Thanks. 1080 01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:42,125 - Hi, Carmen. - Hi. 1081 01:00:42,208 --> 01:00:44,792 Well! Get a load of this hip-swingin' floozy 1082 01:00:44,875 --> 01:00:47,709 rollin' round to work in time for lunch. 1083 01:00:47,792 --> 01:00:48,750 - Prune puss, 1084 01:00:48,834 --> 01:00:50,291 you make sounds I don't like. 1085 01:00:50,375 --> 01:00:52,792 - I'ma tell the foreman you was late again. 1086 01:00:52,875 --> 01:00:54,291 - You do that, and I'll scratch out 1087 01:00:54,375 --> 01:00:56,458 the one good eye you got left. 1088 01:00:56,542 --> 01:00:58,333 - Hey, Carmen, why don't you come to Pastor's 1089 01:00:58,417 --> 01:00:59,500 with me tonight? 1090 01:00:59,583 --> 01:01:01,750 I can dance those other boys off the floor. 1091 01:01:01,834 --> 01:01:04,125 - T-Bone, you're too little and too late. 1092 01:01:04,208 --> 01:01:06,625 - I don't waste no time. Dig me, baby? 1093 01:01:06,709 --> 01:01:08,458 - Wasting your time right now, Sergeant. 1094 01:01:08,542 --> 01:01:11,041 The wind's blowin' me in another direction, 1095 01:01:11,125 --> 01:01:13,333 and it ain't no use arguin' with the wind. 1096 01:01:13,417 --> 01:01:14,834 - Hey, how about going out with me tonight 1097 01:01:14,917 --> 01:01:16,291 instead of playin' the field? 1098 01:01:16,375 --> 01:01:17,750 Yeah, Carmen, pick out one. 1099 01:01:17,834 --> 01:01:19,709 That'll release the rest of 'em. 1100 01:01:19,792 --> 01:01:22,333 ♪ I won't pick out a man ♪ 1101 01:01:22,417 --> 01:01:25,000 ♪ And he won't pick out me ♪ 1102 01:01:25,083 --> 01:01:28,542 ♪ It don't go that way ♪ 1103 01:01:28,625 --> 01:01:32,667 ♪ You can't ever know ♪ 1104 01:01:35,917 --> 01:01:38,959 ♪ Where your crazy heart ♪ 1105 01:01:40,875 --> 01:01:43,792 ♪ Wants to go ♪ 1106 01:01:48,542 --> 01:01:51,500 ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1107 01:01:51,583 --> 01:01:54,834 ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1108 01:01:54,917 --> 01:01:58,208 ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1109 01:01:58,291 --> 01:02:01,792 ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1110 01:02:01,875 --> 01:02:05,208 ♪ One man gives me his diamond stud ♪ 1111 01:02:05,291 --> 01:02:08,667 ♪ And I won't give him a cigarette ♪ 1112 01:02:08,750 --> 01:02:13,583 ♪ One man treats me like I was mud ♪ 1113 01:02:13,667 --> 01:02:17,583 ♪ And all I got dat man can get ♪ 1114 01:02:17,667 --> 01:02:19,542 ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1115 01:02:19,625 --> 01:02:21,333 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1116 01:02:21,417 --> 01:02:22,709 ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1117 01:02:22,792 --> 01:02:24,542 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1118 01:02:24,625 --> 01:02:26,208 ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1119 01:02:26,291 --> 01:02:27,875 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1120 01:02:27,959 --> 01:02:29,333 ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1121 01:02:29,417 --> 01:02:30,792 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1122 01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:32,125 - Cut! 1123 01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:37,125 ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1124 01:02:37,208 --> 01:02:40,959 ♪ And if I do, den you are through ♪ 1125 01:02:41,041 --> 01:02:43,458 ♪ Boy, my baby ♪ 1126 01:02:43,542 --> 01:02:44,917 ♪ That's the end of you ♪ 1127 01:02:46,166 --> 01:02:47,625 ♪ The end of you ♪ 1128 01:02:47,709 --> 01:02:50,750 ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1129 01:02:50,834 --> 01:02:55,125 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1130 01:02:55,208 --> 01:02:56,792 ♪ She told you true ♪ 1131 01:02:56,875 --> 01:02:58,542 ♪ I told you truly ♪ 1132 01:02:58,625 --> 01:03:00,583 ♪ If I love you ♪ 1133 01:03:00,667 --> 01:03:02,333 Voila. 1134 01:03:02,417 --> 01:03:04,875 ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1135 01:03:04,959 --> 01:03:07,875 ♪ You go for me and I'm taboo ♪ 1136 01:03:07,959 --> 01:03:10,834 ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1137 01:03:12,417 --> 01:03:14,083 ♪ And if I do, then you are through ♪ 1138 01:03:14,166 --> 01:03:17,250 ♪ Boy, my baby, that's the end of you ♪ 1139 01:03:17,333 --> 01:03:18,583 ♪ The end of you ♪ 1140 01:03:18,667 --> 01:03:22,375 ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1141 01:03:22,458 --> 01:03:27,542 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1142 01:03:27,625 --> 01:03:29,166 ♪ She told you true ♪ 1143 01:03:29,250 --> 01:03:31,333 ♪ I told you truly ♪ 1144 01:03:31,417 --> 01:03:33,875 ♪ If I love you ♪ 1145 01:03:33,959 --> 01:03:36,625 ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1146 01:03:40,208 --> 01:03:41,458 - What is it? 1147 01:03:41,542 --> 01:03:42,667 - Nothing. Go ahead. 1148 01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:44,000 - Hmm? "Go ahead." 1149 01:03:44,083 --> 01:03:47,542 Where could I go in our bed without you? 1150 01:03:47,625 --> 01:03:48,792 Hmm? 1151 01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:54,250 - What's wrong? 1152 01:03:55,709 --> 01:03:57,208 - Nothing. 1153 01:04:00,583 --> 01:04:02,000 - The truth. 1154 01:04:04,208 --> 01:04:05,500 Don't cry. 1155 01:04:07,083 --> 01:04:08,417 - I just never... 1156 01:04:09,542 --> 01:04:13,333 Really much liked sex, that's all. 1157 01:04:13,417 --> 01:04:15,458 - Should have told me. 1158 01:04:15,542 --> 01:04:18,166 - It's okay. I don't mind. 1159 01:04:18,250 --> 01:04:19,917 - I mind. 1160 01:04:22,333 --> 01:04:24,083 If you never liked sex, 1161 01:04:24,166 --> 01:04:26,333 then probably 1162 01:04:26,417 --> 01:04:29,375 you never had sex. 1163 01:04:29,458 --> 01:04:32,125 You're still untouched... 1164 01:04:32,208 --> 01:04:34,041 inside. 1165 01:04:34,125 --> 01:04:36,291 Deeply inside... 1166 01:04:36,375 --> 01:04:38,125 in your heart. 1167 01:04:39,917 --> 01:04:44,542 We will discover your heart and open it together. 1168 01:04:44,625 --> 01:04:47,417 There's no hurry. 1169 01:04:47,500 --> 01:04:49,291 Not at all. 1170 01:04:56,166 --> 01:04:59,875 We have all the time in the world to do this. 1171 01:05:03,625 --> 01:05:05,458 All the time in the world. 1172 01:05:07,166 --> 01:05:08,792 - I love you. 1173 01:05:25,458 --> 01:05:26,917 So, Dorothy, listen to me. 1174 01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:30,417 I saw that Tarzan picture you were in. 1175 01:05:30,500 --> 01:05:31,458 What a stinker. 1176 01:05:31,542 --> 01:05:32,625 But I gotta tell you, 1177 01:05:32,709 --> 01:05:34,166 in the middle of all those monkeys, 1178 01:05:34,250 --> 01:05:37,500 and all that monkey shit, you were the one thing 1179 01:05:37,583 --> 01:05:39,166 that made my troop salute. 1180 01:05:41,834 --> 01:05:44,250 Is that why you asked to see me, Mr. Zanuck? 1181 01:05:44,333 --> 01:05:48,917 - You know, this is my studio, and when I see an entertainer 1182 01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,583 with such extraordinary assets, 1183 01:05:51,667 --> 01:05:54,500 I want to make sure that 20th Century Fox 1184 01:05:54,583 --> 01:05:56,667 further explores that entertainer. 1185 01:05:56,750 --> 01:05:59,542 - Could we...I thought we were here to discuss a deal. 1186 01:05:59,625 --> 01:06:02,083 I have seen the "Carmen" dailies. 1187 01:06:03,291 --> 01:06:05,208 And you're on fire. 1188 01:06:08,041 --> 01:06:10,041 And I felt the heat. 1189 01:06:12,625 --> 01:06:13,667 - I hope you don't think 1190 01:06:13,750 --> 01:06:15,750 we colored girls drop our panties 1191 01:06:15,834 --> 01:06:19,250 every time one of you white boys pays us a compliment. 1192 01:06:19,333 --> 01:06:21,291 Dorothy, I... 1193 01:06:21,375 --> 01:06:22,792 I don't think Mr. Zanuck is say... 1194 01:06:22,875 --> 01:06:24,125 Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1195 01:06:24,208 --> 01:06:27,083 That's the trouble with you people. 1196 01:06:28,458 --> 01:06:30,125 The colored race 1197 01:06:30,208 --> 01:06:32,208 is always focused 1198 01:06:32,291 --> 01:06:33,959 on the treatment you expect to get 1199 01:06:34,041 --> 01:06:36,291 instead of the treatment you're getting. 1200 01:06:36,375 --> 01:06:39,542 I'm trying to offer you a three-picture contract here. 1201 01:06:43,333 --> 01:06:44,792 - We're listening. 1202 01:06:44,875 --> 01:06:47,417 - The public isn't ready for a colored leading lady. 1203 01:06:47,500 --> 01:06:49,250 - Well... - Not yet. 1204 01:06:49,333 --> 01:06:52,375 But I know she's a star, 1205 01:06:52,458 --> 01:06:54,166 so I got a plan. 1206 01:06:54,250 --> 01:06:56,917 We're gonna smooth the way. 1207 01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,125 We're gonna let people get to know you. 1208 01:06:59,208 --> 01:07:01,166 - Won't they already know her as Carmen? 1209 01:07:01,250 --> 01:07:02,667 Carmen's just the beginning. 1210 01:07:02,750 --> 01:07:05,625 I'm gonna do a remake of "The Blue Angel," 1211 01:07:05,709 --> 01:07:07,375 with you as a Negro girl. 1212 01:07:07,458 --> 01:07:09,333 Then I'm gonna have you play an Italian girl 1213 01:07:09,417 --> 01:07:11,166 in a foreign legion picture, 1214 01:07:11,250 --> 01:07:13,041 then a Mexican girl. 1215 01:07:13,125 --> 01:07:15,417 By this time two years from now, 1216 01:07:15,500 --> 01:07:18,291 the public's gonna love you so much as the Mexican lead, 1217 01:07:18,375 --> 01:07:20,208 as the Italian lead, that they'll beg to see you 1218 01:07:20,291 --> 01:07:22,291 in any white role. 1219 01:07:23,709 --> 01:07:26,250 You're gonna be a huge star, Dorothy. 1220 01:07:26,333 --> 01:07:27,875 Just huge. 1221 01:07:29,083 --> 01:07:31,041 - So what kind of deal are we talking about? 1222 01:07:31,125 --> 01:07:33,917 - 30,000, escalating to 75. 1223 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,375 - 50,000, escalating to 100. 1224 01:07:36,458 --> 01:07:38,959 - 75, escalating to 125. 1225 01:07:40,875 --> 01:07:42,625 - That's a lot of money. 1226 01:07:44,041 --> 01:07:46,041 - We won't accept a penny less. 1227 01:07:46,125 --> 01:07:47,792 - That's not what you said to Ava Gardner. 1228 01:07:47,875 --> 01:07:49,792 - Well, Ava Gardner's the number-one box office girl 1229 01:07:49,875 --> 01:07:50,959 in the business. 1230 01:07:51,041 --> 01:07:53,542 - Not after "Carmen" comes out, she isn't. 1231 01:08:00,166 --> 01:08:03,000 Okay. All right. Here you go. 1232 01:08:03,083 --> 01:08:04,792 Come on, come on. 1233 01:08:09,834 --> 01:08:11,250 - Ava Gardner's salary? 1234 01:08:11,333 --> 01:08:13,375 - Her manager's percentage? 1235 01:08:14,792 --> 01:08:17,375 - Where did you learn to horse-trade like that? 1236 01:08:17,458 --> 01:08:19,417 - Otto coached me. 1237 01:08:32,792 --> 01:08:34,917 - The Last Frontier Hotel is proud to welcome 1238 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,291 Miss Dandridge as their first Negro guest. 1239 01:08:37,375 --> 01:08:39,750 We look forward to her performances. 1240 01:08:39,834 --> 01:08:41,917 The chefs are at her disposal. 1241 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:43,750 Meals will be delivered to her room. 1242 01:08:43,834 --> 01:08:45,834 She can have any dish she likes. 1243 01:08:45,917 --> 01:08:48,250 - You're saying she can't use the dining room. 1244 01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:50,291 - What about the restrooms backstage? 1245 01:08:50,375 --> 01:08:51,500 Can I at least use the restroom? 1246 01:08:51,583 --> 01:08:53,041 - She can, right? - Well, uh... 1247 01:08:53,125 --> 01:08:54,333 - Oh, now, look, 1248 01:08:54,417 --> 01:08:56,792 I was told Dorothy would be extended every courtesy. 1249 01:08:56,875 --> 01:08:59,917 - She will be, in her room. - Oh, here we go. 1250 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,458 - The casino and the restaurant are obviously off-limits. 1251 01:09:02,542 --> 01:09:04,875 The club too except, of course, when she is performing, 1252 01:09:04,959 --> 01:09:06,959 and the pool. 1253 01:09:07,041 --> 01:09:08,000 - I can't use the pool? 1254 01:09:08,083 --> 01:09:09,500 - I don't believe this. 1255 01:09:09,583 --> 01:09:12,250 - If she got in the pool, it would have to be drained. 1256 01:09:12,333 --> 01:09:13,542 - Drained? 1257 01:09:13,625 --> 01:09:14,792 - Health reasons. 1258 01:09:14,875 --> 01:09:19,291 Listen, this is Las Vegas. 1259 01:09:19,375 --> 01:09:20,959 Mr. Mills? 1260 01:09:23,041 --> 01:09:24,625 I tell you what, I can take 1261 01:09:24,709 --> 01:09:27,709 one of the smaller bathrooms backstage, 1262 01:09:27,792 --> 01:09:31,291 mark it, uh, "Coloreds Only." 1263 01:09:31,375 --> 01:09:32,834 Now, won't that be nice? 1264 01:09:32,917 --> 01:09:34,542 - Swell. 1265 01:09:34,625 --> 01:09:36,625 - Don't forget your key. 1266 01:09:36,709 --> 01:09:37,834 Have a good stay. 1267 01:09:37,917 --> 01:09:39,083 Jerk. 1268 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,667 Can I get you something? 1269 01:09:52,750 --> 01:09:53,709 Coffee? 1270 01:09:53,792 --> 01:09:54,917 Tea? 1271 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,000 Baseball bat? 1272 01:09:57,083 --> 01:09:58,834 - Go ahead, Earl. Make jokes. 1273 01:09:58,917 --> 01:10:01,750 Tonight I'll take my bows and exit stage rear, 1274 01:10:01,834 --> 01:10:03,583 go through the kitchen, past the casino, 1275 01:10:03,667 --> 01:10:04,834 around the pool 1276 01:10:04,917 --> 01:10:06,542 that I'm apparently too dirty to swim in, 1277 01:10:06,625 --> 01:10:07,792 up the service elevator, 1278 01:10:07,875 --> 01:10:09,834 into my luxurious penthouse suite, 1279 01:10:09,917 --> 01:10:11,500 sip my complimentary champagne, 1280 01:10:11,583 --> 01:10:14,458 and pee in a brand-new Dixie cup! 1281 01:10:16,667 --> 01:10:19,000 - I take that walk with you every night, you know. 1282 01:10:19,083 --> 01:10:22,959 - But the difference is, Earl, you don't have to. 1283 01:10:24,291 --> 01:10:26,625 - That's true. I don't. 1284 01:10:26,709 --> 01:10:28,542 - I'm in a big picture. 1285 01:10:28,625 --> 01:10:30,125 Somehow, I thought this time, 1286 01:10:30,208 --> 01:10:31,875 things would be a little bit different. 1287 01:10:31,959 --> 01:10:33,041 - I know, I know. 1288 01:10:33,125 --> 01:10:34,542 You're right. 1289 01:10:34,625 --> 01:10:36,291 You're right. 1290 01:10:36,375 --> 01:10:37,875 But, Dorothy, 1291 01:10:37,959 --> 01:10:40,667 you're the first Negro to play here. 1292 01:10:40,750 --> 01:10:42,875 You're the first, the first. 1293 01:10:42,959 --> 01:10:45,417 You're the first to stay in this hotel. 1294 01:10:45,500 --> 01:10:48,250 You're the highest-paid ever. 1295 01:10:48,333 --> 01:10:49,542 Angel face... 1296 01:10:49,625 --> 01:10:52,250 you make it possible for it to be different 1297 01:10:52,333 --> 01:10:54,917 next time for somebody else. 1298 01:10:55,041 --> 01:10:57,166 Now, come on. 1299 01:10:57,250 --> 01:10:59,000 Hmm? 1300 01:10:59,083 --> 01:11:01,333 I know you got the moxie to do this. 1301 01:11:01,417 --> 01:11:03,917 - How do you know what I've got? 1302 01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,500 - Because... 1303 01:11:09,625 --> 01:11:11,875 Because I love you. 1304 01:11:21,500 --> 01:11:23,166 - Why, Earl Mills. 1305 01:11:29,750 --> 01:11:31,083 Well... 1306 01:11:32,667 --> 01:11:34,834 - So now what do we do? 1307 01:11:36,375 --> 01:11:37,875 - Whatever you want. 1308 01:11:48,083 --> 01:11:50,542 There's one over there. - Yes. 1309 01:11:54,625 --> 01:11:55,917 - Excuse me. 1310 01:11:57,583 --> 01:11:59,792 Uh, can I help you? 1311 01:11:59,875 --> 01:12:01,458 - Uh, yes, actually, you can. 1312 01:12:01,542 --> 01:12:03,375 The mints on my pillow were stale. 1313 01:12:03,458 --> 01:12:04,667 Could you take care of that? 1314 01:12:04,750 --> 01:12:06,959 - Perhaps Miss Dandridge would be more comfortable 1315 01:12:07,041 --> 01:12:08,208 in her room? 1316 01:12:08,291 --> 01:12:10,542 - Miss Dandridge is quite comfortable, thank you. 1317 01:12:10,625 --> 01:12:12,083 - Are you sure? - Very. 1318 01:12:12,166 --> 01:12:15,041 What a lovely pool you have here. 1319 01:12:15,125 --> 01:12:16,875 - Miss Dandridge, please. 1320 01:12:19,375 --> 01:12:21,875 Oh! Oh, my. 1321 01:12:21,959 --> 01:12:23,166 - Oh, my gosh. 1322 01:12:23,250 --> 01:12:24,875 The water's quite cold, 1323 01:12:24,959 --> 01:12:26,667 but lovely nonetheless. 1324 01:12:29,709 --> 01:12:31,000 - I hope you're happy. 1325 01:12:31,083 --> 01:12:32,542 - No. 1326 01:12:32,625 --> 01:12:34,625 I'm not happy at all. 1327 01:12:34,709 --> 01:12:37,583 Negroes cannot swim in this pool! 1328 01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:01,709 - Fantastic, as usual. 1329 01:13:01,792 --> 01:13:04,125 Thanks. 1330 01:13:05,333 --> 01:13:06,709 - Good night. - Night. 1331 01:13:06,792 --> 01:13:08,542 Good night. 1332 01:13:30,500 --> 01:13:32,542 Ladies and gentlemen, Dorothy Dandridge 1333 01:13:32,625 --> 01:13:36,000 here at the New York premiere of "Carmen Jones." 1334 01:13:37,542 --> 01:13:38,709 And here's Robert Wagner... 1335 01:13:38,792 --> 01:13:40,208 - Thank you. 1336 01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:41,792 The mayor of New York City. 1337 01:13:41,875 --> 01:13:44,083 You look beautiful. 1338 01:13:44,166 --> 01:13:45,875 - Miss Dandridge. - Oh. 1339 01:13:45,959 --> 01:13:48,166 - May we have you take some pictures with Mr. Belafonte 1340 01:13:48,250 --> 01:13:49,750 for the press, if you wouldn't mind? 1341 01:13:49,834 --> 01:13:51,750 Congratulations on the film. 1342 01:13:51,834 --> 01:13:52,917 - Harry. 1343 01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,250 - Nice big smile. 1344 01:13:54,333 --> 01:13:56,083 - How wonderful you both look. Yeah, this is good. 1345 01:13:56,166 --> 01:13:58,709 Otto Preminger, director of "Carmen Jones." 1346 01:13:58,792 --> 01:14:00,250 - Here's Mr. Preminger. 1347 01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,208 Mr. Preminger. 1348 01:14:05,291 --> 01:14:07,834 May we get some photos of you, sir, with your cast? 1349 01:14:09,959 --> 01:14:13,291 And your wife, too, of course, if she wouldn't mind. 1350 01:14:13,375 --> 01:14:14,959 Pearl Bailey. 1351 01:14:15,041 --> 01:14:17,291 Miss Bailey, would you say a few words to the press? 1352 01:14:17,375 --> 01:14:19,917 All right, everyone smile, please. 1353 01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,417 Close together, please. Tighter. 1354 01:14:25,041 --> 01:14:27,083 - How dare you parade her in front of me? 1355 01:14:29,083 --> 01:14:30,500 - I didn't know she was coming. 1356 01:14:30,583 --> 01:14:32,500 - It was my night, Otto. 1357 01:14:32,583 --> 01:14:34,583 You won't be seen with me in public, but then I have to 1358 01:14:34,667 --> 01:14:37,041 watch you traipse around with her. 1359 01:14:38,875 --> 01:14:40,291 - She's my wife. 1360 01:14:40,375 --> 01:14:42,417 - Tell her to leave. 1361 01:14:42,500 --> 01:14:44,291 You have an understanding, remember? 1362 01:14:44,375 --> 01:14:47,041 She openly makes the rounds, Otto, with another man, 1363 01:14:47,125 --> 01:14:48,458 and you don't complain about it. 1364 01:14:48,542 --> 01:14:51,750 So why couldn't you spend the evening with me? 1365 01:14:51,834 --> 01:14:53,875 - There's not just you and me. 1366 01:14:53,959 --> 01:14:55,875 There are others to take care of, 1367 01:14:55,959 --> 01:14:57,166 there's a movie to take care of... 1368 01:14:57,250 --> 01:14:59,291 - I don't care about the movie. 1369 01:15:04,208 --> 01:15:05,667 - You do. 1370 01:15:12,583 --> 01:15:16,333 This is America, land of opportunity, 1371 01:15:16,417 --> 01:15:18,834 but it's America. 1372 01:15:18,917 --> 01:15:23,166 If it got out that we were together... 1373 01:15:23,250 --> 01:15:25,792 the movie would never open. 1374 01:15:28,166 --> 01:15:31,166 And I want you to be a star. 1375 01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:33,250 I want you to have everything. 1376 01:15:33,333 --> 01:15:36,083 What you deserve. 1377 01:15:36,166 --> 01:15:38,500 My... 1378 01:15:38,583 --> 01:15:40,667 our movie... 1379 01:15:40,750 --> 01:15:43,083 will change everything. 1380 01:15:44,125 --> 01:15:46,375 - I won't just be a mistress. 1381 01:15:46,458 --> 01:15:48,125 Everything. 1382 01:15:57,959 --> 01:16:00,125 We will be together 1383 01:16:00,208 --> 01:16:02,208 when the time is right. 1384 01:16:02,291 --> 01:16:04,333 - So we're getting married? 1385 01:16:06,041 --> 01:16:08,375 - When the time is right. 1386 01:16:15,792 --> 01:16:17,750 You were always reminding me 1387 01:16:17,834 --> 01:16:21,625 of my responsibility, Geri. 1388 01:16:21,709 --> 01:16:24,250 You were so aware. 1389 01:16:24,333 --> 01:16:27,208 I thought things would just fall into place. 1390 01:16:27,291 --> 01:16:31,083 If I wanted something badly enough, it'd just happen. 1391 01:16:35,709 --> 01:16:38,750 - Latest box office reports through the roof. 1392 01:16:38,834 --> 01:16:40,291 - Mmm, and when that reporter asked me 1393 01:16:40,375 --> 01:16:41,917 why I thought whites were flocking 1394 01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,166 to see an all-Negro picture, you know what I said? 1395 01:16:44,250 --> 01:16:45,500 What? 1396 01:16:45,583 --> 01:16:47,583 - I guess people just like to look at me. 1397 01:16:47,667 --> 01:16:49,083 Yeah, you know it. 1398 01:16:49,166 --> 01:16:52,083 I'm getting offers. From studios. 1399 01:16:52,166 --> 01:16:53,458 With love scenes. 1400 01:16:53,542 --> 01:16:55,917 - They've just realized that colored folk 1401 01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:57,709 have sex like everybody else. 1402 01:16:57,792 --> 01:17:01,083 - What's important is how well the picture's doing down South. 1403 01:17:01,166 --> 01:17:02,625 It's a big step. I'm telling you, 1404 01:17:02,709 --> 01:17:04,291 integration can't be far behind. 1405 01:17:04,375 --> 01:17:06,083 With that, another bottle of champagne. 1406 01:17:06,166 --> 01:17:07,625 - Hear, hear! - Waiter. 1407 01:17:07,709 --> 01:17:09,041 - Yes, sir? - Two more bottles, please. 1408 01:17:09,125 --> 01:17:10,750 - No more for you, Vivvy. 1409 01:17:13,667 --> 01:17:14,834 - Viv. 1410 01:17:14,917 --> 01:17:17,000 - Well, I want to know what you're wearing 1411 01:17:17,083 --> 01:17:18,125 to the Academy Awards. 1412 01:17:18,208 --> 01:17:20,250 - Geri, can't ask me that. 1413 01:17:20,333 --> 01:17:21,875 - Why not? - It's bad luck. 1414 01:17:21,959 --> 01:17:24,250 - You think you're queen of the fuckin' world, don't you? 1415 01:17:24,333 --> 01:17:26,125 Everybody's talking about "Carmen," 1416 01:17:26,208 --> 01:17:28,583 the film industry's colored whore. 1417 01:17:28,667 --> 01:17:29,959 - Lower your voice, Vivvy. 1418 01:17:30,041 --> 01:17:31,458 - You think just because you become a big film star 1419 01:17:31,542 --> 01:17:33,709 by shaking your tail that people aren't 1420 01:17:33,792 --> 01:17:35,375 gonna treat you like you're colored? 1421 01:17:35,458 --> 01:17:36,792 - Vivvy, why don't you let me take you home? 1422 01:17:36,875 --> 01:17:39,709 - No. Well, I'm somethin', too. 1423 01:17:39,792 --> 01:17:41,959 I'm somethin', too! 1424 01:17:42,041 --> 01:17:45,959 I'm more than Dorothy Dandridge's big sister! 1425 01:17:46,041 --> 01:17:47,250 - Shh, shh, shh. 1426 01:17:49,208 --> 01:17:50,166 - You ever notice that? 1427 01:17:50,250 --> 01:17:52,375 Do you ever notice that, any of you? 1428 01:17:52,458 --> 01:17:54,000 - Why don't you go home with Earl? 1429 01:17:54,083 --> 01:17:55,667 - I don't wanna go! - Come on, come on. 1430 01:17:55,750 --> 01:17:58,333 - I don't wanna go. - Get in the car and go, Vivvy! 1431 01:17:58,417 --> 01:17:59,917 - No! - Let's go. Come on. 1432 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,083 Shh, shh. 1433 01:18:01,166 --> 01:18:02,333 Vivvy, Vivvy. 1434 01:18:02,417 --> 01:18:05,250 - You're not gonna win an Oscar, Dottie. 1435 01:18:05,333 --> 01:18:06,667 They already gave us one. 1436 01:18:06,750 --> 01:18:08,667 - All right, let's go, Vivvy. 1437 01:18:08,750 --> 01:18:09,834 Let's go. 1438 01:18:09,917 --> 01:18:12,917 No! 1439 01:18:14,750 --> 01:18:17,166 - Go. - No! No. 1440 01:18:18,917 --> 01:18:21,667 - You want her to play...Tuptim? 1441 01:18:21,750 --> 01:18:23,125 Who is Tuptim? 1442 01:18:23,208 --> 01:18:24,625 That's not the lead role. 1443 01:18:24,709 --> 01:18:26,166 - Dorothy, look, 1444 01:18:26,250 --> 01:18:28,417 listen to me. 1445 01:18:28,500 --> 01:18:32,750 Sometimes you do a picture just because it's big. 1446 01:18:32,834 --> 01:18:34,875 "The King and I" is going to be huge. 1447 01:18:34,959 --> 01:18:37,625 It'll be seen by millions and millions of people, 1448 01:18:37,709 --> 01:18:39,709 far more than ever saw "Carmen," 1449 01:18:39,792 --> 01:18:43,709 and I'm telling you, Tuptim is a good role. 1450 01:18:43,792 --> 01:18:46,166 - She'll be paid her regular salary? 1451 01:18:46,250 --> 01:18:47,875 - Of course. - And it fulfills 1452 01:18:47,959 --> 01:18:50,166 one of the three pictures she's committed to doing here? 1453 01:18:50,250 --> 01:18:52,125 - Yes, Earl, absolutely. 1454 01:18:54,458 --> 01:18:56,625 - I...we have to think about this. 1455 01:18:56,709 --> 01:18:58,667 I'll let you... - I'll do it. 1456 01:18:58,750 --> 01:19:00,125 - Dorothy. - I'll do it. 1457 01:19:00,208 --> 01:19:02,291 - She says she'll do it. 1458 01:19:04,917 --> 01:19:06,959 - Actually, I think a toast is called for, 1459 01:19:07,041 --> 01:19:08,291 ladies and gentlemen. 1460 01:19:08,375 --> 01:19:09,875 Toast... - Toast. 1461 01:19:09,959 --> 01:19:11,959 - To the first colored woman 1462 01:19:12,041 --> 01:19:15,667 ever nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress. 1463 01:19:15,750 --> 01:19:16,750 To Dorothy. 1464 01:19:16,834 --> 01:19:17,917 - Hear, hear. 1465 01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,709 - Yeah. - Oh, baby. 1466 01:19:19,792 --> 01:19:21,250 - Mama. Thank you. 1467 01:19:21,333 --> 01:19:23,709 - Congratulations. Yeah. - Thank you. 1468 01:19:23,792 --> 01:19:25,792 - Congratulations to you. 1469 01:19:25,875 --> 01:19:27,000 - Thank you. 1470 01:19:30,875 --> 01:19:32,291 For the last three days, 1471 01:19:32,375 --> 01:19:35,125 I haven't been able to eat waiting for these nominations 1472 01:19:35,208 --> 01:19:36,417 to come out. 1473 01:19:36,500 --> 01:19:39,083 And, Mama, you know I'm tellin' the truth. 1474 01:19:39,166 --> 01:19:41,917 But now, who wants some chitlins? 1475 01:19:43,709 --> 01:19:45,792 - Oh, she's beautiful, isn't she? 1476 01:19:50,709 --> 01:19:53,917 Oh, I have no idea what I'm going to wear. 1477 01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:55,917 - I don't think you should do 1478 01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,375 the Tuptim part after all. 1479 01:19:58,458 --> 01:20:01,458 - But I already said I would. 1480 01:20:05,250 --> 01:20:07,041 - That was before you were 1481 01:20:07,125 --> 01:20:09,125 an Academy Award-nominated actress. 1482 01:20:09,208 --> 01:20:13,792 - Well, but I'm not exactly being offered anything else. 1483 01:20:16,333 --> 01:20:19,542 - You sing...nightclubs 1484 01:20:19,625 --> 01:20:23,375 until a real role comes along. 1485 01:20:25,917 --> 01:20:29,000 And I will make a movie soon. 1486 01:20:29,083 --> 01:20:31,125 - Zanuck said that Tuptim was a good part. 1487 01:20:31,208 --> 01:20:32,959 - Mm-hmm. - And he really thinks 1488 01:20:33,041 --> 01:20:34,250 it's something I should do. 1489 01:20:34,333 --> 01:20:37,291 - None of the other nominees have to play slaves. 1490 01:20:37,375 --> 01:20:39,917 - Wait a minute. What are you saying? 1491 01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,625 She's already agreed to play the part. 1492 01:20:50,166 --> 01:20:51,500 - I've changed my mind. 1493 01:20:51,583 --> 01:20:54,959 I don't think I should have to play a slave. 1494 01:20:55,041 --> 01:20:57,583 - You can't change your mind. 1495 01:20:57,667 --> 01:20:58,917 You shook hands with Zanuck. 1496 01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,291 - You don't see Audrey Hepburn playin' a slave. 1497 01:21:01,375 --> 01:21:03,917 - Well, you're not Audrey Hepburn. 1498 01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,375 - No. Hmm! 1499 01:21:05,458 --> 01:21:06,750 She's Dorothy Dandridge. 1500 01:21:06,834 --> 01:21:08,500 - Oh, excuse me, Otto, but Zanuck's not going 1501 01:21:08,583 --> 01:21:10,166 to stand for this, and you know it. 1502 01:21:10,250 --> 01:21:12,041 She'll be dead at Fox, she'll be dead 1503 01:21:12,125 --> 01:21:13,500 at every other studio in town. 1504 01:21:13,583 --> 01:21:16,083 Dorothy... - I will not play Tuptim. 1505 01:21:16,166 --> 01:21:19,041 Who is this talking? 1506 01:21:19,125 --> 01:21:20,500 Is this you? 1507 01:21:20,583 --> 01:21:22,000 Is this you or is this Otto? 1508 01:21:22,083 --> 01:21:24,542 - I make my own decisions. 1509 01:21:24,625 --> 01:21:27,542 - Dorothy, please, please, listen to me. 1510 01:21:27,625 --> 01:21:28,917 Don't do this. 1511 01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,834 If you do what Otto wants... 1512 01:21:31,917 --> 01:21:34,000 I won't be able to protect you this time... 1513 01:21:34,083 --> 01:21:36,166 - And when exactly did you protect me? 1514 01:21:36,250 --> 01:21:37,375 When I was peein' in the cup 1515 01:21:37,458 --> 01:21:39,667 or when they were drainin' the pool? 1516 01:21:43,333 --> 01:21:44,458 - All right. 1517 01:21:46,625 --> 01:21:47,709 All right. 1518 01:21:49,208 --> 01:21:50,750 Well... 1519 01:21:50,834 --> 01:21:52,792 congratulations again... 1520 01:21:54,709 --> 01:21:56,000 To both of you. 1521 01:21:58,959 --> 01:22:01,667 Earl? Earl, where are you going? 1522 01:22:05,041 --> 01:22:07,417 - It'll be better without him. 1523 01:22:16,583 --> 01:22:18,792 Is here tonight in New York City... 1524 01:22:18,875 --> 01:22:20,250 Dorothy Dandridge, 1525 01:22:20,333 --> 01:22:22,917 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 1526 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,166 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 1527 01:22:25,250 --> 01:22:27,583 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, 1528 01:22:27,667 --> 01:22:28,917 and Jane Wyatt. 1529 01:22:40,041 --> 01:22:42,083 - Thank you, Bob. 1530 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,291 If I seem a little nervous... 1531 01:22:49,375 --> 01:22:53,291 this is as big a moment for me 1532 01:22:53,375 --> 01:22:57,583 as it will be for the winner of this award. 1533 01:22:57,667 --> 01:22:59,709 For Film Editing... 1534 01:23:03,625 --> 01:23:04,625 In Hollywood, 1535 01:23:04,709 --> 01:23:07,959 "On the Waterfront," Gene Milford. 1536 01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:15,166 Now, ladies and gentlemen, 1537 01:23:15,250 --> 01:23:16,834 here's the Academy Award 1538 01:23:16,917 --> 01:23:19,375 for Best Actress of the Year. 1539 01:23:21,333 --> 01:23:22,667 - Well, time is running short again, 1540 01:23:22,750 --> 01:23:24,417 so the award for the Best Performance 1541 01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:25,709 by an Actress... 1542 01:23:27,917 --> 01:23:29,291 Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl." 1543 01:23:43,917 --> 01:23:46,250 - I knew they wouldn't give it to one of us. 1544 01:23:51,417 --> 01:23:53,125 I did win 1545 01:23:53,208 --> 01:23:55,250 because I won in my heart. 1546 01:23:55,333 --> 01:23:57,542 Vivvy never did understand that. 1547 01:23:59,166 --> 01:24:00,834 Did I tell you Mama finally found out 1548 01:24:00,917 --> 01:24:03,333 that she moved to Canada? 1549 01:24:03,417 --> 01:24:06,333 Says she's got a little boy 1550 01:24:06,417 --> 01:24:10,375 and that she's happy. 1551 01:24:10,458 --> 01:24:12,291 I hope so. 1552 01:24:16,250 --> 01:24:18,375 You never realize 1553 01:24:18,458 --> 01:24:21,875 the last time you see somebody... 1554 01:24:21,959 --> 01:24:23,959 that it is the last time. 1555 01:24:28,625 --> 01:24:30,250 Few minutes, Miss Dandridge. 1556 01:24:30,333 --> 01:24:32,208 - Thank you. 1557 01:24:38,417 --> 01:24:39,834 Otto. 1558 01:24:43,208 --> 01:24:45,375 You made it. 1559 01:24:45,458 --> 01:24:48,917 So, what do you think of your choice? 1560 01:24:49,041 --> 01:24:50,667 Hmm? - Ah... 1561 01:24:50,750 --> 01:24:52,083 It's a wonderful dress. 1562 01:24:52,166 --> 01:24:53,959 Make a good team. 1563 01:24:54,041 --> 01:24:56,500 - After we're married, we'll make an even better team. 1564 01:24:56,583 --> 01:24:57,750 - Be patient. 1565 01:24:59,667 --> 01:25:03,041 You said... 1566 01:25:03,125 --> 01:25:04,667 when the time was right. 1567 01:25:04,750 --> 01:25:08,000 Well, the time is now right. It's 1957. 1568 01:25:08,083 --> 01:25:10,166 The world is changing. 1569 01:25:10,250 --> 01:25:13,834 If not here, Europe. We could work in Europe. 1570 01:25:15,917 --> 01:25:17,208 - Europe. 1571 01:25:21,417 --> 01:25:24,083 - You do love me, don't you? 1572 01:25:27,417 --> 01:25:29,834 - I will always love you. 1573 01:25:32,208 --> 01:25:34,750 - I want a honeymoon in Paris. 1574 01:25:34,834 --> 01:25:36,166 I'll get fat 1575 01:25:36,250 --> 01:25:37,291 and have lots of babies. 1576 01:25:37,375 --> 01:25:39,917 Boys, a house full of boys. 1577 01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:41,792 - Boys and girls. 1578 01:25:41,875 --> 01:25:43,583 - Okay. 1579 01:25:44,917 --> 01:25:46,208 - Beautiful dream. 1580 01:25:47,417 --> 01:25:49,583 - It's not a dream. 1581 01:25:53,166 --> 01:25:54,792 One minute, Miss Dandridge. 1582 01:25:54,875 --> 01:25:57,917 - You have to go onstage, and I have to get to my seat. 1583 01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:01,250 - The best seat in the house, table 15. 1584 01:26:05,542 --> 01:26:08,333 What? 1585 01:26:08,417 --> 01:26:09,375 - It's German. 1586 01:26:09,458 --> 01:26:11,333 Uh, break your leg. 1587 01:26:32,917 --> 01:26:34,458 Ladies and gentlemen, 1588 01:26:34,542 --> 01:26:37,000 the Mocambo welcomes back the delicious, 1589 01:26:37,083 --> 01:26:38,834 the divine, the delightful 1590 01:26:38,917 --> 01:26:40,166 Dorothy Dandridge. 1591 01:26:51,083 --> 01:26:53,709 - ♪ You do ♪ 1592 01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:56,792 ♪ Something to me ♪ 1593 01:26:56,875 --> 01:26:58,834 ♪ Something that simply ♪ 1594 01:26:58,917 --> 01:27:02,375 ♪ Mystifies me ♪ 1595 01:27:02,458 --> 01:27:05,250 ♪ Tell me ♪ 1596 01:27:05,333 --> 01:27:08,792 ♪ Why should it be ♪ 1597 01:27:08,875 --> 01:27:10,625 ♪ You've got the power ♪ 1598 01:27:10,709 --> 01:27:13,875 ♪ To hypnotize me? ♪ 1599 01:27:13,959 --> 01:27:17,834 ♪ Let me live ♪ 1600 01:27:17,917 --> 01:27:19,750 ♪ 'Neath your spell ♪ 1601 01:27:19,834 --> 01:27:22,166 ♪ You do that voodoo ♪ 1602 01:27:22,250 --> 01:27:25,291 ♪ That you do so well ♪ 1603 01:27:25,375 --> 01:27:28,542 ♪ You do ♪ 1604 01:27:28,625 --> 01:27:30,542 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1605 01:27:30,625 --> 01:27:35,333 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1606 01:27:35,417 --> 01:27:37,333 ♪ Can do ♪ 1607 01:27:41,166 --> 01:27:42,792 ♪ You do somethin' ♪ 1608 01:27:42,875 --> 01:27:44,208 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1609 01:27:44,291 --> 01:27:48,667 ♪ Somethin' that simply mystifies me ♪ 1610 01:27:48,750 --> 01:27:52,041 ♪ Tell me, tell me why should it be ♪ 1611 01:27:52,125 --> 01:27:55,917 ♪ You've got the power to hypnotize me? ♪ 1612 01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,417 ♪ Let me live 'neath your spell ♪ 1613 01:27:59,500 --> 01:28:03,500 ♪ You do that voodoo that you do so well ♪ 1614 01:28:03,583 --> 01:28:05,959 ♪ Oh, you do ♪ 1615 01:28:06,041 --> 01:28:07,500 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1616 01:28:07,583 --> 01:28:09,208 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1617 01:28:12,667 --> 01:28:17,125 ♪ Can do ♪ 1618 01:28:44,500 --> 01:28:46,375 ♪ You do ♪ 1619 01:28:46,458 --> 01:28:47,834 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1620 01:28:47,917 --> 01:28:50,709 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1621 01:28:55,375 --> 01:28:59,375 ♪ Can do ♪ 1622 01:29:15,250 --> 01:29:17,917 ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 1623 01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:18,959 - Thank you. 1624 01:29:19,041 --> 01:29:20,500 ♪ To care ♪ 1625 01:29:20,583 --> 01:29:23,792 ♪ For somebody ♪ 1626 01:29:26,875 --> 01:29:31,834 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 1627 01:29:31,917 --> 01:29:35,792 ♪ With somebody ♪ 1628 01:29:39,125 --> 01:29:43,542 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 1629 01:30:00,417 --> 01:30:01,792 Who is it? 1630 01:30:03,625 --> 01:30:04,667 - Jack Denison. 1631 01:30:04,750 --> 01:30:07,041 I'm the manager here at the Riviera. 1632 01:30:07,125 --> 01:30:08,291 - Yes? 1633 01:30:10,208 --> 01:30:12,041 - I wanted to tell you what a thrill it is 1634 01:30:12,125 --> 01:30:13,875 having you here with us. 1635 01:30:13,959 --> 01:30:15,333 - Thank you. 1636 01:30:15,417 --> 01:30:17,375 Um, if you don't mind, Mr. Denison, 1637 01:30:17,458 --> 01:30:19,792 I'm a bit tired, so, uh... 1638 01:30:19,875 --> 01:30:22,834 - Oh, no. I just came by to bring you these. 1639 01:30:23,875 --> 01:30:25,250 Daisies. 1640 01:30:25,333 --> 01:30:26,875 - Compliments of the hotel. 1641 01:30:26,959 --> 01:30:28,583 I hope they're all right. 1642 01:30:28,667 --> 01:30:30,750 - Yes, they're...they're lovely. Thank you. 1643 01:30:30,834 --> 01:30:34,500 Just an unusual choice, that's all. 1644 01:30:34,583 --> 01:30:38,250 Someone very special to me loved daisies. 1645 01:30:38,333 --> 01:30:39,583 She died. 1646 01:30:39,667 --> 01:30:41,375 Childbirth. 1647 01:30:42,542 --> 01:30:43,792 - Childbirth? 1648 01:30:43,875 --> 01:30:45,417 She was a lovely woman. 1649 01:30:46,500 --> 01:30:48,083 We were to be married. 1650 01:30:49,709 --> 01:30:52,500 She went into labor early. We were on vacation, 1651 01:30:52,583 --> 01:30:55,083 and no white hospital in the area would take her. 1652 01:30:55,166 --> 01:30:58,083 - She was a colored girl? 1653 01:30:58,166 --> 01:31:01,250 - Try to put flowers on her grave every week 1654 01:31:01,333 --> 01:31:03,667 and on our child's. 1655 01:31:03,750 --> 01:31:05,792 - That's lovely. 1656 01:31:05,875 --> 01:31:07,041 Um... 1657 01:31:08,709 --> 01:31:11,208 Have...have a seat. Stay if you want. 1658 01:31:11,291 --> 01:31:12,458 Go on. 1659 01:31:13,875 --> 01:31:14,792 - Please, 1660 01:31:14,875 --> 01:31:17,375 let me do that for you. 1661 01:31:25,542 --> 01:31:26,625 - Thank you. 1662 01:31:27,875 --> 01:31:29,291 Dottie Mae, I'm tellin' you, 1663 01:31:29,375 --> 01:31:30,959 don't marry that man. 1664 01:31:31,041 --> 01:31:32,291 He ain't no good. 1665 01:31:32,375 --> 01:31:34,792 I can feel it all in my bones. 1666 01:31:34,875 --> 01:31:37,291 - I'll tell you one thing Auntie was right about. 1667 01:31:37,375 --> 01:31:40,625 A man and 5 cents'll pay a colored girl's fare 1668 01:31:40,709 --> 01:31:43,709 all the way to nowhere. 1669 01:31:52,583 --> 01:31:55,000 - Miss Dandridge, I've been looking for you. 1670 01:31:55,083 --> 01:31:56,834 They brought in a new director. 1671 01:31:56,917 --> 01:31:59,667 - Who is it? - Miss Dandridge! 1672 01:32:07,333 --> 01:32:09,208 Mr. Poitier and I have been ready to shoot 1673 01:32:09,291 --> 01:32:10,542 for some minutes now. 1674 01:32:10,625 --> 01:32:12,417 - I've only just arrived myself. 1675 01:32:12,500 --> 01:32:15,083 - I have seen the rushes. 1676 01:32:15,166 --> 01:32:17,542 Your performance is not credible, 1677 01:32:17,625 --> 01:32:19,000 almost ridiculous. 1678 01:32:19,083 --> 01:32:20,583 - I don't think that was necessary. 1679 01:32:20,667 --> 01:32:24,333 - Would you care to direct the picture, Mr. Poitier? 1680 01:32:24,417 --> 01:32:25,750 Would you? 1681 01:32:30,792 --> 01:32:32,375 So, 1682 01:32:32,458 --> 01:32:34,583 in the scene, 1683 01:32:34,667 --> 01:32:37,041 you have just been raped, right? 1684 01:32:37,125 --> 01:32:40,417 You are supposed to be upset, broken. 1685 01:32:40,500 --> 01:32:43,625 Instead, you have been prancing around 1686 01:32:43,709 --> 01:32:46,375 like a queen on her throne, 1687 01:32:46,458 --> 01:32:47,792 using glycerin tears 1688 01:32:47,875 --> 01:32:49,750 because you are too lazy to make yourself cry. 1689 01:32:49,834 --> 01:32:52,417 - I'm not lazy. - You are pathetic! 1690 01:32:52,500 --> 01:32:53,959 What happened to you? 1691 01:32:54,917 --> 01:32:56,959 You used to be a beautiful thing. 1692 01:32:57,041 --> 01:32:58,709 Now you're nothing, and if you're going 1693 01:32:58,792 --> 01:33:02,417 to mess up my picture, you little sniveling brat, 1694 01:33:02,500 --> 01:33:06,125 then I will make sure that you will never work again. 1695 01:33:06,208 --> 01:33:07,291 Good. 1696 01:33:07,375 --> 01:33:09,166 Places, everybody! 1697 01:33:10,834 --> 01:33:12,750 Move! 1698 01:33:19,834 --> 01:33:22,458 - Real tears, finally. 1699 01:33:22,542 --> 01:33:24,208 Page? 1700 01:33:24,291 --> 01:33:25,709 Roll 'em. 1701 01:33:25,792 --> 01:33:27,041 Roll 'em. 1702 01:33:27,125 --> 01:33:28,667 - Speed. - Rolling. 1703 01:33:31,250 --> 01:33:35,250 - Do you think he ever really loved me? 1704 01:33:35,333 --> 01:33:36,917 Hmm? 1705 01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:38,125 Dorothy, 1706 01:33:38,208 --> 01:33:41,291 you're not even over Otto. 1707 01:33:41,375 --> 01:33:42,542 Now, I'm your friend 1708 01:33:42,625 --> 01:33:44,166 and I'm telling you, now is the time 1709 01:33:44,250 --> 01:33:46,875 to concentrate on your career, 1710 01:33:46,959 --> 01:33:49,375 not on another white man. 1711 01:34:04,208 --> 01:34:05,583 - Jack? 1712 01:34:08,083 --> 01:34:09,917 - He had a child, 1713 01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:11,375 but she died with the mother 1714 01:34:11,458 --> 01:34:14,375 after he left them in a motel to starve. 1715 01:34:14,458 --> 01:34:15,792 He's a con man. 1716 01:34:15,875 --> 01:34:18,750 I hired a private investigator, and he told me. 1717 01:34:18,834 --> 01:34:21,583 Denison isn't worth the dirt under your feet. 1718 01:34:21,667 --> 01:34:24,667 - Sometimes you stand on the edge of a cliff 1719 01:34:24,750 --> 01:34:26,291 and you jump. 1720 01:34:26,375 --> 01:34:29,792 You jump because you're tired of being scared. 1721 01:34:29,875 --> 01:34:32,625 Sometimes you jump 1722 01:34:32,709 --> 01:34:35,458 just to see what it feels like to fall. 1723 01:34:49,250 --> 01:34:50,291 Jack? 1724 01:34:51,750 --> 01:34:53,333 Hi, honey. 1725 01:34:54,834 --> 01:34:56,542 It's 4:00. Do you think maybe 1726 01:34:56,625 --> 01:34:58,792 you should get yourself dressed? 1727 01:34:58,875 --> 01:35:00,250 - I am dressed. 1728 01:35:00,333 --> 01:35:03,250 Dressed for the work I do, which is nothin'. 1729 01:35:03,333 --> 01:35:05,542 When I get my club back, I'll get dressed, all right? 1730 01:35:05,625 --> 01:35:07,500 - Okay, fine. 1731 01:35:07,583 --> 01:35:09,709 Not tryin' to start a fight here, honey. 1732 01:35:09,792 --> 01:35:11,667 Can I get you somethin' else to drink? 1733 01:35:11,750 --> 01:35:14,000 - You said get dressed. What am I gonna get dressed for? 1734 01:35:14,083 --> 01:35:15,542 - Your day, your night. 1735 01:35:15,625 --> 01:35:17,709 Whatever. 1736 01:35:17,792 --> 01:35:19,458 - What did you mean by that? 1737 01:35:19,542 --> 01:35:20,709 Do you think I lost my club 1738 01:35:20,792 --> 01:35:22,125 sittin' around all day in my robe? 1739 01:35:22,208 --> 01:35:23,500 - No, honey. 1740 01:35:23,583 --> 01:35:25,417 You want to stay in your robe, then stay in your robe. 1741 01:35:25,500 --> 01:35:27,208 - I lost my club listenin' to you sing 1742 01:35:27,291 --> 01:35:28,709 in front of an empty house. 1743 01:35:28,792 --> 01:35:30,709 You're supposed to know people in this town, 1744 01:35:30,792 --> 01:35:32,250 but you don't know nobody. 1745 01:35:32,333 --> 01:35:34,083 - I lost most of my income singin' there, remember? 1746 01:35:34,166 --> 01:35:36,208 You never paid me a dime... - Are you saying that singin' 1747 01:35:36,291 --> 01:35:38,000 in the club hurt your career? - For any one of those dates. 1748 01:35:38,083 --> 01:35:39,417 - Is that what you're saying, that I hurt you? 1749 01:35:39,500 --> 01:35:40,750 - No! - What are you saying? 1750 01:35:40,834 --> 01:35:42,208 - I'm saying you need to calm down, honey. 1751 01:35:42,291 --> 01:35:43,792 - Remember... - I can't remember anything 1752 01:35:43,875 --> 01:35:45,750 with you bitching at me all night about my robe! 1753 01:35:49,250 --> 01:35:50,709 No, Jack, no! 1754 01:35:50,792 --> 01:35:52,125 No, Jack, don't! No! 1755 01:35:52,208 --> 01:35:54,041 No, Jack. 1756 01:35:54,125 --> 01:35:56,041 Don't, Jack! Don't do it... 1757 01:35:56,125 --> 01:35:57,750 Ah! Oh! 1758 01:35:57,834 --> 01:35:58,792 Jack! No! 1759 01:35:58,875 --> 01:36:00,792 No! Jack, no! 1760 01:36:00,875 --> 01:36:02,583 - Miss Dandridge, when did you find out 1761 01:36:02,667 --> 01:36:04,417 you owed over $127,000? 1762 01:36:04,500 --> 01:36:06,375 Were you responsible for the bank loans, 1763 01:36:06,458 --> 01:36:07,583 credit debts, and bad investments, 1764 01:36:07,667 --> 01:36:09,083 or was that your ex-husband? 1765 01:36:09,166 --> 01:36:10,834 - You declared bankruptcy, but what about the back taxes? 1766 01:36:10,917 --> 01:36:12,250 - She's not answering any questions. 1767 01:36:12,333 --> 01:36:14,709 - Is it true Mr. Denison pawned all your jewelry? 1768 01:36:14,792 --> 01:36:16,000 - Dorothy, give us a statement. 1769 01:36:17,291 --> 01:36:18,709 - Miss Dandridge, you have stated 1770 01:36:18,792 --> 01:36:21,291 your child is a danger to herself and others, 1771 01:36:21,375 --> 01:36:22,750 that you are unwilling to care for her, 1772 01:36:22,834 --> 01:36:25,792 and that you will relinquish parental rights? 1773 01:36:25,875 --> 01:36:28,417 - Well, I hired a caretaker, 1774 01:36:28,500 --> 01:36:30,083 but I haven't been able to make the payments 1775 01:36:30,166 --> 01:36:32,125 because I haven't had any... 1776 01:36:32,208 --> 01:36:33,625 - Yes, we've all heard the testimony. 1777 01:36:33,709 --> 01:36:36,917 Are you willing to relinquish parental rights? 1778 01:36:41,709 --> 01:36:43,333 - Yes. 1779 01:36:43,417 --> 01:36:44,959 Very well. Harolyn Nicholas 1780 01:36:45,041 --> 01:36:47,709 shall henceforth become a ward of the court. 1781 01:36:47,792 --> 01:36:49,709 Care will be provided by the state institution 1782 01:36:49,792 --> 01:36:51,625 in Camarillo, California. 1783 01:36:53,041 --> 01:36:55,959 - The Mocambo is proud to welcome back a woman 1784 01:36:56,041 --> 01:36:59,166 who has graced our stage many times. 1785 01:36:59,250 --> 01:37:00,291 Her star first rose here 1786 01:37:00,375 --> 01:37:02,792 a little over ten years ago in '51, 1787 01:37:02,875 --> 01:37:06,875 and her star hasn't stopped streaking our skies with light 1788 01:37:06,959 --> 01:37:08,250 ever since. 1789 01:37:08,333 --> 01:37:10,041 Dorothy Dandridge! 1790 01:37:26,500 --> 01:37:28,625 - ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 1791 01:37:28,709 --> 01:37:31,625 ♪ To care ♪ 1792 01:37:31,709 --> 01:37:35,333 ♪ For somebody ♪ 1793 01:37:38,291 --> 01:37:42,834 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 1794 01:37:42,917 --> 01:37:46,417 ♪ With somebody ♪ 1795 01:37:49,250 --> 01:37:53,000 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 1796 01:37:53,083 --> 01:37:55,959 ♪ A midnight cup ♪ 1797 01:37:56,041 --> 01:37:59,291 ♪ Of tea with ♪ 1798 01:38:01,458 --> 01:38:03,250 ♪ To have and hold... ♪ 1799 01:38:06,959 --> 01:38:08,709 The nation suffered a loss today, 1800 01:38:08,792 --> 01:38:11,375 as an apparent overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol 1801 01:38:11,458 --> 01:38:14,959 claimed the life of a treasured singer and actress, 1802 01:38:15,041 --> 01:38:16,000 Marilyn Monroe. 1803 01:38:16,083 --> 01:38:17,834 - In Switzerland. 1804 01:38:17,917 --> 01:38:20,333 Mm-hmm. They'll teach her to speak French there. 1805 01:38:22,625 --> 01:38:24,250 I have to go. 1806 01:38:24,333 --> 01:38:26,917 Somebody at my door, okay? 1807 01:38:50,834 --> 01:38:53,250 Hmm. 1808 01:38:53,333 --> 01:38:55,709 Why, Earl Mills. 1809 01:38:59,375 --> 01:39:01,250 - I heard, uh, 1810 01:39:01,333 --> 01:39:05,000 Queen Melmendi was looking for a way through the jungle. 1811 01:39:05,083 --> 01:39:07,417 - Oh... 1812 01:39:07,500 --> 01:39:10,500 Geri worries too much about me. 1813 01:39:12,625 --> 01:39:14,834 - Well, she's not the only one. 1814 01:39:19,333 --> 01:39:20,834 Nice place. 1815 01:39:24,834 --> 01:39:26,000 - What do you want? 1816 01:39:26,083 --> 01:39:28,542 - I want to know how you're doing. 1817 01:39:30,041 --> 01:39:32,333 - I'm fine. 1818 01:39:32,417 --> 01:39:33,959 - I can see that. 1819 01:39:34,041 --> 01:39:36,500 I heard about your show in Puerto Rico. 1820 01:39:36,583 --> 01:39:38,291 - Which one? 1821 01:39:38,375 --> 01:39:39,625 - Well, you know, the one where 1822 01:39:39,709 --> 01:39:41,333 you were slurring your words onstage. 1823 01:39:41,417 --> 01:39:43,375 - Oh. - Or was that every show? 1824 01:39:43,458 --> 01:39:44,917 - Earl, 1825 01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:46,500 if you came here to start trouble, 1826 01:39:46,583 --> 01:39:47,959 you might as well just keep on going. 1827 01:39:48,041 --> 01:39:49,333 - You shouldn't mix booze with pills. 1828 01:39:49,417 --> 01:39:51,083 Didn't your doctor tell you that? 1829 01:39:51,166 --> 01:39:52,667 - You don't manage my act. - No, your act is all your own. 1830 01:39:52,750 --> 01:39:54,083 - And you don't manage my life! 1831 01:39:54,166 --> 01:39:56,375 Why don't you get out of here? 1832 01:39:56,458 --> 01:39:58,166 I'm busy. 1833 01:39:58,250 --> 01:39:59,875 I got things to do. 1834 01:40:04,083 --> 01:40:06,875 - What do you have to do, Dorothy, 1835 01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:10,583 write more suicide notes? 1836 01:40:10,667 --> 01:40:12,250 Geri found this. 1837 01:40:25,792 --> 01:40:30,000 I wrote this because I don't want anybody to see me. 1838 01:40:30,083 --> 01:40:34,125 I don't want 'em to see me like this, Earl. 1839 01:40:34,208 --> 01:40:37,208 If I go, cremate me right away. 1840 01:40:37,291 --> 01:40:38,917 Don't let anybody look at me. 1841 01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:41,417 Don't let 'em just stare at me, remember me like this. 1842 01:40:41,500 --> 01:40:42,834 - Okay, okay, I promise. 1843 01:40:42,917 --> 01:40:46,291 - I don't want anybody to look at me. 1844 01:40:46,375 --> 01:40:48,834 My hands are shaking. 1845 01:40:48,917 --> 01:40:51,709 - All right, all right. Let me hold them. 1846 01:40:51,792 --> 01:40:53,458 - I'm so glad you're here. 1847 01:40:53,542 --> 01:40:55,375 - Yeah, me, too. - I'm so ugly. 1848 01:40:55,458 --> 01:40:56,667 - No, you're not. You're beautiful. 1849 01:40:56,750 --> 01:40:58,333 - I need my pills. - No, you don't. 1850 01:40:58,417 --> 01:40:59,875 - My pills are right over there. If I could just get my... 1851 01:40:59,959 --> 01:41:02,333 - I'll keep you from shaking. - If I get my pills... 1852 01:41:02,417 --> 01:41:04,000 - Come on, come on. 1853 01:41:04,083 --> 01:41:06,375 You all right? 1854 01:41:06,458 --> 01:41:07,500 Hmm? 1855 01:41:10,417 --> 01:41:11,875 - You got so old. 1856 01:41:11,959 --> 01:41:15,834 When did you get so old? 1857 01:41:15,917 --> 01:41:17,542 - This morning. 1858 01:41:22,291 --> 01:41:25,542 - Well, I would sing for you, but I think my syncopation 1859 01:41:25,625 --> 01:41:27,875 might be a little off. 1860 01:41:31,792 --> 01:41:35,500 - ♪ I can only give you love ♪ 1861 01:41:35,583 --> 01:41:39,000 ♪ That lasts forever ♪ 1862 01:41:39,083 --> 01:41:41,834 ♪ And a promise to be near ♪ 1863 01:41:41,917 --> 01:41:44,750 ♪ Each time you call ♪ 1864 01:41:44,834 --> 01:41:48,875 ♪ And the only heart I own ♪ 1865 01:41:48,959 --> 01:41:52,875 ♪ For you and you alone ♪ 1866 01:41:52,959 --> 01:41:55,166 ♪ That's all ♪ 1867 01:41:57,166 --> 01:41:58,750 That's all. 1868 01:41:59,667 --> 01:42:01,917 That's all. 1869 01:42:36,709 --> 01:42:38,500 Look at you. 1870 01:42:38,583 --> 01:42:40,375 What, you go for a run? 1871 01:42:40,458 --> 01:42:42,250 - About ten yards up at the front desk 1872 01:42:42,333 --> 01:42:44,041 to pick up this telegram, 1873 01:42:44,125 --> 01:42:46,750 confirming a run at the Mocambo, 1874 01:42:46,834 --> 01:42:48,083 two movies in Mexico, 1875 01:42:48,166 --> 01:42:50,583 and a booking at Basin Street East in New York. 1876 01:42:50,667 --> 01:42:52,834 - Oh! 1877 01:42:52,917 --> 01:42:54,250 Oh! 1878 01:42:54,333 --> 01:42:55,667 You know the first thing I'm gonna do? 1879 01:42:55,750 --> 01:42:57,709 - Hmm? - I'm gonna hire a lawyer. 1880 01:42:57,792 --> 01:43:00,542 I'm gettin' my baby back. That's the first thing. 1881 01:43:00,625 --> 01:43:02,083 You want to celebrate? - Hmm. 1882 01:43:02,166 --> 01:43:03,750 - Let's get all dressed up tonight, 1883 01:43:03,834 --> 01:43:05,166 and you can take me dancing. 1884 01:43:05,250 --> 01:43:06,500 - Hmm, can I? Thank you. 1885 01:43:06,583 --> 01:43:08,458 - Well, just this once. 1886 01:43:08,542 --> 01:43:10,500 - Uh, well, actually, I can't dance. 1887 01:43:10,583 --> 01:43:12,458 - That's okay, honey, 'cause tonight 1888 01:43:12,542 --> 01:43:14,917 I'll dance enough for both of us. 1889 01:43:16,291 --> 01:43:18,417 Hmm. 1890 01:43:21,542 --> 01:43:23,417 It's Tofranil. My doctor prescribed it 1891 01:43:23,500 --> 01:43:25,166 for my depression, remember? 1892 01:43:25,250 --> 01:43:26,542 You want to see the bottle? 1893 01:43:26,625 --> 01:43:29,458 - No. I know you're better. 1894 01:43:31,166 --> 01:43:33,125 - I am better. 1895 01:43:34,709 --> 01:43:36,041 Now, let me go put on something festive... 1896 01:43:36,125 --> 01:43:37,834 Oh! Oh! 1897 01:43:37,917 --> 01:43:39,792 - What'd you do? - Oh! 1898 01:43:39,875 --> 01:43:41,500 Oh, Earl! - All right. 1899 01:43:41,583 --> 01:43:43,083 Don't move, don't move. - Okay. 1900 01:43:43,166 --> 01:43:45,792 I think I broke it. - Shh, don't move, don't move. 1901 01:43:47,166 --> 01:43:49,208 Mm-hmm. 1902 01:43:52,709 --> 01:43:56,875 Well, the sun's comin' up now, so... 1903 01:43:58,375 --> 01:44:00,375 No, I can't. 1904 01:44:00,458 --> 01:44:02,083 I'm leaving for New York with Earl today. 1905 01:44:02,166 --> 01:44:05,917 You know I got my shows to do, remember? 1906 01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:07,792 Well, if the cast doesn't bother them, 1907 01:44:07,875 --> 01:44:11,375 it certainly doesn't bother me. 1908 01:44:11,458 --> 01:44:14,125 I think you should get to bed now. 1909 01:44:15,875 --> 01:44:17,583 Geri, 1910 01:44:17,667 --> 01:44:19,458 I love you. 1911 01:44:19,542 --> 01:44:21,417 Thank you for everything. 1912 01:44:22,834 --> 01:44:24,250 Okay. 1913 01:45:00,542 --> 01:45:02,834 Hello? 1914 01:45:02,917 --> 01:45:06,125 Why, Earl Mills. 1915 01:45:06,208 --> 01:45:08,333 I was just thinkin' about you. 1916 01:45:08,417 --> 01:45:10,750 No, really, I was. 1917 01:45:10,834 --> 01:45:12,625 What time are you gonna pick me up? 1918 01:45:12,709 --> 01:45:14,166 Ooh, can we make it later? 1919 01:45:14,250 --> 01:45:18,125 How about 10:00? A girl has to pack, you know. 1920 01:45:21,083 --> 01:45:22,625 Okay. 1921 01:45:22,709 --> 01:45:24,458 I'll see you then. 1922 01:46:36,792 --> 01:46:37,834 Dorothy? 1923 01:46:46,041 --> 01:46:47,125 Dorothy! 1924 01:46:50,417 --> 01:46:51,500 Dorothy? 1925 01:47:04,709 --> 01:47:07,792 Angel face? 1926 01:47:07,875 --> 01:47:09,250 Angel face. 1927 01:47:12,583 --> 01:47:15,250 Angel face? 1928 01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:24,750 You know this could have been the fractured ankle? 1929 01:47:24,834 --> 01:47:26,917 Flakes of bone marrow get into the bloodstream, 1930 01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:28,125 cause an embolism. 1931 01:47:28,208 --> 01:47:29,750 - How many times do I have to tell you, 1932 01:47:29,834 --> 01:47:31,959 the easy answer is usually the right answer? 1933 01:47:32,041 --> 01:47:35,000 There's a bottle of Tofranil on the dressing table. 1934 01:47:35,083 --> 01:47:37,417 More than likely, she just overdosed. 1935 01:47:37,500 --> 01:47:38,917 - Excuse me. 1936 01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:40,500 Excuse me! 1937 01:47:42,083 --> 01:47:45,291 Could you please ask these officers to leave 1938 01:47:45,375 --> 01:47:47,083 or cover her up? 1939 01:47:47,166 --> 01:47:49,917 She wouldn't want people staring at her. 1940 01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:51,834 Guys, wait outside. 1941 01:47:51,917 --> 01:47:53,959 - Come on. - All right. 1942 01:47:54,041 --> 01:47:55,542 - I don't see any evidence... - No, no, no. 1943 01:47:55,625 --> 01:47:59,333 - Here at all. - We have a suicide note. 1944 01:47:59,417 --> 01:48:01,250 - No, no, no, no, no. 1945 01:48:01,333 --> 01:48:03,000 She wrote that note months ago. 1946 01:48:03,083 --> 01:48:05,875 - Suicide notes don't exactly expire, you know. 1947 01:48:05,959 --> 01:48:07,291 - Oh, wait a minute. 1948 01:48:07,375 --> 01:48:09,291 She didn't kill herself. We were going to New York. 1949 01:48:09,375 --> 01:48:10,750 - Mr. Mills, could you wait 1950 01:48:10,834 --> 01:48:12,458 in the other room, please? - We were going to New York. 1951 01:48:12,542 --> 01:48:14,000 She didn't kill herself! - Mr. Mills, please. 1952 01:48:14,083 --> 01:48:15,875 - She didn't kill herself. - Mr. Mills, please. 1953 01:48:15,959 --> 01:48:17,250 - I'll be damned, Richard. 1954 01:48:17,333 --> 01:48:21,125 Wasn't she some kind of colored singer? 1955 01:50:00,500 --> 01:50:02,083 Hollywood mourns the passing 1956 01:50:02,166 --> 01:50:03,542 of Dorothy Dandridge. 1957 01:50:03,625 --> 01:50:05,000 A nightclub singer and actress, 1958 01:50:05,083 --> 01:50:06,583 Miss Dandridge is perhaps best known 1959 01:50:06,667 --> 01:50:10,208 for her Oscar-nominated role as Carmen Jones. 1960 01:50:10,291 --> 01:50:11,875 The L.A. County Coroner's Office 1961 01:50:11,959 --> 01:50:13,917 ruled that Miss Dandridge died as a result 1962 01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,875 of an overdose of the prescription drug Tofranil. 1963 01:50:16,959 --> 01:50:19,500 However, they declined to determine whether the death 1964 01:50:19,583 --> 01:50:22,458 was an accident or a suicide. 1965 01:50:22,542 --> 01:50:25,417 She is survived by a daughter, Harolyn. 1966 01:50:25,500 --> 01:50:28,208 Miss Dandridge was 42. 1967 01:50:44,041 --> 01:50:48,250 - ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 1968 01:50:48,333 --> 01:50:52,041 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 1969 01:50:52,125 --> 01:50:56,208 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 1970 01:50:56,291 --> 01:50:58,875 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 1971 01:50:58,959 --> 01:51:00,792 ♪ What I've got ♪ 1972 01:51:16,250 --> 01:51:18,375 ♪ I've got music ♪ 1973 01:51:18,458 --> 01:51:19,667 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1974 01:51:19,750 --> 01:51:22,458 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1975 01:51:22,542 --> 01:51:24,417 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 1976 01:51:24,500 --> 01:51:26,834 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 1977 01:51:26,917 --> 01:51:28,125 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1978 01:51:28,208 --> 01:51:30,500 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1979 01:51:30,583 --> 01:51:32,500 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 1980 01:51:32,583 --> 01:51:34,333 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 1981 01:51:34,417 --> 01:51:38,500 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 1982 01:51:38,583 --> 01:51:40,500 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 1983 01:51:40,583 --> 01:51:42,709 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 1984 01:51:42,792 --> 01:51:44,000 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1985 01:51:44,083 --> 01:51:46,834 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1986 01:52:14,542 --> 01:52:16,417 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 1987 01:52:16,500 --> 01:52:18,583 ♪ I've got music ♪ 1988 01:52:18,667 --> 01:52:20,208 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1989 01:52:20,291 --> 01:52:22,500 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 1990 01:52:22,583 --> 01:52:27,417 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 1991 01:52:27,500 --> 01:52:30,125 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 1992 01:52:30,208 --> 01:52:34,375 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 1993 01:52:34,458 --> 01:52:37,583 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 1994 01:52:37,667 --> 01:52:39,375 ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 1995 01:52:39,458 --> 01:52:41,959 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 1996 01:52:42,041 --> 01:52:45,750 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 1997 01:52:45,834 --> 01:52:48,083 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 1998 01:52:48,166 --> 01:52:50,083 ♪ Ooh, what a man ♪ 1999 01:52:50,166 --> 01:52:53,625 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 2000 01:52:53,709 --> 01:52:57,667 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 2001 01:52:57,750 --> 01:52:59,458 ♪ Anything ♪ 2002 01:53:05,959 --> 01:53:07,417 ♪ Anything ♪ 2003 01:53:07,500 --> 01:53:14,542 ♪ More ♪