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Fedora!

Fedora is dead.

The legendary star passed away last night near Paris

Crushed by a train.

So goes this wonderful face that lit up the screens

For over 40 years.

No one will forget its interpretations of Madame Bovary

Joan of Arc or Lola Montes.

The enigmatic actress of Polish origin ,

Fascinated crowds.

It gave him, according to sources, between 60 and 70 years.

Despite his age, beauty still glowing.

The funeral will be private.

The body will be exposed in the Paris home of the actress.

His thousands of fans will say goodbye.

It was a good job,

Saw the horrible end that she had known.

She succeeded his output:

Projectors, violinists

Honor guard feathered

And TV cameras

As for a first damn.

Its strange entourage was ringside:

Countess and her son

Miss Balfour and Dr Vando.

The wet eyes...

Bastards.

But I was not fooled.

Poor Fedora.

It might have ended otherwise

And maybe she would still be alive

If I had not gone to Corfu looking for him.

That was two weeks ago.

Are you a manufacturer of cinema?

I was in Zorba the Greek.

Really?

A small role... but I was fine.

I'm sure.

Paramount? Twentieth Century-Fox?

I have a sumptuous suite the top floor.

I am an independent producer.

No expense?

So a nice room with water closet and shower.

Ca Ira.

19. The

The breakfast is included.

I do not take.

No discounts.

Air conditioning?

Sure.

You come on vacation?

For business, I hope.

The bathroom is there. Hot water until 10 am and after 18 pm.

I'll fix it.

The receptionist speaks English?

She speaks Greek, German, Italian , Yugoslav...

- But not English. - Not yet. Let?

I would call Villa Calypso.

Property Countess Sobryanski.

We will try.

Villa Calypso, here Miss Balfour.

What do you want?

My name is Detweiler.

Barry Detweiler. I visit the islands on my yacht.

As in Corfu, I hoped my friend Fedora.

I'm sorry, Mr. Getweiler...

Or Detweiler.

It's quite impossible.

We are old friends, it dates back to Hollywood.

And since I'm in the corner...

Impossible.

Ms. Fedora is not here.

In fact, I wanted to talk to him

An important thing for us.

You do not understand. It is not in Corfu.

Call to Paris or Marbella.

I tried. I was told she was at the Countess.

It has misinformed you.

Who is it?

A simple American tourist.

You waste your time, not remember more.

Who else lives in the house?

The Englishwoman, his secretary or companion,

And the mad doctor to the earring.

Dr Vando?

He comes here to drink his bottle of cognac.

And the actress Fedora, you have seen?

Yes, not long ago. She was shopping.

At my age, youth preferred, but...

The villa is away?

On the coast. You need a car, then take a boat.

A boat?

The villa is on a small isolated island.

Luckily, my brother has one. There will drive you.

Who told you to cut my heating ?

Home, if you're cold.

It is you who will go listen to your discs.

Better, spare us that. It's loud and vulgar!

I will do what I like.

You seem to forget...

You're home.

I would be more than happy to clear out.

Stop that damn noise!

Bitch!

How dare you?

Calm down. It hurts you.

Enough, I'll kill her!

I want to see Mrs. Fedora.

Not there.

At other. I've just seen her !

Not there!

You know say that?

Mr. Detweiler!

There is a telegram for you.

This is the one to Mrs. Fedora. It has not been opened.

Damn.

There must be a way.

No one among in the damn house?

The good, three times per week.

The factor for mail and the butcher for meat dogs.

That's all?

There has been a photographer from Paris Match.

It said Gardener. The dogs were his party.

No bright idea?

When I have a problem, I take a rosary.

It brings me luck.

Do you believe in this stuff?

Try otherwise.

It costs 100 drams room.

Big deal.

Boy!

One minute, ma'am.

I do not have time.

My films are there?

Less strong! I just got them.

Give them to me.

It's 3000 drachmas.

Next time.

And for the rest?

You do not trust? Take that.

Keep your watch. I pay cash, then you also.

Give!

Pay first.

Mrs. Fedora?

Barry Detweiler. You know me ?

I give you a hint. Hollywood, 1947 MGM.

I was first assistant.

What name did you say?

Barry Detweiler. They nicknamed me "Dutch".

The broom.

Oh.

You have money?

Dollars?

Whatever.

There.

Hundred dollars.

Do not bother.

You will come back?

- All right? - Yes.

Good.

- We worked together? - Yes, at the MGM.

All that is over.

Almost. They sold all decors at auction.

As the golden bed shaped gondola

Where you made love with Robert Taylor.

It has been awarded to 450 dollars.

He's dead, is not it?

Yes, in 1969.

They all died: Gable, Tracy, Joan Crawford.

Time spares no one.

Unless you. You are always the same.

Thank you.

Remember the beach

In Santa Monica, my cut?

It's so far.

At the time, Truman was President.

Goodbye.

I came purposely California to see you.

I'm a producer. I already accounts for 12 films.

One of them had 3 appointments.

I do look older.

I prepare a with a role written for you.

Really?

- I sent the script. - Never received.

I sent three: in Paris, Marbella and here.

We hide things from me.

Who?

They lie me and constantly spying me.

In the house?

These are not your friends?

I have none.

I have to leave.

You had to stay in the car.

I wanted to buy magazines. Payroll them.

Dear Fedora

The weather was milder with you he was with me.

That's why you did not recognize me.

I would therefore refresh your memory.

That was in 1947.

It turned Leda and the Swan.

I was the second assistant.

You have noticed me at the scene of the basin

Where, among nymphs and water lilies, you were naked.

Hello,

Darling.

Although breakfast?

What do you want from me?

You are in the basin

Floating languidly

Moonlight.

In the distance we hear a lute.

This is the beginning of the seduction scene.

Fedora darling, gently lie down and relax.

Censorship may fall on us.

Because of tits.

Dutch!

Arrange me lilies!

Right now!

Excuse me.

I was called?

The young man is there.

Him come.

Everybody out.

- What is your name? - Barry Detweiler.

Detweiler, are you homosexual?

What?

A fag, a tantouse.

Me?

No normal man would have yawned seeing me naked.

I did that?

Sorry. I had a busy night.

By dredging the sea to the bus stop?

You are completely off. Have the girls.

For the dressers or the makeup artists.

- At all? - No.

But you successful?

I'm not complaining.

You think you're a remarkable lover?

- I am asked. - Even more insulting.

My body bothering you?

Absolutely not, you have a wonderful body.

Not at all.

I have a gorgeous body.

I will not say otherwise.

I hold back?

In fact, I have an appointment. They're waiting for me.

That of yesterday?

Yes, we are together since Tuesday.

How are you doing with all these girls?

You you taking the dance?

The first time.

What next?

It depends. As she lives in Pasadena

And I, at the Hollywood Athletic Club

We quickly types a cheeseburger and we go to motel.

If it's hot, there's the beach.

What is a cheeseburger?

- When is scheduled for Pat? - The what ?

The ready to shoot in the studio.

Let's see.

Cameras: 8:15. Electricians: 7:45.

The makeup awaits you at 7am. Ready to turn 9 o'clock.

You have to go.

Hello.

A gentleman would keep silent

But I'm not.

Given the state of my finances, I do not have a choice.

I hope that in the name of the good old days...

Dear Mrs. Fedora

Here's the scenario I mentioned you.

I await your response.

Regards.

Barry Detweiler.

What can I do for you?

You know the good from the villa?

Cadina? It's the cousin of the cook.

Could it drag it to Fedora? I'll pay.

It would lose his job.

Just put it in his room.

It never enters. This room is prohibited.

Good evening, Dr Vando.

Let's see.

The butcher, perhaps.

It might hide in meat dogs.

Or if there was

Sake of plumbing in the villa.

Drop.

- Dr Vando? - Yes.

Can I?

No.

I wanted to tell you...

In Stockholm, or they are all idiots, it is a sham.

Is it the pleasure?

I think you deserve the Nobel Prize very long time.

Sit down.

A dual whiskey with ice.

What an honor!

The job you have done on General Franco,

Coco Chanel, Paul Getty.

No names.

Fedora I saw yesterday.

No one would believe that she is 62 years old.

Sixty seven.

You are a magician. How do you do ?

It's not a secret. It appeared all over the news.

I frozen for months I recycle their blood

Then I wad of hormones.

Embryos sheep, baboon seed

Laser surgery, skin grafting.

In acupressure by one, dermabrasion over there

And dietary and strict mental discipline .

Yoga and yogurt, in fact.

True, all this?

Yes and no. It depends on who is asked.

For my patients, I am a genius.

To my colleagues, a charlatan.

The envious.

They sued me and questioned my qualifications.

I, the student Voronoff and Bogomolev!

I'm not even defended me.

It was unworthy. I decided to close my clinic.

Bad... A man of your skill.

Let them rot, those old skins!

I have only Fedora now.

Not bad.

I'm locked up with three women and alcohol.

What is it between the Countess and Fedora?

You ask lots of questions. Why so much interest?

What woman in the world is more interesting than Fedora?

They are friends, because the son of the Countess.

Really?

They are all Polish.

Fedora told me she had no friends.

Do not believe it.

She believes that her ment, we hide things from him.

Absurd.

- It's not true? - Of course not.

So give him that.

What is it? A scenario ?

- It does not read more. - She read that one.

The Snows of yesteryear.

Another Hollywood nonsense.

A new version of Anna Karenina.

Tolstoy. A giant.

No discussion.

He did not have the Nobel either.

You have mutilated?

No, it is a faithful adaptation.

Good news.

- You give him? - No.

This is for you.

I apologize.

What?

Repeat.

Where she has been?

You need the monitor!

Try to calm her.

I arrive.

- Addition! - No, I invite you.

Let me.

Why?

I love you, Doc!

Do not rely on my earring.

Kritos? Who is Kritos?

The caretaker. It picks you.

Is that what you wanted?

I'm glad that everything works out.

I have to say that the other day,

I noticed that your American Express will be outdated in early.

But I was not worried.

If you were a freeloader,

You would have demanded Suite.

Goodbye, Mr. Detweiler.

Hello, doctor.

Wipe your feet.

Thanks for the scenario.

Your hat.

She loved?

Stop whispering.

Come.

Countess Sobryanski, thank you for inviting me.

You will need that your carelessness.

We value our privacy. Sit.

Not there is instead the cat.

What lousy weather.

Somber.

It says that manufactures electric blankets.

I will send you an American.

Balfour!

Do you want hot tea?

Hopefully it is.

Milk or lemon?

Would you brandy?

We have none.

But we cognac.

Locked up there with the phone.

Go hide truffle pig.

It is you, there?

With my son, Anton.

It was in Warsaw after the war.

The first?

It is not the num�rotait at the time.

It said only the "Great War".

About your scenario, we read each of 180 pages.

If you want my opinion...

Certainly.

It does not please us.

"We", it includes Fedora?

It certainly shares our opinion.

I would like to talk with her.

You can not disturb: it rests.

I'll wait.

You are wasting your time.

For your information, Fedora has withdrawn from the screen.

As before, but his return was triumphant.

41 films, it is not enough?

Not when a gold role arises.

No Anna Karenina. Garbo has held twice.

So what? This is an opportunity to do better.

Large format, colors, no censorship. The most beautiful love story.

A Russian opera.

As for the end

The abandoned woman who throws herself under a train...

Grotesque!

Tolstoy is grotesque?

He heard nothing for women.

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy?

A suicidal woman thinks only one thing:

Appearance of his body.

It will use poison, razor,

Opt for drowning or even the pistol.

But never did she lay under a train.

She'll keep her beauty

And not be crushed and disfigured.

I love that.

It's touching and inevitable.

What are you standing?

Let Miss Balfour.

Come down dear. We have a visitor.

You know Mr. Detweiler, I think.

You met him in town.

Hello.

Excuse the glove.

Dr Vando performed miracles

But no one can hide the age of the hands.

It's difficult.

As the knees.

When is planned the shoot?

When you want.

The studios are fighting over. The budget is completed.

Can turn Paris, Rome, London. Choose.

Same for the director. All dream of working with you.

How good it is to be desired!

The look I'll have in these costumes!

The furs, hats,

Troika in the snow with Vronsky.

Who do you for the role of Vronsky?

You can have Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty , Steve McQueen.

You know Michael York?

Michael York? Yes, on the screen.

It would be perfect. I have played with him.

His last film... the unfinished film.

You want to tell him why?

Come Fedora. You are not able to work.

You always say that! I feel very good.

It's not true.

You autoriseriez?

Certainly not.

It would be painful for her

And for you.

If I am sick,

Is having been cloistered here.

I have to escape from this cursed island! Me away from you all!

I take you up there.

Enough!

Do you want Mr. Detweiler says to all Hollywood

He saw Fedora make such a scene?

Sorry.

I hope you are convinced.

Find another one.

It's not so easy.

Why?

You have the script, all studios, the money.

In fact, I have absolutely nothing. Zero.

Things have changed.

The bearded young men are popular.

They spend scenario and prefer light cameras.

I want the project to end arm for 2 years.

I had finally found people to finance ,

But only if I brought Fedora.

Without it, most of the film.

That's your problem.

I have to pay the writer

And I begged 2000 dollars to my ex-wife for the trip.

Miss Balfour, my wallet. I want to repay Mr. Detweiler.

Needless .

Only you must Fedora.

What the hell are you talking about?

The money he gave you the shop.

Kritos saw you. How many ?

This is unacceptable! I can not stand to be spied!

I'm entitled to my privacy.

I'm not a backward child!

What actress.

How much did you say?

I said nothing.

Hundred dollars.

What has she done?

Purchased movies.

Films?

Curious.

It's expensive for 3 coils.

Especially as it has no camera.

Kritos!

It will take you.

I'm sorry you came for nothing.

As Sam Goldwyn said:

"Bitterness is sister of bitterness."

Goodbye, Countess.

Remember that!

And remember my electric blanket.

I promise.

Open the door.

Go away! Leave me alone !

Does What?

The treatment has side effects.

If you cheat with nature, she takes it.

Goodbye, Mr. Detweiler.

Sorry.

It is for you?

Yes, but I can let for a good price.

Enter...

Enter and close the door!

I brought that.

What happened to you?

I rowed myself.

Take off your gloves and wash your hands.

Open.

- What is it? - Love letters.

Look.

I do not read other people's mail.

Just look at the signatures. Go for it !

John Barrymore.

Hemingway.

Sergei Rachmaninov.

Pablo?

Picasso, I presume.

With a suggestive drawing.

Maurice Chevalier.

Winston Churchill.

The Aga Khan... What a collection!

I had a long life.

But what would I do?

I want to sell them. I need money.

Not to me anyway.

No. Sell them to me.

For auction in New York.

Why? You are a rich woman.

I have millions in Switzerland, but no checkbook.

- Why? - They prevent me.

What do you mean? It's your slave-drivers?

Do not answer. They seek me.

I do not understand. You are their prisoner?

I can neither write nor call Michael.

Michael?

Michael York!

Why do not you go then?

I tried, but they took my passport.

Do not dramatize a bit?

You think?

Look!

They use drugs to me.

- Call the police. - No, not the police.

Do not return!

I called the manager.

Stay here. I come again.

You could say that you come here.

There was concern.

That I questioned myself.

The Countess is furious.

She feared the worst. You could have hurt you.

The day was hard.

You should not shake you like that.

No, stop.

Come.

It takes you back.

You do not do anything!

Remind your friend there are people in this hotel.

It is better to avoid scandal.

Do not forget who you are.

You are Fedora.

Indeed.

Goodbye, Mr. Detweiler.

I bothered you.

I must not forget my letters.

I told him men in my life.

The trophies of an old lady.

- What did she say? - A lot of things.

It would be our prisoner

And we want to make mad, the fly?

More or less.

These are the classic symptoms.

What?

The acute paranoia.

I tried to warn you.

It is not called of his depression.

What depression?

On the famous unfinished film

She fell in love with a much younger actor it.

Michael York.

An impossible love. She attempted suicide.

After she was no longer able.

It's sad.

We are protecting the public

So it stays at least the memory of the great Fedora.

You understand?

Good trip.

Where is she?

Is there anyone?

I am Fedora

Villa Calypso.

A call from abroad for Dr. Vando.

Dr Vando?

Himself.

You have Paris.

You hear me, Vando?

Yes. Go for it.

Here Sobryanski Comte. I thought you were gone.

I arranged for you land away from the terminal.

We can get her out quietly.

The ambulance will lead her to the clinic.

Okay.

What clinic, already?

Yours in Mortcerf.

Who are you?

Who is calling?

Answer!

Since the bar is open,

If we took a little cognac?

What I do in helicopter?

It is the air conditioning.

I cut?

What happened to me?

My brother found you passed out in his boat .

Ah yes, the villa...

Eight hours $ 5 you owe him $ 40.

I remember, I was drinking a cognac with Kritos.

It's not a hangover, but a sacred concussion.

I'm here since when?

Almost one week.

And this guy on the phone, what he said?

I fed you, shaved...

Silence, I think.

They took him to a clinic.

How was it?

"Cer"... "Deer"...

Something "Deer".

- You will fall. - It's okay.

- Dr. Pappas said... - Fuck!

What happens to you? But where are you going?

Find Fedora.

Do not know?

What?

Of course, given your condition...

What?

It's in the newspaper.

What the newspaper say?

Fedora is dead.

An accident near Paris.

What else? Quick !

She was crushed by a train yesterday.

In Mortcerf station. What was the name you are looking for?

"The body was identified by his physician Dr. Vando.

"She had no family

" His funeral will be supported

"By her friend, Countess Sobryanski."

Those bastards killed her.

They killed her.

Is closed. Reopening to 14 h.

I'm waiting here.

I'm sorry, it's impossible.

I am forced to insist.

Let.

It'll Francis.

Mr. Detweiler's a friend, somehow.

I should have known you for coming.

I almost did not come.

Miss Balfour, Dr Vando.

I do not have the honor of knowing you.

Sobryanski, Anton.

Detweiler, Barry.

Nice.

We spoke on the phone. The long distance call.

Really?

Francis, there is much to do before reopening .

See how the floor is dirty. It's unclean.

Let's clean.

I have seen in smokers. What disrespect!

I will put up a sign.

And replace me all these candles.

Heard. I will remove these cables.

No! CBS sends a New York team

To do a show on Fedora.

The makeup artist and hairdresser are still there?

There are touches to do.

Balfour, look. The gloves are already dirty.

Should they defile the of their legs?

I have another pair.

Anton, when the musicians come back,

Tell them to stop playing this Valse Triste.

It's in very poor taste.

Sibelius? Bad taste ?

That they play a less gloomy piece. From Chopin or Ravel.

How many performances do you have planned?

Two, three? More special session at midnight?

I am very angry against you, Mr. Detweiler.

You are a source of trouble.

Me?

You put him the idea of being in the head.

But it is you who have killed her!

She committed suicide.

For your fault. I am neither blind nor stupid.

No one could force her. She had an iron will.

But she died.

I can not let you peddle such gossip.

Countess!

You are blind and foolish.

The woman in the coffin is not Fedora.

It's impossible. The whole world knows that face.

Forget the face. Watch his hands.

These are the hands of a 67 year old woman?

These gloves...

She was not wearing them to hide his old age

But to mask his youth.

But it was her in Corfu?

Yes.

She was posing for Fedora?

Exactly.

What for?

What happened to the real Fedora?

This is what she has become.

You are Fedora.

I was Fedora.

Want more on this face and this chair.

Ask Dr. Vando.

Let this. Why awaken old ghosts?

For 20 years

I went on pilgrimage in his clinic.

As the sick in Lourdes.

Each time, the miracle happened again.

And then a year...

It was in 1962, is not it, doctor?

He decided to inject me a new serum under the skin.

Something

Which had never been experienced.

There you are. It goes something serious.

It delirium.

Scissors.

What is it?

Give me a mirror.

I want a mirror!

Boucher!

His scars have disappeared. Not mine.

Fedora, you were warned of the risk.

Stop time process was not enough you.

You want to reverse it.

What has happened?

A infection.

I tried everything to repair the damage.

There were complications: a stroke.

A apoplexy.

I'm in the damn chair for 15 years.

15?

So in Fedora films that followed,

She was one saw.

More flowers. It does not stop.

Not now. You will have the latest.

The resemblance surprise you?

Where did you find her?

It was very simple: it's my daughter.

Your daughter?

Our daughter Antonia.

I do not know.

No one knew.

At the time, one called it of "immoral behavior".

You could have six husbands, but no illegitimate child.

Today free for anyone to have 6 children and no husband.

Hedda, Louella, Walter Winchell have never guessed?

It happened in Europe summer before the war.

Our meeting took place on the Normandy

And we spent three months on the French Riviera.

We were very much in love.

We were giddy.

When I heard the news, I begged her to marry me.

She refused.

I do not want any man to marry a star

Because it will carry her vanity case and wigs.

It's humiliating.

Antonia was born in Switzerland, spring.

Fedora returned to Hollywood.

Without that, the studio would have made me a trial.

The filming was planned Warner loaned Paul Muni.

Then there have been other films.

This is my mother who raised Antonia.

Do not make me look like an ogress.

It was war.

After I saw her every year.

It's true.

By going to Vando, you could see the at the airport between flights.

When she was at school in London,

Balfour thee secretly brought to the hotel.

Will you see someone in particular?

All my friends are important.

This way, Antonia.

Have you thought to marry one of your partners?

Course, on several occasions.

But there was bickering to the order of names on the invitations.

It is said that the MGM assured your legs for a million pounds.

2 million, one for each leg.

Miss Sobryanski is there.

Sorry, I have to go. Thanks again.

One more question.

That's all. Goodbye.

My little girl!

Mom!

I almost did not bring: it was recorded.

- Why? - I hit my roommate.

Why?

She said that Vivien Leigh was the most beautiful actress in the world.

I said it was you.

You did not say anything else?

Do not worry. Nobody knows.

It is believed that my mother is in Africa with Dr. Schweitzer.

In Africa?

They will not check.

Where do you want dinner, honey? At Mirabelle?

In the Savoy Grill, the White Elephant?

Where do you go?

In the Lyons Corner House to eat fish and chips.

Whatever you want, honey.

Balfour, reserve us a table for two.

Right now.

The nearest Lyons.

I'm glad she did not go with us.

It's too boring.

You do not understand.

It is with her that you have dinner. I can not go out with you.

One is not forced out. You can dine here.

No one will see us.

It has nothing to do.

My friend No�l Coward leaves tomorrow for Jamaica.

I have not seen for six months.

But me, it's been a year!

I brought gifts. The opener.

You do not give that stuff! I do not want it !

They do not take reservations. If we go...

Take me back to school, please.

Do not be a child.

When you ask me where my mother is ,

I will speak the truth.

I would say she's dead!

Antonia!

For 10 years, they found themselves more.

Antonia abandoned his studies.

She did odd jobs and passed from one man to another.

She found herself in Amsterdam, in a slum

With a kind of musician or sculptor.

I sent him checks for her birthday, at Christmas.

She never cashed them.

Except that for her abortion.

She did not want children.

When I warned her for her mother

I expected that it sends me to hell.

But I was wrong.

After all, it was a Sobryanski.

We are aristocrats.

Hello, darling. Someone came to see you.

Mom!

Antonia, who is this outfit?

This tragedy had still been good.

I found my daughter.

I was cloistered in this clinic frightened at the idea of appearing.

She came to see me every day.

There was so much to say.

I asked him again to marry me.

Again, she refused.

Before, it was too soon after and, too late.

Unable to be his wife, I became her mother.

And the real Countess? What happened to him ?

Dead a year earlier.

No one knew because she wanted to rest in Poland.

It took cunning, but his ashes are home near Warsaw.

For my part, I buried at his villa in Corfu.

People believed that the Countess was back.

You saw how we lived, hidden behind these walls.

Away from the world.

No neighbors, no questions.

It was perfect.

Except for one thing.

There were 63 mirrors in the house.

Given my condition, it was 63 too.

Increasingly, I saw again through Antonia.

She was my mirror.

To Worldwide, Fedora had decided to withdraw

Summit of glory.

After a few years

Studios and agents forgot me.

A telegram from Hollywood.

Hollywood? Good heaven.

" The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

" wants to award you a special award this year "

An Oscar?

Fools

They want to buy.

I should have it in 1935 for Madame Bovary

Or 1947 instead of... Who already?

The playing tubercular nun.

This is April 3.

They invite you all expenses paid.

I will accept their Oscar pleased.

If we go there all?

But not in person.

Find me an excuse.

Let them send me.

It's only a trifle more will take dust.

That was the beginning of our troubles.

Months passed. We are more pensions.

A New York furrier

Would you asked chinchilla

For a series called: "What suits best to the legends."

I'll tell you what best suits the legends:

Draw the curtain on time.

Monroe and Harlow were lucky.

Do not quit.

The president of the Academy is at the Cannes festival.

It would give you your Oscar personally.

He wants to come here?

Nothing did.

You know the people of Hollywood. They are stubborn.

Hello.

I'll tell him you're sick. The doctor prohibits visits.

Not so fast, Balfour.

When would he come?

Monday.

Tell him we'll be happy.

And he sees you in this state?

This is the president of the academy and it comes from so far away.

Tell her to come on Monday, very end of the afternoon.

When the light begins to fade.

Can I escort you to the ceremony?

Course.

Mr. happened.

Good evening.

Hi, I am Henry Fonda.

I know who you are. It's nice of you to be disturbed.

Not at all.

The whole committee wanted to come.

As President, I have prevailed.

I saw The Grapes of wrath three times.

And Mister Roberts.

We have never toured together.

I regret.

I really envied Fredric March, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman...

Stop and see.

What is it?

That's him.

Let him out, he must suffocate.

I am afraid there is a little speech that goes with it.

Go.

On behalf of the Academy of Arts and Film Sciences

I am pleased to present you this unique reward.

It says: "In Fedora

" whose talent

"Has given prestige and dignity

" to acting "

. Thank

It is a great honor for me

I repeated this speech 35 years

and it is she who recites

Greet all my Hollywood friends Those still here

Return with us

we do more than movies for women.

Because we no longer women like you.

Mom!

His photos were published worldwide:

Life, Paris Match, Oggi, Stern.

In full page.

"Fedora is more beautiful than ever!"

Then the offers started to rain.

The public had enough movies of the time.

The truth cinema, aesthetics of ugliness.

He wanted again glamor.

How could I disappoint him?

So you delivered him your daughter?

That's right.

Like this? Without hesitation ?

Come, Mr. Detweiler.

What would you give to be reborn? Have a second chance?

You should see this. They are at least two thousand waiting.

Tomorrow, it will provide the coffee for everybody...

And more police.

It will not be the same circus for Valentino.

From the beginning, I opposed to this scheme.

A pitiful charade.

But Antonia loved it.

For her, it was like a game.

Could we do without?

She worked tirelessly.

Seeing all my movies at night

Learning by heart my every move, my intonations.

Obviously there was much to do.

True, she had to look like me,

But seem especially older than she was.

Then when it seemed ready

We accepted a role in an Italian film.

The Miracle of Santa Christi. It was only an appearance.

But Fedora was back!

That was the event.

She was not playing as well as his mother.

Let it therefore at the Old Vic.

A face appears, the camera falls in love.

It's innate.

In fact, she was better in his second film, The Dragonfly.

Then there was...

Bitter Harvest, shot in Spain.

Balfour followed her everywhere,

Protecting the press

And those who had known Fedora.

All went well until film, in London, with Michael York.

She embodied the wife of a general, love his step-son.

Alas, the title was prophetic.

Playback!

The Last Waltz

Action!

Cut!

It was not very good.

My two stars are expensive, I want the way we.

Get out front.

Everybody up! Come on!

I never dared tell you, but I have a confession to make.

I have discovered you Alley in the moonlight.

It goes way back.

In the terrifying scene

Where you go down a staircase, followed by a shadow ,

Your candle goes out and you are alone in the cellar

With this crazy household.

Well?

This is where it happened.

What happened?

I was only 6 years old.

My housekeeper locked me in my room.

They took my bike.

What did you do?

Wet my pants.

What?

I had peed.

What a shame.

You never said anything of as nice.

We fought a duel for me joined the Legion to forget me.

One man even followed me around the world in a balloon.

- The plane did not exist. - Enough.

To think that you would have 100 years.

Coffee?

Not now.

Come on, we take!

Silence!

Engine!

Playback!

Action!

Perfect! On the guard.

Clap end.

The car, please.

How old do you give to Michael?

Thirty-five years, I guess. Why ?

I can not wait to see her when he knows head.

- Saura what? - That I'm younger than him.

And how will he know?

Do not worry. I will await the end of filming.

I see.

The opening night,

You �carteras the curtain and say:

"Ladies and gentlemen, here is the real Fedora

" This ultimate star of legendary beauty "

We will advance your mother in her wheelchair

Disfigured

C 'is that what you want?

it will be like that until his death

No, until the death of Fedora

Now you're Fedora

the next day coming wake her, I found her lifeless

She had taken sleeping pills too

the shooting was arrested It never worked..

It is easy to wash a stomach.

The mind is something else.

A time we restored flood

Without knowing she had started using drugs.

Amphetamines, stimulants. From speed, in short.

When we found out, she was dependent .

I never thought it of her.

But qu'attendais thou?

You had robbed him identity, youth.

Instead, I gave him everything.

She became Fedora, but could not bear it.

As a producer, you know what a star.

Indeed.

Honeyed in surface and below, and stainless cold.

Exactly.

It proved too dilettante.

Too soft, too weak, too sentimental .

Anton, I beg you.

You understand now what happened in Corfu.

It was neither prisoner nor exploited.

We only wanted prevent drugs.

But she managed to get supplies.

She knew how to be ingenious.

We returned to Paris in my clinic

I tried various treatments.

Thorazine, Propanolol.

But it did not work.

She spoke to us more.

She wrote incoherent letters Michael York

And confided to the nurse.

There was only one thing to do.

One? It was the cruelest thing.

The most unforgivable.

Phone for you.

For me?

This is London.

Slowly, speak lower.

Here London.

It is a call Mr. Michael York.

Talk.

I'm Michael.

Michael!

You had my letters?

Yes? You must be upset.

It's incredible, but true.

What is it? I can barely hear you. Speak louder.

I can not.

I'm on the board, is shooting a scene.

You have fooled me.

I want to see you too Fedora. Sorry, Antonia.

But I still have six weeks of filming.

And weekends? You do not work these days.

Paris is an hour

And trains to Mortcerf are frequent.

We have so much to say.

Make an effort, Michael. You're welcome.

Okay, but let's try together.

I try to come if you try to heal. Promise?

I promise. You soon, Michael.

You're welcome.

It was?

Perfect.

Good.

I recovered.

For you.

It's not worth it.

We believed act for his good

But we had triggered an irreversible process.

She fled.

Who are you waiting for?

If it's Michael, he will not come.

If I talked to him on the phone.

Really?

It was the last train to Paris. Let's go.

He promised.

He only said he would try.

It may come next weekend

Or at the end of filming.

How do you know?

You were listening on the phone?

Bitch!

You have openly betrayed your mother writing these letters.

Letters? What letters?

You know.

They were never sent. Thou hast stolen!

You making fun of your mother well, but not me.

It was not Michael on the phone. Who was it ?

It does not matter.

Come Fedora.

I'm not Fedora!

It's not me!

I'm Antonia!

There's more Antonia.

Look at you.

Application around you who owns that face.

It's a lie!

You can not do anything.

I hate that face!

I hate him!

Let's go now.

Will you?

Fedora!

It had to happen, I guess.

Sooner or later.

She chose this method revenge for me.

To disfigure me again.

Two plastic surgeons teams

Took turns day and night

To repair the damage.

What time is it?

1:45 p.m..

We must prepare.

Absolutely.

These cards accompanied the flowers.

Federico Fellini.

Lord Olivier Brighton. Dear Larry...

Jean-Paul Sartre.

Marlene.

What a wonderful woman!

Put that with telegrams.

Remove the florets. It's too loaded.

Balfour, monitors them.

That they do not make too much.

Can you move it?

Where?

On the front.

That little this soft light illuminates.

Very well, Countess.

Go get the guards.

They must play cards in the kitchen.

You showmanship.

Must treat the end.

That's what people remember.

The high output.

The last close.

Even if the lining?

You must maintain the legend.

You do what business a long time.

It is that special effects set and glycerine tears.

That's magic.

You take me for an old vanity, Dutch.

Selfish, insensitive.

You said "Dutch"?

That's right.

You remember, then.

Why do you think I invited you?

I wanted to see what you looked like.

I'm very flattered.

Rightly so.

Let's see...

It was on a beach.

Santa Barbara!

You had a cut Cadillac.

A Cadillac?

It was an old Ford, in Santa Monica.

It was almost that.

It is time to settle. The elevator is there.

Goodbye, Mr. Detweiler.

Goodbye, Countess.

Keep it all for you

On behalf of the good old days.

Bad.

It would have given a better film that the script I gave you.

But who would you have assigned the role?

Six weeks later, the Countess Sobryanski

Peacefully died at Corfu.

The new made a paragraph in the local newspaper.

My heating blanket was returned to me 'bounces'.

What? What?

Wait till I fix this thing. I haven't gotten the hang of it yet.

At your age, with no favorable home conditions

and no beneficent influences on the outside,

we feel that nine months is too short a time

to prepare you for your responsibilities outside.

Parole is not granted.

We'll review your case in a few months, and you'll hear from us.

Got flopped back. Tried to do a mope.

Hanging on a bush, eh?

Benton says no solitary.

Oh, Benton's a fool. If I had her job, I'd...

Benton's okay with me.

So I go on this picnic, see? Skinny takes me out in a rowboat,

begins criticizing my family, though, and to make it worse, he slaps me,

so I slap him back.

You just slapped him?

Well, I did have an oar in my hand.

He kept on hitting me, so I kept on slapping him.

Still with your oar in your hand?

What did you keep on slapping him for?

Well, he kept on coming up.

Pipe the new fish.

Get a load of Elvira Powell.

Hello, girls.

So help me, I never saw such an old-looking bunch of bags.

I've checked in here for maybe six months.

Grand jury's having itself a little fun,

so in order to save some of my friends embarrassment,

I got myself a phony rap so they can't subpoena me as a witness.

It'll all blow over by spring. I'm used to comfort, and I'll expect it.

Pick up your check at my lawyer's, Big Davis.

There's $100 waiting for you every week for value received.

Hello, Kitty.

Read about you and Ed. Divorcing him would have been easier.

Gimpy Sullivan says you're drumming up shoplifters from the inside.

I got a concession.

No more. While I'm in, I want no kibitzing from you.

What's your name? How'd you hurt your hand?

I'm a big girl, and this isn't my first year away from home.

My name is Marie Allen.

If I said no to Kitty, I'm sure not gonna say yes to you.

She's a cute trick.

Oh, wake up, Lottie. You're playing a game.

Sure, you could sit down in a department store some places.

That could be a gold egg you got in your hand.

Okay, now try it again, and make out like that cake of soap's a diamond pin.

- How much? - $150.

Okay, wrap it up.

Spotters would have nabbed you.

I'm too dumb to be a booster.

Some dames got more talent than others.

But I got to have some trade if I ever get out of here.

You any good at it, Marie?

Anybody with half a brain could figure out how to fool a spotter.

Pigeon like you would get her wings clipped first trip out.

Now, let's see.

If this is the jewelry counter, what counter would be over there?

I guess perfume, gloves.

Then the elevators would be over there?

Yeah.

- That's showing her. - Guess she showed her!

A bull's eye, baby! By the time you're sprung,

I can have you connected with one of the biggest outfits...

Come on, you tramps. Line up for Christmas.

Nina Minnelli.

Emma Barber. Emma Barber.

Mary O'Connor.

Santa Claus couldn't get in here. He's a man!

Marie Allen.

Sadie Fillmore.

Naomi Bates.

Mary Brown.

What do you know? Jungle red.

It's funny how lipstick can make you feel all prettied up.

Who sent them?

Powell slipped Harper a check to buy them for us.

That bloated buzzard! Who does she think she's kidding?

Lipstick. She knows we can't keep them. She only did it to get Benton sore.

She'll drool when she sees the Super coming and taking them away from us.

Well, until Benton finds out, I sure feel like a new woman.

Rhinestones are phony.

You can have real ones anytime you change your type.

There's $100 extra in it for you

if you get word to Benton that Kitty's recruiting.

- Merry Christmas, girls. - Merry Christmas!

- Merry Christmas. - Oh, how pretty.

I hope you'll all have a pleasant day tomorrow.

Let's hope that many of you will be home this time next year.

Now, tomorrow morning, there will be Christmas services held here

for any of you who might like to attend.

Oh, Ann, where did the lipsticks come from?

Elvira Powell.

Oh, of course, by way of Harper.

Girls? Girls, could I have your attention a minute, please?

I didn't know what else to do for you for Christmas,

but evidently, someone thought of it for me,

so from now on, all of you will be allowed to use lipstick.

Merry Christmas, Marie. Why aren't you singing?

Give me one good reason why I should.

I know this is a frame, and I got a rough idea who's back of it.

I've been stretching muscles that haven't been stretched in 30 years.

Even that soft job in the mailroom poops me.

I've been a lady of leisure too long. What's new in the social set?

Kitty Stark is still in solitary. I think she'll listen to reason now.

Meaning what?

She tried to play rough with me when I was taking her down to the hole.

I didn't tell you to get tough with her.

By the time I got through with her, she knew I meant business.

Look what she's got.

I found it outside the laundry. I'm gonna keep it.

Sure must be a dopey cat to crawl in here.

Boy or girl?

I'm not taking any chances. I'm gonna call it Fluff.

Harper will pitch a doozy if she finds it.

I'll bring my milk from supper.

Line up for count!

Line up for count!

- Lewis, Millie. - Christiansen, Velma.

- Kopsky, Gita. - O'Connor, Mary.

- O'Brian, Julie. - Wagner, Rita.

- Devlin, Claire. - Minnelli, Nina.

- Barber, Emma. - Menard, Tina.

- Cassidy, Katie. - Bates, Naomi.

Okay, where is it?

You don't get no breakfast till you hand over that cat.

You know it's against the rules to have any pets.

Hand it over.

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!

All of you know this is one of the most serious offenses

that can happen here.

I'm taking away all privileges until further notice.

Now, I want to know who started all this.

It's dead.

She attacked me when I tried to take away the cat.

Then she tried to escape.

Is this true?

The first time you tried to escape, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

This time, you have to be disciplined.

I'm going to put you in solitary for three days.

All I wanted was the kitten.

Three days?

Those are my orders.

My room.

No, Evy. No!

Do like I said.

If Benton ever finds out...

Shut up.

- Marie Allen, three days. - I'm taking Kitty Stark back.

You better have the doctor see her before Benton does.

She looks stir-bugs to me.

I'll take her over to the infirmary.

Nothing to be scared about. Being alone isn't so tough,

and bread and water never killed anyone.

Maybe I'll sleep for three days.

Stop thinking about it. It'll grow back.

Let me out of here! I'll do anything you want!

Oh, God! Let me out. Let me out.

Please, please, please!

That's what you think!

Don't leave. I want you to hear this.

Send a wire to the Commissioner.

Demand that you immediately dismiss Matron Evelyn Harper.

Inmate in serious condition of shock due to clipping of hair.

Harper repeatedly ordered to discontinue these barbarous practices.

Insubordination reflects on my position

and the health and well-being of the inmates.

I'd count 10 before you sent that.

Benton sure means business.

Medford, 5342.

I can't afford to lose my job, Evy. I got debts.

Shut up.

Yes.

I want to speak to Thornton Goodrich, please.

Tell him Evelyn Harper.

Yes, ma 'am.

We're sort of distant cousins, you know, Thornton and me.

Good morning.

Happy New Year, Thornton. How are you?

Oh, just fine, thanks.

I got something you ought to know.

Oh, I couldn't tell you over the phone, but it's dynamite.

Those filthy lies!

But at least it's nice to know we have the support of so many people.

Three welfare leagues,

a half a dozen women's clubs from all over the country.

If they'd only get together and stick together,

then maybe situations like this wouldn't arise.

You can just bet the others have organization.

And they won't stop there. What are you going to do?

I'll know better after I talk to the Commissioner.

They're sitting outside looking so smug.

Send them in.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioner. Won't you sit down?

I think there are ashtrays handy.

The Governor's madder than a turkey gobbler.

Everyone's on my neck because of what you've done.

Aren't you confused, Commissioner?

It wasn't I who gave those ridiculous stories to the papers.

What's the idea getting Harper sore over nothing at all?

I suppose a man would call the clipping of a girl's hair nothing at all.

Well, you could have talked it over with her instead of flying off the handle.

The Commissioner means,

your predecessor never quarreled with the staff.

My predecessor refused to regard criminals as human beings.

I've tried to change that attitude. I intend to keep on trying.

There is no place on my staff for matrons like Evelyn Harper.

It's too bad all this had to happen before she was fired.

Who said anything about firing her?

Why fire a political appointee

just because of a minor difference between you and her?

Besides, firing her won't do us any good. It's this stink we've got to squelch.

How do you intend doing that?

I can get Harper to take back what she said.

She can call it a mistake, admit that she was hot-headed.

The directives, Sam.

Well, I'm coming to that.

At the same time, we'll announce

that these directives are to be put into effect immediately.

Directives?

The Commissioner has put it in the form of a memo to you.

"Inmates who have been honor women will no longer be put

"in subordinate positions on the staff.

"The proposed plan to allow occasional work outside the prison

"when merited by selected girls is denied

"as well as the proposed plan for educational..."

You don't honestly think I'd consent to that?

Why, I'd be betraying every man and woman

working to free prisons from methods like yours,

to insulate them from the abuses of politicians, cheap politicians.

Have respect for my position, Mrs. Benton.

I wouldn't allow the Governor to speak to me like that!

Oh, Fred, Mrs. Benton, let's not lose our tempers.

Look, we came here with the best intentions in the world,

hoping to get together with you, to let this thing all blow over,

but you leave me with no alternative, except to ask for your resignation.

If he asks for my resignation, I'll demand a public hearing.

Now, just see here. We can get together.

We can if you tear up those directives and fire Evelyn Harper.

That will clear my name and allow me to do the work

that must be done around here.

He'll do nothing of the kind.

Then I'll announce you've asked for my resignation,

and I'll demand a public hearing.

The State allows me such a hearing, and you know it.

Let the public learn how this prison is run.

Fire me, Commissioner. I insist on it.

I want that public hearing.

Marie Allen, back from the hospital.

Stop it! Stop it!

Stop it!

Peggy Elkins.

Naomi Bates.

Honest, sometimes I wish that old lady of mine

- would stop writing me. - Julie Klein.

- "I sure wish you could be out by Easter... - Tammy Slovo.

"...so you could see your kid brother...

- "...graduate from high school." - Thelma Graham.

She must think I'm in a country club,

- taking a rest cure. - Ruth Cardnum.

- I got news for her. - Nina Christiansen.

My kid brother's gonna get graduated without me.

Mimi Fuller.

Judas Priest!

Mary O'Connor.

Arlene Sidney.

Evelyn Mason.

Alma Jones.

Mary Adams.

Luana Cohen.

Gee, look how she looks.

- Guess you'd look that way, too... - Tracy Swanson.

...if you had a week in solitary.

- Yeah, and almost a month in pogey. - Helga Jorgensen.

I didn't know what kind of a heel Harper is.

She's like a cop I was sweet on once.

He used to work guys over for no reason at all,

just because it made him feel important.

If I'd known, I wouldn't have started on you.

Quit shaking the tambourine.

I'll be sprung soon. You'll run the cage again.

If I can do anything for you, try to get your rap shortened...

What did you say?

- Wagner, Rita. - Devlin, Claire.

- Minnelli, Nina. - Barber, Emma.

- Menard, Tina. - Cassidy, Katie.

Bates, Naomi.

Don't be smart. Let's have the name.

Stark, Kitty.

Taylor, Alice.

- Allen, Marie. - Mullen, Elaine.

Okay, dummy, if you can't hold that cup, get back to the bullpen.

Feed your faces and keep your traps shut if you don't want to get...

Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!

Kindly omit flowers.

Sunday. Nothing for me to do except think about the next 10 years.

Here today, here tomorrow.

What's your itch?

Oh, I keep thinking of Kitty sitting in the death house, and I get...

Take it easy before you blow a tube.

You got to hand it to Benton.

Even with all her trouble, she tried to keep Kitty off the hot seat.

Yeah, she kept telling them Kitty was off her trolley.

Boy, what's going on in Benton's office!

There's six matrons spilling over

and a bunch of girls from the other bullpens.

- What did you tell Benton? - I shot the works.

Helen wrote down every word,

all about Harper chiseling the liquor and soap and things,

what she did to Kitty. I sure gave them a earful.

You know something? I think Benton might use me as a witness at the hearing.

Maybe there are a few things I can tell her tomorrow, too.

I've got news for you. She talked to me like I was anybody else.

Bet you a pack a week

you'll still be pulling dead time next Christmas.

Keep your big flapper shut.

Claire's giving it to you straight.

Ain't you played the honest John too long?

You could have made a swell booster.

You still can get out of here.

You ain't got much time. She's being sprung tomorrow.

What do you want Powell to do, send you an engraved invitation?

These birdbrains giving you spiel what to do out in free side!

Hand me a laugh. I got a file long as your arm.

I was queen of the con women when Claire was wearing diapers.

There's nothing I ain't done, including murder.

Stop tooting your horn.

But that makes me the crookedest crook of any of you, don't it? Okay.

Before you get any bright ideas, listen to me.

I had a first time like you, but I can't remember how long ago.

Then the second rap, then the third. Now I'm a lifer.

I'll be 71 soon. Been a con 40 years,

and you know what I think? Nobody got cheated but me.

Forty years taken away.

So I'm giving it to you straight.

Wait a year on dead time, but get a legit job slinging hash.

Then, get a good guy, have a kid.

What I'd give for a sink full of dirty dishes.

Quiet.

No, that's all right.

Ain't they cute?

Amateurs coming for lessons.

Bullpen B, 60 inmates, all types of offenders.

This place smells like a zoo.

What's she in for?

And men call us the weaker sex.

- Look at those faces. - Environment, my dear. Environment.

They say the Superintendent has a murderess working for her.

- Did you make it? - Yeah.

Gee, she's getting out.

Mamie will press them for you.

Marie Allen, checking out. 93850.

That's six cents a day for laundry work.

Deduct 10 days for having a baby, three days solitary,

that's 502 days times six cents.

You can cash this on your way out.

Oh, wait a minute.

Guess you want your wedding ring, don't you?

Thanks for the haircut.

Sit down, Marie.

Now that you're leaving, let's not lie to each other.

- What do you mean? - This cashier's job is just a blind.

The parole officer okayed it, didn't she?

Elvira Powell has a lot of friends.

In a couple of more months,

the parole officer could have found you work.

You'd have made some honest money, have self-respect and decency.

Where did those things ever get me?

Why do you give up now that you don't need to?

When you're free?

Free for what? Go to my baby?

To sit down to a turkey dinner with a family?

To kiss my husband?

I know it's difficult to start over again, but...

From now on, what's in it for me is all that matters.

You did your best and where did it land you?

You can't lick the system.

Well, if you've got nothing more to say...

Well, if you ever need any help...

Thanks, but I won't.

Well, I hope you win.

For that $40 Tom and I heisted,

I certainly got myself an education.

Here's the address of the parole officer, Marie.

- Goodbye. - So long.

Front gate, 93850 coming out.

That's right.

What shall I do with her file?

Keep it active. She'll be back.