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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:43,991 --> 00:00:47,967 Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident 2 00:00:47,991 --> 00:00:51,866 and you see yourself from the outside? 3 00:00:51,949 --> 00:00:54,549 That's who you really are. 4 00:00:59,449 --> 00:01:03,481 Excuse me. I'm supposed to pick up a dress. 5 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:11,675 - Nothing owed. Your lady must have paid. 6 00:01:11,699 --> 00:01:13,139 - Thank you. 7 00:01:33,074 --> 00:01:34,657 No, Geri. 8 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:37,092 Girl, I'm not talking crazy, 9 00:01:37,116 --> 00:01:39,591 and I don't need you to come over. 10 00:01:39,615 --> 00:01:44,324 I just... need you to stay on the phone, okay? 11 00:01:44,408 --> 00:01:48,158 I can't sleep, and I want to talk. 12 00:01:57,074 --> 00:01:58,866 - Ma'am. 13 00:02:01,824 --> 00:02:05,008 - My lady's going out for the evening. 14 00:02:05,032 --> 00:02:08,104 - May I have my room key, please? 15 00:02:10,283 --> 00:02:11,800 The stars continue to arrive 16 00:02:11,824 --> 00:02:14,550 at the 1955 Academy Awards here in New York 17 00:02:14,574 --> 00:02:16,874 and out in Los Angeles. 18 00:02:16,991 --> 00:02:19,532 - This is it, Dottie. 19 00:02:19,615 --> 00:02:22,116 - This is it. 20 00:02:27,366 --> 00:02:28,925 Tonight in New York City. 21 00:02:28,949 --> 00:02:31,300 Ladies and gentlemen, the first-ever colored nominee 22 00:02:31,324 --> 00:02:33,550 for Best Actress, Dorothy Dandridge, 23 00:02:33,574 --> 00:02:35,591 star of "Carmen Jones." 24 00:02:35,615 --> 00:02:39,425 She's arriving tonight with her sister Vivian Dandridge. 25 00:02:39,449 --> 00:02:41,425 Dorothy, can we talk to you for a moment? 26 00:02:41,449 --> 00:02:42,967 Dorothy, the world is watching. 27 00:02:42,991 --> 00:02:44,782 How does it feel? 28 00:02:44,866 --> 00:02:47,050 It feels like Christmas! 29 00:02:47,074 --> 00:02:48,466 - Thank you. - Thank you. 30 00:02:48,490 --> 00:02:52,116 - There she goes, Dorothy Dandridge, 31 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:55,675 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 32 00:02:55,699 --> 00:02:58,342 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 33 00:02:58,366 --> 00:03:00,466 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly... 34 00:03:00,490 --> 00:03:02,824 We love you, sugar. 35 00:03:02,907 --> 00:03:05,207 - We love you, Dorothy! 36 00:03:06,615 --> 00:03:08,699 - Hi. Thank you. 37 00:03:11,699 --> 00:03:13,574 - Dorothy! 38 00:03:13,657 --> 00:03:15,740 Dorothy! 39 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:20,532 - Come on, Dottie. 40 00:03:20,615 --> 00:03:22,657 Come on! 41 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:23,949 Dottie! 42 00:03:24,032 --> 00:03:26,532 Would you please come on? 43 00:03:26,615 --> 00:03:28,008 - I can't do another! 44 00:03:28,032 --> 00:03:29,550 - Dottie, how many times you gonna get the chance 45 00:03:29,574 --> 00:03:31,050 to take another call at the Cotton? 46 00:03:31,074 --> 00:03:33,883 - We've done ten already, and my feet are swollen! 47 00:03:33,907 --> 00:03:35,508 - Oh, would you make her? - One more time, 48 00:03:35,532 --> 00:03:38,604 - The Dandridge Sisters! - Come on! 49 00:03:52,532 --> 00:03:55,032 ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 50 00:03:56,241 --> 00:03:58,741 ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 51 00:04:00,032 --> 00:04:01,967 ♪ So keep draggin' ♪ 52 00:04:01,991 --> 00:04:03,716 ♪ Your red wagon ♪ 53 00:04:03,740 --> 00:04:05,615 ♪ Along, along ♪ 54 00:04:05,699 --> 00:04:09,199 ♪ Along ♪ 55 00:04:11,532 --> 00:04:13,907 1940's freshest faces, 56 00:04:13,991 --> 00:04:17,241 the lovely Dandridge Sisters! 57 00:04:19,615 --> 00:04:21,324 Hey! 58 00:04:21,408 --> 00:04:23,633 First rule of dancing offstage is landing on your feet. 59 00:04:23,657 --> 00:04:25,342 - You weren't there a second ago. 60 00:04:25,366 --> 00:04:28,633 - But I'm here now, and here I plan to stay. 61 00:04:28,657 --> 00:04:30,716 - Well, aren't you easy on the eyes? 62 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:32,758 - I'm Harold. - And I'm Fayard. 63 00:04:32,782 --> 00:04:34,092 We're the Nicholas Brothers. 64 00:04:34,116 --> 00:04:35,675 - Everybody knows the Nicholas Brothers. 65 00:04:35,699 --> 00:04:37,050 - You're famous. 66 00:04:37,074 --> 00:04:38,675 - Hey, Fayard, did you hear that? We're famous. 67 00:04:38,699 --> 00:04:40,342 - Who's famous? - We're famous. 68 00:04:40,366 --> 00:04:41,758 - We're famous? - That's what she said. 69 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:43,591 - Yeah? Well, nobody told me. 70 00:04:43,615 --> 00:04:44,716 - We held the record 71 00:04:44,740 --> 00:04:46,466 for the most calls at the Cotton Club. 72 00:04:46,490 --> 00:04:47,967 Well, till tonight. 73 00:04:47,991 --> 00:04:49,758 You sisters got us beat by two. 74 00:04:49,782 --> 00:04:51,300 - Oh, no, we're not sisters. 75 00:04:51,324 --> 00:04:52,758 - Well, we are. - But not me. 76 00:04:52,782 --> 00:04:55,134 - It's just our stage name. 77 00:04:55,158 --> 00:04:57,675 - Ladies. Got to go, Harold. 78 00:04:57,699 --> 00:04:59,508 - Yeah. Cool your taps, Fayard. 79 00:04:59,532 --> 00:05:01,466 I say my brother and I hit the lucky 13 tonight. 80 00:05:01,490 --> 00:05:03,633 - What's so lucky about 13? 81 00:05:03,657 --> 00:05:04,800 - We hit it, you go with me 82 00:05:04,824 --> 00:05:06,092 to the picture show Friday night. 83 00:05:06,116 --> 00:05:07,259 - What makes you think 84 00:05:07,283 --> 00:05:08,591 I want to go anywhere with you? 85 00:05:08,615 --> 00:05:10,842 - I don't think. I know. 86 00:05:10,866 --> 00:05:12,633 There's no place like home. 87 00:05:12,657 --> 00:05:13,591 Ladies and gentlemen... 88 00:05:13,615 --> 00:05:14,758 - So what do you say? 89 00:05:14,782 --> 00:05:17,134 - You hit 13, you pick me up Friday night. 90 00:05:17,158 --> 00:05:19,675 - Friday night. - The one, the only, 91 00:05:19,699 --> 00:05:22,867 - the Nicholas Brothers! - Let's go. 92 00:06:10,449 --> 00:06:12,967 - What did I tell you about getting your skirt snipped? 93 00:06:12,991 --> 00:06:14,384 - He's just being nice. 94 00:06:14,408 --> 00:06:16,633 - Ain't no such thing as nice to a fox in a henhouse, 95 00:06:16,657 --> 00:06:19,092 even if it is a famous fox. You're here to work! 96 00:06:19,116 --> 00:06:20,842 Change your clothes, get your coats on. 97 00:06:20,866 --> 00:06:22,259 I want you in bed by 1:00. 98 00:06:22,283 --> 00:06:25,074 Mean old snake. 99 00:06:25,158 --> 00:06:27,050 Made us call her "Auntie." 100 00:06:27,074 --> 00:06:29,449 Remember that? Hmh! 101 00:06:29,532 --> 00:06:33,756 She wasn't nothing but Mama's special friend. 102 00:06:36,657 --> 00:06:37,883 But that night, 103 00:06:37,907 --> 00:06:41,408 I barely even knew she was there. 104 00:06:51,699 --> 00:06:53,591 Ladies and gentlemen, 105 00:06:53,615 --> 00:06:55,675 the Nicholas Brothers! 106 00:06:55,699 --> 00:06:57,615 Hey! 107 00:06:57,699 --> 00:06:58,925 We hit it. Lucky 13. 108 00:06:58,949 --> 00:07:00,591 - Congratulations. 109 00:07:00,615 --> 00:07:02,175 - So where do I pick you up Friday night? 110 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:03,342 - Los Angeles. 111 00:07:03,366 --> 00:07:04,615 - L.A.? 112 00:07:04,699 --> 00:07:07,508 - That's where I'm gonna be come Friday night. 113 00:07:07,532 --> 00:07:08,949 Move it! 114 00:07:09,032 --> 00:07:10,675 - You know, a bad boy like you 115 00:07:10,699 --> 00:07:13,259 don't want to mess with that girl, Harry. 116 00:07:13,283 --> 00:07:16,259 She's a good girl, sweet as pie. 117 00:07:20,158 --> 00:07:22,866 That ain't bad, either. 118 00:07:32,116 --> 00:07:34,116 - Thank you. - Ma'am. 119 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:36,907 - Is Mama home? 120 00:07:36,991 --> 00:07:39,758 - No, she's where she always is, working. 121 00:07:39,782 --> 00:07:41,199 Excuse me. 122 00:07:42,949 --> 00:07:44,883 If I remember correctly, 123 00:07:44,907 --> 00:07:47,134 I was promised a date for Friday, 124 00:07:47,158 --> 00:07:49,074 and this is Friday. 125 00:07:49,158 --> 00:07:52,716 That's... if it's all right with you, ma'am. 126 00:07:52,740 --> 00:07:55,466 And might I say you are looking lovely today? 127 00:07:55,490 --> 00:07:58,300 The sunshine agrees with you. 128 00:07:58,324 --> 00:08:00,615 - Is that your car? 129 00:08:00,699 --> 00:08:02,134 - It's a beauty, isn't it? 130 00:08:02,158 --> 00:08:04,008 Cost a pretty penny, 131 00:08:04,032 --> 00:08:06,324 but it's only money. 132 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:13,657 - Now, that is a man. 133 00:08:20,241 --> 00:08:22,466 Hey, honey, you gonna sleep in this room 134 00:08:22,490 --> 00:08:25,092 with all them microbugs crawling all over you? 135 00:08:25,116 --> 00:08:27,842 I don't think they'll bother me, Hyacinth. 136 00:08:27,866 --> 00:08:31,449 Oh. Oh. Now... oh! 137 00:08:32,782 --> 00:08:34,342 You know, Dottie, 138 00:08:34,366 --> 00:08:37,800 I got a thing for you that just won't leave me alone. 139 00:08:37,824 --> 00:08:39,824 Watch the movie. 140 00:08:39,907 --> 00:08:41,633 You know what I've done? 141 00:08:41,657 --> 00:08:43,758 I sprinkle him with Egyptian Nights, 142 00:08:43,782 --> 00:08:47,175 and when he come to, we was living on 110th, 143 00:08:47,199 --> 00:08:49,299 overlooking the park. 144 00:08:50,199 --> 00:08:52,342 Of course, I had to pay the rent. 145 00:08:52,366 --> 00:08:55,116 Hey. 146 00:08:55,199 --> 00:08:57,425 Come on, let's go. I mean... 147 00:08:57,449 --> 00:08:58,967 I got better things I can think of doing 148 00:08:58,991 --> 00:09:03,503 than sitting watching some old plantation mammy. 149 00:09:04,074 --> 00:09:06,591 - That plantation mammy is my mother. 150 00:09:06,615 --> 00:09:07,991 Yeah... 151 00:09:08,074 --> 00:09:12,134 - You really ought to try some. It never fails. 152 00:09:12,158 --> 00:09:14,408 - Dottie. Dottie. 153 00:09:14,490 --> 00:09:15,716 Dottie, I didn't know. 154 00:09:15,740 --> 00:09:17,134 Dottie, I'm sorry. I didn't know. 155 00:09:17,158 --> 00:09:18,716 - She didn't have a choice, you know. 156 00:09:18,740 --> 00:09:20,384 After my daddy left, she had to feed us, 157 00:09:20,408 --> 00:09:24,050 and playin' a maid is a world easier than bein' a maid. 158 00:09:24,074 --> 00:09:25,716 - Of course it is. Listen. 159 00:09:25,740 --> 00:09:28,008 I didn't mean any disrespect. 160 00:09:28,032 --> 00:09:29,591 Please don't be sore. 161 00:09:29,615 --> 00:09:31,800 - I'm not sore. - Yes, you are. 162 00:09:31,824 --> 00:09:35,925 It's your mother, and what I said was stupid. 163 00:09:35,949 --> 00:09:39,134 Believe me, I know about being poor. 164 00:09:39,158 --> 00:09:40,384 - We were so poor, 165 00:09:40,408 --> 00:09:42,300 my mama put us on the Chitlin' Circuit. 166 00:09:42,324 --> 00:09:44,925 - We were on the Chitlin' Circuit, too, 167 00:09:44,949 --> 00:09:46,633 only we were so poor, 168 00:09:46,657 --> 00:09:49,384 we couldn't afford the chitlins. 169 00:09:49,408 --> 00:09:51,092 - Well, we were so poor, we had to sleep 170 00:09:51,116 --> 00:09:53,800 four to a bed everywhere we went. 171 00:09:53,824 --> 00:09:55,675 - Dottie, we were so poor 172 00:09:55,699 --> 00:09:58,259 that my mother had to sew all of our costumes, 173 00:09:58,283 --> 00:09:59,758 and she couldn't sew. 174 00:09:59,782 --> 00:10:01,633 One pants leg was always coming out shorter 175 00:10:01,657 --> 00:10:03,092 than the other one. 176 00:10:03,116 --> 00:10:05,259 Fayard and I used to have to tap with one knee bent. 177 00:10:05,283 --> 00:10:07,550 See, that's where that step comes from. 178 00:10:07,574 --> 00:10:08,842 When you see us doing this... 179 00:10:08,866 --> 00:10:11,666 - That's where it comes from. 180 00:10:13,615 --> 00:10:15,657 - You're so crazy. 181 00:10:16,574 --> 00:10:18,408 - I'm only crazy 182 00:10:18,490 --> 00:10:20,615 when it comes to you. 183 00:10:38,408 --> 00:10:41,108 - You know what time it is? 184 00:10:41,824 --> 00:10:45,568 - We went for ice cream after the movie. 185 00:10:46,782 --> 00:10:48,842 - What else you go for? 186 00:10:48,866 --> 00:10:50,824 - Where's Mama? 187 00:10:50,907 --> 00:10:52,587 - Night shift. 188 00:10:53,074 --> 00:10:54,883 What you let him do to you? 189 00:10:54,907 --> 00:10:56,591 You let him stick it in you? 190 00:10:56,615 --> 00:10:58,134 - I need to get... - I'm talking to you. 191 00:10:58,158 --> 00:11:00,508 - It was one kiss. That's all, one kiss. 192 00:11:00,532 --> 00:11:02,633 - You let him stick it in you. 193 00:11:02,657 --> 00:11:04,508 - No. - I know you did. 194 00:11:04,532 --> 00:11:07,740 I can smell the sex on you. 195 00:11:07,824 --> 00:11:10,508 And I'll be damned if I raise your brats 196 00:11:10,532 --> 00:11:14,342 after I wasted all this time raising you! 197 00:11:14,366 --> 00:11:17,259 Take off your drawers. I'm checking you. 198 00:11:17,283 --> 00:11:19,116 - No. 199 00:11:20,199 --> 00:11:22,408 I said take 'em off. 200 00:11:24,241 --> 00:11:25,342 - Get up here! 201 00:11:25,366 --> 00:11:27,574 Auntie! No! No! 202 00:11:27,657 --> 00:11:28,967 - Vivian! Oh! 203 00:11:28,991 --> 00:11:32,008 - You mind your business, Vivian! 204 00:11:32,032 --> 00:11:34,092 - Oh! - Spread your legs! 205 00:11:34,116 --> 00:11:36,216 - Vivvy! - Spread 'em! 206 00:11:37,366 --> 00:11:39,046 - Stop it! Stop! 207 00:11:53,116 --> 00:11:55,516 - You're still a virgin. 208 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:03,240 - What is wrong with you? 209 00:12:06,907 --> 00:12:09,175 - Yeah, you better hold her! Hold her! 210 00:12:09,199 --> 00:12:12,883 Next time you better be in this house when I tell you to! 211 00:12:12,907 --> 00:12:16,657 Dottie, come on. 212 00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:18,540 Are you all right? 213 00:12:19,116 --> 00:12:22,342 Auntie, she's just crazy. She's crazy. 214 00:12:22,366 --> 00:12:24,425 But that, what she did, it don't mean nothin'. 215 00:12:24,449 --> 00:12:26,649 It don't mean nothin'. 216 00:12:27,615 --> 00:12:29,384 Didn't nothin' happen. 217 00:12:29,408 --> 00:12:31,633 Didn't happen. You hear me? 218 00:12:31,657 --> 00:12:33,337 Didn't happen. 219 00:12:33,366 --> 00:12:35,134 I can't wait to get out of here. 220 00:12:35,158 --> 00:12:36,925 When I'm rich and famous, she ain't gonna see 221 00:12:36,949 --> 00:12:39,092 a dime of my money, you hear me? 222 00:12:39,116 --> 00:12:43,532 - Yeah, I hear. - Ain't gonna see a dime of it. 223 00:12:49,866 --> 00:12:51,134 Look at Daddy. 224 00:12:51,158 --> 00:12:53,716 Harold look just like him, don't he? 225 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:55,366 Yeah. 226 00:13:07,490 --> 00:13:10,466 What are you two doing still up? 227 00:13:12,824 --> 00:13:14,924 I bought us some pie. 228 00:13:14,991 --> 00:13:16,991 It's still hot. 229 00:13:17,074 --> 00:13:18,967 Everything all right? 230 00:13:18,991 --> 00:13:20,466 - Everything's fine, Mama. 231 00:13:20,490 --> 00:13:22,300 - We just wanted to say good night. 232 00:13:22,324 --> 00:13:24,532 - Oh. My babies. 233 00:13:24,615 --> 00:13:28,074 Have your pie tonight. 234 00:13:32,490 --> 00:13:34,259 You know, Auntie does the best she can by us. 235 00:13:34,283 --> 00:13:37,199 I mean, she tries really hard. 236 00:13:37,283 --> 00:13:40,532 You do understand, don't you? 237 00:13:40,615 --> 00:13:42,050 Oh, well, good. 238 00:13:42,074 --> 00:13:46,298 You save me a piece. You know how I love pie. 239 00:13:53,032 --> 00:13:54,384 ♪ Dinner in the diner ♪ 240 00:13:54,408 --> 00:13:56,259 ♪ Nothing could be finer ♪ 241 00:13:56,283 --> 00:13:58,842 ♪ Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina ♪ 242 00:13:58,866 --> 00:14:00,591 ♪ When you hear the whistle blowing ♪ 243 00:14:00,615 --> 00:14:03,300 - ♪ Eight to the bar ♪ - ♪ Then you know ♪ 244 00:14:03,324 --> 00:14:04,883 ♪ That Tennessee is not very far ♪ 245 00:14:04,907 --> 00:14:08,008 ♪ Shuffle all the coal in, got to keep it rollin' ♪ 246 00:14:08,032 --> 00:14:10,932 ♪ Chattanooga, there you are ♪ 247 00:14:10,991 --> 00:14:12,842 ♪ Chattanooga choo choo ♪ 248 00:14:12,866 --> 00:14:14,949 ♪ There you are ♪ 249 00:14:29,949 --> 00:14:31,175 - All right, Harold. Pick it up now. 250 00:14:31,199 --> 00:14:34,463 - I got it now. I got it, I got it. 251 00:14:42,408 --> 00:14:44,175 Wait. That ain't in the number. 252 00:14:44,199 --> 00:14:45,716 Honey, hold this for me. 253 00:14:45,740 --> 00:14:47,241 Hat dance! 254 00:14:51,408 --> 00:14:52,550 All right, 255 00:14:52,574 --> 00:14:54,050 all right, enough. 256 00:14:54,074 --> 00:14:56,008 My wife'll kill me if I let you two 257 00:14:56,032 --> 00:14:57,384 dance me into my grave. 258 00:14:57,408 --> 00:14:59,366 Hey, Geri. 259 00:14:59,449 --> 00:15:01,050 - Get back out there. 260 00:15:01,074 --> 00:15:02,675 You missed the last tap on your turn. 261 00:15:02,699 --> 00:15:04,384 - Oh. You know, that hurt. 262 00:15:04,408 --> 00:15:05,574 - Fayard. 263 00:15:08,532 --> 00:15:12,199 - Geri, every day you sit here, 264 00:15:12,283 --> 00:15:14,425 bossing little Fayard around, 265 00:15:14,449 --> 00:15:16,758 reading some old boring thing. 266 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:18,591 - I boss Fayard because he likes to be bossed. 267 00:15:18,615 --> 00:15:20,716 And I read Frederick Douglass because I am trying 268 00:15:20,740 --> 00:15:22,550 to learn something about my people. 269 00:15:22,574 --> 00:15:23,758 Want to borrow it? 270 00:15:23,782 --> 00:15:25,508 - I'll tell you what you need to learn. 271 00:15:25,532 --> 00:15:27,758 You need to learn how to have some fun. 272 00:15:27,782 --> 00:15:29,300 Now, you and Fayard need to come out 273 00:15:29,324 --> 00:15:31,175 with me and Harold more often. 274 00:15:31,199 --> 00:15:34,740 Besides, we need a chaperone. 275 00:15:34,824 --> 00:15:38,199 Last night, he asked me to touch it. 276 00:15:39,324 --> 00:15:41,384 - You guys haven't... Harold! 277 00:15:41,408 --> 00:15:42,949 Hey! 278 00:15:45,283 --> 00:15:47,425 I made him take me home. 279 00:15:47,449 --> 00:15:49,342 Harold Nicholas took you home? 280 00:15:49,366 --> 00:15:52,466 Girl, what kind of spell are you puttin' on him? 281 00:15:52,490 --> 00:15:57,002 - Says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. 282 00:15:58,366 --> 00:16:00,384 - I'd rather be smart than beautiful. 283 00:16:00,408 --> 00:16:02,300 I'd rather be beautiful. 284 00:16:02,324 --> 00:16:04,300 - Oh, beauty fades. A woman gets old. 285 00:16:04,324 --> 00:16:06,217 I'm not getting old. 286 00:16:06,241 --> 00:16:08,883 I'm staying young and beautiful 287 00:16:08,907 --> 00:16:10,807 till the day I die. 288 00:16:12,574 --> 00:16:14,550 Besides, being smart doesn't get you 289 00:16:14,574 --> 00:16:18,318 an engagement ring from Harold Nicholas! 290 00:16:18,615 --> 00:16:20,283 Oh, my God! 291 00:16:20,366 --> 00:16:22,116 Hey, hey, hey! 292 00:16:22,199 --> 00:16:23,842 How are we supposed to get any dancin' done 293 00:16:23,866 --> 00:16:25,800 with y'all making all that noise over there? 294 00:16:25,824 --> 00:16:28,524 - Oh, hush now. - Oh, quiet. 295 00:16:28,615 --> 00:16:29,907 ♪ Love ♪ 296 00:16:29,991 --> 00:16:32,324 - Congratulations. 297 00:16:32,449 --> 00:16:36,991 ♪ Love ♪ 298 00:16:37,074 --> 00:16:39,824 ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 299 00:16:39,907 --> 00:16:42,134 Will you stop all that preenin' and fussin' 300 00:16:42,158 --> 00:16:43,716 before I mess up this hem? 301 00:16:43,740 --> 00:16:47,842 - I think Harold'll marry me with a torn hem, Mama. 302 00:16:47,866 --> 00:16:50,217 - How do I look, Vivvy? - Perfect. 303 00:16:50,241 --> 00:16:52,092 - I make a beautiful bride. 304 00:16:52,116 --> 00:16:54,116 - Like an angel. 305 00:16:54,199 --> 00:16:58,327 Can you believe our baby is gettin' married? 306 00:16:59,032 --> 00:17:02,675 - I wish I had a daddy to give me away. 307 00:17:02,699 --> 00:17:04,633 - Cyril Dandridge was a fool, a no-good... 308 00:17:04,657 --> 00:17:06,782 Not today. 309 00:17:06,866 --> 00:17:09,425 Today is a happy day. Cyril is gone. 310 00:17:09,449 --> 00:17:10,842 Same as bein' dead, 311 00:17:10,866 --> 00:17:12,342 and that's the way I like to think of it. 312 00:17:12,366 --> 00:17:14,675 Dead, with God and the good lamb. 313 00:17:14,699 --> 00:17:17,466 - And anyway, Harold is not Cyril. 314 00:17:17,490 --> 00:17:19,300 - Honey, any man with 5 cents'll pay 315 00:17:19,324 --> 00:17:22,134 a colored woman's fare all the way to nowhere. 316 00:17:22,158 --> 00:17:25,550 You know what the chorus girls say about Harold? 317 00:17:25,574 --> 00:17:27,633 They say he's broken in every bed 318 00:17:27,657 --> 00:17:30,366 from here to New York City. 319 00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:31,550 - That's right. They do say that. 320 00:17:31,574 --> 00:17:33,134 - And I don't care. 321 00:17:33,158 --> 00:17:35,925 - Sugar pie, don't you have somewhere you need to be? 322 00:17:35,949 --> 00:17:38,384 - Harold Nicholas is the richest, 323 00:17:38,408 --> 00:17:40,425 most famous colored man in the world. 324 00:17:40,449 --> 00:17:42,591 He could have any girl he wants, 325 00:17:42,615 --> 00:17:44,295 and he wants me. 326 00:17:45,574 --> 00:17:48,907 - Harold Nicholas wants me. 327 00:17:48,991 --> 00:17:52,032 ♪ Love ♪ 328 00:17:52,116 --> 00:17:54,366 - ♪ Love ♪ 329 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:58,074 - ♪ Love ♪ 330 00:17:58,158 --> 00:18:01,824 - ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 331 00:18:05,283 --> 00:18:07,384 You were always lecturing us, Geri, 332 00:18:07,408 --> 00:18:09,716 about there being a war on. 333 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:11,866 Remember? 334 00:18:13,532 --> 00:18:14,925 Who cared about all of that when there were 335 00:18:14,949 --> 00:18:17,849 so many parties to step out to? 336 00:18:24,324 --> 00:18:25,866 Look at us. 337 00:18:28,116 --> 00:18:30,782 We were somethin'. 338 00:18:30,866 --> 00:18:32,032 - Dottie? 339 00:18:32,116 --> 00:18:33,425 What are you doin'? 340 00:18:33,449 --> 00:18:36,032 Will you come to bed? 341 00:18:39,824 --> 00:18:41,633 Dottie, you need any help? 342 00:18:41,657 --> 00:18:43,300 - No, I'm... I'm fine. 343 00:18:43,324 --> 00:18:46,800 - Then come on out and bring my beautiful wife with you. 344 00:18:46,824 --> 00:18:48,866 - Okay, I'm comin'. 345 00:19:00,574 --> 00:19:04,116 I can't see. 346 00:19:04,199 --> 00:19:07,574 ♪ Just follow the sound of love ♪ 347 00:19:38,949 --> 00:19:41,824 I love you. 348 00:19:41,907 --> 00:19:44,866 I love you so much. 349 00:19:44,949 --> 00:19:47,032 - I love you, too. 350 00:19:51,824 --> 00:19:55,408 - Dottie, you gotta relax, baby, okay? 351 00:19:55,490 --> 00:19:57,615 Just relax, okay? 352 00:19:57,699 --> 00:19:58,949 - Okay. 353 00:20:02,199 --> 00:20:03,758 - Spread your legs. 354 00:20:03,782 --> 00:20:05,134 Spread your legs! 355 00:20:05,158 --> 00:20:07,008 - No. Don't. - Spread your legs. 356 00:20:07,032 --> 00:20:08,866 - No! Don't. 357 00:20:08,949 --> 00:20:10,991 Stop it! 358 00:20:11,074 --> 00:20:13,324 I said no. 359 00:20:13,408 --> 00:20:16,768 - Hey, we're married now. It's okay. 360 00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:19,175 Dottie, 361 00:20:19,199 --> 00:20:21,259 is there something wrong? 362 00:20:21,283 --> 00:20:23,074 You can tell me. 363 00:20:24,032 --> 00:20:26,632 - No. I just don't want to. 364 00:20:31,074 --> 00:20:34,550 - Dottie, you're... you're my wife now. 365 00:20:34,574 --> 00:20:36,466 What in the hell did you think 366 00:20:36,490 --> 00:20:39,217 marriage was gonna be about? 367 00:20:39,241 --> 00:20:41,949 It's about intimacy, 368 00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:45,200 and without it, we've got nothing. 369 00:20:46,615 --> 00:20:48,008 Dottie, without sex, 370 00:20:48,032 --> 00:20:51,296 marriage goes right down the drain. 371 00:20:51,991 --> 00:20:53,366 Okay? 372 00:20:55,032 --> 00:20:56,592 Come on, now. 373 00:20:58,366 --> 00:21:00,199 Don't be scared. 374 00:21:00,283 --> 00:21:03,508 You're gonna enjoy it, I promise you. 375 00:21:03,532 --> 00:21:05,532 I guarantee it. 376 00:21:11,283 --> 00:21:13,092 No. No, Harold, I can't. 377 00:21:13,116 --> 00:21:15,032 No! No! No! 378 00:21:15,116 --> 00:21:16,758 - Get off of me! - Dottie. 379 00:21:16,782 --> 00:21:17,883 - Get off of me! - Hey. 380 00:21:17,907 --> 00:21:21,199 - Get off of me! Get off of me! 381 00:21:23,907 --> 00:21:27,300 - What the hell am I doing? Am I crazy? 382 00:21:27,324 --> 00:21:29,124 You don't want me. 383 00:21:30,949 --> 00:21:32,074 Fine. 384 00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:34,657 Then it's over. 385 00:21:34,740 --> 00:21:36,842 We'll get the whole thing annulled. 386 00:21:36,866 --> 00:21:38,490 It's over. 387 00:21:45,158 --> 00:21:46,478 Good night. 388 00:22:15,657 --> 00:22:17,449 Harold. 389 00:22:17,532 --> 00:22:19,907 I'm sorry. 390 00:22:19,991 --> 00:22:22,259 I don't want an annulment. 391 00:22:22,283 --> 00:22:24,092 I just want you to understand 392 00:22:24,116 --> 00:22:28,628 that I had a different kind of life, that's all. 393 00:22:29,032 --> 00:22:31,925 Can you give me another chance? 394 00:22:31,949 --> 00:22:35,032 Can I try it again? 395 00:22:37,032 --> 00:22:39,116 Please? 396 00:22:47,366 --> 00:22:50,532 We try it again. 397 00:22:57,490 --> 00:22:59,967 - You have got to let us get you to a hospital. 398 00:22:59,991 --> 00:23:01,782 - No, no. 399 00:23:01,866 --> 00:23:04,591 - Harold's coming. - Where in the hell is he? 400 00:23:04,615 --> 00:23:07,515 - Couldn't miss his golf game. 401 00:23:08,241 --> 00:23:09,925 - Vivvy, get her purse. 402 00:23:09,949 --> 00:23:11,967 This little one is not waitin' for him, 403 00:23:11,991 --> 00:23:12,883 and neither can you. 404 00:23:12,907 --> 00:23:14,175 - Come on. - No, Geri! 405 00:23:14,199 --> 00:23:15,508 - Come on. - No, Geri! I'm not going! 406 00:23:15,532 --> 00:23:16,883 - No, we've got to go. - No! 407 00:23:16,907 --> 00:23:20,267 - Come on. - I'm waiting for Harold! 408 00:23:25,490 --> 00:23:30,002 - Mama, you're gonna wear a groove in the floor. 409 00:23:31,949 --> 00:23:34,217 - Is it a boy or a girl? 410 00:23:34,241 --> 00:23:37,300 - She waited for you for hours... hours. 411 00:23:37,324 --> 00:23:40,008 - Everything's all right, isn't it? 412 00:23:40,032 --> 00:23:42,384 Dottie? Everything's okay, isn't it? 413 00:23:42,408 --> 00:23:43,991 It's a girl. 414 00:23:44,074 --> 00:23:45,754 And she's fine. 415 00:23:45,782 --> 00:23:47,682 - No thanks to you. 416 00:23:48,782 --> 00:23:52,032 Go ahead. Have a look at her. 417 00:23:57,949 --> 00:24:00,199 6 pounds, 2 ounces. 418 00:24:00,283 --> 00:24:02,949 I named her Harolyn, 419 00:24:03,032 --> 00:24:06,104 and we're going to call her Lynn. 420 00:24:07,615 --> 00:24:10,300 Harold wanted to send her to finishing school 421 00:24:10,324 --> 00:24:12,004 in Switzerland. 422 00:24:13,324 --> 00:24:17,158 Thought she could learn to speak French. 423 00:24:17,241 --> 00:24:18,532 French. 424 00:24:21,283 --> 00:24:24,199 He always had big dreams. 425 00:24:26,449 --> 00:24:29,116 Bigger than us. 426 00:24:38,490 --> 00:24:39,633 Lynn, honey? 427 00:24:39,657 --> 00:24:42,633 Can you speak to Dr. Carrington? 428 00:24:43,824 --> 00:24:45,824 Lynn? 429 00:24:45,907 --> 00:24:47,607 Can you say Mama? 430 00:24:47,657 --> 00:24:48,977 - Say Mama. 431 00:24:51,615 --> 00:24:54,342 - I guess some children are just slow to speak. 432 00:24:54,366 --> 00:24:58,300 - Mrs. Nicholas, I know this is very difficult for you, 433 00:24:58,324 --> 00:25:00,008 but she will never speak. 434 00:25:00,032 --> 00:25:01,591 - No. No, no, see, I... 435 00:25:01,615 --> 00:25:03,008 I've been to all these doctors 436 00:25:03,032 --> 00:25:04,633 and I have all these medicines. 437 00:25:04,657 --> 00:25:06,591 One doctor said that she needed sedatives, 438 00:25:06,615 --> 00:25:09,591 another one said stimulants, and I've been massaging 439 00:25:09,615 --> 00:25:12,175 her forehead every morning just like Dr. Gray said. 440 00:25:12,199 --> 00:25:15,050 And Dr. Matthews said that he thought it was hot baths, 441 00:25:15,074 --> 00:25:18,134 so I've been giving her hot baths every night. 442 00:25:18,158 --> 00:25:19,758 And then we had, these tests done on her 443 00:25:19,782 --> 00:25:22,050 and they injected fluid in her spine, 444 00:25:22,074 --> 00:25:23,466 and that doctor said he thought 445 00:25:23,490 --> 00:25:25,175 that she just needed to eat a little bit more. 446 00:25:25,199 --> 00:25:27,008 - Mrs. Nicholas. - They were good doctors. 447 00:25:27,032 --> 00:25:31,832 - If they were such good doctors, why are you here? 448 00:25:32,949 --> 00:25:35,217 - Because nobody's told me 449 00:25:35,241 --> 00:25:38,949 how to get my baby to call me Mama. 450 00:25:45,241 --> 00:25:48,217 - Dorothy, Lynn is mentally retarded. 451 00:25:48,241 --> 00:25:51,675 She has what we call anoxic brain damage. 452 00:25:51,699 --> 00:25:53,800 There wasn't a sufficient supply of oxygen for her 453 00:25:53,824 --> 00:25:55,504 during delivery. 454 00:25:55,574 --> 00:25:57,591 - I was late getting her to the hospital. 455 00:25:57,615 --> 00:25:59,259 Do you think it... it was my fault, wasn't it? 456 00:25:59,283 --> 00:26:00,217 No. 457 00:26:00,241 --> 00:26:01,675 No one knows what causes it, 458 00:26:01,699 --> 00:26:04,675 but I'm sure that that had nothing to do with it. 459 00:26:04,699 --> 00:26:06,384 - Well, what's the treatment, Doctor? 460 00:26:06,408 --> 00:26:08,092 Because if it's money, that's not an issue... 461 00:26:08,116 --> 00:26:09,158 Dorothy. 462 00:26:09,241 --> 00:26:11,092 Her brain will never develop. 463 00:26:11,116 --> 00:26:12,925 She'll be four years old forever. 464 00:26:12,949 --> 00:26:16,425 - But, I mean... but they... they said that... 465 00:26:16,449 --> 00:26:19,032 - I'm sorry. 466 00:26:19,116 --> 00:26:21,241 I'm a mother myself. 467 00:26:21,324 --> 00:26:23,384 My advice to you is to put her in an institution 468 00:26:23,408 --> 00:26:25,758 where she can get the best possible care. 469 00:26:25,782 --> 00:26:27,582 - I can't do that. 470 00:26:27,615 --> 00:26:32,511 - You're a young woman. You can have other children. 471 00:26:35,657 --> 00:26:36,699 - Lynn? 472 00:26:36,782 --> 00:26:39,134 Lynn, honey, try another note. 473 00:26:39,158 --> 00:26:40,259 Come on, sweetie. 474 00:26:40,283 --> 00:26:41,883 There are other notes for you to play. 475 00:26:41,907 --> 00:26:44,259 - Dottie, we should take the doctor's advice 476 00:26:44,283 --> 00:26:45,925 and put her in an institution. 477 00:26:45,949 --> 00:26:47,466 She knows best. 478 00:26:47,490 --> 00:26:49,008 The state'll pay for it. 479 00:26:49,032 --> 00:26:50,466 - The state pays for what? 480 00:26:50,490 --> 00:26:52,925 It's our child. She belongs with us. 481 00:26:52,949 --> 00:26:55,925 - We belong in Paris. That's where we belong. 482 00:26:55,949 --> 00:26:56,949 - Paris? 483 00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:59,425 What are you talking about? 484 00:26:59,449 --> 00:27:02,633 - Dottie, it's a whole different ball game over there. 485 00:27:02,657 --> 00:27:04,134 See, they don't know the difference 486 00:27:04,158 --> 00:27:05,883 between black and white, and when they do, 487 00:27:05,907 --> 00:27:08,633 it's because they're treating us better than they do their own. 488 00:27:08,657 --> 00:27:10,675 - I can't go live in Paris. 489 00:27:10,699 --> 00:27:12,758 Lynn is gonna need special care. 490 00:27:12,782 --> 00:27:13,967 - Get special care. 491 00:27:13,991 --> 00:27:16,391 - Not in an institution! 492 00:27:17,408 --> 00:27:21,152 - She doesn't even know that we're here. 493 00:27:22,032 --> 00:27:26,736 - I can't even believe this is what you're saying. 494 00:27:28,366 --> 00:27:29,550 - When will you join me? 495 00:27:29,574 --> 00:27:33,342 - I'm her mother, and you are her father. 496 00:27:33,366 --> 00:27:35,615 - And I married you, 497 00:27:35,699 --> 00:27:37,615 not this. 498 00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:40,675 - Well, I am this. What are you? 499 00:27:41,615 --> 00:27:44,508 - I'm Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, 500 00:27:44,532 --> 00:27:47,508 and maybe that's all I'm supposed to be. 501 00:27:47,532 --> 00:27:50,508 I'll send you money from Paris. 502 00:28:10,158 --> 00:28:14,050 The best part was she didn't know he was gone. 503 00:28:14,074 --> 00:28:17,907 So she never even missed him. 504 00:28:22,949 --> 00:28:25,425 How many times did I tell you, Geri, 505 00:28:25,449 --> 00:28:28,905 that the next man would be different? 506 00:28:32,991 --> 00:28:34,408 It's funny. 507 00:28:34,490 --> 00:28:38,906 You never notice the good ones when you should. 508 00:28:52,824 --> 00:28:56,384 Listen, so, we're just taking a cigarette break? 509 00:28:56,408 --> 00:28:57,550 All right. 510 00:28:57,574 --> 00:28:59,217 Not ready to leave yet, are you? 511 00:28:59,241 --> 00:29:00,921 Oh, no, no, no. 512 00:29:07,241 --> 00:29:11,134 - Welcome to Fillmore's Ring-a-ding swing-a-ding. 513 00:29:11,158 --> 00:29:12,699 - Thanks. 514 00:29:12,782 --> 00:29:14,175 Ring-a-ding much. 515 00:29:14,199 --> 00:29:16,633 Where is Swing-a-ding Phil, anyway? 516 00:29:16,657 --> 00:29:18,842 - Coo-chee-cooin' the elephant. 517 00:29:18,866 --> 00:29:20,283 You know. 518 00:29:20,366 --> 00:29:21,591 Ticklin' the ivories. 519 00:29:21,615 --> 00:29:23,466 - Funny, in my day, we used to call it 520 00:29:23,490 --> 00:29:24,716 playing the piano. 521 00:29:24,740 --> 00:29:28,633 - When was your day? - Preceding thy genesis. 522 00:29:28,657 --> 00:29:30,957 - Before you were born. 523 00:29:33,324 --> 00:29:36,116 Sorry. 'Scuse me. 524 00:29:37,158 --> 00:29:38,358 'Scuse me. 525 00:29:40,490 --> 00:29:41,690 'Scuse me. 526 00:29:45,824 --> 00:29:48,074 Nice party, Phil. 527 00:29:48,158 --> 00:29:49,324 - Earl. 528 00:29:50,449 --> 00:29:53,149 Have a drink. Have a couple. 529 00:29:56,991 --> 00:29:58,800 - I didn't come for a drink, Phil, 530 00:29:58,824 --> 00:30:00,342 and I didn't come for a party. 531 00:30:00,366 --> 00:30:02,508 I left a meeting because you said there was a girl 532 00:30:02,532 --> 00:30:04,532 I just had to hear. 533 00:30:04,615 --> 00:30:07,449 Earl, don't be mad. 534 00:30:07,532 --> 00:30:12,259 - I manage your music career, Phil, not your harem tryouts. 535 00:30:12,283 --> 00:30:14,074 Oh, well, 536 00:30:14,158 --> 00:30:17,074 girl's around here somewhere. 537 00:30:17,158 --> 00:30:19,058 - Good night, Phil. 538 00:30:31,199 --> 00:30:33,866 ♪ I can only give you ♪ 539 00:30:33,949 --> 00:30:38,116 ♪ Country walks in springtime ♪ 540 00:30:38,199 --> 00:30:41,032 ♪ And a hand to hold ♪ 541 00:30:41,116 --> 00:30:45,032 ♪ When leaves begin to fall ♪ 542 00:30:45,116 --> 00:30:49,116 ♪ And a love whose burning light ♪ 543 00:30:49,199 --> 00:30:52,615 ♪ Will warm the winter night ♪ 544 00:30:52,699 --> 00:30:56,449 ♪ That's all ♪ 545 00:30:56,532 --> 00:30:59,949 ♪ That's all ♪ 546 00:31:00,032 --> 00:31:03,532 ♪ There are those, I am sure ♪ 547 00:31:03,615 --> 00:31:06,949 ♪ Who have told you ♪ 548 00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:10,782 ♪ They would give you the world ♪ 549 00:31:10,866 --> 00:31:13,991 ♪ For a toy ♪ 550 00:31:14,074 --> 00:31:17,949 ♪ All I have are these arms ♪ 551 00:31:18,032 --> 00:31:21,283 ♪ To enfold you ♪ 552 00:31:33,740 --> 00:31:35,716 - All right. Who was that? 553 00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:38,340 - Just legs from my harem. 554 00:31:47,532 --> 00:31:49,633 - Which one of you was just singing? 555 00:31:49,657 --> 00:31:51,550 - Why do you want to know? 556 00:31:51,574 --> 00:31:54,466 - Because whoever sang that song, 557 00:31:54,490 --> 00:31:56,342 I'm gonna make her a star. 558 00:31:56,366 --> 00:31:58,425 - Well, we don't even know your name. 559 00:31:58,449 --> 00:32:02,241 - I'm Earl Mills. I'm a music manager. 560 00:32:02,324 --> 00:32:04,342 - Well, Earl Mills, the music manager, 561 00:32:04,366 --> 00:32:06,199 I'm Ava Gardner. 562 00:32:06,283 --> 00:32:09,366 - My name's Marilyn Monroe. 563 00:32:09,449 --> 00:32:12,032 - I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 564 00:32:14,657 --> 00:32:18,977 - You got a face like an angel, you know that? 565 00:32:21,449 --> 00:32:23,782 You sang that song. 566 00:32:26,949 --> 00:32:30,758 - I'm not a singer, Mr. Mills, I'm an actress. 567 00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:32,758 Of course you are, but, 568 00:32:32,782 --> 00:32:35,175 maybe between movie roles you'd like to sing a little bit. 569 00:32:35,199 --> 00:32:38,466 - No, I'm a serious actress. I'm studying at the Actors Lab. 570 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:40,907 - My, my. Actors Lab. 571 00:32:40,991 --> 00:32:44,092 Look, forgive me, but things'll go better for you 572 00:32:44,116 --> 00:32:46,134 in this business if you're a singer. 573 00:32:46,158 --> 00:32:48,842 - I've got a major role in a major motion picture. 574 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:50,384 Starts shooting next week. 575 00:32:50,408 --> 00:32:51,866 - Hey. 576 00:32:51,949 --> 00:32:54,074 What's the big role? 577 00:32:54,158 --> 00:32:55,858 - Queen Melmendi. 578 00:33:30,116 --> 00:33:32,158 - Geez! - Cut! 579 00:33:32,241 --> 00:33:34,758 Look, will somebody please pre-cut the ropes? 580 00:33:34,782 --> 00:33:36,633 I mean, Lex is fumbling all over the place! 581 00:33:36,657 --> 00:33:38,259 Yeah, okay, do it! 582 00:33:38,283 --> 00:33:40,008 - Yes, sir, yes, sir. Right away. 583 00:33:40,032 --> 00:33:42,116 - Tommy? - Excuse me. 584 00:33:42,199 --> 00:33:44,425 - What? - I was wondering. 585 00:33:44,449 --> 00:33:46,883 Queen Melmendi is queen of the jungle, right? 586 00:33:46,907 --> 00:33:49,508 Well, if she lives here, then why does she need Tarzan 587 00:33:49,532 --> 00:33:50,883 to help her find her way through it? 588 00:33:50,907 --> 00:33:53,175 - What's your name? - Dorothy. 589 00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,550 - Dorothy. Okay. Dorothy, sweetheart? 590 00:33:55,574 --> 00:33:56,883 Can you do something for me, please? 591 00:33:56,907 --> 00:33:58,800 Good. Would you go lie down, 592 00:33:58,824 --> 00:34:00,092 let me see more skin than cloth, 593 00:34:00,116 --> 00:34:03,300 and keep the queen of the fucking Congo quiet? 594 00:34:03,324 --> 00:34:05,217 Jimmy, fetch me a Coca-Cola! 595 00:34:05,241 --> 00:34:07,116 Coming up, sir. 596 00:34:07,199 --> 00:34:08,883 - Look, I want to see more skin, okay? 597 00:34:08,907 --> 00:34:10,342 I don't care what we have to do... 598 00:34:10,366 --> 00:34:14,110 - Hey, Sammy, got a smoke? - Sure thing. 599 00:34:23,408 --> 00:34:25,408 Boy, that was... 600 00:34:27,074 --> 00:34:28,842 What happened to your face? 601 00:34:28,866 --> 00:34:32,883 - Guess I wasn't black enough to lead the tribe. 602 00:34:32,907 --> 00:34:35,716 - Go ahead, say it. You were right. 603 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:37,420 - I was right. 604 00:34:37,449 --> 00:34:39,550 But you were right, too, you know. 605 00:34:39,574 --> 00:34:41,591 Queen Melmendi would definitely know the way 606 00:34:41,615 --> 00:34:43,425 out of her own jungle. 607 00:34:43,449 --> 00:34:45,549 I'm willing to bet... 608 00:34:47,032 --> 00:34:48,866 She still does. 609 00:34:57,408 --> 00:34:59,008 Come on. Just give me one last hug. 610 00:34:59,032 --> 00:35:01,633 Come on, sweetheart. Thank you. 611 00:35:01,657 --> 00:35:02,657 Oh! 612 00:35:02,699 --> 00:35:03,883 - Dottie Mae, honey, let's go. 613 00:35:03,907 --> 00:35:06,707 You're gonna miss your plane. 614 00:35:10,324 --> 00:35:12,591 Okay, sweetheart, listen. 615 00:35:12,615 --> 00:35:15,425 Your nurse, she's very nice, honey. 616 00:35:15,449 --> 00:35:18,199 She's even got a piano. 617 00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:20,716 You're gonna like living here. 618 00:35:20,740 --> 00:35:22,967 I know you will. Look, look. 619 00:35:22,991 --> 00:35:24,134 Remember the locket 620 00:35:24,158 --> 00:35:25,991 I gave you? 621 00:35:26,074 --> 00:35:27,991 This means... 622 00:35:28,074 --> 00:35:30,699 - That I belong to you 623 00:35:30,782 --> 00:35:33,574 and you belong to me, okay? 624 00:35:33,657 --> 00:35:36,092 And when you miss me, you just grab it, 625 00:35:36,116 --> 00:35:39,342 you just hold on to it real tight, okay? 626 00:35:39,366 --> 00:35:41,050 And I'll be there. 627 00:35:41,074 --> 00:35:43,532 Okay? 628 00:35:44,657 --> 00:35:46,557 Come with me, Lynn. 629 00:35:56,408 --> 00:35:58,134 - I don't know, Mama. 630 00:35:58,158 --> 00:36:00,050 Maybe I should stay here and help her or somethin'. 631 00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:01,842 - Now, Dottie Mae, we talked about this. 632 00:36:01,866 --> 00:36:03,716 You're not gettin' enough from your divorce settlement. 633 00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:06,842 You don't work, you're not gonna be able to pay that nurse. 634 00:36:06,866 --> 00:36:10,384 I'd take care of Lynn myself, I would, 635 00:36:10,408 --> 00:36:11,508 but I gotta work, too. 636 00:36:11,532 --> 00:36:14,408 I'm always at the studios. 637 00:36:14,490 --> 00:36:18,522 Now, you got to think of your career first. 638 00:36:19,532 --> 00:36:22,300 Dottie Mae, that child don't even know who you are. 639 00:36:22,324 --> 00:36:25,675 - It's so hard for me just to leave her, Mama. 640 00:36:25,699 --> 00:36:28,490 I know, baby, I know, 641 00:36:28,574 --> 00:36:30,342 but you got to pull yourself together, honey. 642 00:36:30,366 --> 00:36:33,342 We cannot keep Miami Beach a-waitin'. 643 00:36:33,366 --> 00:36:38,550 Take her in the house, honey. Take her on in the house. 644 00:36:46,574 --> 00:36:50,702 It's great to be back here in Miami Beach... 645 00:36:52,032 --> 00:36:54,008 we're gonna be staying at a hotel. 646 00:36:54,032 --> 00:36:57,296 It's, just outside the city limits. 647 00:36:58,366 --> 00:37:01,008 And, I... I think we should probably use 648 00:37:01,032 --> 00:37:02,716 the service entrance when we come in here, 649 00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:04,782 don't you think? 650 00:37:04,866 --> 00:37:07,925 - Oh, and don't... don't talk to any of the patrons... 651 00:37:07,949 --> 00:37:10,907 - Earl, just say it. 652 00:37:10,991 --> 00:37:12,074 - What? 653 00:37:12,158 --> 00:37:15,050 - You think I've never been to the South? 654 00:37:15,074 --> 00:37:16,716 I can't stay in Miami Beach, 655 00:37:16,740 --> 00:37:18,175 I can't use the front entrance, 656 00:37:18,199 --> 00:37:21,943 and I can't speak to the patrons, right? 657 00:37:22,907 --> 00:37:24,425 This isn't a tan, Earl. 658 00:37:24,449 --> 00:37:26,175 I'm a Negro, a colored girl. 659 00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:27,758 You did happen to notice that, didn't you? 660 00:37:27,782 --> 00:37:29,324 - I noticed. 661 00:37:29,408 --> 00:37:30,925 - Now, listen, if we're going to work together, 662 00:37:30,949 --> 00:37:32,591 you can't tiptoe around me. 663 00:37:32,615 --> 00:37:36,199 You have to say it straight out. 664 00:37:36,283 --> 00:37:37,925 - Yes, ma'am. - Good. 665 00:37:37,949 --> 00:37:39,217 Now, come on, honey. 666 00:37:39,241 --> 00:37:41,134 Zip me up so I can run to the bathroom. 667 00:37:41,158 --> 00:37:42,699 Come on. 668 00:37:47,657 --> 00:37:50,057 - This is your bathroom. 669 00:37:50,740 --> 00:37:54,074 You told me to say it straight out. 670 00:37:54,158 --> 00:37:55,092 Angel face. 671 00:37:55,116 --> 00:37:56,466 - I think President Truman's 672 00:37:56,490 --> 00:37:58,425 done a lot for the country. 673 00:37:58,449 --> 00:38:01,349 For one, he moved to the city. 674 00:38:01,824 --> 00:38:04,716 You're a wonderful crowd, and this is a classy joint. 675 00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:06,050 - Dorothy, wait. 676 00:38:06,074 --> 00:38:07,300 They even have midget waiters here. 677 00:38:07,324 --> 00:38:08,740 - What? 678 00:38:08,824 --> 00:38:10,259 - Look at this place. 679 00:38:10,283 --> 00:38:12,800 - I asked one waiter to put a phone on my table, 680 00:38:12,824 --> 00:38:16,856 but he couldn't get the booth off the wall. 681 00:38:17,158 --> 00:38:19,384 Boy, can the people drink here. 682 00:38:19,408 --> 00:38:21,134 One guy stumbled out of here last night, 683 00:38:21,158 --> 00:38:24,134 bumped into a uniformed man outside. 684 00:38:24,158 --> 00:38:25,175 He say, "Hey, buddy"... 685 00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:26,800 - I can't perform here. 686 00:38:26,824 --> 00:38:29,591 - I've seen worse. At least they paid. 687 00:38:29,615 --> 00:38:31,342 - You go find the owner, and you tell him 688 00:38:31,366 --> 00:38:34,175 I'm not performing inside this disaster area! 689 00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:36,800 - Oh, really? There's the owner right there. 690 00:38:36,824 --> 00:38:39,633 You want to ruin your career, you can tell him yourself. 691 00:38:39,657 --> 00:38:40,633 - Fine. I will. 692 00:38:40,657 --> 00:38:42,259 - Dorothy, wait, wait. 693 00:38:42,283 --> 00:38:43,800 I was kidding. Let me handle this. 694 00:38:43,824 --> 00:38:45,092 - Mr. Scott? - No. Dorothy. 695 00:38:45,116 --> 00:38:46,675 - Mr. Scott? - I'll handle it. 696 00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:48,591 - Dandridge. Good. You're on right after this joke. 697 00:38:48,615 --> 00:38:50,342 - I'm the manager. She's not going on after him... 698 00:38:50,366 --> 00:38:52,050 Because I'm not performing! 699 00:38:52,074 --> 00:38:53,842 - What did you say? - She won't work in a place 700 00:38:53,866 --> 00:38:56,008 where she has to enter stage rear, sleep outside the city... 701 00:38:56,032 --> 00:38:57,259 - Or use a Dixie cup! 702 00:38:57,283 --> 00:38:59,983 - Quiet. Or use a Dixie cup. 703 00:39:01,615 --> 00:39:03,315 - All right. - What? 704 00:39:03,366 --> 00:39:06,259 He says, "Don't worry. I'll see you on Friday." 705 00:39:06,283 --> 00:39:08,466 - You see that man sitting at table two? 706 00:39:08,490 --> 00:39:10,508 That's the city building commissioner. 707 00:39:10,532 --> 00:39:13,050 When he found out I was opening a club 708 00:39:13,074 --> 00:39:15,842 where colored acts share dressing rooms with whites, 709 00:39:15,866 --> 00:39:18,925 he held up my construction permits until tonight, 710 00:39:18,949 --> 00:39:22,789 and most of these people are his friends. 711 00:39:22,866 --> 00:39:24,842 You see that busboy there? 712 00:39:24,866 --> 00:39:26,842 His name is Corey Williams. 713 00:39:26,866 --> 00:39:29,466 He earned the Silver Star at Guadalcanal, 714 00:39:29,490 --> 00:39:32,508 came home, got his degree on the GI Bill. 715 00:39:32,532 --> 00:39:34,508 But no one would hire him 716 00:39:34,532 --> 00:39:36,366 except me. 717 00:39:36,449 --> 00:39:38,342 Now, I tried to get as many of my friends here 718 00:39:38,366 --> 00:39:41,050 to support what I'm trying to do, 719 00:39:41,074 --> 00:39:44,508 but tonight my friends are few and far between. 720 00:39:44,532 --> 00:39:47,008 So if you don't wanna perform, 721 00:39:47,032 --> 00:39:48,907 I don't blame you, 722 00:39:48,991 --> 00:39:50,891 but don't blame me. 723 00:39:52,991 --> 00:39:54,175 - Well, it's been a pleasure 724 00:39:54,199 --> 00:39:55,883 playing the Miami Beach Mortuary. 725 00:39:55,907 --> 00:39:57,550 May you all rest in peace. 726 00:39:57,574 --> 00:40:00,646 Good night, ladies and gentlemen. 727 00:40:07,241 --> 00:40:08,217 - Hey. Hey, hey, hey. 728 00:40:08,241 --> 00:40:10,740 - Oh. Got any advice? 729 00:40:10,824 --> 00:40:12,866 - Yeah. Kill 'em. 730 00:40:15,366 --> 00:40:16,806 - Thank you. 731 00:40:36,824 --> 00:40:37,925 - Good evening. 732 00:40:37,949 --> 00:40:40,149 I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 733 00:40:52,824 --> 00:40:57,116 ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 734 00:40:57,199 --> 00:41:00,099 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 735 00:41:00,991 --> 00:41:04,699 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 736 00:41:04,782 --> 00:41:07,082 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 737 00:41:07,740 --> 00:41:09,440 ♪ What I've got ♪ 738 00:41:23,116 --> 00:41:25,241 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 739 00:41:25,324 --> 00:41:27,532 ♪ I've got music ♪ 740 00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:28,675 ♪ I got my man ♪ 741 00:41:28,699 --> 00:41:31,259 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 742 00:41:31,283 --> 00:41:33,283 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 743 00:41:33,366 --> 00:41:35,342 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 744 00:41:35,366 --> 00:41:36,758 ♪ I got my man ♪ 745 00:41:36,782 --> 00:41:39,092 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 746 00:41:39,116 --> 00:41:41,615 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 747 00:41:41,699 --> 00:41:43,425 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 748 00:41:43,449 --> 00:41:47,449 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 749 00:41:47,532 --> 00:41:49,550 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 750 00:41:49,574 --> 00:41:51,550 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 751 00:41:51,574 --> 00:41:52,842 ♪ I got my man ♪ 752 00:41:52,866 --> 00:41:56,226 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 753 00:42:23,782 --> 00:42:25,342 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 754 00:42:25,366 --> 00:42:27,366 ♪ I've got music ♪ 755 00:42:27,449 --> 00:42:29,574 ♪ I got my man ♪ 756 00:42:29,657 --> 00:42:31,425 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 757 00:42:31,449 --> 00:42:36,408 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 758 00:42:36,490 --> 00:42:39,366 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 759 00:42:39,449 --> 00:42:43,408 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 760 00:42:43,490 --> 00:42:45,175 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 761 00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:48,116 ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 762 00:42:48,199 --> 00:42:50,991 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 763 00:42:51,074 --> 00:42:54,699 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 764 00:42:54,782 --> 00:42:56,800 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 765 00:42:56,824 --> 00:42:59,199 ♪ What a man ♪ 766 00:42:59,283 --> 00:43:02,615 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 767 00:43:02,699 --> 00:43:06,241 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 768 00:43:06,324 --> 00:43:08,199 ♪ Anything ♪ 769 00:43:14,907 --> 00:43:16,259 ♪ Anything ♪ 770 00:43:16,283 --> 00:43:23,490 ♪ More ♪ 771 00:43:57,241 --> 00:43:58,800 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 772 00:43:58,824 --> 00:44:01,074 ♪ I've got music ♪ 773 00:44:01,158 --> 00:44:02,991 ♪ I got my man ♪ 774 00:44:03,074 --> 00:44:04,633 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 775 00:44:04,657 --> 00:44:10,158 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 776 00:44:10,241 --> 00:44:12,907 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 777 00:44:12,991 --> 00:44:17,074 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 778 00:44:17,158 --> 00:44:19,883 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 779 00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:21,842 ♪ 'Cause I got rhythm ♪ 780 00:44:21,866 --> 00:44:24,574 ♪ It makes me happy... ♪ 781 00:44:31,574 --> 00:44:34,646 Audrey Hepburn's playing Sabrina. 782 00:44:35,158 --> 00:44:36,259 - And Ava Gardner, 783 00:44:36,283 --> 00:44:38,300 - she's got another film now... - Vivvy. 784 00:44:38,324 --> 00:44:40,842 - I can't help it if your name's not in here. 785 00:44:40,866 --> 00:44:42,342 - I'll get another role soon. 786 00:44:42,366 --> 00:44:44,842 - Oh, yeah, I see right here where Hollywood's 787 00:44:44,866 --> 00:44:46,925 just begging Negroes to star in their films. 788 00:44:46,949 --> 00:44:49,092 - Why do you have to be so gloomy? 789 00:44:49,116 --> 00:44:51,508 - Because I haven't worked in two years, 790 00:44:51,532 --> 00:44:54,342 and let's not mention your last big role. 791 00:44:54,366 --> 00:44:58,842 - "Bright Road"? That was a very important film. 792 00:44:58,866 --> 00:45:00,550 - Important to who? 793 00:45:00,574 --> 00:45:01,883 It's practically breaking records 794 00:45:01,907 --> 00:45:04,508 for the lowest box office in the South. 795 00:45:04,532 --> 00:45:05,842 - Thank you, Vivvy. 796 00:45:05,866 --> 00:45:09,175 That was the cherry on the pie of my week. 797 00:45:09,199 --> 00:45:12,283 - I am having a really great day. 798 00:45:17,782 --> 00:45:19,134 Okay, I'll tell ya. 799 00:45:19,158 --> 00:45:22,384 Fox is doing a film of Bizet's "Carmen." 800 00:45:22,408 --> 00:45:25,208 Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. 801 00:45:26,032 --> 00:45:27,712 - Whoop-de-doo. 802 00:45:28,782 --> 00:45:30,508 - Oh, that's right. I didn't say. 803 00:45:30,532 --> 00:45:33,508 They're using an all-Negro cast. 804 00:45:39,907 --> 00:45:41,324 Yeah. 805 00:45:41,408 --> 00:45:43,508 - Do you know how many colored actresses want this part? 806 00:45:43,532 --> 00:45:44,591 Every colored actress: 807 00:45:44,615 --> 00:45:47,008 Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, everybody. 808 00:45:47,032 --> 00:45:48,259 "Carmen Jones" is the best part 809 00:45:48,283 --> 00:45:50,425 for a Negro actress in years. Ever. 810 00:45:50,449 --> 00:45:52,259 Hey, she is Carmen. 811 00:45:52,283 --> 00:45:53,842 - You should have seen her run at La Vie en Rose. 812 00:45:53,866 --> 00:45:56,050 They were literally handing out the "Kinsey" sex report 813 00:45:56,074 --> 00:45:57,384 at the door, she's so hot. 814 00:45:57,408 --> 00:45:59,092 - Okay, that was New York, not Hollywood. 815 00:45:59,116 --> 00:46:00,466 That was a nightclub and not high drama. 816 00:46:00,490 --> 00:46:02,008 And I've seen her last two pictures, 817 00:46:02,032 --> 00:46:03,883 and that's all, folks. 818 00:46:03,907 --> 00:46:06,800 - Oh, come on, she's been shoved into nothing but banana hats 819 00:46:06,824 --> 00:46:09,925 and curled slippers for a year, and you know it, Joey. 820 00:46:09,949 --> 00:46:11,134 Now, come on. 821 00:46:11,158 --> 00:46:12,716 Joey, just get her a reading with Preminger. 822 00:46:12,740 --> 00:46:14,050 That's all I'm asking. 823 00:46:14,074 --> 00:46:15,466 - Just a reading? 824 00:46:15,490 --> 00:46:17,259 Just Otto Preminger? 825 00:46:17,283 --> 00:46:19,466 Do you know what I do every morning, Earl? 826 00:46:19,490 --> 00:46:20,866 - No, Joe. 827 00:46:20,949 --> 00:46:22,716 - I get up every morning at 5:00 am when it's still dark, 828 00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:24,466 and I drive all the way from the Valley to the studio, 829 00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:26,883 and along the way, I see faces. 830 00:46:26,907 --> 00:46:29,425 Faces on billboards, faces on bench ads. 831 00:46:29,449 --> 00:46:31,408 Familiar faces. 832 00:46:31,490 --> 00:46:32,675 Famous faces. 833 00:46:32,699 --> 00:46:35,408 The faces of movie stars. 834 00:46:35,490 --> 00:46:37,466 The faces that I see out of my car window 835 00:46:37,490 --> 00:46:40,425 are the faces for whom I get readings with Otto Preminger. 836 00:46:40,449 --> 00:46:42,134 And not once, in all my drives, 837 00:46:42,158 --> 00:46:44,466 have I ever seen the face 838 00:46:44,490 --> 00:46:47,241 of Dorothy Dandridge. 839 00:46:47,324 --> 00:46:49,074 Now, good night. 840 00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:52,883 - Apparently he saw you from his car window one morning. 841 00:47:52,907 --> 00:47:54,532 No kidding? 842 00:47:54,615 --> 00:47:56,175 - No kidding. 843 00:47:58,199 --> 00:48:01,271 - Mr. Preminger will see you now. 844 00:48:08,241 --> 00:48:09,241 - What? 845 00:48:09,324 --> 00:48:11,092 - I just realized this is the moment 846 00:48:11,116 --> 00:48:13,259 I've always dreamed of. 847 00:48:13,283 --> 00:48:15,134 - Your reading with Preminger? 848 00:48:15,158 --> 00:48:17,158 - A chance. 849 00:48:20,657 --> 00:48:22,116 - Oh... 850 00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:24,899 let me handle this, will ya? 851 00:49:10,158 --> 00:49:11,838 Mr. Preminger? 852 00:49:19,866 --> 00:49:21,657 - Mr. Preminger, 853 00:49:21,740 --> 00:49:24,908 I'd like you to meet Carmen Jones. 854 00:49:30,866 --> 00:49:32,866 Carmen Jones? 855 00:49:35,199 --> 00:49:36,532 No. 856 00:49:36,615 --> 00:49:40,384 I will give her a reading for the role of Cindy Lou. 857 00:49:40,408 --> 00:49:43,074 - Cindy Lou? 858 00:49:43,158 --> 00:49:44,633 Isn't that the sweet girl 859 00:49:44,657 --> 00:49:46,134 that gets dumped for Carmen? 860 00:49:46,158 --> 00:49:47,591 - There must be a misunderstanding. 861 00:49:47,615 --> 00:49:48,800 - 'Scuse me? 862 00:49:48,824 --> 00:49:50,342 - I said there must be a misunderstanding. 863 00:49:50,366 --> 00:49:51,633 Miss Dandridge is here 864 00:49:51,657 --> 00:49:54,050 to read for the part of Carmen. 865 00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:55,508 - You have come into my office, 866 00:49:55,532 --> 00:49:57,466 but you have not brought Carmen with you. 867 00:49:57,490 --> 00:50:00,342 You have brought yourself with you. 868 00:50:00,366 --> 00:50:03,490 Good little girl, nice gloves... 869 00:50:03,574 --> 00:50:07,508 asking for a reading for the role of a wild woman. 870 00:50:07,532 --> 00:50:09,384 You are not Carmen. You're Cindy Lou. 871 00:50:09,408 --> 00:50:10,883 - But Mister... - Dorothy is an actress, 872 00:50:10,907 --> 00:50:14,075 - Mr. Preminger. - She is Cindy Lou. 873 00:50:14,782 --> 00:50:16,675 - I'm sure if you'd just give her the opportunity... 874 00:50:16,699 --> 00:50:18,379 - This is final. 875 00:50:23,032 --> 00:50:24,800 - You know what you are, Mr. Preminger? 876 00:50:24,824 --> 00:50:26,716 - Dorothy. - You're a bulldog. 877 00:50:26,740 --> 00:50:28,842 You're a big, fat bulldog! 878 00:50:28,866 --> 00:50:30,866 That's what you are. 879 00:50:30,907 --> 00:50:32,675 - What did you call me? 880 00:50:32,699 --> 00:50:34,408 - A bulldog. 881 00:50:36,657 --> 00:50:38,050 She's... nervous. 882 00:50:38,074 --> 00:50:40,699 Thank you for your time. 883 00:50:40,782 --> 00:50:43,158 Cindy Lou. 884 00:50:43,241 --> 00:50:45,641 We'll look at Cindy Lou. 885 00:50:52,907 --> 00:50:54,508 Oh, she's on every page. 886 00:50:54,532 --> 00:50:56,050 - Look at this! - What part? 887 00:50:56,074 --> 00:50:58,550 Who's gonna play this part? I can play this part. 888 00:50:58,574 --> 00:51:00,466 They'd never see me, though, would they, Mama? 889 00:51:00,490 --> 00:51:02,758 - I'm not going back to read for Cindy Lou. 890 00:51:02,782 --> 00:51:05,217 Don't know why you're still lookin' at that. 891 00:51:05,241 --> 00:51:07,675 - You should be grateful he's considering you for a part. 892 00:51:07,699 --> 00:51:09,092 I couldn't get an audition if I tried. 893 00:51:09,116 --> 00:51:11,008 - I don't want to be Cindy Lou. 894 00:51:11,032 --> 00:51:12,800 So that's what you gonna do? 895 00:51:12,824 --> 00:51:14,384 Just give up? 896 00:51:14,408 --> 00:51:16,134 - He won't give me a chance, Mama. 897 00:51:16,158 --> 00:51:18,092 - Well, if you're waitin' for them to give you a chance, 898 00:51:18,116 --> 00:51:19,716 you're gonna have a hard row to hoe. 899 00:51:19,740 --> 00:51:21,758 Honey, you have got to take your chances. 900 00:51:21,782 --> 00:51:24,175 Now, you think about Carmen. 901 00:51:24,199 --> 00:51:28,074 This girl is all about sex. 902 00:51:28,158 --> 00:51:29,925 She looks like sex. 903 00:51:29,949 --> 00:51:33,324 She smells like sex. 904 00:51:33,408 --> 00:51:36,591 She even moves, you know, she moves like sex. 905 00:51:36,615 --> 00:51:38,574 That's the way. 906 00:51:38,657 --> 00:51:40,925 Use the equipment Mama gave you. 907 00:51:40,949 --> 00:51:44,490 You got to walk in there like Carmen. 908 00:51:44,574 --> 00:51:46,925 - But that old bulldog won't even let me read for Carmen. 909 00:51:46,949 --> 00:51:49,259 - Honey, we're not talkin' 'bout readin'. 910 00:51:49,283 --> 00:51:52,324 We're talkin' 'bout walkin'. 911 00:51:55,782 --> 00:51:57,967 Now, you can get this part. 912 00:51:57,991 --> 00:51:59,551 - By walkin'. 913 00:52:03,991 --> 00:52:06,991 Have you seen my man? 914 00:52:19,991 --> 00:52:22,967 That Carmen Jones snatched him from me, 915 00:52:22,991 --> 00:52:26,543 and I'm lost over what to do about it. 916 00:52:27,615 --> 00:52:29,074 Can't decide 917 00:52:29,158 --> 00:52:34,054 if it's better me follow him up to the Windy City... 918 00:52:34,116 --> 00:52:36,490 Or should I wait... 919 00:52:37,657 --> 00:52:42,092 For him to come back to his happy hearth and home? 920 00:52:42,116 --> 00:52:44,366 Tell me what to do. 921 00:52:44,449 --> 00:52:46,241 I'm Cindy Lou. 922 00:52:49,408 --> 00:52:51,308 - The hell you are. 923 00:52:57,366 --> 00:52:59,782 - Girl, I was Carmen. 924 00:52:59,866 --> 00:53:01,508 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you this?" 925 00:53:01,532 --> 00:53:03,175 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you that?" 926 00:53:03,199 --> 00:53:04,758 Remember, they hired that opera singer 927 00:53:04,782 --> 00:53:08,046 to come do my movie singin' for me? 928 00:53:09,824 --> 00:53:11,866 They did. 929 00:53:12,740 --> 00:53:15,615 Then one morning I woke up, 930 00:53:15,699 --> 00:53:18,050 and I just couldn't breathe. 931 00:53:18,074 --> 00:53:21,591 - What are you telling me? She won't make the picture? 932 00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:24,050 I start shooting tomorrow! Wonderful! 933 00:53:24,074 --> 00:53:25,883 - Where is she? - She won't do it. 934 00:53:25,907 --> 00:53:27,842 I've talked to her three times. 935 00:53:27,866 --> 00:53:29,092 She won't do it. 936 00:53:29,116 --> 00:53:30,758 She doesn't want to anger the Negro community. 937 00:53:30,782 --> 00:53:34,217 - "Anger the Negro community." That's ridiculous! 938 00:53:34,241 --> 00:53:36,508 The first all-Negro film! 939 00:53:36,532 --> 00:53:38,384 First released by a major studio! 940 00:53:38,408 --> 00:53:40,550 - Yes, in which she plays a Negro whore. 941 00:53:40,574 --> 00:53:42,883 - It's not a whore! It's a woman, not a whore. 942 00:53:42,907 --> 00:53:46,032 - Otto, Otto. A critic suggested 943 00:53:46,116 --> 00:53:47,967 that Hollywood depicts all Negro women 944 00:53:47,991 --> 00:53:51,050 as either mammies or prostitutes. 945 00:53:51,074 --> 00:53:52,883 - Yeah, but this is... it confuse me. 946 00:53:52,907 --> 00:53:54,466 First the studio won't approve the film 947 00:53:54,490 --> 00:53:56,008 because it's all-Negro. 948 00:53:56,032 --> 00:53:57,384 Then they will do the film, 949 00:53:57,408 --> 00:54:00,758 but only if the NAACP also approves. 950 00:54:00,782 --> 00:54:02,967 Now Miss Dandridge won't make the film 951 00:54:02,991 --> 00:54:05,300 because even though the NAACP 952 00:54:05,324 --> 00:54:08,574 and the studio approve... 953 00:54:08,657 --> 00:54:12,401 one man who writes one article does not. 954 00:54:18,532 --> 00:54:20,332 She's scared, yes? 955 00:54:21,740 --> 00:54:24,615 - Yeah. Terrified. 956 00:54:42,824 --> 00:54:45,158 Otto. 957 00:54:46,949 --> 00:54:49,591 You're not really the asshole you seem to be, are you? 958 00:54:49,615 --> 00:54:53,134 - This, little gentleman, is something neither you 959 00:54:53,158 --> 00:54:57,324 nor anyone else will ever know. 960 00:55:07,657 --> 00:55:09,699 - Earl, go away! 961 00:55:09,782 --> 00:55:11,967 I've already made up my mind! 962 00:55:11,991 --> 00:55:14,408 It's not Earl. Open. 963 00:55:25,283 --> 00:55:26,963 Miss Dandridge. 964 00:55:29,158 --> 00:55:30,550 - Call me Dorothy. 965 00:55:30,574 --> 00:55:35,374 Most... directors that barge in my house usually do. 966 00:55:52,532 --> 00:55:54,967 - You decline to play Carmen? 967 00:55:54,991 --> 00:55:57,550 - I've already proven I could get the part. 968 00:55:57,574 --> 00:56:00,646 No real reason for me to play it. 969 00:56:02,408 --> 00:56:05,800 Maybe you are not good enough to play the role. 970 00:56:05,824 --> 00:56:08,324 Maybe you have no talent. 971 00:56:08,366 --> 00:56:11,466 - I've got more talent than anybody in this town. 972 00:56:11,490 --> 00:56:13,758 You won't find a better Carmen than me. 973 00:56:13,782 --> 00:56:16,758 - So, you know you can do it, I know you can do it. 974 00:56:16,782 --> 00:56:20,334 That's not your fear. It's the gamble. 975 00:56:22,241 --> 00:56:24,092 - What would you know about that? 976 00:56:24,116 --> 00:56:27,425 - I, too, am taking big gambles on this picture. 977 00:56:27,449 --> 00:56:28,716 If it doesn't work, 978 00:56:28,740 --> 00:56:31,384 then everybody will say Otto Preminger is a fool 979 00:56:31,408 --> 00:56:34,675 thinking he can make a all-Negro musical. 980 00:56:34,699 --> 00:56:38,635 And if I succeed, then I will be a genius. 981 00:56:38,740 --> 00:56:42,408 You know how I know it will work? 982 00:56:42,490 --> 00:56:44,990 Because I have my Carmen. 983 00:56:47,116 --> 00:56:49,074 I have you. 984 00:56:58,158 --> 00:56:59,758 - What if they don't like me? 985 00:56:59,782 --> 00:57:01,758 - They will love you. 986 00:57:01,782 --> 00:57:04,382 I will make them love you. 987 00:57:05,116 --> 00:57:07,616 I may be a... old bulldog, 988 00:57:07,699 --> 00:57:10,508 with a bald head, but this is what I can do. 989 00:57:10,532 --> 00:57:11,967 - I didn't mean to say that. 990 00:57:11,991 --> 00:57:14,842 - No, no. It's all right. I know I'm ugly. 991 00:57:14,866 --> 00:57:18,699 My gift is to bring the beauty 992 00:57:18,782 --> 00:57:20,949 to the world. 993 00:57:23,615 --> 00:57:25,324 I know women. 994 00:57:25,408 --> 00:57:27,842 I know how to light them, to shoot them, 995 00:57:27,866 --> 00:57:30,550 to create them for the screen. 996 00:57:30,574 --> 00:57:32,740 And if you let me, 997 00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:35,800 I will seduce the audience for you. 998 00:57:35,824 --> 00:57:37,466 I will make sure 999 00:57:37,490 --> 00:57:40,842 that they will never forget the name Dorothy Dandridge. 1000 00:57:40,866 --> 00:57:43,633 I will make the name shine brighter 1001 00:57:43,657 --> 00:57:46,699 than all the lights here 1002 00:57:46,782 --> 00:57:48,866 in our city. 1003 00:57:50,615 --> 00:57:51,740 - Otto... 1004 00:57:53,199 --> 00:57:55,824 You're not so ugly. 1005 00:58:12,615 --> 00:58:14,925 - Sir, we're ready to go. Are you? 1006 00:58:14,949 --> 00:58:16,925 - Are we ready? Really? I don't think so. 1007 00:58:16,949 --> 00:58:19,633 I mean, this has to be here. Move it. 1008 00:58:19,657 --> 00:58:21,758 The food has to steam, steam! 1009 00:58:21,782 --> 00:58:23,800 It's... it's hot, not cold. 1010 00:58:23,824 --> 00:58:25,217 What about here, the flowers? 1011 00:58:25,241 --> 00:58:27,842 That's ridiculous! Get rid of them. 1012 00:58:27,866 --> 00:58:29,925 We are not in a restaurant. We are in a mess hall. 1013 00:58:29,949 --> 00:58:31,633 What's here? That's red. 1014 00:58:31,657 --> 00:58:34,508 I said no one wears red. Put a... a blue scarf... 1015 00:58:34,532 --> 00:58:36,217 - You know what? Forget about it. - I'll take that. 1016 00:58:36,241 --> 00:58:37,591 - Put that to the back. 1017 00:58:37,615 --> 00:58:40,300 And where's my coffee? Is that too much to... 1018 00:58:40,324 --> 00:58:42,050 - Right here, sir. - Cup of coffee? 1019 00:58:42,074 --> 00:58:43,425 Where's Miss Dandridge? 1020 00:58:43,449 --> 00:58:44,384 - Still in her dressing room, sir. 1021 00:58:44,408 --> 00:58:45,716 - Oh, that's fine. 1022 00:58:45,740 --> 00:58:47,384 Well, please let her know that we are ready 1023 00:58:47,408 --> 00:58:48,883 and she should join us. 1024 00:58:48,907 --> 00:58:49,991 Not bad. 1025 00:58:50,074 --> 00:58:52,384 She's late for the first shooting day. 1026 00:58:52,408 --> 00:58:54,699 Who else is late here? 1027 00:58:55,866 --> 00:58:57,758 - Otto... - Who the hell are you? 1028 00:58:57,782 --> 00:59:01,238 - I'm Earl. - Get just out of my way. 1029 00:59:07,074 --> 00:59:09,259 Good day, Miss Dandridge. 1030 00:59:09,283 --> 00:59:11,991 - Good day, Mr. Preminger. 1031 00:59:12,074 --> 00:59:14,050 Oh, this is ridiculous. 1032 00:59:14,074 --> 00:59:16,174 I'm gonna lay it out. 1033 00:59:20,116 --> 00:59:22,175 - I have to tell you, 1034 00:59:22,199 --> 00:59:23,425 rule number one: 1035 00:59:23,449 --> 00:59:26,574 Never be late on a set. 1036 00:59:29,408 --> 00:59:31,883 - Okay, folks, quiet down, settle down. 1037 00:59:31,907 --> 00:59:33,591 Okay, this is gonna be for picture, 1038 00:59:33,615 --> 00:59:35,758 ladies and gentlemen. Let's make it a good one. 1039 00:59:35,782 --> 00:59:38,591 Folks, just like I said, just like we rehearsed. 1040 00:59:38,615 --> 00:59:40,591 - Okay? Nice, comfortable meal. - Thank you. 1041 00:59:40,615 --> 00:59:42,259 Nice conversation. No extra noise. 1042 00:59:42,283 --> 00:59:44,092 No silverware clattering, none of that, okay? 1043 00:59:44,116 --> 00:59:49,204 We'll do that later. Okay! First positions, everybody. 1044 00:59:54,907 --> 00:59:57,199 You look as good as me. 1045 01:00:02,366 --> 01:00:03,675 - Roll 'em. 1046 01:00:03,699 --> 01:00:04,758 - Roll 'em! 1047 01:00:04,782 --> 01:00:06,366 Speed. 1048 01:00:06,449 --> 01:00:08,883 - Scene 30, take one. Marker. 1049 01:00:08,907 --> 01:00:10,467 - Background! 1050 01:00:12,532 --> 01:00:13,615 - Action! 1051 01:00:22,283 --> 01:00:24,342 Congratulations, Corporal. 1052 01:00:24,366 --> 01:00:26,134 That Airs Corps sure was smart in pickin' you out 1053 01:00:26,158 --> 01:00:28,259 of this whole outfit for the officers' flying school. 1054 01:00:28,283 --> 01:00:29,866 Thanks. 1055 01:00:30,949 --> 01:00:32,633 - Hi, Carmen. - Hi. 1056 01:00:32,657 --> 01:00:35,300 Well! Get a load of this hip-swingin' floozy 1057 01:00:35,324 --> 01:00:38,217 rollin' round to work in time for lunch. 1058 01:00:38,241 --> 01:00:39,259 - Prune puss, 1059 01:00:39,283 --> 01:00:40,800 you make sounds I don't like. 1060 01:00:40,824 --> 01:00:43,300 - I'ma tell the foreman you was late again. 1061 01:00:43,324 --> 01:00:44,800 - You do that, and I'll scratch out 1062 01:00:44,824 --> 01:00:46,967 the one good eye you got left. 1063 01:00:46,991 --> 01:00:48,842 - Hey, Carmen, why don't you come to Pastor's 1064 01:00:48,866 --> 01:00:50,008 with me tonight? 1065 01:00:50,032 --> 01:00:52,259 I can dance those other boys off the floor. 1066 01:00:52,283 --> 01:00:54,633 - T-Bone, you're too little and too late. 1067 01:00:54,657 --> 01:00:57,134 - I don't waste no time. Dig me, baby? 1068 01:00:57,158 --> 01:00:58,967 - Wasting your time right now, Sergeant. 1069 01:00:58,991 --> 01:01:01,550 The wind's blowin' me in another direction, 1070 01:01:01,574 --> 01:01:03,842 and it ain't no use arguin' with the wind. 1071 01:01:03,866 --> 01:01:05,342 - Hey, how about going out with me tonight 1072 01:01:05,366 --> 01:01:06,800 instead of playin' the field? 1073 01:01:06,824 --> 01:01:08,259 Yeah, Carmen, pick out one. 1074 01:01:08,283 --> 01:01:10,217 That'll release the rest of 'em. 1075 01:01:10,241 --> 01:01:12,841 ♪ I won't pick out a man ♪ 1076 01:01:12,866 --> 01:01:15,508 ♪ And he won't pick out me ♪ 1077 01:01:15,532 --> 01:01:18,991 ♪ It don't go that way ♪ 1078 01:01:19,074 --> 01:01:23,116 ♪ You can't ever know ♪ 1079 01:01:26,366 --> 01:01:29,408 ♪ Where your crazy heart ♪ 1080 01:01:31,324 --> 01:01:34,241 ♪ Wants to go ♪ 1081 01:01:38,991 --> 01:01:42,008 ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1082 01:01:42,032 --> 01:01:45,342 ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1083 01:01:45,366 --> 01:01:48,657 ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1084 01:01:48,740 --> 01:01:52,241 ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1085 01:01:52,324 --> 01:01:55,716 ♪ One man gives me his diamond stud ♪ 1086 01:01:55,740 --> 01:01:59,116 ♪ And I won't give him a cigarette ♪ 1087 01:01:59,199 --> 01:02:04,032 ♪ One man treats me like I was mud ♪ 1088 01:02:04,116 --> 01:02:08,032 ♪ And all I got dat man can get ♪ 1089 01:02:08,116 --> 01:02:10,050 ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1090 01:02:10,074 --> 01:02:11,782 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1091 01:02:11,866 --> 01:02:13,217 ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1092 01:02:13,241 --> 01:02:14,991 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1093 01:02:15,074 --> 01:02:16,716 ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1094 01:02:16,740 --> 01:02:18,384 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1095 01:02:18,408 --> 01:02:19,842 ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1096 01:02:19,866 --> 01:02:21,300 ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1097 01:02:21,324 --> 01:02:22,574 - Cut! 1098 01:02:24,324 --> 01:02:27,633 ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1099 01:02:27,657 --> 01:02:31,408 ♪ And if I do, den you are through ♪ 1100 01:02:31,490 --> 01:02:33,907 ♪ Boy, my baby ♪ 1101 01:02:33,991 --> 01:02:36,491 ♪ That's the end of you ♪ 1102 01:02:36,615 --> 01:02:38,134 ♪ The end of you ♪ 1103 01:02:38,158 --> 01:02:41,199 ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1104 01:02:41,283 --> 01:02:45,574 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1105 01:02:45,657 --> 01:02:47,300 ♪ She told you true ♪ 1106 01:02:47,324 --> 01:02:49,050 ♪ I told you truly ♪ 1107 01:02:49,074 --> 01:02:51,032 ♪ If I love you ♪ 1108 01:02:51,116 --> 01:02:52,782 Voila. 1109 01:02:52,866 --> 01:02:55,324 ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1110 01:02:55,408 --> 01:02:58,324 ♪ You go for me and I'm taboo ♪ 1111 01:02:58,408 --> 01:03:02,440 ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1112 01:03:02,866 --> 01:03:04,591 ♪ And if I do, then you are through ♪ 1113 01:03:04,615 --> 01:03:07,758 ♪ Boy, my baby, that's the end of you ♪ 1114 01:03:07,782 --> 01:03:09,092 ♪ The end of you ♪ 1115 01:03:09,116 --> 01:03:12,824 ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1116 01:03:12,907 --> 01:03:17,991 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1117 01:03:18,074 --> 01:03:19,675 ♪ She told you true ♪ 1118 01:03:19,699 --> 01:03:21,782 ♪ I told you truly ♪ 1119 01:03:21,866 --> 01:03:24,324 ♪ If I love you ♪ 1120 01:03:24,408 --> 01:03:27,074 ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1121 01:03:30,657 --> 01:03:31,967 - What is it? 1122 01:03:31,991 --> 01:03:33,175 - Nothing. Go ahead. 1123 01:03:33,199 --> 01:03:34,508 "Go ahead." 1124 01:03:34,532 --> 01:03:38,276 Where could I go in our bed without you? 1125 01:03:43,199 --> 01:03:44,879 - What's wrong? 1126 01:03:46,158 --> 01:03:47,657 - Nothing. 1127 01:03:51,032 --> 01:03:52,472 - The truth. 1128 01:03:54,657 --> 01:03:55,949 Don't cry. 1129 01:03:57,532 --> 01:03:59,232 - I just never... 1130 01:03:59,991 --> 01:04:03,782 Really much liked sex, that's all. 1131 01:04:03,866 --> 01:04:05,967 - Should have told me. 1132 01:04:05,991 --> 01:04:08,615 - It's okay. I don't mind. 1133 01:04:08,699 --> 01:04:10,366 - I mind. 1134 01:04:12,782 --> 01:04:14,591 If you never liked sex, 1135 01:04:14,615 --> 01:04:16,782 then probably 1136 01:04:16,866 --> 01:04:19,824 you never had sex. 1137 01:04:19,907 --> 01:04:22,574 You're still untouched... 1138 01:04:22,657 --> 01:04:24,490 inside. 1139 01:04:24,574 --> 01:04:26,740 Deeply inside... 1140 01:04:26,824 --> 01:04:28,574 in your heart. 1141 01:04:30,366 --> 01:04:34,991 We will discover your heart and open it together. 1142 01:04:35,074 --> 01:04:37,866 There's no hurry. 1143 01:04:37,949 --> 01:04:39,740 Not at all. 1144 01:04:46,615 --> 01:04:50,839 We have all the time in the world to do this. 1145 01:04:54,074 --> 01:04:56,674 All the time in the world. 1146 01:04:57,615 --> 01:04:59,241 - I love you. 1147 01:05:15,907 --> 01:05:17,425 So, Dorothy, listen to me. 1148 01:05:17,449 --> 01:05:20,925 I saw that Tarzan picture you were in. 1149 01:05:20,949 --> 01:05:21,967 What a stinker. 1150 01:05:21,991 --> 01:05:23,134 But I gotta tell you, 1151 01:05:23,158 --> 01:05:24,675 in the middle of all those monkeys, 1152 01:05:24,699 --> 01:05:28,008 and all that monkey shit, you were the one thing 1153 01:05:28,032 --> 01:05:30,632 that made my troop salute. 1154 01:05:32,283 --> 01:05:34,758 Is that why you asked to see me, Mr. Zanuck? 1155 01:05:34,782 --> 01:05:39,425 - You know, this is my studio, and when I see an entertainer 1156 01:05:39,449 --> 01:05:42,092 with such extraordinary assets, 1157 01:05:42,116 --> 01:05:45,008 I want to make sure that 20th Century Fox 1158 01:05:45,032 --> 01:05:47,175 further explores that entertainer. 1159 01:05:47,199 --> 01:05:50,050 - Could we... I thought we were here to discuss a deal. 1160 01:05:50,074 --> 01:05:53,146 I have seen the "Carmen" dailies. 1161 01:05:53,740 --> 01:05:55,657 And you're on fire. 1162 01:05:58,490 --> 01:06:00,490 And I felt the heat. 1163 01:06:03,074 --> 01:06:04,175 - I hope you don't think 1164 01:06:04,199 --> 01:06:06,259 we colored girls drop our panties 1165 01:06:06,283 --> 01:06:09,758 every time one of you white boys pays us a compliment. 1166 01:06:09,782 --> 01:06:11,740 Dorothy, I... 1167 01:06:11,824 --> 01:06:13,300 I don't think Mr. Zanuck is say... 1168 01:06:13,324 --> 01:06:14,633 Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1169 01:06:14,657 --> 01:06:17,921 That's the trouble with you people. 1170 01:06:18,907 --> 01:06:20,587 The colored race 1171 01:06:20,657 --> 01:06:22,657 is always focused 1172 01:06:22,740 --> 01:06:24,466 on the treatment you expect to get 1173 01:06:24,490 --> 01:06:26,800 instead of the treatment you're getting. 1174 01:06:26,824 --> 01:06:31,912 I'm trying to offer you a three-picture contract here. 1175 01:06:33,782 --> 01:06:35,300 - We're listening. 1176 01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:37,925 - The public isn't ready for a colored leading lady. 1177 01:06:37,949 --> 01:06:39,749 - Well... - Not yet. 1178 01:06:39,782 --> 01:06:42,824 But I know she's a star, 1179 01:06:42,907 --> 01:06:44,615 so I got a plan. 1180 01:06:44,699 --> 01:06:47,399 We're gonna smooth the way. 1181 01:06:47,449 --> 01:06:49,633 We're gonna let people get to know you. 1182 01:06:49,657 --> 01:06:51,675 - Won't they already know her as Carmen? 1183 01:06:51,699 --> 01:06:53,175 Carmen's just the beginning. 1184 01:06:53,199 --> 01:06:56,134 I'm gonna do a remake of "The Blue Angel," 1185 01:06:56,158 --> 01:06:57,883 with you as a Negro girl. 1186 01:06:57,907 --> 01:06:59,842 Then I'm gonna have you play an Italian girl 1187 01:06:59,866 --> 01:07:01,675 in a foreign legion picture, 1188 01:07:01,699 --> 01:07:03,550 then a Mexican girl. 1189 01:07:03,574 --> 01:07:05,925 By this time two years from now, 1190 01:07:05,949 --> 01:07:08,800 the public's gonna love you so much as the Mexican lead, 1191 01:07:08,824 --> 01:07:10,716 as the Italian lead, that they'll beg to see you 1192 01:07:10,740 --> 01:07:12,740 in any white role. 1193 01:07:14,158 --> 01:07:16,758 You're gonna be a huge star, Dorothy. 1194 01:07:16,782 --> 01:07:18,324 Just huge. 1195 01:07:19,532 --> 01:07:21,550 - So what kind of deal are we talking about? 1196 01:07:21,574 --> 01:07:24,366 - 30,000, escalating to 75. 1197 01:07:24,449 --> 01:07:26,883 - 50,000, escalating to 100. 1198 01:07:26,907 --> 01:07:29,408 - 75, escalating to 125. 1199 01:07:31,324 --> 01:07:33,724 - That's a lot of money. 1200 01:07:34,490 --> 01:07:36,550 - We won't accept a penny less. 1201 01:07:36,574 --> 01:07:38,300 - That's not what you said to Ava Gardner. 1202 01:07:38,324 --> 01:07:40,300 - Well, Ava Gardner's the number-one box office girl 1203 01:07:40,324 --> 01:07:41,466 in the business. 1204 01:07:41,490 --> 01:07:45,426 - Not after "Carmen" comes out, she isn't. 1205 01:07:50,615 --> 01:07:53,449 Okay. All right. Here you go. 1206 01:07:53,532 --> 01:07:55,241 Come on, come on. 1207 01:08:00,283 --> 01:08:01,758 - Ava Gardner's salary? 1208 01:08:01,782 --> 01:08:04,482 - Her manager's percentage? 1209 01:08:05,241 --> 01:08:07,883 - Where did you learn to horse-trade like that? 1210 01:08:07,907 --> 01:08:09,866 - Otto coached me. 1211 01:08:23,241 --> 01:08:25,425 - The Last Frontier Hotel is proud to welcome. 1212 01:08:25,449 --> 01:08:27,800 Miss Dandridge as their first Negro guest. 1213 01:08:27,824 --> 01:08:30,259 We look forward to her performances. 1214 01:08:30,283 --> 01:08:32,425 The chefs are at her disposal. 1215 01:08:32,449 --> 01:08:34,259 Meals will be delivered to her room. 1216 01:08:34,283 --> 01:08:36,342 She can have any dish she likes. 1217 01:08:36,366 --> 01:08:38,758 - You're saying she can't use the dining room. 1218 01:08:38,782 --> 01:08:40,800 - What about the restrooms backstage? 1219 01:08:40,824 --> 01:08:42,008 Can I at least use the restroom? 1220 01:08:42,032 --> 01:08:43,550 - She can, right? - Well... 1221 01:08:43,574 --> 01:08:44,842 - Oh, now, look, 1222 01:08:44,866 --> 01:08:47,300 I was told Dorothy would be extended every courtesy. 1223 01:08:47,324 --> 01:08:50,425 - She will be, in her room. - Oh, here we go. 1224 01:08:50,449 --> 01:08:52,967 - The casino and the restaurant are obviously off-limits. 1225 01:08:52,991 --> 01:08:55,384 The club too except, of course, when she is performing, 1226 01:08:55,408 --> 01:08:57,408 and the pool. 1227 01:08:57,490 --> 01:08:58,508 - I can't use the pool? 1228 01:08:58,532 --> 01:09:00,008 - I don't believe this. 1229 01:09:00,032 --> 01:09:02,758 - If she got in the pool, it would have to be drained. 1230 01:09:02,782 --> 01:09:03,991 - Drained? 1231 01:09:04,074 --> 01:09:05,300 - Health reasons. 1232 01:09:05,324 --> 01:09:09,740 Listen, this is Las Vegas. 1233 01:09:09,824 --> 01:09:11,408 Mr. Mills? 1234 01:09:13,490 --> 01:09:15,134 I tell you what, I can take 1235 01:09:15,158 --> 01:09:18,217 one of the smaller bathrooms backstage, 1236 01:09:18,241 --> 01:09:21,740 mark it, "Coloreds Only." 1237 01:09:21,824 --> 01:09:23,342 Now, won't that be nice? 1238 01:09:23,366 --> 01:09:24,991 - Swell. 1239 01:09:25,074 --> 01:09:27,134 - Don't forget your key. 1240 01:09:27,158 --> 01:09:28,342 Have a good stay. 1241 01:09:28,366 --> 01:09:29,532 Jerk. 1242 01:09:40,449 --> 01:09:43,116 Can I get you something? 1243 01:09:43,199 --> 01:09:44,199 Coffee? 1244 01:09:44,241 --> 01:09:45,366 Tea? 1245 01:09:45,449 --> 01:09:47,449 Baseball bat? 1246 01:09:47,532 --> 01:09:49,342 - Go ahead, Earl. Make jokes. 1247 01:09:49,366 --> 01:09:52,259 Tonight I'll take my bows and exit stage rear, 1248 01:09:52,283 --> 01:09:54,092 go through the kitchen, past the casino, 1249 01:09:54,116 --> 01:09:55,342 around the pool 1250 01:09:55,366 --> 01:09:57,050 that I'm apparently too dirty to swim in, 1251 01:09:57,074 --> 01:09:58,300 up the service elevator, 1252 01:09:58,324 --> 01:10:00,342 into my luxurious penthouse suite, 1253 01:10:00,366 --> 01:10:02,008 sip my complimentary champagne, 1254 01:10:02,032 --> 01:10:05,104 and pee in a brand-new Dixie cup! 1255 01:10:07,116 --> 01:10:09,508 - I take that walk with you every night, you know. 1256 01:10:09,532 --> 01:10:14,140 - But the difference is, Earl, you don't have to. 1257 01:10:14,740 --> 01:10:17,074 - That's true. I don't. 1258 01:10:17,158 --> 01:10:19,050 - I'm in a big picture. 1259 01:10:19,074 --> 01:10:20,633 Somehow, I thought this time, 1260 01:10:20,657 --> 01:10:22,384 things would be a little bit different. 1261 01:10:22,408 --> 01:10:23,550 - I know, I know. 1262 01:10:23,574 --> 01:10:25,050 You're right. 1263 01:10:25,074 --> 01:10:26,740 You're right. 1264 01:10:26,824 --> 01:10:28,384 But, Dorothy, 1265 01:10:28,408 --> 01:10:31,175 you're the first Negro to play here. 1266 01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:33,384 You're the first, the first. 1267 01:10:33,408 --> 01:10:35,925 You're the first to stay in this hotel. 1268 01:10:35,949 --> 01:10:38,758 You're the highest-paid ever. 1269 01:10:38,782 --> 01:10:40,050 Angel face... 1270 01:10:40,074 --> 01:10:42,758 you make it possible for it to be different 1271 01:10:42,782 --> 01:10:45,466 next time for somebody else. 1272 01:10:45,490 --> 01:10:47,615 Now, come on. 1273 01:10:49,532 --> 01:10:51,842 I know you got the moxie to do this. 1274 01:10:51,866 --> 01:10:54,425 - How do you know what I've got? 1275 01:10:54,449 --> 01:10:55,949 - Because... 1276 01:11:00,074 --> 01:11:02,324 Because I love you. 1277 01:11:11,949 --> 01:11:13,749 - Why, Earl Mills. 1278 01:11:20,199 --> 01:11:21,532 Well... 1279 01:11:23,116 --> 01:11:25,416 - So now what do we do? 1280 01:11:26,824 --> 01:11:28,824 - Whatever you want. 1281 01:11:38,532 --> 01:11:41,432 - There's one over there. - Yes. 1282 01:11:45,074 --> 01:11:46,514 - Excuse me. 1283 01:11:48,032 --> 01:11:50,241 Can I help you? 1284 01:11:50,324 --> 01:11:51,967 Yes, actually, you can. 1285 01:11:51,991 --> 01:11:53,883 The mints on my pillow were stale. 1286 01:11:53,907 --> 01:11:55,175 Could you take care of that? 1287 01:11:55,199 --> 01:11:57,466 - Perhaps Miss Dandridge would be more comfortable 1288 01:11:57,490 --> 01:11:58,716 in her room? 1289 01:11:58,740 --> 01:12:01,050 - Miss Dandridge is quite comfortable, thank you. 1290 01:12:01,074 --> 01:12:02,591 - Are you sure? - Very. 1291 01:12:02,615 --> 01:12:05,550 What a lovely pool you have here. 1292 01:12:05,574 --> 01:12:08,074 - Miss Dandridge, please. 1293 01:12:09,824 --> 01:12:12,324 Oh! Oh, my. 1294 01:12:12,408 --> 01:12:13,675 - Oh, my gosh. 1295 01:12:13,699 --> 01:12:15,384 The water's quite cold, 1296 01:12:15,408 --> 01:12:17,708 but lovely nonetheless. 1297 01:12:20,158 --> 01:12:21,508 - I hope you're happy. 1298 01:12:21,532 --> 01:12:22,991 - No. 1299 01:12:23,074 --> 01:12:25,134 I'm not happy at all. 1300 01:12:25,158 --> 01:12:28,230 Negroes cannot swim in this pool! 1301 01:12:50,241 --> 01:12:52,217 - Fantastic, as usual. 1302 01:12:52,241 --> 01:12:54,574 Thanks. 1303 01:12:55,782 --> 01:12:57,217 - Good night. - Night. 1304 01:12:57,241 --> 01:12:58,991 Good night. 1305 01:13:20,949 --> 01:13:23,050 Ladies and gentlemen, Dorothy Dandridge 1306 01:13:23,074 --> 01:13:27,586 here at the New York premiere of "Carmen Jones." 1307 01:13:27,991 --> 01:13:29,217 And here's Robert Wagner... 1308 01:13:29,241 --> 01:13:30,681 - Thank you. 1309 01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:32,300 The mayor of New York City. 1310 01:13:32,324 --> 01:13:34,532 You look beautiful. 1311 01:13:34,615 --> 01:13:36,384 - Miss Dandridge. - Oh. 1312 01:13:36,408 --> 01:13:38,675 - May we have you take some pictures with Mr. Belafonte 1313 01:13:38,699 --> 01:13:40,259 for the press, if you wouldn't mind? 1314 01:13:40,283 --> 01:13:42,259 Congratulations on the film. 1315 01:13:42,283 --> 01:13:43,366 - Harry. 1316 01:13:43,449 --> 01:13:44,758 - Nice big smile. 1317 01:13:44,782 --> 01:13:46,591 - How wonderful you both look. Yeah, this is good. 1318 01:13:46,615 --> 01:13:49,217 Otto Preminger, director of "Carmen Jones." 1319 01:13:49,241 --> 01:13:51,541 - Here's Mr. Preminger. 1320 01:13:53,449 --> 01:13:55,657 Mr. Preminger. 1321 01:13:55,740 --> 01:14:00,384 May we get some photos of you, sir, with your cast? 1322 01:14:00,408 --> 01:14:03,800 And your wife, too, of course, if she wouldn't mind. 1323 01:14:03,824 --> 01:14:05,408 Pearl Bailey. 1324 01:14:05,490 --> 01:14:07,800 Miss Bailey, would you say a few words to the press? 1325 01:14:07,824 --> 01:14:10,425 All right, everyone smile, please. 1326 01:14:10,449 --> 01:14:13,425 Close together, please. Tighter. 1327 01:14:15,490 --> 01:14:19,330 - How dare you parade her in front of me? 1328 01:14:19,532 --> 01:14:21,008 - I didn't know she was coming. 1329 01:14:21,032 --> 01:14:23,008 - It was my night, Otto. 1330 01:14:23,032 --> 01:14:25,092 You won't be seen with me in public, but then I have to 1331 01:14:25,116 --> 01:14:28,284 watch you traipse around with her. 1332 01:14:29,324 --> 01:14:30,800 - She's my wife. 1333 01:14:30,824 --> 01:14:32,866 - Tell her to leave. 1334 01:14:32,949 --> 01:14:34,800 You have an understanding, remember? 1335 01:14:34,824 --> 01:14:37,550 She openly makes the rounds, Otto, with another man, 1336 01:14:37,574 --> 01:14:38,967 and you don't complain about it. 1337 01:14:38,991 --> 01:14:42,259 So why couldn't you spend the evening with me? 1338 01:14:42,283 --> 01:14:44,384 - There's not just you and me. 1339 01:14:44,408 --> 01:14:46,384 There are others to take care of, 1340 01:14:46,408 --> 01:14:47,675 there's a movie to take care of... 1341 01:14:47,699 --> 01:14:50,675 - I don't care about the movie. 1342 01:14:54,657 --> 01:14:56,116 - You do. 1343 01:15:03,032 --> 01:15:06,782 This is America, land of opportunity, 1344 01:15:06,866 --> 01:15:09,283 but it's America. 1345 01:15:09,366 --> 01:15:13,615 If it got out that we were together... 1346 01:15:13,699 --> 01:15:16,399 the movie would never open. 1347 01:15:18,615 --> 01:15:21,615 And I want you to be a star. 1348 01:15:21,699 --> 01:15:23,758 I want you to have everything. 1349 01:15:23,782 --> 01:15:26,532 What you deserve. 1350 01:15:26,615 --> 01:15:28,949 My... 1351 01:15:29,032 --> 01:15:31,116 our movie... 1352 01:15:31,199 --> 01:15:33,532 will change everything. 1353 01:15:34,574 --> 01:15:36,883 - I won't just be a mistress. 1354 01:15:36,907 --> 01:15:38,574 Everything. 1355 01:15:48,408 --> 01:15:50,574 We will be together 1356 01:15:50,657 --> 01:15:52,716 when the time is right. 1357 01:15:52,740 --> 01:15:55,440 - So we're getting married? 1358 01:15:56,490 --> 01:15:58,990 - When the time is right. 1359 01:16:06,241 --> 01:16:08,259 You were always reminding me 1360 01:16:08,283 --> 01:16:12,074 of my responsibility, Geri. 1361 01:16:12,158 --> 01:16:14,699 You were so aware. 1362 01:16:14,782 --> 01:16:17,716 I thought things would just fall into place. 1363 01:16:17,740 --> 01:16:22,732 If I wanted something badly enough, it'd just happen. 1364 01:16:26,158 --> 01:16:29,259 - Latest box office reports through the roof. 1365 01:16:29,283 --> 01:16:30,800 And when that reporter asked me 1366 01:16:30,824 --> 01:16:32,425 why I thought whites were flocking 1367 01:16:32,449 --> 01:16:34,675 to see an all-Negro picture, you know what I said? 1368 01:16:34,699 --> 01:16:35,949 What? 1369 01:16:36,032 --> 01:16:38,092 - I guess people just like to look at me. 1370 01:16:38,116 --> 01:16:39,591 Yeah, you know it. 1371 01:16:39,615 --> 01:16:42,591 I'm getting offers. From studios. 1372 01:16:42,615 --> 01:16:43,967 With love scenes. 1373 01:16:43,991 --> 01:16:46,425 - They've just realized that colored folk 1374 01:16:46,449 --> 01:16:48,217 have sex like everybody else. 1375 01:16:48,241 --> 01:16:51,591 - What's important is how well the picture's doing down South. 1376 01:16:51,615 --> 01:16:53,134 It's a big step. I'm telling you, 1377 01:16:53,158 --> 01:16:54,800 integration can't be far behind. 1378 01:16:54,824 --> 01:16:56,591 With that, another bottle of champagne. 1379 01:16:56,615 --> 01:16:58,134 - Hear, hear! - Waiter. 1380 01:16:58,158 --> 01:16:59,550 - Yes, sir? - Two more bottles, please. 1381 01:16:59,574 --> 01:17:02,074 - No more for you, Vivvy. 1382 01:17:04,116 --> 01:17:05,283 - Viv. 1383 01:17:05,366 --> 01:17:07,508 - Well, I want to know what you're wearing 1384 01:17:07,532 --> 01:17:08,633 to the Academy Awards. 1385 01:17:08,657 --> 01:17:10,758 - Geri, can't ask me that. 1386 01:17:10,782 --> 01:17:12,384 - Why not? - It's bad luck. 1387 01:17:12,408 --> 01:17:14,758 - You think you're queen of the fuckin' world, don't you? 1388 01:17:14,782 --> 01:17:16,633 Everybody's talking about "Carmen," 1389 01:17:16,657 --> 01:17:19,092 the film industry's colored whore. 1390 01:17:19,116 --> 01:17:20,466 - Lower your voice, Vivvy. 1391 01:17:20,490 --> 01:17:21,967 - You think just because you become a big film star 1392 01:17:21,991 --> 01:17:24,217 by shaking your tail that people aren't 1393 01:17:24,241 --> 01:17:25,883 gonna treat you like you're colored? 1394 01:17:25,907 --> 01:17:27,300 - Vivvy, why don't you let me take you home? 1395 01:17:27,324 --> 01:17:30,217 - No. Well, I'm somethin', too. 1396 01:17:30,241 --> 01:17:32,408 I'm somethin', too! 1397 01:17:32,490 --> 01:17:36,714 I'm more than Dorothy Dandridge's big sister! 1398 01:17:39,657 --> 01:17:40,675 - You ever notice that? 1399 01:17:40,699 --> 01:17:42,883 Do you ever notice that, any of you? 1400 01:17:42,907 --> 01:17:44,508 - Why don't you go home with Earl? 1401 01:17:44,532 --> 01:17:46,175 - I don't wanna go! - Come on, come on. 1402 01:17:46,199 --> 01:17:48,842 - I don't wanna go. - Get in the car and go, Vivvy! 1403 01:17:48,866 --> 01:17:51,366 - No! - Let's go. Come on. 1404 01:17:51,615 --> 01:17:52,842 Vivvy, Vivvy. 1405 01:17:52,866 --> 01:17:55,758 - You're not gonna win an Oscar, Dottie. 1406 01:17:55,782 --> 01:17:57,175 They already gave us one. 1407 01:17:57,199 --> 01:17:59,175 - All right, let's go, Vivvy. 1408 01:17:59,199 --> 01:18:00,283 Let's go. 1409 01:18:00,366 --> 01:18:03,366 No! 1410 01:18:05,199 --> 01:18:07,615 - Go. - No! No. 1411 01:18:09,366 --> 01:18:12,175 - You want her to play... Tuptim? 1412 01:18:12,199 --> 01:18:13,633 Who is Tuptim? 1413 01:18:13,657 --> 01:18:15,134 That's not the lead role. 1414 01:18:15,158 --> 01:18:16,675 - Dorothy, look, 1415 01:18:16,699 --> 01:18:18,866 listen to me. 1416 01:18:18,949 --> 01:18:23,259 Sometimes you do a picture just because it's big. 1417 01:18:23,283 --> 01:18:25,384 "The King and I" is going to be huge. 1418 01:18:25,408 --> 01:18:28,134 It'll be seen by millions and millions of people, 1419 01:18:28,158 --> 01:18:30,217 far more than ever saw "Carmen," 1420 01:18:30,241 --> 01:18:34,217 and I'm telling you, Tuptim is a good role. 1421 01:18:34,241 --> 01:18:36,675 - She'll be paid her regular salary? 1422 01:18:36,699 --> 01:18:38,384 - Of course. - And it fulfills 1423 01:18:38,408 --> 01:18:40,675 one of the three pictures she's committed to doing here? 1424 01:18:40,699 --> 01:18:43,099 - Yes, Earl, absolutely. 1425 01:18:44,907 --> 01:18:47,134 - I... we have to think about this. 1426 01:18:47,158 --> 01:18:49,175 - I'll let you... - I'll do it. 1427 01:18:49,199 --> 01:18:50,633 - Dorothy. - I'll do it. 1428 01:18:50,657 --> 01:18:53,057 - She says she'll do it. 1429 01:18:55,366 --> 01:18:57,466 - Actually, I think a toast is called for, 1430 01:18:57,490 --> 01:18:58,800 ladies and gentlemen. 1431 01:18:58,824 --> 01:19:00,384 - Toast... - Toast. 1432 01:19:00,408 --> 01:19:02,466 - To the first colored woman 1433 01:19:02,490 --> 01:19:06,175 ever nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress. 1434 01:19:06,199 --> 01:19:07,259 To Dorothy. 1435 01:19:07,283 --> 01:19:08,425 - Hear, hear. 1436 01:19:08,449 --> 01:19:10,217 - Yeah. - Oh, baby. 1437 01:19:10,241 --> 01:19:11,758 - Mama. Thank you. 1438 01:19:11,782 --> 01:19:14,217 - Congratulations. Yeah. - Thank you. 1439 01:19:14,241 --> 01:19:16,300 - Congratulations to you. 1440 01:19:16,324 --> 01:19:17,764 - Thank you. 1441 01:19:21,324 --> 01:19:22,800 For the last three days, 1442 01:19:22,824 --> 01:19:25,633 I haven't been able to eat waiting for these nominations 1443 01:19:25,657 --> 01:19:26,925 to come out. 1444 01:19:26,949 --> 01:19:29,591 And, Mama, you know I'm tellin' the truth. 1445 01:19:29,615 --> 01:19:32,687 But now, who wants some chitlins? 1446 01:19:34,158 --> 01:19:37,230 - Oh, she's beautiful, isn't she? 1447 01:19:41,158 --> 01:19:44,425 Oh, I have no idea what I'm going to wear. 1448 01:19:44,449 --> 01:19:46,425 - I don't think you should do 1449 01:19:46,449 --> 01:19:48,883 the Tuptim part after all. 1450 01:19:48,907 --> 01:19:51,907 - But I already said I would. 1451 01:19:55,699 --> 01:19:57,550 - That was before you were 1452 01:19:57,574 --> 01:19:59,633 an Academy Award-nominated actress. 1453 01:19:59,657 --> 01:20:04,937 - Well, but I'm not exactly being offered anything else. 1454 01:20:06,782 --> 01:20:09,991 - You sing... nightclubs 1455 01:20:10,074 --> 01:20:13,824 until a real role comes along. 1456 01:20:16,366 --> 01:20:19,449 And I will make a movie soon. 1457 01:20:19,532 --> 01:20:21,633 - Zanuck said that Tuptim was a good part. 1458 01:20:21,657 --> 01:20:23,466 And he really thinks 1459 01:20:23,490 --> 01:20:24,758 it's something I should do. 1460 01:20:24,782 --> 01:20:27,800 - None of the other nominees have to play slaves. 1461 01:20:27,824 --> 01:20:30,425 - Wait a minute. What are you saying? 1462 01:20:30,449 --> 01:20:34,001 She's already agreed to play the part. 1463 01:20:40,615 --> 01:20:42,008 - I've changed my mind. 1464 01:20:42,032 --> 01:20:45,466 I don't think I should have to play a slave. 1465 01:20:45,490 --> 01:20:48,092 - You can't change your mind. 1466 01:20:48,116 --> 01:20:49,425 You shook hands with Zanuck. 1467 01:20:49,449 --> 01:20:51,800 - You don't see Audrey Hepburn playin' a slave. 1468 01:20:51,824 --> 01:20:54,425 - Well, you're not Audrey Hepburn. 1469 01:20:54,449 --> 01:20:55,824 No. 1470 01:20:55,907 --> 01:20:57,259 She's Dorothy Dandridge. 1471 01:20:57,283 --> 01:20:59,008 - Oh, excuse me, Otto, but Zanuck's not going 1472 01:20:59,032 --> 01:21:00,675 to stand for this, and you know it. 1473 01:21:00,699 --> 01:21:02,550 She'll be dead at Fox, she'll be dead 1474 01:21:02,574 --> 01:21:04,008 at every other studio in town. 1475 01:21:04,032 --> 01:21:06,591 - Dorothy... - I will not play Tuptim. 1476 01:21:06,615 --> 01:21:09,490 Who is this talking? 1477 01:21:09,574 --> 01:21:11,008 Is this you? 1478 01:21:11,032 --> 01:21:12,508 Is this you or is this Otto? 1479 01:21:12,532 --> 01:21:15,050 - I make my own decisions. 1480 01:21:15,074 --> 01:21:18,050 - Dorothy, please, please, listen to me. 1481 01:21:18,074 --> 01:21:19,425 Don't do this. 1482 01:21:19,449 --> 01:21:22,283 If you do what Otto wants... 1483 01:21:22,366 --> 01:21:24,508 I won't be able to protect you this time... 1484 01:21:24,532 --> 01:21:26,675 - And when exactly did you protect me? 1485 01:21:26,699 --> 01:21:27,883 When I was peein' in the cup 1486 01:21:27,907 --> 01:21:31,267 or when they were drainin' the pool? 1487 01:21:33,782 --> 01:21:35,222 - All right. 1488 01:21:37,074 --> 01:21:38,274 All right. 1489 01:21:39,657 --> 01:21:41,199 Well... 1490 01:21:41,283 --> 01:21:43,683 congratulations again... 1491 01:21:45,158 --> 01:21:46,838 To both of you. 1492 01:21:49,408 --> 01:21:52,384 Earl? Earl, where are you going? 1493 01:21:55,490 --> 01:21:58,390 - It'll be better without him. 1494 01:22:07,032 --> 01:22:09,300 Is here tonight in New York City... 1495 01:22:09,324 --> 01:22:10,758 Dorothy Dandridge, 1496 01:22:10,782 --> 01:22:13,425 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 1497 01:22:13,449 --> 01:22:15,675 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 1498 01:22:15,699 --> 01:22:18,092 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, 1499 01:22:18,116 --> 01:22:19,796 and Jane Wyatt. 1500 01:22:30,490 --> 01:22:32,532 - Thank you, Bob. 1501 01:22:36,449 --> 01:22:39,740 If I seem a little nervous... 1502 01:22:39,824 --> 01:22:43,740 this is as big a moment for me 1503 01:22:43,824 --> 01:22:48,032 as it will be for the winner of this award. 1504 01:22:48,116 --> 01:22:50,158 For Film Editing... 1505 01:22:54,074 --> 01:22:55,134 In Hollywood, 1506 01:22:55,158 --> 01:22:58,408 "On the Waterfront," Gene Milford. 1507 01:23:03,449 --> 01:23:05,675 Now, ladies and gentlemen, 1508 01:23:05,699 --> 01:23:07,342 here's the Academy Award 1509 01:23:07,366 --> 01:23:10,266 for Best Actress of the Year. 1510 01:23:11,782 --> 01:23:13,175 - Well, time is running short again, 1511 01:23:13,199 --> 01:23:14,925 so the award for the Best Performance 1512 01:23:14,949 --> 01:23:16,629 by an Actress... 1513 01:23:18,366 --> 01:23:21,630 Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl." 1514 01:23:34,366 --> 01:23:38,494 - I knew they wouldn't give it to one of us. 1515 01:23:41,866 --> 01:23:43,574 I did win 1516 01:23:43,657 --> 01:23:45,758 because I won in my heart. 1517 01:23:45,782 --> 01:23:48,758 Vivvy never did understand that. 1518 01:23:49,615 --> 01:23:51,342 Did I tell you Mama finally found out 1519 01:23:51,366 --> 01:23:53,842 that she moved to Canada? 1520 01:23:53,866 --> 01:23:56,782 Says she's got a little boy 1521 01:23:56,866 --> 01:24:00,824 and that she's happy. 1522 01:24:00,907 --> 01:24:02,740 I hope so. 1523 01:24:06,699 --> 01:24:08,824 You never realize 1524 01:24:08,907 --> 01:24:12,324 the last time you see somebody... 1525 01:24:12,408 --> 01:24:14,908 that it is the last time. 1526 01:24:19,074 --> 01:24:20,758 Few minutes, Miss Dandridge. 1527 01:24:20,782 --> 01:24:22,657 - Thank you. 1528 01:24:28,866 --> 01:24:30,283 Otto. 1529 01:24:33,657 --> 01:24:35,824 You made it. 1530 01:24:35,907 --> 01:24:39,366 So, what do you think of your choice? 1531 01:24:41,199 --> 01:24:42,591 It's a wonderful dress. 1532 01:24:42,615 --> 01:24:44,408 Make a good team. 1533 01:24:44,490 --> 01:24:47,008 - After we're married, we'll make an even better team. 1534 01:24:47,032 --> 01:24:48,592 - Be patient. 1535 01:24:50,116 --> 01:24:53,490 You said... 1536 01:24:53,574 --> 01:24:55,175 when the time was right. 1537 01:24:55,199 --> 01:24:58,508 Well, the time is now right. It's 1957. 1538 01:24:58,532 --> 01:25:00,675 The world is changing. 1539 01:25:00,699 --> 01:25:04,923 If not here, Europe. We could work in Europe. 1540 01:25:06,366 --> 01:25:07,657 - Europe. 1541 01:25:11,866 --> 01:25:14,666 - You do love me, don't you? 1542 01:25:17,866 --> 01:25:20,366 - I will always love you. 1543 01:25:22,657 --> 01:25:25,259 - I want a honeymoon in Paris. 1544 01:25:25,283 --> 01:25:26,675 I'll get fat 1545 01:25:26,699 --> 01:25:27,800 and have lots of babies. 1546 01:25:27,824 --> 01:25:30,425 Boys, a house full of boys. 1547 01:25:30,449 --> 01:25:32,241 - Boys and girls. 1548 01:25:32,324 --> 01:25:34,032 - Okay. 1549 01:25:35,366 --> 01:25:37,166 - Beautiful dream. 1550 01:25:37,866 --> 01:25:40,032 - It's not a dream. 1551 01:25:43,615 --> 01:25:45,300 One minute, Miss Dandridge. 1552 01:25:45,324 --> 01:25:48,425 - You have to go onstage, and I have to get to my seat. 1553 01:25:48,449 --> 01:25:52,097 - The best seat in the house, table 15. 1554 01:25:55,991 --> 01:25:58,782 What? 1555 01:25:58,866 --> 01:25:59,883 - It's German. 1556 01:25:59,907 --> 01:26:01,782 Break your leg. 1557 01:26:23,366 --> 01:26:24,967 Ladies and gentlemen, 1558 01:26:24,991 --> 01:26:27,508 the Mocambo welcomes back the delicious, 1559 01:26:27,532 --> 01:26:29,342 the divine, the delightful 1560 01:26:29,366 --> 01:26:31,166 Dorothy Dandridge. 1561 01:26:41,532 --> 01:26:44,158 - ♪ You do ♪ 1562 01:26:44,241 --> 01:26:47,241 ♪ Something to me ♪ 1563 01:26:47,324 --> 01:26:49,342 ♪ Something that simply ♪ 1564 01:26:49,366 --> 01:26:52,824 ♪ Mystifies me ♪ 1565 01:26:52,907 --> 01:26:55,699 ♪ Tell me ♪ 1566 01:26:55,782 --> 01:26:59,241 ♪ Why should it be ♪ 1567 01:26:59,324 --> 01:27:01,134 ♪ You've got the power ♪ 1568 01:27:01,158 --> 01:27:04,324 ♪ To hypnotize me? ♪ 1569 01:27:04,408 --> 01:27:08,283 ♪ Let me live ♪ 1570 01:27:08,366 --> 01:27:10,259 ♪ 'Neath your spell ♪ 1571 01:27:10,283 --> 01:27:12,615 ♪ You do that voodoo ♪ 1572 01:27:12,699 --> 01:27:15,740 ♪ That you do so well ♪ 1573 01:27:15,824 --> 01:27:18,991 ♪ You do ♪ 1574 01:27:19,074 --> 01:27:20,991 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1575 01:27:21,074 --> 01:27:25,782 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1576 01:27:25,866 --> 01:27:27,782 ♪ Can do ♪ 1577 01:27:31,615 --> 01:27:33,300 ♪ You do somethin' ♪ 1578 01:27:33,324 --> 01:27:34,716 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1579 01:27:34,740 --> 01:27:39,116 ♪ Somethin' that simply mystifies me ♪ 1580 01:27:39,199 --> 01:27:42,550 ♪ Tell me, tell me why should it be ♪ 1581 01:27:42,574 --> 01:27:46,414 ♪ You've got the power to hypnotize me? ♪ 1582 01:27:46,449 --> 01:27:49,866 ♪ Let me live 'neath your spell ♪ 1583 01:27:49,949 --> 01:27:53,949 ♪ You do that voodoo that you do so well ♪ 1584 01:27:54,032 --> 01:27:56,408 ♪ Oh, you do ♪ 1585 01:27:56,490 --> 01:27:58,008 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1586 01:27:58,032 --> 01:28:00,032 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1587 01:28:03,116 --> 01:28:07,574 ♪ Can do ♪ 1588 01:28:34,949 --> 01:28:36,824 ♪ You do ♪ 1589 01:28:36,907 --> 01:28:38,342 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1590 01:28:38,366 --> 01:28:41,158 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1591 01:28:45,824 --> 01:28:49,824 ♪ Can do ♪ 1592 01:29:05,699 --> 01:29:08,366 ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 1593 01:29:08,449 --> 01:29:09,466 - Thank you. 1594 01:29:09,490 --> 01:29:10,949 ♪ To care ♪ 1595 01:29:11,032 --> 01:29:14,241 ♪ For somebody ♪ 1596 01:29:17,324 --> 01:29:22,283 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 1597 01:29:22,366 --> 01:29:26,241 ♪ With somebody ♪ 1598 01:29:29,574 --> 01:29:33,991 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 1599 01:29:50,866 --> 01:29:52,241 Who is it? 1600 01:29:54,074 --> 01:29:55,175 - Jack Denison. 1601 01:29:55,199 --> 01:29:57,550 I'm the manager here at the Riviera. 1602 01:29:57,574 --> 01:29:58,740 - Yes? 1603 01:30:00,657 --> 01:30:02,550 - I wanted to tell you what a thrill it is 1604 01:30:02,574 --> 01:30:04,384 having you here with us. 1605 01:30:04,408 --> 01:30:05,842 - Thank you. 1606 01:30:05,866 --> 01:30:07,883 If you don't mind, Mr. Denison, 1607 01:30:07,907 --> 01:30:10,241 I'm a bit tired, so... 1608 01:30:10,324 --> 01:30:14,300 - Oh, no. I just came by to bring you these. 1609 01:30:14,324 --> 01:30:15,699 Daisies. 1610 01:30:15,782 --> 01:30:17,384 - Compliments of the hotel. 1611 01:30:17,408 --> 01:30:19,092 I hope they're all right. 1612 01:30:19,116 --> 01:30:21,259 - Yes, they're... they're lovely. Thank you. 1613 01:30:21,283 --> 01:30:24,949 Just an unusual choice, that's all. 1614 01:30:25,032 --> 01:30:28,758 Someone very special to me loved daisies. 1615 01:30:28,782 --> 01:30:30,032 She died. 1616 01:30:30,116 --> 01:30:31,824 Childbirth. 1617 01:30:32,991 --> 01:30:34,300 - Childbirth? 1618 01:30:34,324 --> 01:30:36,624 She was a lovely woman. 1619 01:30:36,949 --> 01:30:39,149 We were to be married. 1620 01:30:40,158 --> 01:30:43,008 She went into labor early. We were on vacation, 1621 01:30:43,032 --> 01:30:45,591 and no white hospital in the area would take her. 1622 01:30:45,615 --> 01:30:48,532 - She was a colored girl? 1623 01:30:48,615 --> 01:30:51,758 - Try to put flowers on her grave every week 1624 01:30:51,782 --> 01:30:54,116 and on our child's. 1625 01:30:54,199 --> 01:30:56,241 - That's lovely. 1626 01:30:59,158 --> 01:31:01,716 Have... have a seat. Stay if you want. 1627 01:31:01,740 --> 01:31:02,907 Go on. 1628 01:31:04,324 --> 01:31:05,300 - Please, 1629 01:31:05,324 --> 01:31:07,824 let me do that for you. 1630 01:31:15,991 --> 01:31:17,431 - Thank you. 1631 01:31:18,324 --> 01:31:19,800 Dottie Mae, I'm tellin' you, 1632 01:31:19,824 --> 01:31:21,466 don't marry that man. 1633 01:31:21,490 --> 01:31:22,800 He ain't no good. 1634 01:31:22,824 --> 01:31:25,300 I can feel it all in my bones. 1635 01:31:25,324 --> 01:31:27,800 - I'll tell you one thing Auntie was right about. 1636 01:31:27,824 --> 01:31:31,134 A man and 5 cents'll pay a colored girl's fare 1637 01:31:31,158 --> 01:31:34,158 all the way to nowhere. 1638 01:31:43,032 --> 01:31:45,508 - Miss Dandridge, I've been looking for you. 1639 01:31:45,532 --> 01:31:47,342 They brought in a new director. 1640 01:31:47,366 --> 01:31:50,266 - Who is it? - Miss Dandridge! 1641 01:31:57,782 --> 01:31:59,716 Mr. Poitier and I have been ready to shoot 1642 01:31:59,740 --> 01:32:01,050 for some minutes now. 1643 01:32:01,074 --> 01:32:02,925 - I've only just arrived myself. 1644 01:32:02,949 --> 01:32:05,532 - I have seen the rushes. 1645 01:32:05,615 --> 01:32:08,050 Your performance is not credible, 1646 01:32:08,074 --> 01:32:09,508 almost ridiculous. 1647 01:32:09,532 --> 01:32:11,092 - I don't think that was necessary. 1648 01:32:11,116 --> 01:32:14,842 - Would you care to direct the picture, Mr. Poitier? 1649 01:32:14,866 --> 01:32:16,199 Would you? 1650 01:32:21,241 --> 01:32:22,824 So, 1651 01:32:22,907 --> 01:32:25,032 in the scene, 1652 01:32:25,116 --> 01:32:27,550 you have just been raped, right? 1653 01:32:27,574 --> 01:32:30,925 You are supposed to be upset, broken. 1654 01:32:30,949 --> 01:32:34,134 Instead, you have been prancing around 1655 01:32:34,158 --> 01:32:36,824 like a queen on her throne, 1656 01:32:36,907 --> 01:32:38,300 using glycerin tears 1657 01:32:38,324 --> 01:32:40,259 because you are too lazy to make yourself cry. 1658 01:32:40,283 --> 01:32:42,925 - I'm not lazy. - You are pathetic! 1659 01:32:42,949 --> 01:32:45,049 What happened to you? 1660 01:32:45,366 --> 01:32:47,466 You used to be a beautiful thing. 1661 01:32:47,490 --> 01:32:49,217 Now you're nothing, and if you're going 1662 01:32:49,241 --> 01:32:52,925 to mess up my picture, you little sniveling brat, 1663 01:32:52,949 --> 01:32:56,633 then I will make sure that you will never work again. 1664 01:32:56,657 --> 01:32:57,740 Good. 1665 01:32:57,824 --> 01:32:59,624 Places, everybody! 1666 01:33:01,283 --> 01:33:03,199 Move! 1667 01:33:10,283 --> 01:33:12,907 - Real tears, finally. 1668 01:33:12,991 --> 01:33:14,657 Page? 1669 01:33:14,740 --> 01:33:16,158 Roll 'em. 1670 01:33:16,241 --> 01:33:17,490 Roll 'em. 1671 01:33:17,574 --> 01:33:19,374 - Speed. - Rolling. 1672 01:33:21,699 --> 01:33:25,699 - Do you think he ever really loved me? 1673 01:33:27,449 --> 01:33:28,574 Dorothy, 1674 01:33:28,657 --> 01:33:31,740 you're not even over Otto. 1675 01:33:31,824 --> 01:33:33,050 Now, I'm your friend 1676 01:33:33,074 --> 01:33:34,675 and I'm telling you, now is the time 1677 01:33:34,699 --> 01:33:37,384 to concentrate on your career, 1678 01:33:37,408 --> 01:33:39,908 not on another white man. 1679 01:33:54,657 --> 01:33:56,032 - Jack? 1680 01:33:58,532 --> 01:34:00,366 - He had a child, 1681 01:34:00,449 --> 01:34:01,883 but she died with the mother 1682 01:34:01,907 --> 01:34:04,883 after he left them in a motel to starve. 1683 01:34:04,907 --> 01:34:06,300 He's a con man. 1684 01:34:06,324 --> 01:34:09,259 I hired a private investigator, and he told me. 1685 01:34:09,283 --> 01:34:12,092 Denison isn't worth the dirt under your feet. 1686 01:34:12,116 --> 01:34:15,175 - Sometimes you stand on the edge of a cliff 1687 01:34:15,199 --> 01:34:16,759 and you jump. 1688 01:34:16,824 --> 01:34:20,300 You jump because you're tired of being scared. 1689 01:34:20,324 --> 01:34:23,074 Sometimes you jump 1690 01:34:23,158 --> 01:34:26,806 just to see what it feels like to fall. 1691 01:34:39,699 --> 01:34:40,740 Jack? 1692 01:34:42,199 --> 01:34:43,782 Hi, honey. 1693 01:34:45,283 --> 01:34:47,050 It's 4:00. Do you think maybe 1694 01:34:47,074 --> 01:34:49,300 you should get yourself dressed? 1695 01:34:49,324 --> 01:34:50,758 - I am dressed. 1696 01:34:50,782 --> 01:34:53,758 Dressed for the work I do, which is nothin'. 1697 01:34:53,782 --> 01:34:56,050 When I get my club back, I'll get dressed, all right? 1698 01:34:56,074 --> 01:34:57,949 - Okay, fine. 1699 01:34:58,032 --> 01:35:00,217 Not tryin' to start a fight here, honey. 1700 01:35:00,241 --> 01:35:02,175 Can I get you somethin' else to drink? 1701 01:35:02,199 --> 01:35:04,508 - You said get dressed. What am I gonna get dressed for? 1702 01:35:04,532 --> 01:35:06,050 - Your day, your night. 1703 01:35:06,074 --> 01:35:08,158 Whatever. 1704 01:35:08,241 --> 01:35:09,967 - What did you mean by that? 1705 01:35:09,991 --> 01:35:11,217 Do you think I lost my club 1706 01:35:11,241 --> 01:35:12,633 sittin' around all day in my robe? 1707 01:35:12,657 --> 01:35:14,008 - No, honey. 1708 01:35:14,032 --> 01:35:15,925 You want to stay in your robe, then stay in your robe. 1709 01:35:15,949 --> 01:35:17,716 - I lost my club listenin' to you sing 1710 01:35:17,740 --> 01:35:19,217 in front of an empty house. 1711 01:35:19,241 --> 01:35:21,217 You're supposed to know people in this town, 1712 01:35:21,241 --> 01:35:22,758 but you don't know nobody. 1713 01:35:22,782 --> 01:35:24,591 - I lost most of my income singin' there, remember? 1714 01:35:24,615 --> 01:35:26,716 - You never paid me a dime... - Are you saying that singin' 1715 01:35:26,740 --> 01:35:28,508 - in the club hurt your career? - For any one of those dates. 1716 01:35:28,532 --> 01:35:29,925 - Is that what you're saying, that I hurt you? 1717 01:35:29,949 --> 01:35:31,259 - No! - What are you saying? 1718 01:35:31,283 --> 01:35:32,716 - I'm saying you need to calm down, honey. 1719 01:35:32,740 --> 01:35:34,300 - Remember... - I can't remember anything 1720 01:35:34,324 --> 01:35:38,836 with you bitching at me all night about my robe! 1721 01:35:39,699 --> 01:35:41,217 No, Jack, no! 1722 01:35:41,241 --> 01:35:42,633 No, Jack, don't! No! 1723 01:35:42,657 --> 01:35:44,490 No, Jack. 1724 01:35:44,574 --> 01:35:46,550 Don't, Jack! Don't do it... 1725 01:35:46,574 --> 01:35:48,199 Oh! 1726 01:35:48,283 --> 01:35:49,300 Jack! No! 1727 01:35:49,324 --> 01:35:51,241 No! Jack, no! 1728 01:35:51,324 --> 01:35:53,092 - Miss Dandridge, when did you find out 1729 01:35:53,116 --> 01:35:54,925 you owed over $127,000? 1730 01:35:54,949 --> 01:35:56,883 Were you responsible for the bank loans, 1731 01:35:56,907 --> 01:35:58,092 credit debts, and bad investments, 1732 01:35:58,116 --> 01:35:59,591 or was that your ex-husband? 1733 01:35:59,615 --> 01:36:01,342 - You declared bankruptcy, but what about the back taxes? 1734 01:36:01,366 --> 01:36:02,758 - She's not answering any questions. 1735 01:36:02,782 --> 01:36:05,217 - Is it true Mr. Denison pawned all your jewelry? 1736 01:36:05,241 --> 01:36:07,716 - Dorothy, give us a statement. 1737 01:36:07,740 --> 01:36:09,217 - Miss Dandridge, you have stated 1738 01:36:09,241 --> 01:36:11,800 your child is a danger to herself and others, 1739 01:36:11,824 --> 01:36:13,259 that you are unwilling to care for her, 1740 01:36:13,283 --> 01:36:16,300 and that you will relinquish parental rights? 1741 01:36:16,324 --> 01:36:18,925 - Well, I hired a caretaker, 1742 01:36:18,949 --> 01:36:20,591 but I haven't been able to make the payments 1743 01:36:20,615 --> 01:36:22,633 because I haven't had any... 1744 01:36:22,657 --> 01:36:24,134 - Yes, we've all heard the testimony. 1745 01:36:24,158 --> 01:36:28,478 Are you willing to relinquish parental rights? 1746 01:36:32,158 --> 01:36:33,782 - Yes. 1747 01:36:33,866 --> 01:36:35,466 Very well. Harolyn Nicholas 1748 01:36:35,490 --> 01:36:38,217 shall henceforth become a ward of the court. 1749 01:36:38,241 --> 01:36:40,217 Care will be provided by the state institution 1750 01:36:40,241 --> 01:36:42,741 in Camarillo, California. 1751 01:36:43,490 --> 01:36:46,466 - The Mocambo is proud to welcome back a woman 1752 01:36:46,490 --> 01:36:49,675 who has graced our stage many times. 1753 01:36:49,699 --> 01:36:50,800 Her star first rose here 1754 01:36:50,824 --> 01:36:53,300 a little over ten years ago in '51, 1755 01:36:53,324 --> 01:36:57,384 and her star hasn't stopped streaking our skies with light 1756 01:36:57,408 --> 01:36:58,728 ever since. 1757 01:36:58,782 --> 01:37:00,582 Dorothy Dandridge! 1758 01:37:16,949 --> 01:37:19,074 - ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 1759 01:37:19,158 --> 01:37:22,074 ♪ To care ♪ 1760 01:37:22,158 --> 01:37:25,782 ♪ For somebody ♪ 1761 01:37:28,740 --> 01:37:33,283 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 1762 01:37:33,366 --> 01:37:36,866 ♪ With somebody ♪ 1763 01:37:39,699 --> 01:37:43,449 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 1764 01:37:43,532 --> 01:37:46,408 ♪ A midnight cup ♪ 1765 01:37:46,490 --> 01:37:49,740 ♪ Of tea with ♪ 1766 01:37:51,907 --> 01:37:54,107 ♪ To have and hold... ♪ 1767 01:37:57,408 --> 01:37:59,217 The nation suffered a loss today, 1768 01:37:59,241 --> 01:38:01,883 as an apparent overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol 1769 01:38:01,907 --> 01:38:05,466 claimed the life of a treasured singer and actress, 1770 01:38:05,490 --> 01:38:06,508 Marilyn Monroe. 1771 01:38:06,532 --> 01:38:08,283 - In Switzerland. 1772 01:38:08,366 --> 01:38:12,110 They'll teach her to speak French there. 1773 01:38:13,074 --> 01:38:14,699 I have to go. 1774 01:38:14,782 --> 01:38:17,382 Somebody at my door, okay? 1775 01:38:43,782 --> 01:38:46,158 Why, Earl Mills. 1776 01:38:49,824 --> 01:38:51,699 I heard, 1777 01:38:51,782 --> 01:38:55,508 Queen Melmendi was looking for a way through the jungle. 1778 01:38:55,532 --> 01:38:57,866 - Oh... 1779 01:38:57,949 --> 01:39:00,949 Geri worries too much about me. 1780 01:39:03,074 --> 01:39:05,974 - Well, she's not the only one. 1781 01:39:09,782 --> 01:39:11,283 Nice place. 1782 01:39:15,283 --> 01:39:16,508 - What do you want? 1783 01:39:16,532 --> 01:39:19,700 - I want to know how you're doing. 1784 01:39:20,490 --> 01:39:22,782 I'm fine. 1785 01:39:22,866 --> 01:39:24,466 I can see that. 1786 01:39:24,490 --> 01:39:27,008 I heard about your show in Puerto Rico. 1787 01:39:27,032 --> 01:39:28,740 - Which one? 1788 01:39:28,824 --> 01:39:30,134 - Well, you know, the one where 1789 01:39:30,158 --> 01:39:31,842 you were slurring your words onstage. 1790 01:39:31,866 --> 01:39:33,883 - Oh. - Or was that every show? 1791 01:39:33,907 --> 01:39:35,366 - Earl, 1792 01:39:35,449 --> 01:39:37,008 if you came here to start trouble, 1793 01:39:37,032 --> 01:39:38,466 you might as well just keep on going. 1794 01:39:38,490 --> 01:39:39,842 - You shouldn't mix booze with pills. 1795 01:39:39,866 --> 01:39:41,591 Didn't your doctor tell you that? 1796 01:39:41,615 --> 01:39:43,175 - You don't manage my act. - No, your act is all your own. 1797 01:39:43,199 --> 01:39:44,591 - And you don't manage my life! 1798 01:39:44,615 --> 01:39:46,883 Why don't you get out of here? 1799 01:39:46,907 --> 01:39:48,615 I'm busy. 1800 01:39:48,699 --> 01:39:50,599 I got things to do. 1801 01:39:54,532 --> 01:39:57,425 - What do you have to do, Dorothy, 1802 01:39:57,449 --> 01:40:01,032 write more suicide notes? 1803 01:40:01,116 --> 01:40:02,796 Geri found this. 1804 01:40:16,241 --> 01:40:20,508 I wrote this because I don't want anybody to see me. 1805 01:40:20,532 --> 01:40:24,574 I don't want 'em to see me like this, Earl. 1806 01:40:24,657 --> 01:40:27,657 If I go, cremate me right away. 1807 01:40:27,740 --> 01:40:29,425 Don't let anybody look at me. 1808 01:40:29,449 --> 01:40:31,925 Don't let 'em just stare at me, remember me like this. 1809 01:40:31,949 --> 01:40:33,342 - Okay, okay, I promise. 1810 01:40:33,366 --> 01:40:36,800 - I don't want anybody to look at me. 1811 01:40:36,824 --> 01:40:39,283 My hands are shaking. 1812 01:40:39,366 --> 01:40:42,217 - All right, all right. Let me hold them. 1813 01:40:42,241 --> 01:40:43,967 - I'm so glad you're here. 1814 01:40:43,991 --> 01:40:45,883 - Yeah, me, too. - I'm so ugly. 1815 01:40:45,907 --> 01:40:47,175 - No, you're not. You're beautiful. 1816 01:40:47,199 --> 01:40:48,842 - I need my pills. - No, you don't. 1817 01:40:48,866 --> 01:40:50,384 - My pills are right over there. If I could just get my... 1818 01:40:50,408 --> 01:40:52,842 - I'll keep you from shaking. - If I get my pills... 1819 01:40:52,866 --> 01:40:54,508 - Come on, come on. 1820 01:40:54,532 --> 01:40:56,824 You all right? 1821 01:41:00,866 --> 01:41:02,384 - You got so old. 1822 01:41:02,408 --> 01:41:06,283 When did you get so old? 1823 01:41:06,366 --> 01:41:08,046 - This morning. 1824 01:41:12,740 --> 01:41:16,050 - Well, I would sing for you, but I think my syncopation 1825 01:41:16,074 --> 01:41:18,324 might be a little off. 1826 01:41:22,241 --> 01:41:25,949 - ♪ I can only give you love ♪ 1827 01:41:26,032 --> 01:41:29,449 ♪ That lasts forever ♪ 1828 01:41:29,532 --> 01:41:32,283 ♪ And a promise to be near ♪ 1829 01:41:32,366 --> 01:41:35,199 ♪ Each time you call ♪ 1830 01:41:35,283 --> 01:41:39,324 ♪ And the only heart I own ♪ 1831 01:41:39,408 --> 01:41:43,324 ♪ For you and you alone ♪ 1832 01:41:43,408 --> 01:41:45,615 ♪ That's all ♪ 1833 01:41:47,615 --> 01:41:49,199 That's all. 1834 01:41:50,116 --> 01:41:52,366 That's all. 1835 01:42:27,158 --> 01:42:28,949 Look at you. 1836 01:42:29,032 --> 01:42:30,883 What, you go for a run? 1837 01:42:30,907 --> 01:42:32,758 - About ten yards up at the front desk 1838 01:42:32,782 --> 01:42:34,550 to pick up this telegram, 1839 01:42:34,574 --> 01:42:37,259 confirming a run at the Mocambo, 1840 01:42:37,283 --> 01:42:38,591 two movies in Mexico, 1841 01:42:38,615 --> 01:42:41,092 and a booking at Basin Street East in New York. 1842 01:42:41,116 --> 01:42:43,283 - Oh! 1843 01:42:43,366 --> 01:42:44,699 Oh! 1844 01:42:44,782 --> 01:42:46,175 You know the first thing I'm gonna do? 1845 01:42:46,199 --> 01:42:48,217 I'm gonna hire a lawyer. 1846 01:42:48,241 --> 01:42:51,050 I'm gettin' my baby back. That's the first thing. 1847 01:42:51,074 --> 01:42:52,591 You want to celebrate? 1848 01:42:52,615 --> 01:42:54,259 - Let's get all dressed up tonight, 1849 01:42:54,283 --> 01:42:55,675 and you can take me dancing. 1850 01:42:55,699 --> 01:42:57,008 - Can I? Thank you. 1851 01:42:57,032 --> 01:42:58,967 - Well, just this once. 1852 01:42:58,991 --> 01:43:01,008 Well, actually, I can't dance. 1853 01:43:01,032 --> 01:43:02,967 - That's okay, honey, 'cause tonight 1854 01:43:02,991 --> 01:43:06,063 I'll dance enough for both of us. 1855 01:43:11,991 --> 01:43:13,925 It's Tofranil. My doctor prescribed it 1856 01:43:13,949 --> 01:43:15,675 for my depression, remember? 1857 01:43:15,699 --> 01:43:17,050 You want to see the bottle? 1858 01:43:17,074 --> 01:43:19,907 - No. I know you're better. 1859 01:43:21,615 --> 01:43:23,574 - I am better. 1860 01:43:25,158 --> 01:43:26,550 Now, let me go put on something festive... 1861 01:43:26,574 --> 01:43:28,283 Oh! Oh! 1862 01:43:28,366 --> 01:43:30,300 - What'd you do? - Oh! 1863 01:43:30,324 --> 01:43:32,008 - Oh, Earl! - All right. 1864 01:43:32,032 --> 01:43:33,591 - Don't move, don't move. - Okay. 1865 01:43:33,615 --> 01:43:38,031 - I think I broke it. - Don't move, don't move. 1866 01:43:43,158 --> 01:43:47,324 Well, the sun's comin' up now, so... 1867 01:43:48,824 --> 01:43:50,824 No, I can't. 1868 01:43:50,907 --> 01:43:52,591 I'm leaving for New York with Earl today. 1869 01:43:52,615 --> 01:43:56,366 You know I got my shows to do, remember? 1870 01:43:56,449 --> 01:43:58,300 Well, if the cast doesn't bother them, 1871 01:43:58,324 --> 01:44:01,824 it certainly doesn't bother me. 1872 01:44:01,907 --> 01:44:05,075 I think you should get to bed now. 1873 01:44:06,324 --> 01:44:08,032 Geri, 1874 01:44:08,116 --> 01:44:09,907 I love you. 1875 01:44:09,991 --> 01:44:12,491 Thank you for everything. 1876 01:44:13,283 --> 01:44:14,699 Okay. 1877 01:44:50,991 --> 01:44:53,283 Hello? 1878 01:44:53,366 --> 01:44:56,574 Why, Earl Mills. 1879 01:44:56,657 --> 01:44:58,842 I was just thinkin' about you. 1880 01:44:58,866 --> 01:45:01,199 No, really, I was. 1881 01:45:01,283 --> 01:45:03,134 What time are you gonna pick me up? 1882 01:45:03,158 --> 01:45:04,675 Can we make it later? 1883 01:45:04,699 --> 01:45:09,019 How about 10:00? A girl has to pack, you know. 1884 01:45:11,532 --> 01:45:13,074 Okay. 1885 01:45:13,158 --> 01:45:14,958 I'll see you then. 1886 01:46:27,241 --> 01:46:28,283 Dorothy? 1887 01:46:36,490 --> 01:46:37,574 Dorothy! 1888 01:46:40,866 --> 01:46:41,949 Dorothy? 1889 01:46:55,158 --> 01:46:58,241 Angel face? 1890 01:46:58,324 --> 01:46:59,699 Angel face. 1891 01:47:03,032 --> 01:47:05,699 Angel face? 1892 01:47:11,449 --> 01:47:15,259 You know this could have been the fractured ankle? 1893 01:47:15,283 --> 01:47:17,425 Flakes of bone marrow get into the bloodstream, 1894 01:47:17,449 --> 01:47:18,633 cause an embolism. 1895 01:47:18,657 --> 01:47:20,259 - How many times do I have to tell you, 1896 01:47:20,283 --> 01:47:22,466 the easy answer is usually the right answer? 1897 01:47:22,490 --> 01:47:25,508 There's a bottle of Tofranil on the dressing table. 1898 01:47:25,532 --> 01:47:27,925 More than likely, she just overdosed. 1899 01:47:27,949 --> 01:47:29,389 - Excuse me. 1900 01:47:29,449 --> 01:47:30,949 Excuse me! 1901 01:47:32,532 --> 01:47:35,800 Could you please ask these officers to leave 1902 01:47:35,824 --> 01:47:37,532 or cover her up? 1903 01:47:37,615 --> 01:47:40,425 She wouldn't want people staring at her. 1904 01:47:40,449 --> 01:47:42,342 Guys, wait outside. 1905 01:47:42,366 --> 01:47:44,466 - Come on. - All right. 1906 01:47:44,490 --> 01:47:46,050 - I don't see any evidence... - No, no, no. 1907 01:47:46,074 --> 01:47:49,818 - Here at all. - We have a suicide note. 1908 01:47:49,866 --> 01:47:51,758 - No, no, no, no, no. 1909 01:47:51,782 --> 01:47:53,508 She wrote that note months ago. 1910 01:47:53,532 --> 01:47:56,384 - Suicide notes don't exactly expire, you know. 1911 01:47:56,408 --> 01:47:57,800 - Oh, wait a minute. 1912 01:47:57,824 --> 01:47:59,800 She didn't kill herself. We were going to New York. 1913 01:47:59,824 --> 01:48:01,259 - Mr. Mills, could you wait 1914 01:48:01,283 --> 01:48:02,967 - in the other room, please? - We were going to New York. 1915 01:48:02,991 --> 01:48:04,508 - She didn't kill herself! - Mr. Mills, please. 1916 01:48:04,532 --> 01:48:06,384 - She didn't kill herself. - Mr. Mills, please. 1917 01:48:06,408 --> 01:48:07,758 - I'll be damned, Richard. 1918 01:48:07,782 --> 01:48:11,574 Wasn't she some kind of colored singer? 1919 01:49:50,949 --> 01:49:52,591 Hollywood mourns the passing 1920 01:49:52,615 --> 01:49:54,050 of Dorothy Dandridge. 1921 01:49:54,074 --> 01:49:55,508 A nightclub singer and actress, 1922 01:49:55,532 --> 01:49:57,092 Miss Dandridge is perhaps best known 1923 01:49:57,116 --> 01:50:00,716 for her Oscar-nominated role as Carmen Jones. 1924 01:50:00,740 --> 01:50:02,384 The L.A. County Coroner's Office 1925 01:50:02,408 --> 01:50:04,425 ruled that Miss Dandridge died as a result 1926 01:50:04,449 --> 01:50:07,384 of an overdose of the prescription drug Tofranil. 1927 01:50:07,408 --> 01:50:10,008 However, they declined to determine whether the death 1928 01:50:10,032 --> 01:50:12,932 was an accident or a suicide. 1929 01:50:12,991 --> 01:50:15,925 She is survived by a daughter, Harolyn. 1930 01:50:15,949 --> 01:50:18,657 Miss Dandridge was 42. 1931 01:50:34,490 --> 01:50:38,699 - ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 1932 01:50:38,782 --> 01:50:42,490 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 1933 01:50:42,574 --> 01:50:46,657 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 1934 01:50:46,740 --> 01:50:49,324 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 1935 01:50:49,408 --> 01:50:51,241 ♪ What I've got ♪ 1936 01:51:04,532 --> 01:51:06,615 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 1937 01:51:06,699 --> 01:51:08,824 ♪ I've got music ♪ 1938 01:51:08,907 --> 01:51:10,175 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1939 01:51:10,199 --> 01:51:12,967 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1940 01:51:12,991 --> 01:51:14,925 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 1941 01:51:14,949 --> 01:51:17,283 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 1942 01:51:17,366 --> 01:51:18,633 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1943 01:51:18,657 --> 01:51:21,008 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1944 01:51:21,032 --> 01:51:22,949 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 1945 01:51:23,032 --> 01:51:24,842 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 1946 01:51:24,866 --> 01:51:28,949 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 1947 01:51:29,032 --> 01:51:31,008 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 1948 01:51:31,032 --> 01:51:33,217 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 1949 01:51:33,241 --> 01:51:34,508 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1950 01:51:34,532 --> 01:51:37,892 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 1951 01:52:04,991 --> 01:52:06,891 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 1952 01:52:06,949 --> 01:52:09,032 ♪ I've got music ♪ 1953 01:52:09,116 --> 01:52:10,716 ♪ I got my man ♪ 1954 01:52:10,740 --> 01:52:12,949 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 1955 01:52:13,032 --> 01:52:17,866 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 1956 01:52:17,949 --> 01:52:20,574 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 1957 01:52:20,657 --> 01:52:24,824 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 1958 01:52:24,907 --> 01:52:28,032 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 1959 01:52:28,116 --> 01:52:29,883 ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 1960 01:52:29,907 --> 01:52:32,408 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 1961 01:52:32,490 --> 01:52:36,199 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 1962 01:52:36,283 --> 01:52:38,532 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 1963 01:52:38,615 --> 01:52:40,532 ♪ What a man ♪ 1964 01:52:40,615 --> 01:52:44,074 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 1965 01:52:44,158 --> 01:52:48,116 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 1966 01:52:48,199 --> 01:52:49,907 ♪ Anything ♪ 1967 01:52:56,408 --> 01:52:57,866 ♪ Anything ♪ 1968 01:52:57,949 --> 01:53:04,991 ♪ More ♪ 137839