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[Door Opens ]

It's terrible, but I haven't got it on.

My mother conflicted with the whole thing.

- [Albert] Well, look at that. - Terrific? Minus the skirt.

I'm losing quite a bit of weight, but I feel perfectly terrible.

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ You're wonderful to see ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ Oh, what a hit ♪

♪ You would be ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ You're wonderful to see ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ Oh, what a hit ♪

♪ You would be ♪

♪ I'm still after your brother ♪

♪ I'm never going to give up ♪

♪ I'm after little brother ♪

[ Giggling ] ♪ Oh, what a hit ♪

♪ You would be ♪

Oh, it's a nice day.

Isn't it terrible? I've no -- [ Whispers ] I've no makeup on.

Mother's fine. I just swallowed the last bit of lobster.

I stole the cake last night.

And she gave me very strong coffee this morning. I felt awful.

So then I ran all around. Two talks with Margie McQuillan left me gasping.

I'm so afraid of her anyway. She's a friend of my brother's.

She's nice, but she's a friend of my brother's. Could make a lot of trouble.

She said I was having a nervous breakdown. I should go to Atlantic City.

I'm not that broken-down yet!

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

What does he got on?

♪ You're wonderful to see ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪ [ Laughing ]

♪ Oh, what a hit you would be ♪

I'm sorry about the makeup, but I -- [ Laughs ]

- I haven't been able to find it yet. - [ David ] That's all right. You look great.

Listen, it's a beautiful day. Now the hurricane's coming. Did you know that?

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

[ Giggles ] ♪ You're wonderful to see ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ Oh, what a hit ♪

♪ You would be ♪

♪ I don't know the other words ♪

♪ Is my hat falling off ♪

- [David] No. - ♪♪ [ Humming ]

[ Giggles ] Imagine, you in blue today.

[ Giggles ]

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ You're wonderful to see ♪

♪ You ought to be in pictures ♪

♪ Oh, what a hit ♪

♪ You would be ♪♪

- I have to go put makeup on, Major. - Okay.

♪♪ [ Humming, Faint ] I think a little hurricane is coming.

♪♪ [ Humming Continues ]

This is, a, uh, what -- a scenario?

[ David ] It'll be made into one.

Well, you know why I like it?

Because someone came here -- I won't tell you who it was --

and they said, you know, the man owned a film company...

and I guess these people were representing him.

And guess what they said.

They said Julie Christie could play Edith Beale in the movie.

I'm telling you, I almost went crazy.

- Hmm. - I don't want anybody playing Edith Beale.

I don't want anybody playing me.

A lot of people wouldn't mind that.

[ Albert ] Who would play your mother?

- Ethel Barrymore? - [ Laughs ]

Where could you ever get a person to play Mother?

When I saw Gigi, I -- I thought, you know...

that that was Mother.

- Remember Gigi? - Mm-hmm.

I never saw the play. I just saw the movie. Three times.

And cried and cried and cried.

I was always mad about that girl, Leslie Caron. I think she's marvelous.

Lois went with me.

I don't think Lois likes movies.

So, at the end of the movie, guess what Lois said.

"I think it would have been better with Audrey Hepburn," says Lois.

Imagine -- a great actress like Leslie Caron...

and Lois comes out and says --

I mean, not that Audrey Hepburn isn't good.

But there's only one Leslie Caron.

Only one.

So, anyway --

So, that's why I let you do this.

Because when I thought of the other way...

and somebody playing Edith Beale --

And another thing -- I can't write anything. I realize that now.

I mean, about my personal life.

I could write it in a novel, you know -- if I could write a novel --

and not put down the, uh -- my real name and -- you know.

Not -- Not do it under -- under the real names.

I'm mad about the Maysles.

So I do think this is the right way to do it.

This was taken for the tropical ball...

This was taken for the tropical ball...

um, in the late 1930s...

um, in New York City.

And, uh -- [ Giggles ]

Shall I tell where they put it?

In Macy's elevator!

You know, I wasn't a professional model...

but some people saw it and they said that --

that my picture was hanging in Macy's elevator.

So I called up Macy's and they said, yes, it was true.

And they apologized.

But they say they couldn't help using it, it was so good-looking.

[ Mrs. Beale ] They didn't give you pay.

They put it in the elevator, and they didn't give you a nickel.

[Edie ] And it was taken by a very famous photographer.

I think his name was Arthur O'Neil.

And he wanted me to become a model! A photographer's model!

And I was so terrified that I ran out of the studio...

because I wasn't supposed to be going to the ball anyway.

I was afraid of my father, and he didn't want me to go out alone...

to dances.

[Albert] What's this whole thing about the Barbizon? I never could understand that story.

- [Mrs. Beale ] Edie went there, you mean? - Yeah.

Why did she go? What was the circumstances?

[ Mrs. Beale ] Why'd you go there, Edie? Hmm?

'Cause you gave me all that stuff for my apartment.

Didn't like the apartment, did you? You got rid of it.

- I was terrified the whole time I was there. - It was dangerous -- the penthouse.

- 'Cause of all your valuables. - Well, you lost 'em anyway.

So I put them in storage and moved back to a women's hotel.

Then they were lost and stolen.

I always allowed to do -- let Edie do anything she wanted to do. Always did.

She wanted to go and see that man?

You know, I helped her pack her bag, gave her $25...

sent her in groceries from my grocery store.

Gould suggested 1,000 jobs for Edie.

- At the Traphagen -- - Well, what I liked --

At Traphagen School, you learn everything, you know.

- What I like -- - You can learn television.

Is that perhaps now women are going to get what they want out of life.

They may have the chance now.

Why didn't you go to the Traphagen, learn all that stuff?

You could have learned ballet in less than six months.

You didn't have to go to that Broadway place.

[David] What did you think when she came back from the Barbizon?

I was, uh -- I had to build her up. She was very sick.

And, uh, I was very happy to do it.

- [David] She was sick? - Yeah.

She was very delicate and very ill.

Oh, she thought I was too thin. I was fine, just as hungry as ever.

No, she was very delicate. Very bad.

I thought she had "leucrema" -- leukemia, whatever you call it.

[Edie ] She didn't like thin women.

No, I don't like delicate women. I hate 'em. They can't have babies, they can't do anything.

Oh, I'm very happy to have her with me. I was happier than I've been in ages.

[Edie ] I didn't know I came back to give Gould a vacation.

- Yes. He wanted a vacation. - Oh. I didn't know that!

Yeah, he went everywhere, he couldn't find anyplace to stay.

Went right back to East Hampton. He says it's the best place on Earth.

Oh, New York I didn't like at all.

I landed in New York at the wrong time.

1946, I went out on my own and --

Well, 1947 I spent in Palm Beach...

[ Chuckles ] working at Saks...

as the only model, with no air conditioning.

I didn't stay there long.

Then I went back to New York...

'cause Mother wouldn't come down to Palm Beach.

And then Mother fought my going to New York.

She didn't want me to go to New York for the winter.

And then I got in there and I moved from hotel to hotel.

I couldn't find any comfortable spot. I don't know.

See, I'd been on the East River.

I had an apartment --

an apartment with my father one year.

I forget -- Well, it was in the 1940s.

And I hated that.

And then I visited an old friend who had an apartment on the East River.

Do you like the East River? Do you boys know the East River?

[ Albert ] Not very well. Never lived on it, but --

Some people like it. They have penthouses or places on the East River.

I-I -- It didn't agree with me at all.

You get the air from Long Island, but it's dank -- the East River.

You hear boats and everything, but it isn't -- it isn't real. I can't explain it.

The Hudson is really real, even though it's got the factories...

and the New Jersey shore and all the smoke and pollution and everything.

[David] I see what you mean.

So then I got the call from Mother to come home.

- [ David ] She called you? - Yeah.

I'll tell you about the pressure she put on for three months.

- [Albert] I didn't know that. I thought -- - From March until July. End of July.

- 1952, I had to go back -- come back. - [David] She has a different story of that.

Uh, yeah, but she's not talking about the same thing.

She says that I had free time to accomplish something for years...

because she was separated from my father.

But I was always down here in this house.

Y-You know what I'm gonna t -- You're not ready, are you? You're not doing anything, are you?

Y-You know what I'm gonna t -- You're not ready, are you? You're not doing anything, are you?

Yeah, we're ready whenever you are.

Oh, but you mustn't, because I've got to get my bearings here.

I wanna get a good picture. I don't wanna waste it.

- There's 36 of 'em. - Yeah, but I don't wanna waste one of your pictures, kid.

I wanna get all of your neck in, David. Could you get further to your brother?

Yeah, that's right. Oh, that's much better, yeah.

[ Al ] Push your left hand out a little bit.

You want it out that way? That way?

[ Al ] Push the camera, the left -- That's it. That should get it better.

- I see. - You see us in there?

No, you wait now.

No better, no. I could be backed up more.

I wanna get a good one of you.

I got your arm all the way down to your elbow. You like that?

- [Al] Okay. - Now, wait. Don't move.

You people have to stay still now.

- [ Shutter Clicks ] - Yeah, that was better.

- [Al] Okay. - [Mrs. Beale ] Let's take some more.

You can't tell how good I am after all these years.

"'Are you ready for your steeplechase...

"'Are you ready for your steeplechase...

"'Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrèe?

"'You're booked to ride your capping race...

"'today at Coulterlee.

"'You're booked to ride Vindictive...

"'for all the world to see.

"'To keep him straight, and keep him first...

"and win the run for me.'

"'That husbands could be cruel...

"'I have known for seasons three.

"'But, oh, to ride Vindictive...

"while a baby cries for me.'

"But she mastered young Vindictive --

"O, the gallant lass was she!

"And kept him straight and kept him first...

"and won the race as near as near could be.

"But he killed her at the brook...

"against a pollard willow tree.

"Oh, he killed her at the brook, the brute...

"for all the world to see.

"And no one but the baby cried...

for poor Lorraine, Lorrèe."

I cry every time I do that.

[ Edie ] It's better not to have a husband!

Furthermore, he wanted that baby all to himself!

- That's why he did it -- he killed the mother. - I know it.

Aren't men terrible? Absolutely terrible!

- I get very sad when I recite his poems. - ♪♪ [ Edie Vocalizing ]

Edie, you do a little song nicely, will you, babe?

- ♪♪[ Vocalizing Continues ] - Edie?

Do it nicely. Will you, babe?

Now, where am I? January 10.

Now, where am I? January 10.

See, I know all about Capricorn men, David darling.

You understand. So I know your type very well.

Here it is.

"These natives --

"These natives possess a bold imagination...

"a keen mind...

"ever seeking knowledge...

and improvement."

That's you, David darling.

"Will aid at key moment --

Ever seeking knowledge and improvement. Will aid --" Something, maybe more.

That's you, David.

You're terrific. Absolutely terrific. I knew it.

Didn't you know, uh, your younger brother was terrific, Major?

"Can't get married to a Sagittarius.

"They are very compatible so far as physical love goes...

"but there is little else that could be...

"considered in a union here.

"Only a good psychologist...

will be able to hold this marriage together."

- Terrible. - [David] Could you --

It's Al. He can't marry me.

I'm Scorpio, and he's Sagittarius.

See, Scorpio is physical, really...

and they think that Virgo and Cancer are, um --

are mental signs.

And they think if you get one partner mental and the other physical...

that the marriage will be very good.

Now, why they think that -- I don't think that at all.

Because the people that I wanted to marry, really, were Sagittarians.

And they say, above all don't marry Sagittarius.

So I think they've got it all wrong.

I don't know. But, anyway, here's Scorpio --

[ David ] Maybe that's why you never got married.

I'm crazy about horoscopes. I wouldn't marry anybody where they said it wasn't right.

Isn't that awful?

'Cause I went back to the Catholic Church. I shouldn't even be talking about astrology.

"If the birthday is between November 1 and November 11...

"it will be necessary...

to handle the Scorpion pride with care."

Hmm. You see, that's what is so often forgotten.

Pride!

They don't -- Nobody takes that into account.

They think you don't have it or something.

You know, people are very, very sensitive.

No one takes into account how sensitive a person really is.

I don't mean just a Scorpion or Libra.

Everybody, they're terribly sensitive.

And other people don't understand...

how sensitive a human being is.

They don't understand it.

So they run roughshod over everybody.

So, where am I here?

Oh, yes.

"These natives have dualistic tendencies...

"and a very changeable...

and unpredictable nature."

[ Giggles ]

You know what they said? That I was schizophrenic.

No Beale is schizophrenic.

They're too strong.

- That was written down, that I was a schizo. - [David] Where?

My God. Somebody wrote it in an article.

Somebody down in the Village said I was a schizophrenic.

No one with convictions is schizophrenic.

It's when you get a terrible kind of a -- Mmm.

I don't know.

You don't know what's up or something if you're schizophrenic.

- Split personality. - Yes! That's it.

That's it. I never had any -- I never had any split personality.

I have a hell of a temper. It's Southern.

God, I never changed my heart, ever, once.

You know, if you're born with something, you're born with it.

God. Nothing schizophrenic about my nature.

Uh, "Changeable and unpredictable nature.

Their greatest battles will be with themselves."

Correct.

♪♪[Edie Vocalizing]

[ Giggles ]

Gonna leave this place very soon.

And all the stuff that goes with it.

We're gonna have all that awful gang in here today.

[ Rhythmically ] Billy, Jerry, Lois, Marjorie.

[ Grunting Rhythmically ]

[David Chuckling]

[ Grunting Continues ]

Listen, I feel fine.

- Great. - Great.

But everything is in a hell of a mess. My mother is yelling for something.

Her little bag of ribbons --

You saw Jerry just put the drawer right on the floor.

Everything rolled around, so I had to wash all the silver again...

and find all the little stuff.

[ David ] I like your suit. I like your bathing suit.

Oh, I feel wonderful. So, how are you?

Hey, Al, we have to live in, um -- in Venice or Milan.

[Albert] Wintertime for Venice. Wintertime for Venice, okay?

- [ Giggles ] Al? - Yes?

[ Giggling Continues ]

Hey, Mother, it's the Maysles!

- Jerry, when did you have your hair done? - Um, Saturday of last week.

- You got it bleached, didn't you? - Excuse me?

Your hair's beautifully done.

Did you have a hard time having the women let go of your arm when you took 'em up to the pew?

- [Edie Laughs ] - I only took up two women.

- [ Mrs. Beale ] Were they squeezing on? - [ Edie ] Poor Jerry!

[ Mrs. Beale ] Did they give you the high sign and all that sort of thing?

[Edie Laughs ] Mother, it was a wedding!

Yeah. Which girl did you like the best, Jerry?

- [ Edie ] Poor Jerry. - Did you see any girl you liked?

- Nah. - What about the bridesmaids?

- Hmm? - The bridesmaids. Were they pretty?

- They were all married. - Well, you can be pretty when you're married.

- Well, were they pretty? - She's mad about Jerry.

- Who's mad about Jerry? - You're mad about Jerry. Mmm.

[ Mrs. Beale ] He still gives me a good smile.

Mr. Torre is very attractive.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Wouldn't your father go wild if I fell in love with you?

[Jerry] Why would he? Why should he?

He wouldn't allow it.

"I want my son to marry a nice, young girl."

Did you ever take a picture of a man with a better face than that?

Don't lie now!

- [David] He's one of the Medicis, isn't he? - De Medici.

[Edie ] Yeah, you are -- He is.

I don't know. To me, his face is absolutely perfect.

[ Edie ] Mother, that's enough of Jerry.

- No, it isn't. I see the face -- - She fell for Jerry.

He's not --

He's the, uh, typical Italian face.

- [David] De Medici. - Yeah.

I don't think Americans can touch that face. Do you?

[Edie ] You want one of these? These are marvelous things.

The same doughnuts? The same ones? I thought they were hand-made.

- [Jerry] They are! - Is that why they didn't make me sick?

I ate two the other morning.

They're the only doughnuts that I didn't get, um, indigestion from.

Well, I'll give you some when you come upstairs. I won't bother you now.

And, uh, it goes from north --

- No, no, it goes from Montreal -- - On a railroad.

To the beginning of Alaska every day.

Where did you -- Did you just learn this?

Today. I called up and I said, well, I lost this job -- how about that one?

- And they said, "Sure." - You must come up and tell Mother.

- [ Mrs. Beale ] Marjorie's very worried. - [ Woman ] Are you in your right mind?

She says she can't take any other pictures --

She can't have any pictures taken of herself. She promised.

- It's in the contract that you will never appear -- - [Edie Laughs ]

- You mean, her two divorces? - Yes, th-that was it. It's all written --

What does she own? RKO? MGM?

[Mrs. Beale ] Your face is so ugly! Look at that!

Woman's supposed to be pretty! Did you ever see such an ugly face?

Thank God for Jerry!

He smiles, he's beautiful, he stays beautiful.

Oh, God.

- [ Jerry Sneezes ] - And then there you go, once again.

- Do you want a handkerchief? - Okay.

Well, it's too late now. All the germs are around the room.

But I'll give you some part of this, just to be sanitary.

- I'm going up to Canada to work for a railroad. - [Mrs. Beale ] Alone?

- Yep. - No chaperone of any kind?

- No. - No overseer?

- No. - What if you get drunk and they throw you in a pile of snow?

- I don't wanna have to cut my hair. - What did you say, Jerry?

They don't like long-hairs. I don't wanna have to cut my hair.

So it's gonna have to be a pretty unique job.

- On Wall Street you couldn't get a job? - [ Edie ] Oww!

- [ Water Running ] - I don't think so, with long hair.

- No? - No.

And I don't have to cut my hair.

I don't wanna have to go -- I didn't wanna -- I wanna get a job. I like money. I wanna make it.

- [ Edie ] Jerry, don't go on that switch thing. - I don't wanna starve.

I don't wanna starve the rest of my life.

I wanna make money. I wanna have nice things.

[ Mrs. Beale ] You will.

And then we had a phone call from Jerry.

His brother is bringing him over to --

to take him back to the family --

family gathering or something.

They didn't want him wandering around. I think they're worried about us.

I don't think they like Jerry to stay here. They think he's going to stay here.

I think Mr. Torre thinks it.

[ Whispers ] I think he thinks that we're... fast.

You understand. He thinks we're too sophisticated for Jerry.

He doesn't want him moving in those circles.

You understand.

Because I think whenever Jerry -- They think that Jerry's going to stay here.

They sent a brother -- Or Mr. Torre comes down to get him.

I think his family's rich. I can't make --

He tries very hard to work and escape the family...

but the family arm is always reaching for him, if you get what I mean.

I can't explain it.

Jerry's quite an -- quite an amazing character.

[ Mrs. Beale ] You gotta get practical in your old age, Edie.

If I wasn't practical with that poor little Jerry...

why, he would have left here long ago.

Mother, I think that's about the worst thing you ever got into.

I'm telling you right now, the outrageous prices --

Thirty-five and 25?

No, Mother. You were completely impractical with that kid. Let's face it.

Oh, no. They all get 25 and 35. Everybody told me that.

I know, but he did a little bit of work in a great house.

No, he was the greatest worker I ever had in my house.

- She's mad about little Jerry. I don't know why. - No, I'm not.

- I-I-I think he's very handsome -- - I feel terribly sorry for him.

I have a terrible feeling that something terrible is going to happen to him.

You know, because he looks so much like the marble faun...

and that had a very, um --

that had quite a disastrous ending.

[ Whispering ] Something terrible happened there.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always wrote these thrillers and everything.

Something terrible happens to the marble faun.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Edie, I think I'll go and lie down. I'm getting a backache.

I have a terrible feeling that Jerry may fulfill his destiny in some way.

You know, tragic destiny. I don't know what it is.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Enough said! Come on. Quit it.

- I can't quite figure it out -- - Gonna be here when he dies?

He may not come back. I don't know.

And she pretends that she doesn't like Jerry.

[Edie ] Oh, she doesn't want you to go.

- I think she's madly in love. - No. Don't go! It's too dangerous.

- See? - I thought of you last night.

I said, if Jerry's going to Canada, he may never come back.

- Do you want to speak to Jerry? - Well, yes.

Just a minute. Here's Mother. You want to speak to him?

- Where is he? New York? - Yes. Isn't that funny?

Hello, little Jerry.

Oh, I'm just fine here. I missed you very much.

Well, of course, dear. We miss you terribly.

Well, wh-when are you coming?

[Albert Chuckles ]

Well, listen, dear, I'll pay for the call when I see you.

And -- And good luck. Let me know when you're coming.

- Pay for the call when you see him. - Good night. Give my love to everybody. Bye.

So, what are you doing since I went -- you went away?

- Well, I'm staying at my parents' house -- - I didn't know they were going to put the bright lights on me.

- What, babe? - My mother's not feeling well at all.

Your mother? Sorry. What's the matter with your mother?

Um, she has trouble breathing.

- She does, dear? - Yeah, a really hard time.

Sorry about that.

What happened to the Canadian trip?

- Didn't take it then? - It's too far --

- You didn't take it, did you? - Yeah, right. I just forgot it.

[ Mrs. Beale ] What was the put-off on that?

- ♪♪ [ Humming ] - Well, my roots are in New York City.

- I didn't want to leave. - Your what?

My family's there, my friends are here. I don't wanna leave New York.

I don't blame -- Wouldn't it be awfully icy up there all winter?

Yeah, it gets really cold. There's no jobs. There's very little entertainment.

There's really nothing to do.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Put them on, will ya.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Put them on, will ya.

[ Edie ] What for?

[ Mrs. Beale ] Spin my record.

- She doesn't like any of this. - [Mrs. Beale ] I do. I love them.

Wouldn't Lois go crazy? She should have seen this. She would have almost died.

♪♪ [ March, Loud ]

I want to, uh, dance.

♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ]

[Mrs. Beale ] You should march to it, Edie.

[ Laughs ]

I think you can dance to this.

- ♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ] - Pardon me!

- Clean that up! - [Mrs. Beale ] Why don't you move on?

To women.

She's marching.

- What happened? No! - ♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ]

The spirit of V.M. I.!

♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ]

Why don't you go away?

♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ]

[ Mrs. Beale Gasps ] Oh! God! Edie, please!

- He doesn't get any part of it! - You scared the cat.

- Don't break the table. - ♪♪ [ Continues, Loud ]

- ♪♪ [ Ends ] - Well, that's it!

- Little Pippy. You want to get Pippy? - God, David. You're too wimpy.

That's the one for the dance, don't you think?

- Hello, Pippy. Face the gentlemen. - Don't you think?

Face the gentlemen.

Pippy and me together.

- You get Pippy? - [David] Yes.

They are some of the most beautiful kitties in the world.

I just wanted to elope with those kitties.

Put 'em in a big basket and elope with 'em.

Their faces -- They have a face like Jerry, you know.

[ Giggles ] Lots of pathos, expression.

Oh, what beautiful expressions they have in their faces.

Gorgeous.

All Angora, you know. Long-haired kitties.

- He's been sick too, you know. - [Mrs. Beale ] He's got those horrible things, Jerry.

Oh, it's tragic. We lost six cats. We don't know what happened to them.

He's got about 12 of those things right on the back of his neck.

I can't take them out. I haven't the courage. Will you do it for me, Jerry?

Oh, don't be silly! Jerry's not going to do anything like that!

- Would you take them out? - Jerry's not -- Don't touch him, Jerry!

- I'll have to take him to the doctor. - Jerry, don't touch the kitten.

- [Jerry] He has ticks? - No, they're not.

- No, they're not ticks, babe. - They're things that have got --

- They're the same things you complain about. - Fleas have gotten underneath the skin.

No, dear. What you complain about when you use that spray.

- You can't do it. The doctor will have to do it. - Oh, no --

Jerry is not going to do it!

[Mrs. Beale ] Well, when h-he's asleep -- she sleeps --

- We're not going to have Jerry do that. - You come in at half past 7.♪00.

[ Jerry ] I'm not listening, because I'm not gonna do it...

and I don't wanna be disrespectful.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Well, I can't do it. I haven't got courage enough.

But if Jerry starts pulling the kitten's neck, the kitten's gonna bite him!

No, you don't do that.

Well, it isn't right for the kitten to go through that!

Well, Jerry darling, tomorrow will you come over here?

I'll show you when Edie's sleeping. We'll do it together.

[Jerry] Sorry, I'm confused. I don't know who to listen to now.

[ Mrs. Beale ] You listen to me. She doesn't pay the bills. I do.

Baby, wh-where have you been?

[ Makes Kissing Sound ] Hey, Jimmy boy.

I can't figure out whether it's Jimmy or Pinky. Has it got one eye or two?

[David] One.

Well, then that's Pinky. How did he get out?

Here, Pinky. Here, Pinky.

It's Mother's favorite cat.

Here, Pinky. Here, Pinky boy.

There's somebody walking in here. I guess the cat.

You know, I think our cats are gonna come back. [ Makes Kissing Sound ]

One yelled around the house three nights ago. I meant to tell you.

Yelled under Mother's window all night long.

You know why it didn't come back? 'Cause it smelled Jerry.

Now, if Jerry would stay away about a month, I think we'd get at least two back.

Somebody's gonna see us! [ Giggles ]

[David] What is it?

I used to come out here and sit here just for hours.

I found out it annoyed everybody in East Hampton...

so then I never came on the front porch again.

See, I swept the porch, morning --

morning and night for about 20 years.

And all the children used to come by...

with their mothers and fathers in the station wagons...

and they'd all scream, "Cats! Daddy, where are the cats?"

And the cats would always walk around like this.

I used to feed them over there.

So then, after doing this for 20 years...

I found out, you know, finally...

uh, th-th-that we'd annoyed the East Hampton village.

And annoyed everybody!

And one woman said to me --

"Haven't you got any pride? Don't you ever get sick?" she said to me.

[David] Really?

But I did stop it after.

All these people came in here...

investigated how we lived.

I never, never went out on the front porch again.

I put the cats out in the back, and they were stolen.

So --

I don't know when I'll ever start it aga -- Well, I'll never let the cats out again, ever.

They're in for the duration.

'Cause we only have six cats left.

- [David] Oh. - I'll never let one of them out again.

Hello! Look at this one.

My God, he's the image of Champ.

Look at him. He has a cold in his nose this morning.

This is the biggest of all, Edie.

I think he's definitely the father...

because it, uh -- you know, it's, uh --

- Look out, Edie. Get out of the way. - It's completely, uh, you know --

What am I trying to say?

Hey, look up. Look up and have your picture taken.

Look up and have your picture taken. Look up. Look up, kitty.

[Edie ] We're not starting in with the cat thing again. Don't worry.

- Look up, kitty. Look. - I just couldn't go through it.

- Five is plenty. - Well, you have to take care of these.

- You didn't know you were gonna have babies. - We may have to sell them.

- I don't think we should have more than five cats. - Look at that funny thing on top of its head!

Don't think we're gonna breed again, 'cause we're not.

I think they oughta each have one of these.

- I'll bring them up -- - They're too little! Don't give them away yet!

- The mother will go insane! - Oh, I think about, uh, three --

- Please don't. - Three weeks, I think, would be plenty of time.

Don't you? Three weeks? I think that would be --

- I don't want to become attached again. - Can you see them, Al?

- [ Albert ] Yeah. - I'm so afraid of becoming attached and start breeding them again.

Oh, come on. Be good.

Come on.

[Albert] Who could that be out there?

For goodness sakes! This is Miss Lois Erdman Wright.

- Hello, Edie. - The psalmist of the Hamptons!

- The psalmist of the Hamptons! - Hello.

- [Albert] Hi. - [David] Lois, how are you?

- Lois darling, I have your $5.00 right here. - Oh, thank you.

- Hello. - [Albert] Hi.

I thought the boys were Charles, the grocery boy, or you.

- Well, this is a surprise. - Mother's asleep.

Here's another -- This is an old magazine. That's five.

- [ Edie ] These are my bell bottoms. - You look stunning.

- You know where they came from? - Where?

Brill's.

Not another article on Jackie! Not another one. What? Another one?

- [Lois ] No. - Another -- [ Scoffs ]

Just a magazine this time.

Getting a little bit better.

[ Lois ] However, you have a fabulous head line.

It's very, very long. That's the gauge of your intelligence.

- That's it right here? - This is your head line.

And that's the line of Apollo -- that's a talent line.

- Right here? - No, this line right there.

- This little one? - No, no, this line right here.

- Oh, that one there? - You want my magnifying glass?

You know, I had an aversion. I stopped reading palms.

I started in nineteen-forty -- when was it? Forty-seven.

And then I stopped reading palms and did everything in writing and painting.

So I decided -- I got egotistical and decided that I wanted to do --

I was tired of telling everyone else what they should be doing.

- [Mrs. Beale Giggles ] - I got too, uh -- too egotistical.

- That's why you gave it up? - Yes, that's why I gave it up.

- Lois, don't you want to show your paintings? - No.

Take that painting out, Edie, behind the icebox. I want it photographed.

Turn it towards Mr. Maysles.

[ Edie ] See, that's mystical.

It's the desert, the pyramids --

[ Lois ] It has water in it too.

I was unhappy. I was in Montauk.

- [ Mrs. Beale ] Oh, you were in Montauk? - Yes, so heaven knows what I'd paint.

[Mrs. Beale ] Well, it does look like Montauk.

- There's one spot on the back. - We use it as a window shade.

Lois painted that.

[Albert] Yeah?

[Edie ] I suppose it's a flying angel.

And, um, I wasn't sure whether it was the devil, you see.

So I didn't take any chances.

So all the animals who were in here --

And I thought that was a wonderful, uh, thing to put up in an animal room.

- You know, about St. Francis of Assisi. - [Albert] Hmm.

When you consider what -- what's going on today...

and then you compare Lois...

she's very gifted.

[ Whispering ] She really is. She's very gifted.

[ Normal Voice ] She, um, uh, exhibited...

at Guild Hall quite a bit.

I mean, they recognized her talent.

She had quite a few exhibits.

This is all art.

This is another painting of Lois's.

I had that hanging over there.

[ Giggles ] But probably --

- [Mrs. Beale, Faint] They're here! - Desert sheik.

Maybe it goes in here. I don't know. Maybe I should put it in the --

- Only a present for you! - A present for me? How wonderful!

- I said your mother came from Kentucky -- - [Edie ] isn't that something?

[ Lois ] Isn't that wonderful? I cherish anything from Kentucky.

[ Mrs. Beale ] See? I'm gonna cry right away.

- Can I take that? - [Edie ] Can you take it?

[ Mrs. Beale ] Yeah, she can take it. It has bourbon.

- Will the A.A. allow you to take that? - Oh, Edie, don't spoil that now.

- [Lois ] "Bourbon." - She can't take that.

- [Lois ] it does have bourbon in it. - The A.A. won't allow that.

We're in the presence of an A.A., uh -- [ Giggles ]

- Lois, don't you think you could take that? - monitor or something.

John Kennedy by Lois Erdman Wright.

- I don't think I'm holding it the right way. - [Mrs. Beale ] You got it upside-down, darling.

But aside from that, it's a very pretty picture.

[ Lois ] This was about a couple of months after the assassination.

[Mrs. Beale ] Now, tell me what I'm to look for.

I haven't seen this in so long, I don't know which way --

- [Mrs. Beale ] See, Lois? You can't even recognize your own work. - Well, that's ridiculous.

Uh, let me see. Explain it to me, Lois, will you, please?

[Mrs. Beale ] Oh, I see the two eyes. I-I see the two eyes.

Uh, the two eyes right opposite me.

- The frame got kind of -- - Yeah, I-I --

No, it's dirty. It just needs to be washed.

- Raccoons! - The picture's fine.

[Lois ] I can read Edie's palms some other time, when you're not busy.

No, you're gonna read it right now.

[ Edie ] Just a minute, Lois. I must see what you're reading.

That's one of the widest spaces I've seen.

- [ Giggles ] - What would you say about the head line?

It doesn't look too strong and it looks short?

Well, it has a little droop down to it.

[Mrs. Beale ] I don't really think we need anything they say, you know, uh, David.

[Lois ] Accordingly, you were born to have two marriages.

- [Edie ] I wanna do David's after. - [Lois ] You're supposed to have two marriages.

One's David, and the other's Al.

- [ Edie ] She's starting again. - [ Lois ] We'll see how many you actually have.

- Very good, Lois. isn't she, Mother? - You never told me about my marriages, Lois.

[Lois ] You have a marriage line here. You rubbed the other one out.

You know, you can change your marriage line.

But in distance they go from the heart line up this way --

This marriage line's way up here in time.

So that would indicate marriage.

The one who has to have the heart is the man who marries you.

Well, somebody told me I was gonna have seven husbands. I've only had one, but --

I know. Perhaps I-- Perhaps I can have one a year for the next --

[Lois ] Seven great loves, maybe.

- [ Edie ] Did your mother teach you? - [ Lois ] No. No, no. I started --

[Edie ] I read a book on it.

I read a book on palmistry.

Oh, well, back to the ancient --

Well, it's time -- It's as old as recorded time.

- [Mrs. Beale ] You get tired talking all the time? - Ever since I've had this teeth trouble.

- Oh, they say the Gypsies are wonderful. - I'm not a Gypsy.

You'd better tell them that. You should have worn a costume.

No, Lois had not been converted then.

She was converted much, much later. All her friends died from alcoholism.

And she decided, in self-defense, she had to find some new friends.

So the only place she could go was the A.A. and get the ones that were still alive.

You know, that hadn't succumbed to the bottle...

and the terrible orgies that go with it.

You know, the intense agony of the, uh -- the bursting, um --

the hemorrhaging of the liver.

It blows up, finally.

And all the other horrible things...

that alcoholism produces.

Sometimes, uh, when they have these seizures...

the blood comes out of the ears, nose, eyes and every place all together.

And, um, there are other ways to kill yourself...

I really do think, than swigging down that rotten stuff.

You know, it's fine if you just want to smoke.

But if you really want to enjoy good food...

and you take that awful whiskey and that awful stuff -- firewater --

[David] Maybe that ruined Lois's teeth.

Lois Wright never liked to eat.

Mrs. Wright was -- was the most terrific Kentucky cook...

but Lois didn't like to eat at all.

I don't know why, but she didn't.

She was crazy about cake. I think -- She has Polish, Austrian blood.

Lois just liked very, very gooey stuff.

And she lived on black coffee. She was always very thin.

And Mother couldn't change her. Just couldn't do anything with her.

- [Mrs. Beale ] Oh, is that the famous one? - For goodness sake.

[Mrs. Beale ] Is that the famous diner?

Lois, I hope I didn't make you mad. I'm just fooling.

- [Lois ] Yeah. - But you know me. Don't you know me by now?

[ Mrs. Beale ] We know how rude you can be at the drop of a hat.

You were so rude to Jerry the other night he went home crying.

I saw him. Tears in his eyes.

Lois, my unselfish days are over. Let's face it.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Well, you won't have any friends if you're not sweet.

- Absolutely no. - Oh, sweet. Yes, I must be sweet.

That's it.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Well, I'm glad you're a little tiny bit more content than you were...

before they splashed you in the ocean.

- [ David ] I heard you went swimming, Edie. - They didn't splash me in the ocean.

[Mrs. Beale ] Why don't you go with her, Jerry?

No, I like to swim alone, Mother darling. I don't want to go with anyone.

- I would have gone in -- - [Mrs. Beale ] I wouldn't dare go alone!

- I would have gone in with Al though. - I'd drown in one second!

- [Mrs. Beale ] Get the cat. - [Lois ] I am leaving now.

- Get the cat. - I'll go with her.

- Lois darling, thank you for coming. - Bye, Mrs. Beale.

And, uh, come again tomorrow.

No, thank you, but I will not be on the beach.

- You're not going? - No.

Why? Why won't you be on the beach, babe?

[Lois ] Because Edie doesn't want me to be on the beach, and I understand that.

- She doesn't own that beach. That's a public beach. - It's Edie's beach. Absolutely.

- No, it isn't, babe. - It's your beach, Edie.

[Mrs. Beale ] We owned 36 feet of it at one time.

[Lois ] No, I understand, Edie.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Well, you'd better not be so understanding.

- [Knocking] - That's Jerry.

- I'll see you all, but not on the beach. Bye. - Thank you for the present, babe.

[ Edie Giggles ]

You wanna come up to the porch? [ Grunts ]

- You wanna come up? - [David] Yeah, okay. Okay.

[ Edie ] You remember what I did before we went to the Wainwrights' coming-out party?

[Edie Laughing]

You said I laid down on the floor! [Laughing Continues ]

We were coming down the stairs...

and Mother said that I lay right on the floor up there.

- [Mrs. Beale Shouts, Faint] - [ Laughs ]

- What? - [Mrs. Beale Continues Shouting]

I feel fine. What?

[Mrs. Beale ] How's David's eyes?

- Oh, David darling, are you all right? - [ David ] Yep.

Lois has called up.

I didn't tell her you were sick. I think Lois has a crush on you.

But I did try to get rid of her. I said, "You must go over to the 777th Air Squadron.

They're all from New York City, Lois."

I said, "With your car and all those clothes...

and those new teeth and that hair dress of yours, you must go right over there."

That's how to get rid of the other woman.

♪♪ [ Whistling ]

[ Edie ] Better put some makeup on.

[Footsteps Ascending Staircase ]

- David, please help me. - It's burning.

The house is on fire, and I don't know where it is.

- Okay, we'll find out. We'll find out. - I can't find it!

I should have called the fire department a long time ago!

- I couldn't find it! I couldn't find it! - [Footsteps On Stairs ]

Here it is! Oh, my God!

- Oh, we'll get it. - You want blankets? You want a blanket, David?

[Albert] Okay. Yeah, call the operator.

- [ David ] I'll get it. I'll get it. - [ Mrs. Beale ] What is it?

My blanket! Wait for my blanket.

Oh! The house is burning down!

- Come, please! - What's on fire?

- [Albert] There's a fire right here. - There is?

- Yeah. - Please call immediately on this -- Water!

We need water. We need water.

Call, Mother, call!

[Albert] They're coming. They're coming.

Please, Mother, call the fire department! Fire department! Please call!

- Watch out. Watch out, Edie. - What do you want me to --

Let me move this. I'll do whatever you say.

David. David. You want more water?

You want more water?

- You got it going? Is it running? - Yes, it's running.

- Open up all the windows. - [Edie ] Where is it?

For God's sake, what is the matter with you? Are you crazy?

[David] No, it's okay, Edie.

- It's smoldering now. - [ Siren Wailing]

[Mrs. Beale ] Did you get the kitty?

Oh, Edie. Who's back there, firemen. Hello?

[David] It looks good now.

- How did it start, do you think? - [Man] We don't know.

[David] I'm gonna go outside here. Be careful.

Ugh.

Open up some more windows.

- There goes the fire truck. - Yeah?

Yeah. Going now. You see it?

[Edie ] They're much more polite than they used to be.

They used to go in every room.

[Mrs. Beale, Faint, Indistinct]

We have to finish -- you know, fix the house up because they can arrest me.

[Mrs. Beale ] Yeah.

My brother's gonna make us leave now.

He pays the taxes on the house.

I must say, David and Al, your nerves are made of steel.

Did you thrill the firemen with that skirt?

Nobody would believe that, Al. They'd put you away, wouldn't they?

Did you thrill 'em with that skirt?

Because it wouldn't pay for them to come up and save the fire if you didn't thrill them.

- Did you make it pay? - I've lost a lot of weight, thank God.

Did you make it pay, saving the fire at the house?

- God, I got some of this fat off - You made it pay, did you?

Well, I got out in plenty of time to be saved.

- The room was full of smoke. - You know what I'm sitting on?

I'm sitting on one of those bags, you know, for the bed.

- David and Al have nerves of steel. - I thought it was a cushion.

Oh, David and Al were absolutely superb.

And they -- Nerves of steel.

Why did you frighten them so?

- I go crazy. - What?

- I go crazy. - You never told me.

- When I see fire, I go out of my mind. - Get back, Edie, down there.

- Put your chair back a little bit. - I go absolutely out of my mind.

- Put your chair back. - I always do the blanket trick.

Did you have to do it with Jacqueline's $300 blankets?

- Didn't work. - It didn't work?

It didn't work. Burned a big hole, and the fire kept on going.

It's inflammable.

I knew she'd give me something inflammable that wouldn't put the fire out.

Is that why it didn't put -- Oh, no. No.

Head of the fire department, Mr. Gale, explained.

Inflammable, probably.

No, he explained about the copper pipe heating the dry boards.

He said no blanket would put that out.

- He did say that? - Yeah.

[Mrs. Beale ] Yeah, those boards were awful dry.

They can put a chemical. Guess you have to have new copper pipes put in.

You'll have to move out of the house, and Buddy will find out...

and we'll all be arrested yet.

♪ Arriving ♪

♪ In my lonely world ♪

♪ Over here ♪

♪ Oh, spring will be ♪

♪ A little late ♪

♪ This year ♪

♪ A little late ♪

♪ Arriving ♪

♪♪ [ Humming ]

♪ Or too fine ♪

♪ So I can say ♪

♪ Spring will be ♪

♪ A little late ♪

♪ This year ♪♪

- [ Chuckling ] - [Albert] Competing with Mother, huh?

Oh, I can't.

Mother says she was trained.

The raccoons got at this, and I had to put tape --

The raccoons got at this, and I had to put tape --

[Edie ] Sing "Around the World in 80 Days."

- Hmm? - Sing "Around the World in 80 Days."

"I found my world in you." Please.

- ♪ Around the world in 80 days ♪ - That's right.

♪♪ [ Both Humming ]

♪ Around the world in 80 days ♪

He said, "My God. This isn't Beale dancing that dance."

♪♪ [ Vocalizing ]

Would you open that drawer, Edie, get my other glasses?

♪ Around the world ♪

♪ In 80 days ♪

♪♪ [ Vocalizing ]

♪ Around the world ♪

- ♪ In 80 days ♪ - ♪♪[ Vocalizing]

♪ And then I found my world ♪

- ♪ In you ♪ - ♪ In you, Jerry ♪♪

[Mrs. Beale ] I found my world in you, Jerry.

- ♪ Around the world ♪ - You're not going around. Go round.

- ♪ In 80 days ♪ - Round and round 10 times without stopping.

Ten times around the world. We want to see you fall down.

♪ Then I found my world in you ♪♪

[Men Laughing]

Ooh, that was my favorite one.

Ooh, that was my favorite one.

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me.

"But what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

"He's very, very like me from the heels up to the head.

"And I see him jump before me when I jump into my bed.

"But the funniest thing about him...

'is the way he likes to grow.

"Not at all like other children...

"which is always very slow.

"For he sometimes shoots up taller...

"like an Indian rubber ball...

"and sometimes he's so little...

"that there's none of him at all.

One night" -- Something "before." "The moon was up.

I went and saw the shine on every buttercup."

Oh, yes, that's it.

"But my lazy little shadow...

"like an arrant sleepyhead...

"had stayed at home behind me...

"and was fast asleep in bed.

There was no shadow that night, you know, when --"

- That's Robert Louis Stevenson, I think. - I know. [ Chuckling ]

- Oh, God. I used to laugh at that. - That's nice.

- Yes. And there was no shadow that night. - Yeah.

He didn't see it.

So he just made up an idea. He had this terrific imagination, you know.

Don't you know a lot of those songs, Edie? I mean, those poems.

[Edie ] Mmm, Alice in Wonderland.

"In winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candlelight.

"In summer quite the other way. I have to go to bed by day.

"I have to go to bed and see the birds still hopping on the tree...

"and hear the grown-up people's feet...

"still going past me in the street.

"And does it not seem odd to you...

"when all the sky is clear and blue.

"And I would like so much to play.

To have to go to bed by day?"

- Isn't that terrific? - Makes me cry.

- That's terrific. Who wrote that? - Robert Louis Stevenson.

- Robert Louis Stevenson. - The most marvelous man.

I would cry. I felt so sad -- little children had to go to bed by day.

Made me cry.

[Edie ] David, darling.

You're a cross between Rudy Valentino and, uh, the Great Gatsby.

[ Giggling]

[Albert] What's the story? I don't understand.

Am I your alter lover or what? Who is it, David or me?

It kept me awake all last night. I can't make up my mind.

I wasn't kidding when I said "design for living."

I -- Did you ever read that story called "Wings"?

After the first World War...

this girl's in love with these two aviators.

And after World War I ends...

they just decide to go away together...

to get over the war.

So I've forgotten who it was played by, but it's a very famous story...

made into a movie called Wings.

And they start off around the world -- this girl with the two aviators --

and they have a hell of a time.

But ever since then, I've had this desire, you know...

to find somebody that I liked --

I mean, not just one, but two.

Now, I'm not talking about the group travel they do nowadays in the space age.

You know, my aunt, she's a widow, and she went with seven other widows.

Now, I don't mean that kind of stuff.

I mean, really to have fun.

You know, not with one, but with two.

And I don't mean women either.

My days of pleasing men are over.

You know, I've said how I used to sit in bars and learned how to drink...

'cause they wanted me to drink with them and all that.

This is the end. I'm not gonna do anything anymore for anybody.

Except Mother and the cats, of course.

And I like Al and David.

As far as being pleasing to men.

Well, yeah, I would try to cook up nice costumes...

and sing songs that they like.

But I mean, as far as the social life being pleasing to the opposite sex...

I'm not gonna waste the time.

But then I don't think American men are a bit romantic.

I like foreigners for some reason.

I like Russians, Italians, Greeks, Poles.

They're romantic.

What's romantic about an American stockbroker...

who you play tennis with at the age of 12...

down at the Maidstone Tennis Club?

What's romantic about that?

I mean, I don't want to hear about his Yale days and everything.

♪ Or should I just be hot for a spot in the South and sing of it ♪

♪ I do both and that's just the hell of it ♪

♪ Should I be sweet or hot ♪

♪ It's up to you ♪

[Mrs. Beale ] I don't know any of those songs anymore.

♪ So I repeat ♪

♪ Should I sing ♪

♪ La-da-da-da-dee, da-da ♪

- Her voice is better. - ♪ Or just be hot for a spot in the South ♪

♪ And sing of it ♪

♪ I do both And that's just the hell of it ♪

♪♪[Humming]

- That sure is funny. - ♪ I like the black stockings ♪

Never learned that from me.

♪ Should I be sweet or hot ♪

♪ It's up to you ♪♪

That's for David.

- Where's your bust protector? Where is it? - I haven't found it.

You think it would look sexier with the bra underneath?

- Oh, yeah. Much. - It would. Isn't it terrible? I haven't found it.

- I think I know where it is. - Modesty is the sexiest thing you can do.

I say modesty is the sexiest thing you can do.

- I found one. - Put your clothes on, boy, you're really sexy.

♪♪[ Vocalizing]

[Mrs. Beale ] Don't you find her that way, kid?

♪ Should I be sweet or hot ♪

- ♪ It's up to you ♪♪ - You want that, do you?

- ♪ Don't ever leave me ♪ - [ Chattering]

♪ Now that you're here ♪

[Mrs. Beale Chattering]

- ♪♪ [ Humming ] - [ Jerry ] if you're losing your summer coat.

She said that I said to get it for her.

- Al, darling! - [Mrs. Beale ] Is that the waitress or the cook?

- This is the waitress. - I don't know who --

- Eeny, meeny, miny, mo. - Would you eat this dessert?

I mean, meals, whatever. You eat --

[Jerry] Sure I'd eat them. I eat almost anything.

[ Mrs. Beale ] Then would you get up and get something...

or would she get up and get it for you?

[ Jerry ] She usually makes sandwiches for me.

You went out, David. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.

- [ Jerry ] Remember in springtime you used to make those sandwiches? - Yes, I do.

- Could you make me one now? - David! - Yeah, I sure will.

[ Giggling ] Al, darling!

Well, I'm gonna have Edie escort me to the front door.

- Electronic eyes upon me. - [Mrs. Beale ] Who are those people?

[Jerry] Let's see. The second maid's Susan.

[Mrs. Beale ] Oh! Is that the one that loves you so much?

- I guess. - Gonna give up her job for you.

- The footage -- - Yeah, that's what she said.

The footage you've got on this --

I don't think I'm doing it justice -- the whole thing.

[ Chattering]

I think I better take a bath tonight...

and get out a lot of clothes.

And really make a big thing. I really do.

[Jerry] Right. You told me you carried this all around.

[ Mrs. Beale ] I got terribly hurt.

I'll never have a man look at me again like this.

[ Giggling ]

[Plane Engine Hums ]

It never would have happened in South Hampton, I'm telling you.

The police wouldn't have gone along with it, I don't think.

Or it would have leaked out, and somebody would have come and said something.

[Albert] What about Mother? What is she doing?

My father educated her out of the Catholic religion...

but he was so cruel to me...

that...

I had to go to other sources to get what I wanted...

and I got it from the Catholic Church.

They told me there was nothing wrong with me...

and there was nothing wrong with my mother...

and there was no reason why I couldn't get what I wanted out of life.

I wasn't a dirty dog.

My whole life, I'd been ground down and insulted...

every single minute.

And I got strength and courage from the Catholic Church...

and I can't give them up.

That's the answer.

I got protection, faith.

But my faith is quite weak though 'cause I'm a negative nature.

[ David ] So what's with Father Huntington? What's he gonna find out today?

- Father Huntington? - [ Edie ] I can't tell him anything that will upset him, David.

- He's very sensitive. - She's only going to show him how thin she got.

That's the only reason. Not going for any other reason.

- I haven't been since Lent. - She's got less religion in her than any girl I ever met in my life.

Mother doesn't like the Catholic religion 'cause they poured it right down her throat.

All her old relatives, they dragged her to church.

I loved it when I was little. I walked to church three miles with my father every Sunday.

- That's why she doesn't like it. - I do. I love it.

They didn't do that to me. I had to get it on my own and fight for it.

- Listen, he allowed it. - I got it the hard way.

He didn't approve of my going to the confessional after I got married.

He didn't think it was anybody's business...

to find out about my sexual life.

Nobody took any religion away from me or did anything to me...

since the day I was born.

- He wouldn't let her go to Mass. - He certainly would.

I went to Mass up until the time I was 28 years old.

That's how she got so fat -- not getting up on Sunday to go to Mass.

What a whopper that is.

Keeps you very thin.

I'm not going to church to keep thin.

I'm going to go because I love the Lord.

- If it's Father Gary, I can tell him -- - Be sweet to your mother.

More of my difficulties 'cause he's young and everything.

But Father Huntington knows my brother...

and I wouldn't tell him anything to upset him.

Then what are you going there for, to show him the new skirt the boys bought you?

Hmm? What you going there for?

Unless you got the right priest, you don't have a good confession at all.

You don't have a good time. That's what you don't have.

No, it's very serious, but you've got to get an understanding person.

- It's very difficult. - You're starting too late in life, babe.

- It's terribly difficult. - I made my holy communion at 10 years old.

- I'm not talking about holy communion. - I'm just talking about holy communion.

Got to have someone that really understands.

[ Edie ] I fought very hard for my religion.

I don't think I should have given it up so easily, no matter what they did to me.

I think I should have gone to church, no matter what.

Even if I did hate the taxi drivers and everything after the raid.

You know, I didn't want to be seen down in that church...

sitting with all those people.

I fought so hard to get it. I should never, never have given it up.

So I'm gonna go back to it.

- I know what David thinks. - What?

- But he's wrong. - About what?

- [ Edie Giggles ] - [ Albert ] About the confessional?

Yes, he thinks that -- I didn't confess any of that.

- Confess what? - What you think I should have told him.

I have no idea.

[Mrs. Beale Muttering] I don't know --

She thinks I shouldn't have danced that way in front of them and everything.

- And not signed and everything. - [Mrs. Beale ] Not signed, yes.

I didn't do it for that reason. I was just trying to be --

[ David ] That wasn't on my mind at all.

I was wondering if you thought I should confess --

How bad you were?

Enticing you or something, you know?

- I was wondering if he thought -- - [ Mrs. Beale ] That's a nice scarf you got on.

- [ David ] You sound very guilty, Edie. - Looks like it.

I didn't confess that because I didn't do it for that reason.

I just wanted to look --

while I sang it.

But he did seem very embarrassed. He kept turning away the whole time.

- [Mrs. Beale ] Who is this? - David.

- I don't think he turned away. - Well, you didn't see him.

- I don't think there was anything naughty. - Was that bad?

- Didn't seem bad to me. - I didn't think it was.

Not unless she stripped completely and then went around naked.

She never will put lipstick on for you again. It's a sin now.

Now that she's going to church, she can't use makeup anymore.

[Edie ] They said WLNG made an erroneous statement.

They said about five plots have been hatched.

I guess they had spies in the Democratic camp.

Don't you think that was it?

And probably working in her house too.

[David] Still doing that thing?

That's the way they do here.

Well, everywhere with politics.

They put spies in your bedroom practically.

If you're in politics, you can't be too careful.

I got two grapevine reports.

Guess how many people they had at the Republican meeting just lately?

Guess how many.

I mean, you know, East Hampton Town and Village Board.

Republican meeting. Guess how many people. They only had 30.

Uh, the Democratic party is coming up again.

Guess how many were there.

From 75 to 100 people.

The Democratic party.

Means the fight for the East Hampton Village has begun...

between the forces of good and the forces of evil.

And I needn't tell you who the forces of evil are.

Who's the party of special interests...

that always grinds down the little people?

Who's the party that doesn't give a damn...

as long as they make millions to put in their bank?

Who's the party that -- that scrounges around...

to find out all the dirt they can and use it against the opponent...

to destroy the two-party system...

that made America what it is today?

Who's the party who delivered a crooked president?

Oh, I'm mad about New York State. Aren't you?

Don't you adore New York State?

The Catskill Mountains and the Bear mountain?

And the Hudson River. What?

[David] I like the colors around.

I'm insane about New York State.

It's Dutch, you know, and I always think of Rip van Winkle...

dowry town and everything.

A lot of old families used to live up there.

Do you know, my friends are dead that used to live in Tuxedo Park?

- Who? - The Barbays. Isn't it terrible?

- Time goes on. - As you get older, your friends just fade away.

You two haven't reached that yet, have you? I don't think you have.

- Your contemporaries fading out? - Parents.

Oh, yeah. Well, relatives, yes.

It's awful though.

Nearly all of my -- Well, the war took nearly all the boys I danced with.

They died in World War I I. Terrible.

You know, the very best.

They all died.

You know, the great heroes.

All dead. Best families.

I suppose they were the bravest.

Awful.

What did they call the people that didn't go? The Four F-ers?

They always sent the best to fight...

instead of the, uh --

They should have sent the sick ones, and the whole thing would have been over.

The ones that had physical, uh, things wrong.

Then the wars wouldn't have lasted. They wouldn't have --

They just couldn't have done it with people that weren't absolutely feeling wonderful.

War's gotta be outlawed. Don't you think?

- It should be. - War should be against the law.

I remember I wrote that.

- You're right. - Isn't that funny?

- Okay. Where are you? - Here. Which way?

Oh, you're with Biggy's grave.

Mother just lost her eyebrow pencil.

That's Biggy's grave.

He had concussion.

I was terrible not to lock him up last summer. I didn't know where to put him.

They added every single room, so I had to let the cats out.

Of course, he might have been run over, but I don't think so.

I think he was clubbed.

Well, I guess we better go.

I never came out. I didn't go swimming.

See, uh, I usually go swimming.

Well, if I don't go during the week, I always got there on Sundays...

because I went to church on Sundays.

This looks beautiful, doesn't it?

I didn't see the path.

- You took the path yesterday? - Yeah.

- Isn't it terrific? - Lovely.

Isn't this wonderful? I'm losing a little weight.

Especially with this.

It's quite soft.

Now, this is the walk I used to take to the beach.

And I don't know whether it's changed or not.

I always went over the fence right here.

And somebody followed me home.

I took notes and everything.

'Cause a big black car used to go round all the time, round the house.

And they looked like hoods.

Here's where I'd go through, right here.

And I think the black car used to follow me and see me going to the beach.

I think they followed everybody.

They had a mammoth dune over there that we called the Treasure Hole.

It was the most tremendous dune you ever saw, and we used to go in it when we were little.

And the Coast Guard had a little hut sitting --

I think the little hut was sitting right there.

Just a little tiny hut. A man used to sit in it.

Then during the war, they had lookout towers and everything.

You know, Coast Guard stations during the war.

'Cause they had to report on the planes.

That's what they were here for really -- to track the planes.

But now you have radar.

This was made into a private beach.

I think you have to pay $10 and have a sticker.

You can't park in here otherwise.

- [David] You're giving us a real tour. - What?

You're giving us a real guided tour, like Jackie in the White House or something.

- Yeah. Guess so. - [Laughing]

Thank God. There's a boardwalk under here.

My goodness.

It's out of this world. It's terrific.

Absolutely terrific.

The only thing I need are my sunglasses. I forgot them.

They made that into, you know, a regular beach with a lifeguard.

He isn't here now.

I guess after Labor Day, he leaves.

Imagine having no sunglasses.

My God.

This is the Mannheims' house. It used to be my land.

We used to say that we owned right into the middle of the beach...

but I don't know whether you can say that nowadays.

You know, everything is for the public nowadays.

Times have changed.

Private property is not long for the, uh --

For anybody. Hate to tell you this.

I don't know where it all went.

The private property rights and everything?

I can't understand what's cooking.

I really see better with the whole thing over my face.

I hope I frighten all these people.

I'm gonna go in as soon as I get warmed up.

Oh, this is terrific.

Well, I'm celebrating the Kennedys' wedding...

September the 12th, 1953.

- Twenty years ago. - Yeah. Newport.

I told my brother I hadn't been invited.

I think I told him afterwards, and he said, "Oh, that was just an oversight," he said.

But I don't know.

The one in Oklahoma got an invitation.

I don't think my brother in Glen Cove got one.

Mother got one.

I don't think she would have gone anyway though.

Well, there's one thing that remains the same.

- What? - Nature.

Yeah.

Man changes and is variable...

but nature remains the same.

The sun and the moon and all the things go on.

In spite of man. He crumbles.

It's fairly calm, isn't it? Or am I -- What?

- It's fairly calm? - Oh, yeah.

If I go in there and I'm knocked down --

All right.

Absolutely icy.

Whoa.

You had to wait a long time.

- It's terrific, Al. - Yeah.

I'll sleep here. It's not too bad.

[ Chuckling]

I don't know whether I better do any swimming. [Laughs ]

♪ All I want you to know ♪

♪ If I loved you ♪

♪ Words wouldn't come in an easy way ♪

♪ Round in circles I go ♪

♪ Trying to tell you ♪

♪ But afraid and shy ♪

♪ I find my golden chances ♪

♪ Pass me by ♪

♪ Soon you leave me ♪

♪ Off you would go in the mist of day ♪

♪ Never, never to know ♪

♪ How I loved you ♪

♪ If I loved ♪

♪ You ♪♪

- I just ate too much pie. - [ Edie ] Very good! That was terrific!

[Mrs. Beale ] I don't think that's funny, Edie.

[Mrs. Beale ] I don't think that's funny, Edie.

Listen, what -- could you put on that black thing I love so much?

From Pearl River. Could you do that for me?

- Oh, no, Mother. That's a nightgown. - Oh, no. Looks like an evening dress.

- Please put it on. - Oh, never even think of it.

Why not? They wear those things. They look like evening dresses.

It's transparent.

It doesn't look any more like a nightgown than this looks like a nightgown.

- It's very cute. - Don't you want to put it on?

[ David ] How many times does Edie have to change costumes to make you happy?

- Oh, about 10. Yeah. - A day.

Yes, you're absolutely right, David.

She keeps the same costume on too long, you know.

- It gets very tiring. - [David] What's your favorite?

Well, I like this black thing. It's a gorgeous thing in black.

- And it's got -- - It's a nightgown.

I could get something to wear underneath.

No. Wear the black -- Wear those --

- Oh, I know what I can wear underneath. - Wear those stockings.

- Pantyhose. - Don't get them excited. Put the damn thing on.

- [ No Audible Dialogue ] - [ Woman]♪ Perhaps I dream ♪

♪ Too much alone ♪

♪ You cannot guess what loveliness ♪

♪ Belongs to you ♪

♪ If you would dance we'd have a chance ♪

♪ To share it too ♪

♪ I am not gay enough ♪

♪ To share a waltz ♪

♪ Tonight I boast one of my most ♪

♪ Unhappy faults ♪

♪ I dream too much ♪

♪ But if I dream too much ♪

♪ I only dream to touch your heart again ♪

♪ I close my eyes ♪

♪ To see ♪

♪ Your hand, your smile ♪

♪ Your joy in loving me ♪

♪ We dance and sing We steal a touch of spring ♪

♪ I dream of everything ♪

♪ We two have known ♪

♪ And yet my dreams have shown ♪

♪ Perhaps I dream too much ♪

♪ Alone ♪

♪ We dance and sing ♪

♪ We steal a touch of spring ♪

♪ I dream of everything we two have known ♪

♪ And yet my dreams have shown ♪

♪ Perhaps ♪

♪ I dream too much ♪

♪ Alone ♪

♪♪[Humming]

♪♪[Humming Continues ]

♪ Perhaps I dream too much ♪

♪ Alone ♪♪

[ David ] What about your dancing career, Edie?

Terrible. Had the urge at the beginning of the summer, and I didn't get anywhere.

Lois moved in. Mother got very, very nervous and demanding about everything.

And, uh, we had three more litters of kittens.

That's why I have to leave.

I really do. I have to leave.

I'm gonna leave anyway.

You know why.

I have to have another operation on my left eye.

So what do you think about the way the world is going, Edie?

I think it's awful. I think oil will be cut out, then gasoline.

There's gonna be electric trolleys all over.

Are they electric? They're trolleys anyway. I saw pictures.

They're gonna have them in every city. Trolleys.

I guess we'll see nearly every --

Well, you might see nearly everything give out. What do you think?

Gasoline, oil.

Everything will give out.

[David] Tell us, what are these plants?

[Edie ] Trumpet vine.

They grew all over the back.

They pulled them all down three years ago. They've grown up again.

I guess they grow from the ground up.

That's why Mrs. Hill sold it. You know what she loved.

She was one of the world's greatest, uh, feminine horticulturalists.

She was a landscape gardener and a very famous horticulturalist.

Mrs. Robert C. Hill.

And she said to Mother, "I can't grow my delphiniums...

"on account of the northeast wind...

and the hurricane -- the storms have ruined my garden every year."

You know, in the fall.

And that's why they named this Grey Gardens.

Eventually everything will grow back.

Then they'll rush in, pull it all down again.

They do it to everybody.

They want everybody to be the same.

You can't have anything different.

There's great jealousy if you have anything --

anything that everybody else hasn't got, you know.

[ Chuckles ] Conforming.

It'll take a long time to get this house right. You have no idea.

To get it back to where it was.

Mother says it will never make a comeback.

It's been completely purged, brainwashed.

How will it ever make a comeback?

Well, It grows very quickly 'cause they pulled every single bit of it off...

three years ago.

[David] Who's "they"?

Lee's workers, those horrible people...

that put the rubber asphalt shingles on.

We have rubber asphalt shingles. They're terrible.

They crack. I don't think they're any good.

They're very cheap. You know, people said that the raccoons wouldn't eat them.

But they crack. They have other things wrong.

And you can't hear the rain.

They're not porous. They're not healthy.

You know, water's porous, and these rubber asphalt shingles are not porous.

It's like having a road on top of your roof.

I finally realized that I don't think Mr. Onassis knew...

that we didn't know he paid for everything.

You know, my brother told us Mr. Onassis paid for everything.

So I think if we'd had some direct kind of contact with Mr. Onassis...

I think all these terrible things wouldn't have been done.

I never wrote him a thank-you letter or anything.

I just thanked Jacqueline.

Wasn't any of her money at all. It was Mr. Onassis.

I think he was the one that wanted to help us.

But we didn't know all that.

I think if we told him how we hated rubber asphalt shingles...

he would have put on the wooden ones.

But we didn't know.

[David] But you say East Hampton wanted to make you conform?

Well, I think so. I think they did it through this terrible thing...

of not letting one little flower bloom...

in this strange place or something.

'Cause we had a chauffeur about 10 or 15 years ago...

and he went back to Great Britain.

He told me he had a couple of wildflowers...

blooming along his poor little road and little cottage on a little back road.

He said the authorities came and took those two or three little wildflowers away...

from this poor little road.

Said he couldn't have any flowers that were down too far on the lawn.

So that's the first thing I heard about what they were doing --

to make everything look alike.

All places the same.

[David] Edie, what do you think of..

Grey Gardens for the title of the film?

[Edie ] Swell -- Wonderful! Yes, I think that's wonderful.

[ David ] Do you have any other ideas?

I think Mother liked the names. Just a minute.

Would you rather have it changed to Grey Gardens, Mother?

- Oh, Kim said veal and -- - [Mrs. Beale, Indistinct]

- Why? - [Mrs. Beale, Indistinct]

- She says she'll have to think it over. - No, I did not!

I said, come back and talk to me about it.

Yeah. She says she better talk to you about it.

They might think it was a, uh --

They might think it was a movie about flowers.

You know, Grey Gardens.

[ Giggling ]

I think they're Caroline's pants.

Aren't you cold, David? How are you? Do you miss --

How bare everything is in winter, Edie. Lookit. Up there.

Well, you know, uh, the sea and everything.

- How bare it is. - Yeah. In June it's all right.

Somebody was trying to get in the cellar...

this, uh -- this, uh, winter.

I guess they were hurling these cans at the windows.

They come around in winter and do terrible things.

Vandals. And they're all very young kids.

That's the terrible part. They're babies.

One of them lives across the street.

He goes to the East Hampton public high school.

And I think he's in a gang.

And that's why we have all this trouble.

So Edie's here another winter?

It's my last winter. I'm too old.

I need a nice, warm little island.

A hot little island.

I do hate a mess. I don't know where this came from.

Maybe it was our garbage bags.

Now, this came from --

This is old stuff from the holes in the roof, I think.

Mother's Vaseline.

Mother's old tube of Vaseline.

I guess I better go in.

It's gonna snow, I think. It's horrible.

Oh!

Here. Okay. Get it?

- Yeah. - 663.