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Mr. Bridge, please. You'll aggravate my chicken.

Well, the fire seems a little low, Harriet.

Listen to the locusts.

I wonder where they go when the summer's over.

Daddy, is this the same James Monroe

who signed the letter in your bedroom?

Yes... in 1812.

I'm glad one of you is taking interest in your ancestry.

All those Bridges...

Douglas Bridges, Walter Bridges,

a colonel... a judge...

A lieutenant governor of Ohio.

Any horse thieves?

Few families don't have their share of black sheep,

but their names are not recorded for posterity.

Why? Why do you ask?

No reason. Just asking.

Mother, make her stop.

It's too excruciating.

Catch!

Start where it's marked.

"What light... Through yonder window breaks?

- It is my lady, - O it is my love."

How camest thou hither,

tell me, and wherefore?

The orchard walls are hard to climb.

"With love's light wings did I o'er perch these walls."

Dost thou love me?

O gentle Romeo, if thou dost love,

present it faithfully.

- According to my copy, - it says "pronounce," not present.

Oh, go on! Go on!

..."my dear."

At what o'clock tomorrow shall I send to thee?

"At the hour of nine.

"Sleep dwell upon thy eyes

"and peace in thy breast.

- Would I were sleep and peace, - so sweet to rest."

Hey,

I don't want to sound immodest,

but I think I've stripped a gear.

We'll probably be seeing quite a bit of each other from now on.

- Here. - Thank you.

We might just as well break the ice now as later.

Their relation to the unconscious.

The position of jokes is greatly underestimated in analysis.

- - The cigar. - Hello, Jimmy, how are you? - How's the wife, the kids?

I heard a joke with a mythological theme.

It concerned the Nordic god Thor,

who, like Jupiter,

sometimes made appearances as a human being...

as a swain or Shepherd...

in order to seduce a young maiden.

On one occasion, he seduces a young maiden,

and they spent a night of rapturous,

passionate love together.

The next day, he felt a bit guilty.

He thought, "perhaps I should tell her who I am."

He said, "darling, I am really Thor."

She said. "Tho am I, but it was fun, wasn't it?"

Very good, Alex.

Walter, you'd rather cut your throat

than laugh at a dirty joke.

I must confess, I have never been able to find

anything amusing about smut.

Have you ever tried?

I have to go to a young woman patient

impatiently waiting for me.

Well, see you tomorrow, gentlemen.

To reduce the verdict to $7,500.

- I object. Your honor, - I would like to stress again

that as a result of the accident,

this 18-year-old boy has been completely incapacitated.

He will never be able to work

- and earn in his life, - in his entire life.

Mr. Bridge, I've listened to all the evidence.

I'm completely satisfied that $7,500

is fair and just compensation.

Your clients may appeal if they are not satisfied.

I wish you a very good afternoon.

All rise. Court is adjourned.

They just gutted that boy's settlement.

Oh, no!

Keep these out for appeal. We'll be going back in there.

You do want to appeal?

I don't know that I want to.

I know this is a charity case,

but you could charge them something.

The judge is a fool.

It's very unfair.

What do you consider fair in this life?

I'm sorry.

Well, Walter says that Franklin Roosevelt is ruining this country.

Do you always vote the way Walter tells you to?

I haven't... it's only my own fault.

I haven't kept up,

so I depend on him more than I should.

We do depend on them, don't we?

If somebody would just tell me what to read.

- I don't even know that. - Is that awful?

Well, what do we know?

What do I know?

I haven't been anywhere, done anything.

Why is Leda standing in the water?

So I don't have to paint her feet.

I just cannot paint hands and feet.

I'll do it for you.

I better make them webbed feet

since she's standing in the water!

Don't be silly.

You think the swan could be a little more aggressive?

Aggressive?

In what way?

I'll leave that to you.

We'll see what happens, OK? OK?

All right.

You've used a lot of cerulean there.

Ceru...

Yes.

Oh... yeah.

Thank you.

You've really let yourself go, haven't you?

It's good. No, it's very good.

Keep it up.

I think we've got something here.

"Keep at it, girl.

"I think we've got something here." Swell!

Oh, grace, don't do that!

Would you go to the symphony with me on Wednesday?

I'd love to!

Oh, Wednesday night!

The Noel Johnsons have invited some people for cocktails,

and Walter thinks we should go.

Oh, "Walter thinks."

Virgil thinks we ought to go, too.

My, they do a powerful lot of thinking.

Rest five minutes, everybody!

I couldn't help overhearing.

We do depend on them. Don't we just?

It's the affluence.

Affluence?

Well, surely you've read Veblen.

Veblen... the theory of the leisure class.

It's possibly the most damning indictment ever written.

- I haven't, - but I suppose I should.

See me after class. I'll jot it down for you.

It's marvelous! It's horrifying!

I have to do something. Bye.

Bye, grace.

President Roosevelt signed into law

a bitterly contested minimum wage.

Walter?

I was wondering, have you ever read Veblen?

Are you listening?

Read what?

Veblen. Thorstein Veblen.

The theory of the leisure class.

Mabel told me about it.

India, for Pete's sake.

- It's been a long day. - I'm tired.

I'm not going to spend my evening

talking about a book written by some socialist crackpot.

And as far as I'm concerned,

Mabel is one of them.

Well, look at you.

Drinking beer.

Walter, I know it does not matter to you

whether or not I have given my whole life

to you and the children...

But... Mabel ong...

Yes, Mabel ong...

Has read my horoscope,

and it says...

"Your emotional destiny is to express yourself

through love and self-sacrifice."

All right.

But no one can go through their whole life

without some kind of appreciation,

and most of the time you don't seem to even know

whether I'm dead or alive.

That is not true.

I do...

Do what?

You do care for yourself,

and you do care for your office.

I think you think more of your secretary

than you do of me.

Hmmph!

Oh, go ahead and laugh.

Even Harriet is more important to you

because of her...

Barbecued ribs!

And her sugar-cured ham...

With the red-eye gravy.

Oh.

I'm getting a divorce. I have made up my mind,

and we can discuss it after you have finished enjoying yourself.

I can wait.

India!

What?

What in the Dickens has gotten into you?

Oh, Walter. You know I don't like beer.

What brings you home at this hour? Did the office burn down?

Well, it might as well have.

The place was hotter than the devil.

Julia acting up?

Aren't you supposed to be working?

- Didn't mother tell you? - I quit.

You quit?

I see.

Am I entitled to quit?

Because I would rather be loitering on a swing

and drinking lemonade.

A job is a job, Ruth,

even if it is just painting wastebaskets

for Mr. Harry bliss.

Or did he go out of business?

Well, I thought he wouldn't last.

Nope.

Explain.

I want an answer, Ruth.

I want it now, not later, not at your convenience.

Now, why did you quit your job?

- Let's not squabble. - It's so hot.

Ask mother if you want to know why I quit.

I'm asking you. I'm not asking your mother.

- It was Harry bliss, - if you must know.

What about him?

It's just too gruesome to try to explain,

but I actually don't think that you'd want me to keep working there.

- I mean, really, - I just don't think I should.

- If by chance you are not planning to drink that, - I believe I might.

All right.

Walter, I really am going to have to speak to Harriet.

Three drinks in one afternoon...

"Such a waggoner as phaeton would whip you to the west

and bring in cloudy night immediately."

"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds."

Oh! Oh!

Were you practicing?

Oh, I'm sorry, dear. You go ahead.

I'm just going to put this away.

"Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,

"that runaways' eyes may wink,

"and Romeo leap to these arms

"untalked of and unseen.

"Lovers can do to their amorous rites

"by their own beauties;

Or if love be... ".

- I'm sorry. - Did you drop this in here?

I threw it away. It's dirty.

- When a comb gets dirty, - you don't throw it away.

You wash it... Young lady.

It only cost a nickel.

Nickels don't grow on trees.

- Take the comb, - put it in the basin with a little ammonia...

will a nickel break us?

- Let it soak a while, - then rinse it.

I know, I know!

- Well, I wash my combs. - You can wash yours.

It won't hurt either of us.

Taking out without putting back

soon reaches bottom.

Are you going out?

Yes.

Hey, there's Ruth!

Want to go to the Plaza with us?

No.

You sure?

I've got to go meet a friend.

See you later.

Bye-bye!

Did you say that girl in blue was your daughter?

- Mrs. Bridge, would you like to dance? - Thank you.

Lovely. It's been so long since I've danced at a prom.

You dance beautifully, Mrs. Bridge.

Excuse me.

I don't know about these young people today.

My daughter Carolyn.

You're an ogre.

- Nobody will find out. - Why not?

Because.

Because why?

Because. That's why.

Don't be a duchess.

I am fond of you, Jay...

Really, really, I am.

I ache, actually.

Look... you want to be a virgin forever?

I feel sorry for you,

you mad, mad child!

Terribly, terribly sorry.

Jay...

Take me...

Right here, right now.

You're being excruciating!

If you don't want to dance,

I'm going to give your dance to somebody else.

Ohhhh!

Oh, god!

- Go on. - Get out of here.

What were you planning to do with that?

Ruth is hereto see you.

I have to talk to you. Can we go somewhere?

Yes, after I've finished a few things in here.

If your mother knew about that... Business

the other night, it would kill her.

Do you plan to marry the fella?

Marry him? I hardly know him.

He wanted me to go to a hotel.

Oh, god, daddy. Times have changed.

It was different when you and mother were young.

Some things never change.

- Love, respect, - human decency... doesn't change.

Your mother and I have those things.

Even if there were someone here to marry,

I'm not raising children in the suburbs

while my husband climbs the ladder.

You can say that was good enough for mother,

but it's not good enough for me.

Then what is it that is good enough for you?

I...

I want to be an actress.

Not little theater, but the real thing.

I want to go to New York.

New York?

That city can be the very devil.

Apart from everything else, what are you going to live on?

I'll get a job. Don't worry about me.

I do worry.

I worry a great deal.

Well, don't.

I can look after myself.

You know something?

I don't trust you an inch further than I can see you.

That's because you've forgotten.

What?

Just about everything.

- No, - I haven't forgotten.

I still feel...

Great desire for your mother.

I'll make a deal with you.

- I'll put $1,000 - in the bank,

on one condition.

If you are unable to support yourself

by the time you've spent that $1,000,

you'll come home.

That won't happen.

I said don't worry.

You better behave yourself,

or I'm coming after you.

I'll be fine.

Be careful with your money,

keep a record of all your expenses,

and remember what your father said

about his arrangement with you.

Ruth, be a good girl.

Write to us once a week,

and tell us all the news.

We will be so interested.

Sometimes it is easier to put things on paper

than to say them face-to-face.

I love you dearly, Ruth, and will miss you.

I may not always understand you,

but I love you very much.

Here we are!

- Oh, mother, - you ironed it?

Yes.

Oh, Douglas!

It's supposed to be like this.

Mother, please, just...

Just... just moving it a little bit.

Eagle scouts.

Each of you is standing beside the one who is your best friend,

without whose help, love, and encouragement

you could not have achieved the honor that is yours today.

And now, I want each of you to say

in the way she likes best,

"thank you, mother."

I'm so very proud of you.

By the power vested in me by the national court of honor,

I am proud to present our newest eagle scouts.

About face!

- Could you help me, - please? I seem to have spilled something.

I must show you something.

I've given myself a present.

This little guy is from the Han dynasty.

I got him at an auction this morning.

I hate to think what he cost.

- You did the right thing. - It's very pretty.

Did you say pretty?

Do you know why he's that color?

He's been buried in the earth for 2,000 years.

He was found in a tomb.

Oh, my stars! Oh!

Salut!

Mabel.

I've been dying to ask you.

How was lake Louise?

- Glorious. - The clarity of that water!

I'm working on a poem about it.

Did you see Banff?

Banff was so jammed with tourists,

- you couldn't walk, - let alone see anything.

I don't know where all those people come from.

It's depressing.

I have some advice for you.

Do not order the lamb roast.

Well, I'll be off before the typhoon hits.

Good luck.

"Do not order the lamb roast."

Wait.

If you're listening now, take shelter immediately.

This is a very large tornado.

Come on, my dear. Let's go.

The radio says

the tornado's approaching the country club district

at 75 miles an hour.

Oh, my stars!

Mr. Bridge, the radio says the storm

is bearing directly down on us.

Grace, dear.

What?

We're going to the cellar.

...encompassed and being engulfed and subject to this...

So, Walter, you're sitting it out, then?

I see no need to scurry into a hole.

The pioneer spirit.

What made America great, I presume.

Your husband is such a brave man, Mrs. Bridge.

Genevieve, come.

I've heard that Dr. Sauer

is one of the leading psychiatrists

in the country. Is that his daughter?

Well, you might say she's young enough to be his daughter.

Is there any more news?

Mr. Bridge, the club prefers

that everyone go to the basement immediately.

Please!

Wait! Oh! Oh!

Where are the Bridges?

He won't retreat.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word.

He's like one of Napoleon's

14-year-old foot soldiers.

She should just hit him over the head and leave.

We leave three weeks from today.

Well, Walter bridge!

- First England, - then France, then Italy.

They never give you enough butter around this place.

Mine's all gone. I'll see if I can steal some for you.

Any luck?

Yes! There's some here.

Well, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

- So... from Rome, - we go to Florence,

and from Florence to Venice.

Walter, don't you think we might be better off

downstairs in the basement?

India. Now, look here.

- For 20 years, - I've been telling you when something will happen

and when it will not happen.

- Now, have I ever, - on any significant occasion,

been proved wrong?

All right.

This coffee is cold as ice.

Waiter?

Well, I just read

that when the Bastille fell

the revolutionaries discovered that there were only seven

so-called political prisoners inside.

There were four forgers, two lunatics...

And there was one aristocrat

who was so depraved that

well, his own family insisted that he be locked up.

My word.

But what about the man in the iron mask?

Well, that was considerably earlier, I believe.

Swiss made.

Just to look.

We're Americans.

Oh, Walter, that's lovely!

That would be marvelous in the dining room.

I wonder how much he wants for it.

Why don't you ask him?

Oh, Walter. You ask him. You speak French.

You try.

Combien pour la...

Dix-huit Mille.

Dix-huit Mille?

That's $450.

My stars!

Well, I suppose they have to keep from starving somehow.

Why don't they get jobs

like everyone else?

Then they can do their artwork on weekends.

See, that's how I'd handle the situation.

Well.

Weren't those girls something?

Yes. I'm planning to send a dozen roses

to the one third from the left.

You better not.

You'll never hear the end of it.

Your name will be mud.

Walter.

I've noticed something very strange.

What?

Every hotel room we've stayed in in Europe

has a mirror.

Well?

Why does it have to be in front of the bed?

- Other countries, - other morals,

as the old proverb has it.

- Or is it other times, - other morals?

Autre temps, autre morales,

if my French holds good.

You're sleepy.

Oh... well, it's been a long day.

It's all right.

Go to sleep.

Oh...

Thank you, dear.

Come on. Sit down.

Sit down. Go ahead. Sit down.

So, after Cannes, we go to Monte Carlo,

where you can watch me gamble away our fortune.

- There. Here. - You do it.

And if it goes down the drain,

well, the good lord giveth,

and the good lord taketh away.

I am mystified to know

how these people hang onto their jobs,

conduct any business.

Three-hour lunches,

then they loiter around these cafes all night.

Back home, they'd be cut to ribbons inside of a week.

Monsieur!

Bonjour.

Would you like to sit down?

Whiskey?

Non, merci.

Well...

Revoir. Bon voyage.

Merci.

Open it.

So...

Quinze Mille franc pour vous?

Merci.

India, what's the matter?

I'm just so happy.

Are you all right?

Walter, thank you.

Where is the waiter?

Yes, they're usually so good at service.

I'm going to find out what the trouble is.

- Oh, now, Walter, - don't get involved.

You know how... Excitable they can be.

We're getting out of here.

Why?

The Nazis have invaded Poland.

Oh, my word.

The poverty of the Europeans

must be simply appalling.

Oh, it's just unbelievable.

They say there's no middle class at all,

just the rich and the poor.

One spade.

I suppose they're all dying to emigrate here.

Aren't we lucky to be living in America?

Isn't that the truth?

Pass.

Three spades.

Grace!

What?

Oh!

Pass.

Four hearts.

Pass.

I understand that Nelson is

trying to arrange a Grant wood show.

Did he paint that awful picture of a farmer and his wife?

- With the pitchfork? - That was depressing.

He must have exaggerated. Nothing could be that bad.

India, are these the true dimensions?

I suppose so.

I don't know. It looks to me as if it's been blown up

just a teeny-tiny bit.

By the way, the whole time we were abroad

I kept wondering whether that awful hole in the pavement

out near ward parkway had been fixed.

They finally got to it last week.

You have grace to thank for that.

Oh, really?

Oh, yes, yeah.

I sent a telegram to the mayor.

Grace, you've trumped my ace.

Oh, hell.

I loused everything up.

It's your trick.

He's part of the gang.

That's right. He's one of the boys.

I believe it...

Don't say I didn't warn you.

This fellow likes to put on a show.

I don't know what we're getting into.

Hello!

Grace!

Ladies and gentlemen, I take great pleasure in announcing

what perhaps some of you already know,

that my darling Genevieve and I are to be married.

So, help us to celebrate.

Eat, drink, and enjoy these fabulous musicians.

I wonder if he'll be happy

married to somebody that age.

Hello, Mr. B.

Grace!

I thought you were planning to ignore me as usual.

- I noticed you at once, - Mr. Bridge. Who wouldn't?

In a crowd, you're the first person everybody sees.

It's a gift of the gods, plus hard work.

So, you all managed to find each other.

This is rare and beautiful sight...

A great psychiatrist, a great legal mind.

The place is jumping, yes?

Oh, show me.

Quite simple.

It's a pretty little song.

Isn't it Benny Goodman who plays the clarinet?

And do you know who I accuse if we go to war?

The American press.

Hello, grace.

Scared headlines sell copies.

I accuse.

Now there is somebody who should be going to Dr. Sauer.

For analysis?

I go to him twice a week.

Oh, India, you can have no idea.

It is the most exciting experience I have ever had.

Dr. Sauer calls it "a voyage of discovery."

Of self-discovery.

Of course, my dad is opposed to it, as he is to everything,

but I am beginning to find out who I really am.

Oh, my.

Seminoles never harmed us,

but we invaded their territory.

Their swamps, we cut them to ribbons!

Have you ever considered the possibility

that the Seminoles might have attacked us?

Grace, dear. Grace. I need to speak to you for a moment.

Why? I'm talking.

I'm so sorry.

I'm suffocating in here!

You want to go home?

- No. - I want some air.

I'll come with you.

I'll be all right!

Should I go with her?

She'll be fine, just getting some fresh air.

Come on, it's late.

Oh, grace!

Mr. B! Is it true what they say,

that you wouldn't give a communist the time of day?

I think everyone knows my opinion of communism.

Well, I think it is one of the world's loveliest thoughts.

Jesus wants us to love one another,

and Marx wanted everybody to have enough to eat.

What's wrong with that?

If that's what Marx really wanted.

It's been a failure by all accounts.

There's a car on fire!

We tried to find a garden hose!

You're all right?

Yeah.

This is a very peculiar party.

Douglas? Did you lock up?

There's some banging around downstairs.

Oh.

Come in.

That's our neighbor.

OK, well, here we are.

Thank you for everything, guys.

OK.

Good-bye.

Good luck.

Tell us what happens.

Thanks for the ride.

Bye!

Bye-bye.

Bye.

Hi, Harri.

Corky, what are you doing home?

Hi, mama.

Oh.

Look.

What?

I'm engaged.

Oh! To whom?

Gil Davis.

Is that the Davis family on ward parkway?

He's not a Kansas City-an.

He's from parallel.

- Parallel? - Parallel?

It's near Wichita.

Oh. Well.

Look.

Oh. This is an opal.

My birthstone.

Gil doesn't have much money.

Anyway, he thinks diamonds are absurd.

Mother, he isn't one of these

utterly banal country club types.

Gil is working his way through college.

Well, what is his fraternity?

Gil doesn't believe in all that Greek stuff.

He's an independent.

Well, I think that's just fine.

What does his father do?

Mr. Davis?

Mr. Davis is a...

A plumber, I think,

or something like that.

I see.

Have you told daddy about Gil?

No, not yet.

You better tell him.

Why don't you tell him?

Oh. It's not my engagement.

Telephone him.

Telephone him down at the office.

All right.

Oh, darling?

He says I have to give it back.

Oh, Harriet, wait... Wait.

The ring.

Oh. Do you see it?

My, you look chic this evening.

Well, I find it pays to keep up appearances.

Where did you get this car?

Well?

Like it?

Did she send back the ring?

She promised to.

She said she was going

back to Lawrence to do it.

Here. Would you like some more casserole?

No, thank you.

I'm spending a considerable sum of money

to put that girl through college.

I sent her to learn,

not to chase around with whatever his name is.

His name is Gil Davis.

How long has she been acquainted

with this Gil Davis?

- Well, - what have we here?

Do you remember the pineapple bread

you used to like so much?

I made it this afternoon.

Oh!

Well, go ahead.

No.

There's absolutely no excuse for her behavior.

Was she planning to drop out of school?

Don't glare at me. I'm not responsible.

With her grades, she could have gone

to any college she liked back east,

but, no, she had to choose the university of Kansas.

State universities are jam-packed with opportunists.

You don't have to tell me.

Can I help you?

No, not yet.

Just a minute.

I have a fairly good idea who you are.

I don't intend to talk to you.

I'm going to marry her.

Get out of my office,

or I'll send for the police.

I'll call you back. Leave us, Julia.

I'll take care of this situation.

I don't like anything about you,

but if you want to sit down

for a few minutes, you may.

All you know is that I don't have any money,

but I'll make her a damn fine husband.

We're going to get married, Mr. Bridge.

Not without my permission, you're not.

- Well, - you can't stop us.

We'll see about that.

- I'm going to have her, - one way or another.

You have three seconds to start moving.

One, two, three.

Bull.

Now, sir, I didn't come all the way from Lawrence

just so you could tell me no and kick me out.

You didn't expect me to say yes.

Yes, sir, I did.

You seem to think that you're entitled

to anything you want.

No, sir. She's all I want.

I guess you think I'm not ritzy enough for you.

Ritzy.

What an expression.

You know something, young man?

From the time that I was old enough

to know what money was,

I knew I had to earn it myself,

every penny of it.

That's what I mean to do.

Carol tells me your folks lived in sugar creek.

What do you know about sugar creek?

My grandad's from there.

Worked in the hardware store 25 years... Pete Davis?

Pete Davis.

So, is your name up in lights on Broadway?

Your fans lining up around the stage door.

God, no.

I sat in on acting classes,

but the people who ran them lacked commitment.

I'm working at conde nast in circulation.

I'm also working on a new magazine called Wenen.

- - I sent daddy a copy. - Did you see it? - It's a quarterly.

It's filled with art, literature, poetry, new ideas.

I asked daddy to invest $500.

I know it will be a success.

The most talented people in New York are working on it.

Will he invest?

He said he'd think about it.

Miss Robin,

- excuse me, - but would you mind

if I had just a word with Carolyn?

Thanks so much.

Thanks.

Sweetheart, I was afraid we wouldn't have a chance,

but did you read this?

Yes, mother.

It's all right?

It's... yes, it's all right.

I'm just going to slip it in your bag.

Oh, mother!

Just right here.

I hope Gil doesn't find it.

Carolyn.

I wonder if mother is showing her that little book...

The one about the marriage

of the sperm and the ovum.

You've been through that?

Do you...

Do you remember when cousin Billy got married,

and three months later we got a birth announcement?

Mother told us first babies are so often premature.

- I was 16. - Can you believe it?

I knew a girl in New York who had to have one.

Had to have what?

An abortion, dummy.

What is in this box once belonged to my mother.

- In due time, - it was given to your mother.

Now she would like you to have it.

Oh, it's gorgeous.

Oh!

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

- Carolyn, honey, - you look beautiful!

Oh, you look great.

Let me see.

- Oh, my goodness, - it's beautiful.

Oh, you got the necklace.

Isn't it gorgeous?

Douglas?

This is Paquita.

This is my mother.

Well, how do you do, Paquita?

I hope you two are having a nice time.

- Douglas, - dad will be home early,

for a change,

so Harriet is planning dinner for 6:00 sharp.

I hope you won't be late.

Oh, rod.

Hello. How are you?

This is Janice.

How do you do, Janice?

Well, tell your mother hello.

Good-bye, Paquita. Nice meeting you.

Julia, this rain will turn to sleet.

I'll drive you home.

Where's my briefcase?

Couldn't we maybe have

a drink first this evening?

A drink?

All right.

Well, any port in a storm.

I came here a long time ago

with my daughter.

It's changed.

Have you ever been here before?

Have I been here?

I've never been anywhere.

What do you think I do in the evenings after we finish,

or on the weekends when you don't call me to the office

for some extra work?

Well, what?

I imagine you're home with your sister.

Exactly.

Home with my sister.

Check, please.

I'll have another Manhattan, please.

- Another Manhattan.

Nothing here.

Don't you know that...

I wait for you to say,

"Julia,

"I'm afraid it looks as if

we shall have to finish this on Sunday."

Thank you.

I don't suppose you know

what day this is.

Yes.

I believe it's November 12th.

I'm not drunk.

It's just that you...

You are priceless.

Mr. Walter ♪. Bridge.

Check, please.

You who remember every...

Every little detail of time and place,

are you going to tell me

the 12th of November means nothing to you?

Will that be all, sir?

Well, you'll bring me the change.

That fellow was hoping for a 30% tip.

Well, it... It's getting late.

Since you don't remember,

it was exactly

20 years ago today...

The 12th of November,

that I first walked into your office.

- By golly, - that's right.

20 years.

I've had waiters

try to pull that stunt on me before.

Won't you come in for a moment?

No. I believe not, Julia.

Thank you.

Julia, if you're not feeling well,

it will be quite all right

if you take tomorrow off.

I won't need the Loomis brief until Friday.

Listen, Mr. Walter bridge,

who lives in a lovely home on Crescent heights,

I have given you

the best years of my life!

The very best years.

20 years!

It doesn't mean a thing to you.

It never will.

I kept telling myself that you're not really like that,

- but I'm an idiot, - because you are like that.

From the top of your homburg hat

down to your black silk socks

held up by your black garters.

With your permission,

I will take the day off tomorrow,

and the day after,

and the day after that.

Oh, Douglas.

There you are, dear.

We missed you at dinner.

I saved this for you.

Oh, I ate.

You'd think I was poison or something.

Why don't you tell us when you're beauing somebody new?

Your dad and I are interested in your friends.

Does she go to southwest high?

Is Paquita in one of your classes?

She certainly does jingle a lot...

she doesn't go to southwest.

She works in a dime store.

She lives down near Paseo.

Douglas.

I saw Patty Duncan yesterday,

and she asked how you were.

Tell her I'm still alive and kicking.

She's such a lovely girl.

They say she's become quite the pianist.

Good night, Mom.

Douglas.

What is it?

Good night.

Dear.

Why do you have to go around with that sort of person?

Mother, will you please stop it?

Just let me alone.

Now, these are substantial corporations,

and they will never let you down.

Don't sell these stocks

when the time comes

that you're left alone.

Left alone?

I refer to a contingency.

A contingency is something

that may or possibly may not happen.

With investments like this,

it is almost never necessary to sell.

Remember, it is better to trade too little than too much.

Do you remember that evening

on my parents' front porch

before we were married?

It was in the summertime.

Remember the azaleas by the porch?

Azaleas by the porch?

Well, I can't say that I do.

You read some verses from the Rubaiyat to me.

You always carried a copy of the Rubaiyat,

this small.

It had a leather cover

and a green ribbon for a place Mark.

Don't you remember?

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine,

and thou beside me in the wilderness."

- Walter, - before we met,

were you ever in love with anybody?

Have you been in love since?

- Oh, I'm sorry. - I'm being silly.

Walter, would you tell me something?

- Do you love me? - Well, do you?

If I didn't, I wouldn't be here.

Couldn't you tell me once in a while?

Would that hurt you so very much?

India, I am not good

at this sort of business.

You used to be.

Well, for better or for worse,

I became an attorney and not a poet.

Are we going on with this or not?

Well, where did we stop, here?

These are life insurance policies,

fire, automobile, accident.

German fighters waited overhead,

for the defending planes of the royal air force

the R.A.F., to appear.

Phase one of the Nazi plan

called for the R.A.F. To be knocked out of the air.

The men of the R.A.F. Hadn't read the Nazi plan.

In the first 4 days,

the R.A.F. Knocked 182 German planes out of the sky.

- These were something, - trying to get these pattes on

when you were in a hurry.

How did you get this?

I bought it from a French Poilu,

a foot soldier.

Did you have a bayonet of your own?

Yes, we were issued bayonets.

Did you use it on any Germans?

No, thank the lord.

I never found myself in such a situation

where I had to.

Well?

Dad, I've decided to join

the army air corps.

Not now, you aren't.

Why not? I'm going to be drafted anyway.

When the government requires your services,

you may join the air corps

if you still want to,

but until that time,

you will continue with your schooling.

What if the Nazis invade America?

Should that occur,

you may volunteer for anything you like.

I want you to know something.

I've been seeing a heart specialist.

It seems that there is some irregularity.

It may not be serious,

but I feel that some preparations are in order.

I wanted you to be aware of that.

Does mother know?

- No, - and she must not know.

That's why I'm telling you.

Of course, nothing may happen for many years,

but there's no timetable

for something of that sort.

The girls can take care of themselves.

But your mother

will depend on you.

Yeah, sure.

Douglas.

I...

Would...

Give me that.

I'm losing my mind, India.

I'm losing my mind.

I don't see it anywhere.

Don't try and be gay.

Please, for once, don't, India.

Have you heard the Montgomery left Virgil's bank

and went over to first security?

Have you?

I believe Walter mentioned it.

Did he mention that a month ago,

Bob couple took his account, too?

They don't trust Virgil anymore,

as if it were his fault,

as if I were his fault.

I guess I'm the wrong kind of a wife for a banker?

Yesterday morning, I got the screaming meemies.

I had a fight with the washing machine.

I grabbed it by one of its beastly legs,

and I flipped it over.

I flipped it all the way over.

I flooded the basement.

I flooded the whole basement.

What's it for, India?

What is it all for?

Grace, I wish I could tell you.

I...

Grace. Grace.

Now, we really are awfully lucky.

Grace?

We're... we're really awfully lucky...

If you just think about it.

You want some tea?

Yeah.

Shall I just ring for Gloria?

Yeah.

Grace, are you all right?

Oh, yeah.

Gloria!

Harriet Rogers?

- Yes? - Come out.

Thank god.

- That Cooper. - I could just kill him.

Trouble is his middle name.

Dealing in drugs is not a minor offense.

Stop that blubbering and listen to me.

I believe I can manage to get you out of this,

but I'm not going to bat for that man

that you chase around with. Is that clear?

As far as I am personally concerned,

he ought to be locked up in jail for the rest of his days.

Oh, stop that.

I had about enough for today.

I just feel so ashamed.

My sister Dorothy in Cleveland, Ohio, she...

Oh, I just hope and pray she don't get word about this,

what with her boy junior aspiring to Harvard.

Harvard?

He wishes to get his degree of bachelor

of liberal arts.

Your nephew wants to go to school at Harvard?

Oh, junior was always very scholastic.

His grades is the highest ever recorded

in his school at Cleveland.

Since 1921.

I wish to thank you again.

As you know, this was my first police experience.

Well, let it be your last.

Now, there is no need

to go into all the gory details

with Mrs. Bridge, Harriet.

2 hours in a jail cell is nothing to gossip about.

Plenty of decent colored schools.

Yes, I imagine so.

Boy doesn't even pick one of them.

What the devil does he want to go to Harvard?

Walter?

I've been thinking...

And I think I might like to try analysis.

Mabel ong has been going to Dr. Sauer.

She says he's been doing her a world of good.

What Dr. Sauer practices is, in my opinion,

on a par with fortunetelling,

astrology,

and lucky dice.

But he's somebody to talk to.

You can talk to me.

I'll tell you what you need

more than analysis with Dr. Alex Sauer.

How about a new car?

- No, thank you. - I love my Lincoln.

It probably needs new brakes.

You gave it to me on my birthday

the year Douglas became an eagle scout.

I could never part with it.

However, thank you very much all the same.

Suit yourself.

Oh, Carolyn.

Did you and Gil have another argument, dear?

I can't stand him.

I can't!

- And that place, - parallel...

My god, mother.

I had no idea it would be like that.

Dear, it is your home now with Gil.

He hit me.

He did.

And then he tried to make it up to me the way men always do.

It's so disgusting.

He didn't even know it was me.

Mother, do you know what I'm saying?

Carolyn, why don't you just tell me

how it all began?

Well...

I had gone to a kappa alumnae meeting.

It seems simply unbelievable

that there would be five of us in parallel,

but there are.

When I'd gotten home, Gil was in a foul mood

because his dinner wasn't waiting for him.

He'd thrown clothes and even jerked out drawers

because he couldn't find what he wanted.

I told him they hadn't been washed yet.

He knew the washing machine was broken.

But I guess he expected me to wash everything by hand.

No, no, no. I really think that's what he expected.

It wouldn't hurt you to do a little washing.

He just has to fix the damn machine!

Oh, it's pathetic!

It's all pathetic. He's pathetic.

His latest thing is his lathe.

He's gone mad at turning out salad bowls.

He's trying to calm his nerves.

What about my nerves? I'm going berserk.

I wish you wouldn't argue with him.

You're on his side?

No. I'm not on anybody's side,

but there are just some things in marriage

that every woman has to...

Don't you talk to me about marriage.

I don't want any part of that myth.

No man will push me around

the way daddy has always pushed you around,

and they had better not try.

Why don't you lie down and get some rest, dear?

I'll go downstairs and get you some hot chocolate.

Oh, mother!

Please send me Douglas' new address.

Is he on a secret mission?

There may be an interesting job

with someone in an art gallery

who's been very sweet to me.

I don't know him very well yet,

but it's a challenge.

I haven't been going out much lately.

I usually go to bed early.

Cut that out.

I'm writing a letter to my mother.

I said cut that out.

Your mama look like you?

You are a very attractive girl,

and men will try and make your acquaintance.

Keep your eyes straight ahead.

Do not look around,

and be not distracted from where you are going.

Also, don't go out with anyone

to whom you have not been properly introduced.

A man's character is so important, you know.

Is that all?

Depends on what you mean.

Oh, hello, Gloria. Is Mrs. Barron...

Mrs. Barronis not at home.

There's a man at the back door.

He wouldn't say what he wants.

Did he give his name?

He said he was an acquaintance of yours.

Oh, wait. I know who it is.

Mrs. Bridge...

No. It's all right.

It's Mr... I'm sorry.

Gadbury.

Yes. Of course!

I used to teach you painting.

Of course. Please come inside!

Mr. Gadbury!

Harriet, take Mr. Gadbury's coat.

I guess you and Mr. Bridge

wouldn't be interested in subscribing to this.

Well, I hadn't really thought of...

Subscribing to any other magazines,

Mr. Gadbury.

You wouldn't want it unless you had a doberman.

You don't have one, do you?

No.

No one does.

No. We don't have a dog at all.

I used to have a dog when I was a boy,

just an ordinary dog, not a doberman.

Lieutenant was his name.

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness!

- They are ferocious-looking, - aren't they?

They eat a lot, too,

which is why people don't like to keep them.

This magazine teaches you how to train the dogs...

It's not that the school doesn't pay a living wage.

It's that my daughter got into trouble,

and...

She's in the hospital, and...

I had no idea hospital bills were so high.

Have you sold many subscriptions?

I sold one yesterday, though.

Somebody you know.

The lady in class who always just...

Kind of did things in her own way.

Grace.

Mrs. Barron?

You saw Mrs. Barron yesterday?

The maid said she wasn't at home,

but then she came out on the stairs,

and...

She said that she'd always wanted a doberman.

Mr. Gadsbury... Gadbury,

I will take a subscription.

Grace?

Oh! Grace!

Virgil...

Is grace all right?

Oh!

A whiskey and water,

I think, Harriet.

Hello.

It's grace.

Grace Barron.

She passed away.

Was it a heart attack?

That's what we're telling people.

Apparently, she...

Took too many sleeping pills.

It may have been accidental.

Mr. Bridge.

Thank you, Harriet.

How is Virgil taking it?

I only saw him for a moment.

I told him you'd come over as soon as you could.

I just don't know what to think.

He gave her everything a woman could ask for.

But then, nothing ever suited her.

She was...

Critical of everything,

including herself, too, to do her justice.

She was my best friend.

I will go and see Virgil after I finish this.

Sleeping pills.

What about everyone else? What about her husband?

She has hurt him in the worst way possible.

The woman was unstable.

It was one thing after another.

She caused trouble for everyone who knew her.

She was my best friend!

I loved her!

Well, I know you did.

Oh!

Hey! Hey!

Oh! Oh!

Oh, this is Jack Cipkowski.

- Oh, Mr. Cipkowski, hello! - Nice to meet you.

Don't you look so funny?

You've got this mustache.

Oh, you've got one, too!

Why didn't you drive up to the house?

We were afraid to get stuck.

Come inside.

- I'd love to, - but I have a long way to go before dark.

Nice to meet you.

See you.

Give me this!

Doug?

Yeah.

Give me a push.

Be seeing you.

Oh, here!

Go ahead!

I can do it!

Oh!

What's this?

Those are dog tags.

They give my name and my serial number.

What's the "p" stand for?

Protestant.

I keep telling them I'm a Buddhist,

but it doesn't do any good.

They insist I'm a protestant.

Isn't that just typical,

Douglas bridge?

Are you going to shave off your mustache?

No.

When's dad coming?

Heaven only knows.

He's working late.

He's not...

He's not overworking, is he?

Julia can't do a thing with him,

and neither can I.

It makes you look entirely different!

You look like a different person.

I don't recognize you.

Attention, air corporal bridge!

Get up this minute

and shave off that silly mustache!

You are just like your father!

Exactly!

What?

Who else would I be like if not my father?

"Put stuffed peppers in oven,

350, 1 hour."

Hello!

Anybody there?

Still no answer.

Is this Harriet's day off?

She must be downstairs in the basement

or on a shopping spree at Bancroft's,

buying lord knows what.

The Iris is fine, I think,

for my Genevieve.

We good husbands

must keep our gorgeous wives happy, no?

Yeah. Just... One of those narcissuses.

- It's wonderful, - isn't it?

- In the depths of snow, - these tokens of spring.

It's all right.

Life renewing itself so spectacularly,

so joyously.

It must mean something.

Joy.

Delight.

Tell me, Walter.

Have you ever felt it?

I've known contentment, if that's what you mean.

I was thinking of something a little more passionate,

more tempestuous.

Mr. Schmitt.

A dozen of these long-stemmed, please.

Make it two dozen.

Oh, yes.

Hello.

Hello.

Is anybody there?

Anybody there?