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Lock-Lee.

No. I think he's somewhere in the back, Mr. Ellman.

Yes, I'll get him.

So, Harry Benedict died. What do you know about that?

Morty Sachs died, too, you know.

Morty Sachs I knew about.

Well, these are the years. Everybody starts dropping dead around here.

I don't know. Ah, yeah.

I'm standing in the shop here, cutting a pattern,

suddenly I think to myself, "My God, I'm 56 years old."

I'll be an old man with white hair pretty soon.

My life is coming to an end.

Seems like everybody's in the hospital,

everybody's sick, everybody's retiring.

Mr. Ellman's on the phone. I'll be right there.

You know who's in the hospital?

Who? Bobby Sanford. Gall bladder.

They thought they'd have to operate.

But he's responding to treatment very well.

Well, you get to our age

you figure a couple of weeks in the hospital every year.

Listen, I'm having a little liver trouble myself.

I get these pains on my side. I didn't know what it was,

so I went to see the doctor...

I'll tell you another thing that depresses me.

I seem to be spending all my time visiting my children.

I was up to my daughter Lillian's house twice last week,

and down to see my son, Paul.

That's a sure sign you're getting old.

You don't know what to do with yourself,

you have to go visit your children every night.

I got two sons and a daughter.

They can drop dead as far as I'm concerned.

Listen, for that matter,

my cousin died a couple of weeks ago.

Right away, Betty.

Hello, Abe. What do you want?

Abe, we just settled that yesterday with the union.

I don't know, I got it here somewhere.

I think it was another five cents

for double-stitching the front seams.

When's he coming out?

How can I get there this afternoon?

Your wife called. Wanted to know

when you're coming back from Chicago.

Is that what you told her?

Hello, tootsie.

Yeah. Hello. Hello.

Hi, Walter. How are you?

Hey, when are you going out with me?

I'll show you a good time.

Well, I'll try to get out this afternoon.

I thought you understood when you were hired

you had to go out with the bosses.

Will you cut it out, please? I don't feel very well.

Okay, Abe. I'll bring it with me.

Now that you got your divorce from your husband,

how about it? How about...

Please, cut it out. Walter, leave the girls alone.

Oh, what did I do?

I'm sorry, Mr. Lockman.

All right, around 3:00, yeah.

Caroline, after lunch,

get out the settlement we made with the union yesterday on prices, huh?

What did you do to your shirt?

Oh, I was oiling the cutting machine.

Oh. Hey, Jerry, let me tell you,

did I have a tootsie last night.

You and your tootsies, Walter.

I think I better go home, Caroline.

I don't feel very well. What's the matter?

Look, I'll type it up at home, okay?

Will you tell Mr. Kingsley I'll be in tomorrow, huh?

Sure. Bye.

Okay. I'll see you tomorrow.

So, listen, the buyers will be coming in, in a few weeks.

So I thought I'd better start doing a little auditioning for it.

So last night I had a date with a little brunette tootsie.

And tonight, I got a date with a little blonde

I've been hearing some very fine things about

from the manager of the Chiswick Hotel.

Lockman, you're an old bum.

Well, what are you going to do with him, Louis?

Fifty-nine years old and he still prances around like a rooster.

He's an old man, not a rooster.

Hey, Louis, I got a vitamin here for you.

Turn you into a high school senior overnight.

An old man running around with tramps, drinking, telling dirty jokes.

Personally, I find it very disgusting.

Don't be so hard on him, Louis.

To me, visiting your children every night is just as disgusting.

It's 2:00.

You promised Mr. Ellman you'd be out of the factory this afternoon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that settlement you wanted with the union...

Betty wasn't feeling well

so she went home this morning

and she took it with her to type it up.

I was going to send the boy after it,

only Mr. Ellman wanted him out at the factory this afternoon.

So I figured, Betty lives with her mother on 84th Street,

you can go and pick it up on your way out to the factory.

All right. You said you were going to

go home and change your shirt anyway.

She lives only a couple of blocks away from you.

Okay. Okay, I'll give her a buzz.

I'll tell her you're coming.

You came home so early.

I just dropped in to change my shirt.

I could have rescheduled my entire afternoon, dear.

Truly it wasn't fair.

Your daughter Lillian is here with the baby.

Oh, yeah? With the baby?

How do you do? She dropped in about an hour ago.

She drove in to shop a little, so she dropped in here.

She wants us to come out to New Rochelle for dinner tonight.

Oh, listen, Evelyn, I'm a little tired

and I got to go out to the factory, yet.

Oh, Rosalind, darling, you know my brother, Jerry?

Well, we did meet once.

I don't know whether you recall.

Mr. Kingsley, I just want to tell you

what a lovely apartment you have here. Oh, thank you.

I was away in Europe,

my married daughter and myself, for three months.

Oh, we had a wonderful time.

So this is my first time in this apartment,

and as I was telling your sister, why, it's just beautiful.

Uh, how much rent do you pay, if I may ask?

Two hundred and forty.

Jerry, what have you got on your shirt there?

I was in your other apartment once

when you lived over on Central Park West. Ah.

I don't know whether you recall me.

My name is Mrs. Neiman.

Neiman?

I knew your wife casually.

I was distressed at the news.

We were in Bermuda at the time.

But we had a wonderful time.

And Mrs... Uh... Mrs. Hillman,

I don't know whether you knew her.

Oh, she was a close friend of your wife's.

Yes, she called me on the phone and told me of her passing.

I wondered whether I should send some sort of greeting,

but I felt we were not that well acquainted.

And so I'd like to take this opportunity, belated as it is...

Why, it's more than a year now, isn't it? Yes.

To express my sympathy and my condolences.

Thank you.

Listen, don't let me hold you from your game. Oh, no.

I just got up to make some fresh coffee anyway.

Would you like a cup? All right, make me a cup.

Excuse me. Surely.

Neiman? I used to know a Neiman.

He used to supply us with embroidery seven, eight years ago.

Why, that's my brother-in-law.

He used to be an embroiderer.

Is that right? Yes.

Well, he was a very nice fellow. Whatever happened to him?

Well, he moved to Los Angeles.

Yeah, yeah. That's right.

Yes, he died last year of a cerebral hemorrhage.

And a relatively young man, 58.

Far from old.

Well, my wife was only 48 when she died.

My own husband passed away only last July.

Very sorry to hear that.

Oh, well, I have a 28-year-old son.

I live with him, and my married daughter is very solicitous.

But it's very difficult to give up a companionship

of so many years.

Yes. It's a very lonely business, no doubt about it.

Hey, what did you do? Drive all the way in with the baby? Let me have him.

Hey, give me back my arm.

Oh, Rosalind, darling, do me a favor, please.

Pour the coffee in the cups and take it there on the tray where the cake is.

Oh, boy. He's heavy. Weighs as much as a ball of cloth.

He eats all day. Also there's some petit fours in the refrigerator.

Oh, you want me to serve the coffee?

Yes. Will you please, darling?

Surely. I'll be right in.

What's new, Pa?

So what could be new? I just saw you Monday.

So, Mr. Kingsley,

it was wonderful to have made your acquaintance.

Very nice to have met you, Mrs. Neiman.

Well, I'll go serve the coffee.

Very nice woman, really.

Her husband died about half a year ago,

left her quite an estate.

A well-educated woman and very sweet, really.

Don't matchmake, Evelyn. I don't like it.

What are you talking about?

Did I know you were coming home 2:00 in the afternoon?

No, you didn't. But if I had come home at the regular time,

she'd have been here just the same.

Is she trying to marry you off, Pa? Ah, you.

He sits around the house,

for heaven's sakes, every night.

He comes home, he eats his dinner, he goes to sleep.

Helen's dead. It's almost two years now.

It's time to stop mourning.

I'm not mourning.

Stop making a soap opera out of this.

I'm 56 years old. I work hard and I come home,

and I'm tired.

I'm grateful just to get into bed.

Now, I want an end to this matchmaking business, Evelyn.

Is that clear?

I'm very annoyed by this.

So...

Do you want to go to Lillian's for dinner tonight, or not?

I said no, didn't I?

I hope to God I haven't reached that point in life

where I don't know what to do with myself,

I have to go visit my children every night.

I don't want to go to Lillian's for dinner, all right?

All right.

I can see you're in a bad temper.

You better let me have him, Pa.

He's getting so crotchety.

I'll be right out, Evelyn.

Getting so touchy lately.

I lose my temper every little thing.

Oh, Evelyn. No, no, no.

You should have seen me screaming at a salesman this morning.

Well, it's that time of life. You get to be 55, 60.

It's supposed to be a feminine indisposition

but men suffer from it, too, believe me.

You know my partner, Walter Lockman.

He's a man 59, gonna be 60.

Grandfather three times.

Last couple of years, he's become absolutely obsessed with women.

That's all he talks about.

Comes in the office, first thing he says, he's got a story

about some girl he was out with.

Always a beautiful girl. Uh-huh.

And it always winds up the girl tells him

he's a better lover than all the young men she knows.

And he sees doctors. Pills, everything.

If it wasn't so sad, it would be comic.

What am I bothering you with all of this nonsense for?

I'm going through a kind of temporary melancholy.

It'll pass soon enough. Don't worry.

Your mother went through the same thing.

I recognize many of the symptoms about myself.

So tell me about yourself.

How's Jack? He looked a little tired the last time.

Pa, how's your sex life?

You're all right, Lillian.

No, I mean it.

You're a vigorous man with normal appetites.

You know, you're funny.

It's typical of young people to think

unhappiness is always a glandular condition.

All right. My sex life is not so hot.

I meant it seriously.

I know you did, sweetheart.

I know a woman.

I used to take her out every now and then. Nice woman, widow.

She's a buyer for a department store.

Saks Fifth Avenue, if you want to know. In infants wear.

A very tasteful woman.

Early forties.

Actually, I haven't seen her in a couple of months now.

I asked her to marry me, she said no.

I was very hurt, actually.

Oh, for heaven's sake, what am I telling you all this nonsense for?

Well, you have to pour your heart out to somebody.

No, no, no. You go back to card players. Let me get dressed.

I have to go argue with the union again today.

So then, you won't come up for supper, huh?

We'll be up sometime next week. All right.

I'll see you. All right.

Infants wear department, please.

Thank you.

Hello?

I'd like to speak to the buyer, please, Mrs. Herbert.

Oh, hello, Grace. How are you?

This is Jerry Kingsley.

How are you, for heaven's sakes?

Yeah, Jerry Kingsley.

Listen, Grace, are you busy, or can you spare me a few minutes?

No, no, it's not important. I just called.

It's been how many months now?

Frankly, I'd like to see...

Oh, is that right? Well, when are you leaving?

Well, listen, there's still the whole weekend. How about tonight?

We'll have some dinner, maybe take in a show.

I'll call and see what kind of tickets I can get.

Are you angry with me, Grace? 'Cause you seem so unfriendly.

Oh? Oh, really?

Well, I didn't know that, of course. Congratulations.

Do I know the man?

Well, that's wonderful, Grace.

And I hope from the bottom of my heart that you'll be very happy,

because you're a good woman.

Well, he's a lucky fellow, whoever he is.

Of course, dear.

No, no, no. Don't let me hold you up from your work.

You must be terribly busy with your season starting.

Of course.

All right.

My very best wishes to you and your future husband.

Of course.

Goodbye.

Listen, sweetheart, I've got to go to this girl's house,

pick up some papers.

I'll be out to the factory around 4:00.

I'll be home at about 6:00.

So if you want to wait around, listen, what the heck,

Evelyn and I, we'll drive out with you and have dinner at your house.

Oh, that's wonderful, Pa.

See you around 6:00. Yeah.

Hi. Hello, Mr. Kingsley.

I'm sorry I inconvenienced you this way.

Oh, that's all right. Don't worry about it.

I figured I'd bring it in in the morning

when I came in. That's all right.

Caroline said you didn't feel well.

No. It's just a family thing.

I'll be in tomorrow, Mr. Kingsley.

Something I could do, perhaps?

No. You see...

It's just my husband...

We're divorced.

I'm sorry. I'll be in tomorrow, okay?

Okay.

All right. Come on. Come on. Tell me all about it.

Everybody else that we knew were getting married.

So we got married.

I guess we just got tired of necking in the back of the car.

We used to eat in restaurants all the time.

Then we'd come home, we'd watch television.

Around 11:00,

we'd both march into the bedroom like it was a gas chamber.

I used to wonder if everyone was like this.

I must have been unbearable the last years of our marriage.

I mean, I'd go into silences that lasted for days.

Poor Georgie.

He'd plead with me, "What did I do?"

When he put his arm around me at night,

I'd turn my back on him.

And I could just feel him getting furious lying there beside me.

The one thing that we always had

was our mutual attraction for each other.

Well, now we didn't even have that.

We'd just lie there hating each other and waiting for sleep.

And finally,

he got a job playing in a band out in Las Vegas.

He's a piano player. I think I told you that.

And I said to him,

"Well, George,

"as long as you're going to Nevada anyway,

"we might as well get a divorce."

So I went to a lawyer.

And that was it.

Except now I'm even more miserable

living here at my mother's.

You know, it's so funny.

I couldn't stand living with him

the three years I was married to him.

And now I...

I just sit here aching for him.

Just aching for him.

He calls me on the phone last night.

And he says he wants to get married again.

Well, I just don't know what to do.

All right. Tell him we'll make it six cents a seam.

Okay?

All right, Abe, goodbye.

So, anyway... Yeah.

We used to cut school, see, and we'd hang around downtown.

Well, there were four of us

and we were wearing a pound of lipstick apiece.

And we had on high heels,

and we were sashaying around like we were women of the world.

We were 15 years old. Yes.

I don't know what we were looking for. Sailors, I think.

Anyway, the one time that a couple of men did try to pick us up,

we began to giggle like we were babies.

And we ran all the way home.

I was a wild kid.

You know, I used to go out every night and neck in Central Park

with any boy who'd ask me.

Everyone thought that I was going to turn out to be

a real bad type.

Then I'd come home.

We used to live on 89th Street,

only a couple of blocks away from here.

Everybody was always sleeping at my house.

You know, that's the one thing I'll always remember about my house.

Everybody was always sleeping.

So I'd get undressed

and I'd lie in bed and listen to my kid sister sleep.

I'd always get that same feeling.

I'm all alone.

I used to dream about

getting married and having a home.

Everything would be so wonderful, you know.

What's wrong with me, Mr. Kingsley?

I can't seem to make peace with anything.

How old are you, Betty? 23, 24?

I'm 24. Twenty-four.

I have a daughter of my own, 25 years old.

You make me think of her when she was 10.

So I'm going to talk to you like I was your father.

About 20 times today you've asked me,

"What should I do about my husband?"

Honey, he's your husband. Nobody's gonna tell you what to do about it.

You gotta decide for yourself whether you wanna go back to him,

or if you think you can make something better for your life.

I don't want to go back to him.

All right. There's your decision.

Well, you had a bad marriage.

It's happened to plenty of people.

The time has come for you to stop feeling sorry for yourself

and hiding in an empty apartment.

You start going out on dates again,

you'll meet some nice, young fellow.

Mr. Kingsley.

I can't thank you enough for sitting here like this

and listening to me all afternoon.

You feel better? Funny thing is I feel much better.

You made a decision.

Suddenly there's not such big, black clouds in the sky.

There's an old European saying.

"I'm an old man and I've had many troubles.

"And most of them never happened."

And you're a young kid and you're very pretty.

So go wash your face, put on some lipstick,

call up a friend, drink a beer with her.

I better get home...

Oh, boy. Quarter to 6:00.

You know, I kept saying to myself all afternoon,

"He's such a busy man. I'm keeping him here."

I couldn't let you go.

Ah, don't worry about it.

Look, my mother should be home any minute.

Would you like to stay for dinner?

No, I'm having dinner at my daughter's house.

Well, I just want to thank you, Mr. Kingsley.

Mr. Kingsley. Mmm.

I just want to thank you.

You're such a pretty kid.

Which one is this, Pa? The fat one?

No, no, no, no. The blonde girl, the very pretty one.

Well, the fat one is Caroline. Oh.

The one at the reception desk who also models?

That's right. The exceptionally attractive one.

I used to look at her and I used to think,

"A beautiful girl like that, what problems could she have?

"The young men must fall all over themselves."

But let me tell you something, that girl is an unhappy girl.

Her father abandoned her mother when she was six years old.

This is a girl who's never known what love is.

But she's a real beauty.

Intelligent, but emotionally very immature.

You're showing a marked interest in how beautiful this girl is.

What? Oh, don't be foolish, will you?

She happens to be a pretty girl.

Oh, gosh, that's precious!

Klein's on 14th Street couldn't get enough of them.

Style 1309.

$34.75.

We do this in missy sizes and missus sizes.

I buy my women's sizes at Kapmoor.

I bought it from Bonnie Lane last year.

$34.75.

Betty, put on 1018.

Yes, Mr. Lockman.

We copied Edith Small of California.

The original retails for $300.

Our knockoff retails at $49.95.

What are your best colors?

Your choice.

Jerry, listen.

Let me finish the story.

We got these two tootsies.

Me and the buyer from Detroit in there.

He's still in there talking about last night.

He can't stop talking.

We'll get an order of at least 150 suits out of him, believe me.

You know, I tried to give him the brunette

because she's such a good-looking little tootsie.

But she takes a fancy to me. Don't ask me why.

She was crazy for me, wouldn't let me alone all night. Don't ask me why.

Right. Well, leave me alone with all your tootsies already, will you?

All right.

Hurry up, Betty. Yeah, I'll be right there.

Hello, Betty.

Oh, hello, Mr. Kingsley.

That's my boss.

Hurry up. We'll never make it.

All right. Okay. We can take the subway.

It's 5:30. We got 15 minutes to shop.

Bye-bye. Good night Betty.

Okay. See you.

Good night, boss. Good night, Charlie.

Wanna have a little dinner with me tonight?

I'd like that very much, Mr. Kingsley.

Fine. Fine. Shall I pick you up around 7:00, 7:30?

Shall I ring your bell?

I thought maybe we'd drive out to Westchester someplace

and dance a little, perhaps.

7:30 all right?

Shall I come to your apartment or wait downstairs for you?

Well, 7:30 would be just fine. Fine.

I'll ring your bell and I'll double park and I'll wait for you.

Okay. Okay. Fine. Fine.

Okay, Mr. Kingsley. Okay. I'll see you tonight then.

Yeah, okay. Fine. Fine.

Jerk. Jerk.

What are you doing?

Jerk.

Well, the big snows are here.

Yeah, they usually don't get such a heavy snow early in December.

What's today, third? Fourth?

One of us will catch pneumonia and die this year.

I'm sure of it. Oh, a bunch of pallbearers.

It's a beautiful, bracing day for heaven's sake.

I walked the whole way down to my house this morning,

good two and a half miles.

I came downstairs. The doorman said to me, "You expecting a car?"

I said, "Not on a day like this."

Wonderful walk, very stimulating.

Listen to this farmer here.

Walks two and a half miles to his office.

Abe Lincoln.

What's the matter with Lockman here?

Looks like he's just come out of the grave.

He was out with a couple of buyers last night.

The wheels of industry operating.

I stopped going out with the buyers 10 years ago.

They wore me out. I let the salesmen take them out now.

They're young men, they can take it.

I think the buyers are beginning to wear Lockman out.

All right, all right. So they're wearing me out.

All right. All right.

You happy now?

All right, Walter, I was just kidding.

I think this snow should let up in a couple of hours.

It should be beautiful tonight, just beautiful.

Can I come in, Pa?

Sure.

You going out tonight, Pa?

What?

I said, are you going out tonight?

Sure.

Oh!

Jack and I and Evelyn are driving down to see Paul and Elizabeth.

Can we give you a lift somewhere?

No, no, I'll take a taxi.

Okay.

Have a nice time.

Yeah. Have a nice time.

I think you're right.

I think he is going out with a woman.

For several weeks now.

Well, listen, it's not my business.

I just hope it's a nice woman.

Evelyn, I don't know why you're so worked up about it.

About what?

About my father going out with a woman.

Oh, I'm not worked up, I just mentioned I thought he was seeing a woman again.

He's just having a middle-aged fling.

What's so terrible about that?

Who said it was terrible?

Evelyn, will you hurry up?

We promised Elizabeth we wouldn't be late this time.

Well, I'll just slip into my dress.

So what do you say, Lil?

Lil?

What? What?

About my vacation.

Should we take it now or after the tax season?

I have to tell my boss.

Listen, Lil, you know, we never plan these things.

And we always wind up taking my vacation sitting around the house.

All right. Good idea.

Okay?

Listen, Lil, let's talk to Paul and Elizabeth tonight.

Maybe they'll take the baby off our hand for the two weeks. Why not?

We took their Richard when they went to the Poconos last summer.

You know, Evelyn is so funny, Jack.

I called her on the phone this afternoon

and she says to me, "I got something to tell you."

But she sounded like she was in a panic.

I thought she was going to tell me she had another blood pressure.

So she says, "I think your father is interested in a woman."

So, I said, "So?"

So what'll I tell my boss?

And the tax season starts in a month right after Christmas.

Lil, I'll be working nights and I just...

I'd like to get away, I think, huh?

All right, we'll ask Elizabeth if she'll take the baby.

Well, sure, we took their Richard

when they went to the Poconos last summer, don't you remember?

Listen, Lil... I don't know, Lil.

I don't think it would hurt us to

just kind of get away somewhere and just, you know, relax.

I feel that there's a...

Well, a certain, kind of tenseness between us.

I don't know... I just...

It seems that...

Well, I don't know...

What do you mean, tenseness?

I don't know, Lil, I just...

We never talk anymore. We don't go out.

Well, we're going out tonight.

Well, yeah... Yeah.

Well, see, I don't know what I mean.

I just mean I come home and,

well, we have dinner and you tell me about the baby,

or your father comes over or...

Well, my father hasn't been over the house in three weeks, Jack.

Wait, listen, Lil, I like your father.

I wasn't objecting to his coming over, that's not it.

I don't know what you mean by tenseness.

Well, maybe that's the wrong word.

I just... I just feel that...

After all, Jack, we've been married four years.

Lil. No, it's not that.

Listen, I like your father, you know that.

For me, he's a prince of a man.

You know what it is with Evelyn, Jack?

What?

Subconsciously, she thinks of herself as my father's wife.

And she resents any woman who gets close to him.

Well, she never got along with my mother.

Well, I never got along with my mother, either,

but that's an entirely different matter.

So, now, Evelyn lives here in the house with my father and I was against it.

And when my mother died

and my father told me that Evelyn wanted to move in here with him,

I said to him, "Pa, you're just feeding her neurotic attachment for you."

Well, I wanted him to move in with us.

Listen, I was perfectly willing...

Oh, she resents me a great deal.

Every time my father and I sit down for one of our little talks,

she always finds some way of breaking in.

She resents any woman my father likes.

Oh, Lil, she's a lonely woman...

So my father's going out with a woman.

So what's so terrible about that?

I can see how a woman could go for my father.

He's a darned attractive man.

You know, for a man with no formal education, he's amazingly literate.

I wonder just how involved he is with this woman.

Well, I assume he's...

You know, what surprised me was that he didn't mention a word of this to me.

He usually tells me everything.

Listen, Lil, that's hardly something a father

would discuss with his daughter.

Well, it just so happens, Jack, that we are very, very close.

Why, I'm probably closer to my father than to any other person I know.

Listen, he's a prince of a man.

Where is she?

Listen, Jack,

I don't like the way you've been looking lately.

Now, I think I'm going to take you down to Florida

and get you a nice good rest, huh?

Listen, Lil, are you kidding me?

No, we'll ask Elizabeth tonight if she'll take the baby.

Not that I'm upset about this whole thing... Really?

It's just that when a man gets to the middle years

it's a very dangerous age.

Evelyn, leave him alone, you hear me?

He's having a little fun for himself.

I don't want you interfering and destroying this for him.

What's the matter with you?

You're jealous of this woman he's seeing.

Any woman that gets close to my father, I resent... I mean, you resent.

He's having a little middle-aged fling.

What are you so upset about?

Well, you seem more upset than me.

Listen, girls, come on, please. Let's go.

What did I say?

You didn't say nothing, come on.

I can't raise my voice in my own house.

Listen, Jerry, we're going.

All right, have a good night. Lil?

Lil, you'll talk to Paul and Elizabeth tonight about the baby?

Oh, I don't know, Jack.

My father's going through a very difficult period right now.

I'm not sure that this is a good time for me to leave him.

Hello, Jerry. Hi.

Jerry...

I think this should be our last date.

I mean, we've been out four times now

and I've enjoyed myself, I honestly have.

But I...

You're a very nice man.

Everyone in the office thinks you're wonderful, you know that.

I don't think there's a person out there who wouldn't do anything in the world for you.

Well, but I just...

I just feel that the situation's impossible.

I mean, your being my boss and everything.

Well, the thing is, Jerry, where can it go?

I mean, I just am afraid that somebody's going to get hurt, that's all.

Well, uh, if...

Well, I mean, it's not like you're Mr. Lockman.

You're not just a wolf, you're a serious man.

And I just feel that if we keep on seeing each other that

it'll get more involved and someone's going to be hurt.

You mean, I think that you couldn't possibly get interested in me.

Yes, I guess that's what I mean, Jerry.

Well, that's understandable.

I'm afraid I hurt you a great deal.

No, no, I understand how you feel.

Look, just forget everything I said, huh?

No, I think you're being quite sensible.

No, come on. I mean, where are we going tonight, Jerry?

Just forget everything I said. Please.

I came to this country, I was four years old.

My uncle had a grocery store.

My mother and my father and my sister, Evelyn,

my brother and I all lived in one room over the store.

We had rats running around there at night the size of my arm.

One night, my mother woke up screaming. There was a...

It's not a very pleasant story.

Come on, I'll take you home.

I don't seem to have the grace to be good company tonight.

Apparently, I felt more strongly about you than I thought.

I want to make it very clear, I think you're a fine man.

Look, stop worrying about me.

Actually, not only have you been honest and sensible,

but even kindly.

And since you have no feeling for me, it could only add up to grief.

This way, we nip it in the bud.

So, a small bubble of middle-aged vanity is punctured.

Listen, for heaven's sake, you've been honest and direct.

It speaks very well for you.

Anyway, I have to go back to the place tonight for an hour.

I was going to tell you about it.

We sent out the lot to the factory today

and I forgot to make the markers.

So I promised Ellman I'd... I told Ellman.

You simply don't find me attractive.

No, I think you're an attractive man.

It's the age thing.

Yes, I guess so.

Well, look...

No.

I'll live through it, I'm sure.

If you weren't such a decent man,

you'd probably make out a lot better with me.

I mean, if you were just on the make

I'd probably be saying to myself,

"I'm pretty lonely, he's a gentlemen."

The way I've been feeling lately, who cares anyway.

I think what really scares me to death

about you is that you might really fall in love with me.

I'm really in love with you now.

I know, it scares me to death.

I don't even know what really in love means.

I've never been really in love in my life.

I don't think I could do it.

Do what?

To really love somebody.

I mean, I couldn't give it back to you, do you know what I mean?

Jerry, I don't want to go home yet.

Can't we go to a movie or something, huh?

No.

I think we ought to call it quits now.

What would it add up to?

An affair? Not even an affair.

I'd be just another middle-aged man keeping a girl somewhere.

The way I feel about you, I couldn't settle for that.

Anyway, I really have to get back to the place.

Make the markers.

The lot goes into the machines in the morning.

Well, why don't you drop me off at a movie and then go back to the place?

Well, I was going to suggest, if you don't mind, sitting around

for half an hour or an hour till I copy that pattern,

we'll go have a cup of coffee somewheres.

All right.

I'll say it once and I'll never say it again.

I love you.

This won't take too long.

That's all right.

After my wife died, I used to work here every night.

Even if there was nothing to do.

I started in this business, I was 14 years old.

Delivery boy.

And I was a husky kid.

I joined the union, they made me a goon.

Got my head knocked around plenty, don't worry.

You know what went on in this business 30, 40 years ago?

The bosses hired gangsters, we hired gangsters.

People were murdered right in the streets here.

All the time I went to night school,

studied designing.

Now I got a good business,

solvent 22 years now.

Good times and bad.

Why don't you sit down in the office?

No, I'm fine.

Jerry!

I love you, Betty, I love you.

Jerry, please.

This is so silly, Jerry. Jerry, please.

I don't wanna hurt you.

I don't care if it's a thousand suits, Walter.

We're not filling that order.

Why did you take it?

It's a big account, Jerry, and you can fill it.

Sure I can fill it. I can pick up the goods on the street.

But I'd have to louse up deliveries to customers we've had 10, 20 years.

Where was this big account last week?

Are you with me, Abe?

Listen, Jerry, 200 suits.

We'd have to throw out everything we had on the tables right now...

We ain't throwing nothing out. I don't care how small the order is.

Thank you.

We promised a delivery date, we deliver.

Walter, you call Keppler up and tell them they have to wait their turn.

We don't chisel our other customers for nobody.

They can expect that same courtesy from us when their time comes.

Is that clear, Walter?

But he buys for 29 stores in the Midwest.

All right, Walter, that's all.

Abe, you cut what's on the table.

All right.

All right, come on, come on, come on.

Let's go, let's go, let's go. It's a big season.

The Christmas party isn't till tomorrow, you're still on working hours.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

Rosie, you're going to have that jacket ready for me at 4:00, right?

Jerry, for Pete's sakes.

Nobody sees us.

They all know anyway by now.

I feel everybody's looking at me all the time.

Go away with me this weekend.

It's New Year's.

Well, you're my date, aren't you?

Mmm-hmm.

We got a couple of cabins in Lake George. It's beautiful in the winter.

But you'll have to bring two minks.

The women wear their mink stoles to the restaurant for dinner

and then they wear their mink coats back to their cabins.

It's very nouveau riche. I don't have any minks.

Well, I'll buy you one. No.

Oh, nonsense. It would give me great pleasure to buy you something.

Go away with me this weekend.

Yes.

I think we should think a little about getting married.

I'm afraid I'm a terribly respectable sort of man.

I have a tendency to think in terms of marriage.

Have you thought about it at all?

I don't want to think about anything, Jerry. Let me enjoy the ride.

Should be beautiful where we're going.

Anyway, the kind of relationship we have can drift,

drag out, crumble if you don't take it seriously.

I want you to begin thinking about...

Look, I don't want to think about anything!

If I stopped to think all the time

do you think I'd be here with you now?

Going away with a man three times my age on a weekend.

I feel like a tramp, standing around in this dirty hotel.

You think I'm some little tramp right out of the gutter?

Well, I'm not! Betty!

Look, if I told my mother, she'd hit the roof.

I'm afraid to tell anyone about you.

Now you stay away from me from now on, you understand?

We're through, you understand?

Stop this nonsense. You're 24 years old. Act like it.

You'll be finished with me in a couple of weeks.

And you'll walk out on me like everyone's always walking out on me.

Nobody's walking out on you.

You'll never marry me.

Suppose I become pregnant? Suppose something like that happens?

And how do I know that your wife died? How do...

All right, now that's about enough of this childishness.

I'm not going to treat you like a kid.

Now you start acting like a woman,

or I'll turn this car around and take you right back home

and let you go through this tantrum by yourself.

Are you okay?

Jerry? Hmm?

Tell me one of those funny stories of yours.

Ah, let's see.

I ever tell you the one about the two garment manufacturers

who meet in front of a dairy restaurant on 37th Street?

First one says to the other,

"Harry, can you lend me $25 till Tuesday?"

The second one says, "Sure. Till Tuesday?"

The first one starts screaming, "Stop dunning me!"

Jerry.

How old could he have been? I don't know, maybe 15.

This happened right after the First World War.

So Nat must have been around 14 or 15.

Anyway, this big lummox of a kid...

So, go on.

He opens the dumbwaiter door and he yells up to my sister that he's delivered the meat.

My sister yells down to him in Polish, "Put it on the dumbwaiter."

So, Nat's only been in this country about two weeks.

He never saw a dumbwaiter before, he didn't know what it was.

So what happened?

He climbs on the dumbwaiter himself.

Oh, no!

Oh, Jerry! He weighed at least 200 pounds.

So my sister's pulling and pulling.

She turns to me and she says, "That butcher must have put the whole cow on there.

"I only ordered four pounds."

Oh, Jerry!

Nat's sitting there with his knees up under his chin,

thinking, "What a crazy country this America is."

Yeah, it's up there.

So, anyway,

that's how I met my best friend Nat Phillips.

I can't walk.

You know something? What?

I think it's even colder in here, than...

I know, we're gonna freeze here. Yeah.

I haven't been up in about four years.

My wife and I almost froze to death.

Wait and try and take a shower later. There's no hot water.

And I want you to know, it's costing me a fortune.

I love you.

Jerry?

You ready?

Oh, how do you do? I'm Erskine from Philadelphia,

and this is my wife.

Well, how do you do? I'm Kingsley from New York and...

Oh, New York? Yeah.

Oh, well, we have a number of New York City people here.

Oh, really. A pleasure. Yeah, this is Vogel,

also from New York City, and his wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley.

And Massey. Is that right, Massey?

From Buffalo, and his wife.

And we have a couple of young honeymooners with us tonight.

Mr. and Mrs. Sande. Isn't that right?

Hello. Also from New York City.

New Rochelle. New Rochelle. Right.

Hey, New Rochelle. I have a daughter living in New Rochelle.

Is that right? Where about?

Well, it's a new development. I don't know the name. It's just off the highway.

Oh, yes, it's very wonderful over there. Yes, very wonderful.

I'm in the... You're in the honeymoon business,

that's what you're in.

He says that once more I'm gonna belt him.

You know, you're a very attractive young woman, Mrs. Kingsley.

Well, what do you know, champagne!

Well, it's New Year's Eve.

Uh, what do you say, Mrs. Kingsley, you want some champagne?

Mmm-hmm.

Well, at the risk of being a little premature,

happy New Year to everybody.

Happy New Year.

Martinson, you old goat. Where are you living now?

Buffalo... Buffalo! That's wonderful.

Mrs. Martinson, we'll be up in your neighborhood pretty soon.

I want you to meet my wife-to-be, Miss Preisser.

We'll be visiting you pretty soon.

Niagara Falls, right? Niagara Falls.

Bartender, get my wife another drink.

Hey! Hey! What do you think of my wife?

Pretty good for an old man, eh?

Martinson, what do you think?

What do you think of my wife, eh?

Beautiful. Beautiful. Isn't she beautiful?

That's what I keep telling the boys down at the office.

No more secrets! No more under-the-cover business.

I'm not gonna meet you on street corners.

You're listening to me? Now listen to me 'cause I'm talking.

Now, listen to me, honey, I'm talking to you.

And I want you to know what I'm telling you.

You're a nice kid and I like you.

I want you to tell your mother

that I'm coming up to the apartment

just like any other human being.

'Cause I don't like meeting on street corners, you understand?

You hear me? You hear me good? Yes, yes.

I don't like it. I don't like it.

I'm sorry, Betty.

It's fine. Come on.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Down you go.

Oh, I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't take it.

I'm an old goat. I'm an old goat. I'm an old goat.

I...

Fine, now. Come on.

Let me get the shirt off you, okay?

Oh, I'm sorry, Betty.

I'm not worried so much about my mother.

She'll raise the roof for a week or so but she'll get over it.

It's your family I'm worried about, Jerry.

I mean, you got two kids older than me.

Oh, these things are always exaggerated.

I mean, they won't call you mother or anything.

They'll call you Betty, like everybody else.

Oh, these things always work out in time.

The question is, can we be happy together?

That's the only question involved in any marriage.

I don't know, Jerry.

Well, then, let's put it this way.

Do you love me?

I don't know.

You're the only person I've ever cared about in my whole life.

I'd do anything in the world to make you happy.

Well, that's love.

I'm just afraid I'll make you unhappy.

You make me happy.

Listen, I got plenty of worries of my own about getting married.

Children. Is it fair to have children at my age?

Maybe I'll become a jealous old fool,

hiring private detectives to check on his young wife all the time.

All I know is I love you.

I love you so much I can't tell you.

I can't let you get away from me.

My whole life has been a joy since I know you.

Joy to wake up in the morning, joy to go to work.

I gotta have you around me to look at you, to touch you.

I mean, you're an obsession.

That's what love is, an obsession.

I love you, Betty.

More than I've ever loved anything in my life.

It's all right with me, Jerry.

Let's consider ourselves engaged.

And now she tells me she wants to marry him.

He's 56 years old.

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

Why aren't you doing your homework?

Go tell her it's almost 7:30.

He'll be here any minute.

How do I look?

Oh, sure.

I had a long talk with her last night.

She thinks she's having a big romance with Spencer Tracy.

Lots of girls get crushes on older men

because they're debonair, they know a couple of headwaiters.

I had a girlfriend who went with a married man for eight years.

She finally had a nervous breakdown.

That's very encouraging.

She's still nuts about George.

Oh, well, George was a bum, too.

All men, I think, are bums.

Take my husband. He went out to get a pack of cigarettes one day.

The next time I heard from him he was an actor in Ohio writing me for a divorce.

I was left with two little kids on my hands.

One of them not even a year old.

And I have scrubbed floors so my two girls... Floors.

...could be raised as decent girls. Decent girls.

And what's more I've never interfered with either of them, either.

In fact, half the time I don't know what they're doing

or where they are.

I remember saying to Betty once.

She was about 14, I guess. I said, "Betty, how's your school going?

"You should be graduating public school pretty soon now."

And she said, "Oh, Ma, I've been in high school almost a year."

Well, I just mention that, you know,

to show you how little I meddle in their lives.

Oh, it's the truth, it really is.

I try to be a good mother. But, I don't know,

kids are more bother than they're worth.

That's the truth.

Well, I'm not going to interfere now, either.

She wouldn't listen to anything I say anyway.

She's willful and headstrong and I've never been able to tell her anything.

But you're not gonna marry any old man old enough to be your father.

Over my dead body, you will.

Over my dead body, she will.

Dead body?

Well, I just think I should say something. I'm her mother, you know.

Oh, it's true.

Oh, it's 7:30. Where is he?

There he is.

Oh, my shoes. Wait a minute, I can't...

Never mind, I got them off. Okay, Ma.

Now don't kick him in the shins the minute he walks in the door, okay?

I'm not gonna kick him in the shins.

I suppose I ought to go, but I'd love to have a look at him.

Well, will somebody get the door, please?

Well... You want me to take it?

Yeah, will you get the door?

I'll be right there.

What shall I do? Shall I just stand here?

I'll just stay back here out of the way.

How do you do? How do you do?

My name is Kingsley.

Oh, how do you do, I'm Betty's friend, Marilyn.

I was downtown shopping today, and my husband took the kids to my mother-in-law's.

So I just thought that I'd stop by.

Maybe Betty would want to see a downtown movie.

'Cause I don't get along with my mother-in-law at all.

Won't you come in, please?

Well, I tell you, I'm soaking wet with snow here

and I wouldn't want to dirty up your carpets.

How do you do there? How do you do?

Well, come in the house, for heaven sakes.

Well, I tell you we're a little late as it is

and I have tickets here for a play.

So just to come in for a couple of minutes,

it really isn't worth the trouble.

Give me your coat. I'll hang it up in the bathroom.

Thank you, I'm fine.

Well, I'm Betty's mother. How do you do?

Oh, well, how do you do, Mrs. Mueller?

Will you excuse me for a minute?

Yes, certainly.

He don't look like no Spencer Tracy to me.

It really is snowing out, isn't it?

Yes, it's coming down quite heavily.

I told her you were here. She'll be out in a minute.

This is my younger daughter, Alice. Mmm-hmm.

She's just 17.

She goes to George Washington High School.

And this is my neighbor, Mrs. Carroll.

Neighbor, Mrs. Carroll.

She comes in about this time every night, when I come home from work,

to just pass the time of day.

Pass the time of day.

Oh, I'm very pleased to meet you all.

Mr. Kingsley, don't you think you're being a little silly running around with a kid

only half your age? Now, you look like a sensible man.

Mrs. Mueller, I don't think that this is quite the time...

Look, after all, I am her mother. I think I should say something.

You know, it's like that old woman upstairs.

She 60 years old, if she's a day,

and she wears purple lipstick and dyes her hair a different color every week,

and I think it's disgusting. Ma.

Well, I'm only saying what has to be said.

I'll be ready in a minute, Jerry.

Well, Betty, after all, I am your mother.

Well, you sure picked the wrong time to decide to be my mother.

Mr. Kingsley, listen.

My husband abandoned me with two small kids.

You know, one of them couldn't even walk yet.

And I had to scrub floors.

Look, I went down on my hands and knees and sacrificed my life

so my two girls could have clothes on their back and a decent education.

And I don't want my daughters, who are decent girls,

to go running around with any old wolf

just because he's got some money.

Come on, go!

I don't care if you are her boss.

She's not working for you anymore anyway, you hear?

People upstairs are... You lousy old men are all alike.

Always hanging around young kids.

They ought to put your kind in jail.

A bunch of dirty old men!

Look, I'm her mother and I want some respect, you hear me?

Well, you finally met my mother.

Oh, boy.

Did you tell your family, yet?

I mentioned something to my sister.

My kids will be at the house tomorrow. I'll tell them.

Good.

I'll try it out on Lockman in the morning.

You're in a little early.

I got Kennedy, Manhattan Hotel, 10:00.

Yeah.

Have a nice New Year's?

Good.

I'm getting married, Walter.

What do you think of the idea?

Oh, that's marvelous, Jerry.

It's our Betty, the receptionist.

What do you think, you're keeping it a state secret, huh?

Only last week Bobby Moselle said to me,

"What is this I hear about Jerry running around with a young chicken?"

Well, I couldn't be happier for you, Jerry.

She's a nice-looking kid.

And she's got herself the nicest man in the business.

Uh-huh.

I don't mind telling you I'm scared stiff.

If any of my friends told me he was marrying a 24-year-old kid,

I'd tell him he must be crazy.

I keep telling myself, "What am I getting involved here?"

I got a nice life, good business, good landlord,

he gives us heat in the winter.

Why do I need to get tied up with a wild young kid

who's going to break my heart in a couple of years, sure as shooting?

Last night, we set the date for May 15th.

This morning I woke up and I almost called her on the phone and said,

"Betty, we better forget the whole thing."

Do it, Jerry. Take my advice.

I didn't hear you, Walter.

I said, if she wants to marry you, marry her.

How many years you got left in your life

you can afford to throw away even a couple of good ones?

What are you living for, anyway?

To get up in the morning, to go to work,

to come home, to get dinner? This is a life?

It's my life.

Here I am 59 years old now. What have I had?

What has happened to me for 59 years?

Half my life married to a woman I never loved.

Who never loved me.

Now it's too late.

I haven't had 10 cents' worth of life.

Not a dime, believe me.

Oh, I've got four children, whom I loved.

They send me postcards,

pictures of the grandchildren.

Why am I bothering you?

You've been through all this with me for 20 years.

I know what you think of me, Jerry.

No, you don't know what I think of you.

You think I'm an old bum,

letching after $50 sluts.

A pincher, a fool.

To me, you've always been a kind, generous man.

Look, if I told you that I didn't go near another woman for 30 years,

would you believe me?

Well, I've known you and Lucy for 20-odd years.

I was afraid.

I was afraid to go out and grab a little bit of life for myself.

Why do you suppose I go around with these sluts?

Because I'm having a second childhood?

You want to know, I'll tell you.

Because every once in a while for a half an hour

I kid myself a woman likes me.

Even if it is on an expense account.

I tell you, I don't care anymore.

I don't even feel like killing myself.

I'll go on

getting postcards.

And when they bury me, they can put on the gravestone,

"This was a big waste of time."

Tell you something else.

You believe all those stories I tell you about my tootsies?

Don't believe them.

I haven't been good for a woman for two years.

Ah!

Ah, well...

What are you gonna do?

Marry her, that's what you'll do.

Take my advice.

Good morning, boss.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right, Walter.

Keep it under your hat for a while, eh?

I haven't told my kids yet, you know.

You know.

I'm sure Evelyn has by now.

Oh, so, come in.

Where is he? He's in there.

He's just finished taking a shower.

So, we're sitting down to dinner and he says to me,

"I've been going out with a girl."

Well, I think a 45-year-old girl, 50-year-old girl.

It turns out later it's a 24-year-old girl.

Mmm.

I couldn't eat. I didn't say anything, I kept my mouth shut.

But I was sick.

Jack, you'd better call home and tell the babysitter we'll be a little late.

I'll be right out.

Take your time.

Well, I don't know what you want me to say to him, Evelyn.

Don't say nothing.

I wasn't supposed to tell you about this girl.

Oh!

Oh, hello, Bernice.

Listen, Bernice, this Mr. Englander.

Uh, listen, I think we're gonna be a little late tonight.

Gee, I don't know, about 1:00 or 1:30.

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, about 1:00 or 1:30.

So, better call your mother.

Well, listen, you feel he intends to marry this girl? Is that why you're so upset?

Look, why should he tell me about this girl?

I don't know what he does with his nights.

I don't want to know.

He calls up, he tells me he's not coming home for dinner, all right.

All right, so that's his business.

So, why should he bother to tell me about this girl unless it's a serious business?

I just don't want him to do something he'll regret the rest of his life.

All right, Evelyn. Now, you listen to me.

My father is a secure and adjusted man who can lead his own life.

Don't take out your neurotic anxieties on him.

Hmm?

You go into an emotional panic every time another woman even looks at him.

What are you talking about?

I'm simply saying, let him lead his own life.

I just don't want him to do something impetuous

he'll regret the rest of his life.

Hello, Jack, boy, how are you?

Hey, Jerry. How are you? Hi, Pa.

I just got in about half an hour ago myself.

I was soaking wet, I was walking in the snow there.

Took a hot shower and I feel wonderful.

Hello, Lillian, sweetheart. How are you?

Where were you all tonight? Paul's?

Yeah, we went over to Paul's house...

Why such a big hug?

Oh, I just haven't seen you in a couple of weeks. I missed you.

Um, I called you practically every night last week

and you weren't in, and then you didn't show up New Year's Eve...

Well, I haven't seen you in more than three weeks.

Now, listen, give me some fruit and I'll tell you all about it.

Hey, listen, Jerry, we're going to Florida a week from Monday...

Hey, you lucky bums, you both.

But I'll tell you something, I like snow. Ah!

All of a sudden, I like snow. I used to hate it.

Remember, Lillian, how I used to hate the winter? Yeah.

Always, I took my vacation in winter.

My wife and I, every winter, Florida, California.

Now I go for walks.

If I told you how much I walked in the snow tonight,

and that's a blizzard out there, I bet you six, seven inches.

Like a lunatic, I started walking up Broadway.

I got to 118th Street,

I suddenly stopped and said, "What, am I crazy?"

I want you to know, Evelyn, I did not wear rubbers, I did not wear galoshes.

I came home, I was soaking wet and I feel wonderful.

So, you're going to Florida, eh? Your first time, right? That's right.

Oh, you'll have a wonderful time. The height of the season.

Jack, did you make reservations? Oh, no...

I know some people down there, I'll call them for you. Good, good.

Give a knife, eh, Evelyn, please, eh?

So, when are you going? A week from Monday, yeah?

Are you going by plane, train, what?

I don't know. Listen, I want to tell you something.

I figured I'd drive up tomorrow and see you,

but as long as you're here, I'll go see Paul tomorrow.

How is he, by the way? And Elizabeth? Good. They're good.

Haven't seen them in a couple of months now.

Thank you.

Well, anyway...

Evelyn tell you anything?

I didn't say nothing.

You told me to say nothing, that's what I said.

Well...

I've decided to get married again.

Hey, Jerry. Oh, that's wonderful. Congratulations.

Oh, thank you. Thank you.

You're going to get married?

Oh, I'll tell you the whole story.

Well, do we know the woman, Pa?

Oh, now, you might. I don't know.

She's a girl who works up in my office.

You probably saw her there.

Blonde girl, receptionist.

The model who sits in front of Caroline.

Oh, Jerry, that's wonderful.

Oh, well, thank you, Jack. I think you should know, she's quite a young woman.

Twenty-four years old. She's younger than you are, Lillian.

Ooh!

I've been seeing her for a couple of months, and it just seems that this is it.

Well, that's just terrific, Jerry.

Gee, that's wonderful, Pa. I'm really very happy for you.

Oh, thank you, sweetheart. Thank you.

We've tentatively set the date for May.

Oh!

And once you know her, I'm sure you'll be less cautious

in your enthusiasm for her.

Oh!

We ought to set up some kind of dinner.

Jerry. What are you doing?

Do you know what you're doing? What's the matter with you?

Evelyn, let me stop you before you even start.

For heaven's sake, honestly, for heaven's sake,

all right, you come in, you...

You tell me a 24-year-old girl.

What's the matter with you?

You're a sensible man, for the love of heaven.

Our brother, Herman, who is a fool,

this I could expect from him.

But you, you're the sensible one.

Oh, for heaven's sakes, what's the matter with you?

I have to admit, Lillian, I had hoped for a little more enthusiasm from you.

Just a little shocked, Pa, to tell you the truth.

It's really not such a shocking thing.

I'm going to get married, that's all.

Well...

Of course, she's a young girl,

and this presents a number of problems but...

It never works out.

I could tell you 10 cases.

When I had my apartment over in Brooklyn,

there was a man living in the building.

Fifty-nine years old, he ran away with a 16-year-old girl.

Oh, it was in all the papers and everything.

What a scandal! Jerry!

Jerry, don't do something you'll regret the rest of your life.

You're 56 years old.

You're a man settled in habits, you like to come home, you look at television.

So you want to get married, marry someone your own age.

Who is this girl? I want to know, who is this girl?

She sees a nice rich fellow, has a good business, makes a good living.

She sees herself living in a fancy apartment with fancy clothes.

Evelyn, now don't get so excited. You're beginning to say a lot of foolish things.

Is she going to move in here?

A married couple usually live together.

All right.

All right, so you want to marry the girl, marry her.

You want me to move out of the house?

All right, I'll pack my clothes, I'll move out.

Is that what's bothering you?

What's bothering me is that you're making a fool of yourself.

You're making a fool of yourself, Jerry, I'm telling you right to your face.

It's bad enough to have an affair with this girl, but marriage? Don't be a fool.

It never works out. Max Colman, you remember?

I could tell you 100 cases.

Max Colman married a girl of 34,

already a young woman, not a kid anymore,

and you saw what happened.

One year. One year and they were divorced.

All right, you want me to move out? I'll pack my clothes and I'll move out.

Lillian, I sense you have reservations about this, too.

You remember Harry Wolfson? Used to live over on Eastern Parkway?

He, too, had a big romance with a young girl.

A man gets to middle age, he goes crazy.

What's so terrible about middle age?

I'm physically in tiptop shape.

Nat Phillips has been trying to get me interested in golf.

Son of a gun, I'm gonna take him up on it.

Max Colman married a girl of 34...

Max Colman is an idiot, was an idiot and always will be.

And don't say you're in such tiptop shape.

You're not such an athlete anymore.

You, you've been complaining about your back for a good couple of years.

Look, this is not a rash decision on my part.

I'm a businessman, I don't jump into propositions.

Are you kidding yourself? This girl is in love with you?

Evelyn, this is really none of your business.

You said you wanted to discuss it.

I made an announcement. I didn't open the floor for discussion.

I'm not a kid we're deciding to send to summer camp.

I'm not a family problem.

All right. All right, Pa.

You want me to pack up and move out, I'll pack up and move out.

Evelyn, don't get so upset.

My whole life I gave up for my brothers and sisters.

My whole life.

Mama died. Who brought up the family?

My whole life, I gave up.

Nobody said you have to move.

Maybe we'll get a bigger apartment, I don't know.

These things we'll have to work out.

I wouldn't live in the same house with that tramp.

All right, now, shut up.

For heaven's sake, the world isn't coming to an end.

I'm just going to get married.

Don't get angry.

Listen, Jerry, don't get yourself upset.

Yeah.

All she's worried about is if she's gonna have to move out of the house.

She's the older sister.

She feels everybody has to have her approval.

That's why my brother, Herman, never got married.

She wouldn't approve of any girl.

Pa, try to understand, her position in your house is threatened.

She's fighting, that's all.

I'll tell you something,

it's important to me that a young girl finds me attractive.

I didn't know it was so important, but it is.

She needs me, you understand, Lillian?

It's a long time since somebody needed me.

My kids are all grown up, with children of their own.

I'm a man who has to give of himself.

I don't have to justify myself.

I decided to get married, and that's all.

Nobody said "no," Pa.

All right, she's a kid. Apparently, I'm attracted to childish women.

Your own mother, she should rest in peace,

till the day she died she was 15 years old.

This girl needs an older man, she's that kind of a kid.

She's so hungry for love.

It's like an orphan, like a baby.

There's such a delight in her...

Do you also think I'm making a fool of myself, Lillian?

Pa, it's not my business to interfere in your life.

You're a grown man, you know what you're doing.

Oh, I don't know what I'm doing.

I just have such a love for this girl, it's...

It's nonsense for me to try to reason it out.

Well, I never met the girl, of course, Pa.

Your opinion has always been very important to me, Lillian.

Don't go home, yet, Lillian.

I'm just looking for my cigarettes.

Listen, Jerry.

Jerry, do you love her?

Like a schoolboy.

If you can remember what it was like when you had your first crush on a girl.

Well, that's the whole thing. Marry her and get it over with.

Oh, you just sit down and stay out of this. This is family business.

You have nothing to do with it.

Listen, Pa, I'm going to be frank with you.

This relationship, to say the least, seems to be a neurotic one.

The girl, apparently, is infantile in many ways,

otherwise she wouldn't have to look at older men.

It seems like a terribly dependant relationship

and does not sound like the basis for a sound marriage to me.

She looks to you as a father image, apparently, and...

The whole things sounds like you want to adopt her rather than to marry her.

Lily, Lily.

Jack, please. Your father is nobody's fool.

Jack, please. He's going to get married, that's all.

All he wants to know is that you're gonna be happy for him.

But I just don't want him to do something he'll regret the rest of his life.

All right. All right.

We've discussed it enough.

I'd go out for a walk except it's snowing so much.

Yet, I can't stand snow.

I wish I was going to Florida with you.

I'm going to bed, I'm tired.

I'm usually asleep by this hour.

When you get to my age... Pa, all I'm trying to say is...

All right, I don't want to talk about it anymore!

What do you think, I am an absolute fool?

There'll be a dinner. Next week, here.

Evelyn, you'll make a dinner.

A handsome table with our best linens,

and the silverware we use only for holidays.

And you'll treat her with respect because she's gonna be my wife.

And you'll treat my wife with respect

or you'll never come in my house anymore, all of you.

Is that clear? All right, Pa.

You'll make a dinner here next Tuesday night.

You'll call Paul and Elizabeth. I want them here, too.

All right, Jerry.

All right, all right, we'll have the dinner and we'll meet the girl,

but I tell you right now, nothing will come of this.

Your father is a sensible man.

In the end, he'll break it off himself.

I knew this was gonna happen. I knew it.

I knew it. All his friends have moved to California or they died and...

Naturally, he's going to get...

Lily, can we go home? It's getting late.

Now, listen, Jack, I don't think I can get away at this time to go to Florida.

My father is going through a very crucial period.

Boy! Oh, boy.

You are...

You are just great. You know that?

You're just... You're great!

Do you know that?

Sure, the trouble with Evelyn is she's got the neurotic attachment, huh?

Oh, boy! Oh, boy, oh, boy!

A man comes to you, he says he wants to get married,

and you whacked him across the face with some kind of two-bit psychology.

What is that?

Huh?

And you can't go to Florida now!

Oh, boy! I knew it! I knew it!

Your father needs you! Your father needs you!

Boy, your father needs you like a hole in the head, that's how he needs you!

How many times have I heard it?

My father needs me! My father needs me!

You need your father, that's what.

I knew we weren't going to Florida! I knew it!

Jack... Ah, you... You...

You're the one! You're all tied up with your father!

It took me two years to get you to move to New Rochelle!

You can't live half an hour away from your father! Do you know that?

Now, listen, Jack...

Shut up! Just shut up! Shut up!

I'm going to Florida, you hear me? I don't care whether you come or not.

Everything is for your father.

Three times a week you got to call him on the phone.

I'm your husband! Don't you know that yet?

How about me? I'm your husband.

I want to go on a vacation! How about thinking about me sometimes

instead of your lousy father?

Well, I'm sorry, Lil.

Listen, could we go home? It's getting late. What do you say?

I didn't know you felt so strongly about my father.

Lillian, please, I've got to drive the babysitter home!

Yeah. All right.

Evelyn, call me if anything happens.

Don't worry. You go home with Jack. All right.

He's just tired and nervous.

All right. Goodbye. Listen, call me if anything happens.

Nothing's going to happen. We'll have the dinner,

but, I assure you, it will never come to a wedding.

All right, call me.

Well, Liz, there are other kids in the class. They have to...

Well, of course, Jack.

I put him in this school because of their reputation for group play.

So, I fell right off the old man's lap and right out of the car.

Oh!

Somebody must have left the door open or something.

So, they didn't even discover I was gone.

They kept driving along for about three or four blocks and...

All four-year-old boys manifest aggressive tendencies.

Yes, but, you know, he can't go around breaking windows...

It was not a hostile act.

Finally my mother says, "Where's Paul?"

So, they turned around and drove back four blocks,

and there I was sitting right in the middle of the road and playing.

It was just assertiveness. The other boy was projecting his anxiety.

Now you're talking.

So, anyhow, I was thrown out of the car,

then they discovered I was missing, so they turned around...

She's really very, very nice, and you are an old rake.

Quiet! Quiet!

Quiet!

With all our love. The boss is getting a wonderful gal

and we are losing a wonderful pal.

Let me kiss her, will you?

Every time I've come up here I've tried to make a date with this girl

and she wouldn't give me a tumble.

At least I can get a congratulatory kiss.

Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

Just on the cheek. That's all, on the cheek.

That's all.

Betty, we're all going to miss you so much.

Tell everybody how much I was so thrilled about it.

Shall I call Mrs. Lockman?

No. Go on home. I'll call his son.

All right. Betty, you be happy and have a wonderful life.

I will.

We're all very happy for you, sweetheart.

Good night, Mr. Kingsley.

Good night, honey. Good night, Betty darling.

You might as well go home, too. I'll have to take care of him.

Can I do something?

No. No, I'll call his son, we'll take care of him.

I didn't have a chance to apologize for being so disagreeable last night.

Oh, we're both so silly, I cried all night.

I called you as soon as I got up this morning, but your line...

I must have been trying to call you at the same time. Your line was busy, too.

Oh, I adore you.

Do you know what it was we both got so mad at each other about?

No, no.

When I seem to get disagreeable for no reason, be patient with me.

Just remember I'm scared of things you wouldn't understand

because you're just a kid.

I can't tell you how often recently I've found myself thinking about dying.

Dying to you is something that happens to old relatives,

but it's a very intimate business to me.

I don't expect you to understand this,

but in those moments when I'm suddenly impossible to live with,

that's probably what's at the bottom of my bad temper.

I'm very happy with you, Jerry.

And I adore you.

Now, go on home. Where's your coat? I'll call you later.

You know, I think it was so really sweet of all those people

to go out on such short notice. Will you thank them for me?

I will indeed.

Boy, I'm a little tight, you know. I had six drinks.

Yeah, I know.

You'll call me as soon as you get home?

As soon as I get home. Okay.

Jerry,

you're not Mr. Lockman.

Are we so different?

Hey, Ma! Oh, Ma, I'm sorry I'm late,

but they threw me a party down at the office.

Jerry called everyone together.

Marilyn's here.

Oh, hi, Marilyn. Hi, Betty.

Listen, what are you doing tonight? I'll treat you to a movie, okay?

How's Frank and the kids?

Oh, they're all right. That's great. Listen...

Anyway, Jerry called everyone together just before lunch

and announced our engagement.

Well, I don't know where they found the time, but look what they bought me.

Oh, it's lovely. It's a cigarette box.

Ma, you see the inscription on it? I cried.

I was quite touched. Then before I knew it,

there was a hundred people in there and we had drinks out of paper cups

and somebody sent out for sandwiches and we just had a ball.

Oh, Ma, I won't be but a minute, okay?

Then we'll go to a movie, huh? My treat.

Hurry up! Supper's almost ready. Don't be long!

It just broke up about 20 minutes ago, the party, I mean.

They threw me a party down at the office.

No kidding. Look what they gave me.

What is it, gold?

You know, it's the first party anyone ever gave for me in my life, I think.

Everyone congratulated me.

You know, I'm beginning to think I'd like a real big wedding.

I'll have to mention that to Jerry.

Boy, I like having a fuss made over me.

I don't mind saying I'm a little tight, too.

You know me, one whiff, and you got to look for me on the ceiling.

I don't think I've ever had such a fine time.

Everyone in the world kissed me.

You know something, it would be nice to have a real wedding,

with white gown and all, maybe a small dance combination.

With George at the piano.

Hey, did you see this?

Are you really going to marry this man?

Of course I am.

Oh, I think Betty is nuts.

So do I.

You're making a big mistake, Betty.

Look, I know you feel that way.

This man's going on 60.

He's 56.

You know what I'm talking about.

I think you underestimate 56-year-old men.

In 10 years, he's going to be 66.

An old man of 66 with white hair.

How about kids?

Is this old man going to give you kids?

Because, let me tell you something, after a couple of years,

that's all there is.

Your kids.

You had a good marriage going for you with George.

I never understood why you broke up.

He was nuts about you.

Which is more than most of us can say for our husbands.

All right, he was a little wild, but he was settling down.

He made pretty good money for a musician.

He could have got himself a steady job.

You get yourself a little house, a TV set

and have some kids. What else do you want out of life?

And one thing you know,

George isn't going to be 66 in 10 years.

Ah, what are you doing with this old man?

You're in it up to your neck now. You've announced your engagement.

You quit your job. Now, how are you going to get out of it?

I don't want to get out of it.

Oh, come on.

Betty, I know you for a long time, I'm your best friend.

You're going to hop from one man to another the rest of your life.

I give you one year with this old man and then you'll be over at my house

like you were with George, crying your eyes out,

talking about sticking your head in the oven.

Take my advice.

Call the musicians union, find out where George is playing.

Call him on the telephone long distance,

and say, "George, I'm coming back to you."

'Cause he'll take you back in a minute.

I don't love George, Marilyn.

Love? What's that?

Will you let me finish up in here?

I'll put on some makeup... Oh, you talk like a kid.

Oh, you think life is a lot of fun?

Life is lousy.

You pay the rent and you got to sleep.

Frank goes bowling once a week,

I get downtown every Thursday to do a little shopping.

You keep moving along, till you lie down and you die. That's what life is.

Look, I'd rather stick my head in the oven.

I suppose you love this old man?

I make him happy, Marilyn.

It's the first person I've ever made happy.

I get a big charge out of seeing how happy he is.

Does he make you happy?

I don't know. I don't want to think about it.

All right. It's your life. You live it.

Look, Marilyn.

I'm having dinner with you people, okay?

He is the most wonderful man that I have ever known in my life.

I don't have to beg him for kindness. He gives it to me with both hands.

I don't know if I love him.

I'm so scared of this marriage,

sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night

and I feel like I'm strangling.

He's beginning to act moody lately

and gets these little fits of jealousy.

Sometimes I wish I could just run away, but...

Well, I can't walk out on him now because...

Look, I don't want to talk about it.

I'm gonna marry him. That's all there is to it.

Betty, you're getting yourself

into a basket of trouble. I don't want to talk about it.

Now would you let me finish up in here? I'll be right out, okay?

Betty? Marilyn, will you lay off?

All right. It's your life.

That's right.

I'll wait in the kitchen for you.

Look, you want to have dinner with us tonight? Then, we'll go to a movie, huh?

Yeah, swell.

Okay.

I'll wait outside.

Look, don't bother me with it. Take care of it yourself.

Come on! Come on! For Pete's sake! Hurry up! Hurry up!

Bunch of old ladies. Hurry up!

Called my fianc�e yet?

There was no answer, Mr. Kingsley.

Well, tell me if there's no answer!

Don't just leave me guessing what happened!

Why did you bring that stuff in here for?

We've got a delivery entrance at the back on 36th Street.

You young guys, all delivering stuff out here in the front,

bothering the girls all the time. These girls got work to do.

They don't have time to flirt with you young wise guys.

All right, come on. As long as you got it here, pull it in the back.

Kind of heavy. I'm waiting for my buddy.

All right. I'll pull it in for you.

No!

Let him help you. Mr. Kingsley. No! It's not so heavy.

What do they pay you guys for anyway?

You want to dance?

Yeah, all right.

Hey, Betty!

Oh, hi, Mickey.

Saw George yesterday. He was asking about you.

Who's that?

Friend of my husband's. I mean, my ex-husband's.

What did he want?

He just said hello, that's all.

So your husband's back in town. That's nice.

Did he try to get in touch with you?

No.

Did you know he was back?

I don't care to see him. Why?

I don't know. I just don't care to see him, that's all.

Are you afraid of him?

No, I'm not afraid of him.

No doubt you still have a certain feeling for him.

After all, you were married to him for three years.

He must have meant something to you.

You told me yourself you were always tremendously attracted to him.

I don't remember saying that. Oh, you told me a hundred times

that he was physically very attractive to you.

Look, Jerry,

I can't stand these little jealous fits you've been getting into lately.

You've gone out of your way to tell me what a good-looking chap he was

and how crazy all the girls were about him.

Jerry, please, I...

Listen, if you were physically attracted to him, say so.

All right! I was physically attracted to him.

Well, what kind of a lover was he?

Was he wild, savage, gentle, casual? I don't...

I don't want to talk about it.

Why are you so frightened of him?

I want to go home, Jerry.

He must have been a very ardent fellow. I don't

feel very well, Jerry. I want to... You've always made

a point of what a passionate fellow he was. Jerry, please!

I'm sorry.

Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then.

Look, maybe it'd be better if we just didn't see each other for a few days.

All right. Get out of the car, if you're in such a hurry.

Look, I don't know what's the matter with you, Jerry, these last few weeks.

You've been in one temper after another. Well, I can't stand it.

Maybe we shouldn't get married right away.

Maybe we ought to wait a couple of months.

I don't know what to do with you, Jerry.

I just can't stand... All right!

Look, maybe we're making a mistake.

Maybe we ought to call the whole thing off!

I don't know what to do with you, Jerry.

I got this terrible headache. I want to go upstairs.

Betty, don't throw me away.

I can't stand it, Jerry. I don't know what you want!

Please, Betty!

I'm jealous. I'm afraid of every young man I see.

I just want to know you love me.

Don't make me beg for it.

I love you!

All right.

Get away from me.

Betty!

What?

I didn't hear what you said.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Yeah, all right.

I'll call you.

All right, I'll call you.

I'm sorry if I woke you, Ma.

Listen, George is here.

Where? Here?

Yeah, he showed up about half-past 8:00.

I told him you were out, but he just sat around waiting.

Oh. You know, he looks great.

He says he's got himself a steady job now

with the National Broadcasting Company, or something like that.

Well, for Pete's sakes.

So, hello, Betty.

I hear you've been waiting all night.

Yeah, I wanted to see you.

Well, if you'd have just called and said you were coming...

I saw Mickey Healy at the old club tonight.

He said you were back from Las Vegas.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, when did you get in?

Last night, about 2:00 in the morning.

Oh.

You look great.

He came about half-past 8:00.

I told him you were out on a date,

so we just sat around here talking.

Yeah, he said he saw Marlene Dietrich.

He said she's just beautiful.

What happened was that

her accompanist got sick, so I played for her.

Well, I'll take off my coat.

You look wonderful, George.

Man, I want a woman

Wherever she may be

I wrote that song when I was out there.

It was very interesting cutting it, you know.

Then there a couple of eight-bar phrases and it goes...

My lips, my arms

My body says baby come to me

So I hear you got a staff job at NBC, huh?

Well, no, not exactly. I got a buddy of mine who's a staff piano man at NBC.

He says he can get me in, though.

Probably one of the bigger independents.

Tony's band broke up, you know.

So he was trying to get together a four-piece group

because he had a gig out in San Francisco,

but he had Hal Waters with him.

And I don't get along with Hal Waters, you know.

Hal Waters, that was the horn man, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, some horn man. Oh.

He couldn't even blow his nose. What a horn man.

Anyway, I was getting tired of knocking around.

So, Eddie Johnson,

he used to play in the pit in the Roxy before they put in Cinemascope.

I think you met him once, huh?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, anyway.

So he wrote to me and he said there's going to be a spot open

for a good staff piano man with a classical background on WPAT.

That's out in New Jersey.

I figure it's steady work, it's steady hours,

good bread, a couple of hundred bucks a week.

So I wired Eddie. I said, "See what you can do for me,"

and then I took the next train in.

I thought we might have a beer together, Betty.

I hope we're still friends.

Didn't you tell him, Ma?

What?

I'm getting married.

Oh, yeah. Your mother told me. Nearly knocked me right off the chair.

Good luck.

So, how about that beer?

Maybe tomorrow, George, I'm a little upset tonight.

Hey, I haven't seen you in a year.

One year, two weeks and four days.

Say, listen, we've got beer right here in the kitchen.

Alice and I are going to sleep now.

So why don't you stay here and talk?

I'll get you a beer.

Hey, you seen anybody we know?

No, mostly Marilyn.

Oh, yeah.

George, will you excuse me, please? I've gotta get up early.

Oh, sure. You do just that.

Well, how about Tommy Drew, huh?

Or Cindy or Elliott? Any of the old bunch?

No. I haven't seen anyone.

Yeah?

Hey, why don't you go to sleep, huh?

So, one year, two weeks and four days, huh?

How about that?

Why'd you look me up, George?

Well, it seems natural to me.

A man pays a social call on his ex-wife.

Look, you want me to cut out, I'll cut out.

No. Finish your beer.

Aren't you glad to see me at all?

No, I'm not, George.

Didn't you ever think about me?

Sure. I thought about you a lot.

I missed you so much those first couple of months.

I used to do nothing. Just lie in my hotel room and smoke.

I can just see that.

Well, yeah, sure. I used to play around a little bit afterwards.

But they're all just a bag of bones compared to you.

You didn't even write.

Neither did you.

I still don't know what went wrong with us.

Because, I'll tell you this right now,

you're the only girl that ever really meant anything to me at all.

I don't know why that should be,

'cause there's plenty of nice-looking heads around,

especially in Vegas, and you...

Boy, you sure make me miserable.

I never looked at another woman in all the time we were married.

That's pretty good for me.

How did we ever get to the point where we couldn't stand

looking at each other anymore?

We just didn't love each other.

What are you talking about?

I have to restrain myself right now from putting my hands on you.

Look, we're just a couple of animals.

Good night, George.

Good night, Ma.

Look, what I'm trying to tell you is

that the only reason I came back here now is to beg you to come back to me.

Because I can't keep you out of my mind.

Why, if you'd have said that six months ago,

I'd have run all the way to Las Vegas.

How tied up are you with this old man?

I'm very tied up, George.

Yeah? When are you supposed to get married?

I don't know.

We had a fight tonight.

What about?

Nothing.

What do you mean? What sort of a man is he?

He's a nice man, George.

Betty, I love you.

I'll see you, George.

Yeah, I'll see you.

I love you.

Will you leave me alone, George?

Will you cut it out? Just say it.

Just say what?

That you still got a thing for me.

All right, I still have a thing for you.

Two months after you marry this old man you'll be meeting me at night anyway,

so why bother getting married?

George, will you leave me alone?

I swear I'll keep you happy. We'll get married again.

I'll take this lousy staff job.

Betty, I love you.

Don't love me.

Just give me a half hour, I'll show you how much I love you.

Sure, that's all you ever wanted from me was half hours.

Don't you make a pass at me, George.

All right. All right, anything you say.

And don't you tell me how beautiful I am.

And don't tell me how much you desire me

'cause I'm sick of being desirable.

I'd like to think that I had something more to give a man than this.

I'd like to think that I could make somebody a home.

I feel lousy...

I just want to go to sleep and never wake up.

You get out of here, George.

You're just waiting to get me in that living room. Well, you get out of here!

Leave me alone! Come on, baby, take it easy, will you, please?

Tell me what to do. I can't think what to do, George!

I don't want to think about anything. I'm going to sleep.

I want to be alone.

Everybody's always sleeping in this house.

Well, how was Nevada?

Why don't you tell me about it?

You want to watch TV?

I was thinking.

Maybe I'll move out to Colorado.

I was talking to Marilyn's cousin

and he says that Denver is a beautiful place.

You've been on one of those cruises in the Caribbean, huh, George?

What's it like out there in Cuba and Puerto Rico?

I'd like to feel a little sunshine, you know.

I mean, I just can't stand all this rain all the time.

I just want to get away from here. I just want to run away.

I'm no good.

George...

Why don't you help me?

What do you want me to do?

I...

I just want to run away.

I just want to run away.

Oh, God. Oh, God.

I wish I were dead.

I'm sorry I called you this early.

I had no idea it was gonna snow like this.

I think it'll turn to rain 'cause the papers said rain.

What is it you couldn't tell me over the phone?

I don't know.

It doesn't seem so terrible now that you're here.

I need you too much, Jerry.

I almost called you about 10 times last night, just to hear your voice.

Last night it...

It must have been the worst night of my life, I think.

But just knowing that I'd see you in the morning...

You'd be better off without me, Jerry. You really would.

I'll be waking you up in the middle of the night

with my nightmares like this all the time.

I don't really know what happened last night, Jerry.

After I left you, I went upstairs and...

And George was there, my husband.

I let him make love to me.

Even with his hands on me

all I could think about was you and that I'd let you down.

What?

If it wasn't him,

I wouldn't have told you, Jerry, if it meant anything to me.

What do you want from me?

I'm an old man. I can't take it anymore.

But you... You want too much from me.

All I want is peace. I don't want problems anymore.

You'd break my heart every day of my life. I got that.

I don't want to see you anymore.

I'm getting out of here before there's nothing left of me at all.

I never loved George. You never loved anybody.

Yes, I love you, Jerry. Oh, cut it out!

I do! I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have told you.

Get away from me.

I love you, Jerry. I need you. I don't know what to do without you.

That's a lousy kind of love.

Well, it's the only kind of love I know.

I'd be a good wife to you, Jerry. I promise you that.

I can't take it, kid. It's too much for me.

Jerry!

What are you doing soaking wet? Now, here, give me that coat.

For heaven's sakes, I just cleaned up in here.

You, you're going to get yourself a real cold. Now you take those shoes off.

Where were you that you got so wet?

If it'll make you feel any better, it's all over between the girl and me.

We called the whole thing off.

What happened?

Oh, listen...

The whole idea was an impossible business to start with.

I'm amazed at how swept away I was by impulse.

The whole last couple of months I was drunk.

Pie-eyed. Drunk with vanity.

Drunk with middle age.

To delude myself that this young girl loved me.

This is a vanity I didn't even know I was capable of.

Oh! I won't deny she had a certain feeling for me.

I'm a nice man to her. I have a kind heart.

It was never a man and a woman.

I guess it was candy.

I'm too old to eat candy.

Jerry...

Jerry, come sit down and put this shawl around your legs.

Why are you giving me that shawl?

Jesus, don't make an old man out of me yet.

Sitting in the living room with a shawl around his legs.

Listen, Jerry.

If it's all over with this girl, believe me,

it's better all around.

It dies hard, Evelyn.

Why, you've got a good life for yourself, a fine business.

You've got hundreds of friends.

I feel something inside me is dying right now.

I want to be loved by a woman.

That want dies hard.

Don't think I don't understand what you're going through, Jerry.

I'd appreciate being alone now.

Oh, perhaps it would be better if you talked it out.

Evelyn, I don't like you to see me like this!

All right, Jerry.

Shall I take it, Jerry? Oh, no.

Hello?

Oh, hello, Lucy, what is it?

When was this?

Lucy, stop this and tell me if he said where he was.

All right.

Go down right away. I'll call the manager of the hotel.

I'll come right down. Lucy, stop this. Now stop it!

Do what I tell you. Go straight to that hotel.

I'm leaving my house right now.

What's the matter?

Lockman just called his wife from a hotel.

He said he's going to kill himself.

You're not serious? Oh, it's all right.

He wouldn't call her if he didn't want to be stopped.

Oh, God.

Ma! Ma, sit still. Sit still!

Why would he go and try to kill himself?

Listen, Joey. Your father hasn't been alive for 25 years.

So how can you say he tried to kill himself?

Ma! Ma!

Ma! He's gonna be all right!

He's not gonna die.

Come on, come on, stop wailing already! Why did he do it?

Why don't you take her home, Mac? Can't you give her something?

I'll be right back. Why don't you take her home, Mac?

Look what he's doing to my mother.

He runs around with those cheap floozies.

A dirty old man.

He could be taking it easy now, at his age.

He could be living a life of peace.

Who the hell wants peace?

You can have all the peace you want after you're dead.

Your father wanted life. He wanted love, even if he had to pay money for it.

What the hell is wrong with everybody? All they want is peace, comfort, security.

No problems. Life is problems.

Heartache, passion, a woman.

Listen, sonny boy.

Love, no matter how shabby it may seem,

is still a beautiful thing.

Everything else is nothing.

You take care of your mother.

I wish you'd stick around a little longer, Mr. Kingsley.

I'm sick of death, Joey.

I'm running around with a young woman myself.

The last couple of months have been torture for me,

such a sweet and wonderful torture.

I was living, Joey.

There was never enough hours in the day for me.

I had such a passion for everything.

I was living.

Mr. Kingsley...

I love you.

Jerry!

Hey, Tommy!

Tommy!

Hey, Tommy!