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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:12,150 --> 00:00:15,140 [reflective piano music] 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:23,170 ♪ ♪ 5 00:00:35,149 --> 00:00:43,090 ♪ ♪ 6 00:00:43,109 --> 00:00:47,100 Dorothy: Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident 7 00:00:47,119 --> 00:00:51,090 and you see yourself from the outside? 8 00:00:51,109 --> 00:00:54,000 That's who you really are. 9 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:56,149 [overlapping chatter] 10 00:00:56,170 --> 00:00:58,200 [elevator bell dings] 11 00:00:58,219 --> 00:01:01,179 Excuse me. I'm supposed to pick up a dress. 12 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:08,019 ♪ ♪ 13 00:01:08,039 --> 00:01:11,010 - Nothing owed. Your lady must have paid. 14 00:01:11,030 --> 00:01:12,049 - Thank you. 15 00:01:12,069 --> 00:01:20,069 ♪ ♪ 16 00:01:32,129 --> 00:01:34,030 No, Geri. 17 00:01:34,049 --> 00:01:36,120 Girl, I'm not talking crazy, 18 00:01:36,140 --> 00:01:39,000 and I don't need you to come over. 19 00:01:39,020 --> 00:01:43,189 I just...need you to stay on the phone, okay? 20 00:01:43,210 --> 00:01:47,140 I can't sleep, and I want to talk. 21 00:01:52,129 --> 00:01:53,150 [elevator bell dings] 22 00:01:53,170 --> 00:01:56,090 [background chatter] 23 00:01:56,109 --> 00:01:58,060 - Ma'am. 24 00:02:01,049 --> 00:02:04,079 - My lady's going out for the evening. 25 00:02:04,099 --> 00:02:06,200 - May I have my room key, please? 26 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:11,050 man: The stars continue to arrive 27 00:02:11,069 --> 00:02:13,229 at the 1955 Academy Awards here in New York 28 00:02:14,009 --> 00:02:15,080 and out in Los Angeles. 29 00:02:15,099 --> 00:02:16,090 [continues in background] 30 00:02:16,110 --> 00:02:19,000 - This is it, Dottie. 31 00:02:19,020 --> 00:02:21,139 - This is it. 32 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:23,150 [crowd cheering] 33 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:26,180 [man continues speaking under crowd noise] 34 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:28,069 man: Tonight in New York City. 35 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:30,170 Ladies and gentlemen, the first-ever colored nominee 36 00:02:30,189 --> 00:02:32,229 for Best Actress, Dorothy Dandridge, 37 00:02:33,009 --> 00:02:34,229 star of "Carmen Jones." 38 00:02:35,009 --> 00:02:38,189 She's arriving tonight with her sister Vivian Dandridge. 39 00:02:38,210 --> 00:02:40,180 Dorothy, can we talk to you for a moment? 40 00:02:40,199 --> 00:02:42,069 Dorothy, the world is watching. 41 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:44,050 How does it feel? 42 00:02:44,069 --> 00:02:46,090 - It feels like Christmas! [laughs] 43 00:02:46,110 --> 00:02:47,199 - Thank you. - Thank you. 44 00:02:47,219 --> 00:02:51,139 - There she goes, Dorothy Dandridge, 45 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:55,020 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 46 00:02:55,039 --> 00:02:57,180 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 47 00:02:57,199 --> 00:02:59,210 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly... 48 00:02:59,229 --> 00:03:02,069 man: We love you, sugar. 49 00:03:02,090 --> 00:03:04,150 - We love you, Dorothy! 50 00:03:06,020 --> 00:03:08,030 - Hi. Thank you. 51 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:13,000 - Dorothy! 52 00:03:13,020 --> 00:03:15,039 woman: Dorothy! 53 00:03:18,009 --> 00:03:19,219 - Come on, Dottie. 54 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,009 Come on! 55 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:23,079 Dottie! 56 00:03:23,099 --> 00:03:25,219 Would you please come on? 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,079 - I can't do another! 58 00:03:27,099 --> 00:03:28,210 - Dottie, how many times you gonna get the chance 59 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,110 to take another call at the Cotton? 60 00:03:30,129 --> 00:03:33,069 - We've done ten already, and my feet are swollen! 61 00:03:33,090 --> 00:03:34,219 - Oh, would you make her? man: One more time, 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,159 The Dandridge Sisters! - Come on! 63 00:03:37,180 --> 00:03:40,150 [band plays jazzy music] 64 00:03:40,170 --> 00:03:48,180 ♪ ♪ 65 00:03:51,229 --> 00:03:53,120 all: ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 66 00:03:53,139 --> 00:03:55,139 ♪ ♪ 67 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:57,159 ♪ That's your red wagon ♪ 68 00:03:57,180 --> 00:03:59,090 ♪ ♪ 69 00:03:59,110 --> 00:04:01,069 ♪ So keep draggin' ♪ 70 00:04:01,090 --> 00:04:03,009 ♪ Your red wagon ♪ 71 00:04:03,030 --> 00:04:05,000 ♪ Along, along ♪ 72 00:04:05,020 --> 00:04:08,139 ♪ Along ♪ 73 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:10,199 [end notes] [cheers and applause] 74 00:04:10,219 --> 00:04:13,090 man: 1940's freshest faces, 75 00:04:13,110 --> 00:04:16,170 the lovely Dandridge Sisters! 76 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:19,000 [all giggle] 77 00:04:19,019 --> 00:04:20,189 - Hey! Heh! 78 00:04:20,209 --> 00:04:23,019 First rule of dancing offstage is landing on your feet. 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,189 - You weren't there a second ago. 80 00:04:24,209 --> 00:04:26,199 - But I'm here now, and here I plan to stay. 81 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:28,019 - [giggles] 82 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,040 - Well, aren't you easy on the eyes? 83 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:32,040 I'm Harold. - And I'm Fayard. 84 00:04:32,060 --> 00:04:33,110 We're the Nicholas Brothers. 85 00:04:33,129 --> 00:04:35,009 - Everybody knows the Nicholas Brothers. 86 00:04:35,029 --> 00:04:36,110 - You're famous. 87 00:04:36,129 --> 00:04:38,009 - Hey, Fayard, did you hear that? We're famous. 88 00:04:38,029 --> 00:04:39,170 - Who's famous? - We're famous. 89 00:04:39,189 --> 00:04:41,029 - We're famous? - That's what she said. 90 00:04:41,050 --> 00:04:42,220 - Yeah? Well, nobody told me. 91 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,009 - We held the record 92 00:04:44,029 --> 00:04:45,189 for the most calls at the Cotton Club. 93 00:04:45,209 --> 00:04:47,069 Well, till tonight. 94 00:04:47,090 --> 00:04:49,029 You sisters got us beat by two. 95 00:04:49,050 --> 00:04:50,149 - Oh, no, we're not sisters. 96 00:04:50,170 --> 00:04:52,029 Well, we are. - But not me. 97 00:04:52,050 --> 00:04:54,129 - It's just our stage name. 98 00:04:54,149 --> 00:04:57,029 - Ladies. Got to go, Harold. 99 00:04:57,050 --> 00:04:58,230 - Yeah. Cool your taps, Fayard. 100 00:04:59,009 --> 00:05:00,209 I say my brother and I hit the lucky 13 tonight. 101 00:05:00,230 --> 00:05:03,009 - What's so lucky about 13? 102 00:05:03,029 --> 00:05:04,050 - We hit it, you go with me 103 00:05:04,069 --> 00:05:05,120 to the picture show Friday night. 104 00:05:05,139 --> 00:05:06,160 - What makes you think 105 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:08,000 I want to go anywhere with you? 106 00:05:08,019 --> 00:05:10,060 - I don't think. I know. 107 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:12,009 man: There's no place like home. 108 00:05:12,029 --> 00:05:13,000 Ladies and gentlemen... 109 00:05:13,019 --> 00:05:14,040 - So what do you say? 110 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:16,120 - You hit 13, you pick me up Friday night. 111 00:05:16,139 --> 00:05:19,009 - Friday night. man: The one, the only, 112 00:05:19,029 --> 00:05:21,019 the Nicholas Brothers! - Let's go. 113 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,220 ♪ ♪ 114 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,230 [all giggling] 115 00:05:26,009 --> 00:05:34,040 ♪ ♪ 116 00:05:45,159 --> 00:05:46,159 [Dorothy squeals] 117 00:05:46,180 --> 00:05:48,170 - Oh! 118 00:05:48,189 --> 00:05:50,120 - Oh! - Aah! 119 00:05:50,139 --> 00:05:52,060 [giggling] 120 00:05:52,079 --> 00:06:00,170 ♪ ♪ 121 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:12,069 - What did I tell you about getting your skirt snipped? 122 00:06:12,089 --> 00:06:13,180 - He's just being nice. 123 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:16,009 - Ain't no such thing as nice to a fox in a henhouse, 124 00:06:16,029 --> 00:06:18,129 even if it is a famous fox. You're here to work! 125 00:06:18,149 --> 00:06:20,060 Change your clothes, get your coats on. 126 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:21,160 I want you in bed by 1:00. 127 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:24,129 Dorothy: Mean old snake. 128 00:06:24,149 --> 00:06:26,110 Made us call her "Auntie." 129 00:06:26,129 --> 00:06:28,220 Remember that? Hmh! 130 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,149 She wasn't nothing but Mama's special friend. 131 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,009 Hmm. 132 00:06:36,029 --> 00:06:37,069 But that night, 133 00:06:37,090 --> 00:06:40,199 I barely even knew she was there. 134 00:06:40,220 --> 00:06:43,199 [jazzy music] 135 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:49,170 ♪ ♪ 136 00:06:49,189 --> 00:06:51,000 [cheers and applause] 137 00:06:51,019 --> 00:06:52,220 man: Ladies and gentlemen, 138 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 the Nicholas Brothers! 139 00:06:55,019 --> 00:06:57,000 Harold: Hey! 140 00:06:57,019 --> 00:06:58,069 We hit it. Lucky 13. 141 00:06:58,090 --> 00:07:00,009 - Congratulations. 142 00:07:00,029 --> 00:07:01,139 - So where do I pick you up Friday night? 143 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,180 - Los Angeles. 144 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:04,019 - L.A.? 145 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,220 - That's where I'm gonna be come Friday night. 146 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,100 Auntie: Move it! 147 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,019 - You know, a bad boy like you 148 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,160 don't want to mess with that girl, Harry. 149 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:15,060 She's a good girl, sweet as pie. 150 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,120 [chuckling] 151 00:07:19,139 --> 00:07:22,069 - Hmm. That ain't bad, either. 152 00:07:22,089 --> 00:07:23,220 [both chuckle] 153 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,000 - Thank you. - Ma'am. 154 00:07:34,139 --> 00:07:36,069 - Is Mama home? 155 00:07:36,090 --> 00:07:39,029 - No, she's where she always is, working. 156 00:07:39,050 --> 00:07:40,159 Harold: Excuse me. 157 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,069 If I remember correctly, 158 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:46,129 I was promised a date for Friday, 159 00:07:46,149 --> 00:07:48,129 and this is Friday. 160 00:07:48,149 --> 00:07:52,040 That's...if it's all right with you, ma'am. 161 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:54,209 And might I say you are looking lovely today? 162 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:57,170 The sunshine agrees with you. 163 00:07:57,189 --> 00:08:00,019 - Is that your car? 164 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,120 - It's a beauty, isn't it? 165 00:08:01,139 --> 00:08:03,089 Cost a pretty penny, 166 00:08:03,110 --> 00:08:05,180 but it's only money. 167 00:08:10,110 --> 00:08:13,009 - Now, that is a man. 168 00:08:13,029 --> 00:08:14,040 Hmm? 169 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:15,069 - Mm-hmm. 170 00:08:15,089 --> 00:08:17,160 [audience laughter] 171 00:08:17,180 --> 00:08:19,129 - [gasps] Ooh! 172 00:08:19,149 --> 00:08:21,199 Hey, honey, you gonna sleep in this room 173 00:08:21,220 --> 00:08:24,129 with all them microbugs crawling all over you? 174 00:08:24,149 --> 00:08:27,060 woman: I don't think they'll bother me, Hyacinth. 175 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:30,220 Hyacinth: Oh. Oh. Now--oh! 176 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,039 - [chuckles] 177 00:08:32,059 --> 00:08:33,190 You know, Dottie, 178 00:08:33,210 --> 00:08:37,049 I got a thing for you that just won't leave me alone. 179 00:08:37,070 --> 00:08:39,070 - Shh. Watch the movie. 180 00:08:39,090 --> 00:08:41,009 Hyacinth: You know what I've done? 181 00:08:41,029 --> 00:08:43,029 I sprinkle him with Egyptian Nights, 182 00:08:43,049 --> 00:08:46,129 and when he come to, we was living on 110th, 183 00:08:46,149 --> 00:08:48,070 overlooking the park. 184 00:08:48,090 --> 00:08:49,129 [laughter] 185 00:08:49,149 --> 00:08:51,169 Of course, I had to pay the rent. 186 00:08:51,190 --> 00:08:54,120 [all chuckling] - Hey. 187 00:08:54,139 --> 00:08:56,190 Come on, let's go. I mean... 188 00:08:56,210 --> 00:08:58,070 I got better things I can think of doing 189 00:08:58,090 --> 00:09:01,220 than sitting watching some old plantation mammy. 190 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,100 [chuckles] 191 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,000 - That plantation mammy is my mother. 192 00:09:06,019 --> 00:09:07,110 - Yeah-- [laughs] 193 00:09:07,129 --> 00:09:10,059 - You really ought to try some. It never fails. 194 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,129 [giggling] 195 00:09:11,149 --> 00:09:13,220 - Dottie. Dottie. 196 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,029 Dottie, I didn't know. 197 00:09:15,049 --> 00:09:16,139 Dottie, I'm sorry. I didn't know. 198 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:18,029 - She didn't have a choice, you know. 199 00:09:18,049 --> 00:09:19,190 After my daddy left, she had to feed us, 200 00:09:19,210 --> 00:09:23,120 and playin' a maid is a world easier than bein' a maid. 201 00:09:23,139 --> 00:09:25,019 - Of course it is. Listen. 202 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:27,090 I didn't mean any disrespect. 203 00:09:27,110 --> 00:09:28,230 Please don't be sore. 204 00:09:29,009 --> 00:09:31,049 - I'm not sore. - Yes, you are. 205 00:09:31,070 --> 00:09:34,009 It's your mother, and what I said was stupid. 206 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,110 Believe me, I know about being poor. 207 00:09:38,129 --> 00:09:39,169 - We were so poor, 208 00:09:39,190 --> 00:09:41,149 my mama put us on the Chitlin' Circuit. 209 00:09:41,169 --> 00:09:44,070 - We were on the Chitlin' Circuit, too, 210 00:09:44,090 --> 00:09:46,009 only we were so poor, 211 00:09:46,029 --> 00:09:48,190 we couldn't afford the chitlins. 212 00:09:48,210 --> 00:09:50,120 - Well, we were so poor, we had to sleep 213 00:09:50,139 --> 00:09:53,059 four to a bed everywhere we went. 214 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,029 - Dottie, we were so poor 215 00:09:55,049 --> 00:09:57,169 that my mother had to sew all of our costumes, 216 00:09:57,190 --> 00:09:59,039 and she couldn't sew. 217 00:09:59,059 --> 00:10:01,009 One pants leg was always coming out shorter 218 00:10:01,029 --> 00:10:02,120 than the other one. 219 00:10:02,139 --> 00:10:04,159 Fayard and I used to have to tap with one knee bent. 220 00:10:04,179 --> 00:10:06,220 See, that's where that step comes from. 221 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,049 When you see us doing this-- - [laughs] 222 00:10:08,070 --> 00:10:10,159 - That's where it comes from. 223 00:10:10,179 --> 00:10:12,230 [both laugh] 224 00:10:13,009 --> 00:10:15,019 - You're so crazy. 225 00:10:15,230 --> 00:10:17,190 - I'm only crazy 226 00:10:17,210 --> 00:10:20,009 when it comes to you. 227 00:10:20,029 --> 00:10:23,019 [romantic music swells] 228 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:30,090 ♪ ♪ 229 00:10:30,110 --> 00:10:33,070 [hinges creak] 230 00:10:33,090 --> 00:10:35,029 [distant dog barking] 231 00:10:37,210 --> 00:10:39,230 - You know what time it is? 232 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,210 - We went for ice cream after the movie. 233 00:10:46,059 --> 00:10:48,049 - What else you go for? 234 00:10:48,070 --> 00:10:50,059 - Where's Mama? 235 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:51,120 - Night shift. 236 00:10:52,129 --> 00:10:54,059 What you let him do to you? 237 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,000 You let him stick it in you? 238 00:10:56,019 --> 00:10:57,120 - I need to get-- - I'm talking to you. 239 00:10:57,139 --> 00:10:59,200 - It was one kiss. That's all, one kiss. 240 00:10:59,220 --> 00:11:01,230 - You let him stick it in you. 241 00:11:02,009 --> 00:11:03,200 - No. - I know you did. 242 00:11:03,220 --> 00:11:07,029 I can smell the sex on you. 243 00:11:07,049 --> 00:11:09,220 And I'll be damned if I raise your brats 244 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,179 after I wasted all this time raising you! 245 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,159 Take off your drawers. I'm checking you. 246 00:11:16,179 --> 00:11:18,139 - No. 247 00:11:19,159 --> 00:11:21,210 - I said take 'em off. - [screams] 248 00:11:21,230 --> 00:11:23,149 [whack] [crying] 249 00:11:23,169 --> 00:11:24,179 - Get up here! 250 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,009 [fabric tearing] - Auntie! No! No! 251 00:11:27,029 --> 00:11:28,090 - Vivian! Oh! 252 00:11:28,110 --> 00:11:30,000 - You mind your business, Vivian! 253 00:11:30,019 --> 00:11:31,090 [overlapping yelling] 254 00:11:31,110 --> 00:11:33,110 - Oh! - Spread your legs! 255 00:11:33,129 --> 00:11:35,049 - Vivvy! - Spread 'em! 256 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:36,169 - [crying] 257 00:11:36,190 --> 00:11:38,049 - Stop it! Stop! 258 00:11:38,070 --> 00:11:41,080 - [screams] 259 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:43,169 [sobbing] 260 00:11:52,149 --> 00:11:54,220 - You're still a virgin. 261 00:11:59,059 --> 00:12:00,029 - [grunts] 262 00:12:00,049 --> 00:12:02,009 - What is wrong with you? 263 00:12:02,029 --> 00:12:06,070 [overlapping yelling] 264 00:12:06,090 --> 00:12:08,139 - Yeah, you better hold her! Hold her! 265 00:12:08,159 --> 00:12:12,059 Next time you better be in this house when I tell you to! 266 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,019 [Dorothy crying] Vivian: Dottie, come on. 267 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:17,110 Are you all right? 268 00:12:18,129 --> 00:12:21,169 Auntie, she's just crazy. She's crazy. 269 00:12:21,190 --> 00:12:23,179 But that, what she did, it don't mean nothin'. 270 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,220 It don't mean nothin'. 271 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,169 - [panting] Didn't nothin' happen. 272 00:12:28,190 --> 00:12:31,000 Didn't happen. You hear me? 273 00:12:31,019 --> 00:12:32,190 Didn't happen. 274 00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:34,129 I can't wait to get out of here. 275 00:12:34,149 --> 00:12:36,080 When I'm rich and famous, she ain't gonna see 276 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,120 a dime of my money, you hear me? 277 00:12:38,139 --> 00:12:41,139 - Yeah, I hear. - Ain't gonna see a dime of it. 278 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:44,129 [distant door opens, closes] 279 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,129 Look at Daddy. 280 00:12:50,149 --> 00:12:53,019 Harold look just like him, don't he? 281 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:54,190 [car door closes] Vivian: Yeah. 282 00:12:54,210 --> 00:12:56,230 [door opens] 283 00:12:57,009 --> 00:12:59,200 [distant dog barking] 284 00:13:04,210 --> 00:13:06,190 - [sighs, gasps] 285 00:13:06,210 --> 00:13:09,059 What are you two doing still up? 286 00:13:12,049 --> 00:13:14,090 [whispers] I bought us some pie. 287 00:13:14,110 --> 00:13:16,110 It's still hot. 288 00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:18,100 Everything all right? 289 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:19,210 - Everything's fine, Mama. 290 00:13:19,230 --> 00:13:21,169 - We just wanted to say good night. 291 00:13:21,190 --> 00:13:24,000 - Oh. My babies. 292 00:13:24,019 --> 00:13:27,129 Have your pie tonight. [kisses, chuckles] 293 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,169 You know, Auntie does the best she can by us. 294 00:13:33,190 --> 00:13:36,149 I mean, she tries really hard. 295 00:13:36,169 --> 00:13:39,230 You do understand, don't you? 296 00:13:40,009 --> 00:13:41,100 Oh, well, good. 297 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,049 You save me a piece. You know how I love pie. 298 00:13:52,100 --> 00:13:53,169 Harold: ♪ Dinner in the diner ♪ 299 00:13:53,190 --> 00:13:55,149 Dorothy: ♪ Nothing could be finer ♪ 300 00:13:55,169 --> 00:13:58,059 both: ♪ Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina ♪ 301 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,000 - ♪ When you hear the whistle blowing ♪ 302 00:14:00,019 --> 00:14:02,169 ♪ Eight to the bar ♪ - ♪ Then you know ♪ 303 00:14:02,190 --> 00:14:04,070 ♪ That Tennessee is not very far ♪ 304 00:14:04,090 --> 00:14:07,100 all: ♪ Shuffle all the coal in, got to keep it rollin' ♪ 305 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,090 - ♪ Whoa, whoa, Chattanooga, there you are ♪ 306 00:14:10,110 --> 00:14:12,059 all: ♪ Chattanooga choo choo ♪ 307 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,100 ♪ There you are ♪ 308 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,110 [train bell clangs] 309 00:14:17,129 --> 00:14:25,139 ♪ ♪ 310 00:14:28,019 --> 00:14:29,059 - Whoo! 311 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,120 - All right, Harold. Pick it up now. 312 00:14:30,139 --> 00:14:32,019 - I got it now. I got it, I got it. 313 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:34,029 - Ha ha ha! - Whoo! 314 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,200 Ha ha! 315 00:14:41,210 --> 00:14:43,139 Wait. That ain't in the number. 316 00:14:43,159 --> 00:14:45,029 Honey, hold this for me. 317 00:14:45,049 --> 00:14:46,159 Hat dance! 318 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:49,220 - [squeals] 319 00:14:50,210 --> 00:14:51,230 Fayard: All right, 320 00:14:52,009 --> 00:14:53,110 all right, enough. [music stops] 321 00:14:53,129 --> 00:14:55,100 My wife'll kill me if I let you two 322 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,190 dance me into my grave. 323 00:14:56,210 --> 00:14:58,190 Hey, Geri. 324 00:14:58,210 --> 00:15:00,100 - Get back out there. 325 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,009 You missed the last tap on your turn. 326 00:15:02,029 --> 00:15:03,179 - Oh. You know, that hurt. 327 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,000 - Fayard. 328 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:11,149 - Geri, every day you sit here, 329 00:15:11,169 --> 00:15:13,179 bossing little Fayard around, 330 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,019 reading some old boring thing. 331 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:17,220 - I boss Fayard because he likes to be bossed. 332 00:15:18,009 --> 00:15:20,029 And I read Frederick Douglass because I am trying 333 00:15:20,049 --> 00:15:21,230 to learn something about my people. 334 00:15:22,009 --> 00:15:23,039 Want to borrow it? 335 00:15:23,059 --> 00:15:24,220 - I'll tell you what you need to learn. 336 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,039 You need to learn how to have some fun. 337 00:15:27,059 --> 00:15:28,169 Now, you and Fayard need to come out 338 00:15:28,190 --> 00:15:30,139 with me and Harold more often. 339 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:34,059 Besides, we need a chaperone. 340 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,159 Last night, he asked me to touch it. 341 00:15:37,179 --> 00:15:38,169 [giggles] 342 00:15:38,190 --> 00:15:40,179 - You guys haven't--Harold! 343 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,090 - Hey! [giggling] 344 00:15:44,169 --> 00:15:46,190 I made him take me home. 345 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:48,169 Geri: Harold Nicholas took you home? 346 00:15:48,190 --> 00:15:51,190 Girl, what kind of spell are you puttin' on him? 347 00:15:51,210 --> 00:15:55,029 - Says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. 348 00:15:55,049 --> 00:15:56,159 [giggles] 349 00:15:57,190 --> 00:15:59,169 - I'd rather be smart than beautiful. 350 00:15:59,190 --> 00:16:01,169 - Mmm, I'd rather be beautiful. 351 00:16:01,190 --> 00:16:03,179 - Oh, beauty fades. A woman gets old. 352 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,149 - Mm-mm. I'm not getting old. 353 00:16:05,169 --> 00:16:08,070 I'm staying young and beautiful 354 00:16:08,090 --> 00:16:10,049 till the day I die. 355 00:16:10,070 --> 00:16:11,230 [giggles] 356 00:16:12,009 --> 00:16:13,230 Besides, being smart doesn't get you 357 00:16:14,009 --> 00:16:17,000 an engagement ring from Harold Nicholas! 358 00:16:17,019 --> 00:16:18,000 [both squealing] 359 00:16:18,019 --> 00:16:19,190 - Oh, my God! Ha ha! 360 00:16:19,210 --> 00:16:21,149 Harold: Hey, hey, hey! 361 00:16:21,169 --> 00:16:23,049 How are we supposed to get any dancin' done 362 00:16:23,070 --> 00:16:25,039 with y'all making all that noise over there? 363 00:16:25,059 --> 00:16:26,169 - Oh, hush now. - Oh, quiet. 364 00:16:26,190 --> 00:16:27,230 [both giggle] 365 00:16:28,009 --> 00:16:29,080 Mama: ♪ Love ♪ 366 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:31,179 - Congratulations. 367 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,090 Mama: ♪ Love ♪ 368 00:16:36,110 --> 00:16:39,049 ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 369 00:16:39,070 --> 00:16:41,110 Will you stop all that preenin' and fussin' 370 00:16:41,129 --> 00:16:43,039 before I mess up this hem? 371 00:16:43,059 --> 00:16:47,059 - I think Harold'll marry me with a torn hem, Mama. 372 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,149 How do I look, Vivvy? - Perfect. 373 00:16:49,169 --> 00:16:51,120 - I make a beautiful bride. 374 00:16:51,139 --> 00:16:53,139 - Like an angel. 375 00:16:53,159 --> 00:16:57,070 Can you believe our baby is gettin' married? 376 00:16:58,129 --> 00:17:00,220 - I wish I had a daddy to give me away. 377 00:17:02,049 --> 00:17:04,000 - Cyril Dandridge was a fool, a no-good-- 378 00:17:04,019 --> 00:17:06,049 - Mm-mm, mm-mm. Not today. 379 00:17:06,069 --> 00:17:08,190 Today is a happy day. Cyril is gone. 380 00:17:08,210 --> 00:17:10,049 Same as bein' dead, 381 00:17:10,069 --> 00:17:11,170 and that's the way I like to think of it. 382 00:17:11,190 --> 00:17:14,000 Dead, with God and the good lamb. 383 00:17:14,019 --> 00:17:16,200 - And anyway, Harold is not Cyril. 384 00:17:16,220 --> 00:17:18,150 - Honey, any man with 5 cents'll pay 385 00:17:18,170 --> 00:17:21,119 a colored woman's fare all the way to nowhere. 386 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:24,230 You know what the chorus girls say about Harold? 387 00:17:25,009 --> 00:17:27,019 They say he's broken in every bed 388 00:17:27,039 --> 00:17:29,200 from here to New York City. 389 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:31,000 - That's right. They do say that. 390 00:17:31,019 --> 00:17:32,130 - And I don't care. 391 00:17:32,150 --> 00:17:35,079 - Sugar pie, don't you have somewhere you need to be? 392 00:17:35,099 --> 00:17:37,190 - Harold Nicholas is the richest, 393 00:17:37,210 --> 00:17:39,210 most famous colored man in the world. 394 00:17:39,230 --> 00:17:42,000 He could have any girl he wants, 395 00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:43,170 and he wants me. 396 00:17:43,190 --> 00:17:44,220 - Mmm. 397 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,079 - Harold Nicholas wants me. 398 00:17:48,099 --> 00:17:51,109 Mm-hmm. - ♪ Love ♪ 399 00:17:51,130 --> 00:17:53,190 - ♪ Love ♪ 400 00:17:53,210 --> 00:17:57,109 - ♪ Love ♪ 401 00:17:57,130 --> 00:18:01,049 - ♪ Love is the reason ♪ 402 00:18:01,069 --> 00:18:04,140 [soft music] 403 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,200 You were always lecturing us, Geri, 404 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:09,039 about there being a war on. 405 00:18:09,059 --> 00:18:11,079 Remember? [chuckles] 406 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,079 Who cared about all of that when there were 407 00:18:14,099 --> 00:18:17,019 so many parties to step out to? 408 00:18:23,190 --> 00:18:25,079 Look at us. 409 00:18:27,130 --> 00:18:30,049 We were somethin'. 410 00:18:30,069 --> 00:18:31,109 - Dottie? 411 00:18:31,130 --> 00:18:32,190 What are you doin'? 412 00:18:32,210 --> 00:18:35,109 Will you come to bed? 413 00:18:39,059 --> 00:18:40,230 Dottie, you need any help? 414 00:18:41,009 --> 00:18:42,150 - No, I'm--I'm fine. 415 00:18:42,170 --> 00:18:46,029 - Then come on out and bring my beautiful wife with you. 416 00:18:46,049 --> 00:18:48,079 - Okay, I'm comin'. 417 00:18:49,089 --> 00:18:50,160 [exhales] 418 00:18:50,180 --> 00:18:52,019 [door opens] 419 00:18:53,140 --> 00:18:59,230 ♪ ♪ 420 00:19:00,009 --> 00:19:03,150 [gasps] Ooh. I can't see. 421 00:19:03,170 --> 00:19:07,000 Harold: ♪ Just follow the sound of love ♪ 422 00:19:07,019 --> 00:19:15,019 ♪ ♪ 423 00:19:38,099 --> 00:19:41,069 I love you. 424 00:19:41,089 --> 00:19:44,079 I love you so much. 425 00:19:44,099 --> 00:19:46,109 - I love you, too. 426 00:19:51,059 --> 00:19:54,200 - Dottie, you gotta relax, baby, okay? 427 00:19:54,220 --> 00:19:57,000 Just relax, okay? 428 00:19:57,019 --> 00:19:58,089 - Okay. 429 00:20:01,140 --> 00:20:03,019 - Spread your legs. 430 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:04,109 - Spread your legs! - Aah! 431 00:20:04,130 --> 00:20:06,079 - No. Don't. - Spread your legs. 432 00:20:06,099 --> 00:20:08,059 - No! Don't. 433 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:10,099 Vivian: Stop it! [Dorothy crying] 434 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,190 I said no. 435 00:20:12,210 --> 00:20:15,130 - Hey, we're married now. It's okay. 436 00:20:17,180 --> 00:20:18,140 Dottie, 437 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,160 is there something wrong? 438 00:20:20,180 --> 00:20:22,130 You can tell me. 439 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,000 - No. I just don't want to. 440 00:20:30,130 --> 00:20:33,220 - Dottie, you're-- you're my wife now. 441 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,200 What in the hell did you think 442 00:20:35,220 --> 00:20:37,160 marriage was gonna be about? 443 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,089 It's about intimacy, 444 00:20:41,109 --> 00:20:43,099 and without it, we've got nothing. 445 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,079 Dottie, without sex, 446 00:20:47,099 --> 00:20:49,130 marriage goes right down the drain. 447 00:20:51,089 --> 00:20:52,190 Okay? 448 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,230 Come on, now. 449 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,160 Don't be scared. 450 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:02,220 You're gonna enjoy it, I promise you. 451 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 I guarantee it. - Mm. 452 00:21:10,190 --> 00:21:12,119 No. No, Harold, I can't. 453 00:21:12,140 --> 00:21:14,109 No! No! No! 454 00:21:14,130 --> 00:21:16,029 Get off of me! - Dottie. 455 00:21:16,049 --> 00:21:17,059 - Get off of me! - Hey. 456 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:20,150 - Get off of me! Get off of me! 457 00:21:20,170 --> 00:21:23,049 [panting] 458 00:21:23,069 --> 00:21:26,150 - What the hell am I doing? Am I crazy? 459 00:21:26,170 --> 00:21:28,059 You don't want me. 460 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:31,109 Fine. 461 00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:34,029 Then it's over. 462 00:21:34,049 --> 00:21:36,059 We'll get the whole thing annulled. 463 00:21:36,079 --> 00:21:37,220 It's over. 464 00:21:44,150 --> 00:21:45,210 Good night. 465 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:48,200 [somber music] 466 00:21:48,220 --> 00:21:54,170 ♪ ♪ 467 00:21:54,190 --> 00:21:56,099 - [exhales deeply] 468 00:22:15,019 --> 00:22:16,220 Harold. 469 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,089 I'm sorry. 470 00:22:19,109 --> 00:22:21,170 I don't want an annulment. 471 00:22:21,190 --> 00:22:23,130 I just want you to understand 472 00:22:23,150 --> 00:22:26,180 that I had a different kind of life, that's all. 473 00:22:28,130 --> 00:22:31,079 Can you give me another chance? 474 00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:34,109 Hmm? Can I try it again? 475 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,130 Please? 476 00:22:38,150 --> 00:22:46,170 ♪ ♪ 477 00:22:46,190 --> 00:22:49,220 We try it again. 478 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,220 [groaning] 479 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,029 [screaming] 480 00:22:56,220 --> 00:22:59,089 - You have got to let us get you to a hospital. 481 00:22:59,109 --> 00:23:01,059 - No, no. 482 00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:04,000 Harold's coming. - Where in the hell is he? 483 00:23:04,019 --> 00:23:05,230 - Couldn't miss his golf game. 484 00:23:06,009 --> 00:23:07,160 - [screaming] 485 00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:09,079 - Vivvy, get her purse. 486 00:23:09,099 --> 00:23:11,089 This little one is not waitin' for him, 487 00:23:11,109 --> 00:23:12,079 and neither can you. 488 00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:13,140 Come on. - No, Geri! 489 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,220 - Come on. - No, Geri! I'm not going! 490 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,069 - No, we've got to go. - No! 491 00:23:16,089 --> 00:23:18,049 - Come on. - I'm waiting for Harold! 492 00:23:18,069 --> 00:23:19,180 - [sighs] 493 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,130 [background chatter] 494 00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:23,119 [distant baby crying] 495 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:24,200 Hmm. 496 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:27,009 - Mama, you're gonna wear a groove in the floor. 497 00:23:27,029 --> 00:23:31,059 [unintelligible PA announcement] [distant baby crying] 498 00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:33,140 - Is it a boy or a girl? 499 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,160 - She waited for you for hours--hours. 500 00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:39,089 - Everything's all right, isn't it? 501 00:23:39,109 --> 00:23:41,190 Dottie? Everything's okay, isn't it? 502 00:23:41,210 --> 00:23:43,109 Dorothy: It's a girl. 503 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,039 And she's fine. 504 00:23:45,059 --> 00:23:46,220 - No thanks to you. 505 00:23:48,059 --> 00:23:51,119 Dorothy: Go ahead. Have a look at her. 506 00:23:57,099 --> 00:23:59,170 6 pounds, 2 ounces. 507 00:23:59,190 --> 00:24:02,089 I named her Harolyn, 508 00:24:02,109 --> 00:24:05,049 and we're going to call her Lynn. 509 00:24:07,019 --> 00:24:09,160 Harold wanted to send her to finishing school 510 00:24:09,180 --> 00:24:11,069 in Switzerland. 511 00:24:11,089 --> 00:24:12,160 [chuckles] 512 00:24:12,180 --> 00:24:16,130 Thought she could learn to speak French. 513 00:24:16,150 --> 00:24:17,220 French. 514 00:24:20,170 --> 00:24:23,160 He always had big dreams. 515 00:24:23,180 --> 00:24:25,200 ♪ ♪ 516 00:24:25,220 --> 00:24:28,140 Bigger than us. 517 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,220 [rhythmic thumping] 518 00:24:37,230 --> 00:24:39,009 Lynn, honey? 519 00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:41,200 Can you speak to Dr. Carrington? 520 00:24:41,220 --> 00:24:43,039 Hmm? 521 00:24:43,059 --> 00:24:45,069 Lynn? 522 00:24:45,089 --> 00:24:47,000 Can you say Mama? Hmm? - [humming] 523 00:24:47,019 --> 00:24:48,079 - Say Mama. 524 00:24:48,099 --> 00:24:51,000 - [continues humming, kicking] 525 00:24:51,019 --> 00:24:53,160 - I guess some children are just slow to speak. 526 00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:57,150 - Mrs. Nicholas, I know this is very difficult for you, 527 00:24:57,170 --> 00:24:59,089 but she will never speak. 528 00:24:59,109 --> 00:25:00,220 - No. No, no, see, I-- 529 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,089 I've been to all these doctors 530 00:25:02,109 --> 00:25:04,009 and I have all these medicines. 531 00:25:04,029 --> 00:25:06,009 One doctor said that she needed sedatives, 532 00:25:06,029 --> 00:25:09,000 another one said stimulants, and I've been massaging 533 00:25:09,019 --> 00:25:11,140 her forehead every morning just like Dr. Gray said. 534 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,109 And Dr. Matthews said that he thought it was hot baths, 535 00:25:14,130 --> 00:25:16,069 so I've been giving her hot baths every night. 536 00:25:16,089 --> 00:25:17,130 [thumping stops] 537 00:25:17,150 --> 00:25:19,049 And then we had, um, these tests done on her 538 00:25:19,069 --> 00:25:21,109 and they injected fluid in her spine, 539 00:25:21,130 --> 00:25:22,210 and that doctor said he thought 540 00:25:22,230 --> 00:25:24,130 that she just needed to eat a little bit more. 541 00:25:24,150 --> 00:25:26,089 Carrington: Mrs. Nicholas. - They were good doctors. 542 00:25:26,109 --> 00:25:28,200 - If they were such good doctors, why are you here? 543 00:25:32,089 --> 00:25:34,140 - Because nobody's told me 544 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,079 how to get my baby to call me Mama. 545 00:25:38,099 --> 00:25:41,130 [kicking resumes] 546 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,160 - Dorothy, Lynn is mentally retarded. 547 00:25:47,180 --> 00:25:51,019 She has what we call anoxic brain damage. 548 00:25:51,039 --> 00:25:53,049 There wasn't a sufficient supply of oxygen for her 549 00:25:53,069 --> 00:25:54,230 during delivery. 550 00:25:55,009 --> 00:25:57,009 - I was late getting her to the hospital. 551 00:25:57,029 --> 00:25:58,160 Do you think it--it was my fault, wasn't it? 552 00:25:58,180 --> 00:25:59,150 Carrington: No. 553 00:25:59,170 --> 00:26:01,019 No one knows what causes it, 554 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:04,019 but I'm sure that that had nothing to do with it. 555 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:05,200 - Well, what's the treatment, Doctor? 556 00:26:05,220 --> 00:26:07,109 Because if it's money, that's not an issue-- 557 00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:08,140 Carrington: Dorothy. 558 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,119 Her brain will never develop. 559 00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:12,069 She'll be four years old forever. 560 00:26:12,089 --> 00:26:15,180 - But, I mean--but they-- they said that-- 561 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,109 - I'm sorry. 562 00:26:18,130 --> 00:26:20,160 I'm a mother myself. 563 00:26:20,180 --> 00:26:22,180 My advice to you is to put her in an institution 564 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,029 where she can get the best possible care. 565 00:26:25,049 --> 00:26:27,000 - I can't do that. 566 00:26:27,019 --> 00:26:29,009 - You're a young woman. You can have other children. 567 00:26:29,029 --> 00:26:31,140 - [sobs] 568 00:26:34,019 --> 00:26:35,009 - [playing one note] 569 00:26:35,029 --> 00:26:36,039 - Lynn? 570 00:26:36,059 --> 00:26:38,130 Lynn, honey, try another note. 571 00:26:38,150 --> 00:26:39,160 Come on, sweetie. 572 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:41,069 There are other notes for you to play. 573 00:26:41,089 --> 00:26:43,160 - Dottie, we should take the doctor's advice 574 00:26:43,180 --> 00:26:45,079 and put her in an institution. 575 00:26:45,099 --> 00:26:46,210 She knows best. 576 00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:48,099 The state'll pay for it. 577 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,210 - The state pays for what? 578 00:26:49,230 --> 00:26:52,069 It's our child. She belongs with us. 579 00:26:52,089 --> 00:26:55,059 - We belong in Paris. That's where we belong. 580 00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:56,089 - Paris? 581 00:26:56,109 --> 00:26:58,180 What are you talking about? 582 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,230 - Dottie, it's a whole different ball game over there. 583 00:27:02,009 --> 00:27:03,109 See, they don't know the difference 584 00:27:03,130 --> 00:27:05,049 between black and white, and when they do, 585 00:27:05,069 --> 00:27:08,009 it's because they're treating us better than they do their own. 586 00:27:08,029 --> 00:27:10,019 - I can't go live in Paris. 587 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,039 Lynn is gonna need special care. 588 00:27:12,059 --> 00:27:13,099 - Get special care. 589 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,210 - Not in an institution! 590 00:27:14,230 --> 00:27:16,200 [single piano note repeating] 591 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:19,220 - She doesn't even know that we're here. 592 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,109 [car horn honks twice] 593 00:27:21,130 --> 00:27:24,180 - I can't even believe this is what you're saying. 594 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,230 - When will you join me? 595 00:27:29,009 --> 00:27:32,180 - I'm her mother, and you are her father. 596 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,009 - And I married you, 597 00:27:35,029 --> 00:27:37,009 not this. 598 00:27:37,029 --> 00:27:39,180 - Well, I am this. What are you? 599 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,200 - I'm Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, 600 00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:46,200 and maybe that's all I'm supposed to be. 601 00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:49,059 I'll send you money from Paris. 602 00:27:49,079 --> 00:27:52,089 [somber piano music] 603 00:27:52,109 --> 00:28:00,130 ♪ ♪ 604 00:28:09,150 --> 00:28:13,099 Dorothy: The best part was she didn't know he was gone. 605 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:17,079 [chuckles] So she never even missed him. 606 00:28:17,099 --> 00:28:20,109 [sighs] 607 00:28:22,089 --> 00:28:24,190 How many times did I tell you, Geri, 608 00:28:24,210 --> 00:28:27,210 that the next man would be different? 609 00:28:27,230 --> 00:28:30,039 [chuckles] 610 00:28:32,109 --> 00:28:33,220 It's funny. 611 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,059 You never notice the good ones when you should. 612 00:28:44,009 --> 00:28:46,029 [distant laughter] 613 00:28:46,049 --> 00:28:48,099 [distant jazz piano plays] 614 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:52,039 [overlapping chatter] 615 00:28:52,059 --> 00:28:55,180 - Listen, so, uh, we're just taking a cigarette break? 616 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,220 - All right. - Ha ha! 617 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,140 Not ready to leave yet, are you? 618 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,220 man: Oh, no, no, no. 619 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,019 ♪ ♪ 620 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:05,079 [doorbell rings] 621 00:29:06,150 --> 00:29:10,109 - Welcome to Fillmore's Ring-a-ding swing-a-ding. 622 00:29:10,130 --> 00:29:12,029 - Thanks. 623 00:29:12,049 --> 00:29:13,140 Ring-a-ding much. 624 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,009 Where is Swing-a-ding Phil, anyway? 625 00:29:16,029 --> 00:29:18,059 - Coo-chee-cooin' the elephant. 626 00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:19,180 - Hmm? woman: You know. 627 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Ticklin' the ivories. 628 00:29:21,019 --> 00:29:22,210 - Funny, in my day, we used to call it 629 00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:24,039 playing the piano. 630 00:29:24,059 --> 00:29:27,009 - When was your day? - Preceding thy genesis. 631 00:29:27,029 --> 00:29:28,009 - Huh? 632 00:29:28,029 --> 00:29:29,079 - Before you were born. 633 00:29:29,099 --> 00:29:32,170 [piano music continues] [laughter, chatter] 634 00:29:32,190 --> 00:29:35,130 Sorry. 'Scuse me. 635 00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:37,180 'Scuse me. 636 00:29:39,220 --> 00:29:41,009 'Scuse me. 637 00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:45,029 ♪ ♪ 638 00:29:45,049 --> 00:29:47,109 Nice party, Phil. 639 00:29:47,130 --> 00:29:48,170 - Earl. 640 00:29:49,210 --> 00:29:51,200 Have a drink. Have a couple. 641 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:53,220 [women giggling] - Oops! 642 00:29:54,009 --> 00:29:56,089 Ha ha ha! 643 00:29:56,109 --> 00:29:58,049 - I didn't come for a drink, Phil, 644 00:29:58,069 --> 00:29:59,180 and I didn't come for a party. 645 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,220 I left a meeting because you said there was a girl 646 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000 I just had to hear. 647 00:30:04,019 --> 00:30:06,230 - Aw, Earl, don't be mad. 648 00:30:07,009 --> 00:30:11,160 - I manage your music career, Phil, not your harem tryouts. 649 00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:13,130 - Oh, well, uh, 650 00:30:13,150 --> 00:30:16,119 girl's around here somewhere. 651 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:18,039 - Good night, Phil. 652 00:30:18,059 --> 00:30:20,130 - [chuckles] 653 00:30:20,150 --> 00:30:22,019 [piano playing stops] 654 00:30:24,150 --> 00:30:27,160 ["That's All" begins] 655 00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:30,119 ♪ ♪ 656 00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:33,059 Dorothy: ♪ I can only give you ♪ 657 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:37,140 ♪ Country walks in springtime ♪ 658 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,119 ♪ And a hand to hold ♪ 659 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:44,119 ♪ When leaves begin to fall ♪ 660 00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:48,140 ♪ And a love whose burning light ♪ 661 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,019 ♪ Will warm the winter night ♪ 662 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:55,220 ♪ That's all ♪ 663 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,089 ♪ That's all ♪ 664 00:30:59,109 --> 00:31:02,230 ♪ There are those, I am sure ♪ 665 00:31:03,009 --> 00:31:06,089 ♪ Who have told you ♪ 666 00:31:06,109 --> 00:31:10,039 ♪ They would give you the world ♪ 667 00:31:10,059 --> 00:31:13,089 ♪ For a toy ♪ 668 00:31:13,109 --> 00:31:17,089 ♪ All I have are these arms ♪ 669 00:31:17,109 --> 00:31:20,180 ♪ To enfold you ♪ 670 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,230 [women giggling] 671 00:31:33,049 --> 00:31:35,029 - All right. Who was that? 672 00:31:35,049 --> 00:31:37,029 - Just legs from my harem. 673 00:31:37,049 --> 00:31:40,069 [giggling continues] 674 00:31:46,230 --> 00:31:49,000 - Which one of you was just singing? 675 00:31:49,019 --> 00:31:50,210 - Why do you want to know? 676 00:31:50,230 --> 00:31:53,190 - Because whoever sang that song, 677 00:31:53,210 --> 00:31:55,170 I'm gonna make her a star. 678 00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:57,180 - Well, we don't even know your name. 679 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,170 - I'm Earl Mills. I'm a music manager. 680 00:32:01,190 --> 00:32:03,180 - Well, Earl Mills, the music manager, 681 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,160 I'm Ava Gardner. 682 00:32:05,180 --> 00:32:08,200 - My name's Marilyn Monroe. 683 00:32:08,220 --> 00:32:11,119 - I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 684 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,190 - You got a face like an angel, you know that? 685 00:32:17,210 --> 00:32:19,049 - [giggles] 686 00:32:19,069 --> 00:32:20,200 - [chuckles] 687 00:32:20,220 --> 00:32:23,039 You sang that song. 688 00:32:26,089 --> 00:32:30,039 - I'm not a singer, Mr. Mills, I'm an actress. 689 00:32:30,059 --> 00:32:32,029 - Of course you are, but, uh, 690 00:32:32,049 --> 00:32:34,119 maybe between movie roles you'd like to sing a little bit. 691 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:37,190 - No, I'm a serious actress. I'm studying at the Actors Lab. 692 00:32:37,210 --> 00:32:40,079 - Ooh. My, my. Actors Lab. 693 00:32:40,099 --> 00:32:43,119 Look, forgive me, but things'll go better for you 694 00:32:43,140 --> 00:32:45,130 in this business if you're a singer. 695 00:32:45,150 --> 00:32:48,069 - I've got a major role in a major motion picture. 696 00:32:48,089 --> 00:32:49,190 Starts shooting next week. 697 00:32:49,210 --> 00:32:51,079 - Hey. 698 00:32:51,099 --> 00:32:53,130 What's the big role? 699 00:32:53,150 --> 00:32:55,049 - Queen Melmendi. 700 00:32:55,069 --> 00:32:57,180 - [chuckles] - [giggles] 701 00:32:58,180 --> 00:32:59,180 - Ah. 702 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,160 - [grunting] 703 00:33:27,140 --> 00:33:29,119 - [grunting] 704 00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:31,150 - Geez! man: Cut! 705 00:33:31,170 --> 00:33:34,049 Look, will somebody please pre-cut the ropes? 706 00:33:34,069 --> 00:33:36,009 I mean, Lex is fumbling all over the place! 707 00:33:36,029 --> 00:33:37,160 - [unintelligible] - Yeah, okay, do it! 708 00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:39,099 - Yes, sir, yes, sir. Right away. 709 00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:41,140 Tommy? - Excuse me. 710 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,210 - What? - I was wondering. 711 00:33:43,230 --> 00:33:46,059 Queen Melmendi is queen of the jungle, right? 712 00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:48,220 Well, if she lives here, then why does she need Tarzan 713 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,059 to help her find her way through it? 714 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:52,130 - What's your name? - Dorothy. 715 00:33:52,150 --> 00:33:54,210 - Dorothy. Okay. Dorothy, sweetheart? 716 00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:56,049 Can you do something for me, please? 717 00:33:56,069 --> 00:33:58,029 - Mm-hmm. - Good. Would you go lie down, 718 00:33:58,049 --> 00:33:59,109 let me see more skin than cloth, 719 00:33:59,130 --> 00:34:02,150 and keep the queen of the fucking Congo quiet? 720 00:34:02,170 --> 00:34:04,150 Jimmy, fetch me a Coca-Cola! 721 00:34:04,170 --> 00:34:06,140 Jimmy: Coming up, sir. 722 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,070 - Look, I want to see more skin, okay? 723 00:34:08,090 --> 00:34:09,179 I don't care what we have to do... 724 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:13,010 - Hey, Sammy, got a smoke? - Sure thing. 725 00:34:22,219 --> 00:34:24,199 - Boy, that was, uh... 726 00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:28,059 What happened to your face? 727 00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:31,039 - Guess I wasn't black enough to lead the tribe. 728 00:34:31,059 --> 00:34:32,059 - [laughs] 729 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:35,019 - Go ahead, say it. You were right. 730 00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:36,179 - I was right. 731 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,210 But you were right, too, you know. 732 00:34:38,230 --> 00:34:40,219 Queen Melmendi would definitely know the way 733 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,179 out of her own jungle. 734 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,210 I'm willing to bet... 735 00:34:46,110 --> 00:34:48,079 She still does. 736 00:34:52,099 --> 00:34:53,139 - [chuckles] 737 00:34:55,179 --> 00:34:56,199 [laughs] 738 00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,099 Come on. Just give me one last hug. 739 00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:01,010 Come on, sweetheart. Thank you. 740 00:35:01,030 --> 00:35:02,019 Oh! 741 00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:03,070 - Dottie Mae, honey, let's go. 742 00:35:03,090 --> 00:35:05,059 You're gonna miss your plane. 743 00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:08,079 - Mmm. 744 00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:11,230 Okay, sweetheart, listen. 745 00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:14,190 Your nurse, she's very nice, honey. 746 00:35:14,210 --> 00:35:17,159 She's even got a piano. Ha! 747 00:35:17,179 --> 00:35:20,019 You're gonna like living here. 748 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:22,070 I know you will. Look, look. 749 00:35:22,090 --> 00:35:23,110 Remember the locket 750 00:35:23,130 --> 00:35:25,090 I gave you, huh? 751 00:35:25,110 --> 00:35:27,090 - This means-- - [grunts] 752 00:35:27,110 --> 00:35:30,039 - That I belong to you 753 00:35:30,059 --> 00:35:33,010 and you belong to me, okay? 754 00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:35,119 And when you miss me, you just grab it, 755 00:35:35,139 --> 00:35:38,179 you just hold on to it real tight, okay? 756 00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:40,110 And I'll be there. 757 00:35:40,130 --> 00:35:43,000 - [grunting] - Okay? 758 00:35:44,030 --> 00:35:45,219 woman: Come with me, Lynn. 759 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,210 [somber music] 760 00:35:48,230 --> 00:35:55,179 ♪ ♪ 761 00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:57,119 - I don't know, Mama. 762 00:35:57,139 --> 00:35:59,099 Maybe I should stay here and help her or somethin'. 763 00:35:59,119 --> 00:36:01,050 - Now, Dottie Mae, we talked about this. 764 00:36:01,070 --> 00:36:03,010 You're not gettin' enough from your divorce settlement. 765 00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:06,039 You don't work, you're not gonna be able to pay that nurse. 766 00:36:06,059 --> 00:36:09,179 I'd take care of Lynn myself, I would, 767 00:36:09,199 --> 00:36:10,219 but I gotta work, too. 768 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,219 I'm always at the studios. 769 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,050 Now, you got to think of your career first. 770 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,170 Dottie Mae, that child don't even know who you are. 771 00:36:21,190 --> 00:36:25,019 - It's so hard for me just to leave her, Mama. 772 00:36:25,039 --> 00:36:28,000 [sobs] - I know, baby, I know, 773 00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:29,179 but you got to pull yourself together, honey. 774 00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:32,170 We cannot keep Miami Beach a-waitin'. 775 00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:35,130 Take her in the house, honey. Take her on in the house. 776 00:36:35,150 --> 00:36:38,159 [upbeat Latin music] 777 00:36:38,179 --> 00:36:45,210 ♪ ♪ 778 00:36:45,230 --> 00:36:49,159 man: It's great to be back here in Miami Beach... 779 00:36:49,179 --> 00:36:51,090 - Uh... 780 00:36:51,110 --> 00:36:53,099 we're gonna be staying at a hotel. 781 00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:56,110 It's, uh, just outside the city limits. 782 00:36:56,130 --> 00:36:57,190 - Mm-hmm. 783 00:36:57,210 --> 00:37:00,099 - And, uh, I--I think we should probably use 784 00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:02,030 the service entrance when we come in here, 785 00:37:02,050 --> 00:37:04,059 don't you think? Dorothy: Mm-hmm. 786 00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,079 - Oh, and don't--don't talk to any of the patrons-- 787 00:37:07,099 --> 00:37:10,090 - Earl, just say it. 788 00:37:10,110 --> 00:37:11,139 - What? 789 00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:14,099 - You think I've never been to the South? 790 00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:16,019 I can't stay in Miami Beach, 791 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:17,139 I can't use the front entrance, 792 00:37:17,159 --> 00:37:20,090 and I can't speak to the patrons, right? 793 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:23,179 This isn't a tan, Earl. 794 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,119 I'm a Negro, a colored girl. 795 00:37:25,139 --> 00:37:27,019 You did happen to notice that, didn't you? 796 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:28,170 - I noticed. 797 00:37:28,190 --> 00:37:30,059 - Now, listen, if we're going to work together, 798 00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:31,219 you can't tiptoe around me. 799 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,159 You have to say it straight out. 800 00:37:35,179 --> 00:37:37,079 - Yes, ma'am. Dorothy: Good. 801 00:37:37,099 --> 00:37:38,150 Now, come on, honey. 802 00:37:38,170 --> 00:37:40,130 Zip me up so I can run to the bathroom. 803 00:37:40,150 --> 00:37:42,039 Come on. 804 00:37:42,059 --> 00:37:47,010 [man continues monologue in background] 805 00:37:47,030 --> 00:37:49,000 - This is your bathroom. 806 00:37:50,050 --> 00:37:53,130 You told me to say it straight out. 807 00:37:53,150 --> 00:37:54,119 Angel face. 808 00:37:54,139 --> 00:37:55,199 - I think President Truman's 809 00:37:55,219 --> 00:37:57,199 done a lot for the country. 810 00:37:57,219 --> 00:37:59,139 For one, he moved to the city. 811 00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:01,039 [taps drum] 812 00:38:01,059 --> 00:38:04,010 You're a wonderful crowd, and this is a classy joint. 813 00:38:04,030 --> 00:38:05,090 - Dorothy, wait. 814 00:38:05,110 --> 00:38:06,139 man: They even have midget waiters here. 815 00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:08,030 - What? 816 00:38:08,050 --> 00:38:09,139 - Look at this place. 817 00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:12,030 - I asked one waiter to put a phone on my table, 818 00:38:12,050 --> 00:38:15,050 but he couldn't get the booth off the wall. 819 00:38:15,070 --> 00:38:16,130 [rim shot] 820 00:38:16,150 --> 00:38:18,190 Boy, can the people drink here. 821 00:38:18,210 --> 00:38:20,139 One guy stumbled out of here last night, 822 00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:23,139 bumped into a uniformed man outside. 823 00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:24,150 He say, "Hey, buddy"... 824 00:38:24,170 --> 00:38:26,050 - I can't perform here. 825 00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:29,010 - I've seen worse. At least they paid. 826 00:38:29,030 --> 00:38:30,179 - You go find the owner, and you tell him 827 00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:33,139 I'm not performing inside this disaster area! 828 00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:36,039 - Oh, really? There's the owner right there. 829 00:38:36,059 --> 00:38:39,000 You want to ruin your career, you can tell him yourself. 830 00:38:39,019 --> 00:38:40,000 - Fine. I will. 831 00:38:40,019 --> 00:38:41,150 - Dorothy, wait, wait. 832 00:38:41,170 --> 00:38:43,039 I was kidding. Let me handle this. 833 00:38:43,059 --> 00:38:44,119 - Mr. Scott? - No. Dorothy. 834 00:38:44,139 --> 00:38:46,000 - Mr. Scott? - I'll handle it. 835 00:38:46,019 --> 00:38:47,219 - Dandridge. Good. You're on right after this joke. 836 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,159 - I'm the manager. She's not going on after him-- 837 00:38:49,179 --> 00:38:51,090 - Because I'm not performing! - Shh! 838 00:38:51,110 --> 00:38:53,039 - What did you say? - She won't work in a place 839 00:38:53,059 --> 00:38:55,079 where she has to enter stage rear, sleep outside the city-- 840 00:38:55,099 --> 00:38:56,150 - Or use a Dixie cup! 841 00:38:56,170 --> 00:38:59,039 - Quiet. Or use a Dixie cup. 842 00:38:59,059 --> 00:39:01,000 - [scoffs] 843 00:39:01,019 --> 00:39:02,179 All right. - What? 844 00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:04,139 man: He says, "Don't worry. I'll see you on Friday." 845 00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:05,159 [rim shot] 846 00:39:05,179 --> 00:39:07,219 - You see that man sitting at table two? 847 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,219 That's the city building commissioner. 848 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,110 When he found out I was opening a club 849 00:39:12,130 --> 00:39:15,059 where colored acts share dressing rooms with whites, 850 00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:18,079 he held up my construction permits until tonight, 851 00:39:18,099 --> 00:39:20,119 and most of these people are his friends. 852 00:39:20,139 --> 00:39:22,059 [man continues hammering] 853 00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,059 You see that busboy there? 854 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:26,050 His name is Corey Williams. 855 00:39:26,070 --> 00:39:28,190 He earned the Silver Star at Guadalcanal, 856 00:39:28,210 --> 00:39:31,210 came home, got his degree on the GI Bill. 857 00:39:31,230 --> 00:39:33,199 But no one would hire him 858 00:39:33,219 --> 00:39:35,190 except me. 859 00:39:35,210 --> 00:39:37,159 Now, I tried to get as many of my friends here 860 00:39:37,179 --> 00:39:40,110 to support what I'm trying to do, 861 00:39:40,130 --> 00:39:43,230 but tonight my friends are few and far between. 862 00:39:44,010 --> 00:39:46,099 So if you don't wanna perform, 863 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:48,090 I don't blame you, 864 00:39:48,110 --> 00:39:49,230 but don't blame me. 865 00:39:52,110 --> 00:39:53,139 - Well, it's been a pleasure 866 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:55,070 playing the Miami Beach Mortuary. 867 00:39:55,090 --> 00:39:56,230 May you all rest in peace. 868 00:39:57,010 --> 00:39:58,219 Good night, ladies and gentlemen. 869 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,030 [thump, microphone feedback] 870 00:40:06,170 --> 00:40:07,139 - Hey. Hey, hey, hey. 871 00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:10,030 - Oh. Got any advice? 872 00:40:10,050 --> 00:40:12,059 - Yeah. Kill 'em. 873 00:40:12,079 --> 00:40:13,179 - [sighs] 874 00:40:14,179 --> 00:40:15,139 - Thank you. 875 00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:19,099 [sawing, hammering continue] 876 00:40:21,099 --> 00:40:25,070 [background chatter] 877 00:40:34,219 --> 00:40:36,050 [microphone feedback] 878 00:40:36,070 --> 00:40:37,079 - Good evening. 879 00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:39,050 I'm Dorothy Dandridge. 880 00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:41,219 [sawing continues] [background chatter] 881 00:40:43,139 --> 00:40:46,150 ["I've Got Rhythm" begins] 882 00:40:46,170 --> 00:40:52,030 ♪ ♪ 883 00:40:52,050 --> 00:40:56,119 ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 884 00:40:56,139 --> 00:40:58,190 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 885 00:40:58,210 --> 00:41:00,070 [sawing, chatter continues] 886 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:04,039 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 887 00:41:04,059 --> 00:41:06,019 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 888 00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:07,030 [hammering continues] 889 00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:08,199 ♪ What I've got ♪ 890 00:41:08,219 --> 00:41:13,210 ♪ ♪ 891 00:41:13,230 --> 00:41:16,230 [music tempo increases] 892 00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:22,119 ♪ ♪ 893 00:41:22,139 --> 00:41:24,159 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 894 00:41:24,179 --> 00:41:26,230 ♪ I've got music ♪ 895 00:41:27,010 --> 00:41:28,010 ♪ I got my man ♪ 896 00:41:28,030 --> 00:41:30,150 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 897 00:41:30,170 --> 00:41:32,170 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 898 00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:34,159 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 899 00:41:34,179 --> 00:41:36,019 ♪ I got my man ♪ 900 00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:38,099 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 901 00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:41,000 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 902 00:41:41,019 --> 00:41:42,179 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 903 00:41:42,199 --> 00:41:46,219 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 904 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,230 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 905 00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:50,230 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 906 00:41:51,010 --> 00:41:52,059 ♪ I got my man ♪ 907 00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:54,199 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 908 00:41:54,219 --> 00:42:02,230 ♪ ♪ 909 00:42:23,039 --> 00:42:24,159 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 910 00:42:24,179 --> 00:42:26,199 ♪ I've got music ♪ 911 00:42:26,219 --> 00:42:29,010 ♪ I got my man ♪ 912 00:42:29,030 --> 00:42:30,199 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 913 00:42:30,219 --> 00:42:35,210 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 914 00:42:35,230 --> 00:42:38,199 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 915 00:42:38,219 --> 00:42:42,210 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 916 00:42:42,230 --> 00:42:44,139 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 917 00:42:44,159 --> 00:42:47,130 [snapping] ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 918 00:42:47,150 --> 00:42:50,099 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 919 00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:54,030 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 920 00:42:54,050 --> 00:42:56,030 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 921 00:42:56,050 --> 00:42:58,139 ♪ Ooh, what a man ♪ 922 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:02,000 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 923 00:43:02,019 --> 00:43:05,150 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 924 00:43:05,170 --> 00:43:07,159 ♪ Anything ♪ 925 00:43:07,179 --> 00:43:14,070 ♪ ♪ 926 00:43:14,090 --> 00:43:15,159 ♪ Anything ♪ 927 00:43:15,179 --> 00:43:22,230 ♪ More ♪ 928 00:43:23,010 --> 00:43:26,030 [crowd cheering and whistling] 929 00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:36,079 [crowd clamoring] 930 00:43:36,099 --> 00:43:44,119 ♪ ♪ 931 00:43:56,170 --> 00:43:58,059 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 932 00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:00,130 ♪ I've got music ♪ [loud cheers and applause] 933 00:44:00,150 --> 00:44:02,119 ♪ I got my man ♪ 934 00:44:02,139 --> 00:44:04,010 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 935 00:44:04,030 --> 00:44:09,150 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 936 00:44:09,170 --> 00:44:12,090 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 937 00:44:12,110 --> 00:44:16,119 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 938 00:44:16,139 --> 00:44:19,059 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 939 00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:21,039 ♪ 'Cause I got rhythm ♪ 940 00:44:21,059 --> 00:44:23,230 ♪ It makes me happy... ♪ 941 00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:26,190 [singing fades] 942 00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:29,199 - Mmm. 943 00:44:29,219 --> 00:44:30,230 [sighs] 944 00:44:31,010 --> 00:44:32,219 Audrey Hepburn's playing Sabrina. 945 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,130 [scoffs] - Mm-hmm? 946 00:44:34,150 --> 00:44:35,159 - And Ava Gardner, 947 00:44:35,179 --> 00:44:37,170 she's got another film now-- - Vivvy. 948 00:44:37,190 --> 00:44:40,059 - I can't help it if your name's not in here. 949 00:44:40,079 --> 00:44:41,179 - I'll get another role soon. 950 00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:44,059 - Oh, yeah, I see right here where Hollywood's 951 00:44:44,079 --> 00:44:46,090 just begging Negroes to star in their films. 952 00:44:46,110 --> 00:44:48,130 - Why do you have to be so gloomy? 953 00:44:48,150 --> 00:44:50,219 - Because I haven't worked in two years, 954 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,170 and let's not mention your last big role. 955 00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:58,059 - "Bright Road"? That was a very important film. 956 00:44:58,079 --> 00:44:59,230 - Important to who? 957 00:45:00,010 --> 00:45:01,059 It's practically breaking records 958 00:45:01,079 --> 00:45:03,199 for the lowest box office in the South. 959 00:45:03,219 --> 00:45:05,050 - Thank you, Vivvy. 960 00:45:05,070 --> 00:45:08,130 That was the cherry on the pie of my week. 961 00:45:08,150 --> 00:45:11,159 - I am having a really great day. 962 00:45:17,070 --> 00:45:18,139 Okay, I'll tell ya. 963 00:45:18,159 --> 00:45:21,199 Fox is doing a film of Bizet's "Carmen." 964 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:24,130 Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. 965 00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:26,190 - Whoop-de-doo. 966 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:29,219 - Oh, that's right. I didn't say. 967 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,219 They're using an all-Negro cast. 968 00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:40,179 Yeah. 969 00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:42,199 - Do you know how many colored actresses want this part? 970 00:45:42,219 --> 00:45:43,219 Every colored actress: 971 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,090 Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, everybody. 972 00:45:46,110 --> 00:45:47,139 "Carmen Jones" is the best part 973 00:45:47,159 --> 00:45:49,179 for a Negro actress in years. Ever. 974 00:45:49,199 --> 00:45:51,139 - Hey, she is Carmen. - [sighs] 975 00:45:51,159 --> 00:45:53,059 - You should have seen her run at La Vie en Rose. 976 00:45:53,079 --> 00:45:55,110 They were literally handing out the "Kinsey" sex report 977 00:45:55,130 --> 00:45:56,199 at the door, she's so hot. 978 00:45:56,219 --> 00:45:58,119 - Okay, that was New York, not Hollywood. 979 00:45:58,139 --> 00:45:59,210 That was a nightclub and not high drama. 980 00:45:59,230 --> 00:46:01,099 And I've seen her last two pictures, 981 00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:03,079 and that's all, folks. 982 00:46:03,099 --> 00:46:06,050 - Oh, come on, she's been shoved into nothing but banana hats 983 00:46:06,070 --> 00:46:09,079 and curled slippers for a year, and you know it, Joey. 984 00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,139 Now, come on. 985 00:46:10,159 --> 00:46:12,030 Joey, just get her a reading with Preminger. 986 00:46:12,050 --> 00:46:13,110 That's all I'm asking. 987 00:46:13,130 --> 00:46:14,210 - Just a reading? 988 00:46:14,230 --> 00:46:16,150 Just Otto Preminger? 989 00:46:16,170 --> 00:46:18,199 Do you know what I do every morning, Earl? 990 00:46:18,219 --> 00:46:20,070 - No, Joe. 991 00:46:20,090 --> 00:46:22,019 - I get up every morning at 5:00 am when it's still dark, 992 00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:23,199 and I drive all the way from the Valley to the studio, 993 00:46:23,219 --> 00:46:26,050 and along the way, I see faces. 994 00:46:26,070 --> 00:46:28,179 Faces on billboards, faces on bench ads. 995 00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:30,190 Familiar faces. 996 00:46:30,210 --> 00:46:32,000 Famous faces. 997 00:46:32,019 --> 00:46:34,199 The faces of movie stars. 998 00:46:34,219 --> 00:46:36,210 The faces that I see out of my car window 999 00:46:36,230 --> 00:46:39,210 are the faces for whom I get readings with Otto Preminger. 1000 00:46:39,230 --> 00:46:41,130 And not once, in all my drives, 1001 00:46:41,150 --> 00:46:43,210 have I ever seen the face 1002 00:46:43,230 --> 00:46:46,170 of Dorothy Dandridge. 1003 00:46:46,190 --> 00:46:48,130 Now, good night. 1004 00:47:18,219 --> 00:47:21,210 [triumphant music] 1005 00:47:21,230 --> 00:47:30,010 ♪ ♪ 1006 00:47:33,210 --> 00:47:37,010 [comical echo of triumphant music] 1007 00:47:37,030 --> 00:47:40,130 ♪ ♪ 1008 00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:42,210 [distant telephone rings] 1009 00:47:44,110 --> 00:47:48,130 - I wonder, why did Joey Young decide to get me a reading? 1010 00:47:48,150 --> 00:47:52,050 - Apparently he saw you from his car window one morning. 1011 00:47:52,070 --> 00:47:53,219 - [laughs] No kidding? 1012 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,050 - No kidding. 1013 00:47:57,150 --> 00:48:00,019 - Mr. Preminger will see you now. 1014 00:48:07,170 --> 00:48:08,179 - What? 1015 00:48:08,199 --> 00:48:10,119 - I just realized this is the moment 1016 00:48:10,139 --> 00:48:12,159 I've always dreamed of. 1017 00:48:12,179 --> 00:48:14,130 - Your reading with Preminger? 1018 00:48:14,150 --> 00:48:16,150 - A chance. 1019 00:48:20,019 --> 00:48:21,139 - Oh... 1020 00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:24,000 let me handle this, will ya? 1021 00:48:44,059 --> 00:48:45,210 [door closes loudly] 1022 00:49:09,139 --> 00:49:11,000 Mr. Preminger? 1023 00:49:14,050 --> 00:49:15,059 - [sighs] 1024 00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:16,139 [blows] 1025 00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:19,039 [pen scratching on paper] 1026 00:49:19,059 --> 00:49:21,019 - Mr. Preminger, 1027 00:49:21,039 --> 00:49:24,050 I'd like you to meet Carmen Jones. 1028 00:49:24,070 --> 00:49:26,199 - Ooh. Ha ha ha. 1029 00:49:30,079 --> 00:49:32,079 Carmen Jones? 1030 00:49:34,159 --> 00:49:36,010 No. 1031 00:49:36,030 --> 00:49:39,190 I will give her a reading for the role of Cindy Lou. 1032 00:49:39,210 --> 00:49:42,130 - Cindy Lou? 1033 00:49:42,150 --> 00:49:44,000 Isn't that the sweet girl 1034 00:49:44,019 --> 00:49:45,119 that gets dumped for Carmen? 1035 00:49:45,139 --> 00:49:46,230 - There must be a misunderstanding. 1036 00:49:47,010 --> 00:49:48,039 - 'Scuse me? 1037 00:49:48,059 --> 00:49:49,170 - I said there must be a misunderstanding. 1038 00:49:49,190 --> 00:49:51,000 Miss Dandridge is here 1039 00:49:51,019 --> 00:49:53,110 to read for the part of Carmen. 1040 00:49:53,130 --> 00:49:54,210 - You have come into my office, 1041 00:49:54,230 --> 00:49:56,190 but you have not brought Carmen with you. 1042 00:49:56,210 --> 00:49:59,159 You have brought yourself with you. 1043 00:49:59,179 --> 00:50:02,219 Good little girl, nice gloves... 1044 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,219 asking for a reading for the role of a wild woman. 1045 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,190 You are not Carmen. You're Cindy Lou. 1046 00:50:08,210 --> 00:50:10,070 Dorothy: But Mister-- Earl: Dorothy is an actress, 1047 00:50:10,090 --> 00:50:12,110 Mr. Preminger. - She is Cindy Lou. 1048 00:50:14,059 --> 00:50:16,019 - I'm sure if you'd just give her the opportunity-- 1049 00:50:16,039 --> 00:50:17,139 - This is final. 1050 00:50:17,159 --> 00:50:21,119 [papers rustling] 1051 00:50:22,130 --> 00:50:24,050 - You know what you are, Mr. Preminger? 1052 00:50:24,070 --> 00:50:26,019 - [whispers] Dorothy. - You're a bulldog. 1053 00:50:26,039 --> 00:50:28,050 You're a big, fat bulldog! 1054 00:50:28,070 --> 00:50:30,059 That's what you are. 1055 00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:32,010 - What did you call me? 1056 00:50:32,030 --> 00:50:33,199 - A bulldog. 1057 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:35,230 - [laughs nervously] 1058 00:50:36,010 --> 00:50:37,090 She's...nervous. 1059 00:50:37,110 --> 00:50:40,019 [stammers] Thank you for your time. 1060 00:50:40,039 --> 00:50:42,130 Cindy Lou. 1061 00:50:42,150 --> 00:50:44,179 We'll look at Cindy Lou. 1062 00:50:52,090 --> 00:50:53,219 Mama: Oh, she's on every page. 1063 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,110 Look at this! - What part? 1064 00:50:55,130 --> 00:50:58,000 Who's gonna play this part? I can play this part. 1065 00:50:58,019 --> 00:50:59,210 They'd never see me, though, would they, Mama? 1066 00:50:59,230 --> 00:51:02,039 - I'm not going back to read for Cindy Lou. 1067 00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:04,150 Don't know why you're still lookin' at that. 1068 00:51:04,170 --> 00:51:07,010 - You should be grateful he's considering you for a part. 1069 00:51:07,030 --> 00:51:08,110 I couldn't get an audition if I tried. 1070 00:51:08,130 --> 00:51:10,090 - I don't want to be Cindy Lou. 1071 00:51:10,110 --> 00:51:12,039 Mama: So that's what you gonna do? 1072 00:51:12,059 --> 00:51:13,190 Just give up? 1073 00:51:13,210 --> 00:51:15,130 - He won't give me a chance, Mama. 1074 00:51:15,150 --> 00:51:17,099 - Well, if you're waitin' for them to give you a chance, 1075 00:51:17,119 --> 00:51:19,019 you're gonna have a hard row to hoe. 1076 00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:21,019 Honey, you have got to take your chances. 1077 00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:23,119 Now, you think about Carmen. 1078 00:51:23,139 --> 00:51:27,119 This girl is all about sex. 1079 00:51:27,139 --> 00:51:29,079 She looks like sex. 1080 00:51:29,099 --> 00:51:32,190 She smells like sex. 1081 00:51:32,210 --> 00:51:36,000 She even moves, you know, she moves like sex. 1082 00:51:36,019 --> 00:51:38,010 - Mm-hmm, that's the way. 1083 00:51:38,030 --> 00:51:40,079 Use the equipment Mama gave you. 1084 00:51:40,099 --> 00:51:44,000 You got to walk in there like Carmen. 1085 00:51:44,019 --> 00:51:46,079 - But that old bulldog won't even let me read for Carmen. 1086 00:51:46,099 --> 00:51:48,159 - Honey, we're not talkin' 'bout readin'. 1087 00:51:48,179 --> 00:51:51,179 We're talkin' 'bout walkin'. 1088 00:51:53,219 --> 00:51:55,030 - [laughing] 1089 00:51:55,050 --> 00:51:57,079 Now, you can get this part. 1090 00:51:57,099 --> 00:51:58,150 - By walkin'. 1091 00:51:58,170 --> 00:52:00,099 [all laugh] 1092 00:52:03,090 --> 00:52:06,079 Dorothy: Have you seen my man? 1093 00:52:19,110 --> 00:52:22,090 That Carmen Jones snatched him from me, 1094 00:52:22,110 --> 00:52:25,119 and I'm lost over what to do about it. 1095 00:52:27,019 --> 00:52:28,130 Can't decide 1096 00:52:28,150 --> 00:52:31,199 if it's better me follow him up to the Windy City... 1097 00:52:33,130 --> 00:52:35,210 Or should I wait... 1098 00:52:37,019 --> 00:52:41,099 For him to come back to his happy hearth and home? 1099 00:52:41,119 --> 00:52:43,179 Tell me what to do. 1100 00:52:43,199 --> 00:52:45,150 I'm Cindy Lou. 1101 00:52:48,190 --> 00:52:50,119 - The hell you are. 1102 00:52:52,079 --> 00:52:54,159 - [chuckles] 1103 00:52:54,179 --> 00:52:56,179 - [chuckles] 1104 00:52:56,199 --> 00:52:59,059 - Girl, I was Carmen. 1105 00:52:59,079 --> 00:53:00,219 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you this?" 1106 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,139 "Miss Dandridge, can I get you that?" 1107 00:53:02,159 --> 00:53:04,039 Remember, they hired that opera singer 1108 00:53:04,059 --> 00:53:07,000 to come do my movie singin' for me? 1109 00:53:07,019 --> 00:53:09,050 [giggling] Mm-hmm. 1110 00:53:09,070 --> 00:53:11,070 They did. [chuckles] 1111 00:53:12,039 --> 00:53:15,010 Then one morning I woke up, 1112 00:53:15,030 --> 00:53:17,099 and I just couldn't breathe. 1113 00:53:17,119 --> 00:53:20,230 - What are you telling me? She won't make the picture? 1114 00:53:21,010 --> 00:53:23,090 I start shooting tomorrow! Wonderful! 1115 00:53:23,110 --> 00:53:25,059 Where is she? - She won't do it. 1116 00:53:25,079 --> 00:53:27,039 I've talked to her three times. 1117 00:53:27,059 --> 00:53:28,099 She won't do it. 1118 00:53:28,119 --> 00:53:30,019 She doesn't want to anger the Negro community. 1119 00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:33,150 - "Anger the Negro community." That's ridiculous! 1120 00:53:33,170 --> 00:53:35,230 The first all-Negro film! 1121 00:53:36,010 --> 00:53:37,190 First released by a major studio! 1122 00:53:37,210 --> 00:53:39,230 - Yes, in which she plays a Negro whore. 1123 00:53:40,010 --> 00:53:42,070 - It's not a whore! It's a woman, not a whore. 1124 00:53:42,090 --> 00:53:45,119 - Otto, Otto. A critic suggested 1125 00:53:45,139 --> 00:53:47,090 that Hollywood depicts all Negro women 1126 00:53:47,110 --> 00:53:50,110 as either mammies or prostitutes. 1127 00:53:50,130 --> 00:53:52,079 - Yeah, but this is-- it confuse me. 1128 00:53:52,099 --> 00:53:53,210 First the studio won't approve the film 1129 00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:55,090 because it's all-Negro. 1130 00:53:55,110 --> 00:53:56,179 Then they will do the film, 1131 00:53:56,199 --> 00:54:00,030 but only if the NAACP also approves. 1132 00:54:00,050 --> 00:54:02,079 Now Miss Dandridge won't make the film 1133 00:54:02,099 --> 00:54:04,159 because even though the NAACP 1134 00:54:04,179 --> 00:54:08,000 and the studio approve... 1135 00:54:08,019 --> 00:54:11,059 one man who writes one article does not. 1136 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,190 She's scared, yes? 1137 00:54:21,050 --> 00:54:24,019 - Yeah. Terrified. 1138 00:54:42,059 --> 00:54:44,139 Otto. 1139 00:54:46,079 --> 00:54:48,230 You're not really the asshole you seem to be, are you? 1140 00:54:49,010 --> 00:54:52,110 - This, little gentleman, is something neither you 1141 00:54:52,130 --> 00:54:56,179 nor anyone else will ever know. 1142 00:55:04,090 --> 00:55:05,150 [two short knocks on door] 1143 00:55:07,030 --> 00:55:09,039 - Earl, go away! 1144 00:55:09,059 --> 00:55:11,090 I've already made up my mind! 1145 00:55:11,110 --> 00:55:13,210 Otto: It's not Earl. Open. 1146 00:55:24,170 --> 00:55:26,010 Miss Dandridge. 1147 00:55:28,130 --> 00:55:29,219 - Call me Dorothy. 1148 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,230 Most...directors that barge in my house usually do. 1149 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,099 - You decline to play Carmen? 1150 00:55:54,119 --> 00:55:56,230 - I've already proven I could get the part. 1151 00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:59,090 No real reason for me to play it. 1152 00:55:59,110 --> 00:56:00,130 - Hmm. 1153 00:56:01,210 --> 00:56:05,050 Maybe you are not good enough to play the role. 1154 00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:07,170 Maybe you have no talent. 1155 00:56:07,190 --> 00:56:10,190 - I've got more talent than anybody in this town. 1156 00:56:10,210 --> 00:56:13,030 You won't find a better Carmen than me. 1157 00:56:13,050 --> 00:56:16,030 - So, you know you can do it, I know you can do it. 1158 00:56:16,050 --> 00:56:19,119 That's not your fear. It's the gamble. 1159 00:56:21,179 --> 00:56:23,130 - What would you know about that? 1160 00:56:23,150 --> 00:56:26,199 - I, too, am taking big gambles on this picture. 1161 00:56:26,219 --> 00:56:28,030 If it doesn't work, 1162 00:56:28,050 --> 00:56:30,190 then everybody will say Otto Preminger is a fool 1163 00:56:30,210 --> 00:56:34,019 thinking he can make a all-Negro musical. 1164 00:56:34,039 --> 00:56:37,000 And if I succeed, then I will be a genius. 1165 00:56:37,019 --> 00:56:38,030 [chuckles] 1166 00:56:38,050 --> 00:56:41,199 You know how I know it will work? 1167 00:56:41,219 --> 00:56:44,090 Because I have my Carmen. 1168 00:56:46,130 --> 00:56:48,119 I have you. 1169 00:56:57,139 --> 00:56:59,019 - What if they don't like me? 1170 00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:01,030 - They will love you. 1171 00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:03,139 I will make them love you. 1172 00:57:04,139 --> 00:57:07,019 I may be a...old bulldog, 1173 00:57:07,039 --> 00:57:09,230 with a bald head, but this is what I can do. 1174 00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:11,099 - I didn't mean to say that. 1175 00:57:11,119 --> 00:57:14,070 - No, no. It's all right. I know I'm ugly. 1176 00:57:14,090 --> 00:57:18,039 My gift is to bring the beauty 1177 00:57:18,059 --> 00:57:20,090 to the world. 1178 00:57:23,010 --> 00:57:24,179 I know women. 1179 00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:27,059 I know how to light them, to shoot them, 1180 00:57:27,079 --> 00:57:29,219 to create them for the screen. 1181 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,039 And if you let me, 1182 00:57:32,059 --> 00:57:35,030 I will seduce the audience for you. 1183 00:57:35,050 --> 00:57:36,199 I will make sure 1184 00:57:36,219 --> 00:57:40,039 that they will never forget the name Dorothy Dandridge. 1185 00:57:40,059 --> 00:57:43,010 I will make the name shine brighter 1186 00:57:43,030 --> 00:57:46,039 than all the lights here 1187 00:57:46,059 --> 00:57:48,079 [whispers] in our city. 1188 00:57:50,019 --> 00:57:51,050 - Otto... 1189 00:57:52,159 --> 00:57:55,070 You're not so ugly. 1190 00:57:59,139 --> 00:58:00,230 [laughs] 1191 00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:03,210 [gentle music] 1192 00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:11,230 ♪ ♪ 1193 00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:14,059 - Sir, we're ready to go. Are you? 1194 00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:16,059 - Are we ready? Really? I don't think so. 1195 00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:19,000 I mean, this has to be here. Move it. 1196 00:58:19,019 --> 00:58:21,030 The food has to steam, steam! 1197 00:58:21,050 --> 00:58:23,039 It's--it's hot, not cold. 1198 00:58:23,059 --> 00:58:24,150 What about here, the flowers? 1199 00:58:24,170 --> 00:58:27,059 That's ridiculous! Get rid of them. 1200 00:58:27,079 --> 00:58:29,079 We are not in a restaurant. We are in a mess hall. 1201 00:58:29,099 --> 00:58:31,010 What's here? That's red. 1202 00:58:31,030 --> 00:58:33,219 I said no one wears red. Put a--a blue scarf-- 1203 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:35,150 You know what? Forget about it. woman: I'll take that. 1204 00:58:35,170 --> 00:58:37,000 - Put that to the back. 1205 00:58:37,019 --> 00:58:39,179 And where's my coffee? Is that too much to-- 1206 00:58:39,199 --> 00:58:41,119 - Right here, sir. - Cup of coffee? 1207 00:58:41,139 --> 00:58:42,210 Where's Miss Dandridge? 1208 00:58:42,230 --> 00:58:43,199 - Still in her dressing room, sir. 1209 00:58:43,219 --> 00:58:45,030 - Oh, that's fine. 1210 00:58:45,050 --> 00:58:46,190 Well, please let her know that we are ready 1211 00:58:46,210 --> 00:58:48,059 and she should join us. 1212 00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:49,110 Not bad. 1213 00:58:49,130 --> 00:58:51,190 She's late for the first shooting day. 1214 00:58:51,210 --> 00:58:54,019 Who else is late here? 1215 00:58:55,070 --> 00:58:57,030 - Otto-- - Who the hell are you? 1216 00:58:57,050 --> 00:59:00,070 - I'm Earl. - Get just out of my way. 1217 00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:08,159 Good day, Miss Dandridge. 1218 00:59:08,179 --> 00:59:11,110 - Good day, Mr. Preminger. 1219 00:59:11,130 --> 00:59:13,110 man: Oh, this is ridiculous. 1220 00:59:13,130 --> 00:59:15,119 I'm gonna lay it out. 1221 00:59:15,139 --> 00:59:19,119 [overlapping chatter] 1222 00:59:19,139 --> 00:59:21,139 - I have to tell you, 1223 00:59:21,159 --> 00:59:22,210 rule number one: 1224 00:59:22,230 --> 00:59:26,010 never be late on a set. 1225 00:59:28,210 --> 00:59:31,059 - Okay, folks, quiet down, settle down. 1226 00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:32,230 Okay, this is gonna be for picture, 1227 00:59:33,010 --> 00:59:35,039 ladies and gentlemen. Let's make it a good one. 1228 00:59:35,059 --> 00:59:37,219 Folks, just like I said, just like we rehearsed. 1229 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,230 Okay? Nice, comfortable meal. - Thank you. 1230 00:59:40,010 --> 00:59:41,139 man: Nice conversation. No extra noise. 1231 00:59:41,159 --> 00:59:43,099 No silverware clattering, none of that, okay? 1232 00:59:43,119 --> 00:59:47,000 We'll do that later. Okay! First positions, everybody. 1233 00:59:52,010 --> 00:59:53,039 - [exhales] 1234 00:59:54,099 --> 00:59:56,159 man: You look as good as me. 1235 00:59:56,179 --> 01:00:00,039 [overlapping crewmen chatter] 1236 01:00:00,059 --> 01:00:01,179 - [exhales] 1237 01:00:01,199 --> 01:00:03,019 - Roll 'em. 1238 01:00:03,039 --> 01:00:04,039 - Roll 'em! 1239 01:00:04,059 --> 01:00:05,199 [bell rings] man: Speed. 1240 01:00:05,219 --> 01:00:08,070 - Scene 30, take one. Marker. 1241 01:00:08,090 --> 01:00:09,119 - Background! 1242 01:00:11,230 --> 01:00:13,010 - Action! 1243 01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:23,159 - Hmm. Congratulations, Corporal. 1244 01:00:23,179 --> 01:00:25,110 That Airs Corps sure was smart in pickin' you out 1245 01:00:25,130 --> 01:00:27,139 of this whole outfit for the officers' flying school. 1246 01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:29,070 - Thanks. - [chuckles] 1247 01:00:30,099 --> 01:00:32,010 - Hi, Carmen. - Hi. 1248 01:00:32,030 --> 01:00:34,179 woman: Well! Get a load of this hip-swingin' floozy 1249 01:00:34,199 --> 01:00:37,150 rollin' round to work in time for lunch. 1250 01:00:37,170 --> 01:00:38,159 - Prune puss, 1251 01:00:38,179 --> 01:00:40,050 you make sounds I don't like. 1252 01:00:40,070 --> 01:00:42,170 - I'ma tell the foreman you was late again. 1253 01:00:42,190 --> 01:00:44,050 - You do that, and I'll scratch out 1254 01:00:44,070 --> 01:00:46,090 the one good eye you got left. 1255 01:00:46,110 --> 01:00:48,059 - Hey, Carmen, why don't you come to Pastor's 1256 01:00:48,079 --> 01:00:49,099 with me tonight? 1257 01:00:49,119 --> 01:00:51,150 I can dance those other boys off the floor. 1258 01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:54,000 - T-Bone, you're too little and too late. 1259 01:00:54,019 --> 01:00:56,130 - I don't waste no time. Dig me, baby? 1260 01:00:56,150 --> 01:00:58,079 - Wasting your time right now, Sergeant. 1261 01:00:58,099 --> 01:01:00,210 The wind's blowin' me in another direction, 1262 01:01:00,230 --> 01:01:03,050 and it ain't no use arguin' with the wind. 1263 01:01:03,070 --> 01:01:04,159 - Hey, how about going out with me tonight 1264 01:01:04,179 --> 01:01:06,030 instead of playin' the field? 1265 01:01:06,050 --> 01:01:07,150 woman: Yeah, Carmen, pick out one. 1266 01:01:07,170 --> 01:01:09,130 That'll release the rest of 'em. 1267 01:01:09,150 --> 01:01:12,059 Marilyn Horne: ♪ I won't pick out a man ♪ 1268 01:01:12,079 --> 01:01:14,219 ♪ And he won't pick out me ♪ 1269 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,110 ♪ It don't go that way ♪ 1270 01:01:18,130 --> 01:01:22,139 ♪ You can't ever know ♪ 1271 01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:25,179 ♪ ♪ 1272 01:01:25,199 --> 01:01:28,210 ♪ Where your crazy heart ♪ 1273 01:01:28,230 --> 01:01:30,170 ♪ ♪ 1274 01:01:30,190 --> 01:01:33,159 ♪ Wants to go ♪ 1275 01:01:33,179 --> 01:01:38,079 ♪ ♪ 1276 01:01:38,099 --> 01:01:41,090 ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1277 01:01:41,110 --> 01:01:44,159 ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1278 01:01:44,179 --> 01:01:48,010 ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1279 01:01:48,030 --> 01:01:51,150 ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1280 01:01:51,170 --> 01:01:55,030 ♪ One man gives me his diamond stud ♪ 1281 01:01:55,050 --> 01:01:58,139 ♪ And I won't give him a cigarette ♪ 1282 01:01:58,159 --> 01:02:03,119 ♪ One man treats me like I was mud ♪ 1283 01:02:03,139 --> 01:02:07,119 ♪ And all I got dat man can get ♪ 1284 01:02:07,139 --> 01:02:09,110 female chorus: ♪ Love's a baby that grows up wild ♪ 1285 01:02:09,130 --> 01:02:11,059 Horne: ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1286 01:02:11,079 --> 01:02:12,150 chorus: ♪ And he don't do what you want him to ♪ 1287 01:02:12,170 --> 01:02:14,099 Horne: ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1288 01:02:14,119 --> 01:02:16,019 chorus: ♪ Love ain't nobody's angel child ♪ 1289 01:02:16,039 --> 01:02:17,179 Horne: ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1290 01:02:17,199 --> 01:02:19,050 chorus: ♪ And he won't pay any mind to you ♪ 1291 01:02:19,070 --> 01:02:20,159 Horne: ♪ Dat's love ♪ 1292 01:02:20,179 --> 01:02:22,000 - Cut! 1293 01:02:22,019 --> 01:02:23,159 [buzzer] 1294 01:02:23,179 --> 01:02:26,230 Horne: ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1295 01:02:27,010 --> 01:02:30,199 ♪ And if I do, den you are through ♪ 1296 01:02:30,219 --> 01:02:33,070 ♪ Boy, my baby ♪ 1297 01:02:33,090 --> 01:02:34,190 ♪ That's the end of you ♪ 1298 01:02:34,210 --> 01:02:36,000 - [shrieks, laughs] 1299 01:02:36,019 --> 01:02:37,130 chorus: ♪ The end of you ♪ 1300 01:02:37,150 --> 01:02:40,159 Horne: ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1301 01:02:40,179 --> 01:02:45,010 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1302 01:02:45,030 --> 01:02:46,170 chorus: ♪ She told you true ♪ 1303 01:02:46,190 --> 01:02:48,110 Horne: ♪ I told you truly ♪ [Otto whistles] 1304 01:02:48,130 --> 01:02:50,119 - [giggling] Horne: ♪ If I love you ♪ 1305 01:02:50,139 --> 01:02:52,059 - Voila. [giggles] 1306 01:02:52,079 --> 01:02:54,190 Horne: ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1307 01:02:54,210 --> 01:02:57,179 chorus: ♪ You go for me and I'm taboo ♪ 1308 01:02:57,199 --> 01:03:00,170 ♪ But if you're hard to get, I go for you ♪ 1309 01:03:00,190 --> 01:03:02,050 [both growl] 1310 01:03:02,070 --> 01:03:03,230 chorus: ♪ And if I do, then you are through ♪ 1311 01:03:04,010 --> 01:03:07,019 ♪ Boy, my baby, that's the end of you ♪ 1312 01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:08,099 ♪ The end of you ♪ 1313 01:03:08,119 --> 01:03:12,050 Horne: ♪ So take your cue, boy ♪ 1314 01:03:12,070 --> 01:03:17,110 ♪ Don't say I didn't tell you true ♪ 1315 01:03:17,130 --> 01:03:19,019 chorus: ♪ She told you true ♪ 1316 01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:21,059 Horne: ♪ I told you truly ♪ 1317 01:03:21,079 --> 01:03:23,190 ♪ If I love you ♪ 1318 01:03:23,210 --> 01:03:26,130 ♪ Dat's de end of you ♪ 1319 01:03:26,150 --> 01:03:30,010 ♪ ♪ 1320 01:03:30,030 --> 01:03:31,099 - What is it? 1321 01:03:31,119 --> 01:03:32,139 - Nothing. Go ahead. 1322 01:03:32,159 --> 01:03:33,219 - Hmm? "Go ahead." 1323 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,110 Where could I go in our bed without you? 1324 01:03:37,130 --> 01:03:38,159 Hmm? 1325 01:03:38,179 --> 01:03:41,000 - [sighs] 1326 01:03:42,150 --> 01:03:44,030 - What's wrong? 1327 01:03:45,139 --> 01:03:47,010 - Nothing. 1328 01:03:50,099 --> 01:03:51,199 - The truth. 1329 01:03:54,010 --> 01:03:55,079 Don't cry. 1330 01:03:56,219 --> 01:03:58,059 - I just never... 1331 01:03:59,110 --> 01:04:03,070 Really much liked sex, that's all. 1332 01:04:03,090 --> 01:04:05,090 - Should have told me. 1333 01:04:05,110 --> 01:04:08,019 - It's okay. I don't mind. 1334 01:04:08,039 --> 01:04:09,190 - I mind. 1335 01:04:12,070 --> 01:04:14,000 If you never liked sex, 1336 01:04:14,019 --> 01:04:16,059 then probably 1337 01:04:16,079 --> 01:04:19,079 you never had sex. 1338 01:04:19,099 --> 01:04:22,000 You're still untouched... 1339 01:04:22,019 --> 01:04:23,219 inside. 1340 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,039 Deeply inside... 1341 01:04:26,059 --> 01:04:28,000 in your heart. 1342 01:04:29,179 --> 01:04:34,090 We will discover your heart and open it together. 1343 01:04:34,110 --> 01:04:37,059 There's no hurry. 1344 01:04:37,079 --> 01:04:39,039 Not at all. 1345 01:04:39,059 --> 01:04:41,050 [chuckles] 1346 01:04:46,030 --> 01:04:49,190 We have all the time in the world to do this. 1347 01:04:53,130 --> 01:04:55,090 All the time in the world. 1348 01:04:57,019 --> 01:04:58,170 - I love you. 1349 01:04:58,190 --> 01:05:01,150 [gentle music] 1350 01:05:01,170 --> 01:05:10,039 ♪ ♪ 1351 01:05:15,070 --> 01:05:16,179 man: So, Dorothy, listen to me. 1352 01:05:16,199 --> 01:05:20,059 I saw that Tarzan picture you were in. 1353 01:05:20,079 --> 01:05:21,090 What a stinker. 1354 01:05:21,110 --> 01:05:22,130 But I gotta tell you, 1355 01:05:22,150 --> 01:05:24,019 in the middle of all those monkeys, 1356 01:05:24,039 --> 01:05:27,099 and all that monkey shit, you were the one thing 1357 01:05:27,119 --> 01:05:29,019 that made my troop salute. 1358 01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:31,159 - [chuckles] 1359 01:05:31,179 --> 01:05:34,039 Is that why you asked to see me, Mr. Zanuck? 1360 01:05:34,059 --> 01:05:38,199 - You know, this is my studio, and when I see an entertainer 1361 01:05:38,219 --> 01:05:41,119 with such extraordinary assets, 1362 01:05:41,139 --> 01:05:44,090 I want to make sure that 20th Century Fox 1363 01:05:44,110 --> 01:05:46,130 further explores that entertainer. 1364 01:05:46,150 --> 01:05:49,110 - Could we--I thought we were here to discuss a deal. 1365 01:05:49,130 --> 01:05:51,230 Zanuck: I have seen the "Carmen" dailies. 1366 01:05:53,030 --> 01:05:55,010 And you're on fire. 1367 01:05:57,210 --> 01:05:59,199 And I felt the heat. 1368 01:06:02,119 --> 01:06:03,130 - I hope you don't think 1369 01:06:03,150 --> 01:06:05,159 we colored girls drop our panties 1370 01:06:05,179 --> 01:06:09,039 every time one of you white boys pays us a compliment. 1371 01:06:09,059 --> 01:06:11,050 - [laughs nervously] Dorothy, I-- 1372 01:06:11,070 --> 01:06:12,170 I don't think Mr. Zanuck is say-- 1373 01:06:12,190 --> 01:06:14,010 Zanuck: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1374 01:06:14,030 --> 01:06:17,000 That's the trouble with you people. 1375 01:06:18,090 --> 01:06:20,010 The colored race 1376 01:06:20,030 --> 01:06:22,030 is always focused 1377 01:06:22,050 --> 01:06:23,210 on the treatment you expect to get 1378 01:06:23,230 --> 01:06:26,039 instead of the treatment you're getting. 1379 01:06:26,059 --> 01:06:29,090 I'm trying to offer you a three-picture contract here. 1380 01:06:33,050 --> 01:06:34,159 - We're listening. 1381 01:06:34,179 --> 01:06:37,059 - The public isn't ready for a colored leading lady. 1382 01:06:37,079 --> 01:06:39,019 - Well-- - Not yet. 1383 01:06:39,039 --> 01:06:42,050 But I know she's a star, 1384 01:06:42,070 --> 01:06:44,000 so I got a plan. 1385 01:06:44,019 --> 01:06:46,199 We're gonna smooth the way. 1386 01:06:46,219 --> 01:06:49,019 We're gonna let people get to know you. 1387 01:06:49,039 --> 01:06:51,019 - Won't they already know her as Carmen? 1388 01:06:51,039 --> 01:06:52,150 Zanuck: Carmen's just the beginning. 1389 01:06:52,170 --> 01:06:55,139 I'm gonna do a remake of "The Blue Angel," 1390 01:06:55,159 --> 01:06:57,079 with you as a Negro girl. 1391 01:06:57,099 --> 01:06:59,059 Then I'm gonna have you play an Italian girl 1392 01:06:59,079 --> 01:07:01,019 in a foreign legion picture, 1393 01:07:01,039 --> 01:07:02,230 then a Mexican girl. 1394 01:07:03,010 --> 01:07:05,090 By this time two years from now, 1395 01:07:05,110 --> 01:07:08,050 the public's gonna love you so much as the Mexican lead, 1396 01:07:08,070 --> 01:07:10,019 as the Italian lead, that they'll beg to see you 1397 01:07:10,039 --> 01:07:12,039 in any white role. 1398 01:07:13,139 --> 01:07:16,019 You're gonna be a huge star, Dorothy. 1399 01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:17,170 Just huge. 1400 01:07:18,219 --> 01:07:20,210 - So what kind of deal are we talking about? 1401 01:07:20,230 --> 01:07:23,179 - 30,000, escalating to 75. 1402 01:07:23,199 --> 01:07:26,059 - 50,000, escalating to 100. 1403 01:07:26,079 --> 01:07:28,199 - 75, escalating to 125. 1404 01:07:30,199 --> 01:07:32,130 - That's a lot of money. 1405 01:07:33,230 --> 01:07:35,230 - We won't accept a penny less. 1406 01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:37,170 - That's not what you said to Ava Gardner. 1407 01:07:37,190 --> 01:07:39,170 - Well, Ava Gardner's the number-one box office girl 1408 01:07:39,190 --> 01:07:40,219 in the business. 1409 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,110 - Not after "Carmen" comes out, she isn't. 1410 01:07:44,170 --> 01:07:47,110 - [laughing] 1411 01:07:50,019 --> 01:07:52,210 Okay. All right. Here you go. 1412 01:07:52,230 --> 01:07:54,159 Come on, come on. 1413 01:07:54,179 --> 01:07:55,179 [Earl chuckles] 1414 01:07:55,199 --> 01:07:58,119 - [laughing loudly] 1415 01:07:59,170 --> 01:08:01,019 - Ava Gardner's salary? 1416 01:08:01,039 --> 01:08:03,050 - Her manager's percentage? 1417 01:08:03,070 --> 01:08:04,130 [both laugh] 1418 01:08:04,150 --> 01:08:07,050 - Where did you learn to horse-trade like that? 1419 01:08:07,070 --> 01:08:09,079 - Otto coached me. 1420 01:08:09,099 --> 01:08:17,119 ♪ ♪ 1421 01:08:22,180 --> 01:08:24,199 - The Last Frontier Hotel is proud to welcome 1422 01:08:24,220 --> 01:08:27,050 Miss Dandridge as their first Negro guest. 1423 01:08:27,069 --> 01:08:29,159 We look forward to her performances. 1424 01:08:29,180 --> 01:08:31,189 The chefs are at her disposal. 1425 01:08:31,210 --> 01:08:33,149 Meals will be delivered to her room. 1426 01:08:33,170 --> 01:08:35,180 She can have any dish she likes. 1427 01:08:35,199 --> 01:08:38,039 - You're saying she can't use the dining room. 1428 01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:40,029 - What about the restrooms backstage? 1429 01:08:40,050 --> 01:08:41,079 Can I at least use the restroom? 1430 01:08:41,100 --> 01:08:42,210 - She can, right? - Well, uh-- 1431 01:08:42,229 --> 01:08:44,039 - Oh, now, look, 1432 01:08:44,060 --> 01:08:46,159 I was told Dorothy would be extended every courtesy. 1433 01:08:46,180 --> 01:08:49,189 - She will be, in her room. - Oh, here we go. 1434 01:08:49,210 --> 01:08:52,100 - The casino and the restaurant are obviously off-limits. 1435 01:08:52,119 --> 01:08:54,189 The club too except, of course, when she is performing, 1436 01:08:54,210 --> 01:08:56,210 and the pool. 1437 01:08:56,229 --> 01:08:57,220 - I can't use the pool? 1438 01:08:58,000 --> 01:08:59,100 - I don't believe this. 1439 01:08:59,119 --> 01:09:02,039 - If she got in the pool, it would have to be drained. 1440 01:09:02,060 --> 01:09:03,119 - Drained? 1441 01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:04,170 - Health reasons. 1442 01:09:04,189 --> 01:09:09,050 Listen, this is Las Vegas. 1443 01:09:09,069 --> 01:09:10,210 Mr. Mills? 1444 01:09:12,220 --> 01:09:14,119 I tell you what, I can take 1445 01:09:14,140 --> 01:09:17,140 one of the smaller bathrooms backstage, 1446 01:09:17,159 --> 01:09:21,039 mark it, uh, "Coloreds Only." 1447 01:09:21,060 --> 01:09:22,159 Now, won't that be nice? 1448 01:09:22,180 --> 01:09:24,090 - Swell. 1449 01:09:24,109 --> 01:09:26,109 - Don't forget your key. 1450 01:09:26,130 --> 01:09:27,159 Have a good stay. 1451 01:09:27,180 --> 01:09:28,210 Earl: Jerk. 1452 01:09:32,229 --> 01:09:34,210 [distant splash in pool] 1453 01:09:39,220 --> 01:09:42,140 Can I get you something? 1454 01:09:42,159 --> 01:09:43,149 Coffee? 1455 01:09:43,170 --> 01:09:44,199 Tea? 1456 01:09:44,220 --> 01:09:46,220 Baseball bat? 1457 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,180 - Go ahead, Earl. Make jokes. 1458 01:09:48,199 --> 01:09:51,159 Tonight I'll take my bows and exit stage rear, 1459 01:09:51,180 --> 01:09:53,109 go through the kitchen, past the casino, 1460 01:09:53,130 --> 01:09:54,180 around the pool 1461 01:09:54,199 --> 01:09:56,109 that I'm apparently too dirty to swim in, 1462 01:09:56,130 --> 01:09:57,170 up the service elevator, 1463 01:09:57,189 --> 01:09:59,170 into my luxurious penthouse suite, 1464 01:09:59,189 --> 01:10:01,090 sip my complimentary champagne, 1465 01:10:01,109 --> 01:10:04,069 and pee in a brand-new Dixie cup! 1466 01:10:06,130 --> 01:10:08,210 - I take that walk with you every night, you know. 1467 01:10:08,229 --> 01:10:12,189 - But the difference is, Earl, you don't have to. 1468 01:10:14,050 --> 01:10:16,130 - That's true. I don't. 1469 01:10:16,149 --> 01:10:18,109 - I'm in a big picture. 1470 01:10:18,130 --> 01:10:20,010 Somehow, I thought this time, 1471 01:10:20,029 --> 01:10:21,189 things would be a little bit different. 1472 01:10:21,210 --> 01:10:22,229 - I know, I know. 1473 01:10:23,010 --> 01:10:24,109 You're right. 1474 01:10:24,130 --> 01:10:26,050 You're right. 1475 01:10:26,069 --> 01:10:27,189 But, Dorothy, 1476 01:10:27,210 --> 01:10:30,149 you're the first Negro to play here. 1477 01:10:30,170 --> 01:10:32,189 You're the first, the first. 1478 01:10:32,210 --> 01:10:35,079 You're the first to stay in this hotel. 1479 01:10:35,100 --> 01:10:38,029 You're the highest-paid ever. 1480 01:10:38,050 --> 01:10:39,100 Angel face... 1481 01:10:39,119 --> 01:10:42,029 you make it possible for it to be different 1482 01:10:42,050 --> 01:10:44,189 next time for somebody else. 1483 01:10:44,210 --> 01:10:47,000 Now, come on. 1484 01:10:47,020 --> 01:10:48,199 Hmm? 1485 01:10:48,220 --> 01:10:51,050 I know you got the moxie to do this. 1486 01:10:51,069 --> 01:10:53,180 - How do you know what I've got? 1487 01:10:53,199 --> 01:10:55,079 - Because-- 1488 01:10:59,130 --> 01:11:01,189 Because I love you. 1489 01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,020 - Why, Earl Mills. 1490 01:11:17,050 --> 01:11:19,130 - [exhales sharply] 1491 01:11:19,149 --> 01:11:20,229 Well... 1492 01:11:22,130 --> 01:11:24,159 - So now what do we do? 1493 01:11:26,050 --> 01:11:27,170 - Whatever you want. 1494 01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,109 There's one over there. - Yes. 1495 01:11:40,130 --> 01:11:44,109 [mellow background music] 1496 01:11:44,130 --> 01:11:45,199 - Excuse me. 1497 01:11:47,119 --> 01:11:49,170 Uh, can I help you? 1498 01:11:49,189 --> 01:11:51,090 - Uh, yes, actually, you can. 1499 01:11:51,109 --> 01:11:53,079 The mints on my pillow were stale. 1500 01:11:53,100 --> 01:11:54,149 Could you take care of that? 1501 01:11:54,170 --> 01:11:56,210 - Perhaps Miss Dandridge would be more comfortable 1502 01:11:56,229 --> 01:11:58,020 in her room? 1503 01:11:58,039 --> 01:12:00,100 - Miss Dandridge is quite comfortable, thank you. 1504 01:12:00,119 --> 01:12:01,229 - Are you sure? - Very. 1505 01:12:02,010 --> 01:12:04,229 What a lovely pool you have here. 1506 01:12:05,010 --> 01:12:06,170 - Miss Dandridge, please. 1507 01:12:09,050 --> 01:12:11,170 - Oh! Oh, my. - [laughs] 1508 01:12:11,189 --> 01:12:13,010 - Oh, my gosh. 1509 01:12:13,029 --> 01:12:14,170 Dorothy: The water's quite cold, 1510 01:12:14,189 --> 01:12:16,119 but lovely nonetheless. 1511 01:12:16,140 --> 01:12:18,039 [laughs] 1512 01:12:19,159 --> 01:12:20,220 - I hope you're happy. 1513 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,109 - No. 1514 01:12:22,130 --> 01:12:24,130 I'm not happy at all. 1515 01:12:24,149 --> 01:12:27,119 man: Negroes cannot swim in this pool! 1516 01:12:38,159 --> 01:12:41,050 [both chuckle] 1517 01:12:41,069 --> 01:12:44,069 [jazzy music plays] 1518 01:12:44,090 --> 01:12:49,140 ♪ ♪ 1519 01:12:49,159 --> 01:12:51,130 - Fantastic, as usual. 1520 01:12:51,149 --> 01:12:53,220 - [chuckling] Thanks. 1521 01:12:55,039 --> 01:12:56,130 - Good night. - Night. 1522 01:12:56,149 --> 01:12:58,090 both: Good night. 1523 01:12:58,109 --> 01:13:01,170 [swishing sounds] 1524 01:13:20,100 --> 01:13:22,100 man: Ladies and gentlemen, Dorothy Dandridge 1525 01:13:22,119 --> 01:13:25,210 here at the New York premiere of "Carmen Jones." 1526 01:13:25,229 --> 01:13:27,079 [chatter, applause] 1527 01:13:27,100 --> 01:13:28,140 man: And here's Robert Wagner... 1528 01:13:28,159 --> 01:13:30,020 - Thank you. 1529 01:13:30,039 --> 01:13:31,170 man: The mayor of New York City. 1530 01:13:31,189 --> 01:13:33,220 man: You look beautiful. 1531 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:35,170 - Miss Dandridge. - Oh. 1532 01:13:35,189 --> 01:13:38,000 - May we have you take some pictures with Mr. Belafonte 1533 01:13:38,020 --> 01:13:39,140 for the press, if you wouldn't mind? 1534 01:13:39,159 --> 01:13:41,140 Congratulations on the film. 1535 01:13:41,159 --> 01:13:42,189 - Harry. 1536 01:13:42,210 --> 01:13:44,039 - Nice big smile. 1537 01:13:44,060 --> 01:13:46,010 - How wonderful you both look. Yeah, this is good. 1538 01:13:46,029 --> 01:13:48,149 man: Otto Preminger, director of "Carmen Jones." 1539 01:13:48,170 --> 01:13:50,039 - Here's Mr. Preminger. 1540 01:13:52,220 --> 01:13:55,039 Mr. Preminger. 1541 01:13:55,060 --> 01:13:57,180 May we get some photos of you, sir, with your cast? 1542 01:13:57,199 --> 01:13:59,199 [crowd shouting] 1543 01:13:59,220 --> 01:14:03,039 And your wife, too, of course, if she wouldn't mind. 1544 01:14:03,060 --> 01:14:04,199 man: Pearl Bailey. 1545 01:14:04,220 --> 01:14:07,039 Miss Bailey, would you say a few words to the press? 1546 01:14:07,060 --> 01:14:09,189 man: All right, everyone smile, please. 1547 01:14:09,210 --> 01:14:12,069 Close together, please. Tighter. 1548 01:14:12,090 --> 01:14:14,189 [overlapping chatter] 1549 01:14:14,210 --> 01:14:16,220 - How dare you parade her in front of me? 1550 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,210 [playing piano] 1551 01:14:18,229 --> 01:14:20,079 - I didn't know she was coming. 1552 01:14:20,100 --> 01:14:22,079 - It was my night, Otto. 1553 01:14:22,100 --> 01:14:24,119 You won't be seen with me in public, but then I have to 1554 01:14:24,140 --> 01:14:26,229 watch you traipse around with her. 1555 01:14:28,189 --> 01:14:30,050 - She's my wife. 1556 01:14:30,069 --> 01:14:32,090 - Tell her to leave. 1557 01:14:32,109 --> 01:14:34,050 You have an understanding, remember? 1558 01:14:34,069 --> 01:14:36,229 She openly makes the rounds, Otto, with another man, 1559 01:14:37,010 --> 01:14:38,090 and you don't complain about it. 1560 01:14:38,109 --> 01:14:41,159 So why couldn't you spend the evening with me? 1561 01:14:41,180 --> 01:14:43,189 - There's not just you and me. 1562 01:14:43,210 --> 01:14:45,180 There are others to take care of, 1563 01:14:45,199 --> 01:14:47,010 there's a movie to take care of-- 1564 01:14:47,029 --> 01:14:49,039 - I don't care about the movie. 1565 01:14:54,020 --> 01:14:55,119 - You do. 1566 01:15:02,100 --> 01:15:06,060 This is America, land of opportunity, 1567 01:15:06,079 --> 01:15:08,180 but it's America. 1568 01:15:08,199 --> 01:15:13,029 If it got out that we were together... 1569 01:15:13,050 --> 01:15:15,170 the movie would never open. 1570 01:15:18,029 --> 01:15:21,020 And I want you to be a star. 1571 01:15:21,039 --> 01:15:23,039 I want you to have everything. 1572 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:26,000 What you deserve. 1573 01:15:26,020 --> 01:15:28,090 My... 1574 01:15:28,109 --> 01:15:30,130 our movie... 1575 01:15:30,149 --> 01:15:32,220 will change everything. 1576 01:15:34,010 --> 01:15:36,060 - I won't just be a mistress. 1577 01:15:36,079 --> 01:15:37,220 Otto: Everything. 1578 01:15:45,210 --> 01:15:47,180 [sighs] 1579 01:15:47,199 --> 01:15:50,010 We will be together 1580 01:15:50,029 --> 01:15:52,029 when the time is right. 1581 01:15:52,050 --> 01:15:54,060 - So we're getting married? 1582 01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,069 - When the time is right. 1583 01:16:05,170 --> 01:16:07,159 Dorothy: You were always reminding me 1584 01:16:07,180 --> 01:16:11,119 of my responsibility, Geri. 1585 01:16:11,140 --> 01:16:14,029 You were so aware. 1586 01:16:14,050 --> 01:16:17,020 I thought things would just fall into place. 1587 01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:20,220 If I wanted something badly enough, it'd just happen. 1588 01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,039 [chuckles] 1589 01:16:25,140 --> 01:16:28,159 - Latest box office reports through the roof. 1590 01:16:28,180 --> 01:16:30,050 - Mmm, and when that reporter asked me 1591 01:16:30,069 --> 01:16:31,199 why I thought whites were flocking 1592 01:16:31,220 --> 01:16:34,020 to see an all-Negro picture, you know what I said? 1593 01:16:34,039 --> 01:16:35,109 Vivian: What? 1594 01:16:35,130 --> 01:16:37,119 - I guess people just like to look at me. 1595 01:16:37,140 --> 01:16:39,000 man: Yeah, you know it. 1596 01:16:39,020 --> 01:16:42,000 I'm getting offers. From studios. 1597 01:16:42,020 --> 01:16:43,100 With love scenes. 1598 01:16:43,119 --> 01:16:45,210 - They've just realized that colored folk 1599 01:16:45,229 --> 01:16:47,149 have sex like everybody else. [laughs] 1600 01:16:47,170 --> 01:16:50,229 - What's important is how well the picture's doing down South. 1601 01:16:51,010 --> 01:16:52,119 It's a big step. I'm telling you, 1602 01:16:52,140 --> 01:16:54,039 integration can't be far behind. 1603 01:16:54,060 --> 01:16:56,000 Dorothy: With that, another bottle of champagne. 1604 01:16:56,020 --> 01:16:57,119 - Hear, hear! Earl: Waiter. 1605 01:16:57,140 --> 01:16:58,220 man: Yes, sir? - Two more bottles, please. 1606 01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:00,140 - No more for you, Vivvy. 1607 01:17:03,119 --> 01:17:04,170 - Viv. 1608 01:17:04,189 --> 01:17:06,199 - Well, I want to know what you're wearing 1609 01:17:06,220 --> 01:17:07,229 to the Academy Awards. 1610 01:17:08,010 --> 01:17:10,029 - Geri, can't ask me that. 1611 01:17:10,050 --> 01:17:11,189 Geri: Why not? - It's bad luck. 1612 01:17:11,210 --> 01:17:14,039 - You think you're queen of the fuckin' world, don't you? 1613 01:17:14,060 --> 01:17:16,010 Everybody's talking about "Carmen," 1614 01:17:16,029 --> 01:17:18,130 the film industry's colored whore. 1615 01:17:18,149 --> 01:17:19,210 - Lower your voice, Vivvy. 1616 01:17:19,229 --> 01:17:21,090 - You think just because you become a big film star 1617 01:17:21,109 --> 01:17:23,149 by shaking your tail that people aren't 1618 01:17:23,170 --> 01:17:25,069 gonna treat you like you're colored? 1619 01:17:25,090 --> 01:17:26,180 - Vivvy, why don't you let me take you home? 1620 01:17:26,199 --> 01:17:29,149 - No. Well, I'm somethin', too. 1621 01:17:29,170 --> 01:17:31,210 I'm somethin', too! 1622 01:17:31,229 --> 01:17:35,199 I'm more than Dorothy Dandridge's big sister! 1623 01:17:35,220 --> 01:17:37,029 - Shh, shh, shh. 1624 01:17:39,020 --> 01:17:40,010 - You ever notice that? 1625 01:17:40,029 --> 01:17:42,050 Do you ever notice that, any of you? 1626 01:17:42,069 --> 01:17:43,199 - Why don't you go home with Earl? 1627 01:17:43,220 --> 01:17:45,119 - I don't wanna go! - Come on, come on. 1628 01:17:45,140 --> 01:17:48,039 - I don't wanna go. - Get in the car and go, Vivvy! 1629 01:17:48,060 --> 01:17:49,180 - No! - Let's go. Come on. 1630 01:17:49,199 --> 01:17:50,220 [glass shatters] Shh, shh. 1631 01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:52,050 Vivvy, Vivvy. 1632 01:17:52,069 --> 01:17:55,050 - You're not gonna win an Oscar, Dottie. 1633 01:17:55,069 --> 01:17:56,140 They already gave us one. 1634 01:17:56,159 --> 01:17:58,140 - All right, let's go, Vivvy. 1635 01:17:58,159 --> 01:17:59,180 Let's go. 1636 01:17:59,199 --> 01:18:02,199 Vivian: [crying] No! 1637 01:18:04,159 --> 01:18:07,020 Earl: Go. Vivian: No! No. 1638 01:18:08,199 --> 01:18:11,140 - You want her to play...Tuptim? 1639 01:18:11,159 --> 01:18:13,020 Who is Tuptim? 1640 01:18:13,039 --> 01:18:14,119 That's not the lead role. 1641 01:18:14,140 --> 01:18:16,010 - Dorothy, look, 1642 01:18:16,029 --> 01:18:18,079 listen to me. 1643 01:18:18,100 --> 01:18:22,149 Sometimes you do a picture just because it's big. 1644 01:18:22,170 --> 01:18:24,170 "The King and I" is going to be huge. 1645 01:18:24,189 --> 01:18:27,119 It'll be seen by millions and millions of people, 1646 01:18:27,140 --> 01:18:29,130 far more than ever saw "Carmen," 1647 01:18:29,149 --> 01:18:33,130 and I'm telling you, Tuptim is a good role. 1648 01:18:33,149 --> 01:18:36,020 - She'll be paid her regular salary? 1649 01:18:36,039 --> 01:18:37,189 Zanuck: Of course. Earl: And it fulfills 1650 01:18:37,210 --> 01:18:40,020 one of the three pictures she's committed to doing here? 1651 01:18:40,039 --> 01:18:42,000 - Yes, Earl, absolutely. 1652 01:18:44,090 --> 01:18:46,130 - I--we have to think about this. 1653 01:18:46,149 --> 01:18:48,140 I'll let you-- - I'll do it. 1654 01:18:48,159 --> 01:18:50,020 Earl: Dorothy. - I'll do it. 1655 01:18:50,039 --> 01:18:52,050 - She says she'll do it. 1656 01:18:54,199 --> 01:18:56,199 - Actually, I think a toast is called for, 1657 01:18:56,220 --> 01:18:58,039 ladies and gentlemen. 1658 01:18:58,060 --> 01:18:59,189 Toast... - Toast. 1659 01:18:59,210 --> 01:19:01,210 - To the first colored woman 1660 01:19:01,229 --> 01:19:05,119 ever nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress. 1661 01:19:05,140 --> 01:19:06,140 To Dorothy. 1662 01:19:06,159 --> 01:19:07,180 - Hear, hear. 1663 01:19:07,199 --> 01:19:09,130 - Yeah. - Oh, baby. 1664 01:19:09,149 --> 01:19:11,020 - Mama. Thank you. 1665 01:19:11,039 --> 01:19:13,130 - Congratulations. Yeah. - Thank you. 1666 01:19:13,149 --> 01:19:15,159 - Congratulations to you. 1667 01:19:15,180 --> 01:19:16,220 - Thank you. 1668 01:19:20,199 --> 01:19:22,050 For the last three days, 1669 01:19:22,069 --> 01:19:25,010 I haven't been able to eat waiting for these nominations 1670 01:19:25,029 --> 01:19:26,079 to come out. 1671 01:19:26,100 --> 01:19:29,000 And, Mama, you know I'm tellin' the truth. 1672 01:19:29,020 --> 01:19:31,199 But now, who wants some chitlins? 1673 01:19:31,220 --> 01:19:33,130 [laughter] 1674 01:19:33,149 --> 01:19:35,180 - Oh, she's beautiful, isn't she? 1675 01:19:35,199 --> 01:19:38,220 [overlapping chatter] 1676 01:19:40,140 --> 01:19:43,189 woman: Oh, I have no idea what I'm going to wear. 1677 01:19:43,210 --> 01:19:45,189 - I don't think you should do 1678 01:19:45,210 --> 01:19:48,050 the Tuptim part after all. 1679 01:19:48,069 --> 01:19:51,069 - But I already said I would. 1680 01:19:55,029 --> 01:19:56,210 - That was before you were 1681 01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,010 an Academy Award-nominated actress. 1682 01:19:59,029 --> 01:20:03,170 - Well, but I'm not exactly being offered anything else. 1683 01:20:06,060 --> 01:20:09,109 - You sing...nightclubs 1684 01:20:09,130 --> 01:20:13,069 until a real role comes along. 1685 01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:18,210 And I will make a movie soon. 1686 01:20:18,229 --> 01:20:21,010 - Zanuck said that Tuptim was a good part. 1687 01:20:21,029 --> 01:20:22,199 - Mm-hmm. - And he really thinks 1688 01:20:22,220 --> 01:20:24,039 it's something I should do. 1689 01:20:24,060 --> 01:20:27,050 - None of the other nominees have to play slaves. 1690 01:20:27,069 --> 01:20:29,189 - Wait a minute. What are you saying? 1691 01:20:29,210 --> 01:20:32,109 She's already agreed to play the part. 1692 01:20:40,029 --> 01:20:41,100 - I've changed my mind. 1693 01:20:41,119 --> 01:20:44,220 I don't think I should have to play a slave. 1694 01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,130 - You can't change your mind. 1695 01:20:47,149 --> 01:20:48,210 You shook hands with Zanuck. 1696 01:20:48,229 --> 01:20:51,060 - You don't see Audrey Hepburn playin' a slave. 1697 01:20:51,079 --> 01:20:53,199 - Well, you're not Audrey Hepburn. 1698 01:20:53,220 --> 01:20:55,069 - No. Hmm! 1699 01:20:55,090 --> 01:20:56,159 She's Dorothy Dandridge. 1700 01:20:56,180 --> 01:20:58,100 - Oh, excuse me, Otto, but Zanuck's not going 1701 01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:00,020 to stand for this, and you know it. 1702 01:21:00,039 --> 01:21:01,229 She'll be dead at Fox, she'll be dead 1703 01:21:02,010 --> 01:21:03,090 at every other studio in town. 1704 01:21:03,109 --> 01:21:05,229 Dorothy-- - I will not play Tuptim. 1705 01:21:06,010 --> 01:21:08,220 - [scoffs] Who is this talking? 1706 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:10,079 Is this you? 1707 01:21:10,100 --> 01:21:11,199 Is this you or is this Otto? 1708 01:21:11,220 --> 01:21:14,090 - I make my own decisions. 1709 01:21:14,109 --> 01:21:17,090 - Dorothy, please, please, listen to me. 1710 01:21:17,109 --> 01:21:18,180 Don't do this. 1711 01:21:18,199 --> 01:21:21,189 If you do what Otto wants... 1712 01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:23,220 I won't be able to protect you this time-- 1713 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,029 - And when exactly did you protect me? 1714 01:21:26,050 --> 01:21:27,069 When I was peein' in the cup 1715 01:21:27,090 --> 01:21:29,140 or when they were drainin' the pool? 1716 01:21:33,060 --> 01:21:34,090 - All right. 1717 01:21:36,130 --> 01:21:37,149 All right. 1718 01:21:39,029 --> 01:21:40,170 Well... 1719 01:21:40,189 --> 01:21:42,159 congratulations again... 1720 01:21:44,140 --> 01:21:45,210 To both of you. 1721 01:21:48,199 --> 01:21:51,130 Geri: Earl? Earl, where are you going? 1722 01:21:54,210 --> 01:21:57,060 - It'll be better without him. 1723 01:21:57,079 --> 01:22:00,060 [somber music] 1724 01:22:00,079 --> 01:22:06,100 ♪ ♪ 1725 01:22:06,119 --> 01:22:08,170 man: Is here tonight in New York City-- 1726 01:22:08,189 --> 01:22:10,039 Dorothy Dandridge, 1727 01:22:10,060 --> 01:22:12,199 nominated for Best Actress in "Carmen Jones." 1728 01:22:12,220 --> 01:22:15,029 The other nominees are Judy Garland, 1729 01:22:15,050 --> 01:22:17,119 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, 1730 01:22:17,140 --> 01:22:18,199 and Jane Wyatt. 1731 01:22:18,220 --> 01:22:22,000 ["Habanera" from "Carmen" plays] 1732 01:22:22,020 --> 01:22:29,199 ♪ ♪ 1733 01:22:29,220 --> 01:22:31,229 - Thank you, Bob. 1734 01:22:35,210 --> 01:22:39,029 If I seem a little nervous... 1735 01:22:39,050 --> 01:22:43,029 this is as big a moment for me 1736 01:22:43,050 --> 01:22:47,119 as it will be for the winner of this award. 1737 01:22:47,140 --> 01:22:49,140 For Film Editing... 1738 01:22:53,130 --> 01:22:54,140 In Hollywood, 1739 01:22:54,159 --> 01:22:57,210 "On the Waterfront," Gene Milford. 1740 01:22:57,229 --> 01:23:00,220 [dramatic music] 1741 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:02,199 ♪ ♪ 1742 01:23:02,220 --> 01:23:05,029 man: Now, ladies and gentlemen, 1743 01:23:05,050 --> 01:23:06,170 here's the Academy Award 1744 01:23:06,189 --> 01:23:09,050 for Best Actress of the Year. 1745 01:23:11,050 --> 01:23:12,140 - Well, time is running short again, 1746 01:23:12,159 --> 01:23:14,069 so the award for the Best Performance 1747 01:23:14,090 --> 01:23:15,130 by an Actress... 1748 01:23:17,189 --> 01:23:19,029 Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl." 1749 01:23:19,050 --> 01:23:21,210 [cheers and whistles] 1750 01:23:21,229 --> 01:23:30,039 ♪ ♪ 1751 01:23:33,199 --> 01:23:36,039 - I knew they wouldn't give it to one of us. 1752 01:23:41,079 --> 01:23:43,020 Dorothy: I did win 1753 01:23:43,039 --> 01:23:45,039 because I won in my heart. 1754 01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:47,100 Vivvy never did understand that. 1755 01:23:47,119 --> 01:23:49,000 [chuckles] 1756 01:23:49,020 --> 01:23:50,170 Did I tell you Mama finally found out 1757 01:23:50,189 --> 01:23:53,050 that she moved to Canada? 1758 01:23:53,069 --> 01:23:56,050 Says she's got a little boy 1759 01:23:56,069 --> 01:24:00,050 and that she's happy. 1760 01:24:00,069 --> 01:24:02,020 I hope so. 1761 01:24:06,020 --> 01:24:08,079 You never realize 1762 01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:11,189 the last time you see somebody... 1763 01:24:11,210 --> 01:24:13,199 that it is the last time. 1764 01:24:15,189 --> 01:24:16,210 [jazzy music plays outside] 1765 01:24:16,229 --> 01:24:18,119 [knock on door] 1766 01:24:18,140 --> 01:24:20,039 man: Few minutes, Miss Dandridge. 1767 01:24:20,060 --> 01:24:22,029 - Thank you. 1768 01:24:22,050 --> 01:24:24,199 ["Shave and a Haircut" knock on door] 1769 01:24:28,079 --> 01:24:29,170 Otto. 1770 01:24:29,189 --> 01:24:33,000 [laughs] 1771 01:24:33,020 --> 01:24:35,069 You made it. 1772 01:24:35,090 --> 01:24:38,189 So, what do you think of your choice? 1773 01:24:38,210 --> 01:24:40,130 Hmm? - Ah... 1774 01:24:40,149 --> 01:24:41,220 It's a wonderful dress. 1775 01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:43,189 - [giggles] - Make a good team. 1776 01:24:43,210 --> 01:24:46,079 - After we're married, we'll make an even better team. 1777 01:24:46,100 --> 01:24:47,140 - Be patient. 1778 01:24:47,159 --> 01:24:49,109 - [sighs] 1779 01:24:49,130 --> 01:24:52,229 You said... 1780 01:24:53,010 --> 01:24:54,140 when the time was right. 1781 01:24:54,159 --> 01:24:57,220 Well, the time is now right. It's 1957. 1782 01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,020 The world is changing. 1783 01:25:00,039 --> 01:25:03,170 If not here, Europe. We could work in Europe. 1784 01:25:05,199 --> 01:25:07,029 - Europe. 1785 01:25:11,069 --> 01:25:13,229 - You do love me, don't you? 1786 01:25:17,079 --> 01:25:19,159 - I will always love you. 1787 01:25:22,010 --> 01:25:24,149 - I want a honeymoon in Paris. 1788 01:25:24,170 --> 01:25:26,000 - [chuckles] - I'll get fat 1789 01:25:26,020 --> 01:25:27,029 and have lots of babies. 1790 01:25:27,050 --> 01:25:29,180 Boys, a house full of boys. 1791 01:25:29,199 --> 01:25:31,159 - Boys and girls. 1792 01:25:31,180 --> 01:25:33,119 - Okay. 1793 01:25:34,210 --> 01:25:36,020 - Beautiful dream. 1794 01:25:37,079 --> 01:25:39,119 - It's not a dream. 1795 01:25:41,220 --> 01:25:43,000 [knock on door] 1796 01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:44,170 man: One minute, Miss Dandridge. 1797 01:25:44,189 --> 01:25:47,199 - You have to go onstage, and I have to get to my seat. 1798 01:25:47,220 --> 01:25:51,039 - The best seat in the house, table 15. 1799 01:25:53,220 --> 01:25:55,079 - [speaks German] 1800 01:25:55,100 --> 01:25:58,050 - [chuckles] What? 1801 01:25:58,069 --> 01:25:59,060 - It's German. 1802 01:25:59,079 --> 01:26:01,050 Uh, break your leg. 1803 01:26:01,069 --> 01:26:04,100 [jazzy band music continues] 1804 01:26:04,119 --> 01:26:13,069 ♪ ♪ 1805 01:26:13,090 --> 01:26:16,090 [end notes] [distant applause] 1806 01:26:22,199 --> 01:26:24,090 man: Ladies and gentlemen, 1807 01:26:24,109 --> 01:26:26,220 the Mocambo welcomes back the delicious, 1808 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:28,180 the divine, the delightful 1809 01:26:28,199 --> 01:26:30,029 Dorothy Dandridge. 1810 01:26:30,050 --> 01:26:32,220 [cheers and whistles] 1811 01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:35,229 ["You Do Something to Me" begins] 1812 01:26:36,010 --> 01:26:40,210 ♪ ♪ 1813 01:26:40,229 --> 01:26:43,140 - ♪ You do ♪ 1814 01:26:43,159 --> 01:26:46,149 ♪ Something to me ♪ 1815 01:26:46,170 --> 01:26:48,159 ♪ Something that simply ♪ 1816 01:26:48,180 --> 01:26:52,050 ♪ Mystifies me ♪ 1817 01:26:52,069 --> 01:26:55,039 ♪ Tell me ♪ 1818 01:26:55,060 --> 01:26:58,170 ♪ Why should it be ♪ 1819 01:26:58,189 --> 01:27:00,130 ♪ You've got the power ♪ 1820 01:27:00,149 --> 01:27:03,189 ♪ To hypnotize me? ♪ 1821 01:27:03,210 --> 01:27:07,180 ♪ Let me live ♪ 1822 01:27:07,199 --> 01:27:09,159 ♪ 'Neath your spell ♪ 1823 01:27:09,180 --> 01:27:12,020 ♪ You do that voodoo ♪ 1824 01:27:12,039 --> 01:27:15,050 ♪ That you do so well ♪ 1825 01:27:15,069 --> 01:27:18,100 ♪ You do ♪ 1826 01:27:18,119 --> 01:27:20,100 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1827 01:27:20,119 --> 01:27:25,050 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1828 01:27:25,069 --> 01:27:27,039 ♪ Can do ♪ 1829 01:27:27,060 --> 01:27:30,220 [tempo picks up] 1830 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,149 ♪ You do somethin' ♪ 1831 01:27:32,170 --> 01:27:34,010 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1832 01:27:34,029 --> 01:27:38,140 ♪ Somethin' that simply mystifies me ♪ 1833 01:27:38,159 --> 01:27:41,229 ♪ Tell me, tell me why should it be ♪ 1834 01:27:42,010 --> 01:27:45,199 ♪ You've got the power to hypnotize me? ♪ 1835 01:27:45,220 --> 01:27:49,079 ♪ Let me live 'neath your spell ♪ 1836 01:27:49,100 --> 01:27:53,100 ♪ You do that voodoo that you do so well ♪ 1837 01:27:53,119 --> 01:27:55,210 ♪ Oh, you do ♪ 1838 01:27:55,229 --> 01:27:57,100 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1839 01:27:57,119 --> 01:27:59,020 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1840 01:27:59,039 --> 01:28:02,109 ♪ ♪ 1841 01:28:02,130 --> 01:28:06,229 ♪ Can do ♪ 1842 01:28:07,010 --> 01:28:15,029 ♪ ♪ 1843 01:28:34,100 --> 01:28:36,069 ♪ You do ♪ 1844 01:28:36,090 --> 01:28:37,180 ♪ Somethin' to me ♪ 1845 01:28:37,199 --> 01:28:40,140 ♪ That nobody else ♪ 1846 01:28:40,159 --> 01:28:45,039 ♪ ♪ 1847 01:28:45,060 --> 01:28:49,050 ♪ Can do ♪ 1848 01:28:49,069 --> 01:28:52,109 [cheers and applause] 1849 01:28:56,140 --> 01:28:59,140 ["Somebody" begins] 1850 01:28:59,159 --> 01:29:05,029 ♪ ♪ 1851 01:29:05,050 --> 01:29:07,199 ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 1852 01:29:07,220 --> 01:29:08,210 - Thank you. 1853 01:29:08,229 --> 01:29:10,100 Dorothy: ♪ To care ♪ 1854 01:29:10,119 --> 01:29:13,170 ♪ For somebody ♪ 1855 01:29:13,189 --> 01:29:16,170 ♪ ♪ 1856 01:29:16,189 --> 01:29:21,170 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 1857 01:29:21,189 --> 01:29:25,159 ♪ With somebody ♪ 1858 01:29:25,180 --> 01:29:28,220 ♪ ♪ 1859 01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:33,090 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 1860 01:29:33,109 --> 01:29:35,050 [sighs] 1861 01:29:35,069 --> 01:29:38,039 [clears throat] 1862 01:29:38,060 --> 01:29:46,100 ♪ ♪ 1863 01:29:48,119 --> 01:29:50,060 [knock on door] 1864 01:29:50,079 --> 01:29:51,170 Who is it? 1865 01:29:53,130 --> 01:29:54,140 - Jack Denison. 1866 01:29:54,159 --> 01:29:56,229 I'm the manager here at the Riviera. 1867 01:29:57,010 --> 01:29:58,039 - Yes? 1868 01:30:00,039 --> 01:30:01,229 - I wanted to tell you what a thrill it is 1869 01:30:02,010 --> 01:30:03,180 having you here with us. 1870 01:30:03,199 --> 01:30:05,050 - Thank you. 1871 01:30:05,069 --> 01:30:07,060 Um, if you don't mind, Mr. Denison, 1872 01:30:07,079 --> 01:30:09,159 I'm a bit tired, so, uh-- 1873 01:30:09,180 --> 01:30:12,170 - Oh, no. I just came by to bring you these. 1874 01:30:13,170 --> 01:30:15,020 - Daisies. [chuckles] 1875 01:30:15,039 --> 01:30:16,180 - Compliments of the hotel. 1876 01:30:16,199 --> 01:30:18,100 I hope they're all right. 1877 01:30:18,119 --> 01:30:20,140 - Yes, they're--they're lovely. Thank you. 1878 01:30:20,159 --> 01:30:24,109 Just an unusual choice, that's all. 1879 01:30:24,130 --> 01:30:28,039 Jack: Someone very special to me loved daisies. 1880 01:30:28,060 --> 01:30:29,119 She died. 1881 01:30:29,140 --> 01:30:31,069 Childbirth. 1882 01:30:32,109 --> 01:30:33,170 - Childbirth? 1883 01:30:33,189 --> 01:30:35,079 Jack: She was a lovely woman. 1884 01:30:36,100 --> 01:30:38,000 We were to be married. 1885 01:30:39,159 --> 01:30:42,109 She went into labor early. We were on vacation, 1886 01:30:42,130 --> 01:30:44,229 and no white hospital in the area would take her. 1887 01:30:45,010 --> 01:30:47,229 - She was a colored girl? 1888 01:30:48,010 --> 01:30:51,039 - Try to put flowers on her grave every week 1889 01:30:51,060 --> 01:30:53,130 and on our child's. 1890 01:30:53,149 --> 01:30:55,149 - That's lovely. 1891 01:30:55,170 --> 01:30:56,199 Um... 1892 01:30:58,130 --> 01:31:01,010 Have--have a seat. Stay if you want. 1893 01:31:01,029 --> 01:31:02,069 Go on. 1894 01:31:03,159 --> 01:31:04,159 - Please, 1895 01:31:04,180 --> 01:31:07,069 let me do that for you. 1896 01:31:15,109 --> 01:31:16,130 - Thank you. 1897 01:31:17,189 --> 01:31:19,060 Mama: Dottie Mae, I'm tellin' you, 1898 01:31:19,079 --> 01:31:20,210 don't marry that man. 1899 01:31:20,229 --> 01:31:22,050 He ain't no good. 1900 01:31:22,069 --> 01:31:24,170 I can feel it all in my bones. 1901 01:31:24,189 --> 01:31:27,039 - I'll tell you one thing Auntie was right about. 1902 01:31:27,060 --> 01:31:30,119 A man and 5 cents'll pay a colored girl's fare 1903 01:31:30,140 --> 01:31:33,140 all the way to nowhere. 1904 01:31:33,159 --> 01:31:34,210 [sighs] 1905 01:31:42,100 --> 01:31:44,199 - Miss Dandridge, I've been looking for you. 1906 01:31:44,220 --> 01:31:46,180 They brought in a new director. 1907 01:31:46,199 --> 01:31:49,140 - Who is it? Otto: Miss Dandridge! 1908 01:31:57,069 --> 01:31:59,029 Mr. Poitier and I have been ready to shoot 1909 01:31:59,050 --> 01:32:00,109 for some minutes now. 1910 01:32:00,130 --> 01:32:02,090 - I've only just arrived myself. 1911 01:32:02,109 --> 01:32:05,000 - I have seen the rushes. 1912 01:32:05,020 --> 01:32:07,119 Your performance is not credible, 1913 01:32:07,140 --> 01:32:08,210 almost ridiculous. 1914 01:32:08,229 --> 01:32:10,109 - I don't think that was necessary. 1915 01:32:10,130 --> 01:32:14,050 - Would you care to direct the picture, Mr. Poitier? 1916 01:32:14,069 --> 01:32:15,140 Would you? 1917 01:32:20,140 --> 01:32:22,050 So, 1918 01:32:22,069 --> 01:32:24,100 in the scene, 1919 01:32:24,119 --> 01:32:26,220 you have just been raped, right? 1920 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:30,079 You are supposed to be upset, broken. 1921 01:32:30,100 --> 01:32:33,130 Instead, you have been prancing around 1922 01:32:33,149 --> 01:32:36,069 like a queen on her throne, 1923 01:32:36,090 --> 01:32:37,170 using glycerin tears 1924 01:32:37,189 --> 01:32:39,170 because you are too lazy to make yourself cry. 1925 01:32:39,189 --> 01:32:42,090 - I'm not lazy. - You are pathetic! 1926 01:32:42,109 --> 01:32:43,210 What happened to you? 1927 01:32:44,199 --> 01:32:46,210 You used to be a beautiful thing. 1928 01:32:46,229 --> 01:32:48,149 Now you're nothing, and if you're going 1929 01:32:48,170 --> 01:32:52,069 to mess up my picture, you little sniveling brat, 1930 01:32:52,090 --> 01:32:56,000 then I will make sure that you will never work again. 1931 01:32:56,020 --> 01:32:57,039 Good. 1932 01:32:57,060 --> 01:32:58,229 Places, everybody! 1933 01:33:00,159 --> 01:33:02,140 Move! - [gasps] 1934 01:33:04,020 --> 01:33:07,029 [crying] 1935 01:33:09,180 --> 01:33:12,090 - Real tears, finally. 1936 01:33:12,109 --> 01:33:14,029 Page? 1937 01:33:14,050 --> 01:33:15,149 Roll 'em. [bell rings] 1938 01:33:15,170 --> 01:33:16,229 man: Roll 'em. 1939 01:33:17,010 --> 01:33:18,130 man: Speed. man: Rolling. 1940 01:33:21,039 --> 01:33:25,039 - Do you think he ever really loved me? 1941 01:33:25,060 --> 01:33:26,199 Hmm? 1942 01:33:26,220 --> 01:33:28,020 Poitier: Dorothy, 1943 01:33:28,039 --> 01:33:31,050 you're not even over Otto. 1944 01:33:31,069 --> 01:33:32,100 Now, I'm your friend 1945 01:33:32,119 --> 01:33:34,010 and I'm telling you, now is the time 1946 01:33:34,029 --> 01:33:36,180 to concentrate on your career, 1947 01:33:36,199 --> 01:33:39,060 not on another white man. 1948 01:33:39,079 --> 01:33:47,100 ♪ ♪ 1949 01:33:54,029 --> 01:33:55,119 - Jack? 1950 01:33:58,010 --> 01:33:59,199 - He had a child, 1951 01:33:59,220 --> 01:34:01,079 but she died with the mother 1952 01:34:01,100 --> 01:34:04,069 after he left them in a motel to starve. 1953 01:34:04,090 --> 01:34:05,170 He's a con man. 1954 01:34:05,189 --> 01:34:08,170 I hired a private investigator, and he told me. 1955 01:34:08,189 --> 01:34:11,130 Denison isn't worth the dirt under your feet. 1956 01:34:11,149 --> 01:34:14,130 - Sometimes you stand on the edge of a cliff 1957 01:34:14,149 --> 01:34:16,039 and you jump. 1958 01:34:16,060 --> 01:34:19,159 You jump because you're tired of being scared. 1959 01:34:19,180 --> 01:34:22,119 Sometimes you jump 1960 01:34:22,140 --> 01:34:25,069 just to see what it feels like to fall. 1961 01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:30,029 [door opens] 1962 01:34:35,079 --> 01:34:36,100 [door closes] 1963 01:34:39,029 --> 01:34:40,050 Jack? 1964 01:34:41,159 --> 01:34:43,060 Hi, honey. 1965 01:34:44,180 --> 01:34:46,109 It's 4:00. Do you think maybe 1966 01:34:46,130 --> 01:34:48,170 you should get yourself dressed? 1967 01:34:48,189 --> 01:34:50,050 - I am dressed. 1968 01:34:50,069 --> 01:34:53,039 Dressed for the work I do, which is nothin'. 1969 01:34:53,060 --> 01:34:55,100 When I get my club back, I'll get dressed, all right? 1970 01:34:55,119 --> 01:34:57,090 - Okay, fine. 1971 01:34:57,109 --> 01:34:59,140 Not tryin' to start a fight here, honey. 1972 01:34:59,159 --> 01:35:01,130 Can I get you somethin' else to drink? 1973 01:35:01,149 --> 01:35:03,220 - You said get dressed. What am I gonna get dressed for? 1974 01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:05,090 - Your day, your night. 1975 01:35:05,109 --> 01:35:07,140 Whatever. 1976 01:35:07,159 --> 01:35:09,079 - What did you mean by that? 1977 01:35:09,100 --> 01:35:10,130 Do you think I lost my club 1978 01:35:10,149 --> 01:35:11,229 sittin' around all day in my robe? 1979 01:35:12,010 --> 01:35:13,079 - No, honey. 1980 01:35:13,100 --> 01:35:15,079 You want to stay in your robe, then stay in your robe. 1981 01:35:15,100 --> 01:35:17,029 - I lost my club listenin' to you sing 1982 01:35:17,050 --> 01:35:18,149 in front of an empty house. 1983 01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:20,149 You're supposed to know people in this town, 1984 01:35:20,170 --> 01:35:22,039 but you don't know nobody. 1985 01:35:22,060 --> 01:35:24,000 - I lost most of my income singin' there, remember? 1986 01:35:24,020 --> 01:35:26,029 You never paid me a dime... - Are you saying that singin' 1987 01:35:26,050 --> 01:35:27,220 in the club hurt your career? - For any one of those dates. 1988 01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:29,079 - Is that what you're saying, that I hurt you? 1989 01:35:29,100 --> 01:35:30,170 - No! - What are you saying? 1990 01:35:30,189 --> 01:35:32,029 - I'm saying you need to calm down, honey. 1991 01:35:32,050 --> 01:35:33,170 - Remember-- - I can't remember anything 1992 01:35:33,189 --> 01:35:35,159 with you bitching at me all night about my robe! 1993 01:35:35,180 --> 01:35:39,010 [glass shatters] - [screams] 1994 01:35:39,029 --> 01:35:40,140 No, Jack, no! 1995 01:35:40,159 --> 01:35:42,000 No, Jack, don't! No! 1996 01:35:42,020 --> 01:35:43,220 [crying] No, Jack. 1997 01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:45,210 Don't, Jack! Don't do it-- 1998 01:35:45,229 --> 01:35:47,140 Ah! Oh! 1999 01:35:47,159 --> 01:35:48,149 Jack! No! 2000 01:35:48,170 --> 01:35:50,149 No! Jack, no! 2001 01:35:50,170 --> 01:35:52,100 - Miss Dandridge, when did you find out 2002 01:35:52,119 --> 01:35:54,060 you owed over $127,000? 2003 01:35:54,079 --> 01:35:56,060 man: Were you responsible for the bank loans, 2004 01:35:56,079 --> 01:35:57,119 credit debts, and bad investments, 2005 01:35:57,140 --> 01:35:59,000 or was that your ex-husband? 2006 01:35:59,020 --> 01:36:00,180 - You declared bankruptcy, but what about the back taxes? 2007 01:36:00,199 --> 01:36:02,039 - She's not answering any questions. 2008 01:36:02,060 --> 01:36:04,159 - Is it true Mr. Denison pawned all your jewelry? 2009 01:36:04,180 --> 01:36:05,220 - Dorothy, give us a statement. 2010 01:36:07,050 --> 01:36:08,149 - Miss Dandridge, you have stated 2011 01:36:08,170 --> 01:36:11,050 your child is a danger to herself and others, 2012 01:36:11,069 --> 01:36:12,159 that you are unwilling to care for her, 2013 01:36:12,180 --> 01:36:15,170 and that you will relinquish parental rights? 2014 01:36:15,189 --> 01:36:18,069 - Well, I hired a caretaker, 2015 01:36:18,090 --> 01:36:19,229 but I haven't been able to make the payments 2016 01:36:20,010 --> 01:36:22,000 because I haven't had any-- 2017 01:36:22,020 --> 01:36:23,130 - Yes, we've all heard the testimony. 2018 01:36:23,149 --> 01:36:26,189 Are you willing to relinquish parental rights? 2019 01:36:31,130 --> 01:36:33,050 - Yes. 2020 01:36:33,069 --> 01:36:34,189 judge: Very well. Harolyn Nicholas 2021 01:36:34,210 --> 01:36:37,130 shall henceforth become a ward of the court. 2022 01:36:37,149 --> 01:36:39,159 Care will be provided by the state institution 2023 01:36:39,180 --> 01:36:41,130 in Camarillo, California. 2024 01:36:41,149 --> 01:36:42,220 [Dorothy crying] 2025 01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,220 - The Mocambo is proud to welcome back a woman 2026 01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:49,020 who has graced our stage many times. 2027 01:36:49,039 --> 01:36:50,060 Her star first rose here 2028 01:36:50,079 --> 01:36:52,170 a little over ten years ago in '51, 2029 01:36:52,189 --> 01:36:56,189 and her star hasn't stopped streaking our skies with light 2030 01:36:56,210 --> 01:36:58,039 ever since. 2031 01:36:58,060 --> 01:36:59,220 Dorothy Dandridge! 2032 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:03,029 [whistles and applause] 2033 01:37:07,060 --> 01:37:10,069 ["Somebody" begins] 2034 01:37:10,090 --> 01:37:16,060 ♪ ♪ 2035 01:37:16,079 --> 01:37:18,109 - ♪ Everybody needs ♪ 2036 01:37:18,130 --> 01:37:21,130 ♪ To care ♪ 2037 01:37:21,149 --> 01:37:25,060 ♪ For somebody ♪ 2038 01:37:25,079 --> 01:37:28,029 ♪ ♪ 2039 01:37:28,050 --> 01:37:32,180 ♪ All your dreams were meant to share ♪ 2040 01:37:32,199 --> 01:37:36,079 ♪ With somebody ♪ 2041 01:37:36,100 --> 01:37:39,020 ♪ ♪ 2042 01:37:39,039 --> 01:37:42,210 ♪ Someone to have ♪ 2043 01:37:42,229 --> 01:37:45,199 ♪ A midnight cup ♪ 2044 01:37:45,220 --> 01:37:49,039 ♪ Of tea with ♪ 2045 01:37:49,060 --> 01:37:51,050 ♪ ♪ 2046 01:37:51,069 --> 01:37:53,020 ♪ To have and hold-- ♪ 2047 01:37:53,039 --> 01:37:56,180 [crowd murmuring] 2048 01:37:56,199 --> 01:37:58,130 man: The nation suffered a loss today, 2049 01:37:58,149 --> 01:38:01,060 as an apparent overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol 2050 01:38:01,079 --> 01:38:04,210 claimed the life of a treasured singer and actress, 2051 01:38:04,229 --> 01:38:05,220 Marilyn Monroe. 2052 01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:07,189 - In Switzerland. 2053 01:38:07,210 --> 01:38:10,060 Mm-hmm. They'll teach her to speak French there. 2054 01:38:10,079 --> 01:38:12,109 [knocking on door] 2055 01:38:12,130 --> 01:38:14,050 I have to go. 2056 01:38:14,069 --> 01:38:16,199 Somebody at my door, okay? 2057 01:38:16,220 --> 01:38:19,189 [somber music] 2058 01:38:19,210 --> 01:38:27,229 ♪ ♪ 2059 01:38:40,149 --> 01:38:43,029 Hmm. 2060 01:38:43,050 --> 01:38:45,149 Why, Earl Mills. 2061 01:38:49,069 --> 01:38:51,039 - I heard, uh, 2062 01:38:51,060 --> 01:38:54,220 Queen Melmendi was looking for a way through the jungle. 2063 01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:57,079 - Oh... 2064 01:38:57,100 --> 01:39:00,090 Geri worries too much about me. 2065 01:39:02,130 --> 01:39:04,180 - Well, she's not the only one. 2066 01:39:09,050 --> 01:39:10,170 Nice place. 2067 01:39:14,170 --> 01:39:15,199 - What do you want? 2068 01:39:15,220 --> 01:39:18,079 - I want to know how you're doing. 2069 01:39:19,210 --> 01:39:22,039 - I'm fine. Earl: [scoffs] 2070 01:39:22,060 --> 01:39:23,199 I can see that. 2071 01:39:23,220 --> 01:39:26,100 I heard about your show in Puerto Rico. 2072 01:39:26,119 --> 01:39:28,050 - Which one? 2073 01:39:28,069 --> 01:39:29,140 - Well, you know, the one where 2074 01:39:29,159 --> 01:39:31,060 you were slurring your words onstage. 2075 01:39:31,079 --> 01:39:33,069 - Oh. Earl: Or was that every show? 2076 01:39:33,090 --> 01:39:34,199 - Earl, 2077 01:39:34,220 --> 01:39:36,100 if you came here to start trouble, 2078 01:39:36,119 --> 01:39:37,210 you might as well just keep on going. 2079 01:39:37,229 --> 01:39:39,060 - You shouldn't mix booze with pills. 2080 01:39:39,079 --> 01:39:41,000 Didn't your doctor tell you that? 2081 01:39:41,020 --> 01:39:42,140 - You don't manage my act. - No, your act is all your own. 2082 01:39:42,159 --> 01:39:44,000 - And you don't manage my life! 2083 01:39:44,020 --> 01:39:46,069 Why don't you get out of here? 2084 01:39:46,090 --> 01:39:48,020 I'm busy. 2085 01:39:48,039 --> 01:39:49,170 I got things to do. 2086 01:39:53,229 --> 01:39:56,189 - What do you have to do, Dorothy, 2087 01:39:56,210 --> 01:40:00,100 write more suicide notes? 2088 01:40:00,119 --> 01:40:02,010 Geri found this. 2089 01:40:14,079 --> 01:40:15,159 - [sobs] 2090 01:40:15,180 --> 01:40:19,220 I wrote this because I don't want anybody to see me. 2091 01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:24,020 I don't want 'em to see me like this, Earl. 2092 01:40:24,039 --> 01:40:27,029 If I go, cremate me right away. 2093 01:40:27,050 --> 01:40:28,189 Don't let anybody look at me. 2094 01:40:28,210 --> 01:40:31,069 Don't let 'em just stare at me, remember me like this. 2095 01:40:31,090 --> 01:40:32,170 - Okay, okay, I promise. 2096 01:40:32,189 --> 01:40:36,039 - I don't want anybody to look at me. 2097 01:40:36,060 --> 01:40:38,159 My hands are shaking. 2098 01:40:38,180 --> 01:40:41,130 - All right, all right. Let me hold them. 2099 01:40:41,149 --> 01:40:43,079 - I'm so glad you're here. 2100 01:40:43,100 --> 01:40:45,050 - Yeah, me, too. - I'm so ugly. 2101 01:40:45,069 --> 01:40:46,119 - No, you're not. You're beautiful. 2102 01:40:46,140 --> 01:40:48,050 - I need my pills. - No, you don't. 2103 01:40:48,069 --> 01:40:49,189 - My pills are right over there. If I could just get my-- 2104 01:40:49,210 --> 01:40:52,060 - I'll keep you from shaking. - If I get my pills... 2105 01:40:52,079 --> 01:40:53,220 - Come on, come on. 2106 01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:56,060 You all right? 2107 01:40:56,079 --> 01:40:57,100 Hmm? 2108 01:41:00,079 --> 01:41:01,189 - You got so old. 2109 01:41:01,210 --> 01:41:05,180 - [scoffs] - When did you get so old? 2110 01:41:05,199 --> 01:41:07,109 - This morning. 2111 01:41:07,130 --> 01:41:10,069 [both chuckle] 2112 01:41:12,039 --> 01:41:15,100 - Well, I would sing for you, but I think my syncopation 2113 01:41:15,119 --> 01:41:17,180 might be a little off. 2114 01:41:21,159 --> 01:41:25,090 - ♪ I can only give you love ♪ 2115 01:41:25,109 --> 01:41:28,199 ♪ That lasts forever ♪ 2116 01:41:28,220 --> 01:41:31,189 ♪ And a promise to be near ♪ 2117 01:41:31,210 --> 01:41:34,159 ♪ Each time you call ♪ 2118 01:41:34,180 --> 01:41:38,199 ♪ And the only heart I own ♪ 2119 01:41:38,220 --> 01:41:42,189 ♪ For you and you alone ♪ 2120 01:41:42,210 --> 01:41:45,010 ♪ That's all ♪ 2121 01:41:47,020 --> 01:41:48,159 That's all. 2122 01:41:49,140 --> 01:41:51,199 - [murmurs] That's all. 2123 01:41:51,220 --> 01:41:54,229 [sobs] 2124 01:42:03,069 --> 01:42:06,100 [overlapping chatter] 2125 01:42:22,100 --> 01:42:24,109 [knocks on door] 2126 01:42:24,130 --> 01:42:26,130 - [panting] 2127 01:42:26,149 --> 01:42:28,109 Dorothy: Look at you. 2128 01:42:28,130 --> 01:42:30,069 What, you go for a run? 2129 01:42:30,090 --> 01:42:32,050 - About ten yards up at the front desk 2130 01:42:32,069 --> 01:42:33,220 to pick up this telegram, 2131 01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,149 confirming a run at the Mocambo, 2132 01:42:36,170 --> 01:42:38,000 two movies in Mexico, 2133 01:42:38,020 --> 01:42:40,109 and a booking at Basin Street East in New York. 2134 01:42:40,130 --> 01:42:42,170 - Oh! 2135 01:42:42,189 --> 01:42:44,020 Oh! 2136 01:42:44,039 --> 01:42:45,119 You know the first thing I'm gonna do? 2137 01:42:45,140 --> 01:42:47,130 - Hmm? - I'm gonna hire a lawyer. 2138 01:42:47,149 --> 01:42:50,090 I'm gettin' my baby back. That's the first thing. 2139 01:42:50,109 --> 01:42:51,229 You want to celebrate? - Hmm. 2140 01:42:52,010 --> 01:42:53,149 - Let's get all dressed up tonight, 2141 01:42:53,170 --> 01:42:55,020 and you can take me dancing. 2142 01:42:55,039 --> 01:42:56,100 - Hmm, can I? Thank you. 2143 01:42:56,119 --> 01:42:58,090 - Well, just this once. 2144 01:42:58,109 --> 01:43:00,100 - Uh, well, actually, I can't dance. 2145 01:43:00,119 --> 01:43:02,090 - That's okay, honey, 'cause tonight 2146 01:43:02,109 --> 01:43:04,189 I'll dance enough for both of us. 2147 01:43:06,050 --> 01:43:08,079 Hmm. 2148 01:43:11,109 --> 01:43:13,079 It's Tofranil. My doctor prescribed it 2149 01:43:13,100 --> 01:43:15,010 for my depression, remember? 2150 01:43:15,029 --> 01:43:16,100 You want to see the bottle? 2151 01:43:16,119 --> 01:43:19,079 - [laughs] No. I know you're better. 2152 01:43:19,100 --> 01:43:20,229 [sets down bottle] 2153 01:43:21,010 --> 01:43:23,000 - I am better. 2154 01:43:24,140 --> 01:43:25,210 Now, let me go put on something festive-- 2155 01:43:25,229 --> 01:43:27,159 [crack] Oh! Oh! 2156 01:43:27,180 --> 01:43:29,149 - What'd you do? - Oh! 2157 01:43:29,170 --> 01:43:31,079 Oh, Earl! - All right. 2158 01:43:31,100 --> 01:43:32,220 Don't move, don't move. - Okay. 2159 01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,149 I think I broke it. - Shh, don't move, don't move. 2160 01:43:37,020 --> 01:43:39,029 Dorothy: Mm-hmm. 2161 01:43:42,149 --> 01:43:46,189 Well, the sun's comin' up now, so... 2162 01:43:46,210 --> 01:43:48,050 [chuckles] 2163 01:43:48,069 --> 01:43:50,069 No, I can't. 2164 01:43:50,090 --> 01:43:52,000 I'm leaving for New York with Earl today. 2165 01:43:52,020 --> 01:43:55,210 You know I got my shows to do, remember? 2166 01:43:55,229 --> 01:43:57,159 Well, if the cast doesn't bother them, 2167 01:43:57,180 --> 01:44:01,060 it certainly doesn't bother me. 2168 01:44:01,079 --> 01:44:03,229 I think you should get to bed now. 2169 01:44:05,180 --> 01:44:07,100 Geri, 2170 01:44:07,119 --> 01:44:09,069 I love you. 2171 01:44:09,090 --> 01:44:11,060 Thank you for everything. 2172 01:44:12,159 --> 01:44:14,020 Okay. 2173 01:44:18,130 --> 01:44:26,149 ♪ ♪ 2174 01:44:43,149 --> 01:44:47,000 [telephone rings] 2175 01:44:47,020 --> 01:44:50,069 [ringing] 2176 01:44:50,090 --> 01:44:52,159 Hello? 2177 01:44:52,180 --> 01:44:55,229 Why, Earl Mills. 2178 01:44:56,010 --> 01:44:58,050 I was just thinkin' about you. 2179 01:44:58,069 --> 01:45:00,170 No, really, I was. 2180 01:45:00,189 --> 01:45:02,130 What time are you gonna pick me up? 2181 01:45:02,149 --> 01:45:04,029 Ooh, can we make it later? 2182 01:45:04,050 --> 01:45:08,010 How about 10:00? A girl has to pack, you know. 2183 01:45:08,029 --> 01:45:10,220 [chuckles] 2184 01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:12,130 Okay. 2185 01:45:12,149 --> 01:45:14,090 I'll see you then. 2186 01:45:27,130 --> 01:45:29,050 [sighs] 2187 01:45:56,119 --> 01:45:59,090 [line trilling] 2188 01:45:59,109 --> 01:46:02,090 [suspenseful music] 2189 01:46:02,109 --> 01:46:10,130 ♪ ♪ 2190 01:46:14,189 --> 01:46:17,199 [line trilling] 2191 01:46:26,170 --> 01:46:27,180 Dorothy? 2192 01:46:35,229 --> 01:46:37,010 Dorothy! 2193 01:46:40,079 --> 01:46:41,100 Dorothy? 2194 01:46:41,119 --> 01:46:49,130 ♪ ♪ 2195 01:46:54,130 --> 01:46:57,149 Angel face? 2196 01:46:57,170 --> 01:46:59,020 Angel face. 2197 01:47:02,100 --> 01:47:05,039 Angel face? 2198 01:47:05,060 --> 01:47:08,029 [sobbing] 2199 01:47:08,050 --> 01:47:10,199 ♪ ♪ 2200 01:47:10,220 --> 01:47:14,159 man: You know this could have been the fractured ankle? 2201 01:47:14,180 --> 01:47:16,199 Flakes of bone marrow get into the bloodstream, 2202 01:47:16,220 --> 01:47:18,010 cause an embolism. 2203 01:47:18,029 --> 01:47:19,170 - How many times do I have to tell you, 2204 01:47:19,189 --> 01:47:21,220 the easy answer is usually the right answer? 2205 01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,210 There's a bottle of Tofranil on the dressing table. 2206 01:47:24,229 --> 01:47:27,069 More than likely, she just overdosed. 2207 01:47:27,090 --> 01:47:28,189 - Excuse me. 2208 01:47:28,210 --> 01:47:30,090 Excuse me! 2209 01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:35,029 Could you please ask these officers to leave 2210 01:47:35,050 --> 01:47:36,229 or cover her up? 2211 01:47:37,010 --> 01:47:39,189 She wouldn't want people staring at her. 2212 01:47:39,210 --> 01:47:41,170 man: Guys, wait outside. 2213 01:47:41,189 --> 01:47:43,189 - Come on. - All right. 2214 01:47:43,210 --> 01:47:45,100 - I don't see any evidence... - No, no, no. 2215 01:47:45,119 --> 01:47:49,069 - Here at all. - We have a suicide note. 2216 01:47:49,090 --> 01:47:51,039 - No, no, no, no, no. 2217 01:47:51,060 --> 01:47:52,229 She wrote that note months ago. 2218 01:47:53,010 --> 01:47:55,189 - Suicide notes don't exactly expire, you know. 2219 01:47:55,210 --> 01:47:57,050 - Oh, wait a minute. 2220 01:47:57,069 --> 01:47:59,050 She didn't kill herself. We were going to New York. 2221 01:47:59,069 --> 01:48:00,159 - Mr. Mills, could you wait 2222 01:48:00,180 --> 01:48:02,090 in the other room, please? - We were going to New York. 2223 01:48:02,109 --> 01:48:03,220 She didn't kill herself! - Mr. Mills, please. 2224 01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:05,199 - She didn't kill herself. - Mr. Mills, please. 2225 01:48:05,220 --> 01:48:07,039 - I'll be damned, Richard. 2226 01:48:07,060 --> 01:48:11,000 Wasn't she some kind of colored singer? 2227 01:48:11,020 --> 01:48:14,000 [somber music] 2228 01:48:14,020 --> 01:48:18,229 ♪ ♪ 2229 01:48:19,010 --> 01:48:22,039 [overlapping chatter] 2230 01:48:34,180 --> 01:48:42,180 ♪ ♪ 2231 01:49:06,220 --> 01:49:08,140 [Earl groans softly] 2232 01:49:18,119 --> 01:49:26,140 ♪ ♪ 2233 01:49:46,079 --> 01:49:48,170 [inhales shakily] 2234 01:49:48,189 --> 01:49:50,069 ♪ ♪ 2235 01:49:50,090 --> 01:49:52,000 man: Hollywood mourns the passing 2236 01:49:52,020 --> 01:49:53,119 of Dorothy Dandridge. 2237 01:49:53,140 --> 01:49:54,220 A nightclub singer and actress, 2238 01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:56,119 Miss Dandridge is perhaps best known 2239 01:49:56,140 --> 01:50:00,029 for her Oscar-nominated role as Carmen Jones. 2240 01:50:00,050 --> 01:50:01,189 The L.A. County Coroner's Office 2241 01:50:01,210 --> 01:50:03,199 ruled that Miss Dandridge died as a result 2242 01:50:03,220 --> 01:50:06,189 of an overdose of the prescription drug Tofranil. 2243 01:50:06,210 --> 01:50:09,100 However, they declined to determine whether the death 2244 01:50:09,119 --> 01:50:12,079 was an accident or a suicide. 2245 01:50:12,100 --> 01:50:15,069 She is survived by a daughter, Harolyn. 2246 01:50:15,090 --> 01:50:18,020 Miss Dandridge was 42. 2247 01:50:18,039 --> 01:50:25,149 ♪ ♪ 2248 01:50:25,170 --> 01:50:28,170 [warm piano music] 2249 01:50:28,189 --> 01:50:33,220 ♪ ♪ 2250 01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:38,039 - ♪ What care I for fortune or fame? ♪ 2251 01:50:38,060 --> 01:50:41,229 ♪ They never mattered a lot ♪ 2252 01:50:42,010 --> 01:50:46,029 ♪ I don't have a right to complain ♪ 2253 01:50:46,050 --> 01:50:48,189 ♪ As long as I've got ♪ 2254 01:50:48,210 --> 01:50:50,170 ♪ What I've got ♪ 2255 01:50:50,189 --> 01:50:55,119 ♪ ♪ 2256 01:50:55,140 --> 01:50:57,199 [tempo picks up] 2257 01:50:57,220 --> 01:51:03,199 ♪ ♪ 2258 01:51:03,220 --> 01:51:06,000 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 2259 01:51:06,020 --> 01:51:08,050 ♪ I've got music ♪ 2260 01:51:08,069 --> 01:51:09,119 ♪ I got my man ♪ 2261 01:51:09,140 --> 01:51:12,069 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 2262 01:51:12,090 --> 01:51:14,069 ♪ I've got daisies ♪ 2263 01:51:14,090 --> 01:51:16,180 ♪ In green pastures ♪ 2264 01:51:16,199 --> 01:51:18,010 ♪ I got my man ♪ 2265 01:51:18,029 --> 01:51:20,100 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 2266 01:51:20,119 --> 01:51:22,100 ♪ Old Man Trouble ♪ 2267 01:51:22,119 --> 01:51:24,060 ♪ I don't mind him ♪ 2268 01:51:24,079 --> 01:51:28,100 ♪ You won't find him 'round my door ♪ 2269 01:51:28,119 --> 01:51:30,100 ♪ I've got starlight ♪ 2270 01:51:30,119 --> 01:51:32,149 ♪ I've got sweet dreams ♪ 2271 01:51:32,170 --> 01:51:33,220 ♪ I got my man ♪ 2272 01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:36,170 ♪ Who could ask for anything more? ♪ 2273 01:51:36,189 --> 01:51:44,199 ♪ ♪ 2274 01:52:04,109 --> 01:52:06,079 ♪ I've got rhythm ♪ 2275 01:52:06,100 --> 01:52:08,119 ♪ I've got music ♪ 2276 01:52:08,140 --> 01:52:10,029 ♪ I got my man ♪ 2277 01:52:10,050 --> 01:52:12,100 ♪ Don't need no more ♪ 2278 01:52:12,119 --> 01:52:17,069 ♪ Daisies in green pastures ♪ 2279 01:52:17,090 --> 01:52:20,000 ♪ Same man as before ♪ 2280 01:52:20,020 --> 01:52:24,060 ♪ Trouble never finds me ♪ 2281 01:52:24,079 --> 01:52:27,100 ♪ Life's a beautiful thing ♪ 2282 01:52:27,119 --> 01:52:29,050 ♪ 'Cause I've got rhythm ♪ 2283 01:52:29,069 --> 01:52:31,189 ♪ It makes me happy ♪ 2284 01:52:31,210 --> 01:52:35,140 ♪ Music that makes me wanna sing ♪ 2285 01:52:35,159 --> 01:52:38,000 ♪ For I've got a man ♪ 2286 01:52:38,020 --> 01:52:40,000 ♪ Ooh, what a man ♪ 2287 01:52:40,020 --> 01:52:43,130 ♪ A beautiful man I adore ♪ 2288 01:52:43,149 --> 01:52:47,140 ♪ Who could ask for ♪ 2289 01:52:47,159 --> 01:52:49,090 ♪ Anything ♪ 2290 01:52:49,109 --> 01:52:55,189 ♪ ♪ 2291 01:52:55,210 --> 01:52:57,079 ♪ Anything ♪ 2292 01:52:57,100 --> 01:53:04,100 ♪ More ♪ 2293 01:53:04,119 --> 01:53:07,140 [cheers, whistles, and applause] 2294 01:53:13,069 --> 01:53:16,039 [somber music] 2295 01:53:16,060 --> 01:53:24,100 ♪ ♪ 147640