All language subtitles for Middle of the Night.1959.EN

Lock-Lee.

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

Yes, I'll get him.

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

Morty Sachs died,
too, you know.

Morty Sachs
I knew about.

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

I don't know.
Ah, yeah.

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

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

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

My life is
coming to an end.

Seems like everybody's
in the hospital,

everybody's sick,
everybody's retiring.

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

You know who's
in the hospital?

Who? Bobby Sanford. Gall bladder.

They thought they'd
have to operate.

But he's responding
to treatment very well.

Well, you get
to our age

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

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

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

so I went to
see the doctor...

I'll tell you another
thing that depresses me.

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

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

and down to see
my son, Paul.

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

You don't know what to do with yourself,

you have to go visit
your children every night.

I got two sons
and a daughter.

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

Listen, for that matter,

my cousin died
a couple of weeks ago.

Right away, Betty.

Hello, Abe.
What do you want?

Abe, we just settled that
yesterday with the union.

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

I think it was
another five cents

for double-stitching
the front seams.

When's he coming out?

How can I get there
this afternoon?

Your wife called.
Wanted to know

when you're coming
back from Chicago.

Is that what
you told her?

Hello, tootsie.

Yeah.
Hello. Hello.

Hi, Walter.
How are you?

Hey, when are you
going out with me?

I'll show you
a good time.

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

I thought you understood
when you were hired

you had to go out
with the bosses.

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

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

Now that you got your
divorce from your husband,

how about it?
How about...

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

Oh, what did I do?

I'm sorry, Mr. Lockman.

All right,
around 3:00, yeah.

Caroline,
after lunch,

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

What did you do
to your shirt?

Oh, I was oiling
the cutting machine.

Oh. Hey, Jerry,
let me tell you,

did I have
a tootsie last night.

You and
your tootsies, Walter.

I think I better
go home, Caroline.

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

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

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

Sure.
Bye.

Okay. I'll see
you tomorrow.

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

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

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

And tonight, I got a date
with a little blonde

I've been hearing some
very fine things about

from the manager
of the Chiswick Hotel.

Lockman, you're
an old bum.

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

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

He's an old man,
not a rooster.

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

Turn you into a high
school senior overnight.

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

Personally, I find it
very disgusting.

Don't be so hard
on him, Louis.

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

It's 2:00.

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

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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

Betty wasn't
feeling well

so she went home
this morning

and she took it
with her to type it up.

I was going to send
the boy after it,

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

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

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

All right. You said you were going to

go home and change
your shirt anyway.

She lives only a couple
of blocks away from you.

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

I'll tell her
you're coming.

You came home
so early.

I just dropped in
to change my shirt.

I could have rescheduled
my entire afternoon, dear.

Truly it wasn't fair.

Your daughter Lillian
is here with the baby.

Oh, yeah?
With the baby?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, we did meet once.

I don't know
whether you recall.

Mr. Kingsley, I just
want to tell you

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

I was away in Europe,

my married daughter and
myself, for three months.

Oh, we had
a wonderful time.

So this is my first time
in this apartment,

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

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

Two hundred and forty.

Jerry, what have you
got on your shirt there?

I was in your
other apartment once

when you lived over on
Central Park West. Ah.

I don't know whether
you recall me.

My name is Mrs. Neiman.

Neiman?

I knew your wife casually.

I was distressed
at the news.

We were in Bermuda
at the time.

But we had
a wonderful time.

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

I don't know whether
you knew her.

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

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

I wondered whether I should
send some sort of greeting,

but I felt we were not
that well acquainted.

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

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

To express my sympathy
and my condolences.

Thank you.

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

I just got up to make
some fresh coffee anyway.

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

Excuse me.
Surely.

Neiman? I used to
know a Neiman.

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

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

He used to be
an embroiderer.

Is that right?
Yes.

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

Well, he moved
to Los Angeles.

Yeah, yeah.
That's right.

Yes, he died last year
of a cerebral hemorrhage.

And a relatively
young man, 58.

Far from old.

Well, my wife was only 48 when she died.

My own husband passed away only last July.

Very sorry
to hear that.

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

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

But it's very difficult
to give up a companionship

of so many years.

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

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

Hey, give me
back my arm.

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

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

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

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

Oh, you want me to
serve the coffee?

Yes. Will you
please, darling?

Surely.
I'll be right in.

What's new, Pa?

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

So, Mr. Kingsley,

it was wonderful to have
made your acquaintance.

Very nice to have
met you, Mrs. Neiman.

Well, I'll go serve
the coffee.

Very nice woman, really.

Her husband died
about half a year ago,

left her quite
an estate.

A well-educated woman
and very sweet, really.

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

What are you
talking about?

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

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

she'd have been here
just the same.

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

He sits
around the house,

for heaven's sakes,
every night.

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

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

It's time to
stop mourning.

I'm not mourning.

Stop making a soap opera out of this.

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

and I'm tired.

I'm grateful
just to get into bed.

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

Is that clear?

I'm very annoyed
by this.

So...

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

I said no,
didn't I?

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

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

I have to go visit my children every night.

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

All right.

I can see you're
in a bad temper.

You better let me
have him, Pa.

He's getting
so crotchety.

I'll be right
out, Evelyn.

Getting so touchy lately.

I lose my temper
every little thing.

Oh, Evelyn.
No, no, no.

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

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

It's supposed to be
a feminine indisposition

but men suffer from it, too, believe me.

You know my partner,
Walter Lockman.

He's a man 59,
gonna be 60.

Grandfather three times.

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

That's all
he talks about.

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

about some girl
he was out with.

Always a beautiful girl.
Uh-huh.

And it always winds up
the girl tells him

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

And he sees doctors.
Pills, everything.

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

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

I'm going through a kind
of temporary melancholy.

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

Your mother went through
the same thing.

I recognize many of the
symptoms about myself.

So tell me about yourself.

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

Pa, how's
your sex life?

You're all right, Lillian.

No, I mean it.

You're a vigorous man
with normal appetites.

You know, you're funny.

It's typical of
young people to think

unhappiness is always
a glandular condition.

All right. My sex life
is not so hot.

I meant it seriously.

I know you did,
sweetheart.

I know a woman.

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

She's a buyer for
a department store.

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

A very tasteful woman.

Early forties.

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

I asked her to marry me, she said no.

I was very hurt, actually.

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

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

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

I have to go argue
with the union again today.

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

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

I'll see you.
All right.

Infants wear
department, please.

Thank you.

Hello?

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

Oh, hello, Grace.
How are you?

This is Jerry Kingsley.

How are you,
for heaven's sakes?

Yeah, Jerry Kingsley.

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

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

It's been
how many months now?

Frankly, I'd like to see...

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

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

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

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

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

Oh? Oh, really?

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

Do I know the man?

Well, that's wonderful, Grace.

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

because you're
a good woman.

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

Of course, dear.

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

You must be terribly busy
with your season starting.

Of course.

All right.

My very best wishes to you
and your future husband.

Of course.

Goodbye.

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

pick up
some papers.

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

I'll be home
at about 6:00.

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

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

Oh, that's
wonderful, Pa.

See you around 6:00. Yeah.

Hi.
Hello, Mr. Kingsley.

I'm sorry I inconvenienced you this way.

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

I figured I'd bring it in in the morning

when I came in.
That's all right.

Caroline said
you didn't feel well.

No. It's just
a family thing.

I'll be in tomorrow,
Mr. Kingsley.

Something I could
do, perhaps?

No. You see...

It's just my husband...

We're divorced.

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

Okay.

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

Everybody else that we
knew were getting married.

So we got married.

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

We used to eat in restaurants all the time.

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

Around 11:00,

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

I used to wonder if everyone was like this.

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

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

Poor Georgie.

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

When he put his arm
around me at night,

I'd turn
my back on him.

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

The one thing
that we always had

was our mutual attraction for each other.

Well, now we didn't
even have that.

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

And finally,

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

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

And I said to him,

"Well, George,

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

"we might as well
get a divorce."

So I went
to a lawyer.

And that was it.

Except now I'm
even more miserable

living here
at my mother's.

You know,
it's so funny.

I couldn't stand
living with him

the three years
I was married to him.

And now I...

I just sit here
aching for him.

Just aching
for him.

He calls me on the phone last night.

And he says he wants to get married again.

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

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

Okay?

All right, Abe,
goodbye.

So, anyway...
Yeah.

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

Well, there were
four of us

and we were wearing a
pound of lipstick apiece.

And we had on
high heels,

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

We were 15 years old. Yes.

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

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

we began to giggle
like we were babies.

And we ran
all the way home.

I was a wild kid.

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

with any boy
who'd ask me.

Everyone thought that I
was going to turn out to be

a real bad type.

Then I'd come home.

We used to live
on 89th Street,

only a couple of blocks
away from here.

Everybody was always
sleeping at my house.

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

Everybody was
always sleeping.

So I'd get undressed

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

I'd always get
that same feeling.

I'm all alone.

I used to dream about

getting married
and having a home.

Everything would be so wonderful, you know.

What's wrong with me,
Mr. Kingsley?

I can't seem to make peace with anything.

How old are you,
Betty? 23, 24?

I'm 24.
Twenty-four.

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

You make me think of her when she was 10.

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

About 20 times today
you've asked me,

"What should I do
about my husband?"

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

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

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

I don't want to
go back to him.

All right. There's
your decision.

Well, you had
a bad marriage.

It's happened to
plenty of people.

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

and hiding in
an empty apartment.

You start going out
on dates again,

you'll meet some
nice, young fellow.

Mr. Kingsley.

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

and listening to me
all afternoon.

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

You made a decision.

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

There's an old
European saying.

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

"And most of them
never happened."

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

So go wash your face,
put on some lipstick,

call up a friend,
drink a beer with her.

I better get home...

Oh, boy.
Quarter to 6:00.

You know, I kept saying
to myself all afternoon,

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

I couldn't let you go.

Ah, don't worry
about it.

Look, my mother should be home any minute.

Would you like to
stay for dinner?

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

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

Mr. Kingsley.
Mmm.

I just want to thank you.

You're such
a pretty kid.

Which one is this, Pa? The fat one?

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

Well, the fat one is Caroline. Oh.

The one at the reception
desk who also models?

That's right. The
exceptionally attractive one.

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

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

"The young men must
fall all over themselves."

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

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

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

But she's a real beauty.

Intelligent, but emotionally very immature.

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

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

She happens to be
a pretty girl.

Oh, gosh,
that's precious!

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

Style 1309.

$34.75.

We do this in missy sizes and missus sizes.

I buy my women's
sizes at Kapmoor.

I bought it from Bonnie Lane last year.

$34.75.

Betty, put on 1018.

Yes, Mr. Lockman.

We copied Edith Small
of California.

The original retails
for $300.

Our knockoff retails
at $49.95.

What are your
best colors?

Your choice.

Jerry, listen.

Let me finish
the story.

We got these
two tootsies.

Me and the buyer
from Detroit in there.

He's still in there
talking about last night.

He can't stop talking.

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

You know, I tried
to give him the brunette

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

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

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

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

All right.

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

Hello, Betty.

Oh, hello,
Mr. Kingsley.

That's my boss.

Hurry up.
We'll never make it.

All right. Okay.
We can take the subway.

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

Bye-bye.
Good night Betty.

Okay. See you.

Good night, boss.
Good night, Charlie.

Wanna have a little
dinner with me tonight?

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

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

Shall I ring your bell?

I thought maybe we'd drive
out to Westchester someplace

and dance
a little, perhaps.

7:30 all right?

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

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

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

Okay.
Okay. Fine. Fine.

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

Yeah, okay.
Fine. Fine.

Jerk. Jerk.

What are you doing?

Jerk.

Well, the big
snows are here.

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

What's today,
third? Fourth?

One of us will catch
pneumonia and die this year.

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

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

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

good two and a half miles.

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

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

Wonderful walk,
very stimulating.

Listen to
this farmer here.

Walks two and a half miles to his office.

Abe Lincoln.

What's the matter
with Lockman here?

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

He was out with a couple
of buyers last night.

The wheels of
industry operating.

I stopped going out with
the buyers 10 years ago.

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

They're young men,
they can take it.

I think the buyers are
beginning to wear Lockman out.

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

All right.
All right.

You happy now?

All right, Walter,
I was just kidding.

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

It should be beautiful
tonight, just beautiful.

Can I come in, Pa?

Sure.

You going out tonight, Pa?

What?

I said, are you
going out tonight?

Sure.

Oh!

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

Can we give you
a lift somewhere?

No, no,
I'll take a taxi.

Okay.

Have a nice time.

Yeah. Have a nice time.

I think you're right.

I think he is going out with a woman.

For several weeks now.

Well, listen,
it's not my business.

I just hope
it's a nice woman.

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

About what?

About my father going out
with a woman.

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

He's just having
a middle-aged fling.

What's so terrible
about that?

Who said it was terrible?

Evelyn,
will you hurry up?

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

Well, I'll just slip
into my dress.

So what
do you say, Lil?

Lil?

What? What?

About my vacation.

Should we take it now
or after the tax season?

I have to tell my boss.

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

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

All right. Good idea.

Okay?

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

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

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

You know,
Evelyn is so funny, Jack.

I called her on the phone
this afternoon

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

But she sounded like
she was in a panic.

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

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

So, I said, "So?"

So what'll I tell my boss?

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

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

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

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

Well, sure, we
took their Richard

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

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

I don't think
it would hurt us to

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

I feel that there's a...

Well, a certain, kind
of tenseness between us.

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

It seems that...

Well, I don't know...

What do you mean,
tenseness?

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

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

Well, we're
going out tonight.

Well, yeah... Yeah.

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

I just mean
I come home and,

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

or your father comes over
or...

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

Wait, listen, Lil,
I like your father.

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

I don't know what you mean by tenseness.

Well, maybe that's the wrong word.

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

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

Lil. No, it's not that.

Listen, I like your father,
you know that.

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

You know what it is
with Evelyn, Jack?

What?

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

And she resents any woman
who gets close to him.

Well, she never got along
with my mother.

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

but that's an entirely
different matter.

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

And when my mother died

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

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

Well, I wanted him
to move in with us.

Listen, I was
perfectly willing...

Oh, she resents me
a great deal.

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

she always finds
some way of breaking in.

She resents any woman
my father likes.

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

So my father's going out
with a woman.

So what's so terrible
about that?

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

He's a darned
attractive man.

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

I wonder just how involved
he is with this woman.

Well, I assume he's...

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

He usually
tells me everything.

Listen, Lil, that's hardly
something a father

would discuss
with his daughter.

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

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

Listen, he's
a prince of a man.

Where is she?

Listen, Jack,

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

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

and get you a nice
good rest, huh?

Listen, Lil,
are you kidding me?

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

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

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

it's a very
dangerous age.

Evelyn, leave him alone,
you hear me?

He's having a little fun
for himself.

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

What's the matter
with you?

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

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

He's having a little
middle-aged fling.

What are you
so upset about?

Well, you seem
more upset than me.

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

What did I say?

You didn't say nothing,
come on.

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

Listen, Jerry,
we're going.

All right, have a good night. Lil?

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

Oh, I don't know, Jack.

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

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

Hello, Jerry.
Hi.

Jerry...

I think this should be
our last date.

I mean, we've been out
four times now

and I've enjoyed myself,
I honestly have.

But I...

You're a very nice man.

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

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

Well, but I just...

I just feel that the
situation's impossible.

I mean, your being
my boss and everything.

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

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

Well, uh, if...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, that's
understandable.

I'm afraid I hurt you
a great deal.

No, no, I understand
how you feel.

Look, just forget
everything I said, huh?

No, I think you're being
quite sensible.

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

Just forget everything I said. Please.

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

My uncle had
a grocery store.

My mother and my father
and my sister, Evelyn,

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

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

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

It's not a very
pleasant story.

Come on,
I'll take you home.

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

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

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

Look, stop worrying
about me.

Actually, not only have you
been honest and sensible,

but even kindly.

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

This way, we nip it
in the bud.

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

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

It speaks
very well for you.

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

I was going to
tell you about it.

We sent out the lot
to the factory today

and I forgot to make
the markers.

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

You simply don't
find me attractive.

No, I think you're
an attractive man.

It's the age thing.

Yes, I guess so.

Well, look...

No.

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

If you weren't
such a decent man,

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

I mean, if you were
just on the make

I'd probably be
saying to myself,

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

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

I think what really
scares me to death

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

I'm really in love
with you now.

I know,
it scares me to death.

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

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

I don't think
I could do it.

Do what?

To really love somebody.

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

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

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

No.

I think we ought
to call it quits now.

What would it add up to?

An affair?
Not even an affair.

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

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

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

Make the markers.

The lot goes into the
machines in the morning.

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

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

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

we'll go have a cup of coffee somewheres.

All right.

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

I love you.

This won't take too long.

That's all right.

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

Even if there was
nothing to do.

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

Delivery boy.

And I was a husky kid.

I joined the union,
they made me a goon.

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

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

The bosses hired gangsters,
we hired gangsters.

People were murdered
right in the streets here.

All the time I went
to night school,

studied designing.

Now I got a good business,

solvent 22 years now.

Good times and bad.

Why don't you
sit down in the office?

No, I'm fine.

Jerry!

I love you, Betty,
I love you.

Jerry, please.

This is so silly, Jerry.
Jerry, please.

I don't wanna hurt you.

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

We're not filling
that order.

Why did you take it?

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

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

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

Where was this big account
last week?

Are you with me, Abe?

Listen, Jerry,
200 suits.

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

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

Thank you.

We promised a delivery date, we deliver.

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

We don't chisel our other
customers for nobody.

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

Is that clear, Walter?

But he buys for 29 stores in the Midwest.

All right, Walter,
that's all.

Abe, you cut what's
on the table.

All right.

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

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

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

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

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

Jerry, for Pete's sakes.

Nobody sees us.

They all know anyway
by now.

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

Go away with me
this weekend.

It's New Year's.

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

Mmm-hmm.

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

But you'll have to bring
two minks.

The women wear their mink stoles
to the restaurant for dinner

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

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

Well, I'll buy you one.
No.

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

Go away with me
this weekend.

Yes.

I think we should think a
little about getting married.

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

I have a tendency to
think in terms of marriage.

Have you thought
about it at all?

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

Should be beautiful
where we're going.

Anyway, the kind of
relationship we have can drift,

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

I want you to
begin thinking about...

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

If I stopped to think
all the time

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

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

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

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

Well, I'm not!
Betty!

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

I'm afraid to tell
anyone about you.

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

We're through,
you understand?

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

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

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

Nobody's walking out
on you.

You'll never marry me.

Suppose I become pregnant? Suppose
something like that happens?

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

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

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

Now you start acting
like a woman,

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

and let you go through
this tantrum by yourself.

Are you okay?

Jerry?
Hmm?

Tell me one of those
funny stories of yours.

Ah, let's see.

I ever tell you the one about
the two garment manufacturers

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

First one says
to the other,

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

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

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

Jerry.

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

This happened right after
the First World War.

So Nat must have been
around 14 or 15.

Anyway, this big
lummox of a kid...

So, go on.

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

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

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

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

So what happened?

He climbs on the dumbwaiter himself.

Oh, no!

Oh, Jerry! He weighed at least 200 pounds.

So my sister's pulling
and pulling.

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

"I only ordered four pounds."

Oh, Jerry!

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

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

Yeah, it's up there.

So, anyway,

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

I can't walk.

You know something?
What?

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

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

I haven't been up
in about four years.

My wife and I almost
froze to death.

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

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

I love you.

Jerry?

You ready?

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

and this is my wife.

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

Oh, New York?
Yeah.

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

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

also from New York City,
and his wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley.

And Massey.
Is that right, Massey?

From Buffalo,
and his wife.

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

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

Hello.
Also from New York City.

New Rochelle.
New Rochelle. Right.

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

Is that right?
Where about?

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

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

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

that's what you're in.

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

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

Well, what do you know,
champagne!

Well, it's New Year's Eve.

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

Mmm-hmm.

Well, at the risk of being
a little premature,

happy New Year
to everybody.

Happy New Year.

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

Buffalo... Buffalo! That's wonderful.

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

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

We'll be visiting you
pretty soon.

Niagara Falls, right?
Niagara Falls.

Bartender, get my wife
another drink.

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

Pretty good for
an old man, eh?

Martinson,
what do you think?

What do you think
of my wife, eh?

Beautiful. Beautiful.
Isn't she beautiful?

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

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

I'm not gonna meet you
on street corners.

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

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

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

You're a nice kid
and I like you.

I want you to
tell your mother

that I'm coming up
to the apartment

just like any other
human being.

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

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

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

I'm sorry, Betty.

It's fine. Come on.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Down you go.

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

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

I...

Fine, now. Come on.

Let me get the shirt
off you, okay?

Oh, I'm sorry, Betty.

I'm not worried so much
about my mother.

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

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

I mean, you got
two kids older than me.

Oh, these things are
always exaggerated.

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

They'll call you Betty,
like everybody else.

Oh, these things always
work out in time.

The question is,
can we be happy together?

That's the only question
involved in any marriage.

I don't know, Jerry.

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

Do you love me?

I don't know.

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

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

Well, that's love.

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

You make me happy.

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

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

Maybe I'll become
a jealous old fool,

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

All I know is I love you.

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

I can't let you
get away from me.

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

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

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

I mean,
you're an obsession.

That's what love is,
an obsession.

I love you, Betty.

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

It's all right
with me, Jerry.

Let's consider
ourselves engaged.

And now she tells me
she wants to marry him.

He's 56 years old.

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

Why aren't you doing
your homework?

Go tell her
it's almost 7:30.

He'll be here
any minute.

How do I look?

Oh, sure.

I had a long talk
with her last night.

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

Lots of girls get
crushes on older men

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

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

She finally had
a nervous breakdown.

That's very encouraging.

She's still nuts
about George.

Oh, well,
George was a bum, too.

All men, I think,
are bums.

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

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

I was left with two
little kids on my hands.

One of them
not even a year old.

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

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

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

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

or where they are.

I remember saying
to Betty once.

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

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

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

Well, I just mention that,
you know,

to show you how little
I meddle in their lives.

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

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

kids are more bother
than they're worth.

That's the truth.

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

She wouldn't listen
to anything I say anyway.

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

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

Over my dead body,
you will.

Over my dead body,
she will.

Dead body?

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

Oh, it's true.

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

There he is.

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

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

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

I'm not gonna kick him
in the shins.

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

Well, will somebody
get the door, please?

Well... You want me to take it?

Yeah, will you
get the door?

I'll be right there.

What shall I do?
Shall I just stand here?

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

How do you do?
How do you do?

My name is Kingsley.

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

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

So I just thought
that I'd stop by.

Maybe Betty would want
to see a downtown movie.

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

Won't you come in, please?

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

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

How do you do there?
How do you do?

Well, come in the house,
for heaven sakes.

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

and I have tickets here
for a play.

So just to come in
for a couple of minutes,

it really isn't
worth the trouble.

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

Thank you, I'm fine.

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

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

Will you excuse me
for a minute?

Yes, certainly.

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

It really is snowing out,
isn't it?

Yes, it's coming down
quite heavily.

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

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

She's just 17.

She goes to George
Washington High School.

And this is my neighbor,
Mrs. Carroll.

Neighbor,
Mrs. Carroll.

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

to just pass
the time of day.

Pass the time
of day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and I think it's disgusting. Ma.

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

I'll be ready in
a minute, Jerry.

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

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

Mr. Kingsley, listen.

My husband abandoned me
with two small kids.

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

And I had to scrub floors.

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

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

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

to go running around
with any old wolf

just because he's
got some money.

Come on, go!

I don't care
if you are her boss.

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

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

Always hanging around
young kids.

They ought to put
your kind in jail.

A bunch of dirty old men!

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

Well, you finally
met my mother.

Oh, boy.

Did you tell
your family, yet?

I mentioned something
to my sister.

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

Good.

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

You're in a little early.

I got Kennedy,
Manhattan Hotel, 10:00.

Yeah.

Have a nice New Year's?

Good.

I'm getting married, Walter.

What do you think
of the idea?

Oh, that's marvelous,
Jerry.

It's our Betty,
the receptionist.

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

Only last week Bobby
Moselle said to me,

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

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

She's a nice-looking kid.

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

Uh-huh.

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

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

I'd tell him
he must be crazy.

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

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

he gives us heat
in the winter.

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

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

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

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

"Betty, we better forget
the whole thing."

Do it, Jerry.
Take my advice.

I didn't hear you, Walter.

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

How many years you got
left in your life

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

What are you living
for, anyway?

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

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

It's my life.

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

What has happened to me
for 59 years?

Half my life married to
a woman I never loved.

Who never loved me.

Now it's too late.

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

Not a dime,
believe me.

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

They send me postcards,

pictures of
the grandchildren.

Why am I bothering you?

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

I know what you
think of me, Jerry.

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

You think
I'm an old bum,

letching after
$50 sluts.

A pincher, a fool.

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

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

would you believe me?

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

I was afraid.

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

Why do you suppose I go
around with these sluts?

Because I'm having
a second childhood?

You want to know,
I'll tell you.

Because every once in a
while for a half an hour

I kid myself
a woman likes me.

Even if it is on
an expense account.

I tell you, I don't
care anymore.

I don't even feel
like killing myself.

I'll go on

getting postcards.

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

"This was a big
waste of time."

Tell you something else.

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

Don't believe them.

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

Ah!

Ah, well...

What are you gonna do?

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

Take my advice.

Good morning, boss.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right, Walter.

Keep it under your hat
for a while, eh?

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

You know.

I'm sure Evelyn has
by now.

Oh, so, come in.

Where is he?
He's in there.

He's just finished
taking a shower.

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

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

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

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

Mmm.

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

But I was sick.

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

I'll be right out.

Take your time.

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

Don't say nothing.

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

Oh!

Oh, hello, Bernice.

Listen, Bernice,
this Mr. Englander.

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

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

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, about 1:00
or 1:30.

So, better call
your mother.

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

Look, why should he
tell me about this girl?

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

I don't want to know.

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

All right, so that's
his business.

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

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

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

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

Don't take out your
neurotic anxieties on him.

Hmm?

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

What are you talking about?

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

I just don't want him
to do something impetuous

he'll regret
the rest of his life.

Hello, Jack, boy,
how are you?

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

I just got in about
half an hour ago myself.

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

Took a hot shower
and I feel wonderful.

Hello, Lillian, sweetheart.
How are you?

Where were you all
tonight? Paul's?

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

Why such a big hug?

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

Um, I called you practically
every night last week

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

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

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

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

Hey, you lucky bums,
you both.

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

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

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

Always, I took
my vacation in winter.

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

Now I go for walks.

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

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

Like a lunatic, I started
walking up Broadway.

I got to 118th Street,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you going by plane,
train, what?

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

Well, anyway...

Evelyn tell you anything?

I didn't say nothing.

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

Well...

I've decided to get
married again.

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

Oh, thank you.
Thank you.

You're going
to get married?

Oh, I'll tell you
the whole story.

Well, do we know
the woman, Pa?

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

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

You probably
saw her there.

Blonde girl,
receptionist.

The model who sits
in front of Caroline.

Oh, Jerry,
that's wonderful.

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

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

Ooh!

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

Well, that's just
terrific, Jerry.

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

Oh, thank you, sweetheart. Thank you.

We've tentatively set
the date for May.

Oh!

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

in your enthusiasm
for her.

Oh!

We ought to set up
some kind of dinner.

Jerry.
What are you doing?

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

Evelyn, let me stop you
before you even start.

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

all right,
you come in, you...

You tell me
a 24-year-old girl.

What's the matter with you?

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

Our brother, Herman,
who is a fool,

this I could expect
from him.

But you, you're
the sensible one.

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

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

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

It's really not such
a shocking thing.

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

Well...

Of course,
she's a young girl,

and this presents a number
of problems but...

It never works out.

I could tell you 10 cases.

When I had my apartment
over in Brooklyn,

there was a man living
in the building.

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

Oh, it was in all the
papers and everything.

What a scandal! Jerry!

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

You're 56 years old.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is she going to
move in here?

A married couple
usually live together.

All right.

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

You want me to move out
of the house?

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

Is that what's
bothering you?

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

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

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

It never works out.
Max Colman, you remember?

I could tell you
100 cases.

Max Colman married
a girl of 34,

already a young woman,
not a kid anymore,

and you saw what happened.

One year. One year
and they were divorced.

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

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

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

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

A man gets to middle age,
he goes crazy.

What's so terrible
about middle age?

I'm physically
in tiptop shape.

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

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

Max Colman married
a girl of 34...

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

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

You're not such
an athlete anymore.

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

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

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

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

Evelyn, this is really
none of your business.

You said you wanted
to discuss it.

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

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

I'm not a family problem.

All right.
All right, Pa.

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

Evelyn, don't
get so upset.

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

My whole life.

Mama died. Who brought up the family?

My whole life, I gave up.

Nobody said you
have to move.

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

These things we'll
have to work out.

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

All right, now,
shut up.

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

I'm just going
to get married.

Don't get angry.

Listen, Jerry, don't
get yourself upset.

Yeah.

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

She's the older sister.

She feels everybody has
to have her approval.

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

She wouldn't approve
of any girl.

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

She's fighting,
that's all.

I'll tell you something,

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

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

She needs me, you understand, Lillian?

It's a long time since
somebody needed me.

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

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

I don't have to
justify myself.

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

Nobody said "no," Pa.

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

Your own mother,
she should rest in peace,

till the day she died
she was 15 years old.

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

She's so hungry for love.

It's like an orphan,
like a baby.

There's such a delight
in her...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't go home,
yet, Lillian.

I'm just looking
for my cigarettes.

Listen, Jerry.

Jerry, do you love her?

Like a schoolboy.

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

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

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

You have nothing
to do with it.

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

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

The girl, apparently,
is infantile in many ways,

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

It seems like a terribly
dependant relationship

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

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

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

Lily, Lily.

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

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

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

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

All right. All right.

We've discussed it enough.

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

Yet, I can't stand snow.

I wish I was going
to Florida with you.

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

I'm usually asleep
by this hour.

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

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

What do you think,
I am an absolute fool?

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

Evelyn, you'll
make a dinner.

A handsome table
with our best linens,

and the silverware we use
only for holidays.

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

And you'll treat
my wife with respect

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

Is that clear?
All right, Pa.

You'll make a dinner here
next Tuesday night.

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

All right, Jerry.

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

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

Your father is
a sensible man.

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

I knew this was gonna happen. I knew it.

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

Naturally, he's
going to get...

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

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

My father is going through
a very crucial period.

Boy! Oh, boy.

You are...

You are just great.
You know that?

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

Do you know that?

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

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

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

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

What is that?

Huh?

And you can't go
to Florida now!

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

Your father needs you!
Your father needs you!

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

How many times
have I heard it?

My father needs me!
My father needs me!

You need your father,
that's what.

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

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

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

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

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

Now, listen, Jack...

Shut up! Just shut up!
Shut up!

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

Everything is
for your father.

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

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

How about me?
I'm your husband.

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

instead of your
lousy father?

Well, I'm sorry, Lil.

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

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

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

Yeah. All right.

Evelyn, call me
if anything happens.

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

He's just tired
and nervous.

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

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

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

All right, call me.

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

Well, of course, Jack.

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

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

Oh!

Somebody must have left
the door open or something.

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

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

All four-year-old boys
manifest aggressive tendencies.

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

It was not
a hostile act.

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

So, they turned around
and drove back four blocks,

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

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

Now you're talking.

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

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

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

Quiet!
Quiet!

Quiet!

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

and we are losing
a wonderful pal.

Let me kiss her,
will you?

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

and she wouldn't
give me a tumble.

At least I can get
a congratulatory kiss.

Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

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

That's all.

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

Tell everybody how much
I was so thrilled about it.

Shall I call
Mrs. Lockman?

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

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

I will.

We're all very happy
for you, sweetheart.

Good night, Mr. Kingsley.

Good night, honey.
Good night, Betty darling.

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

Can I do something?

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, I adore you.

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

No, no.

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

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

because you're
just a kid.

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

Dying to you is something
that happens to old relatives,

but it's a very intimate
business to me.

I don't expect you
to understand this,

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

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

I'm very happy
with you, Jerry.

And I adore you.

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

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

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

I will indeed.

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

Yeah, I know.

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

As soon as I get home.
Okay.

Jerry,

you're not
Mr. Lockman.

Are we so different?

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

but they threw me a party
down at the office.

Jerry called
everyone together.

Marilyn's here.

Oh, hi, Marilyn.
Hi, Betty.

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

How's Frank
and the kids?

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

Anyway, Jerry called everyone
together just before lunch

and announced
our engagement.

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

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

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

I was quite touched.
Then before I knew it,

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

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

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

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

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

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

They threw me a party
down at the office.

No kidding.
Look what they gave me.

What is it, gold?

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

Everyone congratulated me.

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

I'll have to mention
that to Jerry.

Boy, I like having
a fuss made over me.

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

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

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

Everyone in the world
kissed me.

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

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

With George at the piano.

Hey, did you see this?

Are you really going
to marry this man?

Of course I am.

Oh, I think Betty is nuts.

So do I.

You're making
a big mistake, Betty.

Look, I know you
feel that way.

This man's going on 60.

He's 56.

You know what
I'm talking about.

I think you underestimate
56-year-old men.

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

An old man of 66
with white hair.

How about kids?

Is this old man going
to give you kids?

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

that's all there is.

Your kids.

You had a good marriage
going for you with George.

I never understood
why you broke up.

He was nuts about you.

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

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

He made pretty good money
for a musician.

He could have got himself
a steady job.

You get yourself a little house, a TV set

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

And one thing
you know,

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

Ah, what are you doing
with this old man?

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

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

I don't want
to get out of it.

Oh, come on.

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

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

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

like you were with George,
crying your eyes out,

talking about sticking
your head in the oven.

Take my advice.

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

Call him on the telephone
long distance,

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

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

I don't love George,
Marilyn.

Love? What's that?

Will you let me
finish up in here?

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

Oh, you think life
is a lot of fun?

Life is lousy.

You pay the rent
and you got to sleep.

Frank goes bowling
once a week,

I get downtown every Thursday
to do a little shopping.

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

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

I suppose you love
this old man?

I make him happy,
Marilyn.

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

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

Does he make you happy?

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

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

Look, Marilyn.

I'm having dinner
with you people, okay?

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

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

I don't know
if I love him.

I'm so scared
of this marriage,

sometimes I wake up
in the middle of the night

and I feel like
I'm strangling.

He's beginning
to act moody lately

and gets these
little fits of jealousy.

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

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

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

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

Betty, you're
getting yourself

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

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

Betty?
Marilyn, will you lay off?

All right.
It's your life.

That's right.

I'll wait in
the kitchen for you.

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

Yeah, swell.

Okay.

I'll wait outside.

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

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

Bunch of old ladies.
Hurry up!

Called my fianc�e yet?

There was no answer,
Mr. Kingsley.

Well, tell me if
there's no answer!

Don't just leave me
guessing what happened!

Why did you bring
that stuff in here for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No!

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

What do they pay
you guys for anyway?

You want to dance?

Yeah, all right.

Hey, Betty!

Oh, hi, Mickey.

Saw George yesterday.
He was asking about you.

Who's that?

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

What did he want?

He just said hello,
that's all.

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

Did he try to get in touch with you?

No.

Did you know
he was back?

I don't care to see him.
Why?

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

Are you afraid of him?

No, I'm not
afraid of him.

No doubt you still have
a certain feeling for him.

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

He must have meant
something to you.

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

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

that he was physically
very attractive to you.

Look, Jerry,

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

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

and how crazy all
the girls were about him.

Jerry, please, I...

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

All right! I was
physically attracted to him.

Well, what kind of
a lover was he?

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

I don't want
to talk about it.

Why are you
so frightened of him?

I want to go
home, Jerry.

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

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

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

I'm sorry.

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe we shouldn't get
married right away.

Maybe we ought to wait
a couple of months.

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

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

Look, maybe we're
making a mistake.

Maybe we ought to call the whole thing off!

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

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

Betty, don't
throw me away.

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

Please, Betty!

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

I just want to
know you love me.

Don't make me
beg for it.

I love you!

All right.

Get away from me.

Betty!

What?

I didn't hear
what you said.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Yeah, all right.

I'll call you.

All right, I'll call you.

I'm sorry if
I woke you, Ma.

Listen, George is here.

Where? Here?

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

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

Oh. You know, he looks great.

He says he's got himself
a steady job now

with the National Broadcasting
Company, or something like that.

Well, for Pete's sakes.

So, hello, Betty.

I hear you've been
waiting all night.

Yeah, I wanted
to see you.

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

I saw Mickey Healy
at the old club tonight.

He said you were back
from Las Vegas.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, when did
you get in?

Last night, about 2:00 in the morning.

Oh.

You look great.

He came about
half-past 8:00.

I told him you were
out on a date,

so we just sat
around here talking.

Yeah, he said
he saw Marlene Dietrich.

He said she's
just beautiful.

What
happened was that

her accompanist got sick,
so I played for her.

Well, I'll take
off my coat.

You look wonderful, George.

Man, I want a woman

Wherever she may be

I wrote that song
when I was out there.

It was very interesting
cutting it, you know.

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

My lips, my arms

My body says
baby come to me

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

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

He says he can
get me in, though.

Probably one of
the bigger independents.

Tony's band broke up,
you know.

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

because he had a gig out in San Francisco,

but he had Hal Waters
with him.

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

Hal Waters, that was
the horn man, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, some horn man. Oh.

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

Anyway, I was getting
tired of knocking around.

So, Eddie Johnson,

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

I think you met
him once, huh?

Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, anyway.

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

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

That's out
in New Jersey.

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

good bread, a couple
of hundred bucks a week.

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

and then I took
the next train in.

I thought we might have
a beer together, Betty.

I hope we're
still friends.

Didn't you
tell him, Ma?

What?

I'm getting married.

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

Good luck.

So, how about that beer?

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

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

One year, two weeks
and four days.

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

Alice and I are
going to sleep now.

So why don't you
stay here and talk?

I'll get you a beer.

Hey, you seen
anybody we know?

No, mostly Marilyn.

Oh, yeah.

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

Oh, sure.
You do just that.

Well, how about
Tommy Drew, huh?

Or Cindy or Elliott?
Any of the old bunch?

No. I haven't
seen anyone.

Yeah?

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

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

How about that?

Why'd you look me up, George?

Well, it seems
natural to me.

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

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

No. Finish your beer.

Aren't you glad
to see me at all?

No, I'm not, George.

Didn't you ever
think about me?

Sure. I thought about you a lot.

I missed you so much those
first couple of months.

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

I can just see that.

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

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

You didn't even write.

Neither did you.

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

Because, I'll tell
you this right now,

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

I don't know
why that should be,

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

especially in
Vegas, and you...

Boy, you sure
make me miserable.

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

That's pretty good
for me.

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

looking at each
other anymore?

We just didn't
love each other.

What are you
talking about?

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

Look, we're just
a couple of animals.

Good night, George.

Good night, Ma.

Look, what I'm trying
to tell you is

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

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

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

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

How tied up are you
with this old man?

I'm very tied up, George.

Yeah? When are you
supposed to get married?

I don't know.

We had a fight tonight.

What about?

Nothing.

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

He's a nice man, George.

Betty, I love you.

I'll see you, George.

Yeah, I'll see you.

I love you.

Will you leave
me alone, George?

Will you cut it out?
Just say it.

Just say what?

That you still got
a thing for me.

All right, I still
have a thing for you.

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

so why bother
getting married?

George, will you
leave me alone?

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

I'll take this
lousy staff job.

Betty, I love you.

Don't love me.

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

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

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

All right. All right,
anything you say.

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

And don't tell me
how much you desire me

'cause I'm sick
of being desirable.

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

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

I feel lousy...

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

You get out
of here, George.

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

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

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

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

I want to be alone.

Everybody's always
sleeping in this house.

Well, how was Nevada?

Why don't you
tell me about it?

You
want to watch TV?

I was thinking.

Maybe I'll move
out to Colorado.

I was talking
to Marilyn's cousin

and he says that Denver
is a beautiful place.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm no good.

George...

Why don't you help me?

What do you
want me to do?

I...

I just want
to run away.

I just want
to run away.

Oh, God. Oh, God.

I wish I were dead.

I'm sorry I called
you this early.

I had no idea it was
gonna snow like this.

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

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

I don't know.

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

I need you
too much, Jerry.

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

Last night it...

It must have been the worst
night of my life, I think.

But just knowing that
I'd see you in the morning...

You'd be better off without
me, Jerry. You really would.

I'll be waking you up
in the middle of the night

with my nightmares
like this all the time.

I don't really know what
happened last night, Jerry.

After I left you,
I went upstairs and...

And George was there,
my husband.

I let him make
love to me.

Even with
his hands on me

all I could think about was
you and that I'd let you down.

What?

If it wasn't him,

I wouldn't have told you, Jerry,
if it meant anything to me.

What do you
want from me?

I'm an old man.
I can't take it anymore.

But you... You want too much from me.

All I want is peace. I
don't want problems anymore.

You'd break my heart every
day of my life. I got that.

I don't want to
see you anymore.

I'm getting out of here before
there's nothing left of me at all.

I never loved George.
You never loved anybody.

Yes, I love you, Jerry.
Oh, cut it out!

I do! I'm so stupid.
I shouldn't have told you.

Get away from me.

I love you, Jerry. I need you. I
don't know what to do without you.

That's a lousy
kind of love.

Well, it's the only
kind of love I know.

I'd be a good wife to you,
Jerry. I promise you that.

I can't take it, kid.
It's too much for me.

Jerry!

What are you doing soaking wet?
Now, here, give me that coat.

For heaven's sakes,
I just cleaned up in here.

You, you're going to get yourself a
real cold. Now you take those shoes off.

Where were you
that you got so wet?

If it'll make you feel any better,
it's all over between the girl and me.

We called
the whole thing off.

What happened?

Oh, listen...

The whole idea was an impossible
business to start with.

I'm amazed at how swept
away I was by impulse.

The whole last couple
of months I was drunk.

Pie-eyed.
Drunk with vanity.

Drunk with middle age.

To delude myself that
this young girl loved me.

This is a vanity I didn't
even know I was capable of.

Oh! I won't deny she had
a certain feeling for me.

I'm a nice man to her.
I have a kind heart.

It was never
a man and a woman.

I guess it was candy.

I'm too old
to eat candy.

Jerry...

Jerry, come sit down and put
this shawl around your legs.

Why are you
giving me that shawl?

Jesus, don't make
an old man out of me yet.

Sitting in the living room
with a shawl around his legs.

Listen, Jerry.

If it's all over with
this girl, believe me,

it's better all around.

It dies hard, Evelyn.

Why, you've got a good life
for yourself, a fine business.

You've got
hundreds of friends.

I feel something inside
me is dying right now.

I want to be
loved by a woman.

That want dies hard.

Don't think I don't understand
what you're going through, Jerry.

I'd appreciate
being alone now.

Oh, perhaps it would be
better if you talked it out.

Evelyn, I don't like you
to see me like this!

All right, Jerry.

Shall I take it, Jerry?
Oh, no.

Hello?

Oh, hello, Lucy,
what is it?

When was this?

Lucy, stop this and tell me
if he said where he was.

All right.

Go down right away. I'll
call the manager of the hotel.

I'll come right down. Lucy,
stop this. Now stop it!

Do what I tell you.
Go straight to that hotel.

I'm leaving my house
right now.

What's the matter?

Lockman just called
his wife from a hotel.

He said he's going
to kill himself.

You're not serious?
Oh, it's all right.

He wouldn't call her if he
didn't want to be stopped.

Oh, God.

Ma! Ma, sit still.
Sit still!

Why would he go and try to kill himself?

Listen, Joey. Your father
hasn't been alive for 25 years.

So how can you say
he tried to kill himself?

Ma! Ma!

Ma! He's gonna
be all right!

He's not gonna die.

Come on, come on, stop wailing
already! Why did he do it?

Why don't you take her home,
Mac? Can't you give her something?

I'll be right back. Why
don't you take her home, Mac?

Look what he's doing
to my mother.

He runs around with
those cheap floozies.

A dirty old man.

He could be taking it easy now, at his age.

He could be living
a life of peace.

Who the hell
wants peace?

You can have all the peace
you want after you're dead.

Your father wanted life. He wanted
love, even if he had to pay money for it.

What the hell is wrong with everybody?
All they want is peace, comfort, security.

No problems.
Life is problems.

Heartache,
passion, a woman.

Listen, sonny boy.

Love, no matter how
shabby it may seem,

is still a beautiful thing.

Everything else
is nothing.

You take care
of your mother.

I wish you'd stick around a
little longer, Mr. Kingsley.

I'm sick of death, Joey.

I'm running around with
a young woman myself.

The last couple of months
have been torture for me,

such a sweet
and wonderful torture.

I was living, Joey.

There was never enough
hours in the day for me.

I had such a passion
for everything.

I was living.

Mr. Kingsley...

I love you.

Jerry!

Hey, Tommy!

Tommy!

Hey, Tommy!