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London at the beginning
of the present century.
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The district of Clapham.
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In this street, this house,
a legend was born.
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Her name: Gertrude Alexandre
Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen.
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We know and love her
as Gertrude Lawrence, star.
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These streets were
her playground, her world...
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and her very first stage.
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On them,
she played many parts...
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always beginning, of course,
with an entrance.
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She made many such entrances,
but since her family was poor...
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and couldn't always meet the rent,
she also had her exits.
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This was just one
of many moonlight flits.
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The Lawrence family moved
and kept on moving...
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and one night, Gertie's father took a
different turning and didn't come back...
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which at least saved her mother
having to pay for his beer.
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Instead, she paid for Gertie to go
to Italia Conti's Stage School...
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in a studio
near Great Portland Street.
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Here, Gertrude Lawrence met someone
who was to become part of her life.
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My name is Noël Coward. I'm the only
one who can play the piano properly.
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- Why do you want to act?
- I want to be lots of different people.
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- Very egotistical.
- Don't you swear at me!
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Under Miss Conti's supervision,
they went on tour together...
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third class, of course.
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- What are you doing?
- Why go third class when we can go first?
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But the inspector
will want to see our tickets.
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That's when we hide
in the lavatory, stupid.
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Even then, Gertie
couldn't wait for what she wanted.
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Eventually, she outgrew children's shows.
She longed for the professional theater...
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but she only knew one person in it,
and to reenter his life...
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she had to
make yet another exit.
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She found her father performing his act
at the old Brixton Music Hall.
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The 16-year-old girl
and the old trouper...
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sharing between them their love
of the theater... met once again.
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One can imagine
the poignancy of this reunion.
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Poignancy? Oh, good Lord, darling.
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Do you know the first thing he said?
He turned to Rosalie...
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he was living with her at the time...
and he said, "Oh, my God, love."
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He said, "Now we'll have to turn
the double act into a trio.
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Cancel the beer and send
for a bottle of scotch."
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Cancel the beer and send
for a bottle of scotch."
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- I wish I'd known him.
- So do I.
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- What?
- If you say I knew him, I knew him.
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Miss Lawrence, I need your okay
to show this picture.
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- You need it to use that title song too, darling.
- Now, don't be awkward.
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I am never awkward.
I just hate being rushed into decisions.
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Well, are we right? Did you wanna be
"lots of different people"?
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- As an actress, I did, yes.
- As a person?
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Look here, Jerry Paul. I get analyzed
onstage every night in Lady in the Dark.
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Don't go probing my psyche. I'll say
your film's lousy, and you'll die broke.
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All right, but don't be afraid
to tell me what you really think.
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Ooh, darling. I've never been afraid
to tell a man that in all my life.
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Of that act they did together in
1915, only a few old postcards remain.
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There is no real record,
unfortunately.
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'Unfortunately'? Oh, cripes, love.
You should have seen it.
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Rose on the gin
and Dad on his dignity.
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Come off it.
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You call that singing?
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- Boo!
- It's got bloomin' whiskers on it!
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Why don't you go home?
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Give him the hook!
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Aren't they horrible?
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Ohh!
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- Wicket!
- Come back here! Come back!
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Here. Let me feel your back.
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Have a beer, ducks.
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Get out of here!
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- Hello, love. You enjoying yourself?
- Oh, I am.
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Yes. Go on.
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Here I am, love.
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Belt up! Belt up!
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Now, cut it out! Quiet!
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All right, love. Carry on.
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- Sing!
- Sing!
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Come on!
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And what the hell
was all that about, may I ask?
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Prancing down to the audience,
mucking about with my material.
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- What are you trying to do, ruin me?
- They liked it, Arthur.
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You've only been in the profession
two shakes of a donkey's tail.
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- Who do you think you are, Sarah Bernhardt?
- It's a long time...
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since they enjoyed our act
as much as that, Arthur.
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"Our act"? My act. They gave five quid for
that, and not one word's changed in 10 years.
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- Well, it's changed now.
- Listen to me. You might be my daughter...
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And you're going to South Africa
and leaving me flat, so ta for nothing.
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Sorry, Arthur.
No hot water in my room.
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You know bloody well I've got a booking
there, and the boat sails Friday.
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- Well, I hope the Germans sink it.
- Nice. Would you believe it?
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- Me own flesh and blood.
- Well, that's not my fault.
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Hello, hello, hello.
What's all this then?
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- You and me get married or something?
- It wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Don't be coarse, dear.
I'm married to your mum.
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It's not from her, is it?
She hasn't caught up with me, has she?
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- It's from Gertie to wish us bon voyage.
- Ahh.
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- Me own little girl.
- Oh, come on.
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Excuse me, Harold.
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One bottle of booze,
and it's all hearts and flowers again.
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- Fat lot he cares if his little girl's got a job.
- Did you land it then, dear?
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Swansea Music Hall, Monday. You gotta
lend me 10 bob for the fare, though.
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- Of course. Here.
- Ta.
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Now, then. A toast.
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I know that wherever my little Gertie
goes, she'll always find herself.
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Ohh.
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Oh, oh... Oh.
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Ooh!
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- Ow! Ooh!
- You stupid twit!
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- I'm sorry.
- Watch what you're doing, you silly thing. Ooh!
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Turn around.
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Wait!
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Ha!
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Oh. Mind. Sorry.
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Ooh. Oh, sorry.
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Wait! Wait! Wait!
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Ohh! Sorry. Ooh.
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- Sorry.
- The thick slug, slugs, slugs...
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slugging on in Africa.
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- Wait a minute.
- It's a diabolical liberty, that's what it is.
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Don't worry. I'll fix her.
Hey, you. Get the manager.
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- I'm ever so sorry.
- "Sorry," she says.
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If you don't know the routine,
you shouldn't be allowed onstage.
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Well, I mean it.
I did my best. Honest, I did.
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If that's your best, you ought to
be working in a demolition firm.
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- You ruined the whole act.
- Oh, I did, did I?
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- You know you bloody did.
- Well, I also bloody know it's quite bloody impossible...
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to spoil anything which
is already bloody awful.
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- Why, you hit her! I saw you!
- Ladies, please. A fellow artiste is trying to perform.
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- I've got a nosebleed. It's all over me face.
- That can only be an improvement.
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- Pipe down, the lot of ya. The audience can't hear 'im.
- Just what I was saying.
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- Ron, tell Gertie she can't do the next number.
- Or we don't go on.
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- She's a flaming amateur.
- If she does it, we don't, and that's final.
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That's enough of that.
You're on in three minutes. Get dressed.
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You come back here, Ron James.
I'm not movin' till you do. Ohh!
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- Hey, this isn't my costume.
- Oh, my God!
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- Now what?
- You tore my costume, you silly cow.
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- Who's a cow?
- You are! I can't go onstage in that!
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- Please, dears. You are pros.
- Belt up!
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- It's no good, Ron. We mean it.
- Could I say something, Mr. James?
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- Yes. Go and play on a busy crossing.
- Oh, shut up!
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I could take Boo's place.
I mean, she only scatters the petals.
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- Well, uh...
- In the background, of course.
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Ohh.
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1916. Conscription.
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England, fighting for her life,
became an armed camp.
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Who could spare the time
in those grim, discouraging days...
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to help a young actress
working her way across the country...
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towards London and a career?
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- How did you get there?
- I worked every inch of the way. Sometimes I even got paid.
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- As an actress?
- Oh.
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As my dad would say, "God helps
those what helps themselves...
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and wherever my little Gertie may go,
I know she will always find herself."
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- Good morning.
- First door.
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- Name?
- Kathleen Engle.
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Kathleen Engle.
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- Good morning.
- If he offers us less than 15 a week, that's his loss.
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- Name?
- Urgent personal message for Mr. Charlot.
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- Who from?
- Me.
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Stop! Come back!
Come back here!
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Cor blimey, it's Noël Coward.
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- Who are you?
- He's come a long way, hasn't he?
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You'll go a damn sight farther if you
don't get back outside with the others.
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Drapes are too high or either too
dark. Make them a little more gray.
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- Mr. Charlot, I have the sketch...
- Later, later.
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- But you said you wanted...
- Later, later. And the girls.
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- Come on. Out.
- Shh.
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Don't you shush me,
young lady. Out.
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Let's see what they're doing.
All right, Mr. Coward.
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We're ready whenever you are.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Coward.
We'll let you know.
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Thank you.
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Let me see the new backdrop,
Mr. Roper, and try cue six.
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- I'll see those sketches now, please.
- Get that piano offstage.
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Let in that new backdrop, will ya?
Stand by, cue six.
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Mr. Charlot, I'm Gertrude Lawrence,
and I'm...
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Did someone call me?
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Uh...
Mr. Charlot...
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I'm Gertrude Lawrence,
and I've come all the way from Wales!
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A remarkably original entrance.
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Why, if it isn't
little Gertie Lawrence.
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Hello, darling.
It's Noël Coward.
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I don't care if you're the archbishop
of Canterbury. Fetch a bloody doctor.
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I've got a spring
stuck in me backside.
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André Charlot,
star maker, was always quick...
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to recognize
a true comedy talent.
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Along with that brilliant, vivacious
revue artist, Billie Carleton...
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he signed the new dancing sensation,
Jack Buchanan.
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In a few short years, Buchanan had
become London's foremost heartthrob.
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Gertrude Lawrence also
found herself in the cast...
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in the chorus, that is.
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Oh, Noël, this is wonderful!
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At moments of depression or exhilaration,
there's nothing like a good long lunch.
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It helps to keep a sense of perspective.
Mario, two spanking champagne cocktails.
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- Ooh!
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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Of course, André Charlot
knows nothing whatsoever about talent.
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- Thank you.
- I was referring to the fact...
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that he was totally unimpressed
by my audition.
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Never mind. He'll learn.
Give him time.
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Meanwhile, congratulations
on a passable first night.
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Oh, just wait till the next one.
I'll show him.
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You're in the chorus, and Charlot's a
disciplinarian, so don't you try any tricks.
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All I've done is fall through
that damned hole on my backside.
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But I know you, Gertie. Given a step,
you're apt to imagine it's a long jump...
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and you might find yourself falling flat
on that very attractive nose.
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There's Anthony Spencer
looking very smart.
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Hello, Noël.
May I join you for a moment?
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- Please do.
- I'm waiting for Julian.
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You can't expect couturiers
to be as prompt as soldiers.
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- Miss Gertrude Lawrence, Sir Anthony Spencer.
- How do you do?
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- How do you do?
- Tell me. What did you think of Charlot's effort last night?
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We must all suffer occasionally.
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- What did you think of it?
- Oh, it was splendid. Did you see the show?
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- Oh, my God.
- What?
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I happen to be in it,
Mr. Spencer.
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- Ohh.
- He's a knight... not that it matters.
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I don't care if he's a belted earl.
He's as blind as a bloody bat.
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- Extraordinary girl.
- Indeed.
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- Very attractive.
- Undoubtedly.
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- Married?
- Definitely.
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To her career.
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No doubt you thought
that was funny.
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- I'm sorry. I just felt like it.
- When I wish you to be amusing, I will pay you to be amusing.
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So you got it for free. Relax, Uncle.
It's not the end of the world.
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- I do not employ undisciplined amateurs.
- I am nothing...
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Don't interrupt me. This is the
Vaudeville Theatre, not Margate Pier.
222
00:30:07,935 --> 00:30:11,404
- Naughty, naughty girl.
- And I should like to make it quite clear...
223
00:30:11,426 --> 00:30:14,280
that if anything
like this occurs again...
224
00:30:14,302 --> 00:30:17,291
I shall sack you immediately!
225
00:30:18,830 --> 00:30:22,106
- Ah, ah, ah.
- Well...
226
00:30:22,128 --> 00:30:27,247
- Who does he think he is?
- He doesn't have to think, love. He knows. He's André Charlot.
227
00:30:27,269 --> 00:30:29,701
- He's a tin pot god.
- Gold plated, love.
228
00:30:29,723 --> 00:30:33,096
Ah, well. Bottoms up,
as the actress said to the Australian.
229
00:30:38,316 --> 00:30:42,686
Don't you worry yourself, love.
His bark's worse than his bite.
230
00:30:43,955 --> 00:30:46,964
- You're nice, Jack.
- Recognition at last.
231
00:30:46,986 --> 00:30:49,189
And very sweet.
232
00:30:49,211 --> 00:30:51,835
Do you know, I've just
thought of something.
233
00:30:51,857 --> 00:30:55,365
We need a new general understudy
for our next revue.
234
00:30:55,387 --> 00:30:58,281
Yeah. Just give me time,
that's all.
235
00:30:58,303 --> 00:31:01,291
Just you relax and leave it all
to Jackie Roper.
236
00:31:02,906 --> 00:31:06,642
You really are nice, Jack.
237
00:31:06,664 --> 00:31:11,592
Romance entered Gertie's life
when she married Jack Roper.
238
00:31:11,614 --> 00:31:14,583
All their friends were there
to wish them luck and happiness.
239
00:31:14,605 --> 00:31:18,535
And why not? They were young,
and they were in love.
240
00:31:18,557 --> 00:31:21,758
Bye!
241
00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:24,230
Phew.
242
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,681
Jack, I shouldn't have done it.
243
00:31:31,637 --> 00:31:36,334
That's a right one, that is.
You never miss a chance, you don't.
244
00:31:36,356 --> 00:31:39,057
A joke a minute, said the old cock
Linnet, and died laughing.
245
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:41,091
- I'm serious.
- All right then.
246
00:31:41,113 --> 00:31:45,579
- I shall go to the registrar, and I shall ask for my money back.
- It isn't that I shouldn't have.
247
00:31:45,601 --> 00:31:48,725
- That's a relief, anyway.
- It's more that I'd like to know exactly why I've done it.
248
00:31:48,747 --> 00:31:53,078
This is supposed to be honeymoon,
not a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
249
00:31:54,807 --> 00:31:57,855
Here. Stop talking nonsense
and have a drink. Go on.
250
00:31:57,877 --> 00:32:03,473
- It ought to be champagne.
- We can't afford it, Mrs. Roper.
251
00:32:04,513 --> 00:32:06,888
God.
252
00:32:09,001 --> 00:32:12,240
- You shouldn't have done it, Gertie.
- When I said that, you laughed.
253
00:32:12,262 --> 00:32:15,155
- You shouldn't have bought the bubbly.
- Why not? It's our wedding day.
254
00:32:15,177 --> 00:32:20,142
- Yes, I know, but 12 bottles!
- The man said it was cheaper than just getting one.
255
00:32:20,164 --> 00:32:23,940
Besides, you actually
save money, so there.
256
00:32:23,962 --> 00:32:27,085
You are crazy.
257
00:32:27,107 --> 00:32:30,116
Anyway, I want it to last.
I want it all to last...
258
00:32:30,138 --> 00:32:32,762
all the excitement
and all the good things.
259
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:36,310
You're plain, plain balmy.
260
00:32:39,191 --> 00:32:42,084
Oh, Jack, I wish I knew
why I married you.
261
00:32:42,106 --> 00:32:45,345
Oh, no. Not again.
262
00:32:45,367 --> 00:32:48,835
I don't know if it's 'cause I love you
or because of all you've done for me...
263
00:32:48,857 --> 00:32:52,365
Give it a chance.
We've only been at it a couple of hours.
264
00:32:52,387 --> 00:32:56,488
There's a lot more to marriage,
you know, than just saying "I do."
265
00:32:57,412 --> 00:33:00,191
What more is there?
266
00:33:00,213 --> 00:33:05,388
Well, I mean...
Well, you know. Children.
267
00:33:06,542 --> 00:33:08,515
Children?
268
00:33:08,537 --> 00:33:11,622
All right.
Let's have ya, me old demon.
269
00:33:11,644 --> 00:33:17,185
- Here we go, ducks.
- Oh, that's bloody marvelous, that is.
270
00:33:17,207 --> 00:33:19,793
If you hadn't moved, it would've
gone straight down my ruddy throat.
271
00:33:19,815 --> 00:33:22,670
With a mouth like yours...
pity.
272
00:33:22,692 --> 00:33:24,857
If that was a googly,
I'm a Chinaman.
273
00:33:24,879 --> 00:33:27,810
Steady, love, if you don't want him born
wearing a pair of batting gloves.
274
00:33:27,832 --> 00:33:31,570
- Gus, Mr. Roper wants you.
- If it's about that W.C. In his office...
275
00:33:31,592 --> 00:33:34,830
tell him from me, hammer and nails ain't
no use against a worn-out ball cock.
276
00:33:34,852 --> 00:33:38,321
No. It's not that. They've...
They've changed the running order.
277
00:33:38,343 --> 00:33:41,965
- Miss Carleton's been taken to hospital.
- What's that?
278
00:33:41,987 --> 00:33:46,991
- Now, Gertie, remember what your old man said.
- No, Gertie.
279
00:33:47,013 --> 00:33:48,909
- Out of my way, Jack.
- I won't let you. You can't do it.
280
00:33:48,931 --> 00:33:51,113
- Oh, yes, I can.
- Gertie!
281
00:33:51,961 --> 00:33:54,931
I'm all right.
I'm all right.
282
00:33:54,953 --> 00:33:57,347
- Be careful, love.
- Shh.
283
00:33:57,369 --> 00:34:01,203
"On plates of fresh air."
I've gotta remember those words.
284
00:34:02,779 --> 00:34:05,116
Good luck, Gertie.
285
00:37:31,730 --> 00:37:34,355
- You all right, love?
- Oh.
286
00:37:34,377 --> 00:37:38,247
Oh, it was lovely.
287
00:37:43,237 --> 00:37:46,073
Bravo! Bravo!
288
00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:52,863
Thank you.
289
00:38:01,536 --> 00:38:05,100
November 11, 1918.
290
00:38:15,153 --> 00:38:18,162
On the day the war ended
and peace returned to London...
291
00:38:18,184 --> 00:38:20,541
Billie Carleton
also came back...
292
00:38:20,563 --> 00:38:25,700
and Gertrude Lawrence once again
found herself back in the chorus.
293
00:38:43,004 --> 00:38:46,549
I'm all right.
294
00:38:46,571 --> 00:38:50,923
Gentlemen... Gentlemen...
Gentlemen of England...
295
00:38:50,945 --> 00:38:52,993
I salute you.
296
00:38:53,015 --> 00:38:58,633
Good night.
Peace, beautiful peace!
297
00:38:58,655 --> 00:39:00,857
Beautiful peace!
298
00:39:00,879 --> 00:39:03,696
Peace!
299
00:39:03,718 --> 00:39:06,804
Hello, Gertrude, love.
Here's your little Pamela.
300
00:39:06,826 --> 00:39:10,466
- She's had a lovely...
- Oh, there, there.
301
00:39:11,621 --> 00:39:16,931
- Gertie.
- Oh, my little love. Come on.
302
00:39:16,953 --> 00:39:20,499
You struck your lawfully wedded husband
on "Armisticice Day."
303
00:39:20,521 --> 00:39:23,643
- I'll strike you again with a poker in a minute.
- Gertie, love...
304
00:39:23,665 --> 00:39:26,674
Don't you "Gertie, love" me. Taking
a six-month-old baby on a pub crawl.
305
00:39:26,696 --> 00:39:28,593
Poor little Pamela.
306
00:39:28,615 --> 00:39:31,163
You don't deserve to have children.
You're an animal, you are...
307
00:39:31,185 --> 00:39:34,615
a stupid, dimwitted, boozy,
bowlegged baboon.
308
00:39:34,637 --> 00:39:39,602
There's a word for your kind. If it wasn't that
I didn't want my baby to hear it, I'd use it.
309
00:39:39,624 --> 00:39:42,651
Now, get out of here
before I really lose my temper.
310
00:39:46,031 --> 00:39:48,136
She... She's wet.
311
00:39:51,401 --> 00:39:54,485
Ever since they put you back
in the chorus...
312
00:39:54,507 --> 00:39:57,478
there's been nothin' but bellyachin',
bellyachin', bellyachin'.
313
00:39:57,500 --> 00:39:59,895
I'll give you bellyachin'.
Now, you listen to me.
314
00:39:59,917 --> 00:40:02,235
I've put up with your drinking,
and I've put up with your moaning...
315
00:40:02,257 --> 00:40:04,882
but I will not put up with your takin'
my baby round the boozers.
316
00:40:04,904 --> 00:40:08,987
She could have caught her death 'cause you
had your head stuck in a double whiskey.
317
00:40:09,009 --> 00:40:12,707
You ought to be damn well ashamed of
yourself, and I'll never forgive you.
318
00:40:12,729 --> 00:40:16,697
- Gertie...
- Don't you say one more word, not one more ruddy word!
319
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,228
I have nothing to say, my lord.
320
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:24,945
Very well. I therefore pronounce
the divorce granted. Decree nisi.
321
00:40:24,967 --> 00:40:28,282
Mrs. Roper to have
custody of the child...
322
00:40:28,304 --> 00:40:31,830
Mr. Roper
to have reasonable access.
323
00:40:44,530 --> 00:40:47,846
- Good evening, Dan.
- Good evening, sir.
324
00:40:47,868 --> 00:40:51,298
- Miss Lawrence, please.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Sir Anthony...
325
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,984
but nobody's allowed backstage
during the interval.
326
00:40:54,006 --> 00:40:58,049
Dan, I've been stationed in Germany for the
last year, and now I intend to enjoy myself...
327
00:40:58,071 --> 00:41:00,620
so where is
Miss Lawrence's dressing room?
328
00:41:00,642 --> 00:41:02,768
On your own head be it, sir.
329
00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:06,814
- It's the second door on your right.
- Thank you.
330
00:41:08,698 --> 00:41:11,226
Good hunting, sir.
331
00:41:16,638 --> 00:41:18,841
Come in.
332
00:41:18,863 --> 00:41:21,449
Miss Lawrence...
333
00:41:21,471 --> 00:41:23,675
Oh, no.
334
00:41:23,697 --> 00:41:27,626
We're quite tame, dear.
Well, have a good butcher's.
335
00:41:27,648 --> 00:41:31,058
- I beg your pardon?
- Butcher's hook. Look.
336
00:41:32,251 --> 00:41:36,295
Oh. I'm so sorry.
337
00:41:36,317 --> 00:41:40,764
Three minutes, ladies... and gents.
338
00:41:42,686 --> 00:41:46,806
I thought this was
Miss Lawrence's dressing room.
339
00:41:46,828 --> 00:41:49,817
Well, it's not
the queen's boudoir, love.
340
00:41:50,971 --> 00:41:53,749
- Oh, it's you.
- What?
341
00:41:53,771 --> 00:41:57,624
- It is hard to tell one fox from another, isn't it?
- Yes.
342
00:41:57,646 --> 00:41:59,618
I thought you'd have
a room to yourself.
343
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,651
In the chorus,
we share everything.
344
00:42:01,673 --> 00:42:05,104
- Well, I...
- And also the flowers.
345
00:42:05,126 --> 00:42:07,559
Thank you.
346
00:42:07,581 --> 00:42:10,935
I meant to come and see you ages ago, but
I've been occupying Germany for the last year.
347
00:42:10,957 --> 00:42:12,892
- Oh, how very "uncomfy."
- Yes.
348
00:42:12,914 --> 00:42:16,344
- Pardon.
- Make him buy you champagne, Gertie.
349
00:42:16,366 --> 00:42:19,431
- I saw the revue again before I left.
- Oh, yes?
350
00:42:19,435 --> 00:42:22,673
Yes. -
Sorry. - Pardon.
351
00:42:22,695 --> 00:42:25,627
When you
sang "Burlington Bertie,"
352
00:42:25,649 --> 00:42:27,699
I've never enjoyed myself
in the theater so much.
353
00:42:27,721 --> 00:42:29,694
- You saw me then? You saw me?
- Yes.
354
00:42:29,716 --> 00:42:32,417
No one's gonna see you tonight
if you don't get a wriggle on.
355
00:42:32,439 --> 00:42:37,481
- Well, then.
- I'd like to apologize for what I said that time we met.
356
00:42:37,503 --> 00:42:40,050
- Think nothing of it.
- Beg your pardon, Your Lordship.
357
00:42:40,072 --> 00:42:42,774
I wondered if you'd care to have dinner
with me one evening?
358
00:42:42,796 --> 00:42:47,185
- Just to apologize? Watch it. Mind my ruddy tail.
- Ooh, sorry, Your Ladyship.
359
00:42:47,207 --> 00:42:52,096
Well, I don't know if I can manage it. I
don't usually go out alone with strangers.
360
00:42:52,118 --> 00:42:54,934
Don't be coy, Miss Lawrence.
It really doesn't suit you.
361
00:42:54,956 --> 00:42:57,812
Hey, get moving, Gertie.
You haven't got all night.
362
00:42:57,834 --> 00:43:01,187
Any more of that, and you'll
get a belt round the lug hole.
363
00:43:01,209 --> 00:43:03,681
When I need you to teach me
how to behave, I'll let you know.
364
00:43:03,703 --> 00:43:07,863
It's impossible to teach anything to someone
who already possesses all the gifts...
365
00:43:07,885 --> 00:43:11,486
except, perhaps,
how to make the best of them.
366
00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:16,626
Well, shall we say Sunday?
And, of course, not alone.
367
00:43:18,970 --> 00:43:21,749
- Miss Lawrence?
- What?
368
00:43:21,771 --> 00:43:26,524
- Have a butcher's. Your "ruddy" tail.
- Ooh.
369
00:43:32,089 --> 00:43:35,827
There was the most god-awful silence,
'cause the curtain got stuck, you see.
370
00:43:35,849 --> 00:43:38,513
It worked like this.
As soon as I got onstage...
371
00:43:38,535 --> 00:43:41,312
my skirt used to fall off
so the audience could see my knickers.
372
00:43:41,334 --> 00:43:45,955
And I would say,
"Alas, I am undone!"
373
00:43:45,977 --> 00:43:47,872
Wasn't it silly?
374
00:43:47,894 --> 00:43:51,939
I hate to drag you away
from the men, Miss Lawrence...
375
00:43:51,961 --> 00:43:55,391
but I'm sure you'd like
to come upstairs with the ladies.
376
00:43:55,413 --> 00:43:59,284
No, thanks, ducks.
I did it before I come out.
377
00:44:18,736 --> 00:44:21,860
Give her some warm milk if she wakes
up, Mrs. Wilson. I shan't be late.
378
00:44:21,882 --> 00:44:23,932
- Yes, ma'am.
- Here you are, love.
379
00:44:23,954 --> 00:44:27,307
- Steady on, darling. It's me best dress.
- We've got to go to bye-bye.
380
00:44:27,329 --> 00:44:31,239
Oh, sweetheart.
Good night, darling.
381
00:44:33,774 --> 00:44:36,667
She'll be all right in a minute.
382
00:44:36,689 --> 00:44:39,698
- I shouldn't go gallivanting anywhere tonight.
- Why not?
383
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:44,953
I've had this cold, and Charlot said I
needn't appear at the theater this week, but...
384
00:44:44,975 --> 00:44:48,252
- That dress.
- What about it?
385
00:44:48,274 --> 00:44:51,129
- You're gonna take it off and never ever put it on again.
- Now, look here, Tony.
386
00:44:51,151 --> 00:44:53,546
- I'm not gonna do no stripping.
- I'm not going to do any stripping.
387
00:44:53,568 --> 00:44:57,880
- I should bloody well hope not.
- The time has come to visit Julian Brook Taylor.
388
00:44:57,902 --> 00:45:01,045
- You having me on?
- There's not another moment to be lost.
389
00:45:13,630 --> 00:45:16,370
Good evening, Sir Anthony.
Welcome to Cesare's.
390
00:45:16,392 --> 00:45:21,050
Thank you, Cesare. This is Miss Gertrude
Lawrence. She's in the Charlot revue.
391
00:45:21,072 --> 00:45:25,616
Privileged to meet you, Miss Lawrence.
May I say, what a very beautiful gown.
392
00:45:25,638 --> 00:45:30,027
It is rather nice, isn't...
divine, isn't it? Thank you.
393
00:45:30,049 --> 00:45:31,983
I enjoyed your show
very much, Miss Lawrence.
394
00:45:32,005 --> 00:45:34,324
- It is a pity you have left it.
- Oh, I...
395
00:45:34,346 --> 00:45:37,392
Well, I'm just resting for a few days.
A slight cold, you know?
396
00:45:37,414 --> 00:45:41,075
Perhaps one day you will do me
the honor of singing in my club.
397
00:45:41,097 --> 00:45:44,565
Oh, I'd simply love to, but I'm afraid
it's quite impossible at the moment.
398
00:45:44,587 --> 00:45:49,111
However, I promise to let you know
if I ever have any free time.
399
00:45:51,876 --> 00:45:56,016
Which may be much sooner
than I thought.
400
00:45:56,748 --> 00:46:00,255
I'm sorry, miss. I can't let you in.
Mr. Charlot's orders.
401
00:46:00,277 --> 00:46:04,590
"If you are well enough to go to dinner, you
are well enough to appear at my theater."
402
00:46:04,612 --> 00:46:06,930
How dare he!
He can't fire me!
403
00:46:06,952 --> 00:46:11,456
- He can and he has, Miss Lawrence.
- That puffed-up Frenchman!
404
00:46:11,478 --> 00:46:14,794
I'll show him
and his crummy chorus!
405
00:46:14,816 --> 00:46:17,095
So you see, Cesare,
you're a very lucky man.
406
00:46:17,117 --> 00:46:20,586
- Yes, Miss Lawrence.
- Naturally, I must insist on solo star billing...
407
00:46:20,608 --> 00:46:22,926
an extra dressing room
for entertaining my friends.
408
00:46:22,948 --> 00:46:25,611
And, of course, you'll pay all expenses,
but that's no problem, is it?
409
00:46:25,633 --> 00:46:29,064
- No, Miss Lawrence.
- I would like a week's rest and a few days' rehearsal.
410
00:46:29,086 --> 00:46:31,212
I suppose I could start
in about a fortnight from now.
411
00:46:31,234 --> 00:46:34,358
- But, Miss Lawrence...
- I know how anxious you are, but not a day sooner.
412
00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:36,621
- Miss Lawrence...
- Yes.
413
00:46:36,643 --> 00:46:40,265
- Unfortunately, it will be much later.
- What do you mean?
414
00:46:40,287 --> 00:46:42,892
You see, my present show
is booked for three months.
415
00:46:43,932 --> 00:46:45,866
Oh, cripes!
416
00:46:45,888 --> 00:46:48,109
What the hell am I going to do?
417
00:46:52,832 --> 00:46:55,609
"And now, Wings of Night...
418
00:46:55,631 --> 00:46:59,139
"an alluring gown
of glistening feathers...
419
00:46:59,161 --> 00:47:02,859
"appliquéd
on sweeping gray tulle.
420
00:47:02,881 --> 00:47:05,008
"A trailing scarf
of lacquer red...
421
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:09,247
completes this oh-so-dramatic
attention-getter."
422
00:47:10,860 --> 00:47:13,102
"Chinoiserie...
423
00:47:13,124 --> 00:47:17,743
"an imperial lavender and ivory
tapestry brocade coat.
424
00:47:17,765 --> 00:47:22,232
"Inspired by the Orient
and bordered in sable.
425
00:47:22,254 --> 00:47:25,684
"Worn over a pleated
tiered gown...
426
00:47:25,706 --> 00:47:29,175
in tones of lavender
and mauve."
427
00:47:29,197 --> 00:47:32,206
"Pagoda...
428
00:47:32,228 --> 00:47:36,099
"another gown
of Far Eastern inspiration.
429
00:47:37,023 --> 00:47:38,919
"Violet satin...
430
00:47:38,941 --> 00:47:41,680
"heavily encrusted
with embroidery of gold...
431
00:47:41,702 --> 00:47:44,500
amethyst and topaz."
432
00:47:46,306 --> 00:47:48,203
"Arabian Fire...
433
00:47:48,225 --> 00:47:51,885
"a ravishing gold
and blue brocade...
434
00:47:51,907 --> 00:47:55,683
"bordered in gold-sequined lace.
435
00:47:55,705 --> 00:47:58,598
For the most formal
of embassy balls."
436
00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:01,916
Naturally, the scarf
may be removed for dancing.
437
00:48:03,799 --> 00:48:07,613
"Under an evening coat
of bronze voile...
438
00:48:07,635 --> 00:48:10,452
"an embroidered rose
velvet gown...
439
00:48:10,474 --> 00:48:13,942
"Mr. Brook Taylor
named Holland.
440
00:48:13,964 --> 00:48:16,666
"Bordered
in a tulip embroidery...
441
00:48:16,688 --> 00:48:21,154
of baroque pearls
and crystal."
442
00:48:21,176 --> 00:48:25,584
"And now the finale
of the collection... Starlit Night.
443
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,473
"This lovely, luxurious,
single-sleeved velvet cape...
444
00:48:31,495 --> 00:48:34,542
"is paved with spiraling stars.
445
00:48:34,564 --> 00:48:36,498
"A fall pair...
446
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,933
"so new...
another innovation.
447
00:48:43,118 --> 00:48:45,590
"Brook Taylor
now introduces to us...
448
00:48:45,612 --> 00:48:47,623
"glistening, shimmering...
449
00:48:47,645 --> 00:48:51,477
oh-so-formal
evening pajamas!"
450
00:49:02,721 --> 00:49:05,883
Gertrude
Lawrence was introduced...
451
00:49:05,905 --> 00:49:08,990
to the fads and fashions of crazy
postwar England of the early '20s...
452
00:49:09,012 --> 00:49:10,908
by Sir Anthony Spencer.
453
00:49:10,930 --> 00:49:14,974
She proved to be an apt pupil.
She defied convention...
454
00:49:14,996 --> 00:49:17,928
and occasionally,
even the laws of gravity.
455
00:49:17,950 --> 00:49:22,012
Champagne, of course, always
does taste better at high altitudes.
456
00:49:24,126 --> 00:49:26,597
She moved faster than most...
457
00:49:26,619 --> 00:49:29,244
and enjoyed to the full the fruits
of each and every conquest...
458
00:49:29,266 --> 00:49:31,469
whether it was
at Brooklyn's racetrack...
459
00:49:31,491 --> 00:49:35,477
or at a garden party
on the lawns of Buckingham Palace.
460
00:49:39,777 --> 00:49:41,980
Squired by Sir Anthony,
the girl from Clapham...
461
00:49:42,002 --> 00:49:46,755
met the highest in the land
and learned to walk with princes.
462
00:49:52,053 --> 00:49:54,869
She gradually acquired
an elegance and dignity...
463
00:49:54,891 --> 00:49:58,168
that brought new life
to state occasions and state palaces.
464
00:49:58,190 --> 00:50:01,352
St. James's, scene of
so many royal proclamations...
465
00:50:01,374 --> 00:50:05,629
welcomed one of the uncrowned
queens of London society.
466
00:50:09,276 --> 00:50:11,326
- What's the matter?
- Nothing.
467
00:50:11,348 --> 00:50:13,513
You haven't spoken
for two and a half minutes.
468
00:50:13,535 --> 00:50:16,235
Something must be
seriously wrong.
469
00:50:16,257 --> 00:50:18,576
Sounds ridiculous.
470
00:50:18,598 --> 00:50:21,607
I seem to be running all the time
and not getting anywhere.
471
00:50:21,629 --> 00:50:25,250
Enjoy it. You're the glittering
darling of society.
472
00:50:25,272 --> 00:50:27,591
None of it means a damn thing.
473
00:50:27,613 --> 00:50:29,547
I'm in such a muddle.
474
00:50:29,569 --> 00:50:32,155
- Mea culpa.
- Who?
475
00:50:32,177 --> 00:50:34,994
- Latin for "my fault."
- No, it's not.
476
00:50:35,016 --> 00:50:38,562
You're patient,
kind and wonderful.
477
00:50:38,584 --> 00:50:42,590
No, it's me. I feel,
I don't know, sort of unreal.
478
00:50:42,612 --> 00:50:44,700
Well, the general opinion
is that you gave the palace...
479
00:50:44,722 --> 00:50:47,193
its healthiest whiff
of reality since Nell Gwyn.
480
00:50:47,215 --> 00:50:49,111
It's that bloody Charlot.
481
00:50:49,133 --> 00:50:51,566
He's keeping me
out of the theater.
482
00:50:51,588 --> 00:50:54,252
- I see.
- Do you?
483
00:50:54,274 --> 00:50:56,936
One person isn't enough
of a challenge.
484
00:50:56,958 --> 00:51:01,310
You need to conquer
about 1,500 at a time.
485
00:51:01,332 --> 00:51:03,649
You know me far too well.
Don't laugh at me.
486
00:51:03,671 --> 00:51:05,683
May I come in?
487
00:51:05,705 --> 00:51:07,850
No, love, it's late,
and I'm tired.
488
00:51:12,878 --> 00:51:14,985
Come here.
489
00:51:17,060 --> 00:51:19,779
I'm sorry to be
such an ungrateful bore.
490
00:51:21,318 --> 00:51:25,209
It's just that
I'm an actress without a job.
491
00:51:25,231 --> 00:51:27,490
- Good night, love.
- Good night.
492
00:51:36,432 --> 00:51:40,400
"Understand Noël Coward's starring
in your new show, London Calling.
493
00:51:40,422 --> 00:51:43,583
'Congratulations on seeing
the light at last.
494
00:51:43,605 --> 00:51:46,594
Sincerely,
Archbishop of Canterbury."
495
00:51:48,708 --> 00:51:52,905
"Noël Coward
is a musical genius.
496
00:51:52,927 --> 00:51:57,296
I should know.
Sincerely, Sergey Rachmaninoff."
497
00:51:59,295 --> 00:52:03,646
My dear Noël, if you are going to
send such telegrams...
498
00:52:03,668 --> 00:52:06,273
you really should learn
how to spell Rachmaninoff.
499
00:52:08,194 --> 00:52:11,472
"My dear Mr. Charlot, you will redecorate
the star dressing room, won't you?
500
00:52:11,494 --> 00:52:13,965
"I do so abominate beige.
501
00:52:13,987 --> 00:52:16,554
Most cordially,
Noël Coward."
502
00:52:37,195 --> 00:52:40,818
I wrote it for Gertie, you know?
503
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,902
- You could get her back.
- She deserved to be sacked. She needed to be taught a lesson.
504
00:52:48,703 --> 00:52:50,964
Where is she?
505
00:53:27,218 --> 00:53:30,015
Ha, ha, ha.
506
00:56:05,877 --> 00:56:08,042
Is the party over, Mr. Charlot?
507
00:56:08,064 --> 00:56:10,842
2:00.
Quite late enough for me.
508
00:56:10,864 --> 00:56:13,987
Oh, goody. It's on time.
Everybody on board!
509
00:56:14,009 --> 00:56:15,906
You've hired that
extraordinary vehicle?
510
00:56:15,928 --> 00:56:18,860
- How else could I get everyone to Maidenhead?
- Maidenhead?
511
00:56:18,882 --> 00:56:22,312
Come on. Come on.
It'll be fun. Hurry along.
512
00:56:22,334 --> 00:56:25,524
- If this is your idea of a joke, it's not very funny.
- Right down the back.
513
00:56:34,955 --> 00:56:38,270
Tally ho!
514
00:56:38,292 --> 00:56:41,953
Is this what
the poor people ride?
515
00:56:41,975 --> 00:56:45,845
Oh, I'm brilliant,
just bloody brilliant. Whoo!
516
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,471
Gertie has the jolliest ideas.
517
00:56:49,493 --> 00:56:52,923
- Waiter, I'm thirsty.
- André doesn't look too happy.
518
00:56:52,945 --> 00:56:56,300
Give my friend a drink.
André, it's a party.
519
00:56:56,322 --> 00:56:58,947
I'm having a wonderful time.
520
00:56:58,969 --> 00:57:01,746
Noël, you ought to
write a play about this.
521
00:57:01,768 --> 00:57:03,741
All right.
Open your presents, everyone.
522
00:57:03,763 --> 00:57:06,849
Open your presents!
523
00:57:06,871 --> 00:57:08,862
All right. Here they are.
524
00:57:09,786 --> 00:57:12,775
Pass this down to milady.
525
00:57:16,729 --> 00:57:19,239
Oh, bathing costumes.
526
00:57:19,261 --> 00:57:21,196
How clever of Gertie.
527
00:57:21,218 --> 00:57:23,880
Oh, mon dieu!
528
00:57:23,902 --> 00:57:26,259
All change places, everyone.
529
00:57:26,281 --> 00:57:28,580
Ladies on the lower deck,
gentlemen up on the top.
530
00:57:34,644 --> 00:57:37,825
- Hang on.
- Undressing on a bus! Divine!
531
00:57:44,925 --> 00:57:48,700
- Fetch, dear.
- I feel like Eve with Adam.
532
00:57:48,722 --> 00:57:50,675
How can I change
without my maid?
533
00:57:58,274 --> 00:58:01,014
- Did you see that, George?
- Yes.
534
00:58:01,036 --> 00:58:03,239
- The London bus.
- Yes.
535
00:58:03,261 --> 00:58:07,459
- There was naked men up top.
- Yes.
536
00:58:07,481 --> 00:58:10,622
- And naked women down below.
- Yes.
537
00:58:11,470 --> 00:58:15,303
Yes.
538
00:58:25,548 --> 00:58:28,442
I will not put on
one of those damned things...
539
00:58:28,464 --> 00:58:30,360
as I have no intention
of swimming.
540
00:58:30,382 --> 00:58:33,275
Nor does anyone else, darling.
It's far too cold.
541
00:58:33,297 --> 00:58:36,689
All right, then. We'll dance instead.
Back to the shore, Fred.
542
00:58:36,711 --> 00:58:40,066
- Right, Miss Lawrence. George? We're going in.
- Yes?
543
00:58:40,088 --> 00:58:42,942
Right. And about time
too, Gertie.
544
00:58:42,964 --> 00:58:47,623
To shore, George.
To shore. Aah!
545
00:58:47,645 --> 00:58:51,458
- Whoo! Man overboard!
- I can't swim!
546
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,914
Oh, my God!
If he drowns, I don't get paid!
547
00:58:53,936 --> 00:58:56,598
- In you go, love. Go on.
- Aah!
548
00:58:56,620 --> 00:58:58,880
I can't swim!
549
00:59:14,995 --> 00:59:17,255
Troop, halt!
550
00:59:41,234 --> 00:59:45,700
- Oh.
- It's me.
551
00:59:45,722 --> 00:59:48,232
- My God, I thought it was a Martian.
- Mm.
552
00:59:48,254 --> 00:59:50,955
- What time is it?
- 12:00.
553
00:59:50,977 --> 00:59:54,542
12:00? Oh, God.
I'm due at the Barclay at half past.
554
00:59:55,888 --> 00:59:59,088
I... didn't have a chance
to talk to you last night.
555
00:59:59,110 --> 01:00:02,004
Oh, wasn't it a super party?
556
01:00:02,026 --> 01:00:03,922
Marvelous. I wanted to...
557
01:00:03,944 --> 01:00:06,338
Parade's a bit late
today, isn't it?
558
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,256
- I stopped to do some shopping.
- Oh.
559
01:00:08,278 --> 01:00:11,632
Poor old Charlot.
560
01:00:11,654 --> 01:00:15,678
I say, darling, that's a very
nasty cold. Where did you catch it?
561
01:00:18,904 --> 01:00:20,973
Gesundheit.
562
01:00:22,395 --> 01:00:25,595
- G.
- Mm. I'm just coming, love.
563
01:00:25,617 --> 01:00:29,469
I, uh... I have something
to say to you.
564
01:00:29,491 --> 01:00:32,846
Oh, couldn't it wait?
565
01:00:32,868 --> 01:00:35,857
I'm in a bit
of a rush, my sweet.
566
01:00:42,918 --> 01:00:45,906
- Darling.
- Put it on.
567
01:00:49,094 --> 01:00:51,681
Oh, darling!
568
01:00:51,703 --> 01:00:53,809
Oh!
569
01:00:54,733 --> 01:00:58,010
- Do you like it?
- It's beautiful.
570
01:00:58,032 --> 01:00:59,986
Perfect.
571
01:01:02,060 --> 01:01:04,013
Thank you.
572
01:01:05,359 --> 01:01:07,639
But you shouldn't have done it.
573
01:01:07,661 --> 01:01:11,129
- I shall wear it always.
- That was the general idea.
574
01:01:11,151 --> 01:01:14,314
Mmm. It's
wildly extravagant.
575
01:01:14,336 --> 01:01:17,420
- G.
- What?
576
01:01:17,442 --> 01:01:20,777
I'm... I'm asking you
to marry me.
577
01:01:27,762 --> 01:01:29,830
Well?
578
01:01:33,861 --> 01:01:37,579
Mm, could you, uh, could you
do me up in the back, please?
579
01:01:41,341 --> 01:01:45,770
- I'd be Lady Spencer, wouldn't I?
- You'd be my wife.
580
01:01:45,792 --> 01:01:49,145
Why don't you just
chuck me out the window?
581
01:01:49,167 --> 01:01:51,255
Ground floor.
You'd just walk back.
582
01:01:51,277 --> 01:01:53,518
Well, at least it would be
a definite decision.
583
01:01:53,540 --> 01:01:55,743
Besides, I love you.
584
01:01:55,765 --> 01:01:58,889
- And I love you.
- Definite statement.
585
01:01:58,911 --> 01:02:01,056
So what are you
gonna do about it?
586
01:02:03,513 --> 01:02:05,410
Trapped, as they say
in the movies.
587
01:02:05,432 --> 01:02:07,558
Where are the marines?
588
01:02:07,580 --> 01:02:11,010
Oh, answer it, will you, darling?
589
01:02:11,032 --> 01:02:13,561
Gotta do my face.
590
01:02:16,557 --> 01:02:18,951
Incidentally,
I'm giving up the army.
591
01:02:18,973 --> 01:02:21,176
- Oh.
- Hello?
592
01:02:21,198 --> 01:02:23,919
Hello.
593
01:02:26,185 --> 01:02:30,153
Hello. This is... This is André Charlot.
I've got a cold.
594
01:02:30,175 --> 01:02:32,033
This is Tony Spencer.
So have I.
595
01:02:32,055 --> 01:02:36,750
- Mm. Is Gertie there?
- Yes.
596
01:02:36,772 --> 01:02:41,393
Tell her I want her to go
to "Aberica" in a "dew" revue.
597
01:02:41,415 --> 01:02:45,458
Charlot wants you to go
to "Aberica" in a "dew" revue.
598
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,720
"Aberica"?
599
01:02:48,742 --> 01:02:50,694
America!
600
01:03:45,975 --> 01:03:48,235
- Can I see?
- Of course, G.
601
01:03:54,837 --> 01:03:57,615
- Who is that?
- Alexander Woollcott...
602
01:03:57,637 --> 01:03:59,532
one of the New York critics, dear.
603
01:03:59,554 --> 01:04:02,006
Sometimes known as
the butchers of Broadway.
604
01:04:02,931 --> 01:04:06,265
Help.
605
01:12:19,932 --> 01:12:23,132
The condemned ate
a hearty dinner.
606
01:12:23,154 --> 01:12:26,623
- Only a few more minutes.
- How do you know?
607
01:12:26,645 --> 01:12:30,651
I'll thank you to remember I've been
attending opening nights for a very long time.
608
01:12:30,673 --> 01:12:34,333
I've a nasty feeling
you're now present at a closing one.
609
01:12:34,355 --> 01:12:37,498
- Papers. Papers.
- The papers are here.
610
01:12:38,422 --> 01:12:40,489
Oh, cripes.
611
01:12:42,257 --> 01:12:45,400
- Where do they put it in American papers?
- I don't know. I don't know.
612
01:12:46,401 --> 01:12:48,468
- Gertie.
- Oh, ta.
613
01:12:56,144 --> 01:13:00,457
"Gertrude Lawrence, incandescent star
of the first magnitude."
614
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:03,487
- What?
- Many congratulations.
615
01:13:03,509 --> 01:13:05,444
I haven't read that yet.
616
01:13:05,466 --> 01:13:09,012
"Jack Buchanan, a young Englishman of
astonishing grace and charm."
617
01:13:09,034 --> 01:13:11,313
- Great taste.
- No taste at all.
618
01:13:11,335 --> 01:13:15,571
- Oh! Oh, darling.
- What price Clapham now?
619
01:13:15,593 --> 01:13:18,678
- Oh, Jack.
- You were marvelous.
620
01:13:18,700 --> 01:13:21,228
- "English conquer New York."
- Oh!
621
01:13:22,958 --> 01:13:26,503
- Also me.
- Who are you?
622
01:13:26,525 --> 01:13:28,939
Oh, shut up.
623
01:13:31,053 --> 01:13:32,949
- Good morning.
- My name is Charles Fraser.
624
01:13:32,971 --> 01:13:35,825
I've come to show you the city you hold
in thrall. Ride through Central Park?
625
01:13:35,847 --> 01:13:38,319
Lunch at the St. Regis, visit to
the Statue of Liberty and supper.
626
01:13:38,341 --> 01:13:40,467
Who are you,
a guide or something?
627
01:13:40,489 --> 01:13:42,653
Me? I, dear lady, am an actor.
628
01:13:42,675 --> 01:13:46,202
Also your devoted slave,
and you have 10 minutes.
629
01:13:47,433 --> 01:13:49,673
- How dare you!
- Listen, you kissed me last night.
630
01:13:49,695 --> 01:13:53,260
This is a country of equal opportunity
for all. Ten minutes.
631
01:14:08,109 --> 01:14:10,964
- You're crazy.
- Oh, I'm the sanest man in America.
632
01:14:10,986 --> 01:14:13,188
The other 100 million
only love you from a distance.
633
01:14:13,210 --> 01:14:15,721
- Charles, I think we should get something straight right away.
- You're married.
634
01:14:15,743 --> 01:14:18,790
Your husband's arriving on the
next boat. Never mind. It may sink.
635
01:14:18,812 --> 01:14:21,052
- I haven't got a husband.
- Uh-huh.
636
01:14:21,074 --> 01:14:23,584
- What is this?
- A ring.
637
01:14:23,606 --> 01:14:27,286
Yes. I can see that.
Man go with it?
638
01:14:29,092 --> 01:14:33,424
All right. I'm not officially
engaged to be married.
639
01:14:34,808 --> 01:14:38,085
- Get up at once.
- Mademoiselle G., I crave the favor of your hand.
640
01:14:38,107 --> 01:14:41,154
- You'll get it where the monkey got the nut in a minute.
- Shh. Don't shout.
641
01:14:41,176 --> 01:14:43,264
- People are watching.
- I'm going home.
642
01:14:43,286 --> 01:14:45,583
Alone.
643
01:14:49,884 --> 01:14:52,316
You're grand fun,
Charles, darling...
644
01:14:52,338 --> 01:14:56,460
and I like you very much,
but this is the end of the evening.
645
01:14:56,482 --> 01:14:59,259
- Give me one good reason.
- I already have.
646
01:14:59,281 --> 01:15:01,388
I go home alone.
647
01:15:03,195 --> 01:15:06,702
- You don't want to.
- That has nothing to do with it.
648
01:15:06,724 --> 01:15:08,965
I don't want you to either.
649
01:15:08,987 --> 01:15:11,267
Mr. Fraser,
we hardly know each other.
650
01:15:11,289 --> 01:15:15,141
Oh, well, we can give it time. I mean, I
can return and seduce you in the morning.
651
01:15:15,163 --> 01:15:17,404
I shall be busy in the morning.
652
01:15:17,426 --> 01:15:21,510
Well, anyway, you know,
we've known each other for centuries.
653
01:15:21,532 --> 01:15:23,427
Oh, yes. Yes, it's true.
654
01:15:23,449 --> 01:15:27,167
Actor and actress...
born for each other.
655
01:15:29,357 --> 01:15:32,096
Oh...
656
01:15:32,118 --> 01:15:34,072
cripes.
657
01:15:36,262 --> 01:15:38,656
This was 1925...
658
01:15:38,678 --> 01:15:41,955
the swirling vortex
of the crazy '20s.
659
01:15:41,977 --> 01:15:44,488
The era of fun and thrills
and the devil take tomorrow.
660
01:15:44,510 --> 01:15:48,745
Faster, madder, higher...
the sky's the limit.
661
01:15:48,767 --> 01:15:52,006
Everyone was rich,
or about to get rich quick.
662
01:15:52,028 --> 01:15:55,016
They wanted to laugh.
Gertrude Lawrence helped them do it.
663
01:15:58,242 --> 01:16:01,442
It was also the era
of prohibition.
664
01:16:01,464 --> 01:16:04,376
While some approved,
others were more doubtful...
665
01:16:06,644 --> 01:16:09,287
or even downright shocked.
666
01:16:12,167 --> 01:16:16,250
But the only thing prohibited to
Gertrude Lawrence was a moment to herself.
667
01:16:16,272 --> 01:16:20,047
Everyone from all walks of life
wanted to meet her.
668
01:16:20,069 --> 01:16:22,752
And many actually did.
669
01:16:34,646 --> 01:16:37,770
As she had done in London
several years before...
670
01:16:37,792 --> 01:16:41,164
she was establishing herself as one
of the leaders of New York society.
671
01:16:42,395 --> 01:16:45,212
She was wildly extravagant
and enjoyed every moment of it.
672
01:16:45,234 --> 01:16:48,511
Wherever she went,
usually with Charles Fraser...
673
01:16:48,533 --> 01:16:50,659
people thronged to see her.
674
01:16:50,681 --> 01:16:52,634
They loved her,
and she reveled in it.
675
01:16:56,972 --> 01:17:00,844
There was fresh excitement round
every corner, even that of Wall Street.
676
01:17:15,002 --> 01:17:18,413
I do know some
far more interesting places.
677
01:17:20,641 --> 01:17:23,169
Oh, cripes.
678
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:26,719
- Just tell me one thing.
- What?
679
01:17:26,741 --> 01:17:29,634
- Why do we do this?
- It's extremely simple.
680
01:17:29,656 --> 01:17:31,936
You do them to buy Rolls-Royces
and diamond bracelets...
681
01:17:31,958 --> 01:17:34,007
and I do them
because I adore you.
682
01:17:34,029 --> 01:17:37,881
Nonsense. It's ego.
Actor's ego.
683
01:17:37,903 --> 01:17:39,800
We mustn't let
the public forget us.
684
01:17:39,822 --> 01:17:43,520
If they can't see us in the theater,
we must tell them what to buy.
685
01:17:43,542 --> 01:17:48,469
Besides, being out of work scares me.
I feel lost and out of touch.
686
01:17:48,491 --> 01:17:50,463
Darling, the revue has
only been closed a month...
687
01:17:50,485 --> 01:17:52,919
and you're rehearsing
for Oh, Kay!
688
01:17:52,941 --> 01:17:55,604
All right. It's the money too.
They should pay us for rehearsals.
689
01:17:55,626 --> 01:17:58,404
With Ben Mitchell in your life,
you're stuck for money?
690
01:17:58,426 --> 01:18:01,320
Ready, please.
691
01:18:01,342 --> 01:18:04,945
Thank you.
Next one, please.
692
01:18:11,393 --> 01:18:13,289
What are we doing after lunch?
693
01:18:13,311 --> 01:18:15,513
I am going shopping with Ben.
694
01:18:15,535 --> 01:18:19,925
- What for, yachts?
- Hold it, please.
695
01:18:19,947 --> 01:18:23,933
It just so happens it's my
daughter's birthday. She wants a doll.
696
01:18:25,778 --> 01:18:28,690
Thank you very much.
And the next, please.
697
01:18:36,020 --> 01:18:39,143
- Aah!
- Oh, so sorry, dear.
698
01:18:39,165 --> 01:18:42,289
- Ready?
- You know, you ought to try drinking that stuff sometime.
699
01:18:42,311 --> 01:18:44,974
- Ick. Don't be ridiculous.
- Yes, it might poison you.
700
01:18:44,996 --> 01:18:47,524
Now.
701
01:22:19,624 --> 01:22:23,323
I have no idea whatsoever
of your identity, dear lady...
702
01:22:23,345 --> 01:22:25,702
but would you kindly
fetch me a drink...
703
01:22:25,724 --> 01:22:27,620
before I die of exhaustion?
704
01:22:27,642 --> 01:22:30,476
For you, Mr. Woollcott, anything.
705
01:22:32,744 --> 01:22:35,561
- Isn't it divine?
- You look absolutely breathtaking, my darling...
706
01:22:35,583 --> 01:22:37,862
but does the pompadour
really belong in Imperial Rome?
707
01:22:37,884 --> 01:22:39,780
Oh, it's to celebrate
my learning French.
708
01:22:39,802 --> 01:22:42,043
I thought it might be your choice
of the appropriate attire...
709
01:22:42,065 --> 01:22:44,844
- for entertaining two lovers at the same time.
- What?
710
01:22:44,866 --> 01:22:47,816
Oh. Quelle joke, darling.
711
01:22:50,082 --> 01:22:52,208
They do look rather sweet,
though, don't they?
712
01:22:52,230 --> 01:22:54,854
And obviously share
the same dressmaker.
713
01:22:54,876 --> 01:22:56,773
Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
714
01:22:56,795 --> 01:22:58,691
which, if either,
is it going to be?
715
01:22:58,713 --> 01:23:01,797
Mm. Oh, chérie, be an angel and get
me another drink, s'il vous plait?
716
01:23:01,819 --> 01:23:06,325
Tout de suite. Oh, I know you,
Mr. Coward, but you don't know me.
717
01:23:06,347 --> 01:23:09,278
A regrettable but increasingly frequent
state of affairs, I'm afraid. How do you do?
718
01:23:09,300 --> 01:23:11,388
This is my divine
French teacher, Jeannie Banks.
719
01:23:11,410 --> 01:23:13,843
She's gonna stay with me forever
and be my secrétaire.
720
01:23:13,865 --> 01:23:16,030
How extremely courageous of you.
721
01:23:16,052 --> 01:23:19,674
Don't be horrid.
She's tres gentille and also very nice.
722
01:23:19,696 --> 01:23:22,321
- Darling.
- Darling.
723
01:23:22,343 --> 01:23:25,983
- I trust she also has the discretion of a eunuch.
- Hmm.
724
01:23:28,557 --> 01:23:31,067
Oh, darling!
725
01:23:31,089 --> 01:23:34,558
Oh, Tony! Oh!
726
01:23:34,580 --> 01:23:37,819
Now, gentlemen, don't fire
until you see the whites of his eyes.
727
01:23:37,841 --> 01:23:40,273
- Why didn't you tell me?
- I meant to get here in time...
728
01:23:40,295 --> 01:23:42,191
but apparently the damn tide
was against us.
729
01:23:42,213 --> 01:23:45,721
- Tony, it's wonderful to see you.
- Hello, Noël.
730
01:23:45,743 --> 01:23:49,020
- Well, how are you?
- Oh, I'm fine. I'm so thrilled!
731
01:23:49,042 --> 01:23:51,628
- What's all this?
- I'm learning French. Come on. You must meet everyone.
732
01:23:51,650 --> 01:23:54,621
- Welcome to Rome, my Saxon lord.
- Hello, Jack.
733
01:23:54,643 --> 01:23:56,653
- The tide was against him.
- It won't be for long.
734
01:23:56,675 --> 01:24:00,643
Uh, Mr. Ben Mitchell, Mr. Charles
Fraser, this is Sir Anthony Spencer.
735
01:24:00,665 --> 01:24:04,057
He just got in from Europe,
and I love him.
736
01:24:04,079 --> 01:24:06,704
- Hi.
- Glad to know you.
737
01:24:06,726 --> 01:24:09,390
- How do you do?
- How long can you stay?
738
01:24:09,412 --> 01:24:12,381
- Oh, only a week or so. Just a business trip.
- Oh.
739
01:24:12,403 --> 01:24:15,834
Oh. Isn't that too bad?
740
01:24:15,856 --> 01:24:18,366
It's tough you missed G's first night.
She was swell.
741
01:24:18,388 --> 01:24:21,166
- I'll see her tomorrow.
- You most certainly will! Here, my love.
742
01:24:21,188 --> 01:24:25,673
Why wait, dear boy?
Tony is a very old friend.
743
01:24:27,210 --> 01:24:30,526
For him, the mountain
comes to Mohammed.
744
01:24:30,548 --> 01:24:34,495
C'est vrai, c'est truly vrai.
Come on.
745
01:26:56,894 --> 01:26:58,924
Tony?
746
01:27:02,226 --> 01:27:04,524
You let him go.
747
01:27:06,906 --> 01:27:10,316
Call his hotel.
He'll come back.
748
01:27:14,962 --> 01:27:18,334
The nasty part about the really
good parties is when they end.
749
01:27:20,908 --> 01:27:24,761
- I'm not sure.
- You used to be.
750
01:27:24,783 --> 01:27:26,947
You said so.
751
01:27:26,969 --> 01:27:30,246
"Why go third class
when you can go first?"
752
01:27:30,268 --> 01:27:33,179
"I want to be lots
of different people."
753
01:27:35,101 --> 01:27:36,997
"Beware of wishing
for anything in youth...
754
01:27:37,019 --> 01:27:39,645
because you will
get it in middle age."
755
01:27:39,667 --> 01:27:42,233
So said
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
756
01:27:44,576 --> 01:27:47,604
Whoever he was,
he wasn't born in Clapham.
757
01:27:51,021 --> 01:27:53,147
You'll never decide
what you want...
758
01:27:53,169 --> 01:27:56,062
until you've decided
who you are.
759
01:27:56,084 --> 01:27:59,418
So says Noël Coward. Better?
760
01:28:01,724 --> 01:28:04,540
- I'm an actress.
- Unfortunately, my darling...
761
01:28:04,562 --> 01:28:06,458
you can't take a whole audience
home to bed...
762
01:28:06,480 --> 01:28:10,006
without being accused
of immorality on rather a grand scale.
763
01:28:12,694 --> 01:28:15,645
So why not marry Tony instead?
764
01:28:19,101 --> 01:28:22,109
Close personal relationships
are bloody difficult, my darling...
765
01:28:22,131 --> 01:28:25,754
but they do get easier with time.
766
01:28:25,776 --> 01:28:28,457
Loneliness gets harder.
767
01:28:35,864 --> 01:28:39,986
You're going to write a play for us,
and I shall be very, very good in it.
768
01:28:40,008 --> 01:28:41,981
The moment of decision,
as the novelist said...
769
01:28:42,003 --> 01:28:44,952
has been thrown firmly
out of the window.
770
01:28:45,992 --> 01:28:48,157
Also, I need a holiday.
771
01:28:48,179 --> 01:28:50,783
It's a small point,
but you've just opened in a show.
772
01:28:51,631 --> 01:28:53,872
It'll close eventually.
773
01:28:53,894 --> 01:28:55,847
And I shall go...
774
01:28:58,612 --> 01:29:00,508
to the south of France.
775
01:29:00,530 --> 01:29:03,136
May one be so bold
as to ask with whom?
776
01:29:04,789 --> 01:29:07,030
- Pamela.
- Pamela?
777
01:29:07,052 --> 01:29:09,600
It'll make a lovely change
from that horrid English school.
778
01:29:09,622 --> 01:29:11,518
It's high time we got to know
each other better.
779
01:29:11,540 --> 01:29:14,587
Well, I'm her mother.
780
01:29:14,609 --> 01:29:18,480
No doubt the reminder will come as a
very pleasant surprise to her, my sweet.
781
01:29:48,328 --> 01:29:51,030
- Oh, damn!
- I'm sorry, Mother.
782
01:29:51,052 --> 01:29:54,328
- No, darling. I'm sorry.
- I've never done one like that before.
783
01:29:54,350 --> 01:29:56,477
- My fault. I should've got it.
- It was a fluke.
784
01:29:56,499 --> 01:29:58,702
- Honest.
- Uh-huh.
785
01:29:58,724 --> 01:30:00,965
Well, shall I serve again?
786
01:30:00,987 --> 01:30:02,883
Uh...
787
01:30:02,905 --> 01:30:05,837
- Why don't we swim instead?
- Oh, yes!
788
01:30:05,859 --> 01:30:09,711
- I mean, if you'd like to.
- I would if you would.
789
01:30:09,733 --> 01:30:12,588
- Gertrude!
- Hmm?
790
01:30:12,610 --> 01:30:14,507
The chef wants to know
what you'd like for dinner.
791
01:30:14,529 --> 01:30:16,386
Don't bother me
with boring details!
792
01:30:16,408 --> 01:30:18,803
Pamela and I are
having far too much fun.
793
01:30:18,825 --> 01:30:22,447
You really should answer Noël's
letter about Private Lives.
794
01:30:22,469 --> 01:30:25,457
You run along and change, darling.
I'll be with you in a minute.
795
01:30:26,382 --> 01:30:28,278
- Scrambled eggs and bacon.
- For dinner?
796
01:30:28,300 --> 01:30:30,964
Uh-huh. Pamela adores them,
and so do I. Tell the chef.
797
01:30:30,986 --> 01:30:33,111
Okay. What shall I tell Noël?
798
01:30:33,133 --> 01:30:36,372
Cable him the play's delightful,
and there's nothing that can't be fixed.
799
01:30:36,394 --> 01:30:39,402
- He won't like that.
- I mean about my commitment to Charlot, idiot.
800
01:30:39,424 --> 01:30:41,320
Whoops!
801
01:30:41,342 --> 01:30:43,277
Uh, darling.
802
01:30:43,299 --> 01:30:47,151
- Oh, you're not changing, darling?
- I've just remembered.
803
01:30:47,173 --> 01:30:50,987
- It's less than an hour since lunch.
- Hmm?
804
01:30:51,009 --> 01:30:53,920
- I'm sorry, the school insists.
- Of course, you're absolutely right.
805
01:30:56,763 --> 01:31:00,079
My mum always used to say that the couple of
minutes we used to pinch before lights out...
806
01:31:00,101 --> 01:31:02,093
were the best part of any day.
807
01:31:03,553 --> 01:31:05,813
She used to come and sit
on my bed just like this.
808
01:31:07,620 --> 01:31:10,244
Mother, may I ask you something?
809
01:31:10,266 --> 01:31:12,431
- Well, of course, darling.
- It's...
810
01:31:12,453 --> 01:31:15,692
Well, I hope you won't mind.
It's something I want to know.
811
01:31:15,714 --> 01:31:17,878
Yes?
812
01:31:17,900 --> 01:31:20,218
- Did Daddy leave you?
- What?
813
01:31:20,240 --> 01:31:23,364
Or did you leave him?
814
01:31:23,386 --> 01:31:26,471
Well, we... we left
each other, darling.
815
01:31:26,493 --> 01:31:29,348
- We agreed it would be better.
- I see.
816
01:31:29,370 --> 01:31:33,893
- Do you really?
- Yes, really.
817
01:31:37,579 --> 01:31:39,571
It's good that we're so close.
818
01:31:44,676 --> 01:31:47,243
- Good night, darling.
- Good night, Mother.
819
01:32:15,096 --> 01:32:17,069
- Good morning, dear.
- Good morning.
820
01:32:17,091 --> 01:32:19,389
The master has replied.
821
01:32:21,502 --> 01:32:24,971
"The only thing
which requires fixing is your acting.
822
01:32:24,993 --> 01:32:28,154
- Love, Noël."
- Very funny.
823
01:32:28,176 --> 01:32:30,763
- Is the car ready?
- It always is. Why?
824
01:32:30,785 --> 01:32:33,641
Pamela and I are motoring up
to Monte Carlo before lunch.
825
01:32:33,663 --> 01:32:37,476
- Ready, darling? Yes?
- Mother.
826
01:32:37,498 --> 01:32:40,239
Would it...
827
01:32:40,261 --> 01:32:44,400
Would you mind very much if I went back
to England a week earlier than we planned?
828
01:32:46,974 --> 01:32:51,708
It's just the girls in my form are having
a pony-trekking expedition, and I...
829
01:32:51,730 --> 01:32:54,412
Well, I sort of
promised to go along.
830
01:32:56,986 --> 01:32:59,176
Well, of course, darling.
You mustn't let them down.
831
01:33:00,937 --> 01:33:02,871
Are you sure?
832
01:33:02,893 --> 01:33:06,496
Well, I'll miss you, but, uh,
there will always be other holidays.
833
01:33:07,343 --> 01:33:09,968
Mother.
834
01:33:09,990 --> 01:33:11,982
It's all right, darling.
I understand.
835
01:33:22,917 --> 01:33:26,732
All children are a bit
unpredictable at her age.
836
01:33:26,754 --> 01:33:28,688
It's my fault.
837
01:33:28,710 --> 01:33:31,258
She needs more than a glamorous mom
floating in and out of her life...
838
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:33,483
like a female Father Christmas.
839
01:33:33,505 --> 01:33:37,453
She needs a father,
a home, constancy.
840
01:33:38,377 --> 01:33:40,350
Come to that, so do I.
841
01:33:40,372 --> 01:33:43,687
Today you do.
Tomorrow you won't.
842
01:33:43,709 --> 01:33:47,618
If you can't say anything more original
than that, I suggest you keep quiet.
843
01:33:52,379 --> 01:33:54,466
I'm sorry.
844
01:33:54,488 --> 01:33:57,152
I feel bloody.
845
01:33:57,174 --> 01:34:00,298
Let's face it, love.
This whole holiday was a mistake.
846
01:34:00,320 --> 01:34:02,387
Life's a mess.
847
01:34:03,733 --> 01:34:05,706
I don't know, I suppose
I ought to get married.
848
01:34:05,728 --> 01:34:08,008
Ben Mitchell's in Paris.
849
01:34:08,030 --> 01:34:10,386
One phone call,
and he'll come running.
850
01:34:10,408 --> 01:34:13,167
Charles Fraser would even
fly across the Atlantic.
851
01:34:17,620 --> 01:34:19,976
I'd like you to go back to London
with Pamela. Keep her company.
852
01:34:19,998 --> 01:34:22,585
But you'll be all alone here.
853
01:34:22,607 --> 01:34:26,728
Well, I'll just have to ask
Noël to come down a bit earlier.
854
01:34:26,750 --> 01:34:30,065
As the saying goes,
"When you've flopped in one part...
855
01:34:30,087 --> 01:34:33,344
always start in another
as soon as possible."
856
01:34:36,071 --> 01:34:38,620
- Oh, I'm in such a rage!
- So am I.
857
01:34:38,642 --> 01:34:40,671
- What are we to do?
- I don't know.
858
01:34:41,787 --> 01:34:43,683
Whose yacht is that?
859
01:34:43,705 --> 01:34:45,908
The duke of Westminster's,
I expect. It always is.
860
01:34:45,930 --> 01:34:48,401
- I wish I were on it.
- I wish you were too.
861
01:34:48,423 --> 01:34:50,319
- There's no need to be nasty.
- Yes, there is every need.
862
01:34:50,341 --> 01:34:52,967
I've never in my life
felt a greater urge to be nasty.
863
01:34:52,989 --> 01:34:55,421
And you can be, can't you?
What about that damn telegram?
864
01:34:55,443 --> 01:34:58,299
That line is not
in the script of Private Lives.
865
01:34:58,321 --> 01:35:00,869
"The only thing that needs
fixing is my acting." Indeed.
866
01:35:00,891 --> 01:35:02,787
There are times when it
most definitely does.
867
01:35:02,809 --> 01:35:04,858
That is precisely why I agreed
to start rehearsals early.
868
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:07,889
Oh, go to hell.
869
01:35:07,911 --> 01:35:10,880
Never sit down on a line like that.
It kills it stone dead.
870
01:35:10,902 --> 01:35:13,163
I'll kill you in a minute.
871
01:35:16,274 --> 01:35:19,934
- When does Tony arrive?
- Next Wednesday. Why?
872
01:35:19,956 --> 01:35:23,080
The lord Chamberlain has seen fit to
question various passages from Private Lives.
873
01:35:23,102 --> 01:35:25,822
I shall have to go to London
to convince him he's mistaken.
874
01:35:26,937 --> 01:35:29,466
So, you and Tony will have
the house to yourselves.
875
01:35:32,539 --> 01:35:34,703
Well, I might just go with you.
876
01:35:34,725 --> 01:35:38,884
Oh. Well, if you do, it'll be
the first time a theatrical censor...
877
01:35:38,906 --> 01:35:41,301
has helped a woman to avoid
pressing questions from her lover.
878
01:35:41,323 --> 01:35:44,503
Why don't you just go...
879
01:35:44,507 --> 01:35:48,897
Troops, steady!
Troops, set!
880
01:35:48,919 --> 01:35:52,464
Troop, carry swords!
881
01:35:52,486 --> 01:35:57,048
From the right four half-sections,
forward, march!
882
01:36:03,342 --> 01:36:05,928
'I hope for a glorious oblivion,
like being under gas.
883
01:36:05,950 --> 01:36:08,115
'I always dream the most
peculiar things under gas.
884
01:36:08,137 --> 01:36:10,494
- "Would you be young always if you could choose?
- "No, I don't think so.
885
01:36:10,516 --> 01:36:12,719
"Not if it meant having those awful
bulls' glands popped into me.
886
01:36:12,741 --> 01:36:15,710
Cows for you, dear.
Bulls for me."
887
01:36:15,732 --> 01:36:19,048
Thank you both so much.
888
01:36:19,070 --> 01:36:22,500
Now, on page 50,
the directions read...
889
01:36:22,522 --> 01:36:26,010
- "He pushes her back onto the sofa."
- Precisely.
890
01:36:27,510 --> 01:36:29,769
Precisely.
891
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,548
- I wonder, would you two gentlemen mind moving?
- Eh?
892
01:36:33,570 --> 01:36:35,850
I don't want you to be in any doubt.
We'll show you...
893
01:36:35,872 --> 01:36:37,959
- but we'll need the sofa as a prop.
- Oh, certainly.
894
01:36:37,981 --> 01:36:41,009
- Why don't you stand over there?
- With pleasure, of course.
895
01:36:44,656 --> 01:36:47,358
- Come and kiss me, darling.
- I beg your pardon?
896
01:36:47,380 --> 01:36:49,468
- That's your line.
- Oh. Thank you very much.
897
01:36:49,490 --> 01:36:53,035
Come on, Noël.
Come on.
898
01:36:53,057 --> 01:36:55,471
In for a penny, in for a pound.
899
01:36:56,779 --> 01:36:59,020
- Comfy?
- Mm-hmm.
900
01:36:59,042 --> 01:37:02,894
'Remember the row we had in Camry? Your curling
iron burnt a hole in my new dressing gown.
901
01:37:02,916 --> 01:37:05,675
It burned my comb, too, and
all the towels in the bathroom."
902
01:37:07,864 --> 01:37:10,431
Have a look in there.
903
01:37:11,739 --> 01:37:14,767
Wow wee!
904
01:37:19,258 --> 01:37:21,480
Oh, stop it. Stop it.
905
01:37:24,475 --> 01:37:27,522
Les anglais...
906
01:37:27,544 --> 01:37:29,900
never underrate them.
907
01:37:29,922 --> 01:37:33,429
Uh, thank you.
908
01:37:33,451 --> 01:37:36,613
The only other scene that worries me
is the argument at the end of Act II.
909
01:37:36,635 --> 01:37:40,718
That involves the other two characters.
The whole point is their entrance.
910
01:37:40,740 --> 01:37:42,674
I wonder, sir. Uh...
911
01:37:42,696 --> 01:37:45,283
Would you be Victor
and you be Sybil?
912
01:37:45,305 --> 01:37:49,809
- Yes! Look, you come in through this door over... here.
- Well, I haven't...
913
01:37:49,831 --> 01:37:53,185
- But there isn't a door here.
- Well, I'll show you in.
914
01:37:53,207 --> 01:37:55,428
- All right?
- Hmm.
915
01:37:56,391 --> 01:37:59,016
- From "This is the end."
- All right.
916
01:37:59,038 --> 01:38:02,890
Are you ready?
Everything you've got.
917
01:38:02,912 --> 01:38:05,153
This is the end, do you understand?
Finally and forever!
918
01:38:05,175 --> 01:38:07,187
- You're not going! You're not!
- Oh, yes, I am! I am!
919
01:38:07,209 --> 01:38:09,105
Let go of me.
920
01:38:09,127 --> 01:38:12,173
You're a cruel fiend,
and I hate and I loathe you!
921
01:38:12,195 --> 01:38:14,092
You're on.
922
01:38:14,114 --> 01:38:16,739
Thank God I found out in time what
you're really like. Marry you again?
923
01:38:16,761 --> 01:38:19,040
- Never, never, never!
- I'd rather die in torment!
924
01:38:19,062 --> 01:38:21,572
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
925
01:38:21,594 --> 01:38:24,430
Oh, I wouldn't marry you again!
926
01:38:33,677 --> 01:38:37,338
- Good God!
- I wouldn't marry you again!
927
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:41,614
Get off me!
928
01:38:43,958 --> 01:38:46,737
You're not supposed to be laughing, sir.
We're Victor and Sybil...
929
01:38:46,759 --> 01:38:49,862
and we're on our
honeymoons with them.
930
01:38:54,469 --> 01:38:56,365
What are you doing here?
931
01:38:56,387 --> 01:38:59,204
- I'm on honeymoon.
- How interesting. So am I.
932
01:38:59,226 --> 01:39:01,352
- I hope you're enjoying it.
- It hasn't started yet.
933
01:39:01,374 --> 01:39:03,366
Neither has mine.
934
01:39:06,130 --> 01:39:09,101
- Are you happy?
- Perfectly.
935
01:39:09,123 --> 01:39:11,306
- Are you?
- Ecstatically.
936
01:39:12,728 --> 01:39:14,625
- What's her name?
- Sybil.
937
01:39:14,647 --> 01:39:17,272
Sybil. Have you known her long?
938
01:39:17,294 --> 01:39:19,305
For about four months.
We met at a house party in Norfolk.
939
01:39:19,327 --> 01:39:21,376
- Very flat, Norfolk.
- There's no need to be unpleasant.
940
01:39:21,398 --> 01:39:24,484
It was no reflection on her,
unless she made it flatter.
941
01:39:24,506 --> 01:39:27,092
Your voice takes on an acid quality
whenever you mention her name.
942
01:39:27,114 --> 01:39:30,007
- I'll never mention it again, I swear.
- Good, but I'll keep off yours.
943
01:39:30,029 --> 01:39:31,982
- Thank you.
- Not at all.
944
01:39:36,704 --> 01:39:39,866
That orchestra has
a remarkably small repertoire.
945
01:39:39,888 --> 01:39:44,181
It's strange how potent
cheap music is.
946
01:41:07,850 --> 01:41:09,802
You always had
a sweet voice, Amanda.
947
01:41:12,951 --> 01:41:15,385
Here we are, starting afresh
with two quite different people...
948
01:41:15,407 --> 01:41:18,184
in love all over again, aren't we?
949
01:41:18,206 --> 01:41:20,716
- Aren't we? Elyot.
- No.
950
01:41:20,738 --> 01:41:22,673
We're not in love all over again,
and you know it.
951
01:41:22,695 --> 01:41:25,895
- Good night, Amanda.
- Elyot, don't be silly. Come back.
952
01:41:25,917 --> 01:41:29,309
We won't talk about ourselves. We'll talk
about outside things, anything you like.
953
01:41:29,331 --> 01:41:33,048
- Just don't leave me until I've pulled myself together.
- Very well.
954
01:41:35,814 --> 01:41:39,359
- What have you been doing lately during these past years?
- I went around the world...
955
01:41:39,381 --> 01:41:41,546
- Yes. Yes, how was it? Yes.
- The world?
956
01:41:41,568 --> 01:41:44,001
- Highly enjoyable.
- China must be very interesting.
957
01:41:44,023 --> 01:41:46,342
- Very big, China. Very small.
- And Japan?
958
01:41:46,364 --> 01:41:49,065
Did you eat sharks' fins and take your
shoes off and use chopsticks and everything?
959
01:41:49,087 --> 01:41:53,323
- Practically everything.
- And India, the burning gauze, or gats, or whatever.
960
01:41:53,345 --> 01:41:55,356
And the Taj Mahal!
How was the Taj Mahal?
961
01:41:55,378 --> 01:41:58,233
Unbelievable.
A sort of dream.
962
01:41:58,255 --> 01:42:01,149
That was the moonlight, I expect.
You must have seen it in the moonlight.
963
01:42:01,171 --> 01:42:04,294
Yes. Moonlight can be
cruelly deceptive.
964
01:42:04,316 --> 01:42:07,325
It didn't look like a biscuit box,
did it? I've always felt it might.
965
01:42:07,347 --> 01:42:10,968
- Darling, I do love you so.
- I do hope you met a sacred elephant there.
966
01:42:10,990 --> 01:42:13,923
Lint white, I believe,
and very, very sweet.
967
01:42:13,945 --> 01:42:17,222
I've never loved
anyone else for an instant.
968
01:42:17,244 --> 01:42:19,485
And you love me too, don't you?
969
01:42:19,507 --> 01:42:22,400
There isn't any doubt
about it anywhere.
970
01:42:22,422 --> 01:42:24,414
Is there?
971
01:42:25,377 --> 01:42:27,272
No.
972
01:42:27,294 --> 01:42:30,168
No doubt anywhere.
973
01:42:36,462 --> 01:42:39,049
- Congratulations!
- Thank you, darling.
974
01:42:39,071 --> 01:42:41,867
Perfection hardly describes it.
975
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:48,217
Dorothy, be sure everybody in the company
gets their presents before they leave.
976
01:42:48,239 --> 01:42:51,478
- Thank you, dear.
- Gertie, your Amanda will live forever.
977
01:42:51,500 --> 01:42:54,700
Goddess!
Descend from Mount Olympus.
978
01:42:54,722 --> 01:42:56,829
Alec.
979
01:42:58,136 --> 01:43:03,293
Well, my courage failed me
at the sticking point.
980
01:43:03,315 --> 01:43:06,208
- May I introduce Mr. Richard Aldrich?
- How do you do?
981
01:43:06,230 --> 01:43:08,663
- He is a banker from New England.
- How do you do?
982
01:43:08,685 --> 01:43:12,691
- Let me give you a hand.
- I'm terribly sorry! Awfully sorry.
983
01:43:12,713 --> 01:43:14,954
Uh, Mr. Richard Aldrich...
984
01:43:14,976 --> 01:43:18,100
this is Sir Anthony Spencer,
Mr. Ben Mitchell.
985
01:43:18,122 --> 01:43:20,057
Oh, God, there are
too many of you.
986
01:43:20,079 --> 01:43:22,933
You'll have to introduce
yourselves. Noël!
987
01:43:22,955 --> 01:43:24,928
Darling!
988
01:43:24,950 --> 01:43:28,898
So clever, Noël.
A divine play.
989
01:43:32,354 --> 01:43:36,091
One of the more ridiculous clichés
is that there's safety in numbers.
990
01:43:36,113 --> 01:43:39,140
Hmm? Oh, boo.
991
01:43:42,174 --> 01:43:44,070
The '30s brought the Depression...
992
01:43:44,092 --> 01:43:47,945
and the problem of ever-increasing
unemployment to England.
993
01:43:47,967 --> 01:43:51,301
Many people suggested
many solutions.
994
01:44:01,661 --> 01:44:04,517
We have lost the way, my friends.
995
01:44:04,539 --> 01:44:08,966
We must turn to the good Lord easy,
hard though he's been.
996
01:44:08,988 --> 01:44:11,345
Cast off the chains
of capitalism.
997
01:44:11,367 --> 01:44:15,065
Workers unite!
Down with the employers!
998
01:44:15,087 --> 01:44:17,559
To build, we must first destroy!
999
01:44:17,581 --> 01:44:20,053
Oh, rubbish!
1000
01:44:20,075 --> 01:44:23,620
Absolute rubbish,
balderdash and poppycock!
1001
01:44:23,642 --> 01:44:29,068
Oh, I do beg her ladyship's pardon,
I'm sure. Take a good look, comrades.
1002
01:44:29,090 --> 01:44:31,771
A lovely example
of the moneyed classes.
1003
01:44:32,733 --> 01:44:34,630
Hear, hear!
This is my platform!
1004
01:44:34,652 --> 01:44:36,778
Do as he says, comrades.
Take a good look.
1005
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:38,695
Get this! Get in closer!
1006
01:44:38,717 --> 01:44:42,110
Just 'cause you've got a bloody ocelot coat on,
doesn't mean you can take my bloody platform.
1007
01:44:42,132 --> 01:44:44,489
- Oh, come on.
- And just 'cause you was born in bloody Mayfair...
1008
01:44:44,511 --> 01:44:46,406
Listen, ducks. I was born
in bloody Clapham.
1009
01:44:46,428 --> 01:44:49,437
This here's a bloody mink.
I paid for it my bloody self!
1010
01:44:49,459 --> 01:44:52,314
- It's Gertrude Lawrence!
- Hello, Gertie!
1011
01:44:52,336 --> 01:44:55,689
- How's your Rolls Royce, Gertie?
- Give the girl a chance!
1012
01:44:55,711 --> 01:44:58,989
- All right, you capitalist lackey. Get off!
- Oh, belt up!
1013
01:44:59,011 --> 01:45:01,482
- Let her have her say!
- Listen to me, comrades.
1014
01:45:01,504 --> 01:45:04,743
I know what it's like to be hungry, and
I know what it's like to be out of a job.
1015
01:45:04,765 --> 01:45:07,658
- I'll bet you do.
- But it's no use moaning and wailing.
1016
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:10,036
What you've got to do is cheer
yourselves up! Right?
1017
01:45:10,058 --> 01:45:12,722
Right, then. Who wants to come
to the theater tonight?
1018
01:45:12,744 --> 01:45:16,175
Oh, God. Fifteen bob a bleedin' ticket,
and hire your own dinner jacket.
1019
01:45:16,197 --> 01:45:19,511
On the house, with a couple of drinks
apiece and free sandwiches in the bar.
1020
01:45:19,533 --> 01:45:22,120
She's seducing you, mates! Now I'm
warning you. She's seducing you.
1021
01:45:22,142 --> 01:45:24,039
Listen, mate. It's my money.
And if I want to spend it...
1022
01:45:24,061 --> 01:45:25,956
it's none of your
bleedin' business, is it?
1023
01:45:25,978 --> 01:45:29,849
All right, then. Who wants to come?
1024
01:45:40,210 --> 01:45:44,408
- Miss Gertrude Lawrence?
- Uh, yes?
1025
01:45:44,430 --> 01:45:47,860
- Oh, so sorry. No hands.
- Oh. Allow me.
1026
01:45:47,882 --> 01:45:51,159
- Thank you.
- May I say how much I enjoyed Private Lives?
1027
01:45:51,181 --> 01:45:55,647
- How sweet of you. Uh, what is this?
- A writ, Miss Lawrence.
1028
01:45:55,669 --> 01:45:59,272
It's been such
a pleasure to meet you.
1029
01:46:05,873 --> 01:46:10,071
A writ, Miss Lawrence, is a means by
which someone to whom money is owed...
1030
01:46:10,093 --> 01:46:12,526
can obtain it without recourse
to more drastic action.
1031
01:46:12,548 --> 01:46:16,823
It is precisely to avoid such further
action being taken against you.
1032
01:46:16,845 --> 01:46:18,740
- Whoops!
- Oh.
1033
01:46:18,762 --> 01:46:21,809
- Miss Lawrence.
- I'm so sorry, Mr. Holtzmann.
1034
01:46:21,831 --> 01:46:26,106
Darling, I think you'd be a lot safer
on the swings. You run along now.
1035
01:46:26,128 --> 01:46:28,023
- Now, you were saying?
- It is simply...
1036
01:46:28,045 --> 01:46:32,781
- The nice bloke with a "Sir" to his name says he's got to go.
- Oh, dear.
1037
01:46:32,803 --> 01:46:36,118
- Please excuse me, Mr. Holtzmann. I shan't be long.
- Gertie.
1038
01:46:36,140 --> 01:46:38,266
David Holtzmann
is a very busy man.
1039
01:46:38,288 --> 01:46:40,990
When I made this appointment for you,
you promised me you were free.
1040
01:46:41,012 --> 01:46:43,061
I was, darling!
But how was I to know...
1041
01:46:43,083 --> 01:46:45,708
that Tony was going to be made governor
of some wretched Indian province?
1042
01:46:45,730 --> 01:46:48,355
I'm not psychic.
1043
01:46:48,377 --> 01:46:51,692
Jeannie, give Mr. Holtzmann
an enormous glass of champagne.
1044
01:46:51,714 --> 01:46:53,610
I'll be back in a jiffy.
1045
01:46:53,632 --> 01:46:58,040
I'm completely fascinated by everything
you're telling me. Come along, darling.
1046
01:46:58,926 --> 01:47:00,822
Fascinated.
1047
01:47:00,844 --> 01:47:02,740
I may be a little slow
on the uptake...
1048
01:47:02,762 --> 01:47:04,697
but what have all these
strange-looking children got to do...
1049
01:47:04,719 --> 01:47:06,614
with Sir Anthony Spencer's
departure for India?
1050
01:47:06,636 --> 01:47:09,415
My dear David,
don't expect logic from Gertie.
1051
01:47:09,437 --> 01:47:11,870
Their fathers are unemployed,
and she's giving a party for them.
1052
01:47:11,892 --> 01:47:15,476
- Sheer coincidence.
- Miss Lawrence is very aware of social problems.
1053
01:47:15,498 --> 01:47:18,832
Well, it's a great pity she isn't
equally aware of financial ones.
1054
01:47:19,948 --> 01:47:22,572
There. I've persuaded Tony
to wait a little longer.
1055
01:47:22,594 --> 01:47:25,603
Now, Mr. Holtzmann, I can give you
five uninterrupted minutes.
1056
01:47:25,625 --> 01:47:28,404
You are not giving me
five minutes, Miss Lawrence.
1057
01:47:28,426 --> 01:47:30,321
I am not a theatrical audience.
1058
01:47:30,343 --> 01:47:33,831
My time is extremely valuable,
and you are paying for it.
1059
01:47:35,407 --> 01:47:38,339
What a delicious extravagance.
1060
01:47:38,361 --> 01:47:41,465
Has it ever occurred to you that you're
living entirely beyond your means?
1061
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,589
Well, Jeannie takes care
of all my financial affairs.
1062
01:47:45,611 --> 01:47:48,083
Then, perhaps you'd be
good enough to explain...
1063
01:47:48,105 --> 01:47:51,995
why Miss Lawrence has been served
with five writs for unpaid accounts?
1064
01:47:52,017 --> 01:47:56,100
Well, I... Well, I don't like to
worry her with things like bills.
1065
01:47:56,122 --> 01:47:58,133
So...
1066
01:47:58,155 --> 01:48:00,127
Well, I don't show them to her.
1067
01:48:00,149 --> 01:48:02,544
What do you do with them?
1068
01:48:02,566 --> 01:48:05,517
- Well.
- What?
1069
01:48:09,088 --> 01:48:11,061
I tear them up.
1070
01:48:11,083 --> 01:48:14,974
- You should be ashamed of yourself!
- Please don't be offensive.
1071
01:48:14,996 --> 01:48:18,809
So should you, Miss Lawrence. This country's
in the middle of a serious recession...
1072
01:48:18,831 --> 01:48:22,608
and you persist in living in a totally
unrealistic and spendthrift manner.
1073
01:48:22,630 --> 01:48:26,328
- It's disgraceful.
- It's my money. I've earned it! I've a right to spend it!
1074
01:48:26,350 --> 01:48:29,167
Furthermore, if you insist
on disregarding my advice...
1075
01:48:29,189 --> 01:48:31,967
you'll find yourself in well-deserved
and very serious trouble.
1076
01:48:31,989 --> 01:48:33,885
I won't listen to this.
1077
01:48:33,907 --> 01:48:36,302
On the day that Tony's leaving, too.
It's cruel!
1078
01:48:36,324 --> 01:48:39,734
I can't stand it. I won't! I refuse to
be subjected to this kind of treatment.
1079
01:48:40,582 --> 01:48:42,977
Drink deep, David.
You'll need it.
1080
01:48:42,999 --> 01:48:45,854
I think perhaps you'd better retain
some other attorney.
1081
01:48:45,876 --> 01:48:48,500
I know. She's maddening
and infuriating.
1082
01:48:48,522 --> 01:48:50,495
- Oh, Noël.
- Shut up.
1083
01:48:50,517 --> 01:48:53,411
But she's also probably the most
beautiful and entrancing creature...
1084
01:48:53,433 --> 01:48:56,096
ever to walk onto a stage.
1085
01:48:56,118 --> 01:48:59,088
Glamor is a very overworked
and quite indefinable word...
1086
01:48:59,110 --> 01:49:02,195
but I think the world could do with a
little more of her brand of it at the moment.
1087
01:49:02,217 --> 01:49:04,899
Please.
Don't desert her, David.
1088
01:49:08,394 --> 01:49:11,248
Say good-bye to Pamela
for me, will you?
1089
01:49:11,270 --> 01:49:15,699
She should've been here today,
but, oh, she had something to do.
1090
01:49:15,721 --> 01:49:18,383
- I wish you didn't have to go.
- I'm sorry, darling, but time's up.
1091
01:49:18,405 --> 01:49:21,414
- But I shan't see you again.
- All you have to do is come to India.
1092
01:49:21,436 --> 01:49:23,716
Oh, how thrilling.
I could live in your palace.
1093
01:49:23,738 --> 01:49:27,782
I'm only going to be governing a small
province, not the whole British Raj.
1094
01:49:27,804 --> 01:49:30,716
It's so far away.
It's halfway around the world.
1095
01:49:34,862 --> 01:49:37,045
It's up to you, G.
Always has been.
1096
01:49:38,277 --> 01:49:41,840
- Yes.
- I love you. You know that.
1097
01:49:46,678 --> 01:49:49,225
Sometimes I think
I even understand you.
1098
01:49:49,247 --> 01:49:51,584
Darling, darling Tony.
1099
01:49:53,544 --> 01:49:56,916
Let's face it, love.
I'd never make a governor's lady.
1100
01:50:02,597 --> 01:50:05,202
- Bye.
- Bye.
1101
01:50:15,410 --> 01:50:18,764
- That's a Rolls, ain't it?
- Yes.
1102
01:50:18,786 --> 01:50:22,234
God, some people have
a lot, don't they?
1103
01:50:36,354 --> 01:50:39,094
- Stop here, please.
- Yes, sir.
1104
01:50:39,116 --> 01:50:42,087
- What for?
- It would be a little tactless for a potential bankrupt...
1105
01:50:42,109 --> 01:50:44,848
to park her Rolls-Royce
right outside the court.
1106
01:50:44,870 --> 01:50:48,608
I want to tell them about it. It's my car.
It's an asset, isn't it, Mr. Holtzmann?
1107
01:50:48,630 --> 01:50:52,098
Miss Lawrence, please.
Allow me to handle the case.
1108
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:54,209
Gertrude.
1109
01:50:54,231 --> 01:50:57,585
Now, don't overplay the gestures,
Gertie. Hands rooted to the sides.
1110
01:50:57,607 --> 01:51:00,461
That's what he always tells me at
rehearsals. He's such a brilliant director.
1111
01:51:00,483 --> 01:51:02,379
- One last word, Miss Lawrence.
- Oh, how macabre!
1112
01:51:02,401 --> 01:51:04,950
- I feel like Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Do not, I beg of you...
1113
01:51:04,972 --> 01:51:08,057
under any circumstances
whatever, open your mouth.
1114
01:51:08,079 --> 01:51:09,975
Even if the judge
invites you to speak...
1115
01:51:09,997 --> 01:51:13,715
please, please,
say absolutely nothing.
1116
01:51:23,730 --> 01:51:26,680
Is there anything
the defendant wishes to say?
1117
01:51:36,466 --> 01:51:38,610
Very well.
1118
01:51:47,437 --> 01:51:49,793
My lord.
1119
01:51:49,815 --> 01:51:52,382
Yes?
1120
01:51:54,341 --> 01:51:57,581
I have listened to the wisdom
of these learned gentlemen...
1121
01:51:57,603 --> 01:51:59,556
and I can no longer
remain silent.
1122
01:52:01,323 --> 01:52:04,447
I speak with dignity, I hope...
1123
01:52:04,469 --> 01:52:07,017
with regret, I assure you...
1124
01:52:07,039 --> 01:52:10,124
and with remorse
from my innermost heart.
1125
01:52:10,146 --> 01:52:12,598
Oh, my God.
1126
01:52:13,829 --> 01:52:16,914
I have lived only for today...
1127
01:52:16,936 --> 01:52:19,906
with no thought of tomorrow.
1128
01:52:19,928 --> 01:52:24,931
I have enjoyed the fleshpots of life
and denied its realities.
1129
01:52:24,953 --> 01:52:26,906
My cup has been full...
1130
01:52:28,099 --> 01:52:30,474
but its dregs are bitter.
1131
01:52:32,203 --> 01:52:34,100
It has been said that
my dear friend Jeannie Banks...
1132
01:52:34,122 --> 01:52:36,747
may have been careless
in her handling of my financial affairs.
1133
01:52:36,769 --> 01:52:39,221
Not so, my lord.
1134
01:52:41,832 --> 01:52:45,051
The blame is mine
and mine alone.
1135
01:52:47,663 --> 01:52:50,825
I shall leave this court
a poorer woman...
1136
01:52:50,847 --> 01:52:54,086
but, I trust, a wiser one.
1137
01:52:54,108 --> 01:52:57,135
Poverty will be
both a challenge...
1138
01:52:58,673 --> 01:53:01,681
and a purification.
1139
01:53:01,703 --> 01:53:04,289
I pray that
I may rise to the one...
1140
01:53:04,311 --> 01:53:06,265
and be worthy of the other.
1141
01:53:07,841 --> 01:53:11,846
- Uh.
- Shh!
1142
01:53:11,868 --> 01:53:14,379
As Ben Johnson wrote, my lord...
1143
01:53:14,401 --> 01:53:17,102
"My endeavors have ever come
too short of my desires."
1144
01:53:17,124 --> 01:53:19,058
Shakespeare.
1145
01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:21,552
And, yet...
And, yet...
1146
01:53:21,574 --> 01:53:24,659
- Uh, my lord.
- Shh!
1147
01:53:24,681 --> 01:53:28,265
The quality of mercy
is not strained.
1148
01:53:28,287 --> 01:53:31,296
It dropeth as the gentle
rain from heaven...
1149
01:53:31,318 --> 01:53:33,712
upon the place beneath.
1150
01:53:33,734 --> 01:53:36,800
It is twice blessed. It...
1151
01:53:38,990 --> 01:53:41,633
It...
1152
01:53:44,667 --> 01:53:48,098
It blesses him that gives...
1153
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:51,703
and him that takes,
Miss Lawrence.
1154
01:53:51,725 --> 01:53:54,446
Oh.
1155
01:53:55,945 --> 01:53:58,378
However, I shan't take too much.
1156
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:00,296
I shall allow you...
1157
01:54:00,318 --> 01:54:02,867
L10 per week spending money.
1158
01:54:02,889 --> 01:54:07,048
But they're going to pay me L400 a week
to star in Nymph Errant.
1159
01:54:07,070 --> 01:54:11,210
Speaking as a theatergoer,
I'm sure you'll earn every penny of it.
1160
01:54:12,479 --> 01:54:14,720
- Why, thank you, my lord.
- However...
1161
01:54:14,742 --> 01:54:19,208
you do owe L24,000.
1162
01:54:19,230 --> 01:54:21,471
Good cripes.
1163
01:54:21,493 --> 01:54:24,617
I couldn't have put it better myself,
Miss Lawrence.
1164
01:54:24,639 --> 01:54:29,450
For all our sakes, may I wish you
every success with your new show.
1165
01:54:29,472 --> 01:54:31,886
Why, thank you, my lord.
1166
01:54:44,471 --> 01:54:46,424
Men.
1167
01:54:49,190 --> 01:54:52,293
- Men.
- Men.
1168
01:54:53,601 --> 01:54:56,495
- Men.
- Men.
1169
01:54:56,517 --> 01:54:58,240
- Men.
- Men.
1170
01:58:42,730 --> 01:58:45,431
Hello, darlings!
1171
01:58:45,453 --> 01:58:48,078
- Wonderful performance, darling.
- Thank you, darling.
1172
01:58:48,100 --> 01:58:50,418
- Oh, what a divine coat.
- Isn't it gorgeous?
1173
01:58:50,440 --> 01:58:53,180
- Absolutely terrific, Gertie. Loved the show.
- Thank you, darling.
1174
01:58:53,202 --> 01:58:55,482
- Awfully nice.
- My dear Gertie, you were absolutely marvelous.
1175
01:58:55,504 --> 01:58:58,436
Oh, you angel.
Thank you, Dorothy. Thank you.
1176
01:58:58,458 --> 01:59:00,890
- Hello. What did you think of it?
- It was a wonderful opening.
1177
01:59:00,912 --> 01:59:04,151
- Mm-hmm.
- Pity you had to spoil it.
1178
01:59:04,173 --> 01:59:06,875
- What do you mean?
- All of this.
1179
01:59:06,897 --> 01:59:08,792
Oh, stop criticizing, darling.
1180
01:59:08,814 --> 01:59:11,747
- The judge didn't say I had to act like a penitent nun.
- No, dear.
1181
01:59:11,769 --> 01:59:15,928
- But he did say you had to pay off your debts, didn't he?
- Yes, but...
1182
01:59:15,950 --> 01:59:18,421
Dressing like the Queen of Sheba,
buying drinks you can't afford...
1183
01:59:18,443 --> 01:59:21,222
for sycophantic people you don't like
isn't going to do it, is it?
1184
01:59:21,244 --> 01:59:23,064
- Not now, Noël.
- Yes, Gertie. Now.
1185
01:59:23,086 --> 01:59:26,208
This isn't a pretty little part
you're playing. It's deadly earnest.
1186
01:59:26,230 --> 01:59:30,179
If you don't face up to this
responsibility, you will go to jail.
1187
01:59:33,557 --> 01:59:36,183
All right. All right.
1188
01:59:36,205 --> 01:59:40,172
I'll show you and David Holtzmann
and the judge and the whole damn court.
1189
01:59:40,194 --> 01:59:44,794
You'll see what work is,
just you bloody well wait!
1190
02:00:55,803 --> 02:00:57,794
Quiet.
1191
02:02:47,317 --> 02:02:49,904
But I want you to understand...
1192
02:02:49,926 --> 02:02:52,551
that in making up my mind...
1193
02:02:52,573 --> 02:02:56,157
I did not forget the country...
1194
02:02:56,179 --> 02:02:58,113
or the empire...
1195
02:02:58,135 --> 02:03:01,297
which as prince of Wales...
1196
02:03:01,319 --> 02:03:03,752
and lately as king...
1197
02:03:03,774 --> 02:03:06,514
I have for 25 years...
1198
02:03:06,536 --> 02:03:08,489
tried to serve.
1199
02:03:10,218 --> 02:03:13,534
But you must believe me
when I tell you...
1200
02:03:13,556 --> 02:03:16,641
that I have found it
impossible...
1201
02:03:16,663 --> 02:03:20,286
to carry the heavy burden
of responsibility...
1202
02:03:20,308 --> 02:03:23,662
and to discharge
my duties as king...
1203
02:03:23,684 --> 02:03:26,538
as I would wish to do...
1204
02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:29,262
without the help and support...
1205
02:03:29,284 --> 02:03:32,445
of the woman I love.
1206
02:03:32,467 --> 02:03:36,090
The king went on to say
that the decision was his alone.
1207
02:03:36,112 --> 02:03:38,354
We understand that he is
now crossing the channel...
1208
02:03:38,376 --> 02:03:40,673
on his way to France
in the destroyer Fury.
1209
02:03:41,597 --> 02:03:45,354
Come in.
1210
02:03:50,152 --> 02:03:52,317
Boo, you pretty creature.
1211
02:03:52,339 --> 02:03:55,385
Congratulations, my darling. The nurse
said that you would have a glass of this...
1212
02:03:55,407 --> 02:03:58,147
to celebrate the fact that
you are no longer a bankrupt.
1213
02:03:58,169 --> 02:04:00,603
Mmm. "Thank you
for your kind thoughts,"
1214
02:04:00,625 --> 02:04:02,521
as the corpse
said to the mourners.
1215
02:04:02,543 --> 02:04:04,822
In a few weeks, you'll be bouncing
about all over the place.
1216
02:04:04,844 --> 02:04:07,277
- I've been extremely ill.
- I know that.
1217
02:04:07,299 --> 02:04:10,537
It's the only time I've ever been
quite certain that you weren't acting...
1218
02:04:10,559 --> 02:04:12,628
when you were
totally unconscious.
1219
02:04:14,012 --> 02:04:16,139
Why not take a holiday?
1220
02:04:16,161 --> 02:04:18,880
- What, again?
- Well, the last one was five years ago.
1221
02:04:20,112 --> 02:04:23,658
Nowhere to go.
No one I want to see.
1222
02:04:23,680 --> 02:04:26,189
Charming, thank you.
1223
02:04:26,211 --> 02:04:28,260
Except for you, of course.
1224
02:04:28,282 --> 02:04:30,332
- Except for you, I'm alone.
- Nonsense.
1225
02:04:30,354 --> 02:04:34,129
This hospital is constantly besieged
by throngs of feverish admirers.
1226
02:04:34,151 --> 02:04:36,373
Well, I don't want them.
1227
02:04:38,717 --> 02:04:41,092
What do you want?
1228
02:04:45,046 --> 02:04:48,227
- To be loved, I suppose.
- You are, my darling.
1229
02:04:49,419 --> 02:04:51,967
And to love?
1230
02:04:51,989 --> 02:04:53,981
Oh, I don't know.
1231
02:04:55,634 --> 02:04:57,529
Perhaps I'm just growing old.
1232
02:04:57,551 --> 02:05:00,177
Never. Perhaps
you're just growing up.
1233
02:05:00,199 --> 02:05:02,574
Oh, that sounds frightening.
1234
02:05:08,408 --> 02:05:10,304
That man who said...
1235
02:05:10,326 --> 02:05:13,296
"Don't wish for anything as a kid
because it might come true later."
1236
02:05:13,318 --> 02:05:15,598
- He was wrong.
- Was he?
1237
02:05:15,620 --> 02:05:18,820
Do you suppose the king wished
for what's happened to him?
1238
02:05:18,842 --> 02:05:20,833
Perhaps he just
wished to be happy.
1239
02:05:22,678 --> 02:05:24,669
Yes.
1240
02:05:25,517 --> 02:05:28,850
- Yes.
- Everyone does.
1241
02:05:32,575 --> 02:05:36,714
And as soon as we can get you out of that
bed, you and I are going to help them.
1242
02:05:55,246 --> 02:05:57,238
Wait a minute. This way.
1243
02:07:18,604 --> 02:07:20,288
Go ahead.
1244
02:07:21,328 --> 02:07:23,953
- Hello, hello, hello.
- Hello, hello, hello, yes?
1245
02:07:23,975 --> 02:07:26,484
- Would you tell me something, please?
- What is it?
1246
02:07:26,506 --> 02:07:29,323
- Who walks like this?
- I'm fascinated to know.
1247
02:07:29,345 --> 02:07:31,855
Tell me. Who walks like that?
1248
02:07:31,877 --> 02:07:33,829
I do!
1249
02:08:31,259 --> 02:08:33,156
- Now then.
- Now then what?
1250
02:08:33,178 --> 02:08:35,610
- I suppose you don't know. You mucked up the whole exit.
- It wasn't my fault.
1251
02:08:35,632 --> 02:08:38,909
- Whose fault was it then, Mussolini's?
- Oh, I see. Funny, eh?
1252
02:08:38,931 --> 02:08:42,286
I suppose you didn't drop your prop,
did you? And having dropped it...
1253
02:08:42,308 --> 02:08:44,548
you didn't have to go back for it,
leaving me to prance off by myself.
1254
02:08:44,570 --> 02:08:47,541
- Who do you think you are, a riddler?
- The exit's too quick.
1255
02:08:47,563 --> 02:08:49,459
- It's the same as it's always been.
- It's too quick, I tell you.
1256
02:08:49,481 --> 02:08:51,376
It's been too quick the whole week.
The whole number's too quick.
1257
02:08:51,398 --> 02:08:55,635
- Bentley takes that number to the same tempo he's always done.
- You and your Bert Bentley.
1258
02:08:55,657 --> 02:08:58,857
Just because he sends you a Welsh rarebit
at the queen's, you think he's God almighty.
1259
02:08:58,879 --> 02:09:00,852
Bert Bentley's the best conductor
in the north of England.
1260
02:09:00,874 --> 02:09:03,153
- Don't you make any mistake about it.
- Best conductor, my foot.
1261
02:09:03,175 --> 02:09:06,874
I suppose he thinks it's funny to see us
leapin' up and down like a couple of greyhounds.
1262
02:09:06,896 --> 02:09:08,907
If you're a greyhound,
I'm Fred Astaire.
1263
02:09:08,929 --> 02:09:12,437
You're Fred Astaire, all right,
with a bit of Pavlova thrown in.
1264
02:09:12,459 --> 02:09:15,467
There's nothing you can't do,
except behave like a gentleman.
1265
02:09:15,489 --> 02:09:17,769
So you expect me to behave
like a gentleman, do you?
1266
02:09:17,791 --> 02:09:19,802
- That's a good one, coming from you.
- Oh, shut up.
1267
02:09:19,824 --> 02:09:21,873
- You make me tired.
- I make you tired?
1268
02:09:21,895 --> 02:09:24,635
I suppose it was me that mucked up the
exit, that dropped me bloody telescope.
1269
02:09:24,657 --> 02:09:27,973
- Now, look here, George Pepper.
- Stop George Peppering me.
1270
02:09:27,995 --> 02:09:30,965
Why can't you admit it when you're
in the wrong? You mucked up the exit.
1271
02:09:30,987 --> 02:09:34,226
- Nobody else did. You did.
- Well, what if I did? It was an accident, wasn't it?
1272
02:09:34,248 --> 02:09:38,445
- I didn't do it on purpose.
- Lily, it doesn't matter how or why you did it.
1273
02:09:38,467 --> 02:09:40,363
- You did it!
- All right, I did it!
1274
02:09:40,385 --> 02:09:42,397
Well, don't do it again!
1275
02:09:42,419 --> 02:09:46,059
- Red Peppers, on stage!
- Good God, we're off!
1276
02:09:50,474 --> 02:09:52,503
Oh, wait for me.
Wait for me.
1277
02:09:58,684 --> 02:10:01,538
New York laughed as London had done.
1278
02:10:01,560 --> 02:10:05,720
But here, too, the deeper mood
of the city had changed.
1279
02:10:05,742 --> 02:10:08,788
- Miss Lawrence!
- There she is. All aboard, everybody!
1280
02:10:08,810 --> 02:10:12,087
- Do you have another play coming up?
- Oh, yes, it's very exciting.
1281
02:10:12,109 --> 02:10:14,811
Don't you think this sort of thing
is a bit out-of-date?
1282
02:10:14,833 --> 02:10:16,882
What's dated about enjoying life?
1283
02:10:16,904 --> 02:10:19,299
Surely, taking busloads
of people to Atlantic City...
1284
02:10:19,321 --> 02:10:21,716
belongs to the early '20s
rather than the late '30s.
1285
02:10:21,738 --> 02:10:24,401
Didn't your mother ever tell you
never to refer to a lady's age?
1286
02:10:24,423 --> 02:10:27,202
Excuse me.
1287
02:10:27,224 --> 02:10:29,810
- Would you say I was in the late thirties?
- Definitely not. Early twenties.
1288
02:10:29,832 --> 02:10:35,372
I'm referring to the year, Miss Lawrence,
1937. The world's a pretty serious place.
1289
02:10:35,394 --> 02:10:37,905
Sweetie, you simply
must see my next show.
1290
02:10:37,927 --> 02:10:41,720
Dead straight. Very grim.
Not a song to be heard.
1291
02:10:43,604 --> 02:10:47,149
She didn't need songs.
Susan and God was a triumph.
1292
02:10:47,171 --> 02:10:50,141
It ran for two seasons.
And the people waiting to buy tickets...
1293
02:10:50,163 --> 02:10:53,364
often saw the star
before they saw the show.
1294
02:10:53,386 --> 02:10:56,317
On opening night,
Noël Coward sent her a telegram.
1295
02:10:56,339 --> 02:11:01,381
"Legitimate at last.
Won't mother be pleased?"
1296
02:11:01,403 --> 02:11:03,759
Dorothy! Dorothy!
1297
02:11:03,781 --> 02:11:06,483
- Oh, there you are. Has the call come through yet?
- Not yet, Miss Lawrence.
1298
02:11:06,505 --> 02:11:08,977
I thought I'd missed it.
I just had to pick that up.
1299
02:11:08,999 --> 02:11:12,294
It's for Pamela. It's the most
divine thing. Open it, dear.
1300
02:11:14,637 --> 02:11:18,259
Hello? I booked a call
to London, England for 8:00.
1301
02:11:18,281 --> 02:11:20,963
It's five minutes past,
and I haven't heard a thing.
1302
02:11:24,228 --> 02:11:26,180
I see.
Thank you so much.
1303
02:11:27,373 --> 02:11:29,269
If you booked it, it'll come
through soon as it's ready.
1304
02:11:29,291 --> 02:11:31,609
London, England
ain't New Jersey, honey.
1305
02:11:31,631 --> 02:11:34,870
It'll be hot in Nassau and I don't want
Pamela getting burned. Isn't it divine?
1306
02:11:34,892 --> 02:11:38,092
- It'll certainly keep the sun out of her eyes, Miss Lawrence.
- What if she's out somewhere?
1307
02:11:38,114 --> 02:11:40,855
- It's 1:00 a.m. In England.
- What?
1308
02:11:40,877 --> 02:11:44,632
Oh, God. It'll wake her up.
1309
02:11:45,863 --> 02:11:47,759
Hello?
1310
02:11:47,781 --> 02:11:51,480
Oh, no. I can't, darling.
I'd love to, but I can't.
1311
02:11:51,502 --> 02:11:54,703
Well, it's only 10 days before we go,
and I've got so much to do.
1312
02:11:54,725 --> 02:11:57,464
Oh, but, sweetie, this is my first
evening home since the show closed.
1313
02:11:57,486 --> 02:11:59,919
And Dorothy's preparing
dinner and everything.
1314
02:11:59,941 --> 02:12:02,106
Why can't we do it tomorrow?
1315
02:12:02,128 --> 02:12:03,833
Hello? What?
1316
02:12:03,855 --> 02:12:06,287
No, you'll have to get off the phone.
It's my call to England.
1317
02:12:06,309 --> 02:12:08,244
Get off!
1318
02:12:08,266 --> 02:12:10,162
It's coming through.
1319
02:12:10,184 --> 02:12:12,923
Shh! Shh!
1320
02:12:12,945 --> 02:12:15,532
Hello! Pamela?
1321
02:12:15,554 --> 02:12:20,250
Can you hear me, darling? I can't
hear you very well. That's better.
1322
02:12:20,272 --> 02:12:22,168
Oh, I didn't.
1323
02:12:22,190 --> 02:12:24,432
Oh, angel,
how thoughtless of me.
1324
02:12:24,454 --> 02:12:27,424
I can never understand
how it's day here and night there.
1325
02:12:27,446 --> 02:12:31,183
Never mind. Listen, darling, I just wanted to
make sure you got the tickets and everything.
1326
02:12:31,205 --> 02:12:34,751
Good. The boat leaves South Hampton
at midday on Wednesday.
1327
02:12:34,773 --> 02:12:38,011
Be sure you're there by 10:00.
Bring plenty of summer clothes.
1328
02:12:38,033 --> 02:12:41,579
We'll be away at least six weeks, darling.
We'll buy lots of lovely things there.
1329
02:12:41,601 --> 02:12:45,492
What? Yes, darling, you shall speak,
but let me finish first.
1330
02:12:45,514 --> 02:12:49,520
Now, listen. I'll meet you in New York
on Pier 52 on the 14th. Okay?
1331
02:12:49,542 --> 02:12:51,437
I'm so excited.
I can hardly wait.
1332
02:12:51,459 --> 02:12:53,911
All right. Go ahead.
Your turn.
1333
02:13:01,433 --> 02:13:04,135
Oh, but... but... but...
1334
02:13:04,157 --> 02:13:06,111
Yes, but surely...
1335
02:13:07,494 --> 02:13:10,273
Oh. I see.
1336
02:13:10,295 --> 02:13:12,401
Well, that's that then, isn't it?
1337
02:13:13,287 --> 02:13:15,605
No, darling, of course not.
1338
02:13:15,627 --> 02:13:18,155
Yes, darling,
plenty of other times.
1339
02:13:19,041 --> 02:13:21,782
Oh, Pamela,
of course I understand.
1340
02:13:21,804 --> 02:13:25,751
Yes, darling. Look, I'll call you
in about a week then.
1341
02:13:29,782 --> 02:13:31,908
Yes, let me know
how it all goes.
1342
02:13:31,930 --> 02:13:34,363
All right, darling.
Bye-bye, my love.
1343
02:13:34,385 --> 02:13:37,930
God bless.
I love you. Yes.
1344
02:13:37,952 --> 02:13:40,596
Bye, darling. Bye.
1345
02:13:45,318 --> 02:13:47,654
- Miss Pamela's not coming?
- No, she's not.
1346
02:13:49,768 --> 02:13:51,779
I'm sure she didn't mean to...
1347
02:13:51,801 --> 02:13:54,963
- Please don't be upset, Miss Lawrence.
- I'm not, Dorothy.
1348
02:13:54,985 --> 02:13:57,590
Now, run along,
will you, dear? I'm fine.
1349
02:14:26,210 --> 02:14:28,644
Hello, Noël?
1350
02:14:28,666 --> 02:14:30,657
I've changed my mind.
I'm coming over.
1351
02:14:32,923 --> 02:14:35,183
As soon as I've finished
what I'm doing.
1352
02:14:36,108 --> 02:14:38,368
Mm-hmm.
1353
02:14:46,274 --> 02:14:48,169
- Drink this.
- But I...
1354
02:14:48,191 --> 02:14:50,509
- Drink.
- Wha...
1355
02:14:50,531 --> 02:14:52,734
- Happy birthday, my darling.
- It's not my birthday.
1356
02:14:52,756 --> 02:14:54,921
I know. But you'll be away
playing mother when it is.
1357
02:14:54,943 --> 02:14:57,107
So we decided to
celebrate in advance.
1358
02:14:57,129 --> 02:14:59,025
We?
1359
02:14:59,047 --> 02:15:01,212
- G! Hey, happy birthday!
- Happy birthday, G!
1360
02:15:01,234 --> 02:15:03,647
Surprise, surprise.
1361
02:15:10,633 --> 02:15:14,580
Well, say something, my darling...
even if it's only good-bye.
1362
02:15:15,696 --> 02:15:18,550
- Good-bye.
- G?
1363
02:15:18,572 --> 02:15:20,948
Always the great entrance line.
1364
02:15:26,590 --> 02:15:28,486
I could kill you.
1365
02:15:28,508 --> 02:15:30,404
- Charles.
- Hello, love.
1366
02:15:30,426 --> 02:15:33,282
- Darling. How are you?
- Fine.
1367
02:15:33,304 --> 02:15:36,619
Uh, my wife.
1368
02:15:36,641 --> 02:15:40,455
Oh. You have my unqualified
admiration, Mrs. Fraser.
1369
02:15:40,477 --> 02:15:42,986
I've heard so much
about you, Miss Lawrence.
1370
02:15:43,008 --> 02:15:45,327
And also my deepest sympathy.
1371
02:15:45,349 --> 02:15:47,245
You're tight!
1372
02:15:47,267 --> 02:15:49,546
Hello. I'm furious. Ah!
1373
02:15:49,568 --> 02:15:51,656
Thank you.
1374
02:15:51,678 --> 02:15:53,651
Good to see you again,
Miss Lawrence.
1375
02:15:53,673 --> 02:15:55,588
- Hmm?
- Richard Aldrich.
1376
02:15:56,704 --> 02:15:58,638
Oh, yes.
1377
02:15:58,660 --> 02:16:02,167
Yes. You're a stockbroker,
and we met in Philadelphia.
1378
02:16:02,189 --> 02:16:04,584
I'm a banker,
and we met in London.
1379
02:16:04,606 --> 02:16:08,688
Oh, don't argue.
I can't stand people who argue.
1380
02:16:08,710 --> 02:16:11,105
- Who let him in?
- Alec Woollcott brought him.
1381
02:16:11,127 --> 02:16:13,023
Alec? Where is he? Alec!
1382
02:16:13,045 --> 02:16:15,209
Gertie, you don't look a day older.
1383
02:16:15,231 --> 02:16:17,627
Nor do you, my pet.
1384
02:16:17,649 --> 02:16:19,583
He looks a hundred.
He always has.
1385
02:16:19,605 --> 02:16:22,478
- Angel!
- Ooh, angel.
1386
02:16:23,479 --> 02:16:25,951
- Ten years?
- Is it really?
1387
02:16:25,973 --> 02:16:28,559
- I can't believe it.
- Neither can I.
1388
02:16:28,581 --> 02:16:30,515
Who the hell was that?
1389
02:16:30,537 --> 02:16:33,048
- Oh, Alec!
- A goddess.
1390
02:16:33,070 --> 02:16:35,887
- A rather inebriated one.
- Huh?
1391
02:16:35,909 --> 02:16:37,899
Thank you.
1392
02:16:40,166 --> 02:16:43,347
Dear, married Charles.
1393
02:16:46,227 --> 02:16:48,123
Why didn't you ask Ben too?
1394
02:16:48,145 --> 02:16:50,502
Because dear, married Ben
is on his honeymoon. Now, listen.
1395
02:16:50,524 --> 02:16:52,458
- What?
- Behave yourself.
1396
02:16:52,480 --> 02:16:54,414
I have no intention
of behaving myself.
1397
02:16:54,436 --> 02:16:56,601
You got me here under
false pretenses.
1398
02:16:56,623 --> 02:17:01,222
I happen to be suffering
from a certain emotional strain.
1399
02:17:07,747 --> 02:17:09,739
I wish to be alone.
1400
02:17:11,123 --> 02:17:13,191
Good night, my darlings.
1401
02:17:15,458 --> 02:17:17,487
I'm going home.
1402
02:17:22,287 --> 02:17:24,699
- G.
- God help anyone who tries to stop me.
1403
02:17:25,585 --> 02:17:27,980
Oh. Miss Lawrence.
1404
02:17:28,002 --> 02:17:31,624
I've been wanting to talk to you.
I own the Playhouse Theater on Cape Cod.
1405
02:17:31,646 --> 02:17:34,540
- Mister...
- Aldrich.
1406
02:17:34,562 --> 02:17:38,375
Right. You may, for all I care,
be the presiding genius...
1407
02:17:38,397 --> 02:17:41,118
of Carnegie Hall and Drury Lane.
1408
02:17:42,157 --> 02:17:45,243
You are also,
I now recall, a banker.
1409
02:17:45,265 --> 02:17:48,579
Strong, silent, responsible...
1410
02:17:48,601 --> 02:17:50,958
respectable.
1411
02:17:50,980 --> 02:17:53,796
You therefore have nothing
in common with actresses...
1412
02:17:53,818 --> 02:17:56,290
and I am an actress.
1413
02:17:56,312 --> 02:17:58,822
And furthermore...
1414
02:17:58,844 --> 02:18:01,086
I'm going home.
1415
02:18:01,108 --> 02:18:03,003
Miss Lawrence,
I merely wanted to...
1416
02:18:03,025 --> 02:18:04,921
I know what you wanted,
Mr. Aldrich.
1417
02:18:04,943 --> 02:18:06,724
- You want me to appear at your little Cape Cod playhouse.
- Miss Lawrence...
1418
02:18:06,746 --> 02:18:08,566
- You want me to appear at your little Cape Cod playhouse.
- Miss Lawrence...
1419
02:18:08,588 --> 02:18:12,171
To be fair, I do occasionally
do strictly charitable work...
1420
02:18:12,193 --> 02:18:17,081
but it does not extend to acting in
country barns in... inaccessible places.
1421
02:18:17,103 --> 02:18:19,460
- Miss Lawrence, I assure you...
- No, Mr. Aldrich.
1422
02:18:19,482 --> 02:18:23,450
I assure you.
I assure you absolutely.
1423
02:18:23,472 --> 02:18:27,170
And now I should like
to ask you a civil question.
1424
02:18:27,192 --> 02:18:30,757
What the hell is a bloody banker
doing in the theater anyway?
1425
02:18:34,596 --> 02:18:37,585
I wish you good night,
Mr. Aldrich.
1426
02:18:50,592 --> 02:18:52,661
Hmm. Faultless timing.
1427
02:19:11,269 --> 02:19:13,510
It was a great performance,
my darling.
1428
02:19:13,532 --> 02:19:16,080
I must throw another party
for you instantly.
1429
02:19:16,102 --> 02:19:18,439
Oh, God.
1430
02:19:19,823 --> 02:19:22,755
How many did I actually insult?
1431
02:19:22,777 --> 02:19:25,651
Well, nature intervened
before the war became total.
1432
02:19:28,799 --> 02:19:31,750
Come in.
1433
02:19:34,937 --> 02:19:39,672
- Surprise, surprise.
- I, uh, waited.
1434
02:19:39,694 --> 02:19:43,641
Come in. Come in.
I'll fix you a drink.
1435
02:19:51,854 --> 02:19:54,383
How do you feel, Miss Lawrence?
1436
02:19:55,576 --> 02:19:59,408
- Bloody.
- I stayed so that I could escort you home.
1437
02:20:00,639 --> 02:20:02,630
Hmm?
1438
02:20:03,670 --> 02:20:05,623
Oh.
1439
02:20:06,661 --> 02:20:08,998
Thank you, but I can
manage by myself.
1440
02:20:09,922 --> 02:20:13,027
Hmm. I don't think
you should drive.
1441
02:20:14,986 --> 02:20:16,939
Then I'll get a taxi.
1442
02:20:17,940 --> 02:20:20,680
- Difficult at this hour.
- Tsk.
1443
02:20:20,702 --> 02:20:24,189
Then I'll walk.
1444
02:20:27,300 --> 02:20:29,521
That is a quite
ridiculous suggestion.
1445
02:20:32,900 --> 02:20:34,988
Mr. Aldrich...
1446
02:20:35,010 --> 02:20:38,901
if I was rude to you before,
I do apologize...
1447
02:20:38,923 --> 02:20:42,584
but if you don't shut up this instant,
I shall be even ruder.
1448
02:20:42,606 --> 02:20:45,268
Please, go away.
1449
02:20:45,290 --> 02:20:47,954
Certainly. But first
I'd like to make it clear...
1450
02:20:47,976 --> 02:20:51,138
that I had no intention of asking you
to appear at my theater.
1451
02:20:51,160 --> 02:20:53,248
I simply couldn't afford you.
1452
02:20:53,270 --> 02:20:55,204
Then why did you mention
the damn place?
1453
02:20:55,226 --> 02:20:58,043
I just wanted to ask your advice
about a play we're doing.
1454
02:20:58,065 --> 02:21:00,153
It's called Skylark.
1455
02:21:00,175 --> 02:21:02,856
I'm not interested
in your amateur theatricals.
1456
02:21:04,279 --> 02:21:06,751
I should also like to, uh...
1457
02:21:06,773 --> 02:21:09,032
apologize for upsetting you.
1458
02:21:10,532 --> 02:21:12,812
You didn't.
1459
02:21:12,834 --> 02:21:16,110
Clearly, Miss Lawrence,
for one reason or another, I did.
1460
02:21:16,132 --> 02:21:19,467
Perhaps it's simply because I made the
mistake of talking about myself first.
1461
02:21:23,498 --> 02:21:26,698
- What do you mean?
- That you're a star.
1462
02:21:26,720 --> 02:21:29,346
- You expect to be treated as one.
- Oh.
1463
02:21:29,368 --> 02:21:31,263
Mr. Aldrich...
1464
02:21:31,285 --> 02:21:33,258
that kind of remark
went out with Irving.
1465
02:21:33,280 --> 02:21:37,018
I think it does still apply to someone
as unsure of herself as you are.
1466
02:21:37,040 --> 02:21:40,431
Oh, I love playing truth games,
but only with my friends.
1467
02:21:40,453 --> 02:21:44,843
On the contrary, Miss Lawrence, I think
the truth would absolutely terrify you.
1468
02:21:44,865 --> 02:21:47,183
That's enough! Who are you
to talk to me like this?
1469
02:21:47,205 --> 02:21:49,676
Oddly enough, someone
who both admires and respects you.
1470
02:21:49,698 --> 02:21:51,690
Get out!
1471
02:21:55,797 --> 02:21:58,806
You know, I should like
to have driven you home.
1472
02:21:58,828 --> 02:22:00,782
I hate seeing anyone...
1473
02:22:01,898 --> 02:22:05,404
I hate, uh, leaving anyone
so completely alone.
1474
02:22:05,426 --> 02:22:06,727
Get out!
1475
02:22:14,173 --> 02:22:17,162
I wish you good night,
Miss Lawrence.
1476
02:22:27,061 --> 02:22:29,053
Noël!
1477
02:22:49,426 --> 02:22:52,550
Completely alone, huh?
1478
02:22:52,572 --> 02:22:54,908
Good morning, Miss Lawrence.
1479
02:22:56,906 --> 02:22:58,936
Miss Lawrence.
1480
02:23:04,732 --> 02:23:08,028
He is absolutely
and utterly impossible.
1481
02:23:13,670 --> 02:23:17,024
Whereas I am completely
reasonable and logical.
1482
02:23:17,046 --> 02:23:18,577
Miss Lawrence.
1483
02:23:20,613 --> 02:23:22,509
Upset me indeed.
1484
02:23:22,531 --> 02:23:24,945
- Poppycock!
- Of course.
1485
02:23:33,618 --> 02:23:37,412
I am not unsure of myself.
I know exactly what I want.
1486
02:23:39,909 --> 02:23:42,629
How do I get to Cape Cod?
1487
02:24:01,275 --> 02:24:04,745
In reply to your letter
of the 16th...
1488
02:24:04,767 --> 02:24:08,810
I certainly do want to invest
in the London production.
1489
02:24:08,832 --> 02:24:11,496
The political situation
may look bad...
1490
02:24:11,518 --> 02:24:14,143
but England isn't going to
stop being England just because...
1491
02:24:14,165 --> 02:24:16,463
Bravo.
God save the king.
1492
02:24:18,001 --> 02:24:20,434
Well, Miss Lawrence.
1493
02:24:20,456 --> 02:24:22,352
This is a most
unexpected pleasure.
1494
02:24:22,374 --> 02:24:24,845
I never did play Britannia,
but I could always have a go.
1495
02:24:24,867 --> 02:24:28,221
Sorry if that sounded pompous, but it
looks like there's gonna be a war in Europe.
1496
02:24:28,243 --> 02:24:32,479
- Oh, don't.
- Well, what can I do for you?
1497
02:24:32,501 --> 02:24:35,356
I don't know really.
I'd like to see your theater.
1498
02:24:35,378 --> 02:24:38,233
Of course.
If you don't mind waiting.
1499
02:24:38,255 --> 02:24:40,190
- Waiting?
- I shouldn't be more than 15 minutes.
1500
02:24:40,212 --> 02:24:42,932
- Yes, but I came...
- This is the most comfortable chair.
1501
02:24:44,892 --> 02:24:46,672
Oh!
1502
02:24:46,694 --> 02:24:49,895
September, 1939...
1503
02:24:49,917 --> 02:24:52,466
the start of World War II.
1504
02:24:52,488 --> 02:24:56,186
Gertrude Lawrence longed to return
to her own country at once...
1505
02:24:56,208 --> 02:24:59,447
but previously-agreed-to commitments
prevented her from doing so.
1506
02:24:59,469 --> 02:25:01,767
But not from rallying
to the cause of freedom.
1507
02:25:02,959 --> 02:25:06,544
You're a very generous lady, madam.
Thank you so much.
1508
02:25:06,566 --> 02:25:08,462
- Good heavens. A suitcase.
- How very kind.
1509
02:25:08,484 --> 02:25:10,878
- Rather good generosity. Thank you so much.
- I waited!
1510
02:25:10,900 --> 02:25:14,101
- I actually sat down and waited for him!
- Fantastic.
1511
02:25:14,123 --> 02:25:16,977
- Mr. Coward, such a pleasure.
- Thank you so much, madam.
1512
02:25:16,999 --> 02:25:18,895
- We're very grateful.
- I must be mad.
1513
02:25:18,917 --> 02:25:21,888
- Of course.
- I'd already ran after him all the way to Cape Cod.
1514
02:25:21,910 --> 02:25:23,806
- Incredible.
- Do answer me properly.
1515
02:25:23,828 --> 02:25:26,644
You haven't asked me any questions yet.
Thank you so much, madam.
1516
02:25:26,666 --> 02:25:28,831
We're very, very grateful.
Thank you.
1517
02:25:28,853 --> 02:25:32,321
I said I'd do a play for him before
I start rehearsing Lady in the Dark.
1518
02:25:32,343 --> 02:25:35,544
- It's called Skylark.
- Hmm. Highly descriptive. How did he manage to lure you?
1519
02:25:35,566 --> 02:25:39,112
Oh, he didn't. I, uh...
I suggested it myself.
1520
02:25:39,134 --> 02:25:41,260
God help him.
1521
02:25:41,282 --> 02:25:44,252
Oh, damn it.
I don't know what to do.
1522
02:25:44,274 --> 02:25:46,938
I think you better go into the theater
at once, Mr. Aldrich.
1523
02:25:46,960 --> 02:25:48,855
- Is it, uh...
- Yes.
1524
02:25:48,877 --> 02:25:50,850
- That's the whole trouble.
- Miss Lawrence.
1525
02:25:50,872 --> 02:25:52,768
Stop saying my name
like a parrot.
1526
02:25:52,790 --> 02:25:54,687
- If you'd just listen.
- You listen to me.
1527
02:25:54,709 --> 02:25:56,757
I'm trying to tell this man
I'm gonna leave him.
1528
02:25:56,779 --> 02:25:59,213
How can I say that when he
insists on treating me...
1529
02:25:59,235 --> 02:26:02,129
like a cross between a Dresden
shepherdess and a vestal virgin?
1530
02:26:02,151 --> 02:26:05,811
- We seem to have a slight area of confusion.
- You're damn right we have!
1531
02:26:05,833 --> 02:26:07,729
Mr. Aldrich,
I appeal to you.
1532
02:26:07,751 --> 02:26:11,833
We are married. I am determined to
leave you. You are determined to stop me.
1533
02:26:11,855 --> 02:26:14,941
- What would you do?
- As I'm not directing the play...
1534
02:26:14,963 --> 02:26:16,859
Miss Lawrence, I can't help you.
1535
02:26:16,881 --> 02:26:20,349
I am going out of that door...
out of your life forever.
1536
02:26:20,371 --> 02:26:22,862
I am leaving you,
and I'm leaving now.
1537
02:26:34,067 --> 02:26:37,573
See what I mean? I'd simply have to
stay with a man like that, wouldn't I?
1538
02:26:37,595 --> 02:26:39,952
I suggest you get on
with the rehearsal...
1539
02:26:39,974 --> 02:26:43,346
and stop wasting everyone's time
with cheap jokes, Miss Lawrence.
1540
02:26:48,413 --> 02:26:50,442
You bastard.
1541
02:26:54,474 --> 02:26:56,831
I have never been so
insulted in my whole life!
1542
02:26:56,853 --> 02:27:00,590
- Never, never, never!
- Stop overacting, calm down and tell me all about it.
1543
02:27:00,612 --> 02:27:02,508
Anybody else would have laughed!
1544
02:27:02,530 --> 02:27:05,308
He's got no sense of humor,
and, what's worse, he's a coward.
1545
02:27:05,330 --> 02:27:07,303
He's left me alone
in this damn cottage...
1546
02:27:07,325 --> 02:27:09,336
and hasn't dared
come near the place.
1547
02:27:09,358 --> 02:27:13,018
He's a stuffed shirt. He's rude,
overbearing, pompous... completely impossible.
1548
02:27:13,040 --> 02:27:15,819
I can't wait to finish this damn play
and get out of here.
1549
02:27:15,841 --> 02:27:18,082
I think my dinner's arrived.
1550
02:27:18,104 --> 02:27:22,550
They send it over on a tray. It's
like feeding animals at a bloody zoo.
1551
02:27:24,549 --> 02:27:27,174
I wondered if you'd care
to have dinner with me.
1552
02:27:27,196 --> 02:27:29,513
Frankly, I'd rather starve.
1553
02:27:29,535 --> 02:27:31,432
- Miss Lawrence...
- My name is Gertrude.
1554
02:27:31,454 --> 02:27:34,041
It's a good, common,
straightforward one, like my jokes.
1555
02:27:34,063 --> 02:27:36,879
- With regard to what happened...
- Oh, do stop talking like a contract.
1556
02:27:36,901 --> 02:27:39,411
- It's not that I'm afraid of being laughed at.
- Mr. Aldrich...
1557
02:27:39,433 --> 02:27:42,902
there is nothing you could say or do at
this moment which would make me laugh.
1558
02:27:42,924 --> 02:27:46,776
- Marry me.
- What?
1559
02:27:46,798 --> 02:27:48,981
I mean it.
I want you to marry me.
1560
02:27:54,700 --> 02:27:58,285
Through the gales of hysterical
laughter, did I hear him propose to you?
1561
02:27:58,307 --> 02:28:00,240
Yes.
1562
02:28:00,262 --> 02:28:02,159
Then he's certainly
not a coward.
1563
02:28:02,181 --> 02:28:05,305
Either he's the bravest man born, or
he has the most superb sense of humor.
1564
02:28:05,327 --> 02:28:07,223
For his sake, I hope it's both.
1565
02:28:07,245 --> 02:28:11,998
And what's more, I shall be leaving one
minute after the curtain falls on Saturday!
1566
02:28:24,238 --> 02:28:26,288
Miss Lawrence, right this way, please.
Thank you.
1567
02:28:26,310 --> 02:28:29,280
- Is it true you're having trouble with the show?
- How about that cartoon?
1568
02:28:29,302 --> 02:28:32,041
- Does it worry you?
- It's a long time since you've done a musical.
1569
02:28:32,063 --> 02:28:34,036
- Are you scared?
- I'm shaking all over.
1570
02:28:34,058 --> 02:28:37,067
- What's your idea of a perfect wedding?
- A perfect man, dear.
1571
02:28:37,089 --> 02:28:39,291
- Have you found him?
- If I had, my lamb...
1572
02:28:39,313 --> 02:28:43,435
I'd be doing something far more interesting
than slaving my head off at places like this.
1573
02:28:43,457 --> 02:28:45,468
Good-bye, darlings.
I've gotta go back to work.
1574
02:28:45,490 --> 02:28:48,095
- That's all, fellas.
- All right. Break it up.
1575
02:28:50,093 --> 02:28:52,527
- Gertrude.
- What are you doing here?
1576
02:28:52,549 --> 02:28:54,444
I must talk to you.
1577
02:28:54,466 --> 02:28:57,014
This is a theater... a real theater.
It's where I work.
1578
02:28:57,036 --> 02:28:59,258
That can wait.
1579
02:29:03,442 --> 02:29:06,048
It can't, Richard.
I'm sorry, but it can't.
1580
02:29:09,695 --> 02:29:13,356
It never could wait.
That's always been the trouble.
1581
02:29:13,378 --> 02:29:16,828
For a moment there I thought
you'd broken the pattern. Pity.
1582
02:29:17,789 --> 02:29:19,762
"My Ship"?
1583
02:29:19,784 --> 02:29:21,987
Okay. Let's
take that one first.
1584
02:29:22,009 --> 02:29:24,385
- From the top, Jack. Okay?
- Righto.
1585
02:29:47,213 --> 02:29:50,162
Okay.
1586
02:32:01,321 --> 02:32:03,294
That's fine, darling.
That's just fine.
1587
02:32:03,316 --> 02:32:05,538
Let's try "Jenny," please.
1588
02:32:06,846 --> 02:32:10,160
I'd rather not.
Haven't we done enough for one day?
1589
02:32:10,182 --> 02:32:14,437
We should do it just once more.
Let's get right to the chorus, okay?
1590
02:32:16,703 --> 02:32:19,040
All right. Okay.
1591
02:32:22,535 --> 02:32:26,444
Those of us who wish to live in peace
should now leave.
1592
02:32:51,689 --> 02:32:53,719
Oh, God.
1593
02:32:56,599 --> 02:32:59,109
It's no good. The lyrics are terrible.
The music's lousy...
1594
02:32:59,131 --> 02:33:01,833
the production's hopeless,
and that swing's a bloody abomination.
1595
02:33:01,855 --> 02:33:03,807
- G., please.
- Go to hell.
1596
02:33:05,153 --> 02:33:07,548
Noël. Noël,
you've gotta help me.
1597
02:33:07,570 --> 02:33:09,543
- Gertrude.
- I can't do it.
1598
02:33:09,565 --> 02:33:12,113
- Gertrude.
- I just can't do it.
1599
02:33:12,135 --> 02:33:14,031
Stop it!
1600
02:33:14,053 --> 02:33:17,331
- Stop acting.
- What?
1601
02:33:17,353 --> 02:33:19,343
Stop acting.
1602
02:33:21,150 --> 02:33:23,698
I'm sorry, Richard.
I... I'm just so...
1603
02:33:23,720 --> 02:33:26,094
- Frightened.
- Yes.
1604
02:33:27,402 --> 02:33:30,450
- We're all going out to dinner.
- I don't want to go to dinner.
1605
02:33:30,472 --> 02:33:32,368
- Come along.
- I want to go home.
1606
02:33:32,390 --> 02:33:35,858
You don't begin to understand. I've
got to do "Jenny," and I don't know how.
1607
02:33:35,880 --> 02:33:37,776
- Noël, tell him.
- Get in.
1608
02:33:37,798 --> 02:33:40,577
- I refuse.
- You'll do exactly as I tell you. Get in.
1609
02:33:40,599 --> 02:33:43,031
- Admirable.
- This isn't your miserable Cape Cod, you know.
1610
02:33:43,053 --> 02:33:45,083
- It's Broadway.
- Shut up, Gertie. Get in.
1611
02:33:47,427 --> 02:33:50,128
You don't understand.
None of you understands.
1612
02:33:50,150 --> 02:33:53,543
Is this a mystery tour,
or may one inquire one's destination?
1613
02:33:53,565 --> 02:33:57,033
- The Cotton Club.
- Oh, my God. He's insane.
1614
02:33:57,055 --> 02:34:00,831
- This is ridiculous.
- It's a complete waste of time.
1615
02:34:00,853 --> 02:34:03,056
What on earth are we doing here?
1616
02:34:03,078 --> 02:34:05,933
I should be working
on that damn song.
1617
02:34:05,955 --> 02:34:07,851
Noël, why don't you
say something?
1618
02:34:07,873 --> 02:34:09,961
You haven't drawn breath,
my sweet.
1619
02:34:09,983 --> 02:34:13,567
I know you're trying to take
my mind off it, but it's no use.
1620
02:34:13,589 --> 02:34:16,866
It won't work.
1621
02:34:16,888 --> 02:34:20,817
Oh, you don't begin to understand.
Neither of you understands.
1622
02:34:20,839 --> 02:34:24,116
I'm the one that's gotta be
up on that stage... me.
1623
02:34:24,138 --> 02:34:26,725
I've gotta face an audience
and sing a song...
1624
02:34:26,747 --> 02:34:30,080
and I just
don't know... how.
1625
02:34:41,477 --> 02:34:43,546
You're a very clever man.
1626
02:34:52,026 --> 02:34:55,053
Oh, you bastard.
1627
02:34:57,090 --> 02:34:59,369
The opening night of
Lady in the Dark...
1628
02:34:59,391 --> 02:35:02,285
Gertrude Lawrence's return
to the musical theater.
1629
02:35:02,307 --> 02:35:05,968
The show got off to a great start, but the
big question mark was the dream sequence.
1630
02:35:05,990 --> 02:35:09,305
There had been rumors
of difficulties and trouble.
1631
02:35:09,327 --> 02:35:11,395
No one knew what to expect.
1632
02:35:13,969 --> 02:35:18,530
Can you give us any reason
why you refuse to make up your mind?
1633
02:35:19,493 --> 02:35:21,484
Yes, I can.
1634
02:37:23,589 --> 02:37:25,850
C'est magnifique!
1635
02:37:29,650 --> 02:37:31,795
Qué bonita!
1636
02:41:35,350 --> 02:41:38,090
That night this audience,
like so many before them...
1637
02:41:38,112 --> 02:41:41,505
and so many still to come,
witnessed a theatrical miracle.
1638
02:41:41,527 --> 02:41:44,016
They saw
Gertrude Lawrence... star.
1639
02:41:44,902 --> 02:41:46,722
A few days later...
1640
02:41:46,744 --> 02:41:48,717
at a quiet private ceremony
at Cape Cod...
1641
02:41:48,739 --> 02:41:50,902
she married Richard Aldrich...
1642
02:41:50,924 --> 02:41:53,665
and Noël Coward
sent one more telegram.
1643
02:41:53,687 --> 02:41:56,197
'Dear Mrs. A., Hooray, hooray.
1644
02:41:56,219 --> 02:41:58,115
"At last you are deflowered.
1645
02:41:58,137 --> 02:42:00,608
'On this, as every other day,
I love you.
1646
02:42:00,630 --> 02:42:02,660
Noël Coward. '
1647
02:42:13,290 --> 02:42:15,185
Well?
1648
02:42:15,207 --> 02:42:18,561
- The telegram was true.
- Is that all?
1649
02:42:18,583 --> 02:42:22,665
Whatever else I've said, forget it.
Don't change a thing.
1650
02:42:22,687 --> 02:42:25,024
Leave it just the way it is.
1651
02:42:25,987 --> 02:42:27,978
Just the way it was.
1652
02:42:41,484 --> 02:42:43,706
Whoo.
1653
02:42:51,305 --> 02:42:53,200
Richard.
1654
02:42:53,222 --> 02:42:55,119
- Yeah?
- I shouldn't have done it.
1655
02:42:55,141 --> 02:42:57,170
- What?
- Married you.
1656
02:42:58,402 --> 02:43:01,064
Don't worry. Divorce is
quite simple in America.
1657
02:43:01,086 --> 02:43:03,116
Oh, cripes.
1658
02:43:09,411 --> 02:43:13,627
- You don't mean that, do you... about divorce?
- I mean everything I say.
1659
02:43:15,434 --> 02:43:18,443
Well, I don't.
I just think I do at the time.
1660
02:43:19,308 --> 02:43:21,261
Good.
1661
02:43:24,755 --> 02:43:28,741
- Your trouble is you've got no sense of...
- Humor?
1662
02:43:30,318 --> 02:43:32,845
Worse.
No sense of occasion.
1663
02:43:36,302 --> 02:43:39,157
You should know that
when a lady's just been married...
1664
02:43:39,179 --> 02:43:42,743
she's in a highly emotional state
and treat her accordingly.
1665
02:43:43,744 --> 02:43:46,042
- "Accordingly"?
- Yes.
1666
02:43:59,433 --> 02:44:02,748
Don't imagine you can
get round me by just being nice.
1667
02:44:02,770 --> 02:44:05,472
I may not be as clever as you...
1668
02:44:05,494 --> 02:44:07,659
but I haven't been
an actress for nothing.
1669
02:44:07,681 --> 02:44:11,840
I know an awful lot more about life
and men than most people.
1670
02:44:11,862 --> 02:44:14,295
And I know the only things
that matter are...
1671
02:44:14,317 --> 02:44:16,904
understanding and happiness...
1672
02:44:16,926 --> 02:44:20,413
and being absolutely genuine
all the bloody time!
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