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Lux Radio Theatre - "Rebecca" (Old Time Radio, 1941) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: On February 3rd, 1941, Lux Radio Theater brought its 293
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Speaker 1: episode to CBS with Rebecca. Adapted from the 1940 Selznick
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Speaker 1: International Pictures film, itself drawn from Daphne du Maurier's novel,
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Speaker 1: it stars Ronald Coleman as Maxime de Winter, Ida Lupino
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Speaker 1: as the second Mrs. de Winter, and Judith Anderson as Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Danvers.
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Speaker 1: A shy young bride arrives at Manderley, the De Winter
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Speaker 1: family's seaside estate in England, where the memory of Maxim's
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Speaker 1: first wife remains close at hand. Philip MacDonald, George Wells,
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Speaker 1: and Michael Hogan prepared the radio adaptation, with Sanford Barnett directing. Now,
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Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 3: Rebecca was a best-selling novel before it made its great
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Speaker 3: screen success.
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Speaker 4: And tonight... It's.
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Speaker 3: the result. And we don't need three guesses what it's
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Speaker 3: going to be. Now the curtain rises on a great
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Speaker 3: love story. the strange drama of Rebecca. The scene of
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Speaker 3: this drama is Mandalay, the great stone manor house high
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Speaker 3: on a cliff above the restless sea. You'll hear Ronald
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Speaker 3: Coleman as Maxim de Winter, Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers,
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Speaker 3: and Ida Lupino as the woman whose name we do
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Speaker 3: not know.
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Speaker 6: Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It
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Speaker 6: seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading
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Speaker 6: to the drive. But for a while I could not enter,
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Speaker 6: for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers,
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Speaker 6: I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers. and
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Speaker 6: passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The
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Speaker 6: drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning.
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Speaker 6: And finally, there was Manderley. Manderley, secretive and silent. Time
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Speaker 6: could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls, but
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Speaker 6: I knew I looked upon a desolate, empty shell. We
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Speaker 6: can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain...
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Speaker 6: But sometimes, in my dreams, I do go back to
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Speaker 6: the strange days of my life which began for me
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Speaker 6: in the south of France. There, on a great cliff,
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Speaker 6: towering above the sea, I first saw him. He was
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Speaker 6: looking down, staring at the rocks below. And then, suddenly,
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Speaker 6: I thought I saw him.
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Speaker 7: No!
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Speaker 8: No, no, stop!
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Speaker 4: Stop!
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Speaker 2: What the devil are you shouting about? Who are you?
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Speaker 2: What are you staring at?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to stare, but
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Speaker 6: you were so close to the edge of the cliff.
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Speaker 7: I was afraid that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you were. Well, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 6: Well, I was only walking. I came up the path and.
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Speaker 2: Well, get on with your walking. Don't hang about here screaming.
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Speaker 2: Go on.
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Speaker 5: I shall never come to Monte Carlo out of season again.
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Speaker 5: Not a single well-known personality in the hotel.
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Speaker 7: Ah, this coffee is stone cold.
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Speaker 2: Waiter!
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Speaker 8: Garcon!
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Speaker 6: I don't believe he heard.
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Speaker 2: You, Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Van Hocker. Well, get him, get him!
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Speaker 8: What are you being paid for, girl?
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Speaker 6: You... Why, it's Max de Winter, see him?
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Speaker 8: Coming this way.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 7: What are you looking surprised about?
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Speaker 6: Why, I saw him today on the cliff path.
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Speaker 2: Mr. De Winter, how do you do?
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Speaker 4: How do you do?
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Speaker 6: I'm Edith Van Hopper.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember me? Oh, yes. It's so nice to
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Speaker 2: run into you here.
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Speaker 8: Do sit down and have some coffee.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 8: De Winter is having coffee with me.
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Speaker 7: You may go.
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Speaker 6: Of course, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Van Hopper. I'm afraid I must contradict you. You shall
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Speaker 2: both have coffee with me. Garçon, coffee, please.
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Speaker 4: Oui, monsieur.
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Speaker 5: You know, I recognized you just as soon as you
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Speaker 5: came in. Are you playing the tables much here at Monte?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm afraid that sort of thing ceased to amuse
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Speaker 2: me years ago.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I can well understand that. If I had a
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Speaker 5: home like Manderley, I should certainly never come to Monte.
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Speaker 5: I hear it's one of the biggest places in that
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Speaker 5: part of the country, and that you just can't beat
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Speaker 5: it for beauty.
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Speaker 2: And what do you think of Monte Carlo? Or don't
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Speaker 2: you think of it at all?
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Speaker 4: Well, I.
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Speaker 6: I think it's rather artificial.
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Speaker 7: She's spoiled, Mr.
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Speaker 2: De Winter.
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Speaker 5: That's her trouble. Most girls would give their eyes for
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Speaker 5: a chance to see Monty.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't that rather defeat the purpose?
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Speaker 5: Well, now that we've found each other again, I hope
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Speaker 5: I shall.
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Speaker 7: Be seeing something of you. Your valet has unpacked for you.
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Speaker 2: I suppose. I'm afraid I don't possess one. Perhaps you'd
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Speaker 2: like to do it for me.
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Speaker 5: Well, this young lady might make herself useful. She's a
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Speaker 5: capable child in many ways, aren't.
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Speaker 2: You, dear?
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Speaker 9: Oh, Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Van Hooker.
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Speaker 2: That's a charming suggestion, but I'm afraid I cling to
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Speaker 2: the old motto, he travels fast as who travels alone.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps you've not heard of it. Good night.
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Speaker 7: Well, what do you make of that?
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Speaker 5: Do you suppose that sudden departure was intended to be funny?
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Speaker 2: Oh, perhaps he didn't.
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Speaker 7: Quite realize how it looked. Poor thing.
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Speaker 5: I suppose he just can't get over his wife's death.
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Speaker 7: They say he simply adored her.
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Speaker 6: When I came alone to the dining room the following day,
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Speaker 6: he was already there at the next table. As I
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Speaker 6: sat down, I paid the penalty of my awkwardness. I
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Speaker 6: knocked over a vase of flowers, the water soaking the cloth.
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Speaker 4: Mademoiselle.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so sorry. What a stupid thing to do.
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Speaker 2: You may leave that waiter. Go and lay another place
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Speaker 2: at my table. Mademoiselle will have lunch with me. Oui, monsieur.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, I couldn't possibly.
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Speaker 2: Why not?
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Speaker 6: Oh, please, don't be polite. It's very kind of you, but.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't being polite. I should have asked you to
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Speaker 2: lunch with me, even if you hadn't been so clumsy.
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Speaker 2: Sit down. We needn't talk to each other if we
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Speaker 2: don't feel like it.
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Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: What's happened to your friend?
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Speaker 6: Why, she's ill in bed with a cold. Ah.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I was rude to you yesterday. The only
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Speaker 2: excuse I can offer is that I've become boorish through
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Speaker 2: living alone.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but you weren't really.
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Speaker 2: You.
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Speaker 6: Why, you just wanted to be by yourself.
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Speaker 2: Tell me, is Mrs. Van Hopper a friend of yours
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Speaker 2: or just a relation?
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Speaker 6: No, she's my employer. I'm what is known as a
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Speaker 6: paid companion.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that companionship could be bought. Is that
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Speaker 2: a sketching pad? Do you sketch?
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Speaker 6: Yes, I do a little.
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Speaker 2: Were you going sketching this afternoon?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Where?
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Speaker 6: Well, I hadn't made up my mind.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll drive you somewhere in the car.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no. No, please. I didn't mean that.
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Speaker 2: Nonsense, nonsense. Order your lunch and we'll get along. Well,
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Speaker 2: you've taken long enough with that sketch. I'll expect a
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Speaker 2: really fine work of art.
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Speaker 6: Well, you're not a.
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Speaker 7: Very easy subject.
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Speaker 6: Your expression keeps changing all the time.
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Speaker 2: Does it? Well, I'd concentrate on the view instead if
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Speaker 2: I were you. It's much more worthwhile. Rather reminds me
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Speaker 2: of our coastline at home. Do you know Cornwall at all?
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Yes, I went there once on a holiday.
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Speaker 6: I remember. I was in a shop there and I
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Speaker 6: saw a postcard with a beautiful house on it right
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Speaker 6: by the sea... I asked whose house it was, and
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Speaker 6: the old lady said, why, that's Manderley.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Manderley is beautiful, but to me it's just the
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Speaker 2: place where I was born and have lived in all
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Speaker 2: my life. Now, I don't suppose I shall ever see
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Speaker 2: it again.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, we're lucky not to be home during the
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Speaker 6: bad weather, aren't we? You know, I can't ever remember
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Speaker 6: enjoying swimming at home until June, can you? No. But
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Speaker 6: the water's so warm here, I could stay in all day.
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Speaker 6: But do you know, there's a dangerous undertow. And there
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Speaker 6: was a man drowned here last year. But I never
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Speaker 6: have any fear of drowning, have you?
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Speaker 2: Why did you say that?
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Speaker 6: Well, have I said something wrong? Oh, I didn't mean to.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well, come along. I'll take you home.
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Speaker 7: That night, I learned the.
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Speaker 6: Reason for his strangeness. Coming home late, I opened the door.
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Speaker 6: I heard Mrs. Van Hopper talking to the nurse.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I knew him quite well.
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Speaker 7: I knew his wife, too.
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Speaker 5: She was the beautiful Rebecca Hildreth, you know, the most
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Speaker 5: glamorous creature in all England. She was brown, poor thing,
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Speaker 5: while she was sailing near Manderley.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm glad it can't happen twice. That fever of
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Speaker 6: first love. I've forgotten much of Monte Carlo, of those
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Speaker 6: morning drives with him, of where we went and what
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Speaker 6: we said. But I've not forgotten how I trembled as
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Speaker 6: I sat beside him.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 6: I do wish there could be an invention that bottled
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Speaker 6: up the memory like perfume. And then whenever I wanted to,
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Speaker 6: I could just uncork the bottle and live the memory
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Speaker 6: all over again.
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Speaker 2: And what particular moment in your young life would you
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Speaker 2: want to keep?
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Speaker 7: Oh, all of them.
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Speaker 6: All of these last few days.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, those little bottles contain demons that have
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Speaker 2: a way of popping out at you, just as you're
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Speaker 2: trying most desperately to forget.
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Speaker 6: Yes, of course.
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Speaker 2: And stop biting your nails.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't know I was.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 6: De Winter, would you please tell me why you asked
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Speaker 6: me to come out with you? Oh, it's obvious that
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Speaker 6: you want to be kind, but why do you choose
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Speaker 6: me for your charity?
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Speaker 2: I asked you to come out with him because I
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Speaker 2: wanted your company. You've blotted out the past for me
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Speaker 2: more than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But
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Speaker 2: if you think I asked you out of kindness or charity,
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Speaker 2: you can leave the car now and find your own
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Speaker 2: way home. Go on. Open the door and get out.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 2: Take my handkerchief. You'd better blow your nose.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker 4: De Winter.
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Speaker 2: And please, don't call me Mr. De Winter. I have
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Speaker 2: a very impressive array of first names. George, Fortescue, Maximilian.
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Speaker 2: But you needn't bother with them all at once. My
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Speaker 2: family call me Maxim. Come in. Well, hello. And what
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Speaker 2: are you doing here? Anything the matter?
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Speaker 6: I've come to say goodbye, Maxim. We're going away.
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Speaker 2: Oh, where's she taking you to?
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Speaker 8: New York.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't want to go. I shall hate it.
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Speaker 6: I shall be miserable.
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Speaker 2: Do you mind if I finish shaving? I shan't be long.
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Speaker 6: But I can't stay.
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Speaker 2: Tell me something. Which would you prefer, New York or Manderley?
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Speaker 6: Oh, please don't joke about it.
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Speaker 8: Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Van Hopper's waiting. So I'd better say goodbye now.
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Speaker 2: I'll repeat what I said. Either you go to America
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Speaker 2: with Mrs. Van Hopper, or you come home to Manderley
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 6: You mean you want a secretary or something?
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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
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Speaker 6: Marry you?
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Speaker 2: Well, my suggestion doesn't seem to have gone at all well.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but you don't understand. It's that I... Well, I'm
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Speaker 6: just not the sort of person men marry.
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Speaker 2: What on earth do you mean?
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't belong in your sort of world, for
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Speaker 6: one thing.
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Speaker 2: What is my sort of world?
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Speaker 7: Well, Manderley.
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Speaker 6: Oh, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm the best judge of whether you belong there
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Speaker 2: or not. Of course, if you don't love me, that's
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Speaker 2: a different thing. A fine blow to my conceit, that's all.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but I do love you. I love you most dreadfully.
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Speaker 6: I've been crying all morning because I thought I'd never
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Speaker 6: see you again.
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Speaker 2: Bless you for that. I'll remind you of this one day,
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Speaker 2: and you won't believe me. It's a pity you have
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Speaker 2: to grow up.
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Speaker 6: I was afraid to tell Mrs. Van Hopper, for I
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Speaker 6: knew what she would say. When we were alone, she
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Speaker 6: congratulated me. But I didn't like her smile.
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Speaker 5: But of course you know why he's marrying you, don't you?
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Speaker 5: The fact is that empty house got on his nerves.
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Speaker 5: He just couldn't go on living alone. You haven't flattered
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Speaker 5: yourself that he's in love with you, I hope. Not
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Speaker 5: after being married to Rebecca Hildreth.
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Speaker 7: the.
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Speaker 5: Most beautiful, the most cultured woman in all England. Well,
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Speaker 5: goodbye and good luck, Mrs.
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Speaker 6: De Winter. We were married that evening... in a little
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Speaker 6: village near the sea. And in early May we came
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Speaker 6: to Manderley. It was raining as we drove through the
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Speaker 6: high iron gates... The drive twisted and turned as a serpent.
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Speaker 6: And then suddenly, there was the house. Manderley. A thing
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Speaker 6: of grace and beauty, and yet somehow almost frightening. As
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Speaker 6: we came into the great hall, I saw that it
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Speaker 6: was crowded with people. The staff of the house and
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Speaker 6: the estate. They stood silent and curious, gazing at me.
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Speaker 6: And then someone advanced from the sea of faces. She
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Speaker 6: was tall and gaunt, dressed in deep black. And her
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Speaker 6: prominent cheekbones and hollow eyes gave her a sort of
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Speaker 6: skull's face.
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Speaker 2: And this is Mrs. Danvers. You won't have to worry
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Speaker 2: about the house at all, darling. Mrs. Danvers takes care
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Speaker 2: of everything.
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Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, Mrs. Danvers.
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Speaker 7: Good evening, madam. I have everything in readiness for you.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's so good of you.
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Speaker 7: Will you go to your room now, madam, or will
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Speaker 7: you have tea in the library?
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Speaker 9: Why, I.
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Speaker 6: I don't think I.
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Speaker 2: The room first, Mrs. Danvers.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir. This way, if you please, madam. I hope
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Speaker 7: you approve the new decorations of these rooms, madam.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't know it had been changed. What did
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Speaker 6: it look like before, Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Danvers? It had an old paper and different hangings. It
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Speaker 7: was never used much, except for occasional visitors.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Then it wasn't Mr. De Winter's room originally.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 7: No, madam. He has never used the East Wing before.
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Speaker 7: The only good view of the sea is from the
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Speaker 7: West Wing.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Danvers, I suppose you've been at Manderley for many years.
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Speaker 7: I came here when the first Mrs. De Winter was
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Speaker 7: a bride.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I do hope we'll be friends, Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Danvers.
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Speaker 6: But you must be patient with me. You see, this
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Speaker 6: sort of life is, well, it's so new to me.
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Speaker 6: And I do want to make a success of it
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Speaker 6: and make Mr. De Winter happy.
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Speaker 7: So I know I can leave all the household arrangements
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Speaker 7: to you. I hope I shall do everything to your satisfaction, madam.
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Speaker 7: I have managed the house since Mrs. De Winter's death,
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Speaker 7: and Mr. De Winter has never complained.
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Speaker 6: Well, I... I think I'll go downstairs now.
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Speaker 7: Certainly, madam. The room in the west wing I was
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Speaker 7: telling you about is there, through that door. It's not
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Speaker 7: used now. It's the most beautiful room in the house...
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Speaker 7: The only one that looks down across the lawns to
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Speaker 7: the sea. It was Mrs. De Winter's room.
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Speaker 6: I knew that night that Mrs. Danvers despised me. Standing there,
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Speaker 6: watching me, laughing silently at my awkwardness, telling me over
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Speaker 6: and over that there'd been another before me. The beautiful
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Speaker 6: Rebecca Hildreth. There was everything to remind me of that.
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Speaker 6: The embroidered letter R on the linens. Her writing paper
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Speaker 6: in the drawers of the desk. Her dog who still
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Speaker 6: slept outside her room. She was everywhere at Manderley. Rebecca
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Speaker 6: who had died and who still wandered through that house.
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Speaker 4: Oh, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Oh, good morning.
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Speaker 4: You're Mrs. De Winter, aren't you?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 4: My name's Crawley. I manage the estate for Maxine. Awful
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Speaker 4: glad to meet you.
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Speaker 7: How do you do?
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Speaker 4: A lot of stuff piled up while Maxim was away.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm sure there must have been. Oh, I do
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Speaker 6: wish I could help with some of it.
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Speaker 9: Help him?
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Speaker 2: Frank never allows anybody to help him. He's like an
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Speaker 2: old mother hen with his bills and rents and taxes.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Frank, we must go over those estimates.
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Speaker 4: I'll get my papers.
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Speaker 2: Later on this afternoon, we'll take a walk around the estate, darling,
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Speaker 2: just you and I. There's a good deal I want.
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Speaker 9: You to see.
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Speaker 6: I'll be ready, Max, if anything.
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Speaker 2: Come along, Jasper. Come along. Keep that coat up around you, darling.
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Speaker 6: It isn't raining now, Maxim, must I?
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Speaker 2: Certainly. Can't be too careful with children, you know.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it's glorious here. I love every foot of it, Maxim.
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Speaker 2: Jasper, here, not that way. Jasper, come back.
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Speaker 6: He went down those stairs by the cliff, Maxine. Where
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Speaker 6: does that lead to?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it leads to a little cove where we used
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Speaker 2: to keep a boat.
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Speaker 6: Oh, let's go down there.
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Speaker 2: No, it's only a dull and uninteresting stretch of sand,
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Speaker 2: just like any other.
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Speaker 6: Oh, please, Maxine.
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Speaker 2: Some other time, dear, not today.
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Speaker 6: Listen, is that Jasper? There must be something wrong. Perhaps
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Speaker 6: he's hurt himself.
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Speaker 2: He's all right. Leave him alone.
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Speaker 6: I think I'd better go and see.
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Speaker 10: No, come back.
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Speaker 2: Don't bother about him. He can't come to any harm.
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Speaker 2: He'll find his own way back.
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Speaker 8: Jasper! Jasper!
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Speaker 6: Jasper! Oh, there you are. What do you want in
18:27
Speaker 6: that cottage, Jasper? Come on home.
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Speaker 2: Come on, boy.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Jasper.
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Speaker 2: He's looking for her.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't know there was anybody.
18:37
Speaker 4: I know that dog.
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Speaker 7: He comes from the house.
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Speaker 2: Hey, aren't you home?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 6: No. No, he's Mr. De Winter's dog.
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Speaker 2: Honor that dog.
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Speaker 4: He comes down looking for her.
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Speaker 6: Who? Whose cottage is this?
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 9: De Winter.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Come here, Jasper.
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Speaker 4: You won't tell anyone you saw me in here, will you?
18:58
Speaker 6: Don't you belong on the estate?
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, but I won't do nothing.
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Speaker 3: I was just putting my shells away.
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Speaker 2: She's gone in the sea, ain't she? She'll never come
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Speaker 2: back no more.
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Speaker 11: Oh.
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Speaker 6: No, she'll never come back.
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Speaker 7: Come on, Jasper.
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Speaker 2: Come on, boy. Maxim! Maxim, here I am.
19:26
Speaker 6: Wait, Maxim. I'm so sorry I was such a time.
19:30
Speaker 2: You knew I didn't want you to go there, but
19:32
Speaker 2: you deliberately went.
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Speaker 6: Oh, why not, Maxim? There was only a cottage down
19:37
Speaker 6: there and a strange man who was.
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Speaker 2: Well, don't go there again. Do you hear?
19:41
Speaker 6: Why not, Max?
19:42
Speaker 2: Because I hate the place. And if you had my memories,
19:46
Speaker 2: you wouldn't go there or talk about it or even
19:48
Speaker 2: think about it. What? the matter?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 2: Maxim... We should have stayed away. We should never have
19:56
Speaker 2: come back to Manderley. What a fool I was.
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Speaker 6: I've made you unhappy. Somehow I've hurt you. I can't
20:04
Speaker 6: bear to see you like this, Maxim... Because I love
20:08
Speaker 6: you so much.
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Speaker 2: But do you?
20:09
Speaker 4: Do you?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I've made you cry. Forgive me. I sometimes seem
20:16
Speaker 2: to fly off the handle for no reason at all,
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Speaker 2: don't I?
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Speaker 9: Come.
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Speaker 2: We'll go home and have some tea and forget all
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yes, let's forget all about it.
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Speaker 3: So ends Act One of Rebecca, starring Ronald Coleman, Ida Lupino,
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Speaker 3: We begin the second act of our play, starring Ronald
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Speaker 3: Coleman as Maxim De Winter, Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers,
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Speaker 3: and Ida Lupino as the woman who is now Mrs.
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Speaker 3: De Winter, the woman who is telling this story of Rebecca.
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Speaker 6: The End The weather was wet and cold for almost
23:24
Speaker 6: a week... and we didn't go down to the beach again.
23:29
Speaker 6: But I couldn't forget the dark, lost look in Maxim's eyes...
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Speaker 6: when we came up the path through the woods. It
23:36
Speaker 6: was my fault. I'd gone down to that cottage. I
23:40
Speaker 6: seemed to have opened up a road into the past...
23:44
Speaker 6: and there was a barrier between us because of it.
23:47
Speaker 6: I began to dread any mention of the sea... until
23:51
Speaker 6: one morning.
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Speaker 7: In the library.
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Speaker 6: I was alone with Frank Crawley.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Crawley, I.
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Speaker 6: I was down at the cottage on the beach the
24:01
Speaker 6: other day. Are those all Rebecca's things down there?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, they are.
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Speaker 6: Oh. What did she use the cottage for?
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Speaker 4: The boat used to be moored near there.
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Speaker 7: The boat?
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Speaker 6: Was that the boat she was sailing in when she
24:16
Speaker 6: was drowned?
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Speaker 4: Yes, it kept size and sank. She was washed overboard.
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Speaker 6: Where did they find her?
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Speaker 4: The regicum about 40 miles up Channel, about two months afterwards.
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Speaker 4: Maxim went up to identify her. It was horrible for him.
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Speaker 6: Yes, as it must have been.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 6: Crawley, please don't think me morbidly curious, but would you
24:37
Speaker 6: answer just one more question?
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Speaker 4: If it's something I'm able to answer.
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Speaker 6: Tell me, what was Rebecca really like?
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Speaker 4: I suppose she was the most beautiful creature I ever saw.
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Speaker 6: Maxim had to go up to London at the end
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Speaker 6: of June. Some business at the estate. Frank Crawley had
25:01
Speaker 6: gone along with him. And I was alone at Mandalay.
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Speaker 6: I was surprised one evening... to hear voices coming from
25:09
Speaker 6: the West Wing. From the room that was once Rebecca's.
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Speaker 7: I really don't think it was wise of you to
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Speaker 7: come here, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Jackson.
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Speaker 4: Oh, nonsense, nonsense.
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Speaker 12: It's been just like coming back home. And I must
25:20
Speaker 12: say I feel a little like the poor relations... sneaking
25:23
Speaker 12: around through back doors... Well, toodle-oo, Danny.
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Speaker 7: Goodbye, Mr. Jack, and please be careful.
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Speaker 9: I will, don't worry. Oh, hello.
25:34
Speaker 6: Good evening.
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Speaker 12: Danny, all your precautions were in vain. The mistress of
25:37
Speaker 12: the house was hiding behind the door.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but I wasn't, really, I wasn't. I heard voices
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Speaker 6: in here.
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Speaker 12: What about presenting me to the bride, Danny?
25:44
Speaker 6: This is Mr.
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Speaker 7: Favell, madam.
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Speaker 6: How do you do?
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Speaker 2: How do you do?
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Speaker 6: Will you have some tea or something?
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Speaker 12: Now, isn't that a charming invitation? I've been asked to
25:54
Speaker 12: stay to tea, Danny.
25:56
Speaker 7: It's rather late.
25:57
Speaker 12: Oh, well, perhaps you're right. We mustn't lead the bride astray,
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Speaker 12: must we?
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Speaker 9: Well, goodbye.
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Speaker 12: Oh, and I know what was wrong with our introduction.
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Speaker 12: Danny didn't tell you, did she? I'm Rebecca's favorite cousin.
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Speaker 9: Toodle-oo.
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Speaker 6: The man went quickly down the stairs... And Mrs. Danvers
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Speaker 6: went after him. All of a sudden, I had a
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Speaker 6: terrifying impulse to see what lay behind the door in
26:27
Speaker 6: front of me. The door of Rebecca's room. I pushed
26:31
Speaker 6: it open slowly. I could hear the sea plainly through
26:35
Speaker 6: the window. I'd expected to see the furniture swathed in
26:39
Speaker 6: dust sheets. Nothing was covered up. There were flowers on
26:45
Speaker 6: the dressing table. A satin dressing gown on the chair.
26:50
Speaker 6: And beneath, a pair of bedroom slippers.
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Speaker 4: Oh!
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Speaker 7: Do you wish anything, madam?
26:57
Speaker 6: No. No, no, I just.
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Speaker 7: You've always wanted to see this room, haven't you, madam?
27:03
Speaker 7: Why did you never ask me to show it to you?
27:05
Speaker 6: It's a lovely room, isn't it? The most beautiful room
27:11
Speaker 6: you've ever seen.
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Speaker 7: Everything is kept just as Mrs. De Winter liked it.
27:16
Speaker 7: Nothing has been altered since that last night. You wouldn't
27:20
Speaker 7: think she'd been gone so long, would you? Sometimes, when
27:24
Speaker 7: I walk along the corridor, I fancy I hear her
27:27
Speaker 7: just behind me. That quick, light step. I couldn't mistake
27:31
Speaker 7: it anywhere. It's not only in this room. It's in
27:35
Speaker 7: all the rooms in the house. I can almost hear
27:40
Speaker 7: it now. Do you believe the dead come back and
27:44
Speaker 7: watch the living?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 6: No. No, I don't believe it.
27:48
Speaker 7: Sometimes I wonder if she doesn't come back here to
27:52
Speaker 7: Manderley and watch you and Mr. De Winter together. You
27:59
Speaker 7: look tired. Why don't you stay here a while and rest?
28:05
Speaker 2: Listen to the sea.
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Speaker 7: It's so soothing.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I.
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Speaker 6: Listen to it. Listen to the sea.
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Speaker 2: I won't listen.
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Speaker 7: I won't.
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Speaker 4: I won't.
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Speaker 8: I won't.
28:29
Speaker 6: Oh, Maxim. Maxim, I'm so glad you're home again.
28:33
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, you're choking me. Well, well, what have you
28:37
Speaker 2: been doing with yourself?
28:38
Speaker 6: Well, I've been thinking. Darling, could we have a costume
28:42
Speaker 6: ball just as you used to?
28:44
Speaker 2: What put that idea into your mind?
28:46
Speaker 7: Oh, nothing.
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Speaker 6: I just feel that we ought to do something to
28:49
Speaker 6: make people feel that Manderley is the same as it
28:51
Speaker 6: always was. Oh, please, darling, could we?
28:54
Speaker 2: Well, all right. If you think you'd enjoy it, you'd
28:57
Speaker 2: better get Mrs. Danvers to help you, hadn't you?
28:59
Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 6: No, I don't need Mrs. Danvers to help me. I
29:04
Speaker 6: can do it myself, Maxim.
29:05
Speaker 2: All right, my sweet. But Mrs.
29:11
Speaker 6: Danvers did help me. It was she who suggested that
29:14
Speaker 6: I design my costume after one of the family portraits
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Speaker 6: in the gallery. A lovely young woman in a white
29:19
Speaker 6: dress with great puffed sleeves. When the night of the
29:23
Speaker 6: party arrived, I could hardly contain myself for excitement, for
29:27
Speaker 6: I'd kept the costume as a surprise for Maxim. I
29:30
Speaker 6: ran quickly down the stairs, and then I waited for
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Speaker 6: the clapping and the laughter that would greet me. But
29:37
Speaker 6: nobody clapped. Nobody moved. And then Maxim was coming toward me.
29:44
Speaker 6: His face white. His eyes blazing.
29:47
Speaker 2: What the devil do you think you're doing?
29:50
Speaker 6: Maxim, it's the picture. The one in the gallery.
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Speaker 2: What have I done? Go and take it off. Doesn't
29:59
Speaker 2: matter what you put on. Anything will do. What are
30:01
Speaker 2: you standing there for? Didn't you hear what I said?
30:03
Speaker 6: Take it off!
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Speaker 7: I watched you go down the stairs just as I
30:14
Speaker 7: watched her a year ago. Even in the same dress
30:17
Speaker 7: you couldn't compare with her.
30:20
Speaker 6: Same dress.
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Speaker 2: You knew it.
30:23
Speaker 6: You knew that she wore it. And yet you deliberately
30:25
Speaker 6: suggested I wear it. Why do you hate me? What
30:29
Speaker 6: have I done to you that you should hate me so?
30:31
Speaker 7: You tried to take her place. You let him marry you.
30:34
Speaker 7: I've seen his face, his eyes. They're the same as
30:37
Speaker 7: those first weeks after she died. I used to listen
30:39
Speaker 7: to him walking up and down, up and down all
30:42
Speaker 7: night long, night after night, thinking of her, suffering torture
30:45
Speaker 7: because he'd lost her.
30:45
Speaker 6: I don't want to know. I don't want to know.
30:48
Speaker 7: You thought you could be Mrs. De Winter, live in
30:50
Speaker 7: her house, walk in her steps, take the things that
30:52
Speaker 7: were hers. But she's too strong for you. You can't
30:56
Speaker 7: fight her. No one ever got the better of her. Never, never.
30:59
Speaker 7: She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man.
31:01
Speaker 2: It wasn't a woman.
31:02
Speaker 7: It was the sea.
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Speaker 6: Stop it. Stop it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, stop it.
31:09
Speaker 7: You're overwrought, madam. I'll open a window for you. A
31:13
Speaker 7: little air will do you good. Come and stand here, madam.
31:19
Speaker 7: Don't be afraid.
31:22
Speaker 6: Now look down there. Isn't the sea lovely?
31:28
Speaker 7: Why don't you go? Why don't you leave, Manderley? He
31:32
Speaker 7: doesn't need you. He's got his memories. You've nothing to
31:36
Speaker 7: stay for. You've nothing to live for, really, have you?
31:43
Speaker 7: Look down there.
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Speaker 2: It's easy, isn't it?
31:48
Speaker 6: Why don't you?
31:50
Speaker 7: Why don't you?
31:52
Speaker 2: Go on.
31:55
Speaker 6: Don't be afraid.
31:57
Speaker 7: Why don't you jump?
32:00
Speaker 8: What is it?
32:02
Speaker 6: What's that noise? Maxim!
32:04
Speaker 5: Maxim, where are you?
32:05
Speaker 2: Maxim!
32:12
Speaker 6: What is it?
32:13
Speaker 2: What is it?
32:14
Speaker 12: What's happened?
32:14
Speaker 2: Shipwrecked.
32:15
Speaker 4: There's a ship aground sending up rockets. Robbie, notify the
32:18
Speaker 4: coast guard.
32:18
Speaker 2: Shipwrecked.
32:31
Speaker 6: Frank, have you seen Maxim on the beach?
32:34
Speaker 4: Not since half an hour ago.
32:35
Speaker 6: He hasn't been in the house all night. I'm afraid
32:38
Speaker 6: something might have happened to him.
32:40
Speaker 7: Frank, what's the matter?
32:42
Speaker 6: You look terribly worried.
32:43
Speaker 4: Well, the diver who went down to inspect the bottom
32:46
Speaker 4: of the ship... came across the hull of another boat,
32:48
Speaker 4: a little sailboat.
32:50
Speaker 6: Oh, Frank, is it?
32:51
Speaker 4: Yes, it's Rebecca's.
32:53
Speaker 6: Rebecca's? Why did they have to find it? Why couldn't
32:58
Speaker 6: they have left it there in peace at the bottom
32:59
Speaker 6: of the sea... Poor Maxim. It'll be so hard on him.
33:05
Speaker 4: Yes, it's going to bring it all back again, and
33:07
Speaker 4: worse than before.
33:14
Speaker 6: I searched the beach frantically for Maxim. There was no
33:17
Speaker 6: sign of him. Then suddenly I came upon the boat house,
33:22
Speaker 6: Rebecca's cottage. There was a light burning dimly in the window.
33:28
Speaker 6: I opened the door, and there in the light of
33:31
Speaker 6: the dying fire, I saw the tortured face of Maxim.
33:37
Speaker 8: Hello.
33:38
Speaker 2: Come in.
33:40
Speaker 6: Maxim, you haven't had any sleep. Have you forgiven me?
33:47
Speaker 2: Forgiven you?
33:48
Speaker 6: For last night, Maxim. My stupidity about the costume.
33:52
Speaker 2: Oh, that. I'd forgotten. I'd forgotten.
33:55
Speaker 6: Oh, Maxim, can't we start all over again? I don't
34:00
Speaker 6: ask that you should love me. I won't ask impossible things.
34:04
Speaker 6: I'll be your friend and companion. I'll be happy with that.
34:09
Speaker 2: You love me very much, don't you? But it's too late,
34:12
Speaker 2: my darling. We've lost our little chance of happiness.
34:15
Speaker 6: No, Maxim, no.
34:16
Speaker 2: It's all over now. Rebecca has won. Her shadow has
34:20
Speaker 2: been between us all the time, keeping us from one another.
34:23
Speaker 2: She knew that this would happen.
34:26
Speaker 6: What are you saying, Maxim?
34:28
Speaker 2: They sent a diver down. He found another boat.
34:31
Speaker 6: I know.
34:32
Speaker 7: Rebecca's boat.
34:34
Speaker 2: The diver made another discovery. He broke one of the
34:37
Speaker 2: ports and looked into the cabin. There was a body
34:40
Speaker 2: in there.
34:40
Speaker 6: A body? But then she wasn't alone. There was someone
34:43
Speaker 6: sailing with her.
34:44
Speaker 2: No, you don't understand. There was no one with her.
34:48
Speaker 2: It's Rebecca's body lying there on the cabin floor.
34:52
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
34:53
Speaker 6: No.
34:54
Speaker 2: The woman that was washed up at Edgecombe, the woman
34:56
Speaker 2: that is now buried in the family crypt. That was
34:59
Speaker 2: not Rebecca. That was the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed,
35:04
Speaker 2: belonging nowhere. I identified it, but I knew it wasn't Rebecca.
35:09
Speaker 2: I knew where Rebecca's body was. Lying on that cabin
35:12
Speaker 2: floor on the bottom of the sea.
35:15
Speaker 6: How did you know, Max?
35:17
Speaker 12: Because I put it there.
35:20
Speaker 2: You.
35:22
Speaker 4: You.
35:25
Speaker 2: Will you look into my eyes and tell me that
35:27
Speaker 2: you love me now? Oh, Maxim. You see, I was right.
35:32
Speaker 2: It's too late. No.
35:33
Speaker 6: No, it's not too late, Maxim. You're not to say that.
35:36
Speaker 6: We can't lose each other now. We must be together always.
35:40
Speaker 2: We may only have a few hours, a few days.
35:42
Speaker 6: Oh, Maxim, why didn't you tell me before?
35:44
Speaker 2: Sometimes I nearly did, but you never seemed close enough.
35:48
Speaker 6: How could we be close when I knew you were
35:50
Speaker 6: always thinking of Rebecca? How could I even ask you
35:53
Speaker 6: to love me? When I knew you loved Rebecca still.
35:56
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You thought I loved Rebecca?
36:01
Speaker 2: I hated her.
36:03
Speaker 6: Hated her?
36:04
Speaker 2: I was carried away by her, yes, enchanted by her
36:06
Speaker 2: as everyone was. But I never had a moment's happiness
36:10
Speaker 2: with her. She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.
36:14
Speaker 6: You didn't love her.
36:17
Speaker 2: Do you remember that cliff where you first saw me
36:19
Speaker 2: in Monte Carlo? Well, I went there with Rebecca on
36:22
Speaker 2: our honeymoon. That was when I found out about her.
36:25
Speaker 2: Only four days after we were married. She stood there laughing,
36:29
Speaker 2: her black hair blowing in the wind, and told me
36:31
Speaker 2: all about herself. Things I'll never tell a living soul.
36:35
Speaker 2: I wanted to kill her. I'll make a bargain with you,
36:38
Speaker 2: she said. You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me
36:41
Speaker 2: now after four days of marriage, so I'll play the
36:43
Speaker 2: part of a devoted wife, mistress of Manderley. And people
36:47
Speaker 2: will visit us and envy us and say we're the luckiest,
36:50
Speaker 2: happiest couple in the county. What a grand joke it
36:53
Speaker 2: will be. What a triumph. I should never have accepted
36:56
Speaker 2: her dirty bargain, but I did, and I kept it.
36:59
Speaker 2: So did she, apparently. But after a while, she began
37:02
Speaker 2: to grow careless. Then she started to bring her friends
37:05
Speaker 2: down here. I warned her, but she only shrugged her shoulders.
37:08
Speaker 2: And then there was a cousin of hers, a man
37:11
Speaker 2: named Favell.
37:12
Speaker 6: Yes, I know him. You? Yes, he came the day
37:16
Speaker 6: you went to London.
37:16
Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell me?
37:18
Speaker 6: Well, I didn't like to, Maxim. I thought it would
37:21
Speaker 6: remind you of Rebecca.
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Speaker 2: Remind me? As if I needed reminding. Favell used to
37:27
Speaker 2: visit her here in this cottage. I found out about
37:29
Speaker 2: it and I warned her that if he came here again,
37:32
Speaker 2: I'd shoot them both. One night, when I found that
37:35
Speaker 2: she'd come back quietly from London, I thought that Favell
37:38
Speaker 2: was with her. I decided to come down here and
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Speaker 2: have it out with both of them. But she was alone.
37:43
Speaker 2: She was lying on the divan. She looked ill, queer.
37:48
Speaker 2: Suddenly she got up, started to walk toward me. When
37:51
Speaker 2: I have a child, she said, neither you nor anyone
37:54
Speaker 2: else can ever prove it wasn't yours. You'd like to
37:57
Speaker 2: have an heir, wouldn't you, Max, for your precious Manderley?
38:01
Speaker 2: And then she started to laugh. How funny, she said.
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Speaker 2: I'll be the perfect mother, just as I've been the
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Speaker 2: perfect wife. And no one will ever know. She was
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Speaker 2: face to face with me. She was smiling. Well, Max,
38:13
Speaker 2: what are you going to do about it? Aren't you
38:15
Speaker 2: going to kill me? Well, I suppose I went mad
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Speaker 2: for a moment. I must have struck her. She stood
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Speaker 2: staring at me. She looked almost triumphant. And then she
38:24
Speaker 2: started forward toward me again, smiling. Suddenly she stumbled and fell.
38:29
Speaker 2: When I looked down, ages afterwards it seemed... She was
38:33
Speaker 2: lying on the floor. She'd struck her head on a
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Speaker 2: heavy piece of ship's tackle. I remember wondering why she
38:38
Speaker 2: was still smiling. And then I realized she was dead.
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Speaker 6: But you didn't kill her, Maxim. It was an accident.
38:45
Speaker 2: Who would believe me? I lost my head. I knew
38:48
Speaker 2: I had to do something, anything. I carried her out
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Speaker 2: to the boat. I put her in the cabin. When
38:53
Speaker 2: the boat seemed a safe distance from the shore, I
38:56
Speaker 2: took a spike and drove it again and again through
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Speaker 2: the planking of the howl. I opened up the sea
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Speaker 2: cocks and the water began to come in fast. I
39:02
Speaker 2: climbed over into the dinghy and pulled away. Then I
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Speaker 2: saw the boat heel over and sink.
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Speaker 6: Maxim, does anyone else know of this?
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Speaker 2: No, no one except you and me.
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Speaker 6: We must explain it. It's got to be the body
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Speaker 6: of someone you've never seen before.
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Speaker 2: No, they're bound to know her. Her rings and bracelets,
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Speaker 2: she always wore them. They'll identify her body. Then they'll
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Speaker 2: remember the other woman. The other woman buried in the crypt. Oh, Maxim.
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Speaker 2: I've done a very selfish thing in marrying you. I've
39:32
Speaker 2: loved you, my darling. I shall always love you. But
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Speaker 2: I've known all along that Rebecca would win in the end.
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Speaker 6: No. No, she hasn't won. No matter what happens now,
39:43
Speaker 6: she hasn't won.
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Frank. Who? Colonel Julian? Yes. Yes, tell him
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Speaker 2: I'll meet him there as soon as I possibly can.
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Speaker 6: What's happened, Maxim?
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Speaker 2: Colonel Julian called. He's the chief constable of the county.
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Speaker 2: He wants to know if I could possibly have made
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Speaker 2: a mistake about that other body.
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Speaker 8: Mr.
40:19
Speaker 3: DeMille presents Ronald Coleman, Ida Lupino, and Judith Anderson in
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Speaker 3: Act Three of Rebecca after a brief intermission. Meanwhile, it's
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40:29
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40:31
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40:34
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40:35
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42:58
Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of Rebecca, and
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Speaker 3: the girl whom Maxim de Winter brought home as a
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Speaker 3: bride to the brooding towers of Mandalay goes on with
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Speaker 3: her strange story.
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Speaker 6: The body they had found in the boat was identified
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Speaker 6: as Rebecca De Winter. There had to be an inquest,
43:23
Speaker 6: of course. Maxine was calm, almost too calm. I think
43:29
Speaker 6: that frightened me even more.
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Speaker 13: Sorry to drag you back for further questioning, Mr.
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Speaker 4: De Winter.
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Speaker 9: Do you have any idea what happened?
43:37
Speaker 2: You've heard the statement of the boat builder, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Tabb.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if you can help us in any way.
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Speaker 2: I'm afraid not. The holes in the planking.
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Speaker 9: Were evidently made from the inside.
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Speaker 4: Can you think of any reason for that?
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Speaker 2: Of course I can't think of any reason.
43:51
Speaker 4: Then, since Mrs.
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Speaker 1: De Winter went sailing alone, are we to believe that
43:55
Speaker 1: she drove those holes herself?
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Speaker 2: You may believe what you like.
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Speaker 12: Can you enlighten us as to why Mrs.
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Speaker 4: De Winter should have wanted to end her own life?
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Speaker 2: I know of no reason whatever. Mr. De Winter.
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Speaker 10: However painful it may be, I have to ask you
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Speaker 10: a very personal question.
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Speaker 12: Were relations between you and the late Mrs.
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Speaker 2: De Winter perfectly happy? Once again, were relations between you...
44:22
Speaker 2: I won't stand this any longer, and you might as.
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Speaker 8: Well know that.
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Speaker 6: Don't you, can't you?
44:27
Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 9: De Winter.
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Speaker 2: We'll adjourn until after lunch, and... Darling, darling, are you
44:33
Speaker 2: all right?
44:34
Speaker 3: Frank, help me.
44:35
Speaker 2: I'll take her outside. Careful, darling. There's no rush. I'll
44:47
Speaker 2: take you to the car.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Maxon. It was so foolish of me, fainting like that.
44:52
Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 6: Maxon, it's that favela.
44:56
Speaker 12: And how does the bride find herself today?
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Speaker 2: What do you want, Favell?
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Speaker 4: How are you, Max?
45:02
Speaker 12: I was rather worried about you when I heard about
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Speaker 12: the inquest. That's why I came down.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm touched by your solicitude, but if you don't mind...
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Speaker 2: My guess is that they'll turn in a verdict of suicide.
45:10
Speaker 2: That is, of course, unless something unforeseen occurs. What do
45:14
Speaker 2: you mean?
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Speaker 12: Well, I have a strong feeling that before the day
45:18
Speaker 12: is out, somebody's going to make use of that rather expressive,
45:20
Speaker 12: though somewhat old-fashioned term, foul play.
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Speaker 2: Go on.
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Speaker 12: You see, Max, I find myself in a rather awkward position.
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Speaker 12: You've only got to read this note to understand it's
45:31
Speaker 12: from Rebecca. She wrote it to me the day she died.
45:34
Speaker 2: What makes you think that note would interest me?
45:36
Speaker 12: Oh, I'm not going to bother you with the contents now,
45:38
Speaker 12: but I can assure you that it's not the note
45:40
Speaker 12: of a woman who intends to drown herself that same night.
45:43
Speaker 12: You know, Max, I've often wondered what it would be
45:46
Speaker 12: like to retire to the country. I've never figured out
45:49
Speaker 12: what it would cost a year, but I'd like to
45:51
Speaker 12: talk about it with you.
45:53
Speaker 4: Darling.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Favell and I have a little business transaction on hand.
45:57
Speaker 2: I think we'd better conduct it over at the inn.
45:59
Speaker 2: They may have a private room there.
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Speaker 6: But, Maxim.
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Speaker 2: Are you all right now, dear?
46:03
Speaker 6: Yes, I.
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Speaker 2: Frank will be here in a moment. Ask him to
46:05
Speaker 2: find Colonel Julian. Then come over to the inn immediately.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Favell, let's go. Colonel Julian, this is Mr. Pavel.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I know Colonel Julian. We're old friends, aren't we?
46:24
Speaker 13: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Since you're old friends, I assume you also know that
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Speaker 2: he's head of the police here. I think he might
46:29
Speaker 2: be interested to hear your proposition.
46:31
Speaker 12: I don't know what you mean. I only want to
46:33
Speaker 12: see justice done, Colonel. The evidence suggested certain possible theories
46:37
Speaker 12: concerning Rebecca's death. One of them, of course, is suicide. Now,
46:42
Speaker 12: I have a little note here which puts that possibility
46:44
Speaker 12: quite out of court.
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Speaker 2: You read it, Colonel?
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 13: Jack, darling, I've just seen the doctor and I'm going
46:51
Speaker 13: down to Manderley right away. I shall be at the
46:55
Speaker 13: cottage all this evening and shall leave the door open
46:58
Speaker 13: for you. I have something terribly important to tell you.
47:02
Speaker 9: Rebecca.
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Speaker 12: Now, does that look like the note of a woman
47:04
Speaker 12: who'd made up her mind to kill herself? Come, Colonel,
47:06
Speaker 12: as an officer of the law, don't you feel that
47:08
Speaker 12: there are some slight grounds for suspicion?
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Speaker 4: Of murder?
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Speaker 13: Or what else?
47:13
Speaker 4: Blackmail, pure and simple.
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Speaker 13: Blackmail is not so pure nor so simple.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
47:19
Speaker 13: Favell, perhaps you can provide us also with a motive.
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Speaker 12: I knew you were going to bring that up, Colonel. Yes,
47:25
Speaker 12: I'll supply that too.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Maxim, what is he going to do?
47:29
Speaker 4: Will you come in, Mrs. Danvers? Thank you. Colonel Julian, Mrs. Danvers.
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Speaker 12: I believe you know everyone else, Danny.
47:40
Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 13: Danvers, there are a few questions... No.
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Speaker 12: Offense, Colonel, but I think if I put this to Danny,
47:45
Speaker 12: she'll understand it more easily.
47:47
Speaker 4: Danny.
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Speaker 12: Who was Rebecca's doctor?
47:50
Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 7: De Winter always had Dr. McLean from the village.
47:52
Speaker 2: Now, you heard.
47:53
Speaker 12: I said Rebecca's doctor in London. We know that Rebecca
47:56
Speaker 12: went to a doctor in London on the last day
47:57
Speaker 12: of her life.
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Speaker 4: Who was it?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 12: Oh, I understand, Danny. You're trying to defend her. But
48:04
Speaker 12: that's just what I'm doing.
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 13: Danvers, it has been suggested that Mrs. De Winter was
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Speaker 13: deliberately murdered.
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Speaker 6: Murdered?
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Speaker 12: There you have it in a nutshell, Danny. But there's
48:15
Speaker 12: one more thing you'll want to know. The name of
48:17
Speaker 12: the murderer. George Fortescue Maximilian de Winter.
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Speaker 9: Well, Danny?
48:23
Speaker 7: There was a doctor.
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Speaker 8: Mrs.
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Speaker 7: De Winter sometimes went to him privately.
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Speaker 4: Well, what was his name?
48:28
Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 7: Baker. 165 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush.
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Speaker 12: There you are, Colonel. There's where you'll find your motive.
48:34
Speaker 12: He'll tell you why Rebecca went to him. To confirm
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Speaker 12: the fact that she was going to have a child.
48:37
Speaker 12: A sweet, curly-headed little child. She told Max about it.
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Speaker 12: So like the gentleman of the old school that he is,
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Speaker 12: he killed her.
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Speaker 13: Maximar. I'm afraid we shall have to question this, Dr.
48:48
Speaker 4: Baker.
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Speaker 2: I'm ready to leave now, if you wish.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Maxim, let me go with you.
48:51
Speaker 2: Oh, please, darling. Wait for me at Manderley. I'll be
48:55
Speaker 2: back the first thing in the morning.
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Speaker 13: You say you never had a patient by the name
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Speaker 13: of Rebecca de Winter?
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Speaker 3: Never.
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Speaker 13: You're sure of that, Dr.
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Speaker 9: Baker?
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Speaker 4: Of course.
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Speaker 9: Here are all the appointments for that day. Ross, Campbell, Steadall, Perino, Danvers, Matthew.
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Speaker 4: Danny, what the.
49:20
Speaker 2: Did you read that name again? Did you say Danvers?
49:23
Speaker 9: Why, yes. I had a Mrs. Danvers for three o'clock.
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Speaker 2: What did she look like? Can you remember?
49:28
Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 10: I remember her quite well. She was a very beautiful woman... Tall, dark,
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Speaker 10: exquisitely dressed.
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Speaker 9: Rebecca!
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Speaker 13: The lady must have used an assumed name, Doctor.
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Speaker 9: Ah, is that so? This is a surprise. What was
49:42
Speaker 9: the matter with her? My dear sir, there are certain.
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Speaker 13: Now, could you supply a reason, Doctor Baker, for Mrs.
49:48
Speaker 13: De Winter's suicide?
49:49
Speaker 2: For her murder, you mean?
49:50
Speaker 12: She was going to have a child, wasn't she?
49:52
Speaker 4: Come on out with it. No, she was not, Mr.
49:54
Speaker 9: Favell. But she was very seriously ill.
49:57
Speaker 2: She was not going to have a child?
49:59
Speaker 10: That was what she thought, but my diagnosis was different.
50:02
Speaker 10: She wanted the truth and I told her. She had
50:04
Speaker 10: only a few months to live.
50:06
Speaker 2: A few months?
50:08
Speaker 9: Perhaps even less. Because nothing could be done, nothing that
50:11
Speaker 9: she could do except wait.
50:13
Speaker 2: Did she say anything when you told her?
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Speaker 9: Oh, she smiled in a queer sort of way.
50:19
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, I remember she said something that struck me
50:22
Speaker 10: as being very peculiar at the time. When I told
50:25
Speaker 10: her it was a matter of months, she said, Oh, no, Doctor,
50:28
Speaker 10: not that long.
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Speaker 13: You've been very kind. You've told us all we wanted
50:34
Speaker 13: to know. I should like to have a talk with you, Mr. Favell.
50:39
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know that. I thought... Will we be
50:41
Speaker 4: needed at the inquest any further, Colonel Julian? No, no.
50:44
Speaker 13: I concede to it that Maxim's not troubled any further.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
50:59
Speaker 9: Frank?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
51:01
Speaker 2: There's something you don't know.
51:03
Speaker 9: Oh, no, there isn't.
51:04
Speaker 2: There is... I didn't kill her, Frank. But I know
51:08
Speaker 2: now that when she told me about the child, she
51:11
Speaker 2: wanted me to kill her. She lied on purpose. She
51:15
Speaker 2: foresaw the whole thing. That's why she stood there laughing
51:19
Speaker 2: when she.
51:19
Speaker 4: Don't think about it anymore. What's the matter, Max? Why'd
51:25
Speaker 4: you stop? What.
51:27
Speaker 2: what time is it?
51:28
Speaker 4: Oh, it must be three or four. Why?
51:30
Speaker 2: Well, look at the sky. Over that way. That can't
51:34
Speaker 2: be the dawn breaking.
51:35
Speaker 9: Hardly.
51:37
Speaker 4: Perhaps it's the northern lights. It's in the winter that
51:38
Speaker 4: you see them, isn't it?
51:39
Speaker 2: They aren't northern lights. That's mandolin. It's burning.
51:43
Speaker 7: Robert!
51:51
Speaker 12: Robert!
51:53
Speaker 2: Robert, have you seen Mrs.
51:54
Speaker 3: De Winter?
51:54
Speaker 9: Where is she?
51:55
Speaker 2: Maxim!
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Speaker 6: Maxim, here!
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Speaker 2: Darling!
51:57
Speaker 6: Oh, thank heaven you've come back to me.
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Speaker 4: Are you.
52:00
Speaker 2: are you all right?
52:01
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm all right, Maxim.
52:03
Speaker 7: But Mrs.
52:03
Speaker 6: Danvers, she's gone mad. She started the fire. She said
52:06
Speaker 6: she'd rather destroy Manderley than see us happy here.
52:10
Speaker 4: There she is, at that window! To West Wing!
52:12
Speaker 2: Oh, Maxim!
52:13
Speaker 3: She'll be killed!
52:14
Speaker 2: She'll... Ow!
52:16
Speaker 9: Ow!
52:24
Speaker 6: Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. As
52:29
Speaker 6: I stood there, hushed and still... I could swear that
52:34
Speaker 6: the house was not an empty shell... but lived and
52:38
Speaker 6: breathed as it had long ago. But Manderley is no more.
52:43
Speaker 6: And we're happy now, Maxim and I... for all our
52:47
Speaker 6: fears and suffering... Lie.
52:50
Speaker 7: Buried in its ruins.
53:08
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53:08
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53:10
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53:13
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53:14
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53:15
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53:29
Speaker 9: Oh, I give up. Tell us, Sally.
53:31
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Speaker 3: the microphone again. And with them, we have a special
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Speaker 3: guest tonight, the producer of the motion picture Rebecca, Mr.
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Speaker 4: David O. Selznick.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, C.B., Purely as a member of the audience
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Speaker 11: who enjoyed this radio play, I'd like to congratulate my
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Speaker 11: old friend Ronald Coleman, Ida Lupino, and Judith Anderson on
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Speaker 11: the fine performances they gave.
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Speaker 2: David, we were all delighted you could be here tonight.
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Speaker 6: I think it's wonderful when a producer spends his day
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Speaker 6: off watching someone else produce.
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Speaker 7: You seem to enjoy that part especially, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Selznick.
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Speaker 11: Well, I was as interested as though I'd never heard
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Speaker 11: the story before. But then DeMille Productions have been moving
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Speaker 11: and entertaining audiences ever since I can remember.
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Speaker 3: That's nice to hear, David, but don't go away. Because,
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Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, I have an award to present to Mr.
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Speaker 3: Selznick on behalf of the editors of Fame, representing 15,000
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Speaker 3: motion picture exhibitors and 80 million theatergoers. The award covers
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Speaker 3: 26 of your pictures, David. Pictures like A Tale of
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Speaker 3: Two Cities, which starred Ronald Coleman a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: David Copperfield, Rebecca, and Gone with the Wind, which captured
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Speaker 3: 10 out of 14 Academy Awards last year. and brought
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Speaker 3: you personally the Irving Thalberg Memorial Trophy for maintaining the
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Speaker 3: highest quality in production. The Fame Award reads, In token
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Speaker 3: of his record as a producer of the greatest number
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Speaker 3: of box office champion pictures over a period of nine years,
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Speaker 3: denoting a special consistency of high competence in the art,
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Speaker 3: Fame has the honor to present this document of commemoration
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Speaker 3: to Mr. David Oliver Selznick. Signed, Martin Quigley, Publisher of Fame.
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Speaker 11: I'm very grateful to the editors of Fame, CB, and
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Speaker 11: for this distinction. And I'm doubly appreciative to have it
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Speaker 11: presented by so great a showman as yourself. But this
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Speaker 11: award should really have been made to three or four
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Speaker 11: hundred of my associates, writers, directors like Victor Fleming of
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Speaker 11: Gone with the Wind, and Alfred Hitchcock, who did such
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Speaker 11: magnificent work on Rebecca, to cameramen and hundreds of other craftsmen.
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Speaker 11: and naturally to talented players like Mr. Coleman and Miss Anderson.
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Speaker 2: That's very generous, David. Of course, you could cut that
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Speaker 2: award up into 400 pieces, but I suppose it looks better.
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Speaker 4: As it is.
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Speaker 2: In fact, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Selznick, we forbid you to divide it up.
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Speaker 2: You're all very kind.
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Speaker 11: And right now, C.B., I'd like to congratulate you and
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Speaker 11: your staff on the result of the New York World-Telegram's
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Speaker 11: annual poll of the nation's radio editors. I've just learned
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Speaker 11: that your program has been selected as radio's leading dramatic
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Speaker 11: program for the seventh successive year.
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Speaker 3: That's quite an honor, C.B. It's more than that to us, David.
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Speaker 3: It's something to live up to.
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Speaker 2: Well, tell us, C.B., what you're going to do next,
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Speaker 2: both on the screen and here in the Lux Radio Theater.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm turning to the sea for my next picture, Ronnie.
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Speaker 3: You've probably read the story in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Speaker 3: It's Reap the Wild Wind. A swashbuckling tale of wreckers
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Speaker 3: on the Florida coast 100 years ago and of a
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Speaker 3: woman who wrecked a few hearts.
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Speaker 7: Well, that sounds very exciting, Mr. DeMille.
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Speaker 6: What about the Lux Radio Theater next week?
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Speaker 3: Never a dull moment, Ida. Our stars will be Carol
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Speaker 3: Lombard and James Stewart. You'll hear them in The Moon's
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Speaker 3: Our Home. It's a story about a screen star and
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Speaker 3: an explorer who fall in love, more or less incognito.
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Speaker 3: Add Carol Lombard and James Stewart to a play like that,
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Speaker 3: and the sum is pure enjoyment for all of us
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Speaker 3: next Monday night.
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Speaker 2: Well, they're two favorites of mine, so I'll be in
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Speaker 2: the audience.
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Speaker 9: Good night.
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Speaker 6: Good night.
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Speaker 4: Good night.
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Speaker 7: And this certainly was a blue-ribbon night.
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Speaker 3: Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in
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Speaker 3: inviting you to be with us again next Monday night
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Speaker 3: when the Lux Radio Theater presents James Stewart and Carol
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Speaker 3: Lombard in The Moon's Our Home.
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Speaker 9: This is Cecil B.
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Speaker 3: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
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Speaker 11: The Moon's Our Home.
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Speaker 3: Ronald Coleman will soon be seen in the RKO picture,
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Speaker 3: My Life with Caroline. Ida Lupino's current screen success is
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Speaker 3: the Warner Brothers production, High School.
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Speaker 9: Sierra.
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Speaker 3: Heard in tonight's play were Roland Drew as Frank, Dennis
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Speaker 3: Green as Favell, Verna Felton as Mrs. Van Hopper, Frederick
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Speaker 3: Warlock as Colonel Julian, Hans Conrad as Dr. Baker, and
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Speaker 3: Lou Merrill as Coroner. The brooch, offered you by the
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Speaker 3: makers of Lux Flakes, was designed from one worn in
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Speaker 3: Gone with the Wind, the Selznick international picture produced by
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Speaker 3: David O. Selznick and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Our music is
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Speaker 3: directed by Louis Silvers, and your announcer has been Melville Ruick.
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Speaker 3: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: This has been Lux Radio Theater's Rebecca. Good night, and
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Speaker 1: may the old radio dial bring you another memorable evening.