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Lux Radio Theatre - "Sitting Pretty" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Clifton Webb returns as Lynn Belvedere, with Robert Young as
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  Speaker 1: Harry King and Maureen O'Hara as Tacey King. On February 14th, 1949,
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  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater presented its 645 episode on CBS, Sitting Pretty,
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  Speaker 1: adapted from the 1948 20th Century Fox comedy film and
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  Speaker 1: Gwen Davenport's novel, Belvedere. In the King family's suburban home,
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  Speaker 1: three energetic boys have left their parents searching for a
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  Speaker 1: live-in babysitter. The answer to their advertisement is Mr. Belvedere,
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  Speaker 1: impeccably mannered, highly self-assured, and ready to introduce his own
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  Speaker 1: ideas about children, household order, and family life. The King's
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  Speaker 1: routine is about to meet a most unusual new arrangement. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood!
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  Speaker 3: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you
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  Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater. Proudly presenting Photoplay Magazine's gold medal
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  Speaker 3: award picture, Sitting Pretty, starring Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and
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  Speaker 3: Clifton Webb. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: William Keeley.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. This is the big
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  Speaker 4: night of the season in the Lux Radio Theater, because
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  Speaker 4: tonight we present the picture that you, the moviegoers of America,
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  Speaker 4: have chosen as the one you like best in 1948.
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  Speaker 4: It's that delightful comedy, Sitting Pretty, selected by you in
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  Speaker 4: a nationwide poll for Photoplay Magazine. Our stars are Maureen O'Hara,
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  Speaker 4: Clifton Webb, and Robert Young, the original cast, which made
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  Speaker 4: the picture a hit for 20th Century Fox. After tonight's performance,
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  Speaker 4: Sitting Pretty will receive Photo Play Magazine's coveted gold medal award,
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  Speaker 4: one of Hollywood's highest honors.
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  Speaker 2: We had an idea some time ago.
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  Speaker 4: That Sitting Pretty might win this award because every male
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  Speaker 4: has brought requests for it. These letters told us what
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  Speaker 4: you thought of Lux Flakes, too. And I'm sure that
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  Speaker 4: if we could take a poll of housewives, their gold
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  Speaker 4: medal award would go to Lux Flakes. Here's the curtain
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  Speaker 4: going up for Act One of Sitting Pretty. Starring Clifton
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  Speaker 4: Webb as Lynn Belvedere, Robert Young as Harry, and Maureen
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  Speaker 4: O'Hara as Tacey. Hummingbird Hill is a typical suburban community
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  Speaker 4: where everybody knows a little more than just a little
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  Speaker 4: about everybody else. For example, the neighbors all know that
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  Speaker 4: the Harry King's housekeeper simply up and quit today, leaving
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  Speaker 4: that nice Mrs. King with that big house, those three
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  Speaker 4: noisy children, and that terrible dog to take care of
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  Speaker 4: all by herself. Yes, the news went through the community like.
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  Speaker 2: A flash, chiefly because of Clarence Appleton, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Appleton lives on the corner and has very little to
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  Speaker 4: do except grow iris and mind other people's business.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Appleton.
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  Speaker 7: What are you doing with that feather?
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  Speaker 8: I am endeavoring to obtain some pollen from these iris.
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  Speaker 7: But why are you taking our flowers with the feather?
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  Speaker 8: I am not tickling, young man.
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  Speaker 2: I am gathering.
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  Speaker 8: I have your mother's permission, so just run along.
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  Speaker 2: Don't bother me.
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  Speaker 5: We won't bother you.
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  Speaker 9: Just tell us what you're doing.
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  Speaker 8: Have you boys ever watched a bumblebee flitting from flower
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  Speaker 8: to flower?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm doing just what the bumblebee does.
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  Speaker 9: Gosh, can't it sting, too?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, run away and play. No, no, wait, just a minute.
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  Speaker 8: Your housekeeper left today, didn't she?
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  Speaker 2: She sure did.
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  Speaker 9: You should have heard her, too.
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  Speaker 8: Indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, what did she say? Hey, Larry, you can
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  Speaker 2: pull a pot song!
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  Speaker 5: Hi-ya, pot fire!
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  Speaker 3: Hi-ya, pot game on a pot song!
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  Speaker 2: Who left his bicycle in the driveway?
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  Speaker 9: I guess I did, Pop.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: How many times do I have to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you kids never to do that?
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  Speaker 9: Did you lose another case in court today?
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't lose another case in court today. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it's the heat. And Mrs. Maypole quitting. Some housekeeper.
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  Speaker 5: She sure was a drip, Pop.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you've got something there. Well, how are you, fellas?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, fine.
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  Speaker 2: Hey! What's wrong with Roddy? What's he crying for this time? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's just crying, Pop.
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  Speaker 5: You know Roddy, he always.
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  Speaker 9: Get off!
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  Speaker 6: Henry, get down!
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  Speaker 2: Do something! Pull him off of me!
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  Speaker 6: Can't you kids train that big ox not to jump
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  Speaker 6: on people?
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  Speaker 9: He's just glad to see you, Pop.
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  Speaker 5: I'm watchdog.
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  Speaker 2: He's glad to see everybody. Now look here, Henry.
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  Speaker 5: Henry, leave that turtle alone!
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  Speaker 9: Henry, come back, Henry!
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Larry, we better get Henry!
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  Speaker 10: Harry.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, honey. Bad day, huh? I'm sorry about Mrs. Maypole.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry, she knew we had three children and a
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  Speaker 5: dog when she took the job.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't worry, honey. You'll find somebody else.
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  Speaker 6: Say, isn't that Clarence Appleton in the garden?
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  Speaker 2: What the devil's he doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that? Well, it seems that we have a very
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  Speaker 5: healthy male iris, and he asked if he could have
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  Speaker 5: some pollen so he could breed one of his own.
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  Speaker 2: You don't say. Well, at least we should get our
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  Speaker 2: choice of the litter.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry, please. Now, about Mrs. Maypole. Well, I've decided
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  Speaker 5: that we just can't afford a regular housekeeper anyway, unless,
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  Speaker 5: of course, you got that raise.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, not yet.
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  Speaker 6: But being invited to the boss's house for dinner is
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  Speaker 6: a hopeful sign.
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  Speaker 2: Who'd you get for a sitter tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't, Harry.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't? But we're due there in an hour.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I phoned at least 15 of the little darlings.
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  Speaker 5: They're all tied up, sitting. Oh, it's no use, Harry.
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  Speaker 5: Just phone Mr. Hammond and tell him that we can't come.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Tacey. He'll probably fire me, but okay.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes I wish he would fire you. The sooner you
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  Speaker 5: stop letting Mr. Hammond kick you around and.
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  Speaker 6: Look, my love, for the last time, there's more to
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  Speaker 6: starting a law practice than just hanging out a shingle.
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  Speaker 6: You have to make contacts, and the only way you
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  Speaker 6: can do that is with an old established outfit.
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  Speaker 2: You know I'm right, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know you're a lot brighter than Mr. Hammond
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  Speaker 5: thinks you are.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, what are we going to do about
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  Speaker 2: a sitter? I mean, for the future.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what we're going to do. We are
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  Speaker 5: going to advertise. I'm going to put an ad in
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  Speaker 5: the paper for a, well, a resident sitter.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: A resident babysitter. Someone who can live in the spare
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  Speaker 5: room and.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I knew you'd say that. But just you wait
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  Speaker 5: and see. There must be someone we can get.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs. King?
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  Speaker 5: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Harry King.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Good evening. I am Lynn Belvedere.
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  Speaker 5: You're... you're who?
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  Speaker 2: I'm the party who answered your ad in the paper.
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  Speaker 2: Lynn Belvedere.
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  Speaker 5: But... but you can't be.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Have you ever seen me before?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no. Of course I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, then.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is quite a shock. You see, we... Well,
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  Speaker 5: we advertised for a sitter and... Well, naturally we thought
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  Speaker 5: you were a woman. In your letter.
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  Speaker 6: Your advertisement, madam, of which I have a copy, makes
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  Speaker 6: no mention of sex.
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  Speaker 5: Possibly not, but it was certainly implied. I need someone
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  Speaker 5: to help with the housework and sit with my children. Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: King, I happen to dislike all children intensely. But I
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  Speaker 6: assure you that I can readily attend to their necessary,
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  Speaker 6: though unpleasant, wants.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I've just had a long and very trying journey in
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  Speaker 6: the day, coach. May I see my room?
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  Speaker 5: Your room? But my husband isn't home yet.
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  Speaker 6: That, if I may say so, is a matter of
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  Speaker 6: complete indifference to me. I take it you are not
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  Speaker 6: retaining my services to sit with him.
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  Speaker 5: But he's at the station. He's looking for you.
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  Speaker 2: I left the station 20 minutes ago.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's expecting a woman. We just assumed that you
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  Speaker 5: were a woman.
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  Speaker 2: You have made that painfully clear, Mrs. King... Now, may
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  Speaker 2: I please see my room?
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  Speaker 5: Why, well, I guess so. It's upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Hi, Mama.
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  Speaker 5: Boys, what are you doing still up? Now, go back
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  Speaker 5: to your room and go to sleep.
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  Speaker 7: Is he a babysitter?
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  Speaker 9: Gee whiz.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, um, these are my sons, Mr. Belvedere, Larry and Tony,
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  Speaker 5: the babies asleep. Well, that's a blessing, isn't it? Ma,
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  Speaker 5: why is it a man? They seem to be quite
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  Speaker 5: fascinated by you, Mr. Belvedere.
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  Speaker 2: The fascination, I assure you, is not mutual.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, this is the room, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Belvedere.
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  Speaker 5: We, well, we tried to fix it up as nicely
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  Speaker 5: as we could. Of course, since you're a mister and
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  Speaker 5: not a miss, well, one or two things are obviously
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  Speaker 5: a little out of place.
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  Speaker 2: Flowers?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I cut them myself this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just drop them here in the wastebasket. For my work, Mrs. King,
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  Speaker 2: I require an atmosphere of spot and simplicity.
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  Speaker 5: And may I ask what your profession is?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly. I am a genius. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well... Well, good night, Mr. Belvedere.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Mrs. King.
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  Speaker 5: Harry! Harry, is that you?
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  Speaker 2: You and your cock-eyed classified ass. You never even got
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  Speaker 2: off the train.
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  Speaker 5: Well, darling... Oh, darling, I've got something to tell you.
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  Speaker 5: While you were gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, tell me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm afraid to.
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  Speaker 2: You shocked me. Oh, stop the comedy and tell me.
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  Speaker 5: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: King?
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  Speaker 5: Oh. Um, yes?
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  Speaker 2: Before I retire, may I inquire what time you said breakfast?
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  Speaker 5: Hmm? Uh, I, um, about 7.30. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps I should tell you now, I like fruit juice, coffee,
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  Speaker 6: and thinly sliced gluten bread, toasted.
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  Speaker 5: I'll, um, I'll try to remember.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Good night. Who in the heck was that?
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  Speaker 5: That, darling, is Lynn Belvedere. Huh? J.C., it's a man! Harry,
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  Speaker 5: must you read your paper at the breakfast table?
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  Speaker 2: I always read paper at breakfast. Roddy, eat your cereal. Harry, please.
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  Speaker 5: What are we going to do about Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Belvedere? Very simple. As soon as he deigns to join
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  Speaker 2: us at breakfast, I'm going to kick him out. Right
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  Speaker 2: on his ear.
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  Speaker 7: Gee whiz, Pop.
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  Speaker 5: I think Mr. Belvedere's kind of cute.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 9: Besides, he says he's a genius.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't think he's cute. And genius or no genius,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to see Mr. Belvedere right now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'd better go up with you. Now, you boys
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  Speaker 5: stay right where you are and finish breakfast. Oh, and
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  Speaker 5: help the baby with the cereal.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Mom. Hiya, Robbie.
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  Speaker 9: How you doing with the cereal? Well, that I did
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  Speaker 9: go on it.
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  Speaker 5: He's grabbing a spool, Larry. You better watch out.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you wouldn't throw cereal at me, would you, Ronnie? Why,
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  Speaker 7: that's baby stuff throwing cereal at a butt.
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  Speaker 2: I warned you, Larry.
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  Speaker 9: I warned you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gee whiz.
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  Speaker 5: Right in my hair.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Belvedere, kindly open your door.
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  Speaker 5: Not a sound.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Belvedere.
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  Speaker 5: Not a sound, Harry. He's probably still asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll soon find out. Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry, look. He's standing on his head.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. You are standing on your head, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we're sorry to dash in on you like this, Mr. Belvedere,
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  Speaker 5: but we did knock.
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt it, Mrs. King.
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  Speaker 6: When I practice my yoga, I'm completely out of this world.
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  Speaker 2: I take it breakfast is ready. Now look here, you.
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  Speaker 6: When I talk to somebody, I want to look him
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  Speaker 6: in the eye, not in the foot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, say something.
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  Speaker 5: It's no use, dear. He's out of this world. He
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  Speaker 5: told you so. Come on, Harry.
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  Speaker 2: That's so silly. I never heard of such a thing,
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  Speaker 2: standing on his.
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  Speaker 7: Head all night.
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  Speaker 5: Here's your coffee, Mr. Belvedere.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Roddy, no. Now put down that spoon.
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  Speaker 9: Roddy!
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  Speaker 5: All over Mr. Belvedere's sleeve.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that, little boy. Now, uh, look here, Belvedere.
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  Speaker 2: A joke is a joke, but this can't go on.
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  Speaker 2: Kindly be more precise, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: King.
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  Speaker 2: What can't go on? You're staying here, that's what.
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  Speaker 6: I'm perfectly willing to carry out my end of our agreement.
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  Speaker 6: I see no reason why you should default on yours.
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  Speaker 5: But it's impossible. You couldn't do the things we require.
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  Speaker 5: For example, could you... Could you bathe Roddy?
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: King, for many years, I have successfully bathed individuals of
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  Speaker 6: all ages and sexes, and I've never had any complaints.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up! Little boy, don't do that again. That's enough, Roddy.
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  Speaker 5: Now stop it.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Belvedere, my wife tells me you're a genius. That is correct.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if I'm not too inquisitive, do you mind telling
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  Speaker 6: me what form it takes?
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  Speaker 2: You're a genius? I am in my way a philosopher. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I see. You just sit and think. Mr.
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  Speaker 6: King, if more people just sat and thought, the world
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  Speaker 6: might not be in the stinking mess that it is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you've got something there.
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  Speaker 5: And you can really handle children.
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  Speaker 2: Henry, I believe you mentioned only three children. Henry's the dog.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great Dane.
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  Speaker 6: Probably the only great Dane in the country who would
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  Speaker 6: rather chew my shirts than chew a bone.
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  Speaker 2: I dislike dogs intensely, Mr. King. Almost as much as
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  Speaker 2: I dislike children. And your children, if I may.
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  Speaker 6: Say so, have peculiarly repulsive habits and manners. However, I
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  Speaker 6: assure you I can cope with him successfully if given
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  Speaker 6: a free hand.
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  Speaker 2: Gesundheit. Tony, Larry, sit down and finish your breakfast. Casey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to the office. So long, kids. See you tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Casey, would you mind walking to the car with me?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, excuse me, Mr. Belvedere.
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  Speaker 2: And where do you boys think you're going?
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  Speaker 7: We'll go to the car, too.
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  Speaker 2: You will remain seated. Huh? Sit down.
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  Speaker 6: Finish your breakfast and chew each mouthful 28 times.
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Not 20, mind you, nor 26, but 28 times.
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  Speaker 2: As for your baby brother... Let's go, honey! Bullseye!
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  Speaker 7: Right in Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Belvedere's face!
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  Speaker 2: So, what do you think, Casey? Should we give the
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: guy a whirl? Maybe, I don't know, for a day
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  Speaker 2: or two?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I suppose so. At least the boys seem to
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  Speaker 5: like him.
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  Speaker 2: Roddy, what's happened to Roddy?
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  Speaker 7: Well, don't just stand there.
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  Speaker 2: He's been hurt.
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  Speaker 5: He's screaming.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, Tony, what happened to the baby?
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  Speaker 9: Charlie, look.
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  Speaker 5: Cereal. Roddy's got cereal all over his head.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a bowl and all.
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  Speaker 6: Larry, if you told Ronnie to dump his cereal on
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  Speaker 6: his head, I.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't tell him anything, Pop.
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  Speaker 7: I was chewing my food. Yeah, me too, 28 times.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: King, as you can observe by the condition of my
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  Speaker 6: face and clothing, your youngest son has been pelting me
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  Speaker 6: with cereal ever since I sat down to this grisly meal.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Therefore, I decided to teach the child an object lesson.
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  Speaker 5: You dumped cereal on his head?
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  Speaker 2: I did precisely that, Mrs. King, and you will note
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  Speaker 2: that he didn't like it.
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  Speaker 6: I guarantee that he will never throw cereal at me
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  Speaker 6: or anyone else again, ever.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Belvedere, consider yourself hired. He's done that to me, too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've got something. I couldn't agree with you more, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: King.
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  Speaker 2: You might even say I've got everything.
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  Speaker 10: Hiya, fellas.
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  Speaker 2: Hiya, Pop.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Hey, look at us.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Well, what goes with you two?
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: We're standing on.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Our heads, Pop. Mr.
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: Belvedere taught us.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: It's yoga. Oh, it feels swell.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: He says it relaxes you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Well, just be careful you don't relax so much you
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: break your necks.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: We won't, Pop.
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: Hi, baby.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Everything under control?
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Hello, darling. Oh, Harry, he's terrific.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: He's got the kids out there standing on their heads.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: And they love him. They've been as good as gold
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: all day.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: They what?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: He gave Roddy a bath, and there wasn't a peep
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: out of him.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll be... Hey, the dog, what's the matter with Henry?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Is he sick?
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: No, darling.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: But he must be. Look, he just woke in and
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: laid down.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Tracy, that's the first time I've ever seen Henry walk.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: And every other time, he's just galloped.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: He's not barking.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: No, darling. It seems that Mr. Belvedere used to be
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: a dog trainer or something.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: And he had a long talk with Henry this morning.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Henry's been quiet as a mouse ever since. Isn't it wonderful?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: But there's just one thing, Henry, Harry. Mr. Belvedere, well,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: he's sort of mysterious.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: How do you mean?
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Well, he locks himself in his rooms. I went up
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: and listened, but I couldn't hear a sound. What do
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: you suppose he does up there? He's so quiet.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe he stands on his head. That doesn't make much noise. Oh.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Is he up there now?
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. He's out taking a walk.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Then why are we whispering?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot. He says he's going to go out
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: for a walk every night before dinner. Harry, do you
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: suppose it would be very unethical if we went up and.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: It most certainly would. But let's go.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: But I know it's the right key, Harry. Funny it
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: doesn't work.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Well, if it's the right key, it's got to work. Here,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: let me do it. You're wasting your time, Mr. King. Hello.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Good evening.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Knowing human nature as I do, I suspected that you
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: might try to snoop.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: This is a new lock on the door.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: But it can't be. I didn't order a locksmith.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: There was no occasion to, Mrs. King. I am an
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: expert locksmith. And now, if you'll excuse me, I will
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: see you both later at dinner.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry, will you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Well, you'd better tell the boys to come in and wash.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That won't be necessary, Mr. King. They're scrubbing their grimy
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: little paws right now. I don't know, Tacey. He may
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: be all right, but let's face it, he is a screwball.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Well, a little eccentric, maybe, but... Is that you, Father?
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Father?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Since when am I father?
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Pardon me, sir, but I wish you'd see if Tony
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: and I are good and clean.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Are we, father?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: Belvedere says that cleanliness is next to godliness.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Well, dear, need I say more?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I guess he stays, Tacey.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: After a brief intermission, we'll present Act II of.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Pretty. What is that book you were chuckling over, Libby?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, Chicken Every Sunday.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: 20th Century Fox has just made a movie of it,
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: and the picture was so funny, I wanted to read
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: the book and.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Laugh all over again.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I think Dan Daly is great as the dreamer looking
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: for easy street.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: And Celeste Holm makes such a practical wife. She loved
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: the chance to play such a natural role.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Life in Mother's Boarding House provides plenty of human situations.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I remember the scene in Chicken Every Sunday where Celeste
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: is washing dishes and Dan insists on taking over.
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: Well, they had a good many retakes on that to
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: get it just right. Celeste washed quite a pile of dishes,
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: all told. And she was very pleased that the studio
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: gave her Luxe Flakes to do them.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: What could be more natural?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Millions of women who care about their hands never use
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: anything else for dishes. Luxe Flakes are so mild and gentle,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: they don't redden or roughen hands.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: as strong soaps often do.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: And yet it costs so little to use Luxe flakes
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: for dishes three times a day, it's really easy on
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: the budget. The tiny diamonds of Luxe are so sheer,
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: they practically melt into suds the instant water touches them.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I've never seen such thick, rich suds. These tiny Luxe
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: diamonds are a real triumph. of the world-famous Lever Laboratories.
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: And the suds last so long, these wonderful diamonds actually
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: go further. Ounce for ounce, they wash up to twice
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: as many dishes as any of ten other leading soaps tested.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: They're thrifty.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Here's our producer, William Keeling.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Act II of Sitting Pretty, winner of Photoplay Magazine's Gold
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Medal Award, starring Maureen O'Hara as Tacey, Clifton Webb as
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Lynn Belvedere, and Robert Young as Harry. Well, you just
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: wouldn't recognize the King household anymore. Peace and serenity, like
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: a halo, have settled over the little family. A blessing
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: directly traceable to the gentleman in the spare bedroom, Mr.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Lynn Belvedere.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Now, on a wintry Sunday morning, Mr. Belvedere returns from
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: a little visit downtown. Round in the corner, he encounters
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: the community gossip, Clarence Appleton.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Why, it's Belvedere. Good morning, Belvedere.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: You will kindly address me as Mr. Belvedere until I
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: grant you permission to drop the title. A contingency which
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: seems hardly likely, Mr.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Appleton. Well, really, I intended no offense. Tell me, Mr.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Belvedere, are you completely happy with the Harry Kings?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Only an idiot is completely happy anywhere.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: But I understand those dear little boys are devoted to.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You, and that Mrs.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: King considers you quite the treasure.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Indeed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, my dear mother is very anxious to make your acquaintance, Mr.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Belvedere.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Perhaps you could drop in on your next afternoon off?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I am not a servant, Mr. Appleton. My afternoons are
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: always my own. Oh.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: Well, in that case, drop in any time for a
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: glass of sherry.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: I dislike sherry as much as I deplore the habit
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: of dropping in on people uninvited.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But, Mr. Belvedere, I am inviting you. And I, sir,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: am declining. Good day. I don't know why we've got
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to be so particular, Tacey. I just thought we could
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: surprise the kids with a snowman.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: If we're making a snowman, let's make it properly. Now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: you finish the arms and leave the face to me.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, Mommy. We all know you were great sculptors before
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I married you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Any face, even a snowman's, must have expression and character.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Well, hurry up, or the kids will be home from
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sunday school. Tacey, look. Good morning, Mr. Belvedere. Good morning,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: good morning.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, I guess you left the house before we even
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: got up.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, cold enough for you? Nippy, nippy, but it
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: suits me. Well, how do you like our snowman? Mr. King,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you should have let your wife do the face.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I did the face.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, it will soon melt. Stacy, what do you
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: suppose he's got in that package?
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, how do I know? I've given up wondering about
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: anything he does or has.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: But it made a noise. I distinctly heard a sort
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of metallic ticking.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: So did I.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: If he's doing anything illegal up in that room, we
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: could get into a lot of trouble.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Harry, do you suppose if you climbed up on that
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: tree and, well, maybe crawled out on that limb... Yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I could look right in his window.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Tacey, go in the house.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Go in and watch the stairs. If he comes down,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: find some way to warn me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: All right, but be careful.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: All I'm going to do is climb a tree.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Can you see anything, Harry?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Not yet, but I'm not high enough. Stop looking at
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: me and watch for Mr.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Belvedere.
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: I am watching.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'll know what he's up to in just a minute now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Climbing trees, Mr. King, at your age.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: You'd better come out, Mrs.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: King. Bring a roll of gauze, please, and some adhesive tape. Oh, ooh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: take it easy, will you? That's my wrist. Kind of
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: keep still. You're lucky that no bones were broken.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: I must say, that's a very professional bandage, Mr.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Belvedere.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: There aren't many people who could do that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: That's substantially what General Pershing told me during the First
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: World War.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: You were a doctor, too?
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: A bone specialist. Oh, no.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Is there anything you haven't been?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mrs.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: King, I've never been an idler nor a parasite. Or
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: have I ever climbed a tree to look into someone's bedroom?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Now, Mr. King, how does your wrist feel? I guess
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I'll live. I hope it's better by tomorrow. I've got
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to go to Chicago. Indeed.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, I thought I told you, Mr.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Belvedere.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Yes, he has to go to Chicago on business.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You'll have nothing to worry about, Mr. King.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I shall endeavor to pinch hit for you at every
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: available opportunity.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Well, thanks.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: That'll be just... Pacey, am I hearing things? Something squeaked.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Why, yes, I heard it, too. Like a bird.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: That's precisely what you heard. The twittering of a bird.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: The cage is in the living room, Mrs.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: King.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Where on earth did it come from?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: That was my package which you, Mr. King, stared at
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: so pointedly a little while ago. I'm opposed to the
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: practice of exchanging gifts at any time, but since you
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: were gracious enough to give me three pairs of excellent
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: wooden socks on the occasion of my birthday, I tried
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: to get something for your anniversary that would give pleasure
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: to your entire family.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: In brief, a canary bird.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: How very kind of you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Belvedere.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's beautiful. Does he sing?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Not yet, but I shall teach him.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Hey, Tacey, go out and tell Bill to lay off
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: that horn.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Will you?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: But, darling, you've got to catch a train, and if
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Bill and Edna are driving you to the station, you'd better.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Nobody's driving me to the station. I've just decided I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: not going to Chicago.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Why not?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I can't go. I can't leave you here alone with Belvedere.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Alone with... Are you out of your mind?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you seem to find him very attractive, Tacey.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I find the Grand Canyon attractive, too, but that doesn't
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: mean that I'm in love with it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: You're mad about him.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, I am insane with passion.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Now, look, Tacey, I'm not suggesting that you and Belvedere
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: will carry on while.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I'm gone, but.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's darn right of you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: But you know how gossip starts, and, well, I just thought.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Look, would you feel any better if I slept at
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Edna's house while you're gone?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Well, yes. Yes, I would, definitely.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: The kids won't like it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll break it to them gently when they get
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: home from school. You, uh, sure you don't mind?
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Certainly I'll mind. But every night I'll go over to
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Edna's and Bill's. Now pick up your bags, darling, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: beat it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Do you want to get a kiss?
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: No. I'm a one-man woman, and my heart belongs to Belvedere.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, for heaven's... I'm coming, Bill. So long, honey. You
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: should be very gratified, Mrs. King.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr. Belvedere.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: If you'll permit the.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Observation, I believe your husband was actually jealous in his
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: sophomoric fashion.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Mr. Belvedere, don't you consider eavesdropping a bit unethical?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Unethical, but fascinating.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: I particularly enjoyed your comparing me to the Grand Canyon.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Now there's rugged grandeur.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: You'll pardon me, Mrs. King. It's time I gave Roddy
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: his bath. Larry!
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Larry, wake up!
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Larry!
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: What's the matter, Tony?
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: Larry, I'm sick.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: My stomach hurts. Go back to sleep and you'll feel better.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: I can't.
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: It hurts.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Tell Mom.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: How can I tell Mom?
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: You know she's sleeping on Aunt Edna.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: I want my mom!
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Put your pipe down, Tony.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: You'll wake Mr.
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: Bell, but they're rotting.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: I don't care. Tony, I know.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: Why don't you stand on your head the way Mr.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Belvedere taught it?
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: I already tried, but I only threw up.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Okay, Tony.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I'll wake Mr.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Belvedere. But I'm wondering if he won't like it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: You kindly stop moaning, Tony.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: You requested your mother's presence, and I've already telephoned for her.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: She'll be here in a moment, and I've... Larry, put
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: that bottle down.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: Tony said he wanted a.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Drink, Mr.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Belvedere.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: A drink of gin? Can't you read, young man?
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: The label on that bottle clearly says distilled London dry gin.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, that. It really isn't gin, Mr.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Belvedere.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: The regular water bottle got smashed.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: It's just ice water.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: When your mother arrives, she can drown him in ice
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: water as far as I'm concerned.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Until then, put the bottle down.
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, are you sure you called the right number, Mr.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Belvedere?
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Kindly credit me with enough intelligence not to lose my
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: head in a crisis. If I'm not mistaken, and I
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: never am, there's a car turning down the corner right now.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: It's all right, Tony, darling, it's all right. There, now,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: back in bed and go to sleep. You'll be fine
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: in the morning. Gosh, Mama, thanks for coming. Oh, did
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: you take his temperature, Mr. Belvedere?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: No, I'm satisfied that he simply has a bellyache. No more,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: no less.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, he feels nice and cool.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: I assure you I could have handled this situation perfectly
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: well myself, only the child expressed a maudlin desire for
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: his mother.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you did, Tony. Are you going to
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: sleep here, Mom? No, dear. I'm going right back to
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Auntie Edna's. Oh, and by the way, Dopey, the next
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: time you find a package of chewing gum, be sure
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: it is chewing gum. Good night, darling. I'm sure he'll
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: go right to sleep, Mr. Belvedere.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Whereas I should be plagued with insomnia.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: I also hope you'll forgive my appearance. I don't usually
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: rush through the streets in the middle of the night
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: in a bathrobe and... Whoever could that be?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: If you go to the door, you need not conjecture.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: Appleton.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Please pardon the intrusion, Mrs. King, but I noticed all
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: the lights go on, and knowing your husband is away,
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: I felt constrained to dash over to see if anything
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: was wrong.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: No, thank you, Mr. Appleton. Everything is fine.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, just an able call, you might say, to
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: offer my services if needed.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I can see that they're not. And how did you
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: know our lights had gone on?
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: Did you borrow your mother's binoculars, or were you perhaps
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: looking for pollen on your iris?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Put down that bottle, Mr.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Belvedere.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I shall, Mr. Appleton. I merely intend to have a drink. Well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I can see that I'm not needed here. Your vision
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: is remarkably accurate.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Evil-minded little worm.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Mrs. King, do you know anyone who has a beehive?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: A good swarm of bees could ruin his iris.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: I know. But how could you get them to swarm? Now,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: don't tell me you were also a beekeeper.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That is correct. Well, good night, Mrs. King.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Good night, Mr. Belvedere.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: Well, I simply had to tell you, Horatio, as Harry
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: King's employer, as the man he works for, you simply must.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Well, go on, Clarence, what else? Isn't that enough?
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: There I was, calling on an errand of mercy, Belvedere
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: in his pajamas.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: And Tacey King in... in... a negligee.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: Cavorting about and guzzling gin.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: This is awful. The wife of my own employee.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm sending for Harry King at once. Oh, I, uh,
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: I don't suppose you'll let this get around, Clarence. You
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: haven't told anyone else.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Well, uh, hardly anyone, Horatio. Drunk. Three o'clock in the morning.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: Miss Adams, take a telegram to Harry King.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Now, if you'll just hold that pose, Mr. Belvedere. Oh,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: you're not getting bored, are you, Edna?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Bored?
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: I'm having a wonderful time.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: But I do have to run along.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: You may not have known it, Mr. Belvedere, but Tacey
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: used to be quite a sculptress.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Hmm, it's possible.
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: And I think it's very sweet of you to pose
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: like this and give her a chance to practice.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: My motives, Mrs.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Philby, are not entirely unselfish. Someday they will need a
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: bus to me in the Hall of Fame.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: The only virtue you lack, Mr. Belvedere, is modesty.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I do not consider that a virtue.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, I do. Harry is very modest.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Your husband has a great deal to be modest about.
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: Don't let him get you down, sweetie. See you at
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: the house tonight, huh?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: As usual, right after dinner. Goodbye, Mr.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Belvedere.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you for going.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Now perhaps we can get something accomplished.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: I doubt it. It's your jaw, Mr. Belvedere. Your jaw,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: it just isn't right.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: My jaw is perfect. Come here and I'll demonstrate.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Now, if you place your fingertips at the base of
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: my jaw.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Like this?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: A little higher. That's it. There we are.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Now, feel how the orbicularis oris operates. Now, over here
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: at the jawbone.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Can't you feel it?
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Well, well, this is a cozy little scene.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: Harry! Why, darling, what a wonderful surprise. I didn't expect
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: you till Thursday.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: It's pretty obvious you didn't. Would you mind telling me
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: just what you two were doing?
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: I was permitting your wife to massage my larynx.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And I might add, Mr. King, that your greeting to Mrs.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: King is scarcely cordial. I'll greet my wife any way
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I like. Harry.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: I came back from Chicago because Mr. Hammond sent for me.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: I just came from his office with my head so
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: full of gossip.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: That I don't know whether.
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: Gossip?
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: What gossip?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: About you and Belvedere. Now, look here, Tacey.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Stop raising your voice.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I'll raise the roof if I want to. Tacey, look, I.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I'm willing to believe that all these rumors about a
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: drunken orgy with Belvedere are somewhat garbled, but.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: So that's it. The fine hand of Clarence Appleton.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: But my gosh, Tacey, just now when I came into
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: the house, you were practically holding Belvedere in your arms.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: She was merely feeling my bone structure. You shut up
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: and listen. I am listening.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: All I can hear is a typical suburban husband reacting
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: in a typically stupid and stuffy manner to a typical
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: tempest in a teapot.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: He's right. And as for that drunken orgy, Tony got
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: us all up in the middle of the night with
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: a stomachache. I dashed over from Edna's and I wasn't
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: in the house ten minutes when that horrible little Mr.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Appleton came snooping around.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I imagined it was something like that. Look,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I'll admit it's all pretty silly, but.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Well, but what?
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Well, I was just thinking that perhaps it might be
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: simpler all around if Mr. Belvedere sought employment elsewhere.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: I see. To satisfy malicious gossips like your dear boss
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: and Clarence Appleton, you want us to kick Mr. Belvedere out?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: In a word, yes. And that is your final decision, Mr. King? Yes.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but that's final. Oh, hi, kids. Please let
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: him stay.
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: Please.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Please, Father.
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: I'll do anything you want on me.
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: Please don't send Mr.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Belvedere away.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: That's enough of that.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Your father's not the type to be swayed by sentimental pleading.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: Don't let him go, Father.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Please.
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: We love Mr.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Belvedere.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: Don't go, Uncle Len.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Little boy, don't ever again, as long as you live,
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: dare to call me Uncle. By no stretch of the
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: imagination could I possibly be a relative of yours.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: My name is Mr. Belvedere. Is that clear? Yes. Yes, sir.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: That's better.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: What the heck's the matter with Roddy? Children are psychic, Mr. King.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: They can sense impending disaster. Okay, okay. I know when
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I'm licked. You can stay.
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: What?
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Roddy, stop crying. Hey, listen.
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: The canary bird.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: He's singing.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: You, uh, sent for me, Mr.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Hammond?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, Harry, I did. Sit down, Harry. Sit down. Harry,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: how long is it since you returned from Chicago? Oh,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: about a month, Mr. Hammond. A month. Harry, the firm
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: of Horatio J.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Hammond and Associates has a spotless name in this community.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely spotless. Yes, I'm sure it has.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: And as I told you about a month ago, I
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: consider it mandatory for all connected with this firm and
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: their wives never to incur the slightest gossip of a
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: scandalous nature.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, now, wait a minute. If you're still harping about
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: those stupid rumors... I do not harp. Harry, where was
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: your wife last night? Now, look here, Mr.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Hammond.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: This has gone far enough.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: I agree with you. Last night, your wife and Mr.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: Belvedere were seen together at the Crystal Cafe. They were
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: dancing the rumba.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Last night, Tacey and Edna Philby attended a lecture at
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: the women's club.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: You were with your wife? No, I wasn't.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I was tired and I went to bed early. I
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: don't doubt that Casey might have attended the lecture. But
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: I know that after the lecture, she was dancing the
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: rumba with Mr. Belvedere at the Crystal Cafe. I saw
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: them there myself.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So did my wife, Mrs. Hammond.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: So did Clarence Appleton and his mother. Now for the details. Oh,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: it hurts me, Harry. It hurts me deeply to say this.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Harry, we're in the kitchen, darling. Mr. Belvedere is making
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: the most delicious salad.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I'm glad he's here. What I've got to say is
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: for both of you. Tacey, why didn't you tell me
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you were out dancing with this man last night?
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Now what have you heard?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Answer my question. Why didn't you tell me?
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Well, I tried to tell you when I got home,
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: but you were so sleepy and disagreeable you wouldn't listen.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Then why didn't you tell me this morning at breakfast?
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: I can be sleepy and disagreeable, too.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: King, our meeting last night was purely coincidental, but most enjoyable.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Then you admit it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Certainly. Moreover, he rumbles like a saint.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I don't care if he dances like Arthur Murray. You
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: may be interested to know, Mr. King, I taught Arthur Murray.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: Now look, Hanky, your conduct is making me the laughingstock
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: of Hummingbird Hill.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Why, Mr. Hammond said, stop shredding that lettuce. Life must
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: go on, Mr. King. Well, it's not going on with
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: you in this house.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Harry, I think you'd better pull yourself together. After the
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: lecture last night, Edna and I went to the Crystal
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Cafe for a cup of coffee. It just happened that Mr.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Belvedere was there.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Go on, Tacey.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: He was kind enough to dance with me. Then we
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: each had a cocktail.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: We went Dutch, Mr. King.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: I have neither the means nor the presumption to buy
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: cocktails for other men's wives.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: So suppose you apologize to both of us now for
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: this absurd... Apologize? I.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: should apologize because of your indiscretions?
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Very well, Harry. Until you come to your senses and
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: stop letting Mr. Hammond run our lives, I'm going to
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: take Roddy and go home to Mother.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Go right ahead. It's perfectly all right with me.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: It would be difficult to tell which of you is
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: behaving more foolishly, but I think you have a slight edge, Mr.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: King. You keep out of this.
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: Well.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going home to mother.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Very well, if that's the way you feel about it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Satisfied, Mr. Belvedere? You've just smashed my home. Stupidity never
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: gives me satisfaction, Mr.
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: King.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Your wife is right. You owe her an abject apology.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I've half a mind to punch you right on the nose.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: It takes half a mind to resort to such measures.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Why, you, you.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, my hand, my hand. I believe you've slinted the door, Mr. King.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: I neglected to tell you that in my youth, I
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: was quite expert in the art of fisticuffs. Get out
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: of here.
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: Yes, Mr.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: King, yes. I think perhaps it's time I left.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Before we bring.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: You Act Three of Sitting Pretty, I'd like to have
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: you meet our special guest, Helen Weston, an ambitious young
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: player who spends her free time, as well as her
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: working hours.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: On the 20th Century Fox Live. How about that, Helen?
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: I just can't keep away, Mr. Keeley.
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: I get a real thrill out of watching the stars work.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Then, if you saw A Letter to Three Wives being filmed,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: you had a chance to watch three stars at once.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, I did.
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: Linda Darnell is wonderful, the perfect glamour girl. And I
• 41:39
  Speaker 10: think Anne Southern is absolutely right for a smart, successful
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: career wife.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Jean Crane has the most sympathetic role, perhaps, as a
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: young wife who doesn't know how to live up to
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: the country club crowds.
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: It was exciting watching those big country club dad scenes
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: in A Letter to Three Wives. But they worked on
• 41:55
  Speaker 10: them so long, I felt sorry for Jean. She said
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: her nylon stood up better than she did under the
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: strain of so much dancing.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Lux Flakes had something to do with that, Helen.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're right, Mr.
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: Kennedy. The wardrobe girl told me it's a rule of
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: the studio always to use Lux Flakes for stockings, just
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: as they do for everything washable.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: These tiny diamonds of Lux are a real economy. Scores
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: of strain tests on all kinds of stockings prove it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Washing stockings with strong soap or rubbing with cake soap
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: make runs come quickly. But with Luxe Flakes, even sheer
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: nylons last twice as long.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: I do believe that's true, Mr. Kennedy. I'm devoted to
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Luxe Flakes myself.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Well, then you've probably noticed how much faster these tiny
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: diamonds of Luxe dissolve. They bubble up into suds the
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: instant water touches them. Make richer suds, too, that last
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: and last. There's such perfect care for stockings. It's no
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: wonder 90% of the makers of stockings recommend these tiny
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: diamonds of luxe.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming tonight, Helen Westcott.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Back now to our producer, William Keeley.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on the third act of Sitting Pretty.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: The Photo Play Magazine Gold Medal Award winner, starring Clifton
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Webb as Lynn Belvedere, Robert Young as Harry, and Marina
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: O'Hara as Tacey. For ten days now, Hummingbird Hill has
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: had plenty to talk about. Tacey has taken the baby
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: and rushed.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Off to her mother's.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Mr. Belvedere has mysteriously disappeared. And Harry is struggling unhappily
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: to keep together what remains of his home. But now,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: something akin to an atom bomb has suddenly struck the community.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: A new novel has appeared in all the bookstores, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: the critics are raving about it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Unknown author writes brilliant satire of life in the suburbs.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Sensational new novel hailed as best in years. First and
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: second printing sold out. Entire country clamoring for copies.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: And what has this book to do with Hummingbird Hill?
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Plenty.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: It's all about Hummingbird Hill and the people who live there.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: And the author, of course, is none other than Lynn Belvedere.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: For certain readers, the novel holds a particular and dismaying interest.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: People like Clarence Appleton. Mother, mother, have you read the
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: second chapter? It's all about me and about you, too.
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: Do you see what he calls us?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: He calls.
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: Mother, mother, speak to me.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It's Clarence. It's your boy, Clarence.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Mother, mother.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: And then there are others, like Horatio J. Hammond.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's slander, that's what it is.
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: Get Harry King in here right away.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Bring me every book we have on libel laws. I'll
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: sue to the highest court in the country.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: The whole town would sue. He's made fools of every
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: one of us.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Yes, Lynn Velvedere has used Hummingbird Hill as the background for.
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: A wonderfully witty book.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: And Hummingbird Hill is steamy, except for a.
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: Few residents, such as Edna Filby and her husband, Bill.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Well, is she coming for the phone?
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: Well, what is the opposite? What's the matter? Can't they
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: find Casey? Oh, Casey.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Hello, Casey. Hello.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Well, Casey, how are things at home?
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's you, isn't it?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I thought the boy was looking for you at the bar.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's right now.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: Yes, I am.
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: You knew that's.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: What he was doing?
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no.
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've seen the advertisements for the book, but
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: it's all sold out here in Fort Wayne.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: Well, go on, Edna. Tell me what's happened.
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: Well, in the first place, Harry's just been fired.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: But why?
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: For harboring Belvedere under his roof.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Hey, tell her about me. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: And when Bill tried to stand up for Harry, old
• 45:45
  Speaker 9: man Hammond fired Bill, too.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: And you know what they're going to do this afternoon?
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: Some movie company's going to make a newsreel right at
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: your house.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: A newsreel? Uh-huh.
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: They're bringing Belvedere back to get some intimate shots of
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: the master at the scene of his triumph.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Edna, put Harry on the phone. I've just got to
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: speak to Harry.
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm sorry, Tacey, but we don't know where Harry is.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Well, what's happened to him?
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: Probably nothing.
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: He's probably just out somewhere looking for a nice soft
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: shoulder to cry on.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Bill says that he.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Tacey! Hello!
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: Well, the part about the nice soft shoulder must have worked, Bill.
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: Ten to one, Tacey takes the first plane home.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you policemen? We're trying to make
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: a newsreel in this house. Can't you keep that mob
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: quiet out there? We're doing our best, Mr. Billingsley. There
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: must be 2,000 people out here.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Half of them want his autograph and half of them
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: want to kill him.
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: Exactly the type of reaction I anticipated.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess we're ready to shoot, Mr. Belvedere.
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: Now, I'll be behind the camera and I'm going to
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: ask you a few questions.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: So just be perfectly.
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: Relaxed Young man, I need no instructions I have directed
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: many pictures I'm sorry, I didn't know that All right, boys,
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: quiet Quiet, quiet, please Roll them Now, Mr. Belvedere, tell us,
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: how did you write this book?
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I wrote it with a quill. Oh, that's very... Who
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: was that? Well, well, stop it. You're not supposed to
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: let anybody in. But, officer, I live here.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: I guess I can go into my own house.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, lady. Hey, chief, she says she lives here.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Let her in, then. Oh, you're Mrs. King, huh?
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: I most certainly am. And if you try to stop me,
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: I'll sue the police department for every.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: You might as well, lady. Everybody else in town has
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: got a lawsuit. Let her through, Al. Mom, it's Mom!
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Tony, look! Larry, Tony! Oh, you darlings. Oh, I've missed
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: you so much.
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: Where's Daddy, Mom?
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, I left him with Auntie Edna. Oh, it's so
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: good to see you. Where's Daddy? He's inside, Mom.
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: They're letting him watch the movie.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to watch, too. Come on.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Belvedere, critics throughout the country have unanimously hailed your novel
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: as a masterpiece of sheer genius.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: That is correct. Well, look. How do you feel about it?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: I feel they were quite conservative. Quiet over there.
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: We're trying.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Cut, cut. That must be Mrs. King. It certainly is. Oh, Casey. Gosh,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see you.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, I had to come back, darling. I came the
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: minute I heard you were in trouble. Don't worry. It'll
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: all work out all right.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: I've been such a dope tasting. You have indeed. But
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: there's no need to be emotional, Mrs. King. He won't starve. Mr.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: Belvedere, I don't quite know whether to congratulate you or to.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Strike me with a baseball bat.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: Well, yes.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: It's a moot point. Mr.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: Belvedere, please, we haven't finished shooting. You are mistaken, young man,
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: we have. Now, run along and take your little helpers
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: with you.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Edna, is that you? Oh, well, come on in.
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: Roddy wants his mama, Tacey. I'm sorry, but I thought
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: I'd better bring him over.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Come on upstairs, Edna. Let's get out of this shamble.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, dear. I'll be up as soon as
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I get rid of this gang. Look, fellas, enough's enough.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Get all these people and cameras out of here, will you? Okay, boys,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: let's go.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: It up.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Just one of the penalties of fame, Mr.
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: King.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not famous. You will be. My book has
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: made you immortal. You can't call him that. I am
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Horatio J.
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: Hammond, and I'll go anywhere I please.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Where is this Belvedere person?
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you are. Don't you take your hat off
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: when you crash somebody's house.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: Don't you talk to me like that. I'll talk to
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: you any way I like.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: You fired me, remember? Take off your hat. All right,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: it's off. Now then, Mr.
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: Belvedere, it gives me the greatest possible pleasure to serve
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: you personally with this summons.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Summons? Well, well, how interesting.
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: I am suing you for one million dollars for libel.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Splendid. That's a good round sum. I'm going to sue you, too.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: And me. And I, Mr.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Taylor.
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: My mother and I are going to sue for another
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: million dollars. In addition, we shall see that you are
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: run out of town.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Excellent, Mr. Appleton.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: Such notoriety will cause the sale of my book to
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: soar even higher, if that is possible.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Mr. King, Mr.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: Philby, would you two young men be interested in acting
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: as my attorneys in these threatened suits?
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Are you serious? Mr. King, I never jest about a
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: million dollars.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: Money is the root of all evil, and I have
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: the greatest possible respect for it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, Mr. Belvedere, we'll be very happy to defend you.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I'll say we will.
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: The law firm of Philby and Keene will be open
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: tomorrow morning. And they'll have their work cut out for
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: them because we intend to sue not only you, but
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: everybody who supplied you with this libelous information.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Excellent idea, Mr. Hammond. You should always go to the source.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I intend to.
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: Has it occurred to any of you gentlemen who that
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: source might be? Who is the person who knows all
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: about everyone in Hummingbird Hill? Who is the one that
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: for years has made a repulsive habit of snooping and
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: gossiping about his neighbors?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Who is it among us, for example, who.
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: Knows all our little peccadillos with girls in florist shops?
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: The girl was merely delivering flowers to that motel.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: And they were not orange blossoms, Mr. Taylor, were they?
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: And you, Mr. McPherson.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: Why, you caricatured me in this book as a drinking man.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: It is not I who counts the empty bottles in
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: your trash can, Mr.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: McPherson.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: Just one little moment. Are you insinuating that I.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I let the chips fall where they may, Mr. Appleton.
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: But I am not.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: And, Mr.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: Hammond, who is it that takes a habit of reading
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: his neighbor's mail?
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Their new mail. Oh, this is outrageous.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Are you suggesting that I have been your collaborator?
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Don't be so presumptuous. Let me put it in terms
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: that even you will understand.
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: You, Mr. Appleton, have spread the pollen. I have reaped
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: the harvest.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: But this is fantastic.
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: I have been more grossly maligned in this book than anyone.
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: It is only poetic justice that a stool pigeon should
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: be roasted.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: So? So you were the one after him.
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: No, no, Horatio, let us not be hasty now.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Why, you little.
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: Horatio, no!
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Let me alone!
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: Mother! Mother, help!
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: Mama!
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: More toast, Harry?
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Coffee? Thanks, Daisy. Hey, take a look at this. They've
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: got Clarence Appleton's picture in the paper. Boy, what a shiner.
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: I bet it nearly killed him when Mr. Hammond went
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: over and trampled down his iris bed.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Well, how would you like to go celebrating tonight?
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: Love to. Would you care to take me dancing?
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Dancing? Remember, I don't dance as well as Mr. Belvedere.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: No, dear, but you're much prettier.
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: Uh-oh.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. We can't go anywhere. Who'll sit with
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: the kids?
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: I will. Mr.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Belvedere!
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: The mere fact that I have been catapulted into fame
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: does not blind me to the obligation I undertook here.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: Mr. Belvedere, you're an amazing man. Just what are your
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: plans for the future?
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: My dear Mrs.
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: King, this book of mine is only the first volume
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: of a trilogy. I estimate the other two volumes will
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: take me at least two years more.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: And you, uh, you're going to write them here?
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Posterity will demand that the entire masterpiece be written under
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: the same roof.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Your house will become a shrine, Mr.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: King. I'm surprised that you even want to stay. It
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: can't be very convenient.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: You claim you don't even like children. That is correct. Now,
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: if you'll excuse me.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, uh, Mr. Belvedere.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: I think it's only fair to tell you that before
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: long we're, uh, well... We're expecting another child.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Then you'll find me of great service, Mrs. King. I
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: was also an obstetrician.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Our stars will return for their curtain calls in a moment.
• 54:10
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• 55:52
  Speaker 2: We return you now to William Keeley.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: We know now why Sitting Pretty was picked as the
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: favorite film of the year. And here are three of
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: the reasons. Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Clifton West.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Bill, we'd all like to tell the audience how pleased
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: we are by their selection of Sitting Pretty.
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: And I think Clifton Webb deserves a special credit for
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: his portrayal of Mr.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Belvedere, which has won him a nomination for the Academy Award.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bob.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Now, of course, 20th Century Fox has starred Clifton in
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: the sequel to Sitting Pretty.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: The new film is Mr.
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: Belvedere Goes to College.
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: Imagine me in college, the all-American tackle of 1949. I'll
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: probably wind up in the Rose Bowl.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Playing tackle? No, picking roses.
• 56:54
  Speaker 10: Ha, ha.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: Well, you'll all be picking up medals later tonight when
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Sitting Pretty receives Photo Play Magazine's gold medal award at
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: the gala dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: I understand George Jessel will be the master of ceremonies.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: That's right, Bob. And our audience can get complete.
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  Speaker 4: Details of all the awards in the March issue of
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: Photo Play Magazine, which is out now. I was very
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: pleased to learn that The Street With No Name has
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: been selected as one of the ten most popular pictures
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: of the year.
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• 57:37
  Speaker 2: And now for next week's play.
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  Speaker 4: It's a current success from Universal International Studios, The Unafraid.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: And we'll have the original stars of the picture. Joan Fontaine,
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: and Burt Lancaster. This is a hard-hitting action drama that
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: brings together, for the first time, a new romantic team.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: The lovely and accomplished.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: Actress, Joan Fontaine, and the two-fisted Burt Lancaster.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: You'll have another hit in your hands, Bill. Good night.
• 58:07
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• 58:54
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  Speaker 2: Heard in tonight's.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: Cast were Gail Gordon as Appleton, Ed Begley as Hammond,
• 59:04
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• 59:11
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