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Speaker 1: January 29th, 1945 brought Lux Radio Theater to episode 468,
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Speaker 1: Lady in the Dark. Ginger Rogers returns as Liza Elliott,
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Speaker 1: editor of Allure magazine, whose sudden panic and difficulty making
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Speaker 1: decisions lead her to Dr. Brooks and psychoanalysis. Ray Milland
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Speaker 1: reprises his film role as Charlie Johnson, Liza's irreverent advertising manager,
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Speaker 1: while two very different suitors complicate her already crowded life.
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Speaker 1: Adapted for radio by Sanford Barnett from the Paramount film
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Speaker 1: and the Broadway musical, this CBS presentation was guest produced
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Speaker 1: and introduced by Lionel Barrymore. From Lux Radio Theater, Lady
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Speaker 1: in the Dark. Here is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Lady in the Dark,
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Speaker 3: starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Moland.
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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer for tonight, Mr. Lionel Barrymore.
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Speaker 4: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 5: Tonight, in the absence of my good friend Cecil B. DeMille,
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Speaker 5: I'm going to act as your producer. I am especially
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Speaker 5: glad to have a hand in bringing you one of
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Speaker 5: the screen's most entertaining and sophisticated comedies, Paramount's Lady in
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Speaker 5: the Dark, adapted from the Broadway stage success produced by
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Speaker 5: Sam H. Harris and Mars Hart.
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Speaker 3: In the next hour, you will see what happens to.
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Speaker 5: A girl who can't make up her mind. A girl
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Speaker 5: who was pulled and twisted by her inner dream... bewildered
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Speaker 5: by her own success... and pressed by impatient suitors for
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Speaker 5: her hand. You will hear, too, music by Kurt Weill
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Speaker 5: and Ira Gershwin. I don't want to go beyond that...
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Speaker 5: except to add that our stars tonight... are more than
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Speaker 5: equal to the roles assigned to them. First, because they
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Speaker 5: played in the original screen version... And second, because they're
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Speaker 5: a combination you'll find hard to beat in Hollywood. Ginger
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Speaker 5: Rogers and Ray Millan. They've been on this stage together
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Speaker 5: once before, and I'm sure you share the hope they'll
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Speaker 5: be on many times again. Now, of course, the meaning
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Speaker 5: of tonight's title, Lady in the Dark, is a lady
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Speaker 5: who's in the dark about herself, and not a lady
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Speaker 5: in the dark about Lux Toilet Soap. although they may
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Speaker 5: be one and the same thing. A lady who isn't
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Speaker 5: sure of her appearance may prefer a dim light, while
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Speaker 5: a woman with a captivating smooth complexion wouldn't choose to
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Speaker 5: stay in darkness very long. Now, if you recall your Latin,
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Speaker 5: you'll remember the word lux means light. So if by
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Speaker 5: any chance you are a lady in the dark yourself,
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Speaker 5: perhaps the easiest solution to your problem is luxe toilet soap.
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Speaker 5: And now our curtain rises on the first act of
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Speaker 5: tonight's play, Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers as
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Speaker 5: Liza Elliott and Ray Milland as Charlie Johnson. The most
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Speaker 5: modern suite of offices in New York's most modern skyscraper
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Speaker 5: is occupied by America's most modern fashion magazine. This glossy
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Speaker 5: journal of elegance is called Allure. and its equally sophisticated
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Speaker 5: editor is called Liza Elliott.
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Speaker 4: Liza's a little late for work this.
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Speaker 5: Morning, and the reason is a rather disturbing interview she
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Speaker 5: just had with her family doctor.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Miss Elliot. Hello, Foster.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Dr.
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Speaker 6: Harris just phoned. But I just left Dr.
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Speaker 4: Harris.
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Speaker 6: But he said he forgot to take Dr. Brooks' address
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Speaker 6: and you were to see him.
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Speaker 4: Dr.
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Speaker 7: Brooks is a psychoanalyst.
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Speaker 6: I refuse to see him. I told Dr. Harris that.
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Speaker 6: It's perfectly ridiculous. All right, let's get to work.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Miss Elliot.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Mr. Russell wants to see you right away. And
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Speaker 6: those dresses we're to photograph just came in. There are
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Speaker 6: three people waiting outside to see you. Liza, you've got
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Speaker 6: to do something.
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Speaker 4: You've simply got to do something.
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Speaker 7: All right, Russell, what now?
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Speaker 6: I'm in a frenzy. A frenzy.
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Speaker 8: Either he leaves or you get another boy to shoot
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Speaker 8: your pictures.
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Speaker 6: He who? Who, she asked me. Mr.
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Speaker 4: Charlie Johnson, that's who.
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Speaker 6: Last night, when I should be shooting pictures, Johnson.
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Speaker 4: Takes out all the models.
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Speaker 8: Two of them haven't even shown up yet.
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Speaker 6: And the others, bags under their eyes down to here. Please, Russell,
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Speaker 6: do the best you can.
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Speaker 8: I am so mad I could spit.
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Speaker 6: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Oh,
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Speaker 6: good morning, Maggie. Hi, Liza. Come in, Maggie. Well, what's this? Oh,
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Speaker 6: an apple. That's what I thought. One of Mr. Johnson's
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Speaker 6: clever jokes. An apple for the teacher.
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Speaker 7: Maggie, if Johnson weren't the best advertising man in the business,
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Speaker 7: I swear it.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Maggie. You want a gooey kiss?
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Speaker 6: Why don't you stop being a pixie?
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Speaker 4: I was hoping the boss lady would have a minute.
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Speaker 6: Look here, Johnson. I just saw Russell. If you've got
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Speaker 6: to take out models, try Harper's Bazaar.
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Speaker 4: And be disloyal to the home team? Never.
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Speaker 6: We won't discuss it any further.
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Speaker 4: You know, when I was in the third grade, Miss
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Speaker 4: Compton used to make me stand in the corner.
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Speaker 6: If you've got business to talk over, get to the point.
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Speaker 3: Boss Lady, you kill me. It's just a matter of
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Speaker 3: our next issue. I've got a great idea. A circus number.
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Speaker 4: Cover, layout, articles, everything. All Allied Circus.
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Speaker 6: Our next issue is the Easter anniversary issue.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: But just for fun, I had the art department work
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Speaker 3: up a dummy.
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Speaker 4: Here, look. Isn't that swell, huh?
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Speaker 7: A circus theme isn't even remotely right for a fashion magazine.
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Speaker 3: Anything's right if it brings in the ads. I'll go
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Speaker 3: downtown and sound out the department stores.
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Speaker 7: You'll do nothing without my okay.
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 4: And when do you suppose I might get that?
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Speaker 6: When I'm ready, I'll send for you.
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Speaker 4: You'll... Well, what do you know?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 4: Your suit.
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Speaker 3: It's just like mine. We must go to the same tailor.
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Speaker 4: You.
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Speaker 6: The paperweight.
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Speaker 4: Always wanted to have a paperweight. Thanks, boss lady. Oh, Maggie,
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Speaker 4: come on in. Close the door.
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Speaker 6: Now look here, Charlie. What are you trying to do
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Speaker 6: to Liza?
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Speaker 4: Nothing at all. She's just sore because I'm wise to her.
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Speaker 6: Wise about what?
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Speaker 3: Did you ever see a brick house that really isn't
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Speaker 3: made of bricks? The bricks are just painted on? Well,
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Speaker 3: that's Liza Elliott, that big executive pose of hers. Every
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Speaker 3: time I get close to her, I can't resist chipping
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Speaker 3: off little hunks to see what's underneath.
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Speaker 6: Well, you can just cut it out. Liza's not feeling well,
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Speaker 6: and you'll be decent to her, do you hear?
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Speaker 4: Well, why doesn't she quit? Her publisher's in love with her.
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Speaker 4: Why doesn't she marry him?
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Speaker 6: You know as well as I do that Kendall Nesbitt's married,
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Speaker 6: and he can't get a divorce, so shut up.
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Speaker 4: She can still quit.
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Speaker 3: I've had my eye on that job of hers ever
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Speaker 3: since I came here.
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Speaker 4: A girl like.
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Speaker 3: Liza shouldn't try to be top man. She's not built
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Speaker 3: for it. What she should really do is.
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Speaker 6: Never mind.
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Speaker 2: I know your views.
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Speaker 6: Ahem.
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Speaker 4: You want me to apologize to Boss Lady? You wouldn't.
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Speaker 6: Besides, she's gone home. Well, good night, you stinker.
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Speaker 4: Good night, sweetheart.
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Speaker 6: Candle, come in.
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Speaker 4: Hello, darling.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I thought you'd gone to that publisher's dinner tonight.
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Speaker 4: I have, but I wanted to find out what the
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Speaker 4: doctor had to tell you.
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Speaker 9: Oh.
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Speaker 6: I'm a very disappointing medical case. It's all in my mind.
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Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong? No. Well, then what are you worrying about?
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Speaker 6: Worrying? I'm not worrying.
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Speaker 4: You were just humming, and when you start humming, dear,
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Speaker 4: you're worried. I know.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's silly.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, dear, it isn't. You are worried, Liza, and
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Speaker 4: I know why. Whatever's wrong with you, it's... well, it's
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Speaker 4: all my fault. Liza, darling, when I think of the
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Speaker 4: life that we might have had.
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Speaker 6: Darling, please.
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Speaker 4: I should borrow it of your life if I didn't
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Speaker 4: love you so much, if I weren't so completely selfish.
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Speaker 6: Oh, don't say that. Don't ever say that.
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Speaker 4: It's true, Liza. You mean everything in the world to me.
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Speaker 4: And what can I be to you? A companion who
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Speaker 4: takes you to dinner, someone to talk to, your boss
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Speaker 4: on the magazine. What kind of a life is that
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Speaker 4: for you?
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Speaker 6: Kendall, I'm perfectly happy, and I don't know what I'd
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Speaker 6: do without you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Liza, but I still think I'm right. Well, darling.
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Speaker 6: See you tomorrow at the office?
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Speaker 4: Sure. And try and get some sleep tonight, hmm?
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Speaker 6: I'll try, dear.
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Speaker 4: Good night, Liza.
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Speaker 6: Good night. That melody.
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Speaker 4: What is it? What is it?
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Speaker 6: It means something to me, but I can't remember. I
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Speaker 6: can't remember.
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Speaker 9: Martha! Martha!
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Speaker 6: Yes, dear? Come here, please, Martha.
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Speaker 7: Call Dr.
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Speaker 6: Harris for me. Tell him I want Dr.
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Speaker 7: Brooks' telephone number right now, Martha, right away.
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Speaker 4: Now, what else can you tell me about yourself, Miss Elliot?
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Speaker 10: Dr.
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Speaker 4: Carlton mentioned something about... nervousness.
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Speaker 7: Nervousness?
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Speaker 6: No, no, it's more than that, Dr. Brooks. It's, well,
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Speaker 6: it's fear.
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Speaker 7: All day long, I'm in a kind of panic.
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Speaker 4: Ever think of stopping work?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I couldn't. The magazine's the only steadying influence I have.
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Speaker 6: Except now I, well, I'm beginning to slip. I can't
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Speaker 6: make decisions over the simplest things.
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Speaker 4: What about you and Mr. Nesbitt?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I see no point in being schoolgirlish about this. Mr.
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Speaker 6: Nesbitt's been in love with me for some time. We
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Speaker 6: can't get married because his wife won't get him a divorce. Look,
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Speaker 6: I came here hoping you'd be able to help me.
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Speaker 6: Do you think you can?
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Speaker 4: Perhaps. I'd like a trial analysis for a month, starting now.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but that's impossible. I'll be terribly busy for the
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Speaker 6: next few days. I see.
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Speaker 4: Well, in that case, perhaps you should find someone else.
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Speaker 6: All right, you win. What do I do?
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Speaker 4: It's going to sound foolish, but I want you to
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Speaker 4: lie down over there and start talking. Just say anything
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Speaker 4: at all that comes to mind.
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Speaker 6: And meanwhile, you'll get into your beard, I trust.
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Speaker 4: Start talking. What are you thinking about?
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Speaker 6: I'm thinking about a song. A song I knew as
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Speaker 6: a child. It's been running through my head all day.
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Speaker 6: I even dreamed about it last night.
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 4: What kind of a dream?
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Speaker 6: I was all alone in a vast, misty cloud. And
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Speaker 6: all around me was the song. I was dressed in blue,
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Speaker 6: a blue gown. The most beautiful gown I've ever seen.
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Speaker 6: In it I felt so light, intoxicated, I... I thought
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Speaker 6: I was the loveliest creature on earth.
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Speaker 4: Does the color blue mean anything to you?
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Speaker 6: Well, that's just it. I really dislike blue intensely. Anyway,
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Speaker 6: in my dream, I heard cheering and applause in the distance.
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Speaker 6: The mist suddenly disappeared and I was standing on a
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Speaker 6: huge stage. I had just made a speech. The cheers
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Speaker 6: and applause were all for me. I was the center
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Speaker 6: of attraction. Thank you.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 12: Oh, how lovely to be me. If there's a party,
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Speaker 12: I'm always the host of it. If there's a haunted house,
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Speaker 12: I'm always the ghost of it. If I'm in town,
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Speaker 12: I'm always the toast of it. Oh, how lovely.
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Speaker 6: To be me.
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Speaker 4: A message! A message!
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Speaker 6: Who bears a message?
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Speaker 4: I do. I, Mr. Charlie Johnson.
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Speaker 13: A message to Eliza Elliott from the President of the
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Speaker 13: United States.
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Speaker 9: And?
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Speaker 4: The President requests.
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Speaker 13: That for national unity and for the advancement of cultural achievement.
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 3: That your portrait be painted for the news two-stand stamp
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Speaker 3: of the U.S. of A.
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Speaker 6: Oh, how really, really lovely. Who is to paint me
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Speaker 6: and where?
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Speaker 4: I am to paint you and here.
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Speaker 6: In this dress? Like this?
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: The most beautiful woman on earth. And I'll paint you
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Speaker 3: in three strokes of my brush.
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Speaker 13: Like this? And thusly, and so. Look, multitude. Look, admiring throng.
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Speaker 13: The portrait is finished. Here is the true picture of
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Speaker 13: Liza Elliott.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's a caricature.
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Speaker 4: It's a caricature. Is it?
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Speaker 6: What's the matter, boss lady?
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Speaker 4: Can't you take it?
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Speaker 13: Go away.
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Speaker 3: Go away.
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Speaker 4: Go away. Go away.
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Speaker 6: I woke up sobbing, shaking.
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Speaker 4: Well, Miss Elliot, it appears that in your dream you
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Speaker 4: were just the opposite of your real self.
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Speaker 6: Opposite?
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Speaker 4: Obviously, you're a girl who cares little for feminine adornments.
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Speaker 4: And yet in the dream, you were glamorous, seductive. Dreams
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Speaker 4: often are wishful fulments.
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Speaker 6: But I haven't the faintest desire to be glamorous.
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Speaker 4: You never wanted to be that alluring woman?
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Speaker 6: Never.
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Speaker 7: The only thing I ever wanted was to make something
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Speaker 7: of myself.
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Speaker 4: Most girls want love and marriage.
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Speaker 6: Well, I didn't. And I despise girls who did.
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Speaker 9: Why?
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Speaker 6: I don't remember.
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Speaker 4: Or you don't want to remember? Which?
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Speaker 6: I simply don't know.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think we've done enough for one visit.
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Speaker 6: And that's all there is to it?
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Speaker 4: For the moment, yes. I'll call you soon.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. I... Good night, Doctor.
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Speaker 4: You happen to have the time, Miss Elliot?
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Speaker 6: It's 20 minutes after 3. Oh?
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Speaker 4: I thought our staff meeting was set at 3.
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Speaker 6: It was. Foster! Foster! Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Elliot. I've
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Speaker 6: just been in Mr. Russell's office. And what's so important
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Speaker 6: in Mr. Russell's office? Why, Miss Elliot, Randy Curtis is
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Speaker 6: there getting photographed. Everybody's there. Then you'll kindly tell everybody
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Speaker 6: that I called a staff meeting for 3 o'clock and
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Speaker 6: I intend to have a staff meeting.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Elliot.
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Speaker 4: Are you kidding? Nobody's going to get any work done
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Speaker 4: with Randy Curtis here. He's a movie star.
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Speaker 6: Oh, we've had celebrities here before.
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Speaker 3: Incidentally, what about my circus idea? I've been to the
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Speaker 3: department stores, and they like it very much. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: about that at the staff meeting, if there is such
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Speaker 3: a thing.
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Speaker 6: Now, you wait here. I'll be back.
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Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: That's what you think.
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Speaker 7: And as far as the rest of you are concerned,
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Speaker 7: get back to your desks immediately.
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Speaker 6: I'm thoroughly ashamed of you. I'm terribly sorry this has happened, Mr. Curtis.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure that you'll think they've never seen a movie
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Speaker 6: star before.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's okay. I'm used to it by now.
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Speaker 6: Oh, this is Miss.
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Speaker 4: Elliot, Mr. Curtis.
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Speaker 6: How dare they?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I know.
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 4: You don't remember?
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Speaker 6: Mrs.
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Speaker 10: Brackett's cocktail party about a year ago.
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Speaker 6: Oh, why, of course.
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Speaker 4: We were going to have dinner sometime. We still could,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that might be very nice sometime. Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Curtis. Yes? Mr. Curtis, may I have your autograph? Ha, ha, ha. Look,
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Speaker 4: you're kidding. Oh, no, no. I save all sorts of things.
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Speaker 3: Autographs, paperweights. I put them in a memory box, and
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Speaker 3: on rainy afternoons, I just sit and look at them.
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Speaker 4: Please? Okay. Here, for stormy weather. Gee, thanks.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Mr. Curtin, telephone for you.
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Speaker 4: I'll be right there. Excuse me, Miss Elliot.
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Speaker 8: Yes, of course.
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Speaker 4: Dream lover, punch your arms around me. Boss lady, sometimes
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Speaker 4: you kill me.
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Speaker 6: I don't like you, Johnson, and I never have. And
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Speaker 6: I'm definitely repelled by what you consider amusing. And if
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Speaker 6: you can't confine your remarks to your work, perhaps you
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Speaker 6: can make more pleasant connections elsewhere.
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Speaker 4: My, my, my. Liza! Oh, Liza! Well, our publisher. Liza,
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Speaker 4: could I see you alone for a moment? Oh, hello, Johnson. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Kendall, we're supposed to have a staff meeting now.
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Speaker 4: There'll only be a moment here. Let's go out on
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Speaker 4: the terrace. Just be careful, Lesbeth. Teach is mad.
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Speaker 3: Don't worry.
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Speaker 4: This isn't business. Oh, I changed my mind. I didn't
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Speaker 4: go to the dinner last night. I determined to see
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Speaker 4: Catherine and settle this one way or another. Well, Liza,
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Speaker 4: she's agreed to a divorce. Divorce? Yes. Divorce? That's what
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Speaker 4: we've been waiting for, Liza. It's... Liza, dear, what's the matter?
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Speaker 6: Nothing, Kendall. It's just wonderful.
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Speaker 4: Oh, darling, why don't you get out of this office
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Speaker 4: and go home? You're not well. Johnson and Maggie can
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Speaker 4: get out the magazine. Please, I.
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Speaker 6: I'm all right.
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Speaker 4: I thought you'd be glad to hear the news.
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Speaker 6: But I am. It's just that I.
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Speaker 10: Oh, Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Elliott, I... Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt.
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Speaker 6: It's quite all right. Randy Curtis, Kendall Nesbitt.
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Speaker 4: How do you do? How are you? We were talking
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Speaker 4: about having dinner, Miss Elliot. How about tomorrow night?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think tomorrow night might be fine. You'll have
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Speaker 6: to call for me here, though, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Curtis.
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Speaker 6: I'll be working rather late.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's okay. That's fine. I'm glad you could make it. Well, uh,
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Speaker 4: goodbye again.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Nesbitt. Bye. Uh, like me to leave now, too?
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Speaker 6: Would you mind, dear?
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Speaker 4: Work, huh?
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that meeting.
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Speaker 4: Sure. Just wait till we're married, darling, and you'll be
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Speaker 4: able to forget all about staff meetings and movie actors
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Speaker 4: and deadlines and everything. Except me, I hope.
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Speaker 6: Kendall, you're the sweetest man that ever lived. Just try
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Speaker 6: to put up with me a little longer, won't you? Please,
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Speaker 6: just a little longer.
18:42
Speaker 4: In just a moment, Mr.
18:43
Speaker 3: Barrymore and our stars will return in Act II of
18:46
Speaker 3: Lady in the Dark.
18:48
Speaker 4: And now, two young girls comparing notes.
18:50
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18:53
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18:55
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18:58
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19:00
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19:03
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19:06
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19:09
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19:11
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19:13
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19:16
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19:19
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19:22
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19:25
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19:28
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19:34
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19:36
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19:39
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19:42
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19:45
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19:56
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19:59
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20:03
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20:11
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20:19
Speaker 4: And now, Mr. Barrymore returns to the microphone.
20:23
Speaker 5: Act II of Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers
20:26
Speaker 5: as Liza and Ray Milland as Charlie. The sudden news
20:39
Speaker 5: that Kendall Nesbitt soon would be free to marry her
20:43
Speaker 5: leaves Liza Elliot in a state of complete jitters. Not
20:47
Speaker 5: even sleep brings any relief. After hours of tossing, she
20:51
Speaker 5: finally dozes off, plunging straightway into a highly fanciful dream.
20:57
Speaker 5: So disturbing a dream that she's now back in Dr.
21:01
Speaker 5: Brooks' office, telling the psychoanalyst all about it.
21:07
Speaker 6: The dream was grotesque, fantastic, but it seemed so terribly real.
21:13
Speaker 6: The people were singing the procession.
21:15
Speaker 4: Procession?
21:16
Speaker 6: A wedding procession. It was my wedding day. Dozens of
21:20
Speaker 6: men were crowding round about me, laughing, dancing, flirting men.
21:24
Speaker 4: Again, the center of attraction. The beautiful, glamorous woman.
21:27
Speaker 6: Presently, all the men vanished. But one, he put his
21:32
Speaker 6: arms around me. He made love to me. It was
21:36
Speaker 6: Randy Curtis.
21:37
Speaker 4: You resented his love, Megan?
21:39
Speaker 6: No.
21:40
Speaker 7: No, I didn't.
21:42
Speaker 6: Then suddenly I found myself in front of an altar.
21:45
Speaker 6: In back of it, grinning at me, was one of
21:46
Speaker 6: the men from the magazine, an especially annoying person named Johnson.
21:49
Speaker 4: Well, what was he doing?
21:52
Speaker 6: He seemed to be a judge or a minister. I
21:55
Speaker 6: looked around for Randy, but he was gone. Another man
21:57
Speaker 6: was standing there, stretching his hand out to me. It
22:00
Speaker 6: was Kendall Nesbitt. Then the people began chanting, and they said,
22:05
Speaker 6: I wasn't the true Liza Elliott. They demanded that I
22:09
Speaker 6: tell the truth. Tell the truth.
22:11
Speaker 4: Oh, it was awful.
22:14
Speaker 6: I started to run away and they... They laughed at me.
22:18
Speaker 6: And then it all turned misty and blurred. I woke
22:23
Speaker 6: up shaking as usual. I'm still shaking.
22:27
Speaker 4: You told me, Miss Elliot, that Mr. Nesbitt is getting
22:29
Speaker 4: a divorce.
22:31
Speaker 6: Yes.
22:31
Speaker 4: Had you ever been aware before now that you did
22:33
Speaker 4: not want Mr. Nesbitt to get a divorce?
22:36
Speaker 6: How did you.
22:38
Speaker 6: You're very clever, Dr.
22:39
Speaker 4: Brooks.
22:40
Speaker 6: No, I was never aware of it before, but.
22:43
Speaker 4: You mentioned an engagement with Mr. Curtis tonight.
22:46
Speaker 6: Yes, but I'm going to call it off. Why? Because
22:50
Speaker 6: I have the slightest desire to keep it.
22:52
Speaker 4: In your dream, you're ready to marry him. Yet now
22:54
Speaker 4: you reject him. That's a rather curious denial.
22:56
Speaker 6: Is it?
22:57
Speaker 4: Also in your dream, you suddenly see it is not
22:59
Speaker 4: Randy Curtis at your side, but Nesbitt. And immediately the
23:03
Speaker 4: mocking voices of the people are heard. They taunt you.
23:06
Speaker 4: Your dream becomes a nightmare and you run away. Yes.
23:09
Speaker 4: Miss Elliot?
23:09
Speaker 9: Yes?
23:11
Speaker 4: Hasn't your affection for Kendall Nesbitt been based on the
23:14
Speaker 4: fact that he resembles your father?
23:17
Speaker 6: My father? I've never mentioned my father.
23:19
Speaker 4: That you have, in fact, transferred your love for your
23:22
Speaker 4: father to Nesbitt? And as long as he remained married,
23:24
Speaker 4: you were safe?
23:26
Speaker 6: Safe? Safe from what?
23:27
Speaker 4: Safe from competition with other women. But the moment you
23:30
Speaker 4: were faced with becoming his wife.
23:32
Speaker 6: Well, that's horrible. That's not true.
23:34
Speaker 4: Yes, you're afraid to compete with other women. Even the
23:37
Speaker 4: plain way you dress is a protective armor. And with it,
23:40
Speaker 4: you are not forced to commit.
23:41
Speaker 6: I loathe fancy clothes.
23:42
Speaker 4: Your dreams deny it.
23:43
Speaker 6: Those are dreams and your interpretations of them. Nothing else.
23:45
Speaker 4: I think you will find the interpretations are true.
23:48
Speaker 6: I refuse to go on with this. Thank you, Dr.
23:51
Speaker 3: Brooks.
23:52
Speaker 6: You can send me a bill for whatever I owe you.
23:54
Speaker 6: Good day.
24:03
Speaker 4: Oh, boss lady, you got a minute now, maybe?
24:08
Speaker 6: Can it wait, Johnson?
24:09
Speaker 4: Better wait it all morning than wait it all afternoon.
24:11
Speaker 4: Now it's six o'clock. Where have you been?
24:13
Speaker 6: I've been out.
24:15
Speaker 9: Oh.
24:16
Speaker 4: Well, the big stores like my circus idea. They'll really
24:18
Speaker 4: splurge on ads. And me? Well, I'd like to leave
24:22
Speaker 4: your magazine in a blaze of glory.
24:24
Speaker 6: Leave?
24:25
Speaker 4: Yeah. This might be termed my resignation, boss lady. But please,
24:29
Speaker 4: no tears. Just a light kiss on the cheek, perhaps,
24:32
Speaker 4: and a quick goodbye, huh?
24:34
Speaker 6: You're certainly thin-skinned, aren't you?
24:37
Speaker 4: Me? Because you bored me out? Oh, no. I just
24:41
Speaker 4: got a better offer.
24:42
Speaker 6: I'll meet that offer.
24:44
Speaker 4: Why? I annoy the life out of you, don't I?
24:46
Speaker 6: That has nothing to do with the way you do
24:47
Speaker 6: your job.
24:48
Speaker 3: Look, it isn't a question of money. Actually, I'm taking less.
24:52
Speaker 3: But I'm getting something I could never get here.
24:55
Speaker 4: Your job. I'm afraid that's what I want.
24:58
Speaker 6: Well, nice of you to be so frank.
25:00
Speaker 10: Yeah.
25:01
Speaker 4: I'm ambitious, too. I want to run the whole thing myself,
25:04
Speaker 4: and there isn't a chance of that here.
25:06
Speaker 3: You married that desk of yours years ago, and you're
25:08
Speaker 3: never going to get a divorce.
25:10
Speaker 4: You have magazines instead of babies.
25:12
Speaker 7: Why, you insolent pup!
25:16
Speaker 6: I'm sick and tired of that incredible sideshow you put
25:19
Speaker 6: on under the guise of a gay young man with
25:21
Speaker 6: a wicked tongue. It doesn't always excuse your being an
25:24
Speaker 6: ill-mannered bore, and I question if that isn't the extent
25:27
Speaker 6: of your talent.
25:28
Speaker 4: Rage is a pretty good substitute for love, isn't it?
25:31
Speaker 6: Get out of here.
25:32
Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. Oh, if we should ever need a good
25:36
Speaker 4: man over there, I'll make you an offer. Liza.
25:46
Speaker 6: Hello, Kendall.
25:47
Speaker 4: I just passed Johnson. He said you were back. Darling,
25:50
Speaker 4: where have you been? I've been searching for you all day.
25:54
Speaker 6: I've been to a psychoanalyst.
25:56
Speaker 4: What?
25:56
Speaker 6: The eminent Dr.
25:57
Speaker 4: Brooks.
25:58
Speaker 6: I stood just about all I could stand, and then
26:00
Speaker 6: I walked out on him. And I kept walking, and walking,
26:04
Speaker 6: and walking.
26:05
Speaker 4: Liza, be honest with me, will you? Yes. You don't
26:09
Speaker 4: want to marry me. That's true, isn't it?
26:13
Speaker 6: Kendall.
26:13
Speaker 4: There's someone else.
26:15
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
26:16
Speaker 7: Oh, I can't explain it to you. I can't even
26:19
Speaker 7: explain it to myself.
26:21
Speaker 6: Oh, Kendall, I'm sick. I'm ill.
26:24
Speaker 4: I know you're ill, Liza, but you're going to be
26:26
Speaker 4: well again. And you haven't the right to trifle with
26:28
Speaker 4: other people's lives, even with this as an excuse. All right.
26:34
Speaker 6: All right, what am I going to do?
26:35
Speaker 4: Stop acting like a child.
26:38
Speaker 6: Don't talk to me like that. I'm fighting as hard
26:41
Speaker 6: as I know how.
26:43
Speaker 4: Listen to me, Liza. I can't stand aside while you
26:45
Speaker 4: proceed to destroy something very important to me.
26:49
Speaker 6: All right. All right. Come back later then. I'll get
26:55
Speaker 6: through as soon as I can. But don't push me
26:57
Speaker 6: into a corner, Kendall. It's no use.
27:00
Speaker 4: I'm going to fight, Liza. I love you and I
27:03
Speaker 4: can't help that. Can I?
27:07
Speaker 7: Foster.
27:08
Speaker 6: Yes, Miss Ellen. Come here. I've got a million things
27:10
Speaker 6: to do. I want Allison's galleys right away and send
27:13
Speaker 6: in Russell. Oh, well, what will I tell Mr.
27:16
Speaker 4: Curtis? Mr. Curtis, oh.
27:17
Speaker 6: Oh, I forgot to call him. He said you have
27:19
Speaker 6: a dinner engagement with him. Oh, yes, yes, I know. Oh, say,
27:23
Speaker 6: is he something in white tie and tail? Send him in, please. Yes,
27:27
Speaker 6: Miss Kelly.
27:31
Speaker 4: If I'm early. Sorry.
27:34
Speaker 6: No, it's my fault, Mr.
27:35
Speaker 4: Curtis.
27:36
Speaker 6: I've just been snowed under. I haven't even had a
27:38
Speaker 6: chance to change anything.
27:40
Speaker 4: Say, you know what? What? Let's go out just as
27:43
Speaker 4: you are.
27:44
Speaker 6: Just as I am?
27:45
Speaker 4: Sure. Oh, you look wonderful.
27:48
Speaker 10: Now, to tell the truth, I was scared stiff I
27:50
Speaker 10: was going to run into a glamour girl tonight instead of.
27:52
Speaker 6: Instead of what, Mr.
27:54
Speaker 2: Curtis?
27:55
Speaker 4: Oh, please, Randy. Well, instead of... Well, as you are now.
28:00
Speaker 4: You're natural. You don't know what a relief it is
28:02
Speaker 4: to find a natural girl.
28:04
Speaker 6: Thank you. But just the same, I am going to dress.
28:09
Speaker 6: And I can do it right here. Now, if you
28:11
Speaker 6: don't mind waiting outside.
28:13
Speaker 4: Oh, why, sure. I'll wait and take your time.
28:23
Speaker 5: Yes?
28:24
Speaker 6: Maggie, do you have those sample dresses from Bergdorf? Liza? Yeah, sure.
28:28
Speaker 6: Send them in, hmm? Yes, but I simply don't have...
28:31
Speaker 6: I was scared stiff, he said. Scared stiff. I was
28:33
Speaker 6: going to run into a glamour.
28:34
Speaker 7: Girl just as I am, he says.
28:37
Speaker 6: He likes me just as I am. Liza Elliott, what's
28:39
Speaker 6: the matter with you? Nothing, darling. I'm just going out.
28:42
Speaker 6: Out with Mr.
28:42
Speaker 4: Curtis.
28:43
Speaker 6: Randy Curtis? Yes, ma'am.
28:44
Speaker 7: And you can get the magazine to press, Maggie. I'll
28:47
Speaker 7: show Dr.
28:48
Speaker 6: Brooks who's afraid.
28:55
Speaker 7: You realize, Randy, that in three hours we've been to
28:57
Speaker 7: six nightclubs?
28:59
Speaker 4: Well, I thought that you were.
29:00
Speaker 6: Oh, no, I'm having a wonderful time.
29:02
Speaker 4: No, you're not. And we haven't been alone for two minutes.
29:05
Speaker 6: You're a movie picture star. Too many people know you.
29:08
Speaker 4: Oh, Mr. Curtis. Here we go again.
29:10
Speaker 8: Yes?
29:10
Speaker 4: Would you mind, Mr.
29:11
Speaker 2: Curtis, just one picture, please?
29:14
Speaker 4: Liza.
29:15
Speaker 6: Oh, by all means, Curtis.
29:16
Speaker 4: Thank you. Just a little closer to the young lady, please. There,
29:19
Speaker 4: that's fine. Hold it.
29:20
Speaker 6: Okay.
29:21
Speaker 4: Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Curtis. Liza, this may not
29:25
Speaker 4: be the place, not the time maybe either, but I'd
29:29
Speaker 4: like to talk to you.
29:31
Speaker 6: You talk very nicely, Mr.
29:32
Speaker 2: Curtis.
29:33
Speaker 4: Well, I might as well come straight to the point. Sorry, Mr.
29:36
Speaker 6: Curtis.
29:37
Speaker 4: Would you mind a few autographs? Oh, sure, sure. Glad to.
29:40
Speaker 4: For a party from Boise, Idaho.
29:42
Speaker 6: Does this go on all the time? Day and night?
29:46
Speaker 4: I have to laugh.
29:47
Speaker 10: Three years ago, nobody would give me a job. Now
29:49
Speaker 10: I'm in with all the big shots. Writers ask me
29:51
Speaker 10: to read their books. Businessmen ask me about the market.
29:54
Speaker 4: Oh, here you are. And here's your pencil. Thanks very much, Mr. Curtis.
29:57
Speaker 4: And I even get a chance to meet you.
29:59
Speaker 6: Randy, you're very endearing.
30:02
Speaker 10: Liza, it isn't just this, my being in the movies
30:06
Speaker 10: that made you come with me tonight.
30:07
Speaker 6: No, Randy.
30:09
Speaker 4: Well, that's swell.
30:12
Speaker 6: I really came to prove something to myself.
30:15
Speaker 4: Do I figure in that something?
30:17
Speaker 9: Yes.
30:19
Speaker 10: Liza, I know you've known me only a couple of days,
30:22
Speaker 10: but it doesn't take time to know that a person
30:24
Speaker 10: is the only person you want to be with. From
30:27
Speaker 10: the first time I saw you a year ago, well,
30:31
Speaker 10: I'm crazy about you.
30:33
Speaker 6: Randy, I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
30:37
Speaker 4: I know you couldn't feel the way I do. Not yet.
30:40
Speaker 4: But do you think you could think about it?
30:43
Speaker 6: I think so.
30:43
Speaker 4: Oh, gosh, Liza. Oh.
30:46
Speaker 6: Oh. Randy!
30:48
Speaker 4: Hello.
30:49
Speaker 6: I thought you went back to the coast.
30:51
Speaker 4: I'm leaving tomorrow. Oh, uh, this is Miss Liza. Hello.
30:55
Speaker 6: But darling, that's wonderful.
30:57
Speaker 8: So am I.
30:58
Speaker 6: Oh, you know Charlie Johnson?
30:59
Speaker 4: Hi.
31:00
Speaker 6: Good evening.
31:02
Speaker 4: Miss Elliot, you look wonderful.
31:04
Speaker 6: Thank you, Johnson.
31:05
Speaker 3: You know, this is the first time I've ever seen
31:06
Speaker 3: you like this. Actually like a woman.
31:09
Speaker 6: Oh, what does that mean, Charlie? Oh, Randy, I saw
31:11
Speaker 6: Marie yesterday. And is she bird? You really shouldn't be
31:16
Speaker 6: so mean.
31:17
Speaker 4: Well, I, uh... Hey, Helen, come on.
31:19
Speaker 6: Just a second. Excuse me. I'll be back in a minute.
31:23
Speaker 4: Oh, sure, sure. Eliza. What? I know you don't like
31:27
Speaker 4: me because I want your job. And I know you
31:29
Speaker 4: don't like her because she wants your man.
31:32
Speaker 6: Oh, Randy, what time is it?
31:33
Speaker 4: Why, what's early? 11.30.
31:35
Speaker 6: 11.30? I really must go. I have work to do. Work?
31:39
Speaker 4: Oh, couldn't you forget it, Liza, just this once? I
31:41
Speaker 4: don't think she could ever forget it, Mr. Curtis.
31:43
Speaker 6: Randy, I really must go home.
31:45
Speaker 4: Home? I thought it was work. What is it, Liza?
31:48
Speaker 4: Are you all right?
31:49
Speaker 8: It's nothing.
31:49
Speaker 6: Maybe I'm just a little tired. Please, you don't mind.
31:53
Speaker 4: Oh, of course not. Well, good night, all. Good night.
31:56
Speaker 4: What's the matter, boss lady? Can't you take it? What's
31:59
Speaker 4: he talking about?
32:00
Speaker 6: Oh, nothing, nothing.
32:02
Speaker 4: Eliza, if your work won't take too long, maybe we can.
32:04
Speaker 6: Randy, if you don't mind, I'd like to go home alone.
32:09
Speaker 4: Well, sure, if you want. Eliza, will I see you tomorrow?
32:14
Speaker 4: I'll be leaving, you know.
32:15
Speaker 6: Yes, call me, won't you?
32:16
Speaker 4: And you will think about what I said before?
32:19
Speaker 6: Oh, I will, Randy. I think in a way that's
32:22
Speaker 6: why I won't be alone.
32:25
Speaker 4: Thanks, Eliza. Well, good night.
32:28
Speaker 6: Good night, Randy. Good night.
32:41
Speaker 3: Pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia
32:44
Speaker 3: Broadcasting System. In just a moment, Mr. Barrymore and our
33:11
Speaker 3: stars will return with Act Three of Lady in the Dark.
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33:27
Speaker 6: her the message. Yes, Mr. Adams.
33:33
Speaker 4: A reservation to Washington?
33:35
Speaker 6: I'll start phoning now. Yes, I'll be sure to finish
33:38
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33:39
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33:43
Speaker 6: All right, darling, I'm coming right away. Now, Bobby, be
33:48
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33:51
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Speaker 4: And now, Mr. Barrymore returns to the microphone.
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Speaker 5: After the play, we won't exactly psychoanalyze our two stars,
34:57
Speaker 5: but we will present some searching questions on their private lives.
35:01
Speaker 5: And I think you'll want to hear their answers, too. Now,
35:06
Speaker 5: Act Three of Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers
35:09
Speaker 5: as Liza and Ray Meland as Charlie. An hour ago,
35:21
Speaker 5: Liza Elliot entered her apartment, put on her glasses, and
35:25
Speaker 5: dived into a pile of papers representing the Easter issue
35:29
Speaker 5: of Allure magazine.
35:31
Speaker 4: For a while, she.
35:32
Speaker 5: Forgot all about Randy Curtis and Kendall Nesbitt and Charlie Johnson.
35:38
Speaker 5: But now Liza's yawning, her eyelids are fluttering, her pencil
35:43
Speaker 5: drops from her fingers. The editor of a Yule magazine
35:48
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35:51
Speaker 4: She dreams a dream. true, Miss Elliott. You don't dare
35:57
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36:02
Speaker 6: No. No.
36:03
Speaker 4: I don't expect you to answer now, but do you
36:05
Speaker 4: think you could think about it? Oh, I will.
36:09
Speaker 6: I will, Randall.
36:10
Speaker 4: It's for resignation, boss lady. Now, what about the circus idea?
36:13
Speaker 4: Come on. Decide. Decide.
36:17
Speaker 6: Decide.
36:19
Speaker 4: Decide.
36:21
Speaker 6: Decide on the cover. You've got to... You've got to.
36:25
Speaker 6: The Easter cover of a circus cover. The Easter cover
36:29
Speaker 6: of a circus cover.
36:41
Speaker 4: I'm at the circus.
36:42
Speaker 7: I'm not only at the circus, I'm in the circus.
36:45
Speaker 6: In a cage.
36:46
Speaker 4: I'm in a cage.
36:46
Speaker 9: Hey, let me out of here.
36:48
Speaker 6: Let me out of here.
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Speaker 11: And now what's that?
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Speaker 4: Clown.
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Speaker 6: Oh, please, clown. Let me out of here.
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Speaker 4: Clown, and I will go with the judge. Here you
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Speaker 4: say that, young lady.
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Speaker 6: Judge?
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Speaker 4: He'll hold you in contempt of court.
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Speaker 8: Are you crazy?
36:58
Speaker 6: I demand to be taken out of here.
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Speaker 4: Quiet down now. Clown's going to begin.
37:02
Speaker 3: Clown's going to begin.
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Speaker 6: Quiet, please. Stop the band.
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Speaker 2: Attention, everybody. Attention.
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Speaker 6: Attention. Ladies and gentlemen. Johnson, it's Charlie Johnson dressed like
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Speaker 6: a ringmaster.
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Speaker 13: I take pride in introducing the greatest show on earth.
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Speaker 13: Featuring for the first time the captivating and tantalizing Liza Elliott.
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Speaker 13: The woman who cannot make up her mind. Order in
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Speaker 13: the court. The charge is against Liza Elliot.
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Speaker 6: What is all this? The charge is against me for what?
37:35
Speaker 13: Liza Elliot cannot make up her mind about the Easter
37:38
Speaker 13: cover or the circus cover. Liza Elliot cannot make up
37:42
Speaker 13: her mind whether she is marrying Kendall Hesbitt or not.
37:46
Speaker 13: Liza Elliott cannot make up her mind as to the
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Speaker 13: kind of woman she wants to be. The executive or
37:51
Speaker 13: the enchantress. Therefore, let Liza Elliott be brought to trial
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Speaker 13: and made to make up her mind.
37:57
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 4: I am the.
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Speaker 13: Attorney for the prosecution. My worthy opponent, where is he?
38:05
Speaker 6: Introducing the standing.
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Speaker 4: Writer and attorney for the defense, Randy Tucker.
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Speaker 8: Yes!
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Speaker 9: All right, all right.
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Speaker 6: Let's get going now.
38:19
Speaker 4: Let's get going.
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Speaker 3: My first witness, Your Honor, Kendall Nesbitt.
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Speaker 13: Here I am.
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Speaker 4: I'm here. What's the question? Mr.
38:26
Speaker 3: Nesbitt, you were divorcing your wife so you can be
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Speaker 3: free to marry the defendant.
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Speaker 4: Isn't that so? Yes, sir.
38:32
Speaker 3: And the defendant led you to believe she'd marry you when, as,
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Speaker 3: and if.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: Ha-ha.
38:39
Speaker 4: What do you mean, ha-ha?
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Speaker 7: Tra-la, I never gave my word.
38:44
Speaker 6: Tra-la-la, permit a change of mind.
38:49
Speaker 7: When a maid gives her heart but does.
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Speaker 6: Not give her word.
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Speaker 7: How on earth had that maid have betrayed him?
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Speaker 4: Tra-la.
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Speaker 3: You've heard the charges. Have you made up your mind
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Speaker 3: over any of these things?
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Speaker 6: No, how can I?
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Speaker 4: Can you give a reasonable explanation?
39:04
Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 6: I can't. I just can't.
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Speaker 4: Stop being evasive. There must be an explanation.
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Speaker 6: Let me alone. Let me alone.
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Speaker 4: You see, Your Honor, she wants to be alone.
39:17
Speaker 8: Very well.
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Speaker 2: Clear the courtroom.
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Speaker 4: Everybody out.
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Speaker 6: You want to be alone, Miss Elliott.
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Speaker 13: All right.
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Speaker 4: Be alone. Get away from her, everybody. Get away.
39:26
Speaker 9: Wait.
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Speaker 6: Not everyone. Don't everyone leave me. Please, I'll tell you whatever... Gone.
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Speaker 6: They're all gone.
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Speaker 7: Hey, come back. Come back.
39:35
Speaker 6: Don't leave me here alone. Don't leave me here alone.
39:39
Speaker 6: It's getting dark and I'll miss you again. And that music!
39:44
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear it! I'm playing that music!
39:47
Speaker 4: Stop it!
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Speaker 9: Oh, stop it, please!
39:50
Speaker 6: Stop, Father! Who are you calling Father?
39:52
Speaker 4: Help me, Father! Rachel, what are you talking about? This
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Speaker 4: is Kendall!
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Speaker 6: Father, don't let them play that!
39:58
Speaker 13: I'm not your father!
39:59
Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?
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Speaker 6: Make them stop it, please! Make them stop it! Help me, Father!
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Speaker 6: Help me! Help me!
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 4: Dr.
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Speaker 6: Brooks, please. Elliot. Liza Elliot. What? Oh, would you give
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Speaker 6: him a message, please? Tell him... Tell Dr. Brooks I
40:30
Speaker 6: apologize for my behavior this morning and tell him that
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Speaker 6: I must see him again. I've got to. Good morning. Oh,
40:37
Speaker 6: about 10 o'clock. All right, thank you. Thank you very much.
40:48
Speaker 6: And I stood there, doctor, terrified, pleading for my father.
40:52
Speaker 6: That song all around me, and no one would help me.
40:57
Speaker 4: No one.
40:59
Speaker 6: Then the dream ended, and I woke up. That was
41:03
Speaker 6: hours ago, but I can't seem to shake it off.
41:05
Speaker 4: And you think it was that song you heard, that
41:07
Speaker 4: lullaby that upset you so? Yes.
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Speaker 6: It gave me that same feeling of hurt and humiliation
41:14
Speaker 6: I used to have as a child. I called it
41:17
Speaker 6: my bad feeling.
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Speaker 4: Can you remember when you first had this bad feeling?
41:22
Speaker 6: Yes, I was about six years old. One night my
41:26
Speaker 6: mother and father were going out. The men came to
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Speaker 6: the house to call for them, and my father brought
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Speaker 6: me downstairs.
41:32
Speaker 3: To meet them.
41:34
Speaker 4: Well, here she is, everybody. Here's Liza, and she's going
41:37
Speaker 4: to sing for you.
41:38
Speaker 5: Oh, Helen, surely that's not your child.
41:42
Speaker 6: That's what they tell me.
41:43
Speaker 4: But you're so gorgeous, and she's so.
41:45
Speaker 11: Well, what I mean is she doesn't look anything like you,
41:48
Speaker 11: and not like Bob, either.
41:50
Speaker 4: Well, perhaps they switch babies on you in the hospital.
41:53
Speaker 4: I'm perfectly content with Liza. One beauty in the family
41:55
Speaker 4: is enough for me.
41:57
Speaker 6: It went on and on like that. I wanted to shout,
41:59
Speaker 6: it's not true, it's not true. I am like my mother.
42:03
Speaker 6: But I just stood there. My heart broke. He simply
42:07
Speaker 6: got to go.
42:08
Speaker 4: But Liza's going to sing, aren't you, dear? Come, darling.
42:11
Speaker 4: You remember it. My ship has.
42:13
Speaker 6: Sails that are made of silk.
42:17
Speaker 14: My ship has sails that are made of silk.
42:25
Speaker 4: The deck.
42:27
Speaker 6: Are trimmed with... Liza, what's the matter, dear?
42:32
Speaker 13: Liza!
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Speaker 6: I ran into my room. I had to get away
42:36
Speaker 6: from them, from their laughter. I felt ugly and ashamed.
42:41
Speaker 6: A year later, my mother died. I wanted to cry,
42:48
Speaker 6: but I couldn't. I loved her, but the tears just
42:52
Speaker 6: wouldn't come. My poor father... I watched him sitting there
42:56
Speaker 6: by himself hour after hour. The only way I knew
42:59
Speaker 6: how to take my mother's place was to try to
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Speaker 6: look like her, so one evening I stole into her
43:04
Speaker 6: closet and got out her blue evening gown, the one
43:08
Speaker 6: he loved the best.
43:09
Speaker 4: A blue gown, I see.
43:12
Speaker 6: At last, I thought, I was able to do something
43:15
Speaker 6: to please him. Liza, how dare you put on that dress?
43:17
Speaker 4: Take it off at once.
43:18
Speaker 6: I had a terrible convulsive shock.
43:20
Speaker 4: Don't ever do that again. Go back to your room.
43:22
Speaker 4: Go back.
43:23
Speaker 6: My father, whom I loved completely, had turned on me.
43:27
Speaker 6: I never tried to come close to him again. As
43:31
Speaker 6: I grew up, I buried myself in my schoolwork. I
43:35
Speaker 6: made up my mind that if I couldn't be anything else,
43:37
Speaker 6: I was going to be tops in my class. I
43:40
Speaker 6: never went to parties or dances, except one. It was
43:45
Speaker 6: graduation day. I remember I'd gone to the library. It
43:48
Speaker 6: was deserted that night, except for one person. It was Ben.
43:52
Speaker 4: Ben.
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Speaker 6: Ben had been chosen the handsomest boy in the class.
43:56
Speaker 4: Hello, Eliza.
43:58
Speaker 6: Hello, Ben.
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Speaker 7: What are you doing here? I mean, why aren't you
44:02
Speaker 7: at the dance?
44:03
Speaker 4: How about you?
44:04
Speaker 6: Oh, I... I had a headache.
44:08
Speaker 4: You want to go to the dance with me?
44:09
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am. This is a public library. Well, uh, where's Barbara, Ben? Huh?
44:16
Speaker 4: Where's Barbara? Uh-huh. Oh, we're not speaking anymore. Oh.
44:21
Speaker 2: I'm not speaking to her, and she's not speaking to me.
44:23
Speaker 4: Honest, Liza, do you think a girl should flirt all
44:25
Speaker 4: the time?
44:26
Speaker 7: Well, I imagine it's pretty difficult for Barbara not to flirt.
44:29
Speaker 6: She's so pretty.
44:31
Speaker 4: Oh, heck. Why talk about Barbara? You're much nicer. If
44:35
Speaker 4: you please. Oh, sorry.
44:38
Speaker 2: Look, what do you say we drop over just for
44:40
Speaker 2: sort of last dance for the kids, huh?
44:44
Speaker 6: Well, I'll have to go home first to tell my dad.
44:47
Speaker 4: Oh, swell. Come on, Liza. Let's skedaddle out of here.
44:50
Speaker 6: I really didn't have to go and tell my father.
44:54
Speaker 6: I wanted to go home just to put on my
44:56
Speaker 6: party dress. Well, Ben called for me and we walked
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Speaker 6: down the street toward the high school.
45:04
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny.
45:07
Speaker 6: What's funny, Ben?
45:09
Speaker 2: Well, it just dawned on me. You're awful pretty, Liza. Well,
45:14
Speaker 2: what's the matter? Don't you like me or something?
45:16
Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Yes, I do, but I.
45:20
Speaker 7: I just never thought you ever noticed me before.
45:23
Speaker 4: I guess I didn't. Not very much. Boy, I'm a sap.
45:29
Speaker 6: What's that.
45:37
Speaker 4: Song, Liza?
45:39
Speaker 6: What song?
45:40
Speaker 2: That song you're singing.
45:42
Speaker 6: Oh, is I singing?
45:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it?
45:45
Speaker 6: Dee-dee-dee. Oh, I don't know.
45:47
Speaker 7: I don't know what it is. Just something I remember.
45:50
Speaker 6: I think when I was a little child, I used
45:52
Speaker 6: to sing it.
45:52
Speaker 4: Oh, but it's nice. Go on, sing it. Oh, Ben, I... Oh,
45:56
Speaker 4: go on.
45:56
Speaker 6: Well, all right, but I don't know if I remember
46:00
Speaker 6: it all. Let me see. My ship has sails that
46:05
Speaker 6: are made of silk. The decks are trimmed with gold.
46:13
Speaker 7: And of jam and spice.
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Speaker 9: There's a paradise.
46:23
Speaker 6: My ship's aglow with a million pearls and.
46:28
Speaker 7: A ruby still each bin.
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Speaker 12: The sun sits high on a sapphire sky when my
46:38
Speaker 12: ship comes in.
46:43
Speaker 6: I can wait the.
46:44
Speaker 14: Years till it appears One fine day, one spring But
46:52
Speaker 14: the pearls and such, they don't mean much If there's
46:57
Speaker 14: missing just one.
47:00
Speaker 6: Thing I do not care if that.
47:06
Speaker 14: Day arrives That dream may never.
47:11
Speaker 7: Be If the ship I sing.
47:15
Speaker 14: Doesn't also bring.
47:18
Speaker 6: My own true love to me.
47:23
Speaker 7: If the ship I sing.
47:26
Speaker 14: Doesn't also bring my own true love.
47:37
Speaker 6: Oh, that's pretty, Liza.
47:43
Speaker 4: Liza.
47:44
Speaker 6: Huh?
47:45
Speaker 4: Look at me.
47:49
Speaker 6: Why, Ben, you... you kissed me.
47:52
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
47:54
Speaker 6: Oh, that's all right, Ben. But I guess we'd better
47:58
Speaker 6: hurry up if we want to get to the dance.
48:01
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:17
Speaker 7: Gee, I haven't had so much fun all my life.
48:19
Speaker 4: I didn't know you could dance so well, Eliza.
48:21
Speaker 6: Thank you, Ben.
48:22
Speaker 4: Ben?
48:23
Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Barbara.
48:25
Speaker 4: Oh, hello.
48:26
Speaker 6: Uh, Ben, could I talk to you for a minute? Well,
48:30
Speaker 6: what for? Why, I... Well, I just want to talk
48:34
Speaker 6: to you, silly.
48:35
Speaker 4: I didn't know you were speaking to me.
48:38
Speaker 6: I'm not.
48:39
Speaker 7: And I think you're the rudest boy I've ever known.
48:41
Speaker 2: Oh, hey, wait a minute, Barbara. Oh, gosh, say excuse
48:44
Speaker 2: me for a minute, will you, Eliza?
48:45
Speaker 4: Hey, Barbara. Sure, Barbara. Barbara. Sure. That Ben didn't come back,
48:52
Speaker 4: did he, Miss Elliot?
48:54
Speaker 3: No, Dr.
48:54
Speaker 4: Brooks. Well, there are certainly a lot of pieces. Suppose
48:57
Speaker 4: I try to put them together. As a little girl,
49:00
Speaker 4: you convince yourself you're ugly, the sadly inferior. So you
49:04
Speaker 4: build a wall around yourself. As an older girl, you
49:07
Speaker 4: drop your defenses for one crucial moment, receive another cruel blow,
49:12
Speaker 4: and withdraw forever after as a woman.
49:15
Speaker 6: What does that mean, withdraw as a woman?
49:17
Speaker 4: You resolved never again to risk being hurt as a woman,
49:20
Speaker 4: competing against other women. You buried all your painful memories,
49:23
Speaker 4: and with them, that little song, which expresses the fulfillment
49:28
Speaker 4: of love. You proceeded to escape in a loveless world
49:33
Speaker 4: of work.
49:34
Speaker 6: But it wasn't loveless. I loved Kendall Nessie.
49:36
Speaker 4: No, Miss Elliot, you dominated him. Just as you've attempted
49:38
Speaker 4: to dominate all men. To force all men to accept
49:41
Speaker 4: you as their superior.
49:44
Speaker 6: All right. What's the answer?
49:47
Speaker 4: Perhaps a man will dominate you.
49:50
Speaker 9: Oh.
49:53
Speaker 6: Silly, isn't it, that a grown woman should be governed
49:55
Speaker 6: by the desperate desires of her childhood?
49:58
Speaker 4: Do you agree with me?
50:00
Speaker 6: I feel better. Lots better.
50:02
Speaker 4: Do you agree with me?
50:05
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know. Seen Liza this morning, Charlie?
50:17
Speaker 4: She hasn't come in yet. Oh, Maggie, wait a minute.
50:21
Speaker 4: How long have I worked here?
50:22
Speaker 6: Too long.
50:25
Speaker 4: Six years. That's a long time in a world of women.
50:28
Speaker 6: Charlie, what makes you such a heel? If you don't
50:31
Speaker 6: tell Liza you're sorry for what you said yesterday.
50:33
Speaker 4: I'll... Okay, okay.
50:34
Speaker 6: Okay what?
50:35
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll apologize. I know now I was wrong.
50:39
Speaker 6: Well....
50:40
Speaker 3: I saw her last night. I got a look at
50:43
Speaker 3: her without that brick front. Underneath Maggie, she's quite a gal.
50:48
Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness.
50:50
Speaker 3: You suspected me for a long time, you old battle axe.
50:54
Speaker 3: You know, I'm kind of sick of trying to be cute. Yes,
50:58
Speaker 3: here's a secret. Inside, I'm as romantic as the devil.
51:01
Speaker 4: And outside... Oh, go away, Maggie. You're a hard woman.
51:06
Speaker 6: You said it. But when Liza comes in, you apologize.
51:09
Speaker 4: I promise.
51:10
Speaker 6: You're really not such a louse after all. Oh, Miss Morgan.
51:14
Speaker 4: Yes?
51:15
Speaker 6: Miss Elliott sent. She'd like to see you right away.
51:17
Speaker 6: Randy Curtis is with her. Morning, Liza. Hello, Maggie. Well,
51:31
Speaker 6: where is he? Randy?
51:32
Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
51:32
Speaker 6: Telephone in. Hollywood's been paging him all morning.
51:35
Speaker 7: And stop looking like an.
51:36
Speaker 6: Owl, Maggie.
51:37
Speaker 7: I just happened to meet him on the street corner
51:39
Speaker 7: after I left the doctor's.
51:40
Speaker 6: Well, well, well. Yes, and I'm glad I did. You
51:44
Speaker 6: might not suspect it, Maggie, but Randy is a very
51:47
Speaker 6: domineering young man. How domineering? Brace yourself, Maggie. He's asked
51:52
Speaker 6: me to marry him. Liza! Maggie, I'm learning about someone
51:56
Speaker 6: I never knew before. Myself. It's frightening and wonderful.
52:00
Speaker 7: I'm giving up the magazine, and I'm giving up hiding
52:03
Speaker 7: and running away.
52:04
Speaker 6: When did you ever run away?
52:05
Speaker 4: Oh, lots of times.
52:07
Speaker 6: Only now I know why I ran. I wanted someone
52:10
Speaker 6: to lean on, to take care of me. Oh, Maggie,
52:13
Speaker 6: be happy for me, please. I think I've found the answer. Darling,
52:16
Speaker 6: I am happy for you. It's what I've always hoped
52:18
Speaker 6: for you. Thank you, Maggie. But while you're still the boss,
52:21
Speaker 6: there are a few things I'd like you to okay. Well,
52:23
Speaker 6: just bring them in.
52:24
Speaker 3: Right away.
52:25
Speaker 6: Hello, Maggie. Kendall, come in.
52:31
Speaker 4: Well, Liza, this is it, isn't it? Between us, I mean.
52:38
Speaker 6: Yes, Kendall.
52:39
Speaker 4: I guess I've known it for a long time. But somehow, somewhere,
52:43
Speaker 4: find a place for me in your life. Will you, Liza?
52:47
Speaker 6: Kendall, you'll always be very, very dear to me.
52:52
Speaker 4: All this time, Liza. And in ten seconds, it's all over. Well,
52:57
Speaker 4: maybe that's the best way. I'll be seeing you.
53:01
Speaker 6: Oh, Miss Elliott, Mr. Curtis is through with his call. Oh,
53:05
Speaker 6: we'll send him in. Oh, Russell and Allison are having
53:08
Speaker 6: another row, and Mr.
53:09
Speaker 4: Johnson was looking for you.
53:10
Speaker 6: Let him wait. Oh, Mr. Curtis.
53:12
Speaker 4: Oh, Liza, I've got great news. You want me to
53:14
Speaker 4: form my own producing unit. Make me the boss. Stories, production, profits, everything.
53:18
Speaker 7: Well, that sounds wonderful, Randy. I don't know anything about
53:21
Speaker 7: the picture business.
53:21
Speaker 4: But I.
53:22
Speaker 10: I've been battling for it for a year. But this
53:24
Speaker 10: is what I mean, Liza. If I knew that you'd
53:26
Speaker 10: be in back of me, that... Well, that you'd be
53:28
Speaker 10: in charge of the whole thing, just as you are here.
53:30
Speaker 10: I'd tell him yes in a minute. Would you do it, Liza?
53:34
Speaker 6: I'm not sure I understand, Randy.
53:37
Speaker 10: Oh, it's simple, darling. It just means that you'll still
53:39
Speaker 10: be the boss. Oh, Liza, I can't tell you what
53:42
Speaker 10: it means to me, knowing that I can be running
53:44
Speaker 10: to you for the rest of my life.
53:46
Speaker 6: The rest of your life.
53:48
Speaker 4: Now, just one kiss and I'll get out. Oh, I'll
53:50
Speaker 4: be back, though. Oh, gosh, thanks, Liza.
53:54
Speaker 6: Thank you, Randy.
53:55
Speaker 4: Thank you.
53:56
Speaker 6: And thank you for telling me.
53:58
Speaker 4: Be back at five. Oh, hello, Mr.
54:00
Speaker 3: Curtis.
54:01
Speaker 8: Eliza, I demand a showdown. An immediate showdown. Do you
54:05
Speaker 8: realize what Johnson has done to me? He deliberately took
54:08
Speaker 8: my color plates.
54:08
Speaker 7: Russell, not now.
54:09
Speaker 6: Not now.
54:10
Speaker 4: Not now.
54:11
Speaker 8: What am I supposed to do to get some attention
54:13
Speaker 8: around here? Bleed in front of you?
54:16
Speaker 3: Russell, the dog department wants to see you.
54:19
Speaker 4: Oh, that's good.
54:21
Speaker 6: That is fine.
54:22
Speaker 4: Really, I could spit. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
54:27
Speaker 9: Fooey!
54:29
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to apologize to you, Liza, for what I
54:32
Speaker 4: said the other day.
54:33
Speaker 6: Who said so?
54:34
Speaker 4: Maggie and I.
54:37
Speaker 6: All right, Johnson. Put them up. This is the kids'
54:41
Speaker 6: last fight.
54:42
Speaker 3: Well, look, I've been thinking it over quietly, and I've
54:44
Speaker 3: decided I'm not going to apologize. I'm sorry, but I
54:48
Speaker 3: can't help it. I know I've been pretty rotten to you, Liza,
54:51
Speaker 3: and I've picked myself for it afterwards. But there's always
54:53
Speaker 3: been that secret battle between us from the very beginning,
54:56
Speaker 3: and I've always had to win it because.
54:59
Speaker 4: Well, because I'm me, I guess.
55:01
Speaker 6: Johnson, I.
55:01
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. I'm not finished yet. I just wanted
55:04
Speaker 3: you to know that. Now that I'm leaving, in spite
55:08
Speaker 3: of all your shenanigans, I think you're fine. Well, I
55:12
Speaker 3: turned in the Hattie Carnegie layout to Paxton, so I
55:15
Speaker 3: guess that washes me up.
55:17
Speaker 6: Johnson, or Charlie, if I may, do me a favor.
55:23
Speaker 6: Give me back that paperweight and stay, will you? What?
55:28
Speaker 4: Look.
55:29
Speaker 6: I know all your reasons for wanting to leave, but
55:32
Speaker 6: it seems as though I'm getting a divorce from myself,
55:35
Speaker 6: and I think you ought to stick around and see
55:37
Speaker 6: the fun. What do you say?
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Speaker 4: Sorry, but I'm sure it wouldn't work.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 6: I see what you mean. Why don't we run the
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Speaker 6: magazine together? After a while, I might even step aside and... Well,
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Speaker 6: that is, if you don't get too drunk with power.
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Speaker 4: You mean that, Liza? Yes.
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Speaker 6: And give me back that paperweight just as a token
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Speaker 6: you intend to stay. Because I want you to stay
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Speaker 6: very much.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Catch.
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Speaker 6: Thanks.
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Speaker 4: You got a minute? Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 6: Here.
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Speaker 4: Here. Now, look at this format. That's the first thing
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Speaker 4: I want to change. You got a layout?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, right on my desk.
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Speaker 4: I'll show you what I mean. Now, look, instead of
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Speaker 4: having the name on top.
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Why not put it over here?
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Speaker 7: Oh, and change the type, too, huh?
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Speaker 6: Why not?
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Speaker 4: You mentioned that yourself months ago.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I know I do. Oh, just a minute. Maggie,
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Speaker 6: I want you to see something. How do you.
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Speaker 7: But look, Charlie, we can't get this ready for the
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Speaker 7: Easter issue.
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Speaker 4: Sure we can.
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Speaker 6: We can?
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Speaker 4: I've got a dummy issue in my office. Let me
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Speaker 4: get it. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 6: Oh, come in, Maggie.
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Speaker 4: Oh, be nice to me, Maggie. I'm your new boss now.
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Speaker 6: Would you mind telling me what the devil goes on
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Speaker 6: around here?
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Speaker 4: Maggie.
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Speaker 6: Maggie, I almost made a great mistake. I almost twisted
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Speaker 6: up my whole life all over again. You did, huh?
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Speaker 6: I might have married Randy Curtis. I thought he was
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Speaker 6: a refuge, a tower of strength. Well, you know the
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Speaker 6: parts he plays and the things he does. But, Maggie...
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Speaker 6: He's just what Kendall is. He needs a mother, not
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Speaker 6: a wife. But Liza. Maggie, I don't think you'll have
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Speaker 6: to worry about Liza anymore. I think I'm going to
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Speaker 6: be all right. Now, get out of here. Well, I'll be.
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Speaker 4: Excuse me, Meg. Here it is. See what I mean?
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Speaker 4: You see what that does to the whole magazine?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Now, let me sit down here.
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Speaker 4: I'd better sit down. What are you doing down there?
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Speaker 6: Oh, just having a few laughs.
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Speaker 4: Well, get up. Now, look. Put the ads back here, see?
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: On the color section up in front. Yeah. How about that?
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Speaker 6: Sure.
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Speaker 4: It sounds dangerous, but it could be great.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, go on.
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Speaker 4: What did you say?
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Speaker 6: I said, um, go on and do whatever you're going
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Speaker 6: to do.
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 6: Well, sure.
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Speaker 4: Baby, I've been waiting to do this for years.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Liza, I.
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Speaker 4: Well, this is the end. The absolute end.
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Speaker 5: For throwing light on Lady in the Dark and giving
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Speaker 5: us a highly entertaining hour, our thanks to Ginger Rogers
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Speaker 5: and Ray Milland.
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Speaker 4: Ginger, you played.
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Speaker 5: Liza Elliot so convincingly, I could almost believe you'd.
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Speaker 4: Known the lady.
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Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Barrymore, I think there's a little bit of Liza Elliot.
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Speaker 6: In every girl.
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Speaker 4: You mean you all have your secret dream? Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 6: When I was a little girl in Kansas City, I
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Speaker 6: had a special room under the eaves that I used
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Speaker 6: to crawl in there just to dream.
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Speaker 4: What did you dream about most of, Ginger?
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Speaker 6: Whatever he said dreams about, I guess. That someday I'd
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Speaker 6: be able to have a soda fountain in my home.
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Speaker 5: And I understand the dreams come true, complete with trimming.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. You come on sometime and I'll give you a
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Speaker 6: double-double chocolate soda, too.
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Speaker 4: So what about you, Ray? What did you dream about
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Speaker 4: at an early age? Me? Girls. What kind of girls?
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Speaker 4: You really want to know?
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: Girls with luxe toilet soap complexions. Hey, hey.
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Speaker 5: Hey, you sure somebody didn't put you up to saying that, Ray?
59:31
Speaker 6: Well, those locks try to show complexions. They're no dream, Ray.
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Speaker 6: They're the real thing.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and you see plenty of them around Hollywood. At
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Speaker 5: least in the studio where I work.
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Speaker 4: What are you doing now for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mr. Barrymore?
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Speaker 5: Well, I just finished a picture called Between Two Women
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Speaker 5: with Van Johnson.
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Speaker 4: Between two women with Van Johnson.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 4: That's tough competition.
1:00:02
Speaker 6: I'm making a picture at MGM with Van, too. Weekend
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Speaker 6: at the Waldorf.
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Speaker 5: Well, I hope we can telescope that weekend into a
1:00:10
Speaker 5: pleasant Monday night on Lux soon, Ginger.
1:00:13
Speaker 6: What do you have on Lux for next week, Mr. Barrymore?
1:00:16
Speaker 5: Well, next Monday night we plan to startle and bewilder
1:00:20
Speaker 5: you with one of the screen's most thrilling mysteries. It's
1:00:24
Speaker 5: the current 20th century Fox hit, Laura, starring Dana Andrews,
1:00:30
Speaker 5: Lynn Barry, Vincent Price, and Otto Kruger. Start with a
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Speaker 5: strange and baffling murder, adjuvant romance and suspense, and you
1:00:42
Speaker 5: have the sizzling ingredients of Nick Monday night's play.
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Speaker 6: Wouldn't miss it, Mr.
1:00:47
Speaker 4: Barrymore.
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Speaker 6: And good night.
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Speaker 4: Good night. Good night. Good night and thanks to both
1:00:50
Speaker 4: of you.
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Speaker 5: night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Dana Andrews, Lynn Barry,
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Speaker 5: Vincent Price, and Otto Kruger in Laura.
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Speaker 3: David O. Selznick's I'll Be Seeing You. Ray Moland can
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Speaker 3: now be seen in the Paramount Production, Ministry of Fear.
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Speaker 3: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer,
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