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That's all I need... an ordered life

You know, a manager

But he's got to be a Libran

[Man]

Hello

Yeah?

- That sounds like Jerry

- Oh, is that Jerry? For goodness sakes

- [Edie Laughing]

- What are you doing?

Jerry, you're Aquarius, aren't you?

That's what I saw

when I met you, Jerry

- Remember I said the Marble Faun,

and it was terrible

Terrible, the tragedy

connected with the Marble Faun

- You know, I call Jerry "the Marble Faun"

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

- Yeah

- Yeah

Do you have that book here, Edie?

I haven't been able to find it

If you run across it,

I'd like to read it

It's very deep I don't know whether

you... Well, I guess you're up to it

They used to have it

on all the, uh...

I think it was on the high school

reading list The Marble Faun

"The Libra husband

does not seek divorce

"unless the conditions of his life

are not adjustable"

I don't believe in divorce at all

- I think divorce...

- Was your mother divorced or no?

- No

- Separated

Yes, and then my father got a,

got a fake Mexican divorce

and he did have, you know,

what he called another wife

But we didn't recognize it It wasn't

recognized by the Catholic Church

They don't recognize it, you know

Say, are you bossing me around, Edie?

All afternoon?

- [Edie] I think that's terrific

- Oh, Edie, it's not the best one

This is the worst one

of my wedding pictures

The others look worse

I was gonna be a singer, you know

A professional singer

When I met Mr. Beale,

the jig was up

Do you remember this?

- May I see that, please?

- The villain of the piece

"To my best friend and

most delightful comrade

"to my only sweetheart

and wonderful wife

"I tender this likeness

of her husband

Phelan Beale, 1929"

- So we did love each other

- Did I laugh when I read that

Aren't kids terrible?

I just roared

When the people don't speak,

they never get divorced

- You just can't tell

- I've been a very happy woman all my life

Shall I tell them about Gould?

Gould was Mother's accompanist

He was a boogie-woogie composer

who had the most terrific style

He was the most brilliant man

I've ever met

That's including Mr. Beale

and Mr. Bouvier

Completely brilliant

This is cute, Mother

I like that very much

Don't you, David?

You said Michelle Beale

stole this, didn't you, Edie?

I never did

She'd never do that

See how fat I was, Edie?

Did I look like a good mother?

Was I a good mother?

- [David] It looks like it

- What? Looks like it

I didn't starve my children,

did I? What?

Fed 'em Fed 'em well

[Mrs. Beale] They were very nice children

I enjoyed them tremendously

I'm crazy about my two sons,

absolutely mad about them

- [David] Who's the little girl?

- [Edie] That's me

[Mrs. Beale] Well, the boys were,

were not hard to handle at all

- They were very easy to handle

- Oh, my mother never saw my brothers

I saw them every minute,

every single minute

- Oh, they never got any discipline, my brothers

- They didn't need it

- They were absolutely perfect

- They never got any discipline

This was taken with a tiny

little Kodak Number Two

That was Kodak Number Two

Cost two dollars, that camera

- Mother, I'm mad about these pictures of you

- Oh, no, don't take those

- We'll just put them right over here

- Oh, no, I want those out

- Will you give me those, please?

- No, you can't have them

I want them, Edie I will never see them again

Now, I want those pictures

- I want those pictures, Edie

- You can't expose them to the light in here

No, give me those pictures

I don't want to ask 67 times

- Come on

- I want to show that to Al

- No, I want...

- I wanna show it to Al!

- It's my picture

- Look what you made me do

Well, you did it

Look what she did

- Mrs. Beale had a classical face I want you to see this

- Look at what she did

- Look Very few people have this

- Don't touch that!

Al, I want you to see this

- [Edith Laughing]

- Now look, this is my mother

This British blood,

maybe Jewish, I don't know

In the Leaman family, I'm not sure

- I don't want that photographed

- Scotch blood... the Ewings

- Imagine showing those horrible things

I don't want you to show

But it's just a girl

from a good French family

It's a very beautiful face

[Mrs. Beale] I lived alone at least 30 years

l-I didn't mind

You get very independent

when you live alone

You get to be a real individual

- You can't have your cake and eat it too in life

- Oh, yes, I did

I did I had my cake, loved it,

masticated it, chewed it

- and had everything I wanted

- You can't have your cake and eat it too

I had a very, very happy,

satisfying life

Well, you had a rich husband

You should have stayed with him

- Now you might as well face it

- What! For money?

- She was bored

- Why, I was not I was a great singer

I had a perfect marriage,

beautiful children

Terribly successful marriage

Never had a fight in my life

- I never threw anything at Mr. Beale Never

- [Laughing]

They threw the bull around,

as they say

No, I never had any words

with Mr. Beale at all

I came down here to live in this,

in this house because I did all my singing here

I was so happy I was happier

going out and singing

than anything I've ever done

since I was born

I liked it better

than anything I ever did

- I can't find it, Mother

- Well, you could let me help you

- Let me...

- Listen, kid I'm extremely organized

I know exactly where

to look for this stuff

I've got it under control

right here, but I can't find it

Get it?

Well, bring in the...

bring in the orchestration

of"Tea for Two"

I can't do it

My feet hurt

Just try, babe

They're beautiful

I have to get my voice exactly back

the way it was when I was 45 years old

- You can't, Mother darling

- Oh, yes, I can Oh, yes!

- Something happens, face it

- I never strained my voice ever in my life

- Oh, but I strain my voice

from yelling and screaming

- What is the matter with me?

I could never speak again

Why, I can get it back in about a month,

just about You know, good hard work

(music) When we are together

together, hmmm (music)

Gould and Mother

made this record in 1934

- Sing it, babe, Just sing it

- He was Mother's accompanist

(music) We belong together (music)

(music) We're happy together (music)

(music) And life is a song (music)

(music) When we are together (music)

(music) We know we are where we belong (music)

(music) When we are together (music)

- (music) Like birds of a feather (music)

- (music) Of a feather (music)

- (music) Together we thrive (music)

- (music) Together we thrive (music)

- (music) Little caring whether (music)

- (music) Little caring whether (music)

- (music) The rest of the world... (music)

- (music) The rest of the world... (music)

- [Record Sticks]

- Oh, my heart, what happened?

- That's pretty, that note

- Terrific

Oh, that's terrible

Oh, I see It repeats

Yes, that's very important,

that last

- That's the "cazenza,"

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