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"cadenza," whatever you call it

Do you want that?

Aren't you mad about your record?

I was very serious

about my singing Loved it

After you hear that,

you realize nothing is...

- Important

- No, it isn't Nothing

Well, my mother, you know, she gave me

the right slant on my voice

She told me to leave everything,

to leave everything

No man could compete

against Mrs. Beale and Gould

- We were pretty good

- No man in the world

Well, I worked hard

I wish you would play "Laura"

Imagine bothering about anything

when she had a talent like that?

Well, I had to take care of this house

I lived on no money

You were able to save

the house on account of me

- Yeah, I think that...

- I didn't want to live in East Hampton

but I had to on account

of Mother's house

Well, now you see why you lived,

because you had music all the time

That's why

And you went to the beach too

- That's what you liked

- Those are the only things

Well, I think

you liked your dancing

- You were very good at that

- (music) [Phonograph: "Tea for Two"]

[Edie]

This is Kostelanetz

Did you see the, uh...

the play on Broadway?

"No, No, Nanette"

(music) Tea for two, and two for tea (music)

(music) And me for you, and you for me (music)

(music) Alone (music)

(music) to hear us

so see us or hear us (music)

(music) No friends or relations

and weekend vacations (music)

(music) We won't have it known, dear

that we own a telephone, no (music)

(music) I'll awake and start to bake (music)

(music) A sugar cake for you to take (music)

(music) Mmm, for all the boys to see (music)

(music) We can raise a family (music)

(music) A girl for you, a boy for me (music)

(music) Oh, can't you see how happy (music)

(music) We could be (music)

(music) Tea for two (music)

If Edie was any good, the soft shoe's out

If she was any good at all

It's all soft shoe now, you know

- This is a dance Come on, Edie

- [Laughs]

I used to do it myself, you know

I did that... the soft shoe

(music) See us or hear us (music)

(music) No friends or relations

and weekend vacations (music)

(music) They won't have it known, dear

that we own a telephone (music)

(music) No, no, no (music)

(music) But I'll awake and start to bake (music)

(music) A sug-sug-sugar cake-cake-cake (music)

(music) See for all the boys to see (music)

(music) We can raise a family (music)

(music) A girl for you, a boy for me (music)

(music) Oh, can't you see (music)

(music) How happy we would be (music)

Edie, dance to that

A waltz Come on Get Edie up

Dance A waltz

How can you resist that?

[Coughing]

How can you resist that?

(music) Oh, la-la (music)

(music) La, da, ah, ah (music)

(music) Oh, can't you see (music)

(music) How happy (music)

(music) We would be (music)

- (music) Would be (music)

- Terrific Isn't that terrific?

Isn't that a beautiful chord?

I'm mad about Kostelanetz

[Laughing] Do you think

I'm gonna look funny dancing?

- [Both] No

- I do terrific dances

I only care about three things:

The Catholic Church,

swimming and dancing

- And I had to give them up

- Dave, it opens from the bottom

I've got enough I almost die

with the fleas in this place

I can't go on another year

I have to get to a hotel room

Well, I have... I brought

a lot of stuff for your fleas

and I'll be more than willing

to put it down

All I want is a little room

[Laughing]

I can't stand a country house

In the first place,

it makes me terribly nervous

I'm scared to death of doors, locks,

people roaming around in the background

under the trees, in the bushes

I'm absolutely terrified

I'm not a bit terrified

of the city, not a bit

I like the terrible noise

you hear at night

and all these terrible

drilling sounds

I never go to sleep unless

the whole pavement is jumping outside

and it's a hundred degrees

and that drill is just going...

[Makes Grunting Noise]

And then I just go to sleep

[Propeller Plane Overhead]

[Laughs]

I only hope it stays up

(music) At the Balalaika (music)

I haven't got my makeup on

[Whispering] My God,

do you think it's gonna stay up?

I feel something slipping

I feel something...

[Edie]

What am I missing?

We'll almost have to listen

to Peale in about five seconds

She doesn't like the Catholic Church

She gets mad whenever I go

Oh, go on What the hell?

I worship the Catholic Church

I'm gonna invite Father Huntington over

to spend the whole entire night with me

- That's what I'm gonna do

I love the church so much

[Giggles]

- [Radio Tuning]

- Here it is

[Radio:
Norman Vincent Peale]

To get on top of things and to stay there

- Does that mean women too?

- For if you do not do this

it is very likely that things

will get on top of you

Isn't he terrific?

And since I always believe

in a simple formula that is workable

I have a formula for you now

First:
Try, really try

Try, really try

Second:
Think, really think

Cute Think, really think

And third:
Believe, really believe

- [Radio Tuning]

- Well, you may say, "How many times

Why, it may be a good many times

For example, I have in my pocket here

a letter from a man in London, England

"Dear Dr Peale,

Over three years ago

"I was in your great Marble

Collegiate Church for the first time

"and I was having it rough

- [Snickers]

- "The job I'd been doing

- [Laughing]

- [Mrs. Beale] Your age, old gal

"Your suggestion lived with me,

plus the advice to try, really try, :

- He lived I never lived

- "think, really think, : Believe, really believe

"I did think I did work

very hard to find a job

Eighty-eight interviews"

So did he

or did he not get the job?

He did

Will he or will he not

handle himself

in the years that are to come?

He wasn't emotional

He didn't get upset

- He wasn't nervous

- He wasn't me

He was cool

Now one thing is sure:

The human mind will not function

when it is hot

- Only when it is cool and dispassionate

- Dispassionate

- That was the word I wanted to other day

- will it produce

I couldn't think of what it was

I think it would be a good idea

if every day every individual

would look at himself

in the mirror

earnestly, and ask the question

"Who am I?

Am I a weak person?

Am I a defeated person?

Am I an inferior person?"

Not at all

I am a child of God

and I was intended

to get on top of things

and I was intended to stay there

- (music) Amen, amen (music)

- Very good That was very long

- Very long

- You notice how he went on and on and on?

Let's hear the prayer

I mean the song You sing the song now

- Doxology

- Sing it

[Announcer] You have been listening

to Dr Norman Vincent Peale

- as he spoke this morning from his pulpit

- No emotionalism

- at Marble Collegiate Church

- Never give up You want to keep on top

Way up high up on top

Wonderful way to smother somebody

[Laughing] Would you pass

your mirror over here?

I've got to see what I look like

- [Laughing]

- Don't drop it

- Uptight

- That was wonderful

I see why I've got cataracts

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