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I danced eight hours last night

practicing the, uh...

the marching song

- [Albert] Great

- My God, my muscles!

I can't do it, I'm telling you

What am I gonna do?

They're gone

with this soft life

[Laughing]

(music) We all march together

for love is behind (music)

(music) We all stand together

United we die (music)

(music) We all march together

for we love the land (music)

(music) It's the spirit of VMI (music)

(music) We all march together

for life is unkind (music)

[Laughing]

When they do that, that's

when the plane goes by, see?

So I'm doing

the VMI marching song

which is a ground maneuver

Anyway, I've got to get it all

coordinated in my mind

Hey, Mother,

I'm working on my dance

- [Mrs. Beale] I'm starving

- (music) We all march together (music)

- (music) For life is unkind (music)

- You see, she doesn't want to eat

so I have to sit here

and starve all the time

- How can I eat and look sexy too?

- I think I lost five pounds

- I'm gonna die

- Well, don't live with me I want to eat

- Will you eat some liver pate?

- It's not awfully good

- lf you put lemon with it, it's all right

- I'm gonna die with this diet

- I don't like it at all

- Don't do it Have a sandwich

I got fat not wearing

clothes for two years

Oh, that wasn't it at all It was

the quarts and quarts of ice cream

My bill was $ 171 just for ice cream

- Here's your liver pate

- You have to make it I can't No, I can't

I ate in front of the Maysles

the other day You have to make it

I was very embarrassed No

I ate all that chicken...

- Oh, Mother, I should have stolen that blue...

- Take it out, babe

You like the green?

That's chartreuse there

- What do I do with this?

- You have crackers somewhere

- Should I put it on crackers?

- Yeah You should...

It needs a lemon

or mayonnaise or something

When am I gonna get out of here?

[Laughing]

Oh, she's always talking like that

When I get to New York, you're never

gonna get me back to East Hampton

- Oh, that's silly Oh, Edie, that isn't nice

- Ever Never!

Edie, the man is doing this

For goodness sakes! That's terrible!

When I get to New York, brother,

I'm not ever coming back

Well, you got in awful trouble there

It's a good thing you had a place to come to

- Recuperate at Mama's for about 15 to 20 years

- [Edie Grumbling]

She had a horrible time I used to

have to send her big boxes of groceries

She was starving

From my grocer's thing down there

- I was discovered

- Sent her big boxes of groceries

- but I needed training

- And I always put a bottle of wine in her bag

I thought she'd have

a terrible accident

Well, I was discovered, but...

well, never mind

Oh, I wouldn't say anything good

happened to you in New York

- Are you kidding?

- No

I was discovered by Mr. Gordon

He was a friend of Mrs.

- Well, what is it?

- What was that woman's name?

- People discover me every time I go out, but

- What was Ruby Chapman's...

- I don't think anything of it

- This is serious! He went to pieces!

- Mr. Max Gordon went out of his mind

- Oh, not Max Gordon

- He never went to pieces in his life

- He did!

- He did not A very...

- Now, what was the woman's name?

She gave me the letter

Mrs. Hitchcock

- I can't go back to ancient history

- Ruby Chapman's partner!

How can you remember so long?

Now I'll have to get drunk

- They gave me the letter to Max Gordon

- I'll have to start drinking

I can't take it Ah, she'll make

a drunkard out of her mother

What crackers do you want? We'll take these

Do you mind? They're very good

- Do you want these?

- I don't like crackers You know that

Just put a lemon on it

Little lemon

Don't you know who Max Gordon is?

He's a famous producer

You've heard of him, haven't you?

- He discovered Judy Holliday

- [Mrs. Beale, Indistinct]

He discovered Judy Holliday

He said I was much funnier

Well, you haven't

been funny today, boy

You're lacking in humor

It's how you are

when you grow older

I needed training

Where was I to get the training?

- You start when you're 12 I had mine when I was 12

- Oh, stop

(music) [Humming March]

This cracker's for the photographer

Tell me what,

what I should have done

Here, could you put this

away, please, Edie?

- I should have immediately

tried to get into something?

Until it gets frozen, will you?

David, instead of coming home

I should have tried to get into

something, is that it?

David, do you think you and Al

should have told Edie to lose weight?

- She's been impossible

- Do you think I should have

[David]

What does your mother think?

- [Mrs. Beale] I had everything picked out

- My father was alive!

- That was it My father was alive

- I was going around with a...

- My father was alive

- Do you want to hear what I have to say?

Mr. Beale would have

had me committed

Gould and I were at Edie

every day to go to Traphagen

She could do anything

She could learn toe dancing

She could learn radio She could learn

all sorts of stage dancing

- Why was I gonna do this?

- She could do...

The things we told you

We told you to go to Bendel's

- I couldn't go with my mother sitting here, David

- and model earrings

- I couldn't go with my mother sitting here

- You were so gorgeous in hats

and you had such a beautiful

face and we always adored you

And we said, "Why, she should do hats,"

and she had gorgeous feet

And Mr. Beale always made her wear

a certain kind of shoe when she was a little girl

Orthopedic shoe

And she, she could have...

I had deep responsibility

for you, Mother

I was taken care of for 25 years!

Ah, the hallmark of aristocracy

is responsibility, is that it?

[Propeller Plane Overhead]

I'm not gonna spend this winter

in East Hampton In the first place, I can't

I just can't I can't spend

another winter out here in the country

I can't do it

I don't enjoy it

Furthermore, I'm telling you, I can't get

my figure back unless I hit New York City

You know

That icebox is too near

I've gotta get away

from that icebox

(music) [Humming March]

[Edie]

They all want luncheon

Come on

We're gonna have luncheon

[Yells]

What?

- [Mrs. Beale] Edie!

- What?

I fed the cats!

I just have to leave for New York City

and lead my own life

I don't see any other future

[Mrs. Beale] Will you shut up!

It's a goddamn beautiful day!

Shut up!

Paris is the place for you Get on

stage in Paris at the Follies Bergere

The point is that I came down

here to take care of my mother

I'm sick and tired of worrying

about her night and day

- Well, I had a very good...

- I was away from her for five or six years

- I had a very good man

- And I was sick and tired of lying awake at night

- He took care of me for 25 years

- wondering what was happening to my mother

She didn't have to worry

[David] Who was the man

that took care of you for 25 years?

- Twenty-three years

- Nobody took care of her for 25 years

- I took care of this damn house for 25 years

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