Grey Gardens Page #6

- I'm, I'm on the air

Dare say my mother was ever taken care

of by any man but my father

and I'll push you

under the goddamned bed!

[David] No, Edie,

I think Al was referring to Gould

Yes, he was

He took care of Mother by accompanying

her to the movies and playing the piano

Took care of me and the washing...

No one took care of Mrs. Beale She had

my father's money and her own money

- What money?

- The Bouvier money

And another thing, Mrs. Beale

wasn't taken care of sexually

I think he was nicer than anybody

I've ever known in my whole life

He was a writer

He wrote seven books at one time

He was brilliant And he played

the piano magnificently

and composed exquisite music

and dedicated about 80 songs to me

- So Edie didn't have to worry

- No, she didn't have to worry the way she did, no

She made me leave the Barbizon

Well, I thought you'd been

in New York long enough

- You were getting lines in your face

- But I didn't want to leave

- I was getting my big chance

- Oh, no, you were not

That married man was not going

to give you any chance at all

- I was getting my audition in 1952!

- You were not

- I was going to get it!

- Well, you didn't get it You missed out

I was just getting up

what you call a little nerve

Now, listen, you're wasting that thing

on this, 'cause it's just nuts

- When she said I had to come home

- I thought you should come home

- She started high-pressuring me

to come back in March of 1952

and she kept it up

until the end of July

- And July 29th, I check out, got on the train

- Well, you should come down

- came back, and was never able to get back

- It's very hot in New York

It's very hot in New York

on July 29th

[Meowing]

[Mrs. Beale] "You and the Night

and the Music "It's beautiful

- Do you know that one? You do know it?

- Mm-hmm Sure

Do you really?

Sing it for me Sing it

(music) The night was young

and you're so beautiful (music)

No "You and the Night and the Music"

Sing that song

- I don't know that I thought you meant...

- You thought you did

- [Albert] (music) You and the night and the music (music)

- He knows it

- Go on

- I don't know the rest of it

"Fill me with flaming desire"

The words are wonderful

(music) Love like yours and mine (music)

(music) Is a glowing thrill (music)

(music) Of sparkling wine (music)

(music) Make the most of time (music)

(music) Ere it has flown (music)

(music) You and the night and the music (music)

(music) Thrill me with flaming desire (music)

(music) Setting my being (music)

(music) Completely on fire (music)

(music) Oh, you and the night and the music (music)

(music) Dance till the music is through (music)

I forgot Oh, listen,

this is it "Love"

(music) Till the moment is through (music)

(music) After the night (music)

(music) And the music die (music)

(music) Will I have you (music)

[Mrs. Beale]

Edie! Oh, Edie!

- Where's Jerry, Edie? Edie, where's Jerry?

- I don't know, Mother

- That's what I'm wondering

- Don't you think you'd better find him?

Mother wants me to watch him

the whole time he's in the house

- No, you told me not to have him back here

- Like I watched Tom

- No, thanks

- My eyes dropped out Mother and her friends

I never cared for the three

people that my mother liked

I couldn't get on with Mr. Beale

and I didn't care

for her composer friend

and as for Tom Logan,

he drove me crazy in the house

[Mrs. Beale] I loved Tom

He played the guitar so beautifully

He sang and was in a rodeo,

and even was in Hollywood

You'd have to admire

somebody like that

- She was a pushover

- He had no place to go

And then he asked my mother, he said,

"I've just been fired from the Sea Spray

Would you like a maintenance man?"

Mother took him home

I didn't want a maintenance man

I said, "I'll take you home for one night"

- That's the story of Tom Logan

- That's what I said

There wasn't a thing

he didn't know how to do

He could fix anything

Lights, plumber things

He knew how to do everything

Just one of those terribly clever men

He couldn't do any work He made good

salads, but he was drunk all the time

Oh, no He came up here every morning

at 6:
00, knocked on my door

We talked over the menu for the day

Including a half a bottle

of rose vin

or wine or whatever it's called

Naturally, we couldn't get rid

of him, and I had to stay here

What I should have done is leave,

and he would have left right away

All right, you don't believe

in religious compulsion It was a religious thing

- If I had left, he would have left

- No, I deserve...

- Because the work would have been too much

- He didn't want to go

All alone in the house for Tom

All I had to do was leave I'm so stupid that I...

Well, where would I have been?

I'd have been all alone in the house

I think you would have, Mother

- [Mrs. Beale] Edie! Yoo-hoo!

- What?

The Marble Faun is at the door

He can wait

Let Jerry in. Hurry up

I'm gonna look at this path

without Jerry

(music) [Humming]

This is a sea of leaves

A complete sea of leaves

If you lose something, you can't

find it again, :
It drops to the bottom

I lost my scarf

I'll never get it again

Best scarf I ever owned

The most beautiful color of blue

It dropped

You know, it fell off my head

[Whispering]

To hell with the Marble Faun

- Hello?

- Hello, Edie

Oh, hello, jerry darling

Do you want to come in?

I just came for the faucet

so I can get down to the hardware store

- Yeah, Mother said you called

Was that you on the phone very early?

How are you?

I'm looking at you now

Really well

I'll come down and let you in

Do you want to come up here?

- You want to come up?

- All right, for a moment

Mother's screaming to have me

let you in I'd better do it

I'll be at the back door

here, okay?

I'll come right down

- jerry's puffing and blowing

- No I'm tired, and I don't want to get any tireder.

What do you want, jerry?

Who wants a nice piece of corn?

No I don't want any

Thank you

Jerry, you didn't get

enough to eat tonight

- Well, I can't resist I'm sorry

- The margarine

Jerry, you're gonna put

some of this on, aren't you?

- You wanna do it for me?

- Why, yeah The pleasure's all mine

If I don't burn myself

Which piece of corn

do you want, jerry?

- Doesn't matter

- See how polite he is?

You want some, Edie?

Where's your plate, Jerry, for it?

- I couldn't eat in front of the camera

- I've got very big hands

- [Edie Laughs]

- This corn is out of this world

Oh, did I do it nicely? He always

compliments me on the way I do my corn

[Mrs. Beale Chuckles]

- [Clattering]

- [Edie] There they are

There are your raccoons Run away

from your drinks and do that to your raccoons

[Albert]

Hear him?

[Edie]

Yeah, he's there I can hear him

Everything's in the attic,

everything from sloths, otters

badgers, uh, possums, raccoons

I don't leave the bags anymore

'Cause I had to get up to 200

cellophane bags this, uh...

Horrors Somebody's removing

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