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the books from my room

Where did this little book

come from?

[Jerry]

Edie!

[Mrs. Beale]

That's Jerry He locked himself out

No, jerry hasn't locked himself out

[Chuckles]

He locked himself out

[Mrs. Beale]

Who's knocking at the door?

[Jerry]

Who is it?

[Whispering]

He's around there

Who got this book out of my room?

I cleaned this whole attic up the other day

Now, who's been dropping books

around is what I want to know

I would have seen that book

He evidently has been

up in that room reading it

All right, Buster, old pal,

come and get it

[Mrs. Beale] There's somebody

knocking at the door, Edie

Yeah, all right, Mother

- [Heavy Knocking]

- Yes?

[Man]

Is Jerry here?

Oh, yes I'll get him for you

Just a minute Hey, jerry

- Yeah?

- I think your friend's in the, in the, uh, front

I found a little book

dropped in the attic, Mother

- He's been up there

- Well, you should keep him out

He told me he was working

on that thing, :
He wasn't at all

- Want a little bit, Edie?

- No

- You don't want a little bit?

- [David Mutters]

- My God!

- What?

- I just thought of something

- What?

Give me that What did you think of?

What? Come on

[Whispering]

The guy was standing outside the window

and he was passing books out to him

- You think so, Edie?

- Yes

- I don't believe all that

- Yes!

I don't believe it

Want a taste, Edie?

- I don't want any

- No We lost the glasses The glasses are gone

Next thing, those antiques

will all be missing

See, you shouldn't have

a contact with the outside world

because how do I know that

there isn't something up in that room?

If you get what I mean

You can't tell what's

been put up in that room

or what's been taken out

- [Sighs]

- Don't worry so much, please

This cat's going to the bathroom

right in back of my portrait

- Oh, isn't that awful?

- No, I'm glad he is

I'm glad somebody's doing

something they want to do

[David Laughing]

I was frozen this morning

when I woke up Were you, Edie?

- I did drop It dropped It dropped quite a bit

- I missed you last night

I was so lonely She only left me

one little kitty to keep me warm

And all these blankets were on the

floors, all this pile of stuff here

Jerry's pretty good at waiting on me

He can find things here that

I wouldn't find for half an hour

- [David] Jerry, the majordomo

- I'm so sick of that kid

- I have great pity for him

- Lois says... Well, you know the trouble

- And I like him, but...

- Lois says... You know the trouble

- [David] What?

- The trouble is, he's madly in love with Edie

I said I thought Edie was madly

in love with him Pardon me

He might as well leave right now,

'cause he's never gonna get it

- So that's it

- Get what? Sex with you?

- What he's after

- He doesn't want any sex with you

- Well, that's all they're after

- An old person like you? Good God!

- So why don't you tell him right now?

- Unheard of Unheard of

- You should tell him right now

so I'm not bothered by him

He's got about six girls

in East Hampton He's so busy

- No, but the point is, he thinks...

- I don't know what he's doing

He's out every single night

with a different girl

- Yeah, but that's, that's the point, you see

- He had a wonderful time

- He's gonna be here for years and years

I see this coming

- I hope

- The guy's gonna be here for years and years

- I doubt that

- It's gonna be one of those things

Like Tom Logan

Aren't you gonna feed Whiskers, Edie?

Come on, go in and feed Whiskers

Now, don't eat it

Give it to Whiskers, please

- You're thin You want to get thin

- She's very mean to me

No I have to be very strict

The priest said she needed a very strict hand

[Laughs]

What the priest told me

[Imitating Irish Accent] "She sure needs

a very strong hand, your daughter"

And I tried to give it to her,

you know that?

After Mr. Beale, you know,

stopped living in East Hampton

I had a terrible

hard time with Edie

She just went wild after

her father wasn't living here

She went wild, absolutely wild

I couldn't do anything

with her at all

Isn't it awful

when a dancer gets fat?

Isn't it awful? God

It's awful, I'm telling you

It's awful! God!

My father believed in running

the children's lives, you know?

He wanted me to get my master's degree,

be a junior partner in his law firm

- Take the ice cream

- He was 165 Broadway

on the ninth floor,

and my knees would start to shake

coming down on the ninth floor

of Mr. Beale's office

My knees were rattling

My mouth was dry

You were scared of your father

And I'd go in, and he'd come forward out

of his office with his watch in his hand

and then he'd look at the clock

on the wall, and he'd say

"You're five minutes late,"

he'd say Oh, my God

- No, he had a very...

- And then he'd sit down and look at me like this

and say, "Take it off

Take that hat off

"Take that lipstick off

Take that nail polish off

- How dare you wear those high heels!"

- Oh, she's just acting

Don't you want some of this?

Butter pecan

Mmm Mmm

He said the only thing

to be was a professional woman

He did say that

Didn't he, Mother?

Well, I wouldn't say

it's the only thing

He didn't want me to get married

I don't think people should get married

I don't believe in it at all

If you can't get a man to propose

to you, you might as well be dead

- Oh, I don't think it's important

- I think it's disgusting

- Aunt Mary had the most wonderful life

- absolutely disgusting

- Lived to be 94 years of age

- to live alone

What are they proving? They have to around

with dogs or other women or something

- Dogs are lovely

- I, I think it's terrible

I'll take a dog any day

[Chuckles]

Why didn't you marry the man

you wanted to, like I did?

I think the saddest thing was my not

marrying into the Obelensky family

'cause I adore them

- Any Obelensky is wonderful That's all I can say

- He's a very sweet man

If he's related to

the Obelenskys, he's okay

- I didn't know he was any relation to them

- Yes

- I never knew it

- Serge's, uh, nephew by his half-sister

Now, there was a boy

I might have married

Why didn't you marry Paul Getty?

I said, "How did you

happen to come here?"

And he said, "Oh, I saw you at a dance,"

he said, "in South Hampton"

- I said, "You did?" He said, "Yes"

- He was just a kid

He was 32 And I said,

"Eugene, what you need is a girl"

And he said, "No, Edith, I'm looking

for a wife I wanna get married"

- He wanted to take Edie to Westchester

- Wasn't that cute?

Tom had just died, and I did not

want another man in my kitchen

- I went downstairs...

- He'd just made a cookbook

- Mother got rid of him in 15 minutes

- Don't want any cookbooks

Mother got rid of him in 15 minutes

because he came from a celebrated family

The Tyszkiewicz family And I suppose mother

didn't want me to have anybody that was decent

- You understand

- I didn't want anybody in the kitchen

It would have been perfectly

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