It Should Happen to You Page #6

- Then how about some fine answer?

Go ahead, Gladys. Go ahead.

These stairs are killing you.

- There you are.

- Yes.

- You feeling better?

- Much.

There's nothing like champagne.

- Yes, there is.

- What?

More champagne.

It's a very interesting thing

I found out.

All these different things- I mean,

the expensive ones, like champagne...

...and thick steaks and silk stuff...

What I mean to say is,

it's very easy to get into the habit.

ut then you take,

like, different things.

Like, once when I was

at a boarding house...

...they gave bean sandwiches for

lunch. That's a habit I never got into.

Hello.

- What's this?

- What's what?

- This.

- Nothing.

I thought it was something.

No.

That's not nothing.

You're very sweet.

So, what about this...

- ... cross-country...?

- This what?

The personal appear-

I'm sorry.

- oh, I'm sorry!

- Fine place for vintage champagne.

oh, I'm sorry!

Was that an accident,

or did you do it on purpose?

I'll tell you the truth. I don't know.

You don't know?

Everything is so sudden.

Incident-

Incidentally, that chap I met outside

your house earlier tonight.

What chap?

Sheppard?

oh, Pete.

- He said his name was Sheppard.

- That's right. Pete Sheppard.

What about him?

oh, he works on movies.

Documentaries.

Very interesting.

Is it anything?

Is what?

- You and he.

- oh, no.

oh, no!

He's just sort of a neighbour.

In fact, he doesn't even like me.

In fact, more like hate.

Why?

Well...

...not exactly hate.

We just think each other are wacky.

I suppose it's

because we probably...

- ... don't understand each other.

- ut you and I...

...we understand each other.

Don't we?

- We do?

- of course we do.

That's nice.

That was all right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You must be pretty experienced, huh?

In what way?

Well, I mean...

...I guess you do quite

a lot of this, don't you?

I suppose I do my share.

You just live here alone?

- y yourself?

- Yeah.

I suppose that's why.

Why?

You must be on the lonesome side.

Yes.

Yes, I am.

You ever think of getting a parrot?

A what?

That would be nice company.

Somebody to talk to.

I mean, something.

And, of course, there's

lots of parrots can talk.

So then you could be talking to it,

and it could be talking to you, and...

I mean, you probably wouldn't be

talking to each other, but it'd be talk.

- I'd rather have you.

- Than a parrot?

Yeah.

- I think I better be going.

- Why?

- ecause I'm not enjoying myself.

- oh, give me time.

I don't mind the way

you're acting, exactly.

What I mind is the way you give

the idea you're sort of entitled.

- Maybe I am.

- oh, well, sure.

If you wanna make it

into a sort of business proposition.

Well, that's what you're doing,

isn't it?

If you want true romance,

missy, the magazines are full of it.

The way it looks to me, Mr. A dams,

there are two kinds of people:

The ones who do anything

to make a name for themselves.

- And ones who'll do almost anything.

- And which are you?

- I'll let you know.

- Now, wait a second.

No. You didn't really

wanna have a conference.

Least not the kind I thought.

- You just said that.

- ut after all-

In the second place, this

is the most important thing...

...soon there will be ads and signs

saying I'm the average American girl.

- Your idea, wasn't it?

- Well?

Well, I don't think the average

American girl should do this.

So good night.

Remember this day, Gladys?

That was the first time I saw you.

You hadn't met me yet,

but you were about to.

And when I made that close-up,

I had no idea...

...you were gonna turn out

to be someone special.

ut a few minutes later,

at the time I shot this...

...I had decided I was gonna

mak e a try with you.

This was right after I left you.

I followed you.

And a few days later,

I moved in, right into here...

...right across the hall from you,

and lived here.

I wonder if you realize how tough it's

been living across the hall from you.

And I suppose it's all right now

to tell you...

...that I sure never did

get much sleep.

It was quite

an uncomfortable thing...

...to lie there in the dark,

night after night...

...knowing that you

were only a few steps away.

Well, at first it wasn't so bad,

because I had hopes...

...that the trouble I was having

was only temporary.

I was confident that things

would develop with us.

ut as time has gone by,

I've realized more and more...

...that this thing is just

never gonna work out.

Now, maybe I didn't handle it

as well as I should have.

Maybe all of those times that I got

sore at you, you thought I really was.

ut I wasn't, Gladys.

No?

What I was sore at was

that crackbrained idea of yours...

...that seemed to be taking up all of

your time, your energy and interest...

...and attention, so you had no time

to concentrate on anything else!

Least of all me.

That's what I was sore about.

And the other day, when you drove

up in that last straw...

...I knew my goose was cook ed.

Here I had gone along...

...figuring all the time that I was

competing with your passion for fame.

And suddenly, in one fell swoop,

I realized I'd been wrong all along.

Now, it is just hopeless for me

to try and compete...

...with a man who drives a foreign car

and wears a silk suit...

...and, no doubt, real gold cuff links.

Also, I had a good look at this Joe...

...and, well, I'm only being honest

with myself when I say that...

...in my opinion,

he's even better-looking than I am.

Although I personally have reached

a point where I sort of lik e my looks.

ut then, of course, I've been around

with them for quite a long while.

Well, be that as it may...

...I never got around to bringing

up the subject of "I love you. "

ut no doubt you're aware of it.

I'm sorry to bother you

with all of this...

...but I couldn't face handling

it in person, and I can't write.

So this is probably the best way.

The reason I did not

wanna just disappear...

...is because I wouldn't want you

to ever think badly of me.

In fact, I hope that you can

remember me with...

...some amount of affection...

...because that is the way

I intend to remember you...

...for the rest of my life.

Goodbye, Gladys.

What's doing?

oh, no.

oh, no.

oh, no!

- What do you say? Time's a-wasting.

- I hate this idea.

We'll talk later.

Put it in your mouth.

- No, I'm telling you-

- Just do it, will you, Gladys?

All right, let's have the pose.

Just let your arms hang down.

That's right.

And look miserable.

I can do that without

even trying, mister.

And don't talk.

That's it. Let's get the next one.

Snap it up now.

- Why did I let you rope me into this?

- Rope?

This is one of the best touches

weve hit.

I feel foolish, and I don't like

to feel foolish.

Why, sugar?

- ecause.

- Don't you realize that every place...

...that uses this display, we get $20?

They're talking about 1000 displays.

Don't you understand

what that means? 20,000.

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