The Star Page #2

Yes, sweetie, what is it?

You...

You are a big movie star, aren't you?

Why?

Well, the kids at day camp...

...they say you don't make pictures

anymore, and...

...Janie Marks, her father's a writer...

...and she said he told her mother that...

...you were...

...washed-up.

So I beat up on her.

That's how I got this scratch.

You tell this Janie Marks

your mother is a star.

I know you were.

But are you now?

Well, if you're a star,

you don't stop being a star.

But they say you'll never make

another picture.

I'm going to begin a new picture

in three weeks.

Oh, well,

when you're making this picture...

...can I do my six months with you?

Yes. Yes, darling.

Oh, am I glad. I love you.

You're so beautiful,

and you always smell so good.

I wanted to put on

some of the perfume you like.

But there wasn't any.

Why are you crying?

Haven't you ever cried

because you're happy?

No.

Well, you see,

some people cry when they are happy...

...and laugh when they are mad.

That's funny.

Isn't it funny?

Now, lie down.

Good night, you darling.

Get some sleep.

Good evening, Miss Elliot.

Good evening, Mrs. Adams.

I think the door's unlocked.

Your sister and her husband

stopped by. I let them in as usual.

Is that all? Thank you.

I wish that were all.

Mrs. Adams, you have to give me

one more day.

I'd love to give you more time.

But Jones and Company

had me on the carpet again today.

- lf you could let me have just one month...

- Don't they know who I am?

Didn't you tell them that

there's a contract on my agent's desk...

...with just a few minor details

to iron out?

I told them,

but they are an impersonal organization.

You're not Miss Elliot to them.

You're merely the tenant

of number 1257.

But sometimes families are different.

Couldn't you perhaps ask your relatives?

My goodness, Margaret, where you been?

Roy and I gotta get started for Alhambra.

- I didn't know you were coming, Faith.

- It's the first of the month.

Miss Elliot. Don't let it worry you tonight.

We'll talk tomorrow.

You been to some glamour party?

Yeah, I had a ball.

- Hello, Margaret. I was hungry.

- Roy.

Goodness, you seem to have

time for everything...

...except get out to Alhambra.

Mama's been asking after you.

Her hip still hasn't mended.

She's in bed most of the day.

Of course, I'm not complaining,

but, well, with the twins on my hands...

You ought to see those twins, Margaret.

Such great big boys,

growing out of everything.

I haven't bought a stitch

for myself lately, not a stitch.

Why, the cost of shoes alone

for those boys...

I'm afraid I haven't any shoes

for 14-year-old boys.

For heaven's sakes, who was asking?

I was just telling you the family news.

- Aren't you interested?

- I have some interesting family news too.

I've just come from my auction.

You mean you're selling

all those nice things?

I'm not. My creditors are.

I'm bankrupt. Broke. Get it?

Understand?

Well!

Well, my goodness,

I always knew you were extravagant and all.

Whoever needed two Cadillacs

and all those servants and secretaries...

...and always redecorating the house

and such.

But I never said anything,

because you would have gotten mad if I did.

You were making all that money.

I still don't see where it all went.

I'll explain it to you.

I bought the house you're living in.

You promised to pay me back, remember?

And I paid for the birth of the twins,

their clothes...

...their saxophone lessons

and Roy's four operations.

Can I help it

if Roy enjoys poor health?

- And you know what Mother cost me.

- Mama is living with us now.

And I set Roy up in business

after he'd been fired...

...from the job I got him

in the Purchasing Department at the studio.

It was your idea

that he have an antique shop.

Roy didn't know anything about antiques.

Did you, Roy?

And he didn't know anything

about the laundry business.

That was his idea.

Was it his fault

everybody started buying Whirlpools?

Now, now, girls. Let's not have a ruckus.

If you'll just give us the monthly check,

we'll be shoving along.

Can't you get it

through your thick skull that I'm broke?

Dead, flat, stony broke! See?

I've got $3.85 in my purse.

Do you want that, Roy?

Margaret didn't mean that.

I have given you over $50,000.

You must have some of it stashed away.

Could I have $200

on account tonight, Roy?

- What?

- For heaven's sakes.

Where would we get money like that?

You could print it if I'd only thought

to give Roy a printing press.

You're tired.

You wouldn't say that...

Yes, I'm sick, and I'm tired!

Now, leave me alone. Leave me alone!

- lf that's the way you feel...

- That is the way I feel.

Now, I want you both to get out of here.

Get out!

Come on, Oscar.

Let's you and me get drunk.

To absent friends.

On your right,

ladies and gentlemen...

...is the home of Mitzi Gaynor,

rising young movie star.

How young can you be?

And on your left...

...is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brinkman...

...better known to you tourists

as Jeanne Crain.

Oscar.

That looks like the kind of monstrosity

that Barbara Lawrence would choose.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the home of Barbara...

...Lawrence.

And that, Oscar...

...was the home of the wealthy, exciting...

...glamorous Margaret Elliot.

I remember the day you came home.

That was the day.

Going...

...going...

...gone.

I wonder where I am now.

Why don't you watch where you're going!

Take your hands off me!

Okay, sister, have it your way.

There's your bed. Sleep it off.

You don't seem to know who I am!

What are you in for, honey?

As if I didn't know.

Please forgive the matron for

failing to introduce us formally.

She's never read Emily Post.

Who do you think you are?

Everybody knows who I am.

I'm Margaret Elliot.

What a coincidence. I'm Snow White.

- Charmed to know you.

- But I am Margaret Elliot!

She's stinking.

- I guess she's alive.

- How can you tell?

Oh, my dirty name.

It is Margaret Elliot. Hey, wake up.

We got royalty.

We got a real live movie star.

Two hundred fifty dollars.

Here's your receipt, Mr. Johannsen.

Why did you do it?

You were in trouble, so I bailed you out.

Why you, of all people?

Well, why not me?

Sometimes it's good to talk about it.

I made a picture once.

I played a girl who was arrested.

It was called Night Court.

Critics said it was great.

I guess they had never spent

a night in jail.

Next time you'll know better.

Next time.

I still want to know

why you did it.

You did a swell thing for me once.

I go out to repair your bathhouse,

10 days later...

...l'm playing opposite

Margaret Elliot in Faithless.

And with a brand-new name. Barry Lester.

How I hated that name.

Well, there's never been a movie star

named Jim Johannsen.

Barry Lester, either.

Well, the name had nothing to do with it.

You're so right.

I saw Faithless two years later

onboard a ship out in the Pacific.

We were anchored in the harbor

of Kwajalein at the time. Man, was it hot.

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