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My Dear Secretary (1949)

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Released 1949 (Internet Archive); copyright registered 1948 (catalog).

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  1. 1:09 Amen.
  2. 1:11 Not a bad writer.
  3. 1:29 Let's find out where she's going.
  4. 1:34 Oh!
  5. 1:35 Excuse me. I'm sorry.
  6. 1:37 Where's the Waterbury lecture, do you know?
  7. 1:40 Aren't you Owen Waterbury? Yes, I am. How do you do?
  8. 1:44 Follow me.
  9. 1:46 Where are you taking us?
  10. 1:48 Roomie.
  11. 1:49 Are you a student or a teacher?
  12. 1:50 I'm a student. Oh. Advance? Begin.
  13. 1:54 What do I look like?
  14. 1:55 Well...
  15. 1:56 You look very advanced to me.
  16. 2:00 I'm mr. Walterbury good evening. How do you do it? You're right on time. We almost didn't get here I was doing his laundry and we had to wait for it to dry and
  17. 2:08 His underwear is still wet.
  18. 2:10 I brought a friend, Mr. Ronnie Hastings.
  19. 2:12 Oh, how do you do, sir? Hey, let me get you a chair.
  20. 2:16 No, no, no, never mind. I'll, uh, I'll sit in the bleachers.
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  1. 2:24 All right.
  2. 2:27 Hello.
  3. 2:28 - Hello.
  4. 2:31 You were...
  5. 2:32 Are you going to be a writer too?
  6. 2:34 I hope to be someday.
  7. 2:36 Well, this lecture should help you a great deal.
  8. 2:40 He's a great rider, isn't he? - Oh, yes.
  9. 2:43 Of course, he gets most of his ideas from me.
  10. 2:46 Excuse me.
  11. 2:48 Yes? You're sitting in my seat.
  12. 2:50 Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
  13. 2:53 Good evening, Miss Taylor. Hello, Mr. Scott. Uh, anybody sitting here? Yes. Yes.
  14. 2:58 Clarence Henderson.
  15. 3:00 But he's out sick tonight.
  16. 3:03 Well, then why did you make me move?
  17. 3:05 Oh, Clarence and I don't speak.
  18. 3:07 - All worldly. - I think, Claire.
  19. 3:11 As I promised you.
  20. 3:13 Our guest speaker tonight
  21. 3:15 will be none other.
  22. 3:16 Then Owen Waterbury
  23. 3:18 Author of the new bestseller,
  24. 3:20 Last year's love. Mr. Walker.
  25. 3:27 Oh, louder, louder.
  26. 3:30 That's enough.
  27. 3:33 I understand that most of you hold all sorts of jobs during the day.
  28. 3:38 And yet you've been studying the technique of writing in the evening.
  29. 3:43 Now you're ready to take your pen in hand and go out and conquer the world.
  30. 3:48 You know...
  31. 3:49 I'm hardly the person to tell you how to write because I don't follow any rules.
  32. 3:54 Today?
  33. 3:55 The writer is asked to keep one eye on the bestseller list
  34. 3:58 The other on art.
  35. 4:00 That's divided loyalty.
  36. 4:02 And that makes for dishonesty.
  37. 4:05 I must confess, I've been guilty of this dishonesty too.
  38. 4:09 But now that I've made my position secure,
  39. 4:12 I'm going to try to write a really good book.
  40. 4:15 No more bestsellers, but something that I hope will be a piece of great writing.
  41. 4:20 You know...
  42. 4:21 Good writing.
  43. 4:22 Fine writing.
  44. 4:24 He's here.
  45. 4:25 and hear it.
  46. 4:26 The dictionary is filled with all the words you need.
  47. 4:29 But unless the mind and the heart find those words for you,
  48. 4:32 You'd better leave them in the dictionary.
  49. 4:35 He's so brilliant.
  50. 4:38 Because a writer...
  51. 4:39 fundamentally must believe in himself
  52. 4:42 That's half the battle.
  53. 4:48 I had...
  54. 4:49 I'd like to interrupt my...
  55. 4:51 little talk for a moment to say that
  56. 4:54 I'm going to be in a position to help somebody here in this class.
  57. 4:59 Beginning tomorrow,
  58. 5:02 I'm going to need a secretary.
  59. 5:04 I've already placed the request with the University Placement Bureau, and man or woman, whoever qualifies, will get the job.
  60. 5:12 That's very nice of you, Mr. Waterbury.
  61. 5:14 Well, it's not a big job, but the surroundings will be wholesome.
  62. 5:18 And you'll be able to serve your apprenticeship under someone who's
  63. 5:21 Already established.
  64. 5:23 Well, so much for that.
  65. 5:25 I remember when I wrote my first novel.
  66. 5:28 Took a lot of work.
  67. 5:30 I starved.
  68. 5:31 lived in a little back room, all the while consoling myself that I was going to be another...
  69. 5:38 So you're really going to work for Owen Waterbury?
  70. 5:40 Well, I...
  71. 5:41 I was offered the job by his personnel manager.
  72. 5:44 I've heard a lot of weird stories about Owen Waterbury. Oh, you hear weird stories about any famous person. Why, last night his talk was actually inspiring me.
  73. 5:53 Steve, do you realize you've been here five years
  74. 5:56 Well...
  75. 5:57 Isn't that a little too long for anyone with my ambition?
  76. 6:01 Where does Mr. Waterbury do his work?
  77. 6:04 Well, his personnel manager said in his apartment.
  78. 6:07 - Apartment? - Well, you can't expect a rider to work in an office, Mr. Harris.
  79. 6:11 I want to write.
  80. 6:12 And I think he can show me how.
  81. 6:15 Who knows?
  82. 6:16 After a year with him, I...
  83. 6:18 I might even be autographing copies of my own book in one of your bookstores.
  84. 6:22 by taking a course in Oran-Waterbury.
  85. 6:25 and getting paid for it at the same time.
  86. 6:28 I'm going to miss you, Steve. Oh, no, you won't. After a week, you won't even know I've gone.
  87. 6:33 Not true, but good luck anyway.
  88. 6:35 Well...
  89. 6:37 I could make a big speech, but...
  90. 6:39 I think you know how I feel about everything.
  91. 6:42 You've been wonderful to me.
  92. 6:44 I understand.
  93. 6:50 Steve.
  94. 6:51 Yes?
  95. 6:52 Call me sometime, will you? We'd like to know how you're getting on.
  96. 6:56 I'll call you tonight.
  97. 6:58 After I get the job.
  98. 7:01 Oh, my God.
  99. 7:08 I'm going to go.
  100. 7:13 Why don't you watch while you park him?
  101. 7:15 Well, you can back up, can't you?
  102. 7:17 You got a revice? Never mind, Bill. Just save your money to go upstairs. Smart guy. Hand me the bag, Bill.
  103. 7:23 I'll take it upstairs for you, Mary. Anything drives a cab these days.
  104. 7:32 Apartment 3D.
  105. 7:34 Thank you. Remember, Bill, if he says one word that's out of line, just one word, I want you to bop him right on the jaw. Then I take my license away. Not for protecting a lady. Come on, in and around, in and around.
  106. 7:43 You know, I hit pretty hard. The harder the better.
  107. 7:48 *knock*
  108. 7:50 Is he a big guy?
  109. 7:52 Six feet of bluff.
  110. 7:53 I'll cut him down. I didn't get this nose for nothing.
  111. 8:00 Are you sure he can fight?
  112. 8:03 He's a writer. Writer? Writer?
  113. 8:05 Isaac!
  114. 8:06 Now remember, if he just so much as opens his mouth-- Don't worry. I'll shut it up. I got a bigger mouth than he's got.
  115. 8:14 I've come for my things. And what's the objection?
  116. 8:18 Evidently, he had none. Follow me, Bill.
  117. 8:24 Now then, I want you to take all the things out of that drawer and put them into that bag. Yes, ma'am.
  118. 8:30 I
  119. 8:32 no no no not the drawer just the thing
  120. 8:37 I'm going to go.
  121. 8:40 Oh, come in, come in. Come right in. That's right.
  122. 8:44 Uh,
  123. 8:45 That's Mr. Waterbury's former secretary. She quit the
  124. 8:47 morning.
  125. 8:48 Won't you sit down?
  126. 8:50 There.
  127. 8:51 is my mink.
  128. 8:52 And how?
  129. 8:56 Waterbury gave that to her as a Christmas bonus.
  130. 9:01 My typewriter.
  131. 9:03 Well, that was sort of a...
  132. 9:05 New Year's bonus.
  133. 9:10 My old shot, we?
  134. 9:12 She brought her own
  135. 9:14 Aujourd'hui.
  136. 9:19 My pot!
  137. 9:21 She, uh, she cooked once in a while.
  138. 9:24 My bourbon?
  139. 9:25 She drank a little.
  140. 9:27 Five cigarettes, Fox. It smokes, too.
  141. 9:30 Smiley.
  142. 9:32 Shall we adjourn to the library?
  143. 9:35 You're Frankfurter's.
  144. 9:41 Goodbye, Mr. Waterbury.
  145. 9:43 Good thing you didn't open your mouth.
  146. 9:46 - Thank you. - Come along, Bill. Don't bother with your inferiors.
  147. 9:53 And now, miss...
  148. 9:54 What can I do for you?
  149. 9:56 This, uh, this is your new secretary.
  150. 9:59 Oh, yes, you're from the Kilbride School.
  151. 10:02 Yes, I am.
  152. 10:03 Say, look at that.
  153. 10:04 She knocked over a bottle of ink all over the carpet. And it's going to be hard to get out, too.
  154. 10:08 Oh, would you try cleaning it up, please, Mary?
  155. 10:11 Not me. The landlady says I'm not to clean up any more messes.
  156. 10:15 Just do my regular work and get out of here.
  157. 10:24 I'm an expert at this sort of thing. He sure is. He cleans up about six of them a month. I'll need a claw.
  158. 10:29 and some rug shampoo. This is the stuff you've been using lately. Here, this is a woman's job. It was a woman who did. It was an accident.
  159. 10:36 You better not let the landlady see that. She'll add $100 for damages to your rent.
  160. 10:40 That's more than last month.
  161. 10:41 I got something on my dress. Oh, I'm-- oh, look.
  162. 10:44 Why don't you work on the rug and I'll work on your dress?
  163. 10:47 Why don't you two work on the rug and I'll work on her dress?
  164. 10:50 I'll work on my dress.
  165. 10:52 I'll work on the kitchen.
  166. 10:54 You like hot dogs?
  167. 10:55 Occasionally, yes.
  168. 10:57 Fine, we'll have them for lunch. And for dinner, we'll have steak.
  169. 11:00 Lunch?
  170. 11:01 Dinner wire.
  171. 11:02 I haven't even been interviewed yet.
  172. 11:05 What's your name?
  173. 11:06 Stephanie Gaylord.
  174. 11:07 What do your friends call you?
  175. 11:08 Steve! Oh, that settles it. I think she should be hired.
  176. 11:11 How are you on shorthand?
  177. 11:13 120 words a minute.
  178. 11:15 Do you do laundry?
  179. 11:16 From my own, generally. Well, you're going to have to learn to do silk shirts. 120 a minute.
  180. 11:21 I'll do the cooking.
  181. 11:22 and eating.
  182. 11:24 Do you live here too? No, I live next door. But he hasn't been there since July. That's because I have no kitchen. Well, we see, we share our kitchen on a cooperative.
  183. 11:32 He cooks and...
  184. 11:33 He eats.
  185. 11:34 You know, Owen and I went to school together.
  186. 11:38 I was in kindergarten
  187. 11:39 And he lives in the eighth grade.
  188. 11:41 Then I went to high school.
  189. 11:43 And he was still in kindergarten.
  190. 11:45 And then I studied piano.
  191. 11:46 and became a character in every Waterbury booklet.
  192. 11:49 And what were you in last year's love?
  193. 11:51 I was the chorus girl who studied piano and was very bitter about the world.
  194. 11:55 Where'd you work before?
  195. 11:57 Who, me?
  196. 11:58 I was secretary to Charles Harris. He...
  197. 12:00 He owns the Harris bookstores all over the country. And how is Mr. Waterbury's latest novel doing?
  198. 12:05 Second only to the Bible.
  199. 12:07 Oh, he won't like the...
  200. 12:09 You married, Steve?
  201. 12:10 No, I'm not. Please, Ronnie, I'm not interested in whether or not Miss Gaylord is married. Oh, no.
  202. 12:20 My biscuits are burning.
  203. 12:22 I've
  204. 12:23 I've had married secretaries before, and...
  205. 12:25 Well, their husbands were a little troublesome. They were murderers.
  206. 12:29 His working hours are very peculiar.
  207. 12:37 *thud*
  208. 12:38 I'm going to go.
  209. 12:42 I think we've done a good job.
  210. 12:44 I had such a different impression of her.
  211. 12:46 what this job would be like.
  212. 12:48 Oh, today it wasn't unusual.
  213. 12:50 debate.
  214. 12:50 But after this,
  215. 12:51 There'll be no more distractions.
  216. 12:53 I'll go!
  217. 12:55 We're going to work in an atmosphere of
  218. 12:58 Dignity?
  219. 12:59 and culture.
  220. 13:03 Oh,
  221. 13:04 It's your bookmaker.
  222. 13:08 Mary, that man's here again. I heard you.
  223. 13:12 How much do I owe this time?
  224. 13:14 11 bucks.
  225. 13:15 Don't you give me no more of your tips!
  226. 13:17 That horse will come in next time out. Next time out, he'll be dragging a load of ice.
  227. 13:22 Well, uh...
  228. 13:23 What are we on here?
  229. 13:24 $278 for Owen?
  230. 13:26 And a buck for you.
  231. 13:29 Excuse me.
  232. 13:36 There you are.
  233. 13:37 I'll have to owe you mine until next week.
  234. 13:40 You want to wager today?
  235. 13:42 Well, I haven't looked them over yet, but I'll give you a call.
  236. 13:45 And no more 50 cent bets.
  237. 13:46 The boss don't like him.
  238. 13:50 I'm going to go.
  239. 13:51 Um...
  240. 13:52 Where was I?
  241. 13:53 You were telling me that everything here was dignified and cultural.
  242. 13:56 Oh, yes.
  243. 13:58 Now, Steve, about your other duties.
  244. 14:02 I'll go!
  245. 14:05 Did you just have an interview with my daughter Mary Hastings about a secretarial job? Why, yes.
  246. 14:20 I have a message for you. Well, what's a message?
  247. 14:25 Mr. Waterbury.
  248. 14:26 I don't think I want this job. Well, why not?
  249. 14:30 Well...
  250. 14:31 When you spoke at
  251. 14:32 class last evening might...
  252. 14:34 Everything seems so...
  253. 14:35 So refreshing.
  254. 14:37 And when I read your novels, they...
  255. 14:40 They were filled with such...
  256. 14:41 quality and high purpose and
  257. 14:44 I'm afraid all that's spoiled now, so...
  258. 14:47 No harsh words, no hard feelings, just...
  259. 14:51 Just get somebody else.
  260. 14:52 Well, if that's the way you feel, Miss Gaylord.
  261. 14:59 Are you walking out on Owen Waterbury
  262. 15:02 Don't beg the girl to work for me, Ronnie. Just call the agency and get another girl.
  263. 15:06 Now, you know you don't mean that. We'd both like this one. Are you going to let me out of here, or do I have to call the police?
  264. 15:13 They're here already.
  265. 15:17 I came for the men.
  266. 15:20 Mrs. Reeves, I just mailed you a check this morning.
  267. 15:23 Oh, you always do that knowing full well that I only live downstairs.
  268. 15:27 Any damage this month? Oh, it's been a very, very uneventful month.
  269. 15:32 Oh.
  270. 15:32 The carpet again.
  271. 15:34 Yeah.
  272. 15:35 Mercy!
  273. 15:40 Fish belongs here.
  274. 15:42 And this duck up here, you throw the whole room out of contour.
  275. 15:47 Mrs. Rees, if you'll excuse me... I heard you screaming just outside the door. New secretary? Well, yes, yes. You being hired or fired? Miss Gaylord has just been engaged.
  276. 15:56 Oh, too bad, Mr. Walbert, because something moved me apart enough.
  277. 15:59 stairs would just fill your every requirement.
  278. 16:02 Well, unfortunately, Mrs. Reeves, the job has just been filled. Well, I want you to meet her anyway. Felicia! Felicia!
  279. 16:10 Oh, coming, Mrs. Reed.
  280. 16:17 Felicia Adams, I want you to meet the famous Owen Waterbury. How do you do? I hear you.
  281. 16:23 How do you do? - How do you do? Felicia came to California to get into the movies.
  282. 16:28 Who does she remind you of?
  283. 16:30 Well, now, don't tell me. Let me guess.
  284. 16:34 Zezu Pierce.
  285. 16:37 Oh.
  286. 16:37 course not uh felicia in addition to being a secretary
  287. 16:41 is a very good actress, aren't you, dear?
  288. 16:44 They'll take off your coat and let them
  289. 16:46 thief
  290. 16:55 She's got a lot of talent there. I thought you'd think so. I was a model back in Texas.
  291. 17:00 But I came out here for a career.
  292. 17:04 Daddy's financing me.
  293. 17:06 A friend of yours...
  294. 17:07 Oh, no, my father. Perhaps Felicia could play the heroine in your next novel when it's made to a movie.
  295. 17:14 She could do that. What's the heroin like?
  296. 17:17 It's a girl from the South.
  297. 17:19 Why, I'm from the South. How...
  298. 17:22 Perfectly coincidental.
  299. 17:24 She's trying to hook a rich man.
  300. 17:27 She's insincere.
  301. 17:29 and a moron.
  302. 17:33 Well, what's worrying you?
  303. 17:35 Well, I'm not so worried about being insincere, but...
  304. 17:37 As for being a moron...
  305. 17:40 Now, don't worry about that.
  306. 17:42 You could act like a moron, couldn't you, dear?
  307. 17:45 I could try.
  308. 17:47 Oh, I'm going to dramatic school.
  309. 17:50 Maybe they can teach me to be a moron.
  310. 17:52 If you studied hard enough, yes.
  311. 17:55 It'll take a lot of work. Look, Mrs. Reeves, I haven't even started my novel yet. And it doesn't look as if I'm going to if I'm continually interrupted. Well, we'll leave and let you work. Oh, Ronnie, I'm having a party for 50 guests tonight. And I'm expecting you to entertain for us at--
  312. 18:09 - Nein.
  313. 18:11 Is it informal or shall I bathe?
  314. 18:14 If you don't care to entertain it, my partner.
  315. 18:17 Is that your right?
  316. 18:19 Well, I'm off for the show.
  317. 18:22 You haven't got a chance.
  318. 18:30 You know, ever since her husband died and left her seven buildings, she's been a peeping Tom. Now, come on, Steve. Let's you and I prepare lunch. Look.
  319. 18:38 I stayed only because I didn't want to cause a scene in front of your landlady, but...
  320. 18:42 I'm really leaving now. What am I leaving? What am I leaving? Take your stop. Come on, take it down. Get your pants. Well, where's your pants? Well, you're trying to have a pair. You can't spot a car, but I guess we're not a pair. Get your pants away.
  321. 19:21 All this
  322. 19:22 No.
  323. 19:25 on my new...
  324. 19:27 Now.
  325. 19:30 That's all for now. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
  326. 19:39 Thank you, baby.
  327. 19:40 He's incubating at last. Come along. She always told me not.
  328. 19:45 Yes, yes, always.
  329. 19:46 I remember.
  330. 19:47 On last year's love,
  331. 19:49 I was baking a cake.
  332. 19:52 All of a sudden, he called me out, and I had to start taking dictation.
  333. 19:54 And I couldn't go back until he was through dictating it.
  334. 19:57 At 3 o'clock in the morning...
  335. 19:59 We sat down.
  336. 20:00 The chocolate covered ashes.
  337. 20:02 Okay.
  338. 20:03 All right.
  339. 20:04 Come on.
  340. 20:06 Well, I'll see you at 10 o'clock in the morning.
  341. 20:25 Hello?
  342. 20:26 Hello, Steve.
  343. 20:27 I couldn't wait for you to call me, so I'm calling you.
  344. 20:29 How was the job?
  345. 20:30 Well, I have to make an adjustment, you know.
  346. 20:35 It's such an unusual kind of a job.
  347. 20:38 I can imagine.
  348. 20:41 He started his novel today.
  349. 20:43 Oh, interesting story.
  350. 20:46 Well...
  351. 20:47 He didn't get very far into it, but...
  352. 20:50 But I'm sure it's going to be wonderful. He...
  353. 20:52 He seemed so excited about it.
  354. 20:54 Look, Steve.
  355. 20:55 Let's have dinner one night this week.
  356. 20:58 Well...
  357. 20:59 I'll call you the first night I have free.
  358. 21:03 I'm going to go.
  359. 21:10 Come on.
  360. 21:20 I'm going to go.
  361. 21:34 Oh, my God.
  362. 21:52 Good morning. Good morning. Well, you're bright and early this morning.
  363. 21:57 - Good morning. - It's 10 o'clock.
  364. 21:59 Very, uh...
  365. 22:00 Did you ever think how you'd look in mink?
  366. 22:02 I see you've got your pad. Keep your pencil poised. The genius is still dressing.
  367. 22:07 I'm making potato pancakes for lunch and he's in a sour cream mood today.
  368. 22:11 If you need anything ironed, I'll be in the kitchen ironing. Good morning, Pete. Good morning. Right on time.
  369. 22:19 Let's see, uh...
  370. 22:21 When I leave off yesterday.
  371. 22:22 No...
  372. 22:23 on my new novel.
  373. 22:25 Yeah.
  374. 22:26 Uh...
  375. 22:29 I'll go!
  376. 22:35 Hello.
  377. 22:36 Hello.
  378. 22:44 Well...
  379. 22:47 Now, uh...
  380. 22:48 Where are you, Bob?
  381. 22:50 Notes on my new novel.
  382. 22:51 Oh, yeah.
  383. 22:56 Make that.
  384. 22:57 Notes on my new novel...
  385. 22:59 By Owen Waterbury.
  386. 23:02 That's good.
  387. 23:03 Oh, that's real good. Don't you think that's good? Oh, I like that. Chapter 1, General Introduction of Characters.
  388. 23:11 Chapter two.
  389. 23:13 I'll do chapter two tomorrow.
  390. 23:15 Chapter a day that swell
  391. 23:18 You sure you're not tired?
  392. 23:19 Miss Gaylord, you stay here and answer the telephone. I'm going to the beach for some salt air. Well, be sure you don't bring any home with you.
  393. 23:25 Right, boy.
  394. 23:27 Let's drive someplace nice, like Santa Barbara. Well, honey, anything you say.
  395. 23:36 Don't pay any attention to him.
  396. 23:38 He's just trying to make you jealous.
  397. 23:40 Tell her.
  398. 23:42 Well, what makes you think I'm...
  399. 23:43 I'm even interested in him.
  400. 23:45 You know, for a secretary who's just been given the day off, you're awfully annoyed.
  401. 23:49 Annoyed.
  402. 23:51 Of course I'm annoyed.
  403. 23:52 I just don't want to sit here doing nothing.
  404. 23:55 I can't hit a work.
  405. 23:57 I came here to do nothing and now I'm working.
  406. 24:01 Look, if you get paid for idleness, grab it, you fool!
  407. 24:07 There goes another one.
  408. 24:28 Look.
  409. 24:29 I'd like to ask you a question. Yes?
  410. 24:32 Does Mr. Waterbury intend to write a book?
  411. 24:36 That's a very interesting question.
  412. 24:38 Waterbury's a genius.
  413. 24:40 What do you think he's doing right now?
  414. 24:42 Incubating. Exactly.
  415. 24:44 And whenever he goes through a mood like this, a great book comes out of him.
  416. 24:47 I'll bet he does a lot of writing tonight.
  417. 24:49 Why, honey, you're jealous.
  418. 24:52 Look, I don't even know Mr. Waterbury.
  419. 24:56 At this point, I'm not even sure I want to.
  420. 24:58 Of course not, honey.
  421. 25:08 Say, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
  422. 25:10 Everything. Here, let me have it.
  423. 25:12 How can you get so many wrinkles in it?
  424. 25:15 He's tried 16 laundries, but he still likes my work best.
  425. 25:18 These are good shirts.
  426. 25:19 We're good sheriffs.
  427. 25:22 You know, I just thought of something. What?
  428. 25:25 I must be going out of my mind. Why?
  429. 25:28 Well, I went to night school for a whole year to learn to be a writer.
  430. 25:32 And here I am doing a guy's laundry.
  431. 25:35 Oh!
  432. 25:37 Not done yet.
  433. 25:47 Hello?
  434. 25:48 Miss Gaylord?
  435. 25:49 This is Owen Waterbury.
  436. 25:51 I want you to be here tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
  437. 25:53 I've finally gotten the idea.
  438. 25:58 You know what? I like that idea. Yeah? I don't think there's a horse in there that can beat him.
  439. 26:02 Never!
  440. 26:13 Come on.
  441. 26:14 Oh
  442. 26:16 Morning. Morning. Oh, leave your coat on, Steve. The taxi will be here in just a minute. You want a pair for her? Well, she can use mine. Where are we going? To the races. The races? Haven't you ever been? Oh, I'm never in my life. Well, always lucky the first time. Come on. But what about that idea you've had last time? Oh, back and wait the last of the third race. Look, I've got a force in here. No, Mr. Waterbury, I don't think I ought to go along. Say, are you complaining about being paid to go to the races? Come on!
  443. 27:10 What happened?
  444. 27:16 Yeah.
  445. 27:18 Last time I take those guys tips. Well...
  446. 27:21 So far, this job has cost me $83.
  447. 27:24 Now don't worry, I'll see that you get that back.
  448. 27:26 Why should you? I gambled and I lost.
  449. 27:28 Well, losing's good for the
  450. 27:30 So...
  451. 27:31 We had the three best
  452. 27:32 souls and towns.
  453. 27:49 Good morning. Morning. We'll leave the code out. See, the plane leaves in 35 minutes. Plane? Where are you going? Las Vegas and get back the $83. Las Vegas? Yes.
  454. 27:57 I can't go to Las Vegas with you. Well, are you objecting to being paid while working? Paid? I don't think I can afford to work for you much longer, Mr. Waterbury. Oh, Steve, it only takes an hour and a half to fly. If you catch evening pain back, you're home in time for dinner. With tons of money. No, I won't go. I just won't go. No, please.
  455. 28:27 Come on, look at him there. Right here, right here.
  456. 28:43 No dollar bets. See, when do you think of North Angeles? Hit the road, hit the road. Come on, baby, here we go. Come on. Hey, for the easy way. What is your point? Four. Four, the hard way. Hard way. Here it comes. Here she is. Four. Seven, you lose. Seven, you lose. Standing on my right again, huh? Four.
  457. 29:01 When are we leaving, Mr. Waterbury? Leaving? I'm stuck 3,000. But you said we'd catch the midnight flame. There'll be another plane at two, darling. Next shooter, please.
  458. 29:11 Come on, let's go. I thought worth it.
  459. 29:14 for a ride, it was going to be so uplifting. Crap, see you, Lou. Crap, see you. Say what you did.
  460. 29:21 But I didn't do anything. She didn't mean it. What are you grinning about? I'm betting on crap.
  461. 29:26 Everything was going to be so intellectual.
  462. 29:31 Rats again! Are you doing that on purpose?
  463. 29:35 What did I do? You're doing all right, honey. What's her point? Her point is crap.
  464. 29:40 Don't you make anything but cracks?
  465. 29:42 I was going to meet only literary people.
  466. 29:46 - Crack sneak out! - You're my dream girl! - I never saw that before.
  467. 29:53 Don't make any more cracks, understand?
  468. 29:56 I'll tell him when he comes in. Keep your mind on the dice.
  469. 29:59 Put this all on seven. You know, I'm writing a novel too, Mr. Waterbury. It'll be a honey, a two and a one. Correct. Four, four, three. All right, get out of here. That's it, Mr. Waterbury.
  470. 30:11 take it away.
  471. 30:13 What's wrong? Keep your mind on the dice when you roll them!
  472. 30:16 How dare you speak to me like that? Just for that, you're on your own, Dyke. Crap!
  473. 30:32 Okay, Lord.
  474. 30:33 Steve, where are you going?
  475. 30:34 I'm going home.
  476. 30:35 And I never want to see you again.
  477. 30:37 You're a fraud, Mr. Waterbury, a cheap egotistical fraud.
  478. 30:41 And your whole existence is something I want no part of.
  479. 30:44 I'm sorry I even met you because you've spoiled something for me. You've spoiled my impression of Owen Waterbury, the writer. Steve, look, you can't go home alone. I'll take you home.
  480. 30:54 Steve, please sit down, will you? I want to talk to you. Please.
  481. 30:59 Steve.
  482. 31:01 I must be...
  483. 31:02 This gambling, it's an insidious thing. It changes a person.
  484. 31:06 I'm really terribly sorry.
  485. 31:08 Then why don't you put a stop to all of this and get down to work?
  486. 31:14 I guess I'm afraid.
  487. 31:17 Afraid of what?
  488. 31:19 I'm afraid I'm not the great writer I started out to be.
  489. 31:22 Instead, I'm just a commercial hack.
  490. 31:25 Oh, no, you're not.
  491. 31:27 Didn't you see how everyone at the university treated you with awe and respect?
  492. 31:34 Why don't you write another love story?
  493. 31:36 I see going backwards.
  494. 31:39 Backwards?
  495. 31:40 Stick to your last.
  496. 31:42 You know the story of the clown who always wanted to play Hamlet?
  497. 31:46 If you keep telling yourself you're a failure, you'll be one.
  498. 31:49 If I try another love story, will you work for me? If you work...
  499. 31:55 I'll work for you.
  500. 32:02 I'm poor again.
  501. 32:04 I just switched to sevens.
  502. 32:13 I'm not going to be here.
  503. 32:24 - Door's open. - Come on in.
  504. 32:29 Hiya, Steve. No, no, keep your coat on. I'll tell you why. The taxi's gonna be here in just one minute.
  505. 32:34 What? Oh, don't worry. We're going to work, but let's do it at the beach house. Huh? He's superstitious, honey. He starts all his novels at the beach house. But why the beach house? Did you like last year's love?
  506. 32:43 Very much. Well, most of last year's love was done down there.
  507. 32:48 Shall I take the tie slider? It'd be a nice idea. Ronnie, will you stop teasing the girl? I'll be dictating today.
  508. 32:53 Come on, Steve.
  509. 33:00 I'll dictate this in outline form, and then I'll polish it up later.
  510. 33:04 Yes, Mr. Waterbury.
  511. 33:06 This is the story of a successful novelist
  512. 33:10 Who began to die.
  513. 33:11 morally and spiritually,
  514. 33:14 until a girl came into his life.
  515. 33:16 And then the whole world seemed changed.
  516. 33:19 He'd seen her one night while delivering a lecture to a short story class.
  517. 33:23 There were so many faces looming up in front of him.
  518. 33:26 But he saw only one.
  519. 33:28 I suppose.
  520. 33:30 Wistful, delicate, exquisitely beautiful.
  521. 33:34 Without her knowledge, he arranged to make her his secretary because in that fleeting moment...
  522. 33:38 In that single instant,
  523. 33:41 He knew he was...
  524. 33:43 desperately in love with him.
  525. 33:45 One day he asked her to go to his beach house and work there because he...
  526. 33:50 He wanted very much to tell her the way he felt, but...
  527. 33:53 He lacked the courage.
  528. 33:54 Mr. Waterbury, I'm... Miss Gaylord, when I'm working, I don't like to be disturbed.
  529. 33:58 Sorry.
  530. 34:00 Where was I?
  531. 34:01 He wanted very much to tell her how he felt,
  532. 34:04 He lacked the courage.
  533. 34:06 Oh.
  534. 34:06 Oh, yes.
  535. 34:09 Now here she was.
  536. 34:11 Seated before him.
  537. 34:12 tender and fragile as a poor.
  538. 34:15 He had looked around the corner to corner...
  539. 34:17 And there she was.
  540. 34:18 What's the matter? Oh, I broke my pencil.
  541. 34:22 Here you are.
  542. 34:24 Let's continue.
  543. 34:28 He, uh...
  544. 34:30 He was tempted to take her up in his arms and sweep her to the summit, but...
  545. 34:34 He didn't dare.
  546. 34:35 He knew very little about her, yet there was nothing else he needed to know.
  547. 34:40 As he strode up and down the room dictating, he, uh...
  548. 34:44 He looked toward a polka dot necktie
  549. 34:47 What's the matter with you?
  550. 34:48 Nothing.
  551. 34:50 Oh.
  552. 34:51 Where was I?
  553. 34:53 - Polka dot necktie. - Oh.
  554. 34:55 Look at that necktie.
  555. 34:57 uh... he uh...
  556. 35:00 He was impressed by the loveliness of her hair, her...
  557. 35:04 Soft, blue-eyed hair.
  558. 35:06 delicate mouth.
  559. 35:08 A breathing, living thing that made him exalted and inspired.
  560. 35:11 He wanted to take her in his arms and smother her with kisses and drown himself in the beauty of her soul, but...
  561. 35:18 He was a coward.
  562. 35:22 How do you like it?
  563. 35:23 It...
  564. 35:24 It has possibilities. Suddenly he threw caution to the wind.
  565. 35:30 leaned over and kissed her.
  566. 35:33 She melted in his arms and offered no resistance.
  567. 35:37 Wordlessly, they held one another in silent embrace.
  568. 35:43 You've got the wrong girl, Mr. Waterbury.
  569. 35:49 I'm really leaving you this time. And don't you ever try and get in touch with me again.
  570. 35:53 I don't even want my salary check.
  571. 35:55 You can save it for the next victim.
  572. 35:57 And if I ever see one of your books again, I'll burn it!
  573. 36:11 Hello.
  574. 36:11 Well, hello, son. I just thought I'd call you and let you know I made dinner for the three of us.
  575. 36:15 and ask somebody
  576. 36:15 theme if she likes popovers.
  577. 36:17 Steve's just quit.
  578. 36:21 Yeah.
  579. 36:22 I'm dictating a harmless little scene. Suddenly she takes offense, slams me on the couch with a hammerlock, and walks out.
  580. 36:28 Is she insane?
  581. 36:30 Well, I'll call the agency and get them to send over another girl.
  582. 36:34 I'd better get one who likes broiled chicken, because that's what we have for dinner.
  583. 36:37 Don't call anybody.
  584. 36:39 I'm not going to go to work for a long time.
  585. 36:57 Come on, come on. Will you get out of here so I can wash these keys? I'm composing. Composing? I haven't heard a good song out of you yet.
  586. 37:07 That's it. That's it.
  587. 37:09 Give me that again.
  588. 37:10 *Bell rings*
  589. 37:13 Thank you very much.
  590. 37:18 What are you calling that thing?
  591. 37:21 I got a cold in my nose.
  592. 37:23 Come on, sing it.
  593. 37:24 Oh, Mr. Brownie, I...
  594. 37:26 Oh, don't be silly. I just want to hear the quality.
  595. 37:30 Sniff, sniff, here's a handkerchief.
  596. 37:35 Kachoo!
  597. 37:36 Kachoo!
  598. 37:38 I don't hide to you.
  599. 37:40 Let yourself go and blow.
  600. 37:44 Oh, well
  601. 37:47 Let yourself go and go.
  602. 37:54 Sad, ain't it?
  603. 37:56 *gunshot*
  604. 38:00 I have to have some water. Some water. Water in the kitchen. Well, I can't go in there. The place is on fire. Here, sit, sit.
  605. 38:07 This one is a small.
  606. 38:09 You and your cook and-- You and your popovers, they don't pop, they explode! Call the fire department. Call the fire department! The fire department! They just put water over everything! I can't call them!
  607. 38:19 Oh, dear.
  608. 38:23 I'm gonna kill a whale lady on you. Oh, I know I've done a lamb lady on you. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I'm not gonna clean up this mess.
  609. 38:30 All right, just for that you won't get a piece of pie.
  610. 38:33 What's in that garbage can?
  611. 38:35 Hi.
  612. 38:37 30 misses out of 31 tries.
  613. 38:45 31, Mrs.
  614. 38:47 Well, at least the roast chicken's safe.
  615. 38:54 What's that?
  616. 38:55 - Bro's chicken?
  617. 38:56 How can you poor roast chicken?
  618. 38:58 Well, I had the roast in the pressure cooker. It melted a little.
  619. 39:01 Oh, he'll have his dinner out tonight.
  620. 39:04 Well, so am I. You don't think I'm gonna eat this horrible mess, do you?
  621. 39:12 Hi, Owen.
  622. 39:13 He has a nice roast chicken for you, Mr. Waterbury.
  623. 39:16 Give him a glass full. Mr. Waterbury, I think it's my duty as your servant to tell you what just happened in the kitchen. Hold on, Mary. Why don't you go home? Mr. Ronnie set fire to the kitchen. I don't care if he sets fire to the whole apartment. You see, Tattletail, a lot of good at you, yeah. I'm going to tell the landlady on you, and you too. I'll put some more of it on you. I'll put some more of it on you.
  624. 39:41 Well, what happened down at the beach house? Will you stop asking me silly questions? I told you on the phone. She quit, that's all. Well, she had some nerve. Well, I don't need her. There's a lot of other secretaries. Well, of course there are. Just as capable, efficient, and just as cute.
  625. 39:54 Sure.
  626. 39:56 We never did find out how good she could type.
  627. 39:59 What?
  628. 40:00 I'll call the agency and get another secretary.
  629. 40:02 I got a better idea. What you gonna do?
  630. 40:05 I want a pack.
  631. 40:07 - Where you going? - New York. Change of environment. I work better there. Want to get rid of the apartment?
  632. 40:13 Yep.
  633. 40:14 - What's gonna happen to me? - What should happen to you?
  634. 40:17 That's a very unfair question.
  635. 40:19 Boy, I'm not gonna let a little thing like a secretary throw me off balance.
  636. 40:23 Never in a million years.
  637. 40:24 I got a life to live, too.
  638. 40:26 Wonderful, beautiful, exciting life.
  639. 40:28 I got a book inside me, a great book, full of intensity and scope.
  640. 40:33 Oh, you know something, Ronnie?
  641. 40:35 I'm glad this happened.
  642. 40:36 I'm down to earth now.
  643. 40:39 What happened?
  644. 40:42 Well, you can still use it.
  645. 40:47 Elsie called.
  646. 40:48 She's, uh...
  647. 40:50 Sorry she quit in a huff and...
  648. 40:52 She apologized for the cab driver.
  649. 40:54 Hey.
  650. 40:55 That's what Steve will be doing tomorrow, calling and apologizing, but I won't be here.
  651. 41:00 Say, what am I running away for anyway? I'm not afraid of her. That's what I like to hear. That's the real old Waterbury. Listen, call Elsie.
  652. 41:09 We'll take her out to dinner.
  653. 41:10 We'll take them all out to dinner, a different one each night.
  654. 41:13 I'll go and change my apron and be right back.
  655. 41:33 Uh, Bryant, Detective Agency?
  656. 41:35 This is Owen...
  657. 41:37 Walkerberry.
  658. 41:38 Yeah.
  659. 41:39 Look, I want you to shadow a girl for me.
  660. 41:42 Stephanie Gaylord.
  661. 41:44 Huh?
  662. 41:45 Now let's all try to have a good time tonight, okay? I'm willing. Are you Ronnie? I'm willing. Good evening, Mr. Waterbury. Hello, Francois.
  663. 41:52 Here, why here? I like it here. You've always hated the Ridgely Room.
  664. 41:56 He's joking. I'm not joking. You've always hated it, hasn't he, Elsie? I thought so. I've always hated it. Mr. Waterbury, there's a gentleman here to see you. Gentleman? Oh, yes.
  665. 42:05 Uh, Ronnie, will you take Elsie to a table, and I'll join you in just a minute, huh? All right, but don't leave us. Don't stick Elsie with the checklist.
  666. 42:12 again. Antonio, table three. Table three. Where is
  667. 42:14 Alcove, too.
  668. 42:15 Oh.
  669. 42:17 - Do you believe me?
  670. 42:19 Is that the gentleman? - Yes, sir.
  671. 42:21 Hello.
  672. 42:25 Did you send me that message? Yes.
  673. 42:27 Brand Detective Agency.
  674. 42:29 - Well, how'd you find it so bad? - That's my job.
  675. 42:32 There she is, right over there.
  676. 42:34 with a man.
  677. 42:35 Who's the man?
  678. 42:37 I don't know. Do you want me to find out?
  679. 42:38 Of course I do.
  680. 42:39 All right, I'll start shadowing both him and her.
  681. 42:42 I want you to find out everything you can about it.
  682. 42:45 I think she's in love with you.
  683. 42:46 She all right?
  684. 42:47 No, my secretary.
  685. 42:49 I get you. Look, I want nobody to know about you.
  686. 42:51 Don't worry. The way I operate, even you won't know about it.
  687. 42:55 Can you check a pass for me? It'll be expensive.
  688. 42:57 Why?
  689. 42:58 the unknown quantity.
  690. 43:00 You just finished checking on the girl.
  691. 43:02 It took us a year to get her past caught up with her presence.
  692. 43:05 Do a good job. I will. Take care of my check.
  693. 43:12 Yeah.
  694. 43:14 Yes, give me a pack, please.
  695. 43:49 Oh, excuse me.
  696. 43:51 Oh, my God.
  697. 43:53 My, you see.
  698. 43:55 Hello, Ronnie. Don't talk to her. I'm mad at you. Oh, I forgot.
  699. 43:59 Amen.
  700. 44:00 Good evening.
  701. 44:03 Good evening.
  702. 44:06 You know him?
  703. 44:07 Hello? He's my new boss.
  704. 44:10 Yeah, you boss? What's his name?
  705. 44:12 Charles Harris, the bookseller.
  706. 44:16 Steve's old boy.
  707. 44:17 He's not so old. How dare you go work for him?
  708. 44:21 Listen, Shakespeare, I'll work for whom I please. Oh, did you have to pick on her old boss? Did she pick on mine?
  709. 44:27 When Mr. Harris called the employment agency, he asked for somebody with literary experience.
  710. 44:33 How did you qualify? You used to work for Walter Berry. Steve, with her principals, out with her ex.
  711. 44:38 What about Elsie? Who's she out with?
  712. 44:42 We're talking about Steve and her principles. We find out of it. You know, I bet Harris heard you just to spy on me.
  713. 44:49 Well, you're not very complimentary. I happen to be an excellent secretary.
  714. 44:53 When did you learn to type, dear?
  715. 44:57 Has he been questioning you about me? Only the normal questions about my experience...
  716. 45:05 You didn't talk, did you?
  717. 45:07 Ron, will you stop looking at everything at one big long lap?
  718. 45:12 Oh, I've got a lot for you, lover boy. What?
  719. 45:14 They're going to be married.
  720. 45:16 What?
  721. 45:17 They're going to be married.
  722. 45:20 Where are you going? I'm going to talk to her. Go on, please. A boiled chicken.
  723. 45:26 Yes?
  724. 45:27 Well, I'll have a glass full, too.
  725. 45:31 Hello.
  726. 45:32 Good evening.
  727. 45:34 Mr. Harris, Mr. Waterbury. Well, congratulations. I just heard the good news.
  728. 45:38 What good news? How about you marrying Stephanie?
  729. 45:41 May I dance with the bride?
  730. 45:43 Nothing far left as her, isn't it?
  731. 45:44 May I?
  732. 45:48 Thank you. Not at all.
  733. 45:52 So she decided to get married to the wrong guy. Are we going to dance?
  734. 45:58 Or are you going to dictate a novel? Oh, now I should a nice intelligent girl like you marry a man she doesn't even love.
  735. 46:04 For your information,
  736. 46:05 I'm not marrying anyone.
  737. 46:06 Oh, well, now I respect you. You respect all girls who decide not to get married.
  738. 46:12 Uh, going back to work for him?
  739. 46:17 Is this a quiz, or are we going to dance? Well, it could be both.
  740. 46:22 Say, how would you like your old job back? Better terms. Not interested.
  741. 46:26 I'll throw in a bonus. Marriage.
  742. 46:31 Mr. Waterbury, you talk about marriage as though it was something cheap and vulgar.
  743. 46:37 Who else but Owen Waterbury would invite you out for the evening and dance with another girl? I would.
  744. 46:43 Hey, why don't you pay him back and dance with Mr. Harris? I wouldn't think of dancing with my boss.
  745. 46:50 This is me you're talking to, remember?
  746. 46:53 Well, I mean, not until I've looked for him.
  747. 46:57 for a few days.
  748. 46:59 That's a nice sentiment.
  749. 47:03 Steve, you're in my arms at last.
  750. 47:06 and I'm holding your back
  751. 47:07 We're dancing. You may be dancing, but I'm holding you.
  752. 47:11 Oh, like the tide, you go out, but you also come in. Oh, and Waterbury, you're the most maddening man I've ever met.
  753. 47:18 Listen to me, Steve. I love you. Everything I dictated at the beach house I met, but it was too much of a coward to say it out. I love you, Steve. Marry me. Take a chance.
  754. 47:27 This is me, the author of beautiful words that I've stopped.
  755. 47:30 All I can say is...
  756. 47:32 I love you. Marry again.
  757. 47:34 Your chicken, madame.
  758. 47:36 And your chicken in the glass, sir. And your chicken in the glass, sir.
  759. 47:54 Harris looks lonely.
  760. 48:05 Oh, Mr. Harris, this is Ronnie Hayes.
  761. 48:07 How do you do?
  762. 48:08 Won't you sit down and have a glass of broiled chicken?
  763. 48:12 Thank you, I think I will.
  764. 48:33 Ever hear the story of the unholy three?
  765. 48:36 Amen.
  766. 48:39 If you don't mind, I think I'll be running along. Mr. Howes, would you mind taking me with you? Not at all.
  767. 48:46 - Who's gonna take me? - You watch the floor show.
  768. 48:49 I'm going to go.
  769. 48:59 Want to dance? No, bitch.
  770. 49:08 Oh, my God.
  771. 49:10 Are you a gigolo?
  772. 49:12 After tonight, I think I will be.
  773. 49:30 Isn't life strange? When one gets up in the morning, one never knows what one will be doing in the evening, does one.
  774. 49:47 And in addition to the auto supplies, please order one Remington Electric typewriter for the auto office.
  775. 49:52 *Burps*
  776. 49:54 Mr. Harris's office.
  777. 49:57 Just a moment, please.
  778. 49:58 All right.
  779. 49:59 Hello?
  780. 50:00 Yes.
  781. 50:04 What?
  782. 50:06 When?
  783. 50:18 What's the matter? Is anything wrong?
  784. 50:20 Owen Waterbury just married Steve.
  785. 50:22 He didn't.
  786. 50:24 Oh, yes, he did.
  787. 50:26 I never thought she'd marry him.
  788. 50:29 I never thought he'd get married.
  789. 50:35 Well, here we are, Ernie. Welcome to Honeymoon Manor.
  790. 50:39 Congratulations! Hiya, Rocky!
  791. 50:47 May I be the first to kiss the bride?
  792. 50:51 Hmph!
  793. 50:51 Or am I the first?
  794. 50:53 I'm not a very wide awake bride. Honey, let's get some sleep and then we'll go over to the beach house. Huh?
  795. 50:57 How long you been driving? 24 hours. Las Vegas and back. Oh. Hey, who's back to me? Oh, those are the police ships. As soon as I told her the news, she decided to move out.
  796. 51:05 It's a good idea.
  797. 51:06 Darling, this is quite a threshold. Three stories up. Well, where do you use the threshold upstairs? Oh, good idea.
  798. 51:12 Hiya, Felicia!
  799. 51:13 Congratulations.
  800. 51:15 You did very well. She certainly did.
  801. 51:19 I'll get you moved in as soon as I get her moved out. Okay.
  802. 51:22 Uh...
  803. 51:23 Why don't you try the building next door here?
  804. 51:28 Driver, old lady's home.
  805. 51:33 - Whoop!
  806. 51:37 - Hello, Mary. - Oh, I'm so happy for both of you.
  807. 51:48 Hello, darling. Hello, dear.
  808. 51:52 Vote for bagage, madame et monsieur. Monsieur.
  809. 51:57 I made a wedding breakfast.
  810. 52:00 Spaghetti and meatball. Look, Ronnie, I...
  811. 52:04 Well, I know you're trying to be helpful, but this is our honeymoon. Well, we'd like to be alone.
  812. 52:09 Oh, sure, sure.
  813. 52:12 Say, Steve, be nice to him, will you? He's my only means of support.
  814. 52:23 Darling.
  815. 52:26 Are you glad you married me?
  816. 52:27 What a question to ask me now.
  817. 52:29 Well, it...
  818. 52:30 was a mystery of the moment
  819. 52:32 And you do change your mind, though? Darling, I'll never change my mind about you.
  820. 52:37 You're the first nice thing in my life.
  821. 52:40 Could you tell me where is apartment 3E?
  822. 52:45 Who are you looking for?
  823. 52:46 Isn't that the business of the people in Apartment 3E?
  824. 52:50 It's the next apartment down the hall, sir.
  825. 53:02 I beg your pardon.
  826. 53:10 Yes, and what can I do for you?
  827. 53:13 I have a message for Mr. Waterbury.
  828. 53:15 I'm afraid Mr. Waterbury can't be disturbed just now.
  829. 53:22 He's a little busy.
  830. 53:24 My name is Jeboni.
  831. 53:27 will you tell him the woman he's interested in
  832. 53:29 Got married.
  833. 53:38 Hey, Owen!
  834. 53:42 You got a minute?
  835. 53:47 Ronnie, what is it now?
  836. 53:48 There's a fellow who was outside said his name was Dabney. He had a message for you.
  837. 53:52 I don't know any deafness.
  838. 53:54 He said the party you were interested in got married. Well, congratulations. So did I.
  839. 54:04 Darling.
  840. 54:05 Whom were you interested?
  841. 54:06 to then who got married?
  842. 54:08 There's only one married girl I meet.
  843. 54:20 Right there.
  844. 54:21 You tell Mr. Waterbury I won't see him right away, and I mean him immediately.
  845. 54:26 Owen!
  846. 54:27 Horrible Hannah's here!
  847. 54:28 We call you that affectionately here. Thank you.
  848. 54:32 Now what is it?
  849. 54:33 Oh, excuse me.
  850. 54:35 I didn't know you were...
  851. 54:36 Secretary was working late.
  852. 54:40 They're married.
  853. 54:42 Meh.
  854. 54:44 Well, it's his wife. She might as well be in on this.
  855. 54:47 Just what can I do for you, Mrs. Reed? I've come for the rest.
  856. 54:52 But I paid you the rent on the first, Mrs. Reeves.
  857. 54:55 I've had to make a new rule, Mr. Waterbury.
  858. 54:58 I don't take bad checks.
  859. 55:01 When did you make that rule?
  860. 55:03 since you moved in.
  861. 55:04 Darling,
  862. 55:06 Do you happen to have $485 in the bank?
  863. 55:09 I think so. Well, uh... Could you write me out a check till I get this thing straightened out?
  864. 55:15 I can't understand how my account got so low.
  865. 55:18 That's $6,000 for the crap game.
  866. 55:20 Oh, yes.
  867. 55:22 And the two bucks for the marriage license? One has to live!
  868. 55:28 Thank you, dear.
  869. 55:31 Thank you, Mrs. Waterbury.
  870. 55:33 I never thought I'd ever call anybody Mrs.
  871. 55:43 ANY GOOD?
  872. 55:44 She's loaded.
  873. 55:45 Oh, my God.
  874. 55:46 Mm-hmm.
  875. 55:48 Well, I suppose an explanation is in order.
  876. 55:51 You don't owe me an explanation. Oh, but, darling, I want to explain.
  877. 55:57 Excuse me.
  878. 56:14 Oh, darling, I want you to meet Mr. Fulton, my publisher, and Bertie. This is my wife. How do you do? So nice knowing you.
  879. 56:23 Oh, and you're not thinking of a prolonged honeymoon, are you? Oh, no. We're just going down to the beach house and...
  880. 56:28 Well, I thought I'd dictate my honeymoon. Good idea. You know, there's a deadline on that novel. It's got to be made.
  881. 56:35 You know why?
  882. 56:36 Well, I'll have it ready, Dick.
  883. 56:38 I'll count on it.
  884. 56:44 Come here.
  885. 56:45 Uh, how's Ronnie? Oh, still eating.
  886. 56:48 Same old Ronnie. As Bertie's told me about Ronnie.
  887. 56:51 She says that when he dies, he'll ask the crematorium to base him slowly on both sides. You know Ronnie?
  888. 56:57 Of course.
  889. 56:58 I was once Mr. Waterbury's...
  890. 57:00 Secretary.
  891. 57:03 Uh...
  892. 57:09 Happy honeymoon.
  893. 57:19 Darling.
  894. 57:19 Why did Mr. Fulton look at you so accusing me?
  895. 57:22 Well, I owe him $20,000. I drew it as advanced royalty against my next novel.
  896. 57:28 That mink coat Mrs. Fulton had on?
  897. 57:30 Is that one you gave her? Oh, but he meant nothing to me. I'd written a bestseller, and I was throwing money around like water. You can always take it back and give it to Mr. Fulton as part payment.
  898. 57:40 Oh, darling, I'll get you 100 mink coats.
  899. 57:43 Darling, I don't think I can afford a hundred mint coats.
  900. 57:46 A draw paying your rent will keep me broke.
  901. 57:48 Honey, did you marry me for my money?
  902. 57:50 No, but I'm beginning to think you married me for mine. Look, darling, let's get out of here. We're never going to be alone here. Honey, I know a perfect little mountain cabin away from...
  903. 57:59 Publishers and ran ladies. And secretary? Secretary?
  904. 58:02 Oh, except you. And I'm going to work. I promise you.
  905. 58:05 I promise you.
  906. 58:15 How long did you work on this book, Goer?
  907. 58:17 Four months?
  908. 58:18 I'm rather proud of this one, Dick.
  909. 58:22 Where's Mrs. Waterbury?
  910. 58:23 Oh, Steve's down at the village getting groceries.
  911. 58:26 She wants to prepare you one of her special dinners.
  912. 58:28 Uh-huh.
  913. 58:30 I'm afraid I can't stay for dinner. I have to catch that next train back.
  914. 58:34 Dick, let's drop this.
  915. 58:36 How'd you like the book?
  916. 58:38 I'm going to let you have it right between the eyes, though, huh?
  917. 58:42 You don't like it?
  918. 58:43 I hate you.
  919. 58:51 It's just about the worst piece of business.
  920. 58:52 drivel I ever read.
  921. 58:55 If I were to publish this, it would ruin you.
  922. 58:58 Unfortunately, I found another book to use in its place.
  923. 59:01 What's the matter with me, Dick? Am I through? Of course not. Every top-flight novelist has a bad book in it. But how am I gonna pay you back your money? Well, don't worry about that.
  924. 59:10 Sorry, Ellen. Darling, I got some of that wonderful venison.
  925. 59:14 Well, hello, Mr. Fulton. It's so nice seeing you again.
  926. 59:18 Do you like venison? Well, I'm afraid I can't stay.
  927. 59:22 Well, why not? I've got some very important business to do.
  928. 59:25 thousand.
  929. 59:26 Well, I...
  930. 59:31 Well, some other time.
  931. 59:34 Goodbye, Mrs. Waterbury. Goodbye, Mr. Fulton.
  932. 59:36 Well, I...
  933. 59:37 Goodbye, Dick.
  934. 59:44 No.
  935. 59:46 Do you think he's right?
  936. 59:48 He's always been right.
  937. 59:50 Until he married Bertie.
  938. 59:51 What's that got to do with it?
  939. 59:53 Maybe he's changed. You ever think of that?
  940. 59:56 Maybe he sees you through different eyes.
  941. 59:59 Oh, you're talking.
  942. 1:00:00 Oh, and let's face it. Your book is now being published by a man who sees his wife in your arms on every page.
  943. 1:00:06 Who thinks that girl in there is Bertie and you? You're a child. Bertie meant nothing to me. He doesn't realize that.
  944. 1:00:13 And he's still a human being, even if he is a publisher.
  945. 1:00:15 And he's a man.
  946. 1:00:17 Let's get away from here tonight.
  947. 1:00:19 Good night.
  948. 1:00:25 Oh, and you blame me, don't you?
  949. 1:00:28 Not really, Steve.
  950. 1:00:30 It's just so distracting to have a man's wife as his secretary, too.
  951. 1:00:35 I've got to try another book fast.
  952. 1:00:39 Come on.
  953. 1:00:40 I'm going to have to get myself another secretary.
  954. 1:00:45 So I'm fired, is that it?
  955. 1:00:47 Oh, Steve. It'll be better for both of us if I work by myself.
  956. 1:00:52 It will give you a chance to work on your own book.
  957. 1:00:58 I'll make dinner.
  958. 1:00:59 Mm-hmm.
  959. 1:01:00 Amen.
  960. 1:01:06 Bowen.
  961. 1:01:07 I've finished my book.
  962. 1:01:10 Oh, you're dead?
  963. 1:01:11 I'd like to read it.
  964. 1:01:14 It's been on your dressing room table for two weeks.
  965. 1:01:17 Oh.
  966. 1:01:18 Well, I'll let you.
  967. 1:01:20 Well, I'll read it on the train.
  968. 1:01:22 Don't bother.
  969. 1:01:24 Are you hurt?
  970. 1:01:25 No, I'm not.
  971. 1:01:27 You call and get tickets for the train and send Ronnie a wire to get you a new secretary.
  972. 1:01:34 Amen.
  973. 1:01:43 Amen.
  974. 1:01:59 Must be lovely up at the cabin this time of the year. Yes, it is.
  975. 1:02:03 A Waterbury original?
  976. 1:02:05 His last.
  977. 1:02:10 Steve! Hello, Charles. Sit down, won't you? Thanks. Oh, you're looking fine, fine. Well, four months of the outdoor life. None the worse, Forrest.
  978. 1:02:20 Ciao.
  979. 1:02:21 I want you to do me a favor.
  980. 1:02:23 This is Owen's latest book.
  981. 1:02:26 Poulton doesn't like it.
  982. 1:02:28 I want you to read it and let me know what you think about it.
  983. 1:02:31 I'll try to be as objective as possible.
  984. 1:02:33 You will be, I know.
  985. 1:02:35 And I have another manuscript for you.
  986. 1:02:38 Mine. You finished it? Yes, it was a long uphill pull.
  987. 1:02:42 I've changed the title so many times that...
  988. 1:02:46 I finally decided to call it Dawn's Journey.
  989. 1:02:49 What does Owen think of it?
  990. 1:02:52 Owen hasn't read it yet.
  991. 1:02:54 Oh.
  992. 1:02:55 He hasn't had time. He's been busy riding.
  993. 1:02:58 He couldn't concentrate on it.
  994. 1:03:01 I'll be glad to read both of them.
  995. 1:03:04 Thank you, Carol.
  996. 1:03:10 Goodbye, Steve.
  997. 1:03:11 Goodbye, Carol.
  998. 1:03:27 I was on the third floor, but I can't find the Waterbury apartment. Well, here's Mrs. Waterbury.
  999. 1:03:32 How do you do? The employment service sent me over. For sure. Mr. Waterbury wants a new secretary. Yes.
  1000. 1:03:38 Oh, is that so?
  1001. 1:03:52 You know, this is such a rush call. I hardly have time to drift.
  1002. 1:03:54 Good rest.
  1003. 1:04:03 Come in. Come right in, Miss.
  1004. 1:04:05 I'm going to go.
  1005. 1:04:06 What did you say your name was? Hilda Schneebacker. Miss Schneebacker.
  1006. 1:04:11 Owen, darling, this is your new secretary. How do you do? How do you do?
  1007. 1:04:15 My husband Owen Waterbury and Mrs. Ronnie, our next door neighbor. Probably do.
  1008. 1:04:19 Can I get you something to drink?
  1009. 1:04:21 Have you any beer?
  1010. 1:04:22 Well, I should say we have.
  1011. 1:04:26 And we have pretzels, too.
  1012. 1:04:30 You know, I could just drink a barrel of beer. What did you ask for on the phone?
  1013. 1:04:38 They thought they knew our account.
  1014. 1:04:40 Dope.
  1015. 1:04:44 Oh, don't bother.
  1016. 1:04:46 I
  1017. 1:04:49 I'm sorry.
  1018. 1:04:50 Why don't you bring your beer over here where we can be more comfortable?
  1019. 1:04:56 Oh, uh...
  1020. 1:04:57 Do you do laundry, Miss Schneebacher? Just shirts and socks. I don't like to do sheets.
  1021. 1:05:02 Well, sit down, please.
  1022. 1:05:04 OK.
  1023. 1:05:05 How are you on handicapping the horses, Miss Sneebuck? Oh, yesterday I picked...
  1024. 1:05:09 Two winners.
  1025. 1:05:11 Played them both right on the schnozzola. Oh, and I think she's enchanting. What size coat do you wear?
  1026. 1:05:17 You have to wear coat on the job?
  1027. 1:05:18 Oh, Mr. Waterbury likes to give all his employees mink coats for Christmas.
  1028. 1:05:22 Oh, I wish I'd known that. I could have saved a skunk flight.
  1029. 1:05:29 I wonder who she means.
  1030. 1:05:31 I'm going to love this job. You're all so nuts.
  1031. 1:05:35 *crying*
  1032. 1:05:39 Do you object working late hours, Miss Sneebacher? Not at all.
  1033. 1:05:44 A room with a girlfriend. I haven't seen her since New Year's.
  1034. 1:05:50 Miss Maybacher, I'm afraid this job is going to be a little too much for you.
  1035. 1:05:53 But why Owen, she just-- - Well, you see, several parts of my new novel are mostly in French. And, well, I'm sure you don't speak French, do you, Miss Naboth? - I studied it for six years.
  1036. 1:06:00 Once I had a French boyfriend, we had no trouble. Yes, but how's your shorthand?
  1037. 1:06:09 Sure did.
  1038. 1:06:10 I don't take short hands.
  1039. 1:06:12 You don't take shorthand.
  1040. 1:06:15 Well, no, the agency said this was strictly a typing job.
  1041. 1:06:18 Oh, no.
  1042. 1:06:20 This is mostly a shorthand job.
  1043. 1:06:23 But I could learn it. No, no, I'm afraid not.
  1044. 1:06:27 Well...
  1045. 1:06:28 Guess that lets me out. Leave the glass.
  1046. 1:06:31 Please.
  1047. 1:06:32 Oh.
  1048. 1:06:36 Thanks for the bear.
  1049. 1:06:44 That must be the next one. The next one?
  1050. 1:06:46 I told the agency to keep sending them until we said when.
  1051. 1:06:55 How do you do?
  1052. 1:06:56 Is this apartment 3E?
  1053. 1:06:58 Yes, it is.
  1054. 1:07:00 Does a Mr. Owen Waterbury live here?
  1055. 1:07:03 Yes, he does.
  1056. 1:07:07 uh,
  1057. 1:07:08 I'm...
  1058. 1:07:09 Owen Waterbury.
  1059. 1:07:10 Oh, Mr. Waterbury, the agents have sent me.
  1060. 1:07:13 - Don O'Malley? - That's right.
  1061. 1:07:15 Won't you come in, Miss O'Malley? Thank you.
  1062. 1:07:18 Uh, won't you sit down, Miss O'Malley? Thank you.
  1063. 1:07:22 Oh, this is my wife.
  1064. 1:07:24 - How do you do? - How do you do?
  1065. 1:07:26 You take your shorthand, of course.
  1066. 1:07:28 Yes, 120 words a minute.
  1067. 1:07:30 Oh. Do you speak?
  1068. 1:07:32 French, Miss O'Malley.
  1069. 1:07:33 My mother is French and my father is also.
  1070. 1:07:36 - - Are you married by any chance?
  1071. 1:07:43 Yes, I am.
  1072. 1:07:44 but the divorce can sign next week.
  1073. 1:07:47 I see.
  1074. 1:07:49 When...
  1075. 1:07:50 When would you like me to begin?
  1076. 1:07:51 You have begun.
  1077. 1:07:53 Oh.
  1078. 1:07:53 Thank you. Steve, shall we prepare lunch and leave them alone? I think they'd like to get to work.
  1079. 1:07:58 All right.
  1080. 1:08:02 Tell me, did you ever work for a writer before?
  1081. 1:08:07 Yes, once about three years ago.
  1082. 1:08:09 But I...
  1083. 1:08:10 I'd rather not talk about it. Oh? Well, why not?
  1084. 1:08:13 Well, he asked me to work late one evening and began getting a little fresh.
  1085. 1:08:17 So I call the police.
  1086. 1:08:19 All I want to do is work.
  1087. 1:08:22 I guess the publicity burned his career.
  1088. 1:08:24 But he deserved it.
  1089. 1:08:25 Don't you agree?
  1090. 1:08:28 Yes, I do.
  1091. 1:08:36 And you, darling?
  1092. 1:08:41 You just love living in this building, Mr. Scott, and you just love the water birds.
  1093. 1:08:48 How does he be?
  1094. 1:08:49 Crude!
  1095. 1:08:50 *thud*
  1096. 1:08:52 I'll go.
  1097. 1:08:56 Oh, hello. Hello, Mrs. Waterbury. I want you to meet your new neighbor, Sylvan Scott. He's moving that little bachelor park on the stairs that Felicia used to have. Yes, I know, Mr. Scott. Hello, Stephanie. How nice. Come in. Come now. I want you to meet the important member of the family. This is the great Owen Waterbury. Oh.
  1098. 1:09:13 How do you do, Mr. Warner? How do you do? The horrible Ronnie Hastings.
  1099. 1:09:17 Hello.
  1100. 1:09:18 New secretary.
  1101. 1:09:19 Yes.
  1102. 1:09:19 She was just tired, and I was just...
  1103. 1:09:22 - Byers? - Mr. Scott's a writer too. My building will be just crawling with them. Yes, Mr. Scott and I went to night school together.
  1104. 1:09:28 We sat next to each other.
  1105. 1:09:30 Mr. Scott used to be a ball player. Just look at those shoulders, and they're not padded either.
  1106. 1:09:35 Well, what do you know?
  1107. 1:09:38 Silver Rice Black is a wonderful radio program called "John's Mother's Lover."
  1108. 1:09:43 John's mother's sweetheart. Oh, yes, sir.
  1109. 1:09:45 Tell me, I can't forget you. Is John's mother going to marry her, sweetheart?
  1110. 1:09:50 No, John's father objects.
  1111. 1:09:52 John has no father.
  1112. 1:09:54 Oh.
  1113. 1:09:55 Poor job.
  1114. 1:09:57 - Sylvan, you'd better rush upstairs and stop work on that radio program. You mustn't neglect John. - Well, I'm in a little trouble. You see, my secretary just got married. - Oh, what on earth are you going to do? - I don't know.
  1115. 1:10:08 I could help you, Sylvan.
  1116. 1:10:10 You, Stephanie? Yes, you see, I was...
  1117. 1:10:12 Mr. Waterbury's secretary before he married me. That's right. You were. Marriage was a bonus. Oh, when could we begin? Oh.
  1118. 1:10:19 Why don't you just say...
  1119. 1:10:21 I've begun. Ronnie dear, would you get me some shorthand books and some pencil?
  1120. 1:10:25 Uh, how much do you think you'll be giving me tonight? Well, we may be working most of the night.
  1121. 1:10:29 Well, that's just ducky. I'm used to working at night.
  1122. 1:10:32 Goodbye, darling. Don't work too hard. I won't.
  1123. 1:10:36 Come on.
  1124. 1:10:42 Where are you?
  1125. 1:10:43 You seem to have fixed everything up. You certainly have.
  1126. 1:10:46 Well, I guess I'll run along. Must you go? I was just poisoning the tea.
  1127. 1:10:53 - Oh, my God.
  1128. 1:10:54 Step up.
  1129. 1:10:57 Oh.
  1130. 1:11:04 You know, uh...
  1131. 1:11:08 You're gonna really like it here, honey child. Lock your hands. I don't tolerate familiarity from anybody, and I mean anybody.
  1132. 1:11:14 I once ruined a man's career. And don't you forget it, sir.
  1133. 1:11:18 Miss O'Malley, you may have the day off.
  1134. 1:11:20 why don't you make it a year
  1135. 1:11:22 But I haven't even begun yet. Oh, that's all right. You get paid just the same.
  1136. 1:11:26 And I...
  1137. 1:11:28 What time tomorrow? Oh, any old time. Suit yourself.
  1138. 1:11:33 But I don't understand. Well, how about noon?
  1139. 1:11:35 All right.
  1140. 1:11:42 Well, you were saying something about poison tea?
  1141. 1:11:46 I mixed it. I get firsties.
  1142. 1:11:50 Now where was I?
  1143. 1:11:52 Sound of footsteps.
  1144. 1:11:54 Three people.
  1145. 1:11:57 Sound of footsteps.
  1146. 1:11:58 Three people.
  1147. 1:12:01 Door bangs.
  1148. 1:12:02 Door cries.
  1149. 1:12:03 Door slammed.
  1150. 1:12:05 Two shots.
  1151. 1:12:06 Three screens.
  1152. 1:12:07 Siren!
  1153. 1:12:08 How does that sound?
  1154. 1:12:10 Well...
  1155. 1:12:11 It's bedlam.
  1156. 1:12:16 John?
  1157. 1:12:17 I'm in love with your mother.
  1158. 1:12:19 And tomorrow...
  1159. 1:12:21 I expect to be your father.
  1160. 1:12:24 John's going to be a father, and I'm the first to know
  1161. 1:12:27 No, I don't have to listen tomorrow.
  1162. 1:12:33 But father...
  1163. 1:12:34 I'm older than you are.
  1164. 1:12:37 John's older than his father?
  1165. 1:12:43 What happened?
  1166. 1:12:44 That's what I'd like to know.
  1167. 1:12:47 I don't know.
  1168. 1:12:48 But don't you worry, Miss Waterbury.
  1169. 1:12:50 I'm not gonna do anything.
  1170. 1:12:53 *Sigh*
  1171. 1:12:58 Hello.
  1172. 1:12:58 Hey, they just turned out the lights.
  1173. 1:13:03 Who's calling? This is Charles Harris speaking.
  1174. 1:13:06 I'm sorry to be calling it such a late hour, but I must talk to her.
  1175. 1:13:09 They just turned out the light. Will you keep quiet?
  1176. 1:13:12 This is their husband.
  1177. 1:13:13 No, she's out for the evening. She's right upstairs. Will you...
  1178. 1:13:16 And I don't know when she'll be back.
  1179. 1:13:19 Didn't you hear me? I said they just turned out the lights.
  1180. 1:13:23 Starlings!
  1181. 1:13:24 May I borrow a light bulb? I don't care what you do.
  1182. 1:13:30 What's the matter?
  1183. 1:13:31 I'm going to a hotel in case you're interested.
  1184. 1:13:34 I'll go to a hotel after all. This is your apartment. No, it isn't. You pay the rent.
  1185. 1:13:39 Ronnie, will you take this up to Mr. Scott, please?
  1186. 1:13:44 Oh, and you can't possibly be jealous of that man upstairs.
  1187. 1:13:48 But he's utterly harmless.
  1188. 1:13:50 Boy, you really had me...
  1189. 1:13:52 Why do you say that?
  1190. 1:13:54 Charles Harris just called.
  1191. 1:13:56 Have you seen him, Steve, since we came back?
  1192. 1:14:01 Own it.
  1193. 1:14:02 It's terribly late, and...
  1194. 1:14:04 And I don't like cross-examinations.
  1195. 1:14:07 After all, we're two adult human beings and...
  1196. 1:14:09 And we should be able to do it.
  1197. 1:14:10 trust one another. Don't smile at the way with pretty words, Steve. Have you been seeing them?
  1198. 1:14:15 - Yes. - All right, then this is it. But I only saw Charles Harris for one reason.
  1199. 1:14:20 I took him your manuscript.
  1200. 1:14:22 He knows a great many publishers. Please don't. It's too late for that.
  1201. 1:14:26 i felt that the night club you were in love with harris and i knew he was in love with you
  1202. 1:14:30 After all, five years is a long time and I was a fool to think I could break it down. I never loved Charles Harris. Well, you never loved me. You were in love with a schoolgirl notion of a popular novel.
  1203. 1:14:41 I really try to play this straight with you, Steve.
  1204. 1:14:43 But I guess I made a beautiful mistake.
  1205. 1:14:45 day in.
  1206. 1:14:47 Owen.
  1207. 1:14:48 I was in love with you before I met you.
  1208. 1:14:50 Something in your writing, the tone, the feeling that...
  1209. 1:14:55 The quality appealed to me so much that...
  1210. 1:14:59 I used to imagine you...
  1211. 1:15:00 Books were written just for me.
  1212. 1:15:03 It's true. I, I built it up in a schoolgirl way and...
  1213. 1:15:07 And I was so caught up in it, I...
  1214. 1:15:09 I guess I would have married you the night you lectured in class.
  1215. 1:15:13 If you'd stepped off that platform and asked me, I...
  1216. 1:15:17 I would have married you.
  1217. 1:15:18 Just like that. How can you talk to me like that? I put you away up there Tuesday
  1218. 1:15:26 You tore it down in the
  1219. 1:15:28 cruelest way any woman could. You once called me an egotistical fraud.
  1220. 1:15:34 But what about you, Stephanie Gaylord?
  1221. 1:15:36 What have you been?
  1222. 1:15:38 Go ahead, follow him. He's waiting for you.
  1223. 1:15:47 Oh.
  1224. 1:15:48 I'm sorry.
  1225. 1:15:56 Good morning, Mrs. Waterbury.
  1226. 1:15:57 Good morning, Elsie. I have an appointment. Yes, I know. Mr. Harris has a surprise for you. Want to come right in?
  1227. 1:16:04 Peace.
  1228. 1:16:04 Good morning, Clow.
  1229. 1:16:06 Stephanie Gaylord, this is Mr. McNally, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Burke of the Literary Times.
  1230. 1:16:10 How do you do?
  1231. 1:16:13 So you are Stephanie Gaylord.
  1232. 1:16:16 The dance, D.
  1233. 1:16:18 It's a big morning in your life, King.
  1234. 1:16:25 Mr. McNally is head of the publishing house in New York. He flew down this morning. That's why I called you so late last night.
  1235. 1:16:30 We've read your book, Miss Kaylard.
  1236. 1:16:32 How long have you worked on it?
  1237. 1:16:34 All right.
  1238. 1:16:35 About.
  1239. 1:16:36 Five years.
  1240. 1:16:37 I'm recommending it for the McNally-Winslow Award for a first novel by an unknown.
  1241. 1:16:43 I didn't know you were going to show my manuscript to anyone.
  1242. 1:16:47 I couldn't do anything else after reading it.
  1243. 1:16:50 But don't you see what this will do to Owen?
  1244. 1:16:53 What has no one got to do with this?
  1245. 1:16:57 Well...
  1246. 1:16:58 Owen's the big guy in my family and...
  1247. 1:17:01 His novel's just been turned down.
  1248. 1:17:04 If this happens on top of that, it...
  1249. 1:17:06 It would just about destroy him.
  1250. 1:17:08 I'm sorry.
  1251. 1:17:09 He has to have a sense of importance.
  1252. 1:17:12 He's lost all faith in himself.
  1253. 1:17:15 You mean your husband would feel a sense of competition with you?
  1254. 1:17:17 You don't understand, Mr. McNally.
  1255. 1:17:20 Owen's in trouble.
  1256. 1:17:21 And does this Wi-Fi...
  1257. 1:17:23 I have to help him climb out of it.
  1258. 1:17:25 Steve, I thought you wanted to write more than anything else in the world.
  1259. 1:17:28 I thought so, too, before I married Owen.
  1260. 1:17:32 What about Owen's manuscript?
  1261. 1:17:34 Did you read it?
  1262. 1:17:35 Yes.
  1263. 1:17:37 It isn't bad. It's good.
  1264. 1:17:39 But it doesn't have what this has.
  1265. 1:17:41 This is greatness.
  1266. 1:17:48 Thank you very much, gentlemen.
  1267. 1:17:50 See you.
  1268. 1:17:51 Please sit down.
  1269. 1:17:52 I want to talk to him.
  1270. 1:18:55 Are you slopping up this kitchen again?
  1271. 1:18:58 I'm giving your popovers another try.
  1272. 1:19:01 Well, give me time to call the fire department.
  1273. 1:19:04 No, no, no, Mr. Mallet. That's not the line I gave you.
  1274. 1:19:08 I'm sorry.
  1275. 1:19:09 All right.
  1276. 1:19:10 Let's try it again.
  1277. 1:19:11 Yes, ma'am.
  1278. 1:19:12 John.
  1279. 1:19:13 Mother.
  1280. 1:19:14 I've changed my mind.
  1281. 1:19:17 I don't like your sweethearts.
  1282. 1:19:19 Mother, though I like him,
  1283. 1:19:21 That's all that matters.
  1284. 1:19:23 John.
  1285. 1:19:24 As your son, I refuse to approve the marriage.
  1286. 1:19:27 Mother.
  1287. 1:19:28 You're not marrying him. I am.
  1288. 1:19:31 How does that sound?
  1289. 1:19:32 Stinks.
  1290. 1:19:33 Amen.
  1291. 1:19:35 Mr. Hastings,
  1292. 1:19:37 I must say you're distracting.
  1293. 1:19:39 You know, you shouldn't be using Mr. Waterbury's apartment or Mr. Waterbury's secretary.
  1294. 1:19:44 Well, Mrs. Waterbury isn't here, and I've got to get the program out.
  1295. 1:19:48 Why don't you work in your apartment?
  1296. 1:19:49 She won't work up there.
  1297. 1:19:51 Well, why did you work without her?
  1298. 1:19:53 I can't. I'm a dictator.
  1299. 1:19:55 Dear, why won't you work upstairs?
  1300. 1:19:58 I don't work in men's
  1301. 1:20:00 It's not a bedroom. It's a bachelor apartment.
  1302. 1:20:04 My husband was a hotel manager.
  1303. 1:20:06 One room is a bedroom.
  1304. 1:20:07 Two or more is an apartment.
  1305. 1:20:10 Sylvan, she's got you there.
  1306. 1:20:12 Oh, come on, let's work.
  1307. 1:20:14 Hello, Mr. Waterbury.
  1308. 1:20:16 Yes, what can I do for you? Remember me, I'm Jebony of the Brown Detective Agency. Oh.
  1309. 1:20:21 What's it? A bill for $845.62. For what? For shadowing and delving into the past of one Stephanie Gaylord. But I married her. We've shadowed married women before.
  1310. 1:20:35 Hi, Owen. Get rid of this guy. You want me to call the police? I am the police. What's this doing here? That's my laundry. Do you expect my wife to do your laundry?
  1311. 1:20:44 Hey, that's a little large for you, isn't it? That's Mrs. Waterbury's laundry. That's mine. Take it and get out of here.
  1312. 1:20:51 And as for you, Mademoiselle O'Malley, you're fired for taking dictation from somebody else. Well, that suits me just fine. I wouldn't work for you even if I did like your horrible writing.
  1313. 1:21:00 Where's Stephanie? I don't know where she is. I know where she is. Where?
  1314. 1:21:03 You pay this bill and I'll let you know. Ronnie, do you happen to have $845 and $62,30? Why don't you write him a check?
  1315. 1:21:10 Oh, yes.
  1316. 1:21:13 Call that number right away.
  1317. 1:21:15 Here is the detailed report. It's very amusing.
  1318. 1:21:18 You see, I had to shadow you at the same time that I shadowed her.
  1319. 1:21:22 Here's Stephanie.
  1320. 1:21:23 Yes.
  1321. 1:21:24 Stephanie, where are you?
  1322. 1:21:26 What? What are you doing there?
  1323. 1:21:29 Stephanie, if there were ever any chance of our getting together, this kills it now. Finally and for all time, we're through.
  1324. 1:21:35 Charles Harrison.
  1325. 1:21:37 Just like that. No sense of shame.
  1326. 1:21:39 Well, maybe she got her old job back and was working for him. At his home? What decent, self-respecting girl worked for a man at his home?
  1327. 1:21:46 Maybe she's his secretary. Please, don't tell me about secretary. He could tell you.
  1328. 1:21:51 Here's the report.
  1329. 1:21:52 Page three is wonderful.
  1330. 1:21:53 Right.
  1331. 1:21:54 Call the informant agency. I'm going to show her. Look.
  1332. 1:21:56 I want a girl this time who's capable and efficient.
  1333. 1:21:59 I'm calling for Mr. Owen Waterbag. A bass typist. I don't care what she looks like. We don't care what she looks like.
  1334. 1:22:05 As long as she's attractive.
  1335. 1:22:09 Do you take shorthand?
  1336. 1:22:10 Oh, but of course.
  1337. 1:22:12 120 words a minute.
  1338. 1:22:14 And, uh...
  1339. 1:22:16 What did you say your name was?
  1340. 1:22:17 Miss Pidgeon.
  1341. 1:22:19 Her name is Miss Pigeon.
  1342. 1:22:22 Everybody says I'm flighty. Where did you work before?
  1343. 1:22:26 I'm just out of secretarial school.
  1344. 1:22:28 I think it would be wonderful working for you, Mr. Waterbury.
  1345. 1:22:31 You see, I hope to be a writer myself someday. Oh, yeah.
  1346. 1:22:35 Uh, have you ever been married?
  1347. 1:22:37 Oh, no.
  1348. 1:22:38 Never.
  1349. 1:22:39 And you have no objections to working on weekends? Oh, not at all. My time's completely my own.
  1350. 1:22:45 And you think Mr. Waterbury's just wonderful?
  1351. 1:22:49 Mm-hmm.
  1352. 1:22:51 This is a clay pigeon.
  1353. 1:22:55 I've come for my things.
  1354. 1:22:58 Follow me, Bill.
  1355. 1:22:59 I know just where to go. I want you to take everything out of that drawer and put it in that bag. Right.
  1356. 1:23:06 I knew you'd come back. But it's only for a moment. Where's the main coast?
  1357. 1:23:11 I didn't get a mint Coke.
  1358. 1:23:13 Come into the bedroom, Bill.
  1359. 1:23:15 What's the matter? - Shard of minks? - Hey, haven't you been here before? - Sure, I came with the other one.
  1360. 1:23:20 I got a cab fan downstairs now.
  1361. 1:23:22 If you need a cab.
  1362. 1:23:24 Just open the window and holler. Well, I'm gonna do a lot of hollering now.
  1363. 1:23:29 That's his former secretary.
  1364. 1:23:32 Get my bag and things out of the closet. Oh, so you're not in love with Harris, but you go to his apartment. You wouldn't let me explain, and now I'm not going to. Explain? What kind of an explanation could you make anyway? It doesn't matter anymore. You're right. It doesn't matter anymore. You're right.
  1365. 1:23:43 Isn't she getting awfully personal? What a wonderful type of...
  1366. 1:23:47 Charles Harris is a parton. Just like that. Just like that. Anything else miss?
  1367. 1:23:52 Yes, my picture.
  1368. 1:23:59 If I were a man, I'd... If you were a man, I'd ask you to step outside.
  1369. 1:24:02 Go ahead, hit me. I dare you.
  1370. 1:24:05 Did he slap her? I should say not. She slapped him.
  1371. 1:24:10 I've known all along why you've resented me.
  1372. 1:24:12 It was because I liked your novel and I told you so.
  1373. 1:24:15 You think you've wasted your time. That's your tragedy. My only tragedy is you.
  1374. 1:24:19 I'm going far, far away from here, and I'm going to write a book about you.
  1375. 1:24:23 I'm going to call it The Heel and His Victims. That's a very horrible title. It'll do.
  1376. 1:24:27 Goodbye, Owen Waterbury. And don't you ever try and get in touch with me because I want no more of you.
  1377. 1:24:32 And that goes for me, too.
  1378. 1:24:38 Where's Miss Pidgeon?
  1379. 1:24:39 She, uh...
  1380. 1:24:40 Flew the coop.
  1381. 1:24:42 Where do you think Steve's going?
  1382. 1:24:44 I think she's gonna marry Harris. Harris? I'd like to see that little worm.
  1383. 1:24:48 I'm going to. Now, where are you going? I'm so mad I could get married.
  1384. 1:24:52 You know I think I'll have to? For whom are you going to marry?
  1385. 1:24:55 It'll be a female, that's about all I can say.
  1386. 1:25:05 Hmm.
  1387. 1:25:30 I'd like to see Mr. Harris. Your name? Orn Waterbury. Orn Waterbury.
  1388. 1:25:36 *Cough*
  1389. 1:25:37 Excuse me, sir.
  1390. 1:25:39 And excuse me.
  1391. 1:25:41 I didn't mean to disturb you and my secretary.
  1392. 1:25:43 Your former secretary.
  1393. 1:25:45 Oh, I didn't know you were in the middle of dictation.
  1394. 1:25:48 Your sarcasm is quite uncalled for. Of course, I don't have to tell you what I think of a man who behaved this way with a secretary. You keep out of this, Elsie. Look, Charles and I are going to be married. Congratulations.
  1395. 1:25:59 What?
  1396. 1:26:00 Just where does that leave my wife?
  1397. 1:26:02 How do you suppose she's gonna feel about this?
  1398. 1:26:03 She's in love with you, you know. You never deserve to find a girl with Stephanie anyway.
  1399. 1:26:07 You know, Harris, I've always wanted to tell you that I really think you're a crude person.
  1400. 1:26:12 Your motives are very obvious.
  1401. 1:26:13 You've given me a lot of grief ever since I married Stephanie, and I came up here to tan your hide. So put up your hands and defend yourself like a man. Oh, you can't stop having tides.
  1402. 1:26:22 Oh, listen to me, you fool.
  1403. 1:26:24 Why do you think Stephanie came up here in the first place? Because she wrote a novel and Harris wanted to have it published. She didn't want that.
  1404. 1:26:30 She was afraid it would hurt your vanity and wreck your marriage.
  1405. 1:26:33 She wanted to help you instead.
  1406. 1:26:36 Oh, look, I read your last thoughts, the one Fulton turned down.
  1407. 1:26:39 It's grand, it's exciting, it's wonderful,
  1408. 1:26:42 Fulton's wrong. He's just jealous because of Birdie, and it's all your own fault, Mr. Great Guy.
  1409. 1:26:47 You know, someday Stephanie's going to be a better writer than you are. That's my opinion, and you've always valued it.
  1410. 1:26:53 Here.
  1411. 1:26:54 Stephanie's novel.
  1412. 1:26:55 Read that and really get jealous.
  1413. 1:26:58 You know, you're not going to get her back. She's gone away and it serves you right.
  1414. 1:27:02 I hope I kicked a little sense into you, but I doubt it.
  1415. 1:27:06 Goodbye, Mr. Waterbury.
  1416. 1:28:02 hello
  1417. 1:28:05 I've got to serve you with these papers.
  1418. 1:28:06 What for? Suit for divorce from Mrs. Waterbury.
  1419. 1:28:13 I'm sorry.
  1420. 1:28:27 Oh, mine's three. What's yours, please? Four seats.
  1421. 1:28:33 Isn't that Sylvan Scott's apartment?
  1422. 1:28:35 Oh, I did. I didn't know who lived there, but, uh...
  1423. 1:28:38 I'm his new secretary. I see.
  1424. 1:28:46 Good luck.
  1425. 1:28:53 Oh, Mr. Waterbury.
  1426. 1:28:55 Hello, Mary.
  1427. 1:29:01 You want a drink?
  1428. 1:29:03 Well, I guess so.
  1429. 1:29:08 Now, you see Ronnie around.
  1430. 1:29:09 Well, I haven't seen Mr. Ronnie in about three days.
  1431. 1:29:12 But I heard Kelly got married.
  1432. 1:29:14 May.
  1433. 1:29:17 That's funny. He didn't even invite me to the wedding ceremony.
  1434. 1:29:20 Me neither.
  1435. 1:29:23 Yeah, Ronnie gets married.
  1436. 1:29:27 I'm getting a divorce.
  1437. 1:29:29 You know that, Mary?
  1438. 1:29:31 Mrs. Waterbury's divorce.
  1439. 1:29:33 I sure was sorry to hear that, Mr. Waterbury.
  1440. 1:29:36 She was an awful nice person.
  1441. 1:29:38 So was you.
  1442. 1:29:40 At times.
  1443. 1:29:46 Well...
  1444. 1:29:47 I see Scott's.
  1445. 1:29:48 Hiring a new male secretary. Well, Mr. Scott doesn't live in this building anymore. He moved out yesterday.
  1446. 1:29:55 Or who moved in up there?
  1447. 1:29:57 Mrs. Waterbury.
  1448. 1:30:01 Yes, she's a big writer now. Well, of all the nerve, I'll fix her. She can't do this to me.
  1449. 1:30:20 Come in.
  1450. 1:30:23 Yes, what can I do for you? Out.
  1451. 1:30:24 I said get out.
  1452. 1:30:27 But I don't understand. Don't you listen to him. This is my wife.
  1453. 1:30:30 You're his wife? I'm trying very desperately not to be. Didn't you get the divorce papers today? You're still my wife until the final decree, and that takes a whole year.
  1454. 1:30:38 Are you still here? I said get out of it. Mr. Simpson, you come back here tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. You'll come back here never. If I find you here again, I'll throw you out on your ear. Yes.
  1455. 1:30:47 - I'm hiring male secretaries right under my nose. - Right over your nose, dear. - And don't be cute at a time like this.
  1456. 1:30:55 Why'd you take this apartment anyway? Because it was the only one I could find, and Mrs. Reeves was kind enough to let me have it. Oh, sure, sure.
  1457. 1:31:04 I thought you'd think I was chasing you, Owen Waterbury.
  1458. 1:31:08 But my living here need cost us no embarrassment.
  1459. 1:31:10 We can be here.
  1460. 1:31:11 Then meet in the hallway and exchange polite little hello
  1461. 1:31:15 I exchanged polite little hellos with your friend Harris recently.
  1462. 1:31:21 Elsie was there.
  1463. 1:31:23 You told me all about your book.
  1464. 1:31:26 You didn't want to have it published because...
  1465. 1:31:28 of what it might do to me.
  1466. 1:31:29 What?
  1467. 1:31:30 Really?
  1468. 1:31:31 I mean, do you think I look upon you as a competitor?
  1469. 1:31:35 Don't you think I can compete with you, Mr. Waterbury?
  1470. 1:31:38 I read your book last night.
  1471. 1:31:40 Get me up most of the night.
  1472. 1:31:43 You want to know something?
  1473. 1:31:44 Yes.
  1474. 1:31:45 You're better than I am.
  1475. 1:31:47 But don't tell anybody because I'll deny it.
  1476. 1:31:50 Now you listen to me, Mr. Owen Waterbury.
  1477. 1:31:53 I'm a human being too, and I have certain rights and privileges.
  1478. 1:31:57 I had an idea for a book and you made me lose a very good effort rate.
  1479. 1:32:01 Well, look, why don't you dictate it to me?
  1480. 1:32:04 - You? - Sure, I can take shorthand. - Oh, and what a very-- - Look, you want to know a secret?
  1481. 1:32:09 I'm a better secretary than you are.
  1482. 1:32:12 All right, prove it.
  1483. 1:32:14 Get the shorthand book and pencil. Okay. And I don't want to hear another word about our personal problems until I get this down.
  1484. 1:32:21 Let's call this.
  1485. 1:32:24 No...
  1486. 1:32:25 On my new novel.
  1487. 1:32:27 by Stephanie Gaylord.
  1488. 1:32:31 This will be the story...
  1489. 1:32:33 of a girl who became secretary to, uh,
  1490. 1:32:36 A very egotistical man.
  1491. 1:32:39 is starting you ever
  1492. 1:32:40 First thing there was to know about life. Oh, now, wait a minute, please. Please, please. You're interrupting my train of thought. Please.
  1493. 1:32:47 he would
  1494. 1:32:48 Attractive.
  1495. 1:32:51 in an ugly sort of way.
  1496. 1:32:53 Thanks a million. Will you please stop interrupting me?
  1497. 1:32:56 But...
  1498. 1:32:57 But he was...
  1499. 1:32:58 He was filled with...
  1500. 1:32:59 with childish frustrations and complexes which...
  1501. 1:33:03 She, in her silly way, dragged
  1502. 1:33:05 Now, wait a minute, Steve. I'm not gonna sit here and take down the--
  1503. 1:33:08 This is my new book.
  1504. 1:33:12 Until...
  1505. 1:33:14 until she suddenly discovered
  1506. 1:33:17 He didn't need a wife.
  1507. 1:33:19 He needed us.
  1508. 1:33:20 A psychiatrist. A psychiatrist.
  1509. 1:33:22 A psychiatrist? That doesn't. Now I'm insane, am I? Okay! But if you publish that book, I'll sue you! You just go ahead and sue me if you think I'm afraid!
  1510. 1:33:31 Hello. You know, this book sounds very interesting, but there's one thing I'd better know.
  1511. 1:33:37 Did you love him?
  1512. 1:33:38 Well, of course she loved him.
  1513. 1:33:39 She loved him deeply, devotedly, desperately. Why didn't you say so?
  1514. 1:33:45 I've, uh, I've come for the rent. Oh, Ronnie, is your, uh...
  1515. 1:33:51 - Landlord. - Oh, no, no. That pod belongs up there. And this belongs here. And this belongs here.
  1516. 1:34:01 Oh, God!

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