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that was my cover before the wall came down and put us out of business before that i worked all over europe and america as a stasi agent what about this weise i only met him a month ago he helped recruit me to help them find where my grandfather hid their gold the people that weise worked for would exploit east germans for money that would help buy them safe passage across the border it was then converted to gold and brought to the united states for safekeeping it was brought to my grandfathers she is an impostor no im not they knew i hated you all those years they used that to get me to cooperate they even promised me a share who are you you are not my granddaughter no opait is me opathat night papa was killed and i was captured i didnt know what really happened not until i knew you not until i heard my opa speak of that horrible night not today macgyver the name is huber good show maria
but well take it from here the gold old man the gold or you and your friend are dead okay its working now here it comes sorry for the delay but we had to disassemble the image unit to find the problem there you are mr thornton maria romburg 15 years later thats not the same girl not at all shes an impostor lets go stasi right havent you heard the wall is down there are no stasi now then romburg where is the gold i will never tell you you killed my son his life is in that gold your son shot at a border guard we had no control over that you said there would be no guards after you took all our money you wanted us dead like all the others
but you did manage to escape yes to become your slave keeping your blood money for you while you held my granddaughter hostage you see you have your toys and we have ours such a beautiful girl it would be such a loss i do not want to put an arrow through her beautiful throat shes your granddaughter thats what you say but i know different she is one of you you are trying to trick me but you dont know that for sure do you old man where is the gold how sorry youll be when you find out she really is your granddaughter maria whimpering last arrow last chance perhaps you would like to say goodbye yes please opa i know these men they will kill us for sure you are not my granddaughter dont let him do this maria shouting maria sobbing opaplease
i will tell you you are a wise man romburg now where do you hide the gold upstairs at the store window the toy soldiers im impressed you are a very clever man we will make sure hes telling the truth its the gold we must hurry kill macgyver and the other two huber hes gone toy plane whirring you okay yeah im fine take care of these guys oh macgyver thank god its all right otto youre safe now and no one can hurt you no especially not this young lady who claims to be your granddaughter shes a fraud macgyver a fraud no opatell them macgyver he is wrong look at this
look at the chin the jaw line that is a picture of what the real maria would look like now well you had me goin i believed you macgyver no but i think i wanted to believe but it is me its time to give it up you cant outsmart computer imaging please you dont understand five years ago i was on assignment in london there was an accident my jaw was broken in three places there are hospital records of the reconstructive surgery i am an old man dont do this to me why cant you believe me yes i will prove it heres the orange thread where mama sewed birgits arm back on i dont remember it was a long time ago but opa youve got to remember i came crying to you after valdi chewed it off valdi our dog
no no no no the stasi would know about a puppy there were family pictures would they know of our secret would they know that you let valdi sleep in my bed when mama and papa were away on holiday oh my god no one could know about that oh maria my little maria video game playing music he scores ooh maria hi oh i am interrupting you yes no no no no come on in iim just uh setting up a program here its uh very complicated stuff so hows your grandfather hes thrilled to tears you know the gold that was turned over to the german government they agreed to set up a fund in my fathers name to help reunited families begin all over again well thats terrific and me they are allowing to stay thats even more terrific what are you gonna do well to start i was hoping that perhaps we might be able to see each other more often
more often youre the only american i know macgyver and i think maybe the only one i want to know yeah sure thatll be great um i travel a lot you know uh all over the world a lot i love to travel and besides pete says with my language skill s and training perhaps theres a plac e for me at phoenix pete said that did he isnt that wonderful romburgs toys how may i help you otto its macgyver where are you im in east berlin at stasi headquarters or whats left of them anyway listen otto ive got some good news you have found my granddaughter well not yet but ive found marias name on a list of orphans the stasi had on file im meeting with a guy later who might have a line on how to find her that is good news huh but i was hoping otto if marias in east germany ill find her thats a promise i dont know how to thank you macgyver ive been waiting 17 long years for this moment
ill wait by the phone thank you thank you so much herr macgyver yeah rolf mossel we spoke on the telephone yes yes thank you for meeting me oh a pleasure i have heard only good things about your foundations work here thank you very much i understand youre with the citizen freedom committee we work mostly in the field helping people locate their relatives i personally handled your inquiry about a maria romburg howd you do uh danke well you are in luck certain files were looted when the government was overthrown and the people stormed stasi headquarters this was amongst them uh yeah my germans a little weak would you they educated her for the last two years she has been a teacher in leipzig
catch the morning train you can be there by noon thank you um sorry i dont mean to interrupt what is it you wish well my name is macgyver your grandfather sent me hes a friend of mine why does my grandfather send you why does he not come himself his doctors recommended against it i see and now that youve found me what exactly is it he wants to know that youre well im sure you can tell him as much and to see you again well you can give my grandfather a message for me mr macgyver you can tell him that to me he is dead excuse me wait i know its been a long time cant you at least think about it ive been thinking about it since i was eight years old i can still see my fathers body on the barbed wire he died while my grandfather ran to save his own life you were an 8yearold child who saw your father and grandfather betrayed by the stasi
your grandfather had no choice but to run maria he has never stopped looking for you he loves you he wants you to live with him in america the wall is down you both have choices now theres nothing to stop you from being a family again nothing but the memory of a selfish old man who would leave his son and granddaughter to be executed by the border guards maria i tried to explain the circumstances no mr macgyver i want nothing to do with him i cant this is from your grandfather read it if you change your mind before tomorrow my hotel number is on the envelope i have to go the children looking for someone huh you took my picture mein foto so your photo you know high tech equipment like this makes you think the wall is still up there must be thousands of outofwork stasi agents wandering around the country with nothing better to do
then again maybe our new government still cant resist the need to watch you americans im sorry if things did not go well with the girl you know i cant help thinking that maybe i should stick around maybe talk to her again mr macgyver you found her you gave her the letter from her grandfather what more could you do i think i would like to change my mind if that is all right uh of course mr mossel this is maria mr mossels organization helped us find you thank you youre welcome after the way i treated you you think i am crazy yes i think you needed time thats all i read my grandfathers letter he sounded so lonely so heartsick you were right macgyver the wall is down i have the freedom to decide for myself and when i see my grandfather i will know for sure yes this is what makes my job so worthwhile so now what no thats all been taken care of lets just go see your grandpa huh thank you
my pleasure your plan seems to be working huber huh in a few days the gold will be in our hands do you think hell recognize me its been so long maybe we are both so different now will you relax youll be fine have i thanked you yet for what youve done macgyver for keeping me from making a terrible mistake about a thousand times yes im in america first time here you mean you cannot tell i have never before set even one foot out of east germany not by the way you speak english its almost perfect oh thank you the state needed teachers of english so i was trained for this oh look the white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only no parking macgyver do you have three quarters uh yeah sure in your old magazines people used to smuggle across the border i kept seeing this one picture of beautiful men and women in beautiful swimsuits drinking ice cold root beer
and now it is my turn maria my god let me look at you oh here uh you two have a lot to talk about im gonna take off thank you my friend macgyver what time must we go back to immigration ill pick you up what is this about oh im sorry opa but i must go fill out some more papers theres so much catchingup to do put your toy away kurt i still cannot believe i am here what are they doing the girl just arrived oh look its such a wonderful store opa my apartments upstairs its small but theres room for two maria look theres an old friend who wanted to say hello she is lovely you dont remember her she was your favorite oh birgit
my precious little birgit how could i have forgotten you insisted we take her along the night we i tucked her under my sweater where she would be warm shes waited for you all these years she knew some day you would come for her and it was always in my prayers that you would you must be tired its been a very long day there has not been one word about the gold how do you know he still has it he has it he wouldnt dare doublecross us while his granddaughter was in our hands and now she is here hmm so why do we wait because it is our plan from the start because it is safer for us to let the girl find out where he hides it do you have a problem with that weise oh no not at all huber as you constantly remind me you are my superior but i still say give me 10 minutes with the old man alone and i promise you he will beg us to take the gold oh weise will you stop stop what we have no jobs
were almost out of money how are we supposed to exist you prefer to be working for the mossad or the cia i will be happy to write a letter of recommendationin exchange for your share of the gold just cool it huh our operative knows what to do just give her time a million bucks in gold come on men its worth the wait i dont know somethings not right pete i know it macgyver just because she sat down and immediately fastened her seatbelt now what does that prove no no its more than that she knew how to make the seat recline how to plug in her head phones she even asked the flight attendant for a magazine im tellin you she behaved just like a seasoned traveler look i admit thats a bit odd but still no and then and then at the airport she asked me for three quarters for a root beer quarters pete shes never been out of east germany and she knows our coin system look you want to check her out
were going to check her out okay come on thank you thank you hi macgyver welcome back thanks willis can you help me out here sure what do you think of that looks like it could be kgb most likely assembled in east germany stasi yeah could be got any fingerprints there yeah couple of good ones get them off to washington right away oh also pete could we run this through the child finder program i want to see what a young maria would look like at 23 willis no problem ill have it tomorrow you got everything you came for yes thank you for indulging me no problem opa you work too hard
most men your age are retired by now ja perhaps perhaps not ive been thinking what if i closed the store for a few months so you and i can travel see america oh that would be wonderful but would that not cost a lot of money let me worry about that i have something put away this is it this is it come on you old fool tell her where the gold is move the laser up to the old mans apartment window hurry they are coming in what did i have to spend money on so opa you mean you are rich richer than ever now that you are here opa be serious you mean you are rich from selling toys well i make enough to be comfortable you keep the money in a bank yes so many questions about money go get changed macgyver will be here soon all right but tonight when i get back we will talk about everything yes maria
ive had enough of this talk talk talk he tells the girl nothing we were fools to cut her into the deal weise we can do without your impatience shes doing her best it appears we have a visitor oh its the loverboy listen to you calling him and look at you your jeans and bows and arrows i dont know you any more just 10 years in this country and youre more american than german dont knock it till you try it that must be macgyver ill be right out opa yes otto its me come in maria will be ready in a minute hello otto macgyver hello so have you gotten used to seeing maria all grown up yet she is some young lady is she not its hard to believe she was my little liebchen yeah well shes definitely a woman now
but in here there is no change only the same sweet innocent child i am ready macgyver boy ill say opa why dont you come with us yeah then well all go out to dinner afterwards oh thank you but i must work on my books all right then well bring something in for you oh no opa we insist this is america everybody brings food in to eat here they come it must be for her immigration appointment so we continue to wait and wait and wait you got it what do you say we take a break get something to eat huber you can buy you know a place that takes travelers checks only if you have some id you coming weise no my ulcer too much american junk food
you two go ahead ill stay here and watch we have much to talk about old man it was wonderful driving through the city in spite of all your questions oh i was just trying to get to know you better thats all why do you look at me like that oh i was just thinkin how happy your grandfather is to have you here thats all all those years all the hate i never would have known how wonderful he is if it wasnt for you lets try your hawaiian pizza with pineapple where is the gold you have killed my son my granddaughter she is safe now the iron curtain is gone you have nothing to threaten me with now except your life old man if you do not give me the gold where is the gold maria run call the police macgyver you all right oh yeah he ran into me and fell everybody all right
yeah well guess what pete the guy they just loaded into that ambulance is the same guy that followed me in leipzig but thats all we have at least until he regains consciousness no id no apparent motive his name is helmut weise hes a former stasi agent you know those prints that we lifted from that listening device they matched with stasi files provided by the bonn government stasi yeah well whats he doing here excellent question lets ask otto that man he was a burglar yes he was a stasi agent otto stasi in the united states otto hes the same man who followed macgyver in leipzig and he was knockin you around for a reason now whats going on i thought when the wall came down and i had my maria back it would all be over but it will never be over i am your friend now will you please tell me the truth
after that night when they took maria for years they used her to make me cooperate telling me if i did not i would never see maria again it has gone on for 17 years now in what way they used my store for a courier drop thats all a place to exchange papers microfilm tapes opa how could you i had no choice they would have killed you you should have let them and die a second death even worse than the first you are making no sense not a day has gone by that i have not relived that night at the border i hear you cryingopa opa i was down in the ravine helpless looking up as the border guards killed my only son and took you away i knew then that i was more a prisoner of the past than i was a free man excuse me did you guys see that see what i think theres a listening post somewhere across the street you guys wait here
theyll expose our laser beam forget it theres no time up there second floor well take the front this is the most sophisticated laser technology ive seen it projects a beam of light against a window and translates the vibrations back into sound sort of like a cd player check out the origin will you will do oh willis how are you coming on that child finder workup uh we have some program glitches but ill give you a holler as soon as i have something all right the medical report on weise yeah and hes still in a coma makes interesting reading though seems he has more than a fractured skull he took a shot to the throat hard enough to rupture his larynx well that doesnt make any sense i shoved the table into his chest and he took off i never laid a hand on him leaves only one possibility doesnt it macgyver good morning something wrong
well maybe you can tell me the medical report says the guy who broke in here last night was struck in the throat before he fell down the stairs what are you saying maria you were on that stair landing he had to run right by you how could you think such a thing how could i think anything else you had the time you had the position all right i will not deny it not that you will understand try me when he ran past me i acted on instinct fearing for my own life i should have killed him men like weise should not be allowed to walk on the face of this earth you know this guys name he was stasi what about you maria enough hate to kill you dont learn that kind of stuff in an orphanage no you are right that took special training what are you saying what do you think it was like in east germany as a child with no home
an orphan a ward of the state stasi had a special training school for children like me who owed their existence to their government when i was 16 i was allowed to stay at the orphanage no longer i was chosen to become asparrow asparrow oh its charming yes all birds of a feather the boys were known ashawks for years they taught us how to manipulate people how to spy on our friends and yes how to kill but you are a teacher that was my cover before the wall came down and put us out of business before that i worked all over europe and america as a stasi agent what about this weise i only met him a month ago he helped recruit me to help them find where my grandfather hid their gold the people that weise worked for would exploit east germans for money that would help buy them safe passage across the border it was then converted to gold and brought to the united states for safekeeping it was brought to my grandfathers she is an impostor no im not
they knew i hated you all those years they used that to get me to cooperate they even promised me a share who are you you are not my granddaughter no opa it is me opa that night papa was killed and i was captured i didnt know what really happened not until i knew you not until i heard my opa speak of that horrible night not today macgyver the name is huber good show maria but well take it from here the gold old man the gold or you and your friend are dead okay its working now here it comes sorry for the delay but we had to disassemble the image unit to find the problem there you are mr thornton maria romburg 17 years later thats not the same girl not at all shes an impostor lets go
stasi right havent you heard the wall is down there are no stasi now then romburg where is the gold i will never tell you you killed my son his life is in that gold your son shot at a border guard we had no control over that you said there would be no guards after you took all our money you wanted us dead like all the others but you did manage to escape yes to become your slave keeping your blood money for you while you held my granddaughter hostage you see you have your toys and we have ours such a beautiful girl it would be such a loss i do not want to put an arrow through her beautiful throat shes your granddaughter thats what you say but i know different she is one of you you are trying to trick me
perhaps but you dont know that for sure do you old man where is the gold how sorry youll be when you find out she really is your granddaughter last arrow last chance perhaps you would like to say goodbye yes please opa i know these men they will kill us for sure you are not my granddaughter opa please dont let him do this opa please i will tell you you are a wise man romburg now where do you hide the gold upstairs at the store window the toy soldiers im impressed you are a very clever man we will make sure hes telling the truth its the gold we must hurry kill macgyver and the other two huber hes gone
you okay yeah im fine take care of these guys oh macgyver thank god its all right otto youre safe now and no one can hurt you no especially not this young lady who claims to be your granddaughter shes a fraud macgyver a fraud no opa tell them macgyver he is wrong look at this look at the chin the jaw line that is a picture of what the real maria would look like now well you had me goin i believed you macgyver no but i think i wanted to believe but it is me its time to give it up you cant outsmart computer imaging please you dont understand five years ago i was on assignment in london there was an accident
my jaw was broken in three places there are hospital records of the reconstructive surgery i am an old man dont do this to me why cant you believe me yes i will prove it opa look heres the orange thread where mama sewed birgits arm back on i dont remember it was a long time ago but opa youve got to remember i came crying to you after valdi chewed it off valdi our dog no no no no the stasi would know about a puppy there were family pictures would they know of our secret would they know that you let valdi sleep in my bed when mama and papa were away on holiday oh my god no one could know about that oh maria my little maria macgyver he scores ooh maria hi oh i am interrupting you yes
no no no no come on in iim just uh setting up a program here its uh very complicated stuff so hows your grandfather opa hes thrilled to tears you know the gold that was turned over to the german government yeah they agreed to set up a fund in my fathers name to help reunited families begin all over again well thats terrific and me they are allowing to stay thats even more terrific what are you gonna do well to start i was hoping that perhaps we might be able to see each other more often more often youre the only american i know macgyver and i think maybe the only one i want to know yeah sure thatll be great um i travel a lot you know uh all over the world a lot i love to travel and besides pete says with my language skills and training perhaps theres a place for me at phoenix pete said that did he
isnt that wonderful sam cheers is filmed before a live studio audience good afternoon everyone have i missed anything uh well were just having a little bit of spring training debate over here who do you uh who do you pick for the pennant this year huh well if thats not the most loaded question ive ever heard uh who are you all going with uh boston perchance uh as coincidence would have it yeah you know we go through the same charade every year colored by your hometown chauvinism you throw statistics and feasibility to the wind and predict boston and youre usually wrong well im going out on a limb this year im going to be the only one to pick the new york yankees youre not the only one to pick the yankees frase im not carla no steve picked them too hey woody is steve back there with you woody you bet carla frasier you didnt let me finish you see ii picked the yankees to lose you see
i uh i love the red sox dont hurt me please ¶ sometimes you want to go ¶ where everybody knowsyourname¶ ¶ and theyre always gladyoucame¶ ¶ you wanna be whereyoucan see ¶ ¶ our troubles areallthe same¶ ¶ you wanna go whereeverybody knowsyourname¶ hey everybody oh sam youre just the guy ive been lookin for why is that woodycause you werent here check this out sam its a promise ring for kelly by givin her this ring im makin a deep and solemn promise that someday im gonna give her an engagement ring thats beautiful man thats beautiful ive given a lot of those to women of course uh in my case it was a deep and solemn promise that their backs will arch so uh woodworth
why the uh sudden jump on the old bullet train to commitmentville huh well um kellys leavin tomorrow her dads sendin her to europe to study for a year i wanna give her this ring so she wont forget me god a whole year im gonna be one lost and lonely soulbullet train to commitmentville you crack me up mr clavin thank you woody woody you cant believe that your beloved kelly would actually forget you which piece of corn do you wantjerry doesnt matter see how polite he is you want some edie wheres your plate jerry for it i couldnt eat in front of the camera ive got very big hands this corn is out of this world oh did i do it nicely he always compliments me on the way i do my corn there are your raccoons run away from your drinks and do that to your raccoons
i can hear him everythings in the attic everything from sloths otters badgers uh possums raccoons i dont leave the bags anymore somebodys removing the books from my room where did this little book come from he locked himself out nojerry hasnt locked himself out who got this book out of my room i cleaned this whole attic up the other day now whos been dropping books around is what i want to know i would have seen that book he evidently has been up in that room reading it all right buster old pal come and get it yeah all right mother yes oh yes ill get him for you just a minute yeah i think your friends in the in the uh front i found a little book dropped in the attic hes been up there wellyou should keep him out
he told me he was working on that thinghe wasnt at all want a little bit edie no you dont want a little bit my god what i just thought of something what give me that what did you think of what come on you think so edie yes i dont believe all that yes i dont believe it want a taste edie i dont want any no we lost the glasses the glasses are gone next thing those antiques will all be missing see you shouldnt have a contact with the outside world because how do i know that there isnt something up in that room if you get what i mean
you cant tell whats been put up in that room or whats been taken out dont worry so much please this cats going to the bathroom right in back of my portrait oh isnt that awful no im glad he is im glad somebodys doing something they want to do i was frozen this morning when i woke up were you edie i did drop it dropped it dropped quite a bit i missed you last night i was so lonely she only left me one little kitty to keep me warm and all these blankets were on the floors all this pile of stuff here jerrys pretty good at waiting on me he can find things here that i wouldnt find for half an hour im so sick of that kid i have great pity for him lois says wellyou know the trouble and i like him but lois says you know the trouble the trouble is hes madly in love with edie
i said i thought edie was madly in love with him pardon me he might as well leave right nowcause hes never gonna get it so thats it get what sex with you what hes after he doesnt want any sex with you well thats all theyre after an old person like you good god so why dont you tell him right now unheard of unheard of you should tell him right now so im not bothered by him he doesnt want sex hes got about six girls in east hampton hes so busy no but the point is he thinks i dont know what hes doing hes out every single night with a different girl yeah but thats thats the point you see he had a wonderful time hes gonna be here for years and years i see this coming
he enjoys himself thoroughly i hope the guys gonna be here for years and years i doubt that its gonna be one of those things like tom logan arent you gonna feed whiskers edie come on go in and feed whiskers now dont eat it give it to whiskers please youre thin you want to get thin shes very mean to me i have to be very strict the priest said she needed a very strict hand and i tried to give it to her you know that after mr beale you know stopped living in east hampton i had a terrible hard time with edie she just went wild after her father wasnt living here she went wild absolutely wild i couldnt do anything with her at all isnt it awful when a dancer gets fat isnt it awful its awful im telling you
its awful god my father believed in running the childrens lives you know he wanted me to get my masters degree be a junior partner in his law firm take the ice cream on the ninth floor and my knees would start to shake coming down on the ninth floor of mr beales offiice my knees were rattling my mouth was dry you were scared of your father and id go in and hed come forward out of his office with his watch in his hand and then hed look at the clock on the wall and hed say youre five minutes late hed say oh my god no he had a very and then hed sit down and look at me like this and saytake it off take that hat off take that lipstick off take that nail polish off how dare you wear those high heels oh shes just acting dont you want some of this butter pecan he said the only thing to be was a professional woman he did say that didnt he mother well i wouldnt say its the only thing
he didnt want me to get married i dont think people should get married i dont believe in it at all if you cant get a man to propose to you you might as well be dead oh i dont think its important i think its disgusting aunt mary had the most wonderful life absolutely disgusting lived to be 94 years of age to live alone what are they proving they have to around with dogs or other women or something dogs are lovely i i think its terrible ill take a dog any day why didnt you marry the man you wanted to like i did i think the saddest thing was my not marrying into the obelensky familycause i adore them any obelensky is wonderful thats all i can say hes a very sweet man if hes related to the obelenskys hes okay i didnt know he was any relation to them yes i never knew it
serges uh nephew by his halfsister now there was a boy i might have married why didnt you marry paul getty i saidhow did you happen to come here and he saidoh i saw you at a dance he saidin south hampton i saidyou did he saidyes he was just a kid he was 3 2 and i said eugene what you need is a girl and he saidno im looking for a wife i wanna get married he wanted to take edie to westchester wasnt that cute tom had just died and i did not want another man in my kitchen i went downstairs hed just made a cookbook hed just written a cookbook you understand i didnt want anybody in the kitchen it would have been perfectly all right for me to marry tom logan why did you want to marry a kid 3 2 i forgot to say that eugene was a count
he didnt have a nickel i would have been countess countess edith i didnt want my child to be taken away id be entirely alone do you know what i go through with this awful stuff ive got to eat lunch im starving well you know me always hungry im not gonna gain the weight back i didnt have any breakfast ill put some lipstick on you want to give me something to put on edie these are my brothers drawers give me something to put on and i feel so strongly about mementos and everything because of mother that i was never able to ever clean out these desk drawers and throw the stuff away would you believe that you know its childhood stuff oh memorabalia or something edieyoohoo i couldnt throw anything away theyre looking at this room oh yeahjust a minute
they discovered something terrific in here come on ive waited long enough is it from austria why what happened never mind about me i was going to write another line from omar khayyamwe come like water and we go like wind well i got that one up edie bring me the telephone thats the man this is the woman i cant tell are you getting me the blue kimono edie im putting up the silver masks edie come here a minute i cant get the thumbtack in the wall i think i have the saddest life oh i have to go on with the redecoration of this room yeah can you get me something to eat all right those are roses of all different years
thats my shell collection you cant see it its so dirty isnt that tragic these then i have two things to go there andaround the world is supposed to go there i cant do it open it i cant do it im just gonna put that up therecause i like red in this room for some reason and i was gonna hang the birdcage right here and havearound the world there but i havent gotten to that perhaps id better begin taking care of mother and bossing her and cooking her some food what do you boys think i let her do what she wants i think maybe i ought to give her cooked meals at certain hours what do you think i dont have any clock you know i never know what time it is you think shed eat them i dont know you know her better than anybody i give her her head i let her do what she wants to do i think its awful she should eat you know chopped meat and a baked potato at a certain hour for luncheon
then have a nice little dinner but that takes timing no im not ready and i have no makeup on but things are getting better did you find my signin bathtub i couldnt believe it come on in were not ready take your time oh god i almost tripped i almost broke my neck then god these stairs are dirty how could edie leave these stairs like this dont i look funny coming down these stairs hmm you look great dont i i feel funny i feel funny just like a night at the opera is it the night at the opera will be when i get in that chair in the dining room that would be the night at the opera lois andjack are here hellojack
i say wheres the cushion edie get the cushion ill ruin my dress ohyes she puts it here oh god and those chairs are they dirty those chairs hi how are you happy birthday wellyoure very cute to celebrate with me today oh why thank you they look very dirty they can sit on paper i thought you were gonna clean up i tried i swept the uh hall well im kind of disapp jack you dont mind sitting by me do you i swept the floor we have wine ill bring down the glasses bring down the wine please and edie is due lois is due ginger ale okay but dont let the cats out
how do you like that thing lois did for mejack are your eyes good enough to see that oh sure how are your eyes shes no waitress ill tell ya well shes got a pretty heavy tray leave the tray here wont you oh no shes not gonna shes gonna do just as she wants you know shes a schraffts waitress shes gonna tell that to everybody in east hampton you know everybodys gonna know my age well happy birthday thank you very much sing me happy birthday sing it i sang it do it again happy birthday to you happy birthday happy birthday dear mother happy birthday to you why do we have to have paper cups when i wanted my i wanted my green goblets with all the gold onem
and she wouldnt bringem down so disappointed on my birthday sugarfree diet pepsi is here did you ever see anything like that happy birthday gorgeous imagine having red somebodys calling me edie thats terrific my sister ordered that out of sag harbor hey mother can you move your chair a little bit yeah this is the first time weve used the long wire in the dining room oh hello polly thank you dear are you gonna sing it all the way through uh edie have you brought the present down yet i havent opened any presents were sitting down here in the socalled old what dear we havent opened anything theres a great big box up there tremendous box but we havent opened the presents well you sent me a card i got that i dont think she did send mother a card michele sent the cards
i havent started the cake but ill read you what it says it says uh what does it say jack edith happy birthday oh it sayshappy birthday edith and thats all in red and then the flowers underneath are well yellow flowers and green its a perfectly enormous cake oh thank you dear hang up did you say goodbye did you say goodbye thats the girl you hated they freeze your eyes both of them have been operated they both had two operations and then they werent good either one lost her eye one girl yeah the eyes disappeared dried up and disappeared she has double vision she has to wear dark glasses over the cataract glasses
shes absolutely cured shes cured now did she say she was cured she saidi feel wonderful the really nice thing to have is to get deaf and get blind and then have some cancer come in your face and your lips cancer cancer of the tongue or something like that yeah cancer is worse yeah i am edithyou ever see anything as cute as this i need that more than anything to write things down i have my things written all over boxes all over the bed everywhere i got epsteins address ive got who have i got there edie all the electricians in east hampton all ofem isnt that a nice book edie terrific i cant be late now and i cant forget and i cant hate anybody and i cant do anything the little book is gonna keep me straight straight as a die isnt that nice i havent had a little thing like that in ages
i had a wonderful time your hands are cold it did you no good my food oh no your hands are cold lady i must be on my course i guess well so long fellas thank you for your card and your ice cream i love you very much oh especially the ice cream yeah the cats are in here did you know it the cats are in with me will you turn the heat off it is terribly hot in here its got to be cleaned not tonight theres a horrible smell i can hardly sit here i love that smell i thrive on it makes me feel good we have to hang the portrait and clean the room
no pull the chair out he wants to look at it im not ashamed of anything where my body is is a very precious place itsconcentratedground take a picture of edie im trying to think of oh i know what i can have oh for goodness sakes he is my god they see me as you know you dont see me as i see myself but youre very good what you do see me as i mean its okay are you pleased with those you know i see myself as a little girl and all that what i see is a very immature child she sees me as a baby and i see myself as some kind of a little girl they see me as a woman i dont see that but when i get out of here i do you gonna babble on when i go to new york city
i see myself as a woman but in here im just you know mothers little daughter i doubt that very much you wanna play al the record i bought you virginia military institute oh my god i cant get over this i really cant and you cant dance at all why cant i i never saw you do anything military are you absolutely crazy there isnt anything i cant do darling david where have you been all my life where have you been where have you been where have you been where have you been only thing i needed was this man what what did you say all i needed was this man david i wish id had david and al with me before this but theyre more interested
here kitty you like that thats nice no bones on that one oh thats a pretty song dont throw bouquets at me you know that was i was trying to think of the words to that bouquet no dont throw bouquets at me bouquets at me dont what hurry up dont what your lips to mine oh no thats not it noyoure way off the beat there dont bad go to the bottom of the class no that isnt it youre mine no that isnt it either
people will say were in love her voice is improving she didnt saylahve youre not czechoslovakian love you dont saylahve you say that you see she knows that she sings so badly that she has to wiggle about 20 times to every note you see to distract the people you know but she really cant sing it right i can sing like mad you sing beautifully youre singing incorrectly very ugly always must do everything correctly now start at the top now bouquets at me dont make funny faces now thats what i want the next line are much too much oh no way off there no thats not it ha har hee
no ha har hee doesnt make up for a lot of words you cant remember people will say were in love no oh dont do that omie thing againlahve where in hell did you come from im going to bed kids i love you very much both of you but you know she took my pillow and im in agony mona lisa mona lisa why did you lose my pillow edie im warm inside so i can sleep and then i want to weep im agetting tired so i can dadada i didnt know you were going to be so disagreeable if i only knew the words marlene dietrich down around the lamppost its lily marlene thats an old war song mother i called and called and called ohyeah hows everything
i guess you went out then i called again you were busy guess whats happened what what i had felt was in the cards im telling you im not gonna spend another ten years with this you know i spent ten years with the last you mean tom logan what is it now the marble faun is moving in who is the marble faun oh he just gave us a washing machine that cements the deal i gotta get out of here im not gonna spend the rest of my life washing clothes in that goddamn i dont blame you its a very nice washing machine it came from this house theyre gonna sell you know he had a job as a gardeners assistant at this house and theyre gonna sell the house so they gave him the washing machine i cant watch him im telling you of course hes still gonna have the gardening job you know
so mother says do you wanna come in and speak to mother shed like to speak to you okay come on in im pulverized by this latest thing well you do you have a beautiful face like a girl like you look like my mother the absolute image of my motherjerry jerryyoure not going to drink anything are you no well what are you gonna have ill wait for the chicken youre waiting for the chicken you mean to say youre not gonna have soup or a drink or a highball or something like that dont you think we better have some rum oh no she didnt put any papers on that thing today i asked her to im badly treated all along i think my days at grey gardens are limited when do we start oh god please the scene is set
oh edie take that scarf off that im in love with you grab that scarf for me oh edie quit it for gods sake theres an extra knife ill put it in the middle i forgot the forks do you mind getting my slippers edie get my slippers will you please you know where you put them you have to get very tough with edie she wont do anything till you get very very tough a strong hand says the priest saidshe needs a strong hand i saidi know it i brought edie up without her father it was very difficult then she went to new york and did what she wanted to do you know i wanted to get mr beale back and have him come back she said shed leave the house forever if i had her father come back well the moon is high the breezes sing of it would you bring my little radio
edie will you bring my little radio its on my bed will you bring my little radio please ive got to have some professional music she found the slippers quite remarkable you got the radio edie you got my radio its on the bed the night is young how did you happen to find it so quickly put this up there will you edie please put that up there this thing all right if youre gonna stay there and eat ill eat here when did we start now im gonna put that terrible racket of edie to bed and im in love with you shes always hated marlene dietrich i cant stand that music she has she absolutely loathes marlene dietrich she makes me very ill
the scene is set oh edie i cant take it edie ill go right into the room and i wont have any hot food or anything dont do it edie ill get so mad listen will you stop it im going in the next room im singing it in american ill never see you again as long as i live im singing it in american i dont care youre not gonna sing that song stop it will ya why notcause i dont wanna hear it im your mother remember me well i stood for yours all these years come on well my voice is beautiful and trained it was beautifully trained my voice i never tried to attract men with it the scene is set edie stop it
im going to get up now im in love with you im going right in the other room with the cats where ill be happy im not gonna take it i hope my bathing suit falls off i hope it does something fell off just then get out of here dont make me mad get out youre making me very angry go out go away why mother look at your chest well stop it stop that silly nonsense quit it go away i cant have any fun in this house you had enough fun ive never had five minutes fun not a minute i never had a minutes fun go away
you dont look at it well you made a rotten breakfast you spoiled the whole thing i cant go over to my seat now theres no back to this bathing suit mother do you realize that your whole chest was showing in that movie everything is perfectly disgusting on account of you you did it you sure do bring out the worst in your mother i think mothers very mean to me im glad i stopped you thank god ill have a little peace here yeah but i do several versions of that shes got a beautiful voice but you never heard it you never heard her voice she can really sing decently sings very well better voice than i have but not that song now singonly a rosenow you ought to be able to do that go on sing it only a rose
only a rose another day i give you only a rose dying away dying away only a rose to keep in harmony to keep in harmony i dont think theres any point in my meeting anybody that doesnt like music do youcause i cant stand them i cant stand them theres something lacking and its music isnt it i mean in a man well it is nice to have a man who can play the piano for you no that isnt all she doesnt get it you can practice unless a man understands music theres no point in my even meeting himcause i never could figure out what was wrong you know with stockbrokers and tennis players and i tell you who was a songwriter and a dancer and a playwright and everything eugene tyszkiewicz but mother got rid of him in 1 5 minutes he didnt speak english well hed only been here seven years
you didnt try his cooking he mightve poisoned you he was serge obelenskys nephew you wanna marry a stranger i mean he was a very very decent guy i looked up his horoscope he was born november the 1 4th you want to marry a stranger i have to go in now we was a very wonderful boy too young for me probably 3 2 who was this eugene tyszkiewicz he was a twin i couldnt stand having another cook in this house that isnt the point and he actually proposed under the window he had no home he was living in a thirdclass hotel under the window he didnt have a thing he said edith if you want to get married ill marry you not one single nickel and i think that was decent dont you i dont see why
he probably wouldnt have but just the same not one person had entered grey gardens for many years before eugene tyszkiewicz came around so i credit him with all the nerve in the world why no one would even speak to us people who i had walked to the maidstone club with for years dont believe a word of it admiring all the other people dont believe a word of it kid not a word if your father could hear you hed turn in his grave hed say my god edie well anyway i think you were very cruel well i dont think its nice he came from one of the best families in poland no he didnt he said im bored with all these awful people likejerry and all those people that wasnt the truth tell him the truth that was not the truth uh no and that was not the truth he said how could such a warm lovely person over the telephone turn into anything so cold thats what he said right down on the porch
so i said i saidyoud better go home never said goodbye or anything how could such a warm lovely woman over the telephone turn into something so cold i thought that was just a little too much uh ill tell you the whole thing you might as well face it its my mothers house and she owns it and she wanted the people she wanted in it and she didnt want the people that i wanted in it but god knows whom i wanted in it i mean besides eugene and mother wouldnt allow eugene to stay even 1 5 minutes but i had to spend ten years with tom logan and now we havejerry who is mothers friend so you just cant do anything about it so i can see now why girls get married you know theyre forced into it its all a question of who you want to stay with of course im mad about animals but raccoons and cats become a little bit boring i mean for too long a time i dont know i dont know i better check on mother and the cats shes a lot of fun i hope she doesnt die i hate to spend the winter here another winter you knowcause i dont like the country and i dont want to be here
any little rat any little rats nest in new york any little mouse hole any little rat hole even on tenth avenue i would like better beneath the moon and the sun too near or far no matter darling where you are i think of you night and day silence of my lonely room i think of you the magic of dreams come true what are you doing down there just standing there just filming the main room whiskers well did you know that whiskers has disappeared a cat got out im trying to get him in has he yeah we dont know how he got out i think he got out in that hole there no i knew they were coming and i i think he got out in that hole he can jump up there i knew they were coming and
no he got out in that hole edie i put them all out you told me to no dearie he got out in the hole babetake the cats out you said did you hear what i said woman what he got out in this hole here that was the noise we heard that raccoon did that to my new wall isnt that terrible theyll have the whole house down soon yeah well be raided again well be raided again by the village of east hampton you know they can get you in east hampton for wearing red shoes on a thursday and all that sort of thing i dont know whether you know that i mean do you know that they can get you for almost anything its the maysles hi edie the gentlemen callers i saw your car one of my cats just got out edie you look fantastic david you look absolutely terrific
youve got light youve got light blue on well al youre still mother says youre very conservative brooks everything looks wonderful thank you absolutely wonderful this is the best thing to wear for the day you understand yeah because i dont like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear panty hose or some pants under a short skirt i think then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape so i think this is the best costume for the day i have to think these things up you know mother wanted me to come out in a kimono so we had quite a fight so what did you do photograph brooks cutting right down here yeah ive been through the jungle oh for goodness sakes what do you want to do now where do you want to go do you want to go up and photograph it from the top porch okay thats good okay
theyre gonna photograph from the top now brooks its a beautiful garden back here did you see the wall garden oh you mean the patio you mean this yeah thats a spanish wall garden over there you know oh yes the hills put that in they imported everything from rome mrs hill she was a famous horticulturist that was one of the famous gardens of america brooks next summer if were all living i think a vegetable garden would be a good thing in here you dont get enough sunlight in here yeah mother says she doesnt mind if you have to cut down some privet for the garden would be nice yeah because foods going up we heard that on the radio last night do you think my costume looked all right for brooks i think he was a little amazed hes probably seen it before no no this is the revolutionary costume
i never wear this in east hampton he seems okay he seems like he can handle it you cant be too careful know what i mean that was the original living room you know people go back to a kitchen now though the washing machine was always put in the maids dining room you know the washtubs are in the maids dining room lets go up its very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present do you know what i mean its awfully difficult that is a beautiful ocean today isnt it what color would you say that was oh edie i havent been out of this damn horrible place in two years god if you knew how i felt im ready to kill well theyre not going to take you to the beach brooks wants his his check mother darling all right give me the hes at the door i told you i should do it now
twentyfour bucks for three cuttings just a minute i told you better bring the pen i locked all the cats away dont be so mean they dont wanna be locked away the poor little kitties you know kitties adore sun i suppose i wont get out of here till she dies or i die whos she the cat i dont know when im gonna get out of here why do you want to get out another placed be much worsecause i dont like it any place will be much worse here any place on earth yeah but i like freedom well you cant get it darling youre being supported you cant get any freedom when youre being supported yeah but you cant no you cant
i think youre not free when youre not being supported you have to toe the mark its awful both ways well you dont look it you look very young for 56 years of age dont you remember what you told me id just like a couple of days on the beach thats all what was it you told me twentyfour bucks you dont have to scream that out when are you gonna learn edie youre in this world you know youre not out of the world lets see if i can remember the date is it the 12th today well there are certain compensations i guess is it the 12th today the old woman she has to remember everything you know that i think this is correct brooks hiers oh i didnt think it was necessary yes why didnt you let me do this in the house for why did you make me do it here mother you dont have enough clothes on
well i hope im gonna get naked in just a minute so you better watch out thats what im afraid of yeah for what now why i havent got any warts on me but the movie the movie i havent got any warts on me that isnt the point mother darling well you know where you got being like that no husband no babies nothing i cant help it i like to wear certain things is that hyer she likes everything without girdles hy edie or hl hyers hy yeah she and marjorie dont believe in wearing girdles i havent worn a girdle since i was 12 years old here you are mother has certain ideas about uh i certainly have certain ideas about living a long time about clothes
thats what i got ideas about its very hard to live nowadays living is very difficultthe libra husband is not an easy man to please the monotony of domesticity is not to his liking but he is a passionate man and a respecter of tradition all i have to do is find this libra manthe libra husband is reasonable he is a born judge and no other zodiacal type can order his life with so much wisdom my god thats all i need order thats all i need an ordered life you know a manager but hes got to be a libran that sounds like jerry oh is that jerry for goodness sakes what are you doing jerry youre aquarius arent you yeah thats what i saw when i met you jerry remember i said the marble faun and it was terrible terrible the tragedy connected with the marble faun you know i call jerrythe marble faun nathaniel hawthorne yeah
yeah do you have that book here edie i havent been able to find it if you run across it id like to read it its very deep i dont know whether you well i guess youre up to it they used to have it on all the uh i think it was on the high school reading list the marble faun the libra husband does not seek divorce unless the conditions of his life are not adjustable i dont believe in divorce at all i think divorce was your mother divorced or no no separated yes and then my father got a got a fake mexican divorce and he did have you know what he called another wife but we didnt recognize it it wasnt recognized by the catholic church they dont recognize it you know say are you bossing me around edie all afternoon i think thats terrific oh edie its not the best one
this is the worst one of my wedding pictures the others look worse i was gonna be a singer you know a professional singer when i met mr beale the jig was up do you remember this may i see that please the villain of the pieceto my best friend and most delightful comrade to my only sweetheart and wonderful wife i tender this likeness of her husband when the people dont speak they never get divorced you just cant tell ive been a very happy woman all my life shall i tell them about gould gould was mothers accompanist he was a boogiewoogie composer who had the most terrific style he was the most brilliant man ive ever met thats including mr beale and mr bouvier completely brilliant this is cute mother i like that very much dont you david you said michelle beale stole this didnt you edie i never did shed never do that
see how fat i was edie did i look like a good mother was i a good mother it looks like it what looks like it i didnt starve my children did i fedem fedem well they were very nice children i enjoyed them tremendously im crazy about my two sons absolutely mad about them whos the little girl thats me well the boys were were not hard to handle at all they were very easy to handle oh my mother never saw my brothers i saw them every minute every single minute oh they never got any discipline my brothers they didnt need it they were absolutely perfect they never got any discipline this was taken with a tiny little kodak no 2 that was
kodak no 2 cost two dollars that camera mother im mad about these pictures of you oh no dont take those well just put them right over here oh no i want those out will you give me those please no you cant have them i want them edie i will never see them again now i want those pictures i want those pictures edie you cant expose them to the light in here no give me those pictures i dont want to ask 67 times come on i want to show that to al no i want i wanna show it to al its my picture look what you made me do well you did it look what she did mrs beale had a classical face i want you to see this
look at what she did look very few people have this dont touch that al i want you to see this now look this is my mother theres british blood maybe jewish i dont know in the leaman family im not sure i dont want that photographed scotch blood the ewings imagine showing all those horrible things i dont want you to show the ewing clans in there but its just a girl from a good french family its a very beautiful face i lived alone at least 30 years il didnt mind you get very independent when you live alone you get to be a real individual you cant have your cake and eat it too in life oh yes i did i did i had my cake loved it masticated it chewed it and had everything i wanted you cant have your cake and eat it too i had a very very happy satisfying life well you had a rich husband
you should have stayed with him now you might as well face it what for money she was bored why i was not i was a great singer i had a perfect marriage beautiful children terribly successful marriage never had a fight in my life i never threw anything at mr beale they threw the bull around as they say no i never had any words with mr beale at all i came down here to live in this in this house because i did all my singing here i was so happy i was happier going out and singing than anything ive ever done since i was born i liked it better than anything i ever did i cant find it mother well you could let me help you let me listen kid im extremely organized i know exactly where to look for this stuff ive got it under control right here but i cant find it get it
well bring in the bring in the orchestration oftea for two i cant do it my feet hurt just try babe theyre beautiful i have to get my voice exactly back the way it was when i was 45 years old you cant mother darling oh yes i can oh yes something happens face it i never strained my voice ever in my life oh but i strain my voice from yelling and screaming ive never smoked cigarettes what is the matter with me i could never speak again oh no why i can get it back in about a month just about you know good hard work sing it babe just sing it he was mothers accompanist oh my heart what happened thats pretty that note terrific
oh thats terrible oh i see it repeats yes thats very important that last thats thecazenzacadenza whatever you call it could i be in love do you want that arent you mad about your record i was very serious about my singing loved it after you hear that you realize nothing is important no it isnt well my mother you know she gave me the right slant on my voice she told me to leave everything to leave everything no man could compete against mrs beale and gould we were pretty good no man in the world well i worked hard i wish you would playlaura imagine bothering about anything when she had a talent like that well i had to take care of this house i lived on no money you were able to save the house on account of me yeah i think that
i didnt want to live in east hampton but i had to on account of mothers house well now you see why you lived because you had music all the time thats why and you went to the beach too thats what you liked those are the only things well i think you liked your dancing you were very good at that this is kostelanetz did you see the uh the play on broadway no no nanette if she was any good at all its all soft shoe now you know this is a dance come on edie i used to do it myself you know i did that the soft shoe edie dance to that a waltz come on get edie up a waltz how can you resist it how can you resist that isnt that terrific
isnt that a beautiful chord im mad about kostelanetz do you think im gonna look funny dancing no i do terrific dances i only care about three things the catholic church swimming and dancing and i had to give them up dave it opens from the bottom ive got enough i almost die with the fleas in this place i cant go on another year i have to get to a hotel room well i have i brought a lot of stuff for your fleas and ill be more than willing to put it down all i want is a little room i cant stand a country house in the first place it makes me terribly nervous im scared to death of doors locks people roaming around in the background under the trees in the bushes im absolutely terrified im not a bit terrified of the city not a bit i like the terrible noise you hear at night and all these terrible drilling sounds i never go to sleep unless the whole pavement is jumping outside and its a hundred degrees and that drill is just going and then i just go to sleep i only hope it stays up
i havent got my makeup on my god do you think its gonna stay up i feel something slipping i feel something what am i missing well almost have to listen to peale in about five seconds she doesnt like the catholic church she gets mad whenever i go oh go on what the hell i worship the catholic church im gonna invite father huntington over to spend the whole entire night with me thats what im gonna do i love the church so much here it is to get on top of things and to stay there does that mean women too for if you do not do this it is very likely that things will get on top of you isnt he terrific and since i always believe in a simple formula that is workable i have a formula for you now try really try try really try think really think think really think
and third believe really believe well you may sayhow many times do i have to try why it may be a good many times for example i have in my pocket here a letter from a man in london england dear dr peale over three years ago i was in your great marble collegiate church for the first time and i was having it rough the job id been doing had come to an end and i was 55 your age old gal your suggestion lived with me plus the advice to try really try he lived i never lived think really think believe really believe i did think i did work very hard to find a job eightyeight interviews so did he or did he not get the job he did will he or will he not handle himself in the years that are to come he wasnt emotional he didnt get upset he wasnt nervous he wasnt me he was cool
now one thing is sure the human mind will not function when it is hot only when it is cool and dispassionate that was the word i wanted the other day will it produce i couldnt think of what it was i think it would be a good idea if every day every individual would look at himself in the mirror earnestly and ask the questionwho am i am i a weak person am i a defeated person am i an inferior person not at all i am a child of god and i was intended to get on top of things and i was intended to stay there very good that was very long very long you notice how he went on and on and on lets hear the prayer i mean the song you sing the song now doxology sing it you have been listening to dr norman vincent peale as he spoke this morning from his pulpit no emotionalism
at marble collegiate church never give up you want to keep on top way up high up on top wonderful way to smother somebody would you pass your mirror over here ive got to see what i look like dont drop it uptight that was wonderful i see why ive got cataracts i have astigmatism one eye pulled against the other i shouldve worn glasses and i didnt oh i told you to wear glasses is there anything else you want to know you got with the glasses about four years ago ill tell you about my teeth four years ago edie you got the glasses and you didnt wear them my teeth are still all right you have to wear glasses when you have any trouble you have to and my hair will grow i hope youre dressed for battle edie
mothers telling marjorie how spoiled i am how terrible i am and marjorie knew my father and my uncle and everybody mothers giving her all this shlt so i went and told her things about the family but you see in dealing with me the relatives didnt know that they were dealing with a staunch character and i tell you if theres anything worse than a staunch woman theres nothing worse im telling you they dont weaken no matter what but they didnt know that well how were they to know you know my father had made up his mind about what farmington produced and what the sacred heart convent produced i dont think he was so down on the spence school but he certainly was down on farmington i dont know why farmington was a junior college you could choose what you wanted to study perhaps that was what made my father dislike it so that i could choose but i chose what i thought hed want me to choose you know english literature and oriental philosophies and uh well i always took french but nothing ever happened there i can read and write in french but i cant speak it i had years and years and years of french this was taken by amy dupont my last year in farmington i was 17 edie thats so beautiful
mr wainwright did that he was an artist from a very good family he was in the social register he did it in the solarium of grey gardens david look at this i was in a fashion show let me see that oh beautiful look at that david may i see that wow look at the skirt i thought i was the cats pajamas in that you did edie see how pretty edie was when she was young its perfectly foolish of her not to look that way now she could you know if she didnt worry about everything didnt she look like a girl that had everything this has inspired me ill have to get another brown tailored suit and grow my hair my god i have no hair you never put any lipstick on for this picture did you i have another kind on you look horrible why didnt you put lipstick and makeup on
mr beale smashed the window of burt bacharach when he put this in the window on upper madison avenue for gods sakes he offered me a job he didnt say to get out of that family situation but he saidyou need a job miss beale didnt you expect that edie might get married someday oh i did i wanted her to oh i picked out some nice men she didnt like the men i picked out they were horrible she could have married this gerald getty he was a millionaire gave her a gorgeous ring she decided not to marry that guy she had to give the ring back she had a proposal of marriage from paul getty remember paul the richest man in the world he married teddy lynch then you could have married jordan mcclanahan he was another millionaire and he wanted to marry you she just didnt want to get married thats all blamed on me no i never fell in love until i was 31 well how old are you in these pictures twentyfour
but you never fell for a man paris paris excuse me france fell but edie didnt fall that was the thing see i they didnt tell us that when we studied world war i that everything was so awful with the versailles treaty that we were soon going to get into something four years after i got out if id only known it i would have just just enjoyed every single minute just done everything it mustve been tough on people i remember as a kid so many loved ones being killed but you were the dating age a lot of my friends went overseas and got married they went in the red cross they went to india australia they all got married one of my best friends went to australia if id have been able to go she might have persuaded me to go with her and she met somebody in the hospital she was working for the red cross and she never came back to new york but i never had a chance to do anything like thatcause mother wasnt well during the war she had her eye operation i missed out on everything i missed out on the reunion of my graduating class in farmington because that was the fall that jack kennedy campaigned to get in and i was stuck here with mother the cats the house and t logan and i couldnt go no you said you didnt want them to know how old you were the 25th reunion of my class
no i thinkwell i didnt want them to know my age says edie no i would have enjoyed that mother because jack kennedy campaigned to get in and won get in the farmington school thatd be a good place for him i dont know i think it would have been a lot of fun yeah everythings good that you didnt do at the time you didnt want it i couldnt get away well thats the choice you cant go back and say feel gorgeous right now i couldnt leave and sayoh why didnt i do this i couldnt leave because you didnt feel then the way you do now everybody thinks and feels differently as the years go by dont they yeah yes you have it where is it can you come around this way sure are you taking pictures
alwaystwo roads diverged in yellow wood and pondering pondering both or pondering each pondering one i took the other and that made all the difference robert frost isnt that wonderful did he say that thats all you need just three lines like that come on edie is that robert frost who else i thought it was you i think your poetry is bettertwo road diverged in yellow wood come on you said that we want something else and pondering one i took the other edie youre not teaching us and that made all the difference we dont want to learn it its very pretty isnt that amazing no i dont think its half as good as your poems they looked the same and he probably couldnt tell and yet he i wish i could remember the correct lines
im absolutely exhausted i danced eight hours last night practicing the uh the marching song great my god my muscles i cant do it im telling you what am i gonna do theyre gone with this soft life when they do that thats when the plane goes by see so im doing the vml marching song which is a ground maneuver anyway ive got to get it all coordinated in my mind hey mother im working on my dance im starving you see she doesnt want to eat anymorecause she got so fat so i have to sit here and starve all the time how can i eat and look sexy too i think i lost five pounds im gonna die well dont live with me i want to eat will you eat some liver pâté its not awfully good if you put lemon with it its all right im gonna die with this diet i dont like it at all dont do it have a sandwich
i got fat not wearing clothes for two years oh that wasnt it at all it was the quarts and quarts of ice cream heres your liver pâté you have to make it i cant no i cant i ate in front of the maysles the other day you have to make it i was very embarrassed i ate all that chicken oh mother i should have stolen that blue take it out babe you like the green thats chartreuse there what do i do with this you have crackers somewhere should i put it on crackers yeah you should it needs a lemon or mayonnaise or something when am i gonna get out of here oh shes always talking like that when i get to new york youre never gonna get me back to east hampton oh thats silly
oh edie that isnt nice ever edie the man is doing this for goodness sakes thats terrible when i get to new york brother im not ever coming back well you got in awful trouble there its a good thing you had a place to come to she had a horrible time i used to have to send her big boxes of groceries she was starving from my grocers thing down there i was discovered sent her big boxes of groceries but i needed training and i always put a bottle of wine in her bag i thought shed have a terrible accident well i was discovered but well never mind oh i wouldnt say anything good happened to you in new york are you kidding no i was discovered by mr gordon he was a friend of mrs well what is it