0:01:08 > 0:01:10CLASSICAL MUSIC ON RADIO
0:01:10 > 0:01:15MUSIC: "Symphony No.40 In G Minor" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Good night, dear.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28SHE TURNS OFF RADIO
0:01:30 > 0:01:32KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:01:32 > 0:01:33Yes?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Yes?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Chris!
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Oh, Chris!
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Oh, Chris...I can't say anything.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Neither can I.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27It's kind of...
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Kind of funny, isn't it?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Yeah.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Aw, you big baby.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Oh, Jo, I'm home.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48It's good to be home.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53It's not so much like the place at Shale City.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56You're here.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58So it's home.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Let me take a look at you.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Same eyes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Same nose.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Same funny little mouth.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Same girl.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Oh, Chris.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22How long can you stay?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25We're leaving at 6:30 in the morning.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31- Our outfit's going overseas. - Oh, Chris, where?
0:03:31 > 0:03:35How do I know? Am I the Secretary Of War?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I always said it wouldn't happen and I knew it would.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- I knew it would! - Hey, this is no funeral!
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I'm your husband. I'm home for the night.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47I want a hot bath, a cold drink.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49And a kiss.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57I'll have the bath first. About 75 degrees. Make it snappy.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03ALARM RINGS
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Wake up, Chris!
0:04:19 > 0:04:22HE MUTTERS
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Your train leaves in an hour and a half.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27It's time to wake up, Chris.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Huh?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30SHE HUMS REVEILLE
0:04:32 > 0:04:34I must have been dreaming.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36OK. I'll be right up.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Hey, cut it out!
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Let me go.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Let me go!
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Not till you give me a kiss.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45All right.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Mushy.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49How long have you been up?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Since three.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53I slept in the chair.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56What was the idea of that?
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Well, I either had to get up or be kicked out.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03You're an awful bed hog. I thought the army would cure you.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Boy, oh, boy.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Do you know what I'm going to do after this war is over?
0:05:08 > 0:05:12I'm going to concentrate on being a civilian.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I'm going to sleep every morning till 10.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19I'm never going to move from one place to another except on wheels.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- What are you looking at me like that for?- Nothing.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Except, of all the guys I could have married...
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Yeah, so what?
0:05:27 > 0:05:31I'll never figure out how I picked out the homeliest one.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36Oh. So that's the kind of talk a soldier gets on his farewell, huh?
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Now, Chris... No, no, no! Chris, don't you touch me!
0:05:40 > 0:05:42THEY SQUABBLE PLAYFULLY
0:05:44 > 0:05:46FLY BUZZES
0:05:55 > 0:05:57I bet I know what you're thinking of.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- What?- You're thinking about the note I wrote
0:06:00 > 0:06:02in chemistry class in high school.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Why...
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Isn't that right?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Yeah. But, how did you know?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11You were sitting two rows away from me.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16I wrote the note and gave it to Jane Wilkinson who gave it to you.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Mr Hill caught you just as you were opening it and got you to stand up.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23He told you to read it to the class.
0:06:23 > 0:06:28So you waited a minute and then put it in your mouth and swallowed it.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30And that's what you were thinking about.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Yeah. But I still don't see how YOU knew what it was.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Oh, that's easy.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40While you were standing there not knowing what to do,
0:06:40 > 0:06:44there was a bluebottle buzzing against the window pane.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Everyone was quiet, waiting to see what you'd do.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50The only noise was the buzzing.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53So, when that fly up there began to buzz,
0:06:53 > 0:06:58- both of us thought about the note. - That's wonderful, Chris.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02What does it mean when two people think about the same things?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04It just means they're in love.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Mm.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Chris.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- Yeah? - What did you say in that note?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13You know, I never got a chance to read it.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15You'll never know.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Aw, Chris, please!
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- No.- Why not?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Because I don't remember.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25- You do too!- OK, I do. I remember every word of it.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Well, then, why won't you tell me?
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Because it was so sappy. Besides, you got enough on me already.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Come on. We'd better get out of here or I'll be AWOL.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Oh, here.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Well, we didn't get here any too soon, did we?
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- Chris, I'm scared. - Oh, that's silly, Jo, girl.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Nothing's going to happen.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03But you're going overseas and I don't even know where.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Nothing's going to happen.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09You figure out the percentages when you got a little extra time.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- They're all in my favour. - I know.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Holy mackerel, I'm sure going to miss you.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18I know, Jo, but that's not the thing to think about.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21You just think how it's going to be when I come home.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24There'll be a train just like this one.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26I'll jump off and pick you up.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30Kiss you a hundred times and take you back to Shale City.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Shale City's much prettier than Los Angeles.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Tell me more.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Well, there's nothing much more to tell.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42You'll be holding my job for me and we'll go ahead with our plans.
0:08:42 > 0:08:48Everything will be the same. Except I'll be crazier about you,
0:08:48 > 0:08:51because I've been away from you for a little while.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55We'll go back to Shale City and get a place on the edge of town.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59I'll build a barbecue and on weekend nights
0:08:59 > 0:09:02we can ask Harvey and Jane and the others over.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I'll barbecue while you do the salad.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Uh-huh. And we can sleep late on Sunday mornings.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11As late as we want. Maybe all day.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Boy, will that be a relief after this five o'clock routine!
0:09:15 > 0:09:20Oh, you've never been one to get up whether it's five o'clock or noon!
0:09:20 > 0:09:24- It's you that's always lying around till the last dog's hung.- Liar!
0:09:25 > 0:09:30There's another thing we'll be able to have after this is all over.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31What's that?
0:09:31 > 0:09:32GUARD: All aboard!
0:09:32 > 0:09:35We'll have ourselves that kid.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38A big back yard with a vegetable patch in it.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40A place for him to play.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45It's a funny thing. I never thought I'd ever want a kid.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Until I married you.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Well, you weren't supposed to, you big lug.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Another thing about that place, we'll find out if it's zoned
0:09:54 > 0:09:57so we can have chickens, enough for a few eggs.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01I want an herb garden with parsley and chives.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04GUARD: Last call! All aboard!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14I love you, Jo.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18The way I love you is like a fever that's all over me.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Write me, baby. Write me whenever you can.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Everything will turn out all right.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26I'll write you every day.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Every minute, every second, I'll be sending you messages.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Watch yourself if you catch a cold. You know how they sneak up.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Ignore those English or Australian or Chinese girls.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41And come back to me, Chris. As soon as you can.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48No matter how tough things are...
0:10:48 > 0:10:50No matter how bad they seem...
0:10:50 > 0:10:55All I'll have to do is think of you and I'll come through.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Goodbye, girl.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01Goodbye, Chris. Bye-bye.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08MUSIC: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
0:11:29 > 0:11:31TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:12:18 > 0:12:20My name is Mrs Henderson.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Hello, Barbara.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Hello.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15Headache, dear?
0:13:15 > 0:13:19Hangover. A fourteen-ton hangover.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21I'll never learn.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Morning, kids.- Hello, Jo.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Hello.
0:13:27 > 0:13:32You look like something the cat dragged in and dragged out again.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- You don't look good yourself. - Your eyes are swollen.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- I know. I've been bawling. - What's the matter, honey?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Chris got in last night.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45We had dinner together and breakfast this morning
0:13:45 > 0:13:47and I saw him off at six.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51- And I bawled.- But how wonderful to have seen him. How is he?
0:13:51 > 0:13:54He's OK. He's leaving for overseas duty.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59It's funny when you think about it. I don't even know which sea.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04Jo, we're not supposed to say anything about troop movements.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06I know. I'm sorry.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08But it ought to be safe enough here.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Everybody but you has a husband in the service.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Yes.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Doris White! What have you got on your finger?
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Just a wedding ring and an engagement ring.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- Doris! When did it happen? - The little chump!
0:14:25 > 0:14:27I knew she'd pull a trick like that!
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Tell us about it, Doris. >
0:14:29 > 0:14:33There isn't much to tell. He just got in town for an hour.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35It took him 45 minutes to propose.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38We got married and I took him to the train.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- That's swell. - What's your new name?
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Dumbrowski.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46You traded a name like White for Dumbrow...ski?
0:14:46 > 0:14:49That guy must have a lot on the ball.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51What's wrong with Dumbrowski?
0:14:51 > 0:14:56Nothing. It's just hard to pronounce in my condition.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58What's his first name? Michael.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Only, everybody calls him Mike. He's tall and good looking.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06You say you went right from the preacher's to the train?
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Hmm.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12How about that date we've been talking about?
0:15:12 > 0:15:15I got no time for you lunch-stand Romeos.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19When you're ready to talk Coconut Grove, I'll listen.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22I can't get romantic over a bowl of chilli beans.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26- I'll try when your eyes aren't bloodshot.- Dye your hair
0:15:26 > 0:15:29and come back disguised as a young wolf.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31These senior citizens!
0:15:31 > 0:15:33You're leading him on.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35To what? A 35-cent blue-plate special?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38I can't blame him for being cheap.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- He's got a wife and two kids to support.- Barbara!
0:15:41 > 0:15:44They don't like him any more than I do.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48They moved out on him three years ago. I don't blame 'em.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51- All the same, you date men. - Sure. Why not?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I shouldn't think you'd feel right with Pete in the navy.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- I wouldn't. - You haven't had a chance.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00If you'd had the trouble I've had with Pete,
0:16:00 > 0:16:02you'd sing a different tune.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05No sense of responsibility. No...nothing.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08He had enough sense to join the navy.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Mike joined after Pearl Harbour.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14Pete volunteered three years before that.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15That's what I'm mad about.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18He fell for that girl-in-every-port stuff.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Only I bet for him it works.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Why don't we all get together
0:16:22 > 0:16:24and throw a party for the new bride?
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Initiate her into War Widows Local No.37.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Nobody's got a room big enough for four people.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Maybe we could have it at my new place.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35That is, I'm hunting for a new one.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Just in case Mike gets a furlough.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40You know, a bedroom and a living room.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- How much are you planning to pay? - I'm paying 20.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48- For 35 I'll get something nice. - It will still be a rabbit hutch.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51We put down a lot of money each month for rent.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54- What do you pay, Helen? - 22.50.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58- I pay 18. How about you, Barbara? - £32.50. I like gaudy things.
0:16:58 > 0:17:020, 5, 10. One to carry. 8, 9, 11, 13.
0:17:02 > 0:17:043, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9.
0:17:04 > 0:17:0893 bucks! How do you like that! 93 bucks for a bunch of rat holes.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11For that, we could have a house,
0:17:11 > 0:17:15with a dining room, a kitchen, a living room and a bedroom apiece.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16- And furnished. - How?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20- Just as well as what you have now. - With a fireplace.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I'm so sick of warming my feet in front of a gas jet.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I could cry when I see one.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27What do you think?
0:17:27 > 0:17:28It might work.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31But it's only fair to point out that we're all different.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34They're might be a clash of personalities.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38We'd have to find a way of adjusting disputes.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41That ought to be simple. We could take a vote.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44We could run it like a democracy.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47If anything comes up, we'll call a meeting.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Kids, that would be wonderful.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Now, the four of us here have two cars.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Two sets of tyres wearing out.
0:17:53 > 0:17:58We could sell one and use the other on a share-and-share-alike basis.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00We could do lots of things.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04How about it? Let's take a vote. Everyone in favour, say aye.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- ALL EXCEPT BARBARA SAY AYE - What about you?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Well, say aye. - Aye.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- The motion is carried. - HOOTER
0:18:11 > 0:18:16Look, we'll all get together this afternoon and start hunting.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Well, here we are.
0:18:29 > 0:18:35- Well, naturally it will take some brightening up.- It's very nice.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Santa Claus will have to turn into a snake to get down here.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Maybe it isn't as small as you think.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48I've seen moths chew bigger holes.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52My advice now is for all of us to get some sleep.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Me too. I've never looked at so many empty houses in my life.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58I think I'll take this old bag up to bed.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06Hey! Brave steps when you go up that stairway. Looks tired.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Wait for baby!
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Oh, I'm sorry, I...
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Oh, that's all right. Come on in.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Well...were you through?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Mm-hm.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Were you praying for him?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Yes.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28I just thought you might be feeling kind of lonesome.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Oh, well, I guess I was.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Yeah, I know. I know how I felt when I first got married.
0:20:34 > 0:20:39Maybe so. You see, I'm not exactly married.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I've just got a first mortgage on it!
0:20:41 > 0:20:45Well, tell me about him. Go on, it's fun to talk. Is he cute?
0:20:45 > 0:20:52Oh, I know this sounds silly but he's the cutest thing you ever saw.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- Tall. - 5ft 10 and a quarter.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Oh... That's a perfect height for us.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02We wouldn't look well together if he were any taller.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Blonde or brunette?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Kind of brunette, I think.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11He has black hair and deep blue eyes.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13That makes him a brunette, doesn't it?
0:21:13 > 0:21:17Baby, that makes him a knockout in any shade.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Have you got a picture? - Yes, I have.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Oh, you see, he was an orphan
0:21:41 > 0:21:45and that's the last picture his parents had made of him.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50We wanted to have wedding pictures made but we didn't have time.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53If your first boy is as good looking as that,
0:21:53 > 0:21:57you'll have nothing to worry about. Where did you meet him?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59On the streetcar.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01About six months ago.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07- What did he say when he proposed? - Oh, do you think I really should?
0:22:07 > 0:22:11How are you going to know you're married if you don't discuss it?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- Go on. It's fun! - He swept me right off my feet.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Go on. Go on.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Well, we sat around The Pig And Whistle
0:22:18 > 0:22:23and he told me about his folks, and his friends, and the army.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Then he got kind of red
0:22:24 > 0:22:27and uncomfortable and he said,
0:22:27 > 0:22:28"I don't feel so good.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30"Let's go out and get some air."
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I said, "What's the matter?"
0:22:33 > 0:22:36And he said, "I don't know.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38"I just haven't got any appetite."
0:22:38 > 0:22:42I said, well, "Maybe you're in love or something."
0:22:42 > 0:22:45And he said, "Well, maybe I am."
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And I said, "Well, there's a cure for that."
0:22:48 > 0:22:50And he said, "What?"
0:22:50 > 0:22:55And I said, "You could tell her about it, and maybe get married..."
0:22:55 > 0:22:59He said, "Well, I don't know whether she'd have me or not."
0:22:59 > 0:23:01And I said, "Of course I will!"
0:23:01 > 0:23:06And then we just looked.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09I said, "That's the most beautiful proposal
0:23:09 > 0:23:11"a girl's ever had."
0:23:11 > 0:23:13And then he got that, you know,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16that sort of smug look that they get,
0:23:16 > 0:23:21and he said, "Doris. I never thought I'd ever have the nerve to say it."
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Gee, aren't men fools?
0:23:25 > 0:23:29Yes. But aren't they sweet?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Mm-hm.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Well...
0:23:32 > 0:23:33I'd better go to bed
0:23:33 > 0:23:37if there's going to be any cleaning done tomorrow.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Feel better? - Mm-hm.- Good night.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Good night.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Sweet dreams.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12Good night, you sea-going Casanova.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Good night, Lieutenant.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26Good night...my little captain.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Hello, you sweet guy.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Remember me?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37I'm the girl who almost didn't marry you.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46# You made me love you
0:24:46 > 0:24:49# And all the time you knew it
0:24:49 > 0:24:52# I guess you always knew it
0:24:52 > 0:24:54# You made me happy...
0:24:54 > 0:24:56MAN WHISTLES TUNE
0:24:56 > 0:25:00# ..sometimes You made me sad #
0:25:00 > 0:25:02WHISTLING
0:25:08 > 0:25:14- How's my babe this morning? - All right. Don't call me Babe.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Why not?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Cos it's not very respectful.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19You lug.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21You know...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23I've been thinking.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26There you go exaggerating again.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30I've been thinking and it seems to me that...we ought to be married.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38What did you say just then?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Well, I just said maybe we ought to get married.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46Well, if you haven't the nerve of a government mule. I must say...
0:25:46 > 0:25:48What's wrong?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Everything's wrong, that's all. Everything.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55What about last night? Don't say you've forgotten last night?
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- What about last night? - You've just got the wrong girl.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Me! I'm Jo Flanagan. Remember?
0:26:01 > 0:26:06Last night you spent all your time dancing with Linda Randall.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08I danced three times with Linda.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11At the Hendersons', it was Mady Saunders...
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- Hey, I hardly know Mady Saunders. - Don't "Hey" me!
0:26:14 > 0:26:17You dance and flirt with other girls.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Then when you feel your years creeping over you,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- it's back to good old Jo. - What do you mean?
0:26:22 > 0:26:27I've been free to do as I please! As for coming back, I never left!
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Quit shouting, Chris Jones! It's a fine way to propose.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Yelling at me like I'm a fish wife.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37- I was trying to say... - I know what you were saying.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41- After wolfing around every girl... - I didn't wolf!- You did so!
0:26:41 > 0:26:46You're a wolf! What happened to all the others? They turn you down?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48I never proposed to anybody but you.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52A fine proposal. Make everybody miserable all the time.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54If you would just...
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Oh, why don't you go home and leave me alone?
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Doggone it, Jo. I haven't made anybody miserable.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- You have too!- Who?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Me!
0:27:08 > 0:27:10You darn fool.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21Now, look, Jo. I didn't come around to get into a fight.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26Ever since I've known you, ever since we were kids,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28I guess I've been in love with you.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32It seemed like a nice, sunny morning and I thought to myself,
0:27:32 > 0:27:36I guess I'll drop by Jo's house and tell her I love her.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38And ask her to marry me.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40That's all there is to it.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Well... Why didn't you tell me this before?
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Why did you have to keep it a secret all these years?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Because I didn't know, I guess.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Know what?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56That I was in love with you.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Well, I like that, Chris Jones!
0:28:00 > 0:28:02That's just fine and dandy(!)
0:28:02 > 0:28:07- You've been stringing me along all these years?- I haven't!
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Tell me this, Mr Wolf...
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Why have you been hanging around
0:28:11 > 0:28:15- if you didn't know if you were in love with me?- I liked you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18You wanted me to be a sister to you, huh? Pals!
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Lead you round by the hand, keep your nose dry...
0:28:21 > 0:28:23Will you stop picking on me?
0:28:23 > 0:28:26I never saw a girl as hard to propose to as you!
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Aha! So...
0:28:29 > 0:28:32- I thought you never proposed to any other girl before?- I never did.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35How do you know you never saw a girl so hard to propose to?
0:28:35 > 0:28:38That's just the way you say something you don't mean.
0:28:38 > 0:28:43Maybe all this is just another way of saying something you don't mean.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I don't know why we're having all this trouble.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49Because a girl likes to plan on things.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53If a girl's going to be in love, she wants to be 100% in it.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56With a tight-mouth clam like you, she's never safe.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58She can't act like she's in love
0:28:58 > 0:29:01cos she never knows how the guy feels.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02She can't come out with it,
0:29:02 > 0:29:05and she can't even get a kick out of it because...
0:29:05 > 0:29:07he may not be in love with her,
0:29:07 > 0:29:11and she'll be making an idiot out of herself.
0:29:11 > 0:29:15That's what makes me so darn sore, Chris, you and your old secrets.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19Shut up! I'm sick of hearing you holler like that.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22- What a grab you're going to be in five years!- Am not.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25- I said, "Shut up." Are you going to?- OK.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28I have one question. You can answer with one word.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31This is the only time I'll ask.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34Say it, one word and no more. Will you marry me?
0:29:39 > 0:29:41Yes.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46That's what I thought.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49That's what you knew, you darn fool.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52That's what you've always known.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55That's what's always made me so darn sore.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Jo, I think I've been loving you
0:30:05 > 0:30:09since the time you hit me on the forehead with a clinker.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13That was a slip. I only meant to scare you.
0:30:14 > 0:30:18I've loved you ever since you cut my hair off, remember?
0:30:18 > 0:30:19Gee, was Mom sore.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23So was I, after the old man got through with me.
0:30:24 > 0:30:28Then there was the time we went to the freshman dance.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32You were the prettiest girl I ever saw that night.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Uh-huh.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42That was my first date.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46You spent all your time dancing with the other girls.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49I still would only they're all married.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51And you're all tied up, my lad.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54Now, if you even look sidewise at a girl,
0:30:54 > 0:30:56I'll hit you with an axe handle.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08It seems good, doesn't it?
0:31:09 > 0:31:11It seems wonderful.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Hey, what's the big idea?
0:31:15 > 0:31:17- Huh?- You stopped kissing me.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:31:25 > 0:31:27Well, for goodness' sakes.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31It's all right, Mom. He's going to marry me.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39- BARBARA:- Is anybody listening to me?
0:31:39 > 0:31:43- What's the matter? - Another family is in the attic.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45HELEN: It's only mice.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47They were here before we were.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49Then why don't they pay rent?
0:31:49 > 0:31:52DORIS: Why don't you all go to sleep?
0:31:52 > 0:31:54OK. Meow!
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Meow... That'll fix them.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16CLATTERING
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Oh, Barbara!
0:32:22 > 0:32:25- Look, I'm a commando. - What a mess!
0:32:26 > 0:32:31Talk about safety. I'd rather ride a torpedo than a floor mop.
0:32:31 > 0:32:35Honestly, haven't any of you ever kept house before?
0:32:35 > 0:32:37Nor after, as far as I'm concerned.
0:32:37 > 0:32:42Oh, you don't carry a mop crosswise, you carry it lengthwise. See?
0:32:42 > 0:32:46- Why didn't I figure that out? - Tricks of the trade.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48I'm just a well-developed halfwit.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51I can keep alive but I can't stay on my feet.
0:32:51 > 0:32:55HELEN: I'll mop. You beat the rugs on the lawn.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57But they won't stand it.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00That's what you do when there's no vacuum.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04I thought that lady meant vacuum sweeper.
0:33:04 > 0:33:08We're going backwards fast - to the nineteenth-century(!)
0:33:08 > 0:33:12We'll be hanging from the chandeliers next.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Wait. I've been doing some serious thinking here.
0:33:15 > 0:33:20The way it looks to me, housekeeping isn't our racket.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- Whatever gave you that idea? - And practically none of us can cook.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27What was wrong with those eggs?
0:33:27 > 0:33:31They weren't cooked, they were vulcanised. That takes effort.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34What will we do? Listen to Jo.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36We got this house in order to enjoy it.
0:33:36 > 0:33:41We work all day. If we have to work more, we might as well go back.
0:33:41 > 0:33:46We're stuck with it. I'll beat those rugs until they holler "Uncle!"
0:33:46 > 0:33:48What we need is a housekeeper.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52- Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful? - Hear, hear.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54What do you think of the idea?
0:33:54 > 0:33:57From what I've seen, it's the only idea.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00We'll take a vote. Everybody in favour say aye.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02ALL: Aye!
0:34:02 > 0:34:06- The motion is carried. - How are we going to get one?
0:34:06 > 0:34:08We'll advertise, little goose.
0:34:08 > 0:34:13I'll just hold off that rug beating until we see how it works.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- Yes? - My name is Mrs John Canby Lodge.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34- Yes? - You advertised for a housekeeper?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- Oh, yes. Won't you come in? - Thank you.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43This is Mrs Peter Thomas, Mrs George Stacey,
0:34:43 > 0:34:48Mrs Michael Dumbrowski and I'm Mrs Christopher Jones.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50This is Mrs John Canby Lodge.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52How do you do?
0:34:52 > 0:34:55Before I was married, my name was Manya Battenheimer.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58You may call me Manya.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Just call me Barbara and we'll forget it.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05Barbara... This is Helen, this is Doris and I'm Jo.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07Please sit down. Can you dry up?
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Thank you.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Well...
0:35:13 > 0:35:17Have you had any experience in this kind of work?
0:35:17 > 0:35:20I have kept house for my father in Dresden.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24He had eight little ones. That gave experience.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Well, have you...
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Have you any references?
0:35:29 > 0:35:33Nein. In this country, I am just beginning to work...
0:35:35 > 0:35:39..to try and get my first employment but I have gone to the university.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42That's nice. What school?
0:35:42 > 0:35:44Four years at the academy in Dresden
0:35:44 > 0:35:47and at the university in Vienna, two years.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49She could tutor me on the side.
0:35:49 > 0:35:55- You have a room for me? - Yes, we do have a room.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59There are just a few... Helen, you take it from there.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03Well, my dear, we'd like to know what your salary will be.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06You see, it's like this.
0:36:06 > 0:36:11Because I am not a citizen I cannot work in the war plant...
0:36:11 > 0:36:14..but you all work in the war plant
0:36:14 > 0:36:17and if I help you, I help the war just the same.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20- Is that not right? - I think it is.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22And to make it more so,
0:36:22 > 0:36:25your husbands are all fighting against the Nazis.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29My husband also is in the United States army,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32fighting the Nazis, so that makes us one.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36How then to talk about money?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39If you will show me my room.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Show her the room and see if she likes it.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Right this way, Manya.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Danke schon.
0:36:53 > 0:36:58- I honestly felt tears in my eyes. - She's pretty, isn't she?
0:36:58 > 0:37:01- Did she like it? - She didn't get that far.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04She walked into the kitchen, took one look at the stove
0:37:04 > 0:37:07and went right to work.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09What are we going to do about her?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12After what she said about us all being one...
0:37:12 > 0:37:15You can't hire a thing like that.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19Why don't we take our spare cash and split it five ways?
0:37:19 > 0:37:23- She could make more somewhere else. - I don't think she cares about that.
0:37:23 > 0:37:28It's a good idea. Let's vote on it. Everybody in favour say aye.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31- ALL: Aye. - Motion carried. Manya?
0:37:31 > 0:37:34- Ja. - We decided about your salary.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38- Oh, that's good.- Wait a minute. We want to tell you about it.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Ja. - We're going to pool our salaries
0:37:42 > 0:37:44and we'll pay the rent and expenses
0:37:44 > 0:37:48and what's left over we'll split five ways.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52You see, we're running this joint like a democracy.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55A democracy? Oh, that's good, that's good.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Once in Germany, we had a democracy.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06But we...
0:38:06 > 0:38:10- You lost it. - Nein, we did not lose it.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14We let it be murdered...
0:38:17 > 0:38:19..like a little child.
0:38:26 > 0:38:32Hi, gang, look what I got to take care of that family in the attic.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Baby!
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Let's not pamper him. Hector, you have a job to do.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42There's enough fresh meat here to last you the rest of your life.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45- Oh, give him back to me. - OK, no coddling.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48- Where have you been? - I had my hair done.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52It's lovely. You have small ears and must show them.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54That's the smallest compliment I've ever got.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57Two legs, two arms, two eyes and a lot of other stuff,
0:38:57 > 0:39:00and you talk about my ears.
0:39:00 > 0:39:05- I've got to change. - Are you going out?- I have a date.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08- With a man?- As far as I know.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12- Who?- That moth-eaten Don Juan that's been pestering me.
0:39:12 > 0:39:17Tonight he'll learn to play with the big girls, Coconut Grove.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20- I don't think you should go. - Neither do I.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22For the love of Mike, why not?
0:39:22 > 0:39:25- We shouldn't start anything like that.- Like what?
0:39:25 > 0:39:29Like... Like having a bunch of smelly old men
0:39:29 > 0:39:30hanging round the house.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34He's not old. 42, that's not even Indian summer.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Do what you like. You will anyhow.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40But with Pete out there on a ship,
0:39:40 > 0:39:43you might at least pretend to play square.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47You leave Pete out of this. He's a no-good, woman-chasing dope.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51He hasn't written to me for three months.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54So if an old goat lays some champagne on the line,
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I'm the girl to do it with.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58All the same, you'll be sorry.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00This is none of your business.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Let's vote. All who want me to take care of my affairs
0:40:03 > 0:40:06and you to take care of yours, say aye.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Aye...
0:40:12 > 0:40:14You win.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16The motion is carried unanimously.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20Excuse me while I change my clothes.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24You know...
0:40:24 > 0:40:27In a way, I guess I don't blame Barbara.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30- I get kind of lonesome myself. - For just any man?
0:40:30 > 0:40:33Uh-uh. Just for Chris.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Yeah.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37Me too.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44MANYA SPEAKS EXCITEDLY IN GERMAN
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Manya, Manya, what's the matter?
0:40:46 > 0:40:51I'm quitting the butcher. Quit Mr Johnson? Manya, why?
0:40:52 > 0:40:54He's black market.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Mr Johnson? There must be some mistake.
0:40:57 > 0:41:02No mistake. I tell him I only have cents for one pound of bacon
0:41:02 > 0:41:04and to please send me one pound.
0:41:04 > 0:41:08He sends me two pounds when I have only stamps for one pound.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Maybe he made a mistake. < No, no mistake.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13He sent a note and it says,
0:41:13 > 0:41:17"For us he does the favour of one extra pound."
0:41:17 > 0:41:21I know he shouldn't but he was just trying to be nice.
0:41:21 > 0:41:26Nice to us, but with bacon scarce, is it nice to the other peoples?
0:41:26 > 0:41:30Is it nice to my John in the army fighting the Nazis? No.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33It is not nice. So I quit him.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35But Manya it's such a little thing.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Ja, it's a little thing.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41But when little things go, big things follow.
0:41:41 > 0:41:45I have seen it in Germany and what happened afterwards.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Instead of quitting Mr Johnson,
0:41:47 > 0:41:51why don't you have a talk and tell him not to do it again?
0:41:51 > 0:41:57Well, OK. This time I will talk to him but next time I'll report him.
0:41:57 > 0:42:01There's not going to be any hoarding of anything in this house,
0:42:01 > 0:42:05taking the food out of the mouths of the army...
0:42:05 > 0:42:07That's what I'll tell Mr Johnson.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11She makes you feel like a spy or something.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15She's right but I do think Mr Johnson deserves a warning.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18What difference does a pound of bacon make?
0:42:18 > 0:42:21It may not make a difference to you
0:42:21 > 0:42:24- but anyone who hoards is a heel. - Forget it.
0:42:24 > 0:42:28You know...I think there's something I'm going to have to tell.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30I bet this will be wicked(!)
0:42:30 > 0:42:32I'm not sure but I...
0:42:34 > 0:42:36I think I'm a hoarder.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39You? A hoarder?
0:42:39 > 0:42:43Yes, it's probably what I am but I started hoarding this thing
0:42:43 > 0:42:47long before anyone said they'd be scarce.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49Even when I was a little girl, maybe 15,
0:42:49 > 0:42:52I'd always buy two instead of one.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57Lately, it's getting to be like a vice. I buy three.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Once, I even bought four.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03Careful. Silk stockings, remember we wear the same size.
0:43:03 > 0:43:07- No, no, it's not stockings. HELEN:- What is it, then?
0:43:09 > 0:43:11I'll get them and show you.
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Anybody want a cup of coffee? No, thanks.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19I'll take it.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22If I drink coffee after dinner, I can't sleep
0:43:22 > 0:43:24- so it shouldn't go to waste. - Thank you.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36DORIS: There! HELEN: Lipsticks!
0:43:36 > 0:43:38Yes. But you've got dozens.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41- 127. - They're even different shades.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44I don't get it. You must have a complex.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46I don't know. I can't explain it.
0:43:46 > 0:43:49Why have you got different shades?
0:43:49 > 0:43:52I thought as I got older I'd take lighter shades
0:43:52 > 0:43:54so I got different shades.
0:43:54 > 0:43:59You're crazy. With all those, you can hold out for 75 years.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01It's bad, isn't it?
0:44:01 > 0:44:05All that metal and all that grease. It's not good.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07What am I going to do with them?
0:44:07 > 0:44:12I'm sick of them. They're on my conscience like a guilty secret.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15I go round feeling like Lady Macbeth.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Why not take some back to the druggist?
0:44:18 > 0:44:22I tried to but they have health laws. He can't take them.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25- Write to the government about it. - I did.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Well, who'd you write to?
0:44:28 > 0:44:30The FBI.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32What did they say?
0:44:32 > 0:44:37The letter's upstairs. They told me to refer the matter to my pastor.
0:44:37 > 0:44:39I think it was a joke.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41It's enough lip rouge for the duration.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45Let's leave it at that. We've had enough lectures.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48We're so moral we're afraid to breathe.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50That's a funny thing to say.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54You know what I mean. Bacon, men, lipstick... Moral, moral.
0:44:54 > 0:44:58You'd think we were running a home for... A home.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05I suppose you don't think hoarding very important?
0:45:06 > 0:45:10Why don't you relax? Do you think we're going to lose this war
0:45:10 > 0:45:13on account of lipsticks or bacon?
0:45:13 > 0:45:15You know better than that.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17If it was just one pound of bacon, no,
0:45:17 > 0:45:21but what if millions went out and did the same thing?
0:45:21 > 0:45:26I've got enough troubles without worrying about people I don't know.
0:45:26 > 0:45:30If you want the truth, rationing's a pain in the neck.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33Barbara, you sound like a fifth columnist.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35You two jumped on me first.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38The minute I came in, you started psalm-singing.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40Now I'll tell you something.
0:45:40 > 0:45:46I've been listening to this gabble for three weeks and I'm sick of it.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49Rationing, sure. I'll hold still for it
0:45:49 > 0:45:52but I won't run around saying I like it.
0:45:52 > 0:45:54- I never...- I haven't finished.
0:45:54 > 0:45:59This thing wouldn't have happened if we'd minded our own business.
0:45:59 > 0:46:02We wouldn't have to ration butter
0:46:02 > 0:46:06if they weren't shipping it to a lot of foreigners.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09They're rationing gas right here in California.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13Even the government doesn't know what to do tomorrow.
0:46:13 > 0:46:18They'll ration this, they'll ration that. Blow hot, blow cold.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21What kind of business is that?
0:46:21 > 0:46:22While we're pushed around at home,
0:46:22 > 0:46:25our boys are fighting in countries they never heard of
0:46:25 > 0:46:29- for foreigners who'll turn on us when it's over.- Barbara!
0:46:29 > 0:46:32- It's the truth. - You ought to be ashamed.
0:46:32 > 0:46:36Do you know where that comes from? Straight from Berlin.
0:46:36 > 0:46:40If you say it, you double cross your own husband.
0:46:40 > 0:46:45- Oh...- How can we go on minding our own business after Pearl Harbour?
0:46:45 > 0:46:47And who wants to get fat
0:46:47 > 0:46:50when so many are starving for things we can do without?
0:46:50 > 0:46:52We make mistakes.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55Do you want a country where they won't stand for that?
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Go to Germany and Japan.
0:46:57 > 0:47:01If you open your trap, you'll get a gun in your stomach.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04You're the kind of people Hitler counts on -
0:47:04 > 0:47:07talk, talk and never think.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09That's the biggest mistake
0:47:09 > 0:47:14because there are not enough of you and there are plenty of us and...
0:47:14 > 0:47:16- DOOR BELL RINGS - That's my date.
0:47:17 > 0:47:18Saved by the bell.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21Well, I think we need a little music.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25- Feel better? - I wish I'd socked her.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27- Come in.- Hello.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30I'll run right on up and get my things.
0:47:30 > 0:47:32You remember Waldo Pearson.
0:47:32 > 0:47:33Helen Stacey...
0:47:35 > 0:47:39Doris Dumbrowski and featherweight Jo Jones.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42- How do you do.- 'Lo...
0:47:42 > 0:47:44The atmosphere's a little thick.
0:47:44 > 0:47:48We've been having a small beef just among us girls.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51Small beef's better than none these days.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58Oh... Make yourself at home.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00RADIO: 'We pause for a bulletin.
0:48:00 > 0:48:04The navy has reported the loss of the US carrier Yorktown.
0:48:04 > 0:48:09'The news has been withheld pending notification of next of kin.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12'Four Los Angeles men are missing.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16'They are, Lieutenant Howard Christianson, 535 Teller Avenue,
0:48:16 > 0:48:18machinist's mate Peter Thomas
0:48:18 > 0:48:21'whose wife is believed to be in Los Angeles
0:48:21 > 0:48:22'but has not been located.'
0:48:22 > 0:48:24Barbara, dear...
0:48:27 > 0:48:29I'm all right.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32You'd better go.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34Sure.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39Anything I can do, just let me know.
0:48:41 > 0:48:46Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actress.
0:48:47 > 0:48:51I guess I've been building my whole life to this moment
0:48:51 > 0:48:54only I never expected the timing to be so good.
0:48:54 > 0:48:58And on a staircase too...
0:49:01 > 0:49:05Oh, why doesn't somebody cut my tongue out when I...
0:49:12 > 0:49:14Oh, what's the matter with me?
0:49:16 > 0:49:19Why can't I learn to keep my big trap shut?
0:49:26 > 0:49:28Well, Chris, I did it again.
0:49:29 > 0:49:31I promised I wouldn't but I did.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45- Where does this go? - In the lower left-hand door.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Well, that's done.
0:49:51 > 0:49:55- Where are you going? - The living room. Where else?
0:49:55 > 0:49:58- What are you going to do? - I'm going to sit down.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Read, read, read.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58You need a shine.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02I'll get at them in the morning.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14'The allied world was stunned today by the fall of Belgium.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18'Their surrender jeopardises the entire allied position.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20'The French are retreating,
0:51:20 > 0:51:23'while the British are falling back...'
0:51:59 > 0:52:01Darling...
0:52:01 > 0:52:03Huh?
0:52:05 > 0:52:07- What are you reading?- A magazine.
0:52:08 > 0:52:12I know but what are you reading IN the magazine?
0:52:12 > 0:52:14Huh?
0:52:14 > 0:52:20Oh, er, an article called, "Will the United States Enter WWII?"
0:52:21 > 0:52:23Oh...
0:52:29 > 0:52:31Mind if I sit on your lap?
0:52:31 > 0:52:34Sure. I can read just as well that way.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53- What's this?- Hm?
0:52:54 > 0:52:56This a splinter?
0:52:57 > 0:52:59I guess so.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53Here, give me your hand.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Ouch!
0:54:00 > 0:54:03- Did that hurt? - Sure, it hurt. It hurt a lot.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06- You men. Always whining. - I'm not whining.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10You asked me a question and I answered it.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12Oh...
0:54:12 > 0:54:15Hey, did you sterilise that needle?
0:54:15 > 0:54:19- I might get an infection. - I never heard such hollering.
0:54:19 > 0:54:24I stuck a needle through my foot and didn't make half as big a fuss.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26I'm just pointing out that
0:54:26 > 0:54:30when you take a needle that long and jab it in a man's hand
0:54:30 > 0:54:31it's no good.
0:54:31 > 0:54:36- You'll scar me up.- Scar you up! - And besides it's unsanitary.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38You're a hypochondriac.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40How do you like that?
0:54:40 > 0:54:45I refuse to get stuck like a pig so she says I'm a hypochondriac.
0:54:45 > 0:54:46Hold still.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48This is not going to hurt at all.
0:54:50 > 0:54:51Ow!
0:54:51 > 0:54:54You see? It didn't hurt at all.
0:54:54 > 0:54:57No more than if you'd chopped my leg off.
0:54:57 > 0:55:02I wish you'd sew buttons on my shirts instead of poking at my hand.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04What was that about your shirts?
0:55:04 > 0:55:08The shirts are all right. It's the buttons.
0:55:08 > 0:55:11- This is the only one with a set. - Why didn't you say?
0:55:11 > 0:55:14The day before yesterday I said,
0:55:14 > 0:55:16"Jo, my shirts don't have any buttons."
0:55:16 > 0:55:21Don't carry on so. All I did yesterday was scrub the back porch
0:55:21 > 0:55:25and clean out the basement and get breakfast and lunch and...
0:55:25 > 0:55:29You sound like I was making a slave out of you.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31That's what you are doing.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34All day long is work, work, day in, day out.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37Then the minute you hit the front door
0:55:37 > 0:55:40you start yelling about shirt buttons.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42I've been home two hours.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45I've eaten dinner and helped you with the dishes.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48Then you start to rip open my hand
0:55:48 > 0:55:51and I just happened to say something about buttons.
0:55:51 > 0:55:55You've been building up to it all evening.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57I try to keep things going.
0:55:57 > 0:56:01Go ahead, get it all off your chest. Think up some more things.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03- You want me to?- Yes.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06My suit isn't back from the cleaners
0:56:06 > 0:56:09because you didn't send it on time
0:56:09 > 0:56:12and my socks are always in the top drawer
0:56:12 > 0:56:15and not the middle where I beg you to put them.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18And my nightshirt's never on the right hook.
0:56:18 > 0:56:22And somebody's been using my razor and it wasn't the cat.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28- Is that all? - It's all for the moment.
0:56:28 > 0:56:32Give me more time and I'll think of plenty more.
0:56:32 > 0:56:37Including, I suppose, the fact that you never clean the bathtub?
0:56:37 > 0:56:40I warned you about that before we were ever married.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43I said I hated cleaning out the tub.
0:56:43 > 0:56:47You were told in advance and said you didn't care.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49That's because I didn't know.
0:56:49 > 0:56:54Now I know what you wanted me for. I'm just a substitute housekeeper.
0:56:54 > 0:56:58All you want is somebody to work and slave and scrub and cook
0:56:58 > 0:57:01and order groceries and do the laundry
0:57:01 > 0:57:04and dust the furniture and scrub the bathtub
0:57:04 > 0:57:09and sit with her hands folded in the evenings and watch you read.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16SHE CRIES
0:57:25 > 0:57:27CRYING CONTINUES
0:57:34 > 0:57:36LOUDER CRYING
0:57:44 > 0:57:46SHE PRETENDS TO CRY
0:58:39 > 0:58:44- What are you doing? - Sewing buttons on your old shirts.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47All right, Jo, let's have it.
0:58:47 > 0:58:50- Have what? - Let's have what the trouble is.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53There's no trouble.
0:58:53 > 0:58:57Come on, if you're sore, I've got a right to know why.
0:58:57 > 0:58:59All right, I'll tell you.
0:58:59 > 0:59:02It's because I never get to see you any more.
0:59:02 > 0:59:06You've only been home to dinner twice this week
0:59:06 > 0:59:08and then you sit around and read.
0:59:08 > 0:59:12The nights I haven't been home I've been working.
0:59:13 > 0:59:18Haven't you got spunk enough to get someone else to do overtime?
0:59:18 > 0:59:20Are you a man or a mouse?
0:59:20 > 0:59:24- I volunteered for that overtime. - You volunteered?- Yeah.
0:59:24 > 0:59:26Well, now I am getting mad.
0:59:28 > 0:59:31How about thinking less about the company
0:59:31 > 0:59:34and more about your wife?
0:59:34 > 0:59:37I am. That's why I'm taking on this extra work.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Let's get this straight.
0:59:40 > 0:59:43You're taking on more overtime because of me?
0:59:43 > 0:59:46- Yes.- OK, why?
0:59:47 > 0:59:51Well, you heard the news over the radio about Belgium.
0:59:51 > 0:59:53Sure I heard. So what?
0:59:53 > 0:59:58Sooner or later we'll get in this war and I may have to go.
0:59:58 > 1:00:00I don't want to leave you high and dry.
1:00:00 > 1:00:05I want to save up some money so that you'll be OK till I get back.
1:00:05 > 1:00:09- I'm grabbing the overtime. - What do you think I am? An idiot?
1:00:09 > 1:00:12No, I think you're a cute kid.
1:00:12 > 1:00:14Don't joke your way out.
1:00:14 > 1:00:17Do you think I'd trade one evening with you
1:00:17 > 1:00:20for all the money you can make at that plant?
1:00:20 > 1:00:23I'm sorry. Some day you'll understand.
1:00:23 > 1:00:28I'm making sure my wife will have enough money to see her through.
1:00:28 > 1:00:30- Don't yell at me.- I wasn't yelling.
1:00:30 > 1:00:34YOUR WIFE. You talk as if you had a bill of sale on me.
1:00:34 > 1:00:38Or I was a horse you had to lay in a supply of hay for.
1:00:38 > 1:00:40I'm just old-fashioned enough...
1:00:40 > 1:00:44Don't give me that woman on a pedestal baloney.
1:00:44 > 1:00:49Look, you want money? OK, I'll go out and get a job.
1:00:49 > 1:00:55We can stack it up until we've got so much we'll never see each other.
1:00:55 > 1:00:56Don't fly off the handle.
1:00:56 > 1:01:01Give up night work and spend your evenings with me or I'll find a job.
1:01:01 > 1:01:04- You'll do nothing of the sort. - I will so.
1:01:04 > 1:01:07I'll sling sodas. I'll wait table. I'll wash dishes.
1:01:07 > 1:01:10Make up your mind now.
1:01:18 > 1:01:21- You mean that?- You bet I do.
1:01:30 > 1:01:33OK, you win.
1:01:36 > 1:01:39You mean no more night work?
1:01:39 > 1:01:41No.
1:01:41 > 1:01:43Oh, Chris.
1:01:43 > 1:01:46I didn't mean to be such an ornery old hag
1:01:46 > 1:01:49but you make me so darned mad.
1:01:49 > 1:01:53- I guess I'm pretty much of a dope. - Oh, no, Chris.
1:01:53 > 1:01:56You're the smartest guy I ever saw.
1:01:56 > 1:02:01You must try to remember that I'm a little bit smart too.
1:02:01 > 1:02:05- I don't get much chance to forget it.- It's just that...
1:02:05 > 1:02:07I don't want money.
1:02:07 > 1:02:13- I only want you.- Yeah, I guess that's the way I feel too.
1:02:16 > 1:02:20And Chris, I'm sorry I hurt your finger just now.
1:02:20 > 1:02:25And I'm sorry I got so mad so all of a sudden.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27- I won't do it again.- Hm?
1:02:28 > 1:02:31No, that's a promise, Chris.
1:02:31 > 1:02:35I'll count up to 600 or something.
1:02:35 > 1:02:38I simply will not fly up like that any more.
1:02:38 > 1:02:40OK.
1:02:43 > 1:02:47Don't get too perfect. I kind of like you the way you are.
1:02:58 > 1:03:02Sorry, Toots. I'm afraid you belong outside.
1:03:11 > 1:03:13Any mail, Manya?
1:03:13 > 1:03:15MANYA SOBS
1:03:16 > 1:03:19Manya. What's the matter?
1:03:19 > 1:03:22It's... It's my John.
1:03:22 > 1:03:24Oh, Manya.
1:03:25 > 1:03:29Ja... "For Valour," it says.
1:03:29 > 1:03:32Manya, how is your husband?
1:03:32 > 1:03:34No, he's fine. He's fine.
1:03:34 > 1:03:36It's from him. He sent it to me.
1:03:36 > 1:03:41Oh! Oh, you really gave us a scare, Manya.
1:03:41 > 1:03:45- MANYA: So happy. - Barbara, look at Manya's husband's medal.
1:03:45 > 1:03:49Oh, it's beautiful. You must be pretty proud, Manya.
1:03:49 > 1:03:52- MANYA: Ja, proud. - Where'll we put it?
1:03:52 > 1:03:54- Put it? - Doris, no.
1:03:54 > 1:03:58We're not going to let Manya keep this to herself.
1:03:58 > 1:04:00It's part ours. Share and share alike.
1:04:00 > 1:04:04- It's democracy. - Let's put it where we can see it.
1:04:04 > 1:04:07- How about the mantel? - That would be nice.
1:04:07 > 1:04:11- What good's a medal if nobody knows you've got it? - But...
1:04:17 > 1:04:21- There. Our first medal. - Sure looks pretty.
1:04:21 > 1:04:24Jo, come and look at Manya's medal.
1:04:28 > 1:04:30Oh, that's lovely, Manya.
1:04:31 > 1:04:34- Really lovely. - Where were you this afternoon?
1:04:34 > 1:04:38- How come this absenteeism? - Yes, what about it?
1:04:38 > 1:04:41- Look, kids, we have to call a meeting right away.
1:04:41 > 1:04:45- Jo, what's wrong? - Everybody, sit down, huh?
1:04:45 > 1:04:47Are you sure you're sober?
1:04:48 > 1:04:50Sober as I'll ever be.
1:04:51 > 1:04:53Look, kids...
1:04:53 > 1:04:55We got trouble.
1:04:55 > 1:04:57What kind of trouble?
1:04:57 > 1:05:01Well, I'll explain. Remember it was my idea
1:05:01 > 1:05:04that we take this house in the first place.
1:05:04 > 1:05:06- I suggested it, right? - Yes.
1:05:07 > 1:05:13And erm, it was I who suggested we get somebody like Manya, remember?
1:05:13 > 1:05:15What are you talking about?
1:05:15 > 1:05:17Well...
1:05:18 > 1:05:20You see...
1:05:20 > 1:05:23The way it's turning out now, it... it...
1:05:23 > 1:05:27I'm going to get more good out of this house than any of you.
1:05:29 > 1:05:34Because, that's why I want you to know I didn't know until today.
1:05:34 > 1:05:35Know what?
1:05:37 > 1:05:39That I'm going to have a baby.
1:05:39 > 1:05:41Oh, Jo!
1:05:41 > 1:05:43- Oh!- Darling!
1:05:43 > 1:05:47- How wonderful!- Wonderful! - You don't mind?
1:05:50 > 1:05:52What is the young man's name to be?
1:05:52 > 1:05:55Why, Chris Jones, of course.
1:05:55 > 1:05:58Just Chris Jones?
1:05:58 > 1:06:03Oh, I'm sorry. Christopher Latham Jones Junior.
1:06:03 > 1:06:05- The father is living?- Yes.
1:06:05 > 1:06:10- He's in the army.- You'll have a surprise for him when he comes back.
1:06:10 > 1:06:13You said it.
1:06:13 > 1:06:17We're so crowded here we're asking all the mothers who are able
1:06:17 > 1:06:19to leave at the end of six days.
1:06:19 > 1:06:24- Would you mind that?- Of course not. I'd like to leave now.
1:06:24 > 1:06:26Not until you're in good shape.
1:06:26 > 1:06:29When can I see my baby, Doctor?
1:06:29 > 1:06:31Listen.
1:06:31 > 1:06:35- BABIES CRY - He can't make all that noise.
1:06:35 > 1:06:39He's contributing. It'll only be a minute. See you tonight.
1:06:39 > 1:06:41Thanks.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43CRYING
1:06:57 > 1:07:00- Have him for ten minutes.- Thank you.
1:07:01 > 1:07:04Hi there, young fella.
1:07:08 > 1:07:11I did a neat job on this one, Chris my boy.
1:07:11 > 1:07:15And we were going to be so smart, remember?
1:07:20 > 1:07:22SHE HUMS
1:07:25 > 1:07:27- Oh, Jo!- In here.
1:07:31 > 1:07:33- Hello.- Hello.
1:07:38 > 1:07:40- What are you doing?- Practising.
1:07:41 > 1:07:45This is the way they used to do it. See? Like that.
1:07:45 > 1:07:49And this is the way the doctors recommend them now.
1:07:49 > 1:07:51Oh.
1:07:51 > 1:07:53A lot of people go out and get jackets
1:07:53 > 1:07:58that the doctor will not let them wear till they're six months old.
1:07:58 > 1:08:01Not very practical. First things first.
1:08:01 > 1:08:05Getting ready for babies, that means diapers.
1:08:05 > 1:08:08- I see. - Louise wanted me to get a bathrobe.
1:08:08 > 1:08:14- Imagine.- Oh, Louise knows about this too, does she?
1:08:14 > 1:08:16Of course. Everybody does.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22But you never got around to telling me
1:08:22 > 1:08:25on account of I'm not very important.
1:08:25 > 1:08:30- There's no use complaining about it. I thought you knew.- Sure. Sure.
1:08:30 > 1:08:32From a fortune teller?
1:08:32 > 1:08:35- There's no use getting upset. - I don't see why not.
1:08:35 > 1:08:38It's none of your business.
1:08:38 > 1:08:42If Harvey wanted you to know, I guess he would have told you.
1:08:44 > 1:08:46What's Harvey got to do with it?
1:08:46 > 1:08:50Don't be a numbskull. It's Harvey's baby.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52Get out while I put these things away.
1:08:52 > 1:08:56Harvey and Jane are going to have a baby?
1:08:56 > 1:08:59Of course. Jane called and told me this morning.
1:08:59 > 1:09:03- We're going to give her a shower. I got diapers.- Well...
1:09:03 > 1:09:05That's different.
1:09:08 > 1:09:13- Oh, Chris, you didn't think... - That's exactly what I thought.
1:09:13 > 1:09:17Oh, Chris, I think that's cute. You were scared.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20I wasn't scared. Just surprised.
1:09:20 > 1:09:22It would be a surprise to come home
1:09:22 > 1:09:26and learn off the bat you were going to have a baby.
1:09:26 > 1:09:29That's the way you'd do it. With the diapers.
1:09:29 > 1:09:32Would you have been disappointed?
1:09:32 > 1:09:36I don't know. I don't think this is the time to have babies.
1:09:36 > 1:09:39Everybody seems to be having them.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42Harvey and Jane, the Gates's and Hiltons.
1:09:42 > 1:09:46- Everybody.- You're not getting at anything are you, Jo?
1:09:47 > 1:09:49No. Why?
1:09:49 > 1:09:52Because if you are,
1:09:52 > 1:09:55- I think we ought to talk about it first.- OK.
1:09:57 > 1:10:00You mean, let's talk about having babies?
1:10:00 > 1:10:05In a way. You see, I wouldn't like to leave you alone with a baby.
1:10:05 > 1:10:09- Leave me alone? Who said anything about that?- I'm saying it now.
1:10:09 > 1:10:13The draft will come calling. I want you to be in good health
1:10:13 > 1:10:15with nobody to take care of.
1:10:15 > 1:10:19They won't take married men. The paper said so.
1:10:19 > 1:10:24- I think they will.- I read something in the paper this afternoon.
1:10:24 > 1:10:26Here it is.
1:10:26 > 1:10:28Look.
1:10:28 > 1:10:29See.
1:10:29 > 1:10:32There isn't going to be any war.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34I wouldn't count on that too much.
1:10:34 > 1:10:36This won't be a tea party.
1:10:36 > 1:10:40They'll have to take married men before it's over.
1:10:40 > 1:10:41I want to be ready.
1:10:41 > 1:10:45You mean you want to go off and get into the army?
1:10:45 > 1:10:49I don't mean that at all. Nobody really wants to.
1:10:49 > 1:10:52It's just that it may become necessary.
1:10:52 > 1:10:55Oh, Chris, I don't think that's fair.
1:10:55 > 1:10:59There's nothing fairer than taking men who are able to go,
1:10:59 > 1:11:00and that's me.
1:11:00 > 1:11:05That's why when you started talking about babies I got scared.
1:11:07 > 1:11:09Yeah, I guess you're right, Chris.
1:11:09 > 1:11:12Only...
1:11:12 > 1:11:17if we did have a baby, I wouldn't be so alone when you went.
1:11:17 > 1:11:19There'll be time afterwards.
1:11:20 > 1:11:25You see, Jo, I've kind of made some plans about that kid of ours.
1:11:25 > 1:11:28I want him to have the best of everything.
1:11:28 > 1:11:31The very best from the minute he's born. You do too.
1:11:31 > 1:11:34Sure. I want him to look like you too.
1:11:35 > 1:11:39You see, Jo, having a baby is a pretty important thing.
1:11:39 > 1:11:44It's something that's got to be carefully planned for.
1:11:44 > 1:11:47Take you and me, we never went to college.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50Well, I'm not complaining, neither are you but...
1:11:50 > 1:11:55But our kid is different. I want to arrange everything for him.
1:11:55 > 1:11:59If he wants to be a doctor, a lawyer or musician.
1:11:59 > 1:12:03Whatever he wants, I want to be able to back him up.
1:12:03 > 1:12:06- That's important.- He'll be smart.
1:12:06 > 1:12:08I hope he's got your brains.
1:12:08 > 1:12:13Then again, I'd kind of like to be around when he's born.
1:12:13 > 1:12:18You know, that's something people ought to go through together.
1:12:18 > 1:12:22I'd like to see him when he begins to smile and talk
1:12:22 > 1:12:25and whatever it is they do first.
1:12:25 > 1:12:27Especially the early things.
1:12:29 > 1:12:34I love you so much that I seem to be going around all the time
1:12:34 > 1:12:36in some kind of a pink fog.
1:12:36 > 1:12:40That's true. I'm the luckiest guy on earth.
1:12:40 > 1:12:44You're the prettiest girl that ever lived.
1:12:45 > 1:12:51And that kid of ours. That post-war genius we're going to have...
1:12:51 > 1:12:54Oh, Chris, I bet he's going to be a terror.
1:12:59 > 1:13:01BABY CRIES
1:13:01 > 1:13:03What's the matter, young fella?
1:13:03 > 1:13:07Oh, just like your dad, holler before you're heard.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13Manya, is Jo home?
1:13:16 > 1:13:18RUNNING
1:13:20 > 1:13:22Oh, Jo, honey!
1:13:22 > 1:13:25- Hello. - It's so good to see you back.
1:13:25 > 1:13:30- Where's the baby?- He's sleeping in Manya's room until I can get up.
1:13:30 > 1:13:33- Did you hear about Barbara?- What?
1:13:33 > 1:13:35Why not let Barbara tell her? Oh, OK.
1:13:35 > 1:13:39- Can I go and see the baby? - If Manya will let you.
1:13:39 > 1:13:41Be right back. Jo,
1:13:41 > 1:13:45you're the most beautiful mother I've seen in years.
1:13:45 > 1:13:47Bet you tell that to all the mothers.
1:13:47 > 1:13:51I'll see the baby. Barbara will stay with you.
1:13:51 > 1:13:53I'm just going to see the young man.
1:14:04 > 1:14:07- It's good to have you back. - It's good to be back.
1:14:07 > 1:14:10We both had good luck since you left.
1:14:10 > 1:14:13You've got a boy and I've got a husband.
1:14:13 > 1:14:17- Barbara, oh, I'm so glad. When did you hear?- This afternoon.
1:14:17 > 1:14:20He's in hospital in Honolulu. He'll be OK.
1:14:22 > 1:14:25I'll never be able to say how sorry I am for
1:14:25 > 1:14:30blowing off at you just before you heard about his ship.
1:14:30 > 1:14:32Don't be sorry, Jo. I deserved it.
1:14:32 > 1:14:36I'm just a big no-good dame.
1:14:36 > 1:14:39My heart's in the right place most of the time
1:14:39 > 1:14:42but this sky piece of mine is solid ebony.
1:14:42 > 1:14:47Take Pete, he wasn't a bit more to blame for our trouble than I was.
1:14:47 > 1:14:51He'd sooner have a wrench in his hand than a chequebook.
1:14:51 > 1:14:56And we used to drink a lot. You know, go round to cabarets and all.
1:14:56 > 1:14:59He'd make a lot of passes. I'd make a lot of passes.
1:14:59 > 1:15:03Neither of us meant 'em but there'd be a big beef.
1:15:03 > 1:15:08Yeah, I know. Most of the fights I've ever had with Chris
1:15:08 > 1:15:10were over nothing at all.
1:15:11 > 1:15:15You never realise how silly it all is
1:15:15 > 1:15:21until you can't get together any more...even to fight.
1:15:21 > 1:15:25Yeah. You know, I've been pushed around a lot.
1:15:25 > 1:15:28I've seen plenty.
1:15:28 > 1:15:31I swore that I'd never knuckle down to any man.
1:15:31 > 1:15:33No matter how good he was.
1:15:35 > 1:15:40If I ever get that guy in my arms again, I'll knuckle down to him, Jo.
1:15:40 > 1:15:44I'm going to love that man like nobody's ever been loved before
1:15:44 > 1:15:45because...
1:15:46 > 1:15:50Because...well...
1:15:50 > 1:15:51Just because.
1:15:51 > 1:15:56What are you going to do if you find him making passes?
1:15:56 > 1:15:58I'll wring his neck.
1:15:58 > 1:16:01Well, he's just a little twerp, you know.
1:16:02 > 1:16:06Oh, Jo, he's the most beautiful boy I've ever seen.
1:16:06 > 1:16:10He's absolutely beautiful, isn't he? Oh, perfectly beautiful.
1:16:10 > 1:16:13- I guess he's beautiful.- Well, he is.
1:16:13 > 1:16:15He smiled at me, too.
1:16:15 > 1:16:19Oh, they don't smile at six days. The doctor said so.
1:16:19 > 1:16:24Then he's unusual because he curled his lips up and smiled.
1:16:24 > 1:16:25It was so beautiful.
1:16:25 > 1:16:29You should have thumped him on the back. It was gas.
1:16:29 > 1:16:31I know it's supposed to be fashionable
1:16:31 > 1:16:34to talk down your own child and call him an idiot
1:16:34 > 1:16:36but that baby smiled at me.
1:16:36 > 1:16:37Will he pass, Helen?
1:16:37 > 1:16:41He's a fine boy. You're going to be proud of him.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43We're all going to be proud of him.
1:16:43 > 1:16:46- I better take a look. - I'll go with you.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50Letter for you. I forgot it.
1:16:51 > 1:16:54Oh, do you mind?
1:16:57 > 1:17:00It's from my husband.
1:17:04 > 1:17:07Everybody gets mail around here but me.
1:17:13 > 1:17:17Would you mind reading just a little bit to me?
1:17:17 > 1:17:20Why, of course, darling.
1:17:21 > 1:17:25"Glad to hear you've found a really nice place to live.
1:17:25 > 1:17:28"And that your friends are so charming.
1:17:28 > 1:17:31"Things have been busy. The same routine
1:17:31 > 1:17:36"but it looks like we'll have a fine bunch of fine men when we finish.
1:17:36 > 1:17:42"I just received word through my commanding officer Captain Routledge that...
1:17:46 > 1:17:50"That our Ted has become a major."
1:17:52 > 1:17:54My little Ted.
1:17:56 > 1:17:58"He doesn't know
1:17:58 > 1:18:02"and won't until the papers reach his post a week or two hence.
1:18:02 > 1:18:06"Don't let him know that I was the first to tell you but...
1:18:06 > 1:18:09"somehow I felt that it was our time as much as his
1:18:09 > 1:18:12"and that I had the right to break..."
1:18:13 > 1:18:15I can't see.
1:18:20 > 1:18:23"I had the right to break the news in secret.
1:18:23 > 1:18:27"I find myself sitting in this jungle today
1:18:27 > 1:18:30"thinking of the things that have happened to us
1:18:30 > 1:18:32"since I last was in uniform.
1:18:33 > 1:18:36"And all of them centre around Ted.
1:18:36 > 1:18:39"I thought of the time he had scarlet fever
1:18:39 > 1:18:42"and the time he broke his arm.
1:18:42 > 1:18:45"And the day he won that medal in the 60-yard dash.
1:18:45 > 1:18:49"And the first time he fell in love.
1:18:49 > 1:18:51"I remember that particularly
1:18:51 > 1:18:56"and how hard you tried to keep from being jealous of the girl
1:18:56 > 1:19:00"even though she was only 14.
1:19:00 > 1:19:03"I thought of the day he left college
1:19:03 > 1:19:07"and how heartbroken both of us were.
1:19:07 > 1:19:11"I remember his first blind anger with the world
1:19:11 > 1:19:13"when it reached out and slapped him.
1:19:15 > 1:19:20"But I remember most of all that for 23 years,
1:19:20 > 1:19:25"with all our blunders, we still have his respect.
1:19:25 > 1:19:27"That's pretty good.
1:19:28 > 1:19:30"I can scarcely wait
1:19:30 > 1:19:34"until I see him with gold oak leaves on his shoulders.
1:19:34 > 1:19:37"I'll come to attention and salute him.
1:19:37 > 1:19:41"I'll salute him very proudly.
1:19:42 > 1:19:44"But in my heart I'll be saying,
1:19:45 > 1:19:52"'Little son, what I really want is to put my arms around you
1:19:52 > 1:19:58"'and hold your head close to me and kiss your cheek.'
1:20:00 > 1:20:03"Strange to think he'd resent it,
1:20:03 > 1:20:06"our little son, who used to love it so."
1:20:12 > 1:20:14BABY CRIES
1:20:14 > 1:20:18MANYA: # Guten Abend, gute Nacht
1:20:19 > 1:20:24# Mit Rosen bedacht
1:20:24 > 1:20:28# Mit Naglein besteckt
1:20:28 > 1:20:32# Schlupf unter die Deck'
1:20:32 > 1:20:37# Morgen fruh, wenn Gott will
1:20:37 > 1:20:40# Wirst du wieder geweckt... #
1:21:02 > 1:21:04Hello.
1:21:04 > 1:21:06Mike!
1:21:11 > 1:21:13Oh, Mike, when did you get here?
1:21:13 > 1:21:16Why didn't you let me know you were coming?
1:21:16 > 1:21:20Oh, Mike, I could hardly believe it when I saw you!
1:21:20 > 1:21:24Mike, it's so good to have you home. Why don't you say something?
1:21:24 > 1:21:26This is Mike.
1:21:26 > 1:21:29- We had a slight hunch. - Mike, this is...
1:21:29 > 1:21:31Jo Jones.
1:21:31 > 1:21:34- Helen Stacey. Barbara Thomas. - Hello.
1:21:34 > 1:21:37- Where's Manya? - I met Manya.
1:21:37 > 1:21:39I know! It's Mike.
1:21:39 > 1:21:41He's pretty!
1:21:41 > 1:21:43Yes. Isn't he?
1:21:43 > 1:21:46Well, let's get acquainted. Mike, sit down.
1:21:46 > 1:21:49This calls for a drink. Port or sherry?
1:21:49 > 1:21:51- Oh, I don't think... - Sherry.
1:21:51 > 1:21:54- Why not take that coat off? - Well...
1:21:54 > 1:21:59When a man gets home, he takes his coat off. This is your home.
1:21:59 > 1:22:02- Do you want some sandwiches? - No, thank you.
1:22:02 > 1:22:04Why not take your shoes off?
1:22:04 > 1:22:09- Doris, get Chris's bedroom slippers. - I'll just take a second.
1:22:09 > 1:22:12Wait. I want you to take that stuff off your mouth!
1:22:12 > 1:22:17Manya's going out of her mind. She's throwing pots around.
1:22:17 > 1:22:20Take a glass. I wish it was stronger.
1:22:20 > 1:22:22I do wish you'd eat.
1:22:22 > 1:22:25Sit over here, where it's comfortable.
1:22:25 > 1:22:28You can prop your feet up and relax.
1:22:28 > 1:22:32HELEN: Maybe you'd like a bath. Jo, go and fix him a bath.
1:22:32 > 1:22:35- There. Is that better? - We need a fire.
1:22:35 > 1:22:38What does it take to make a house a home?
1:22:38 > 1:22:41I say it takes a fire and a man. I'll be right back.
1:22:41 > 1:22:44- Here's something to read. - Oh, no need.
1:22:44 > 1:22:46I think you need a nice bath.
1:22:46 > 1:22:48But he says he just had a bath.
1:22:48 > 1:22:51Well, he must want something.
1:22:51 > 1:22:54All right. What do you want? Huh?
1:22:54 > 1:22:57- Well, I'd like to have... - Cigarette?
1:22:57 > 1:22:59Oh, no. Keep them all.
1:22:59 > 1:23:04The Dumbrowskis - aren't they cute? We'll help you get dinner.
1:23:04 > 1:23:08- Oh, no.- Manya, this is special. We're going out for extras.
1:23:08 > 1:23:13I've got beef soup, stuffed cabbage, sour cream and apples.
1:23:13 > 1:23:16Now, let us have fun, too, Manya.
1:23:16 > 1:23:18Why don't we each cook our best dish?
1:23:18 > 1:23:23Oh, wonderful idea. I'll do steaks. George loved them.
1:23:23 > 1:23:27- Mit stuffed cabbage? - Oh, Pete's crazy about oysters.
1:23:27 > 1:23:29- Mit stuffed cabbage? - It's too much.
1:23:29 > 1:23:34No. Oysters first. Then cabbage as an hors d'oeuvre. Then steak.
1:23:34 > 1:23:37OK. Then I'll make dessert. Pumpkin pie.
1:23:37 > 1:23:39Chris ate two whole pies once.
1:23:39 > 1:23:42Mit stuffed cabbage! We need plenty of butter.
1:23:42 > 1:23:44Have we got the ration book?
1:23:44 > 1:23:48Well, mine's upstairs. I'll see you all later.
1:23:48 > 1:23:52Oh, you need anything, Manya? Nein!
1:23:52 > 1:23:55Baked oysters and pumpkin pie!
1:23:55 > 1:23:57Steak and whipped cream!
1:23:57 > 1:23:59Mit stuffed cabbage!
1:23:59 > 1:24:01Grauslich.
1:24:04 > 1:24:06Grauslich.
1:24:06 > 1:24:09I haven't had a chance to say it yet, Doris,
1:24:09 > 1:24:12but I'm almost afraid to touch you.
1:24:12 > 1:24:14Don't be.
1:24:20 > 1:24:24- Oh, boy! Look at that. - Are they all right?
1:24:24 > 1:24:26Beautiful! Maybe even with cabbage.
1:24:26 > 1:24:28Well, here goes.
1:24:28 > 1:24:30Good luck.
1:24:35 > 1:24:38There. I haven't made them for so long,
1:24:38 > 1:24:40I hope they'll be all right.
1:24:40 > 1:24:42Well...
1:24:42 > 1:24:44Here. Give me your plate.
1:24:44 > 1:24:45What's the matter?
1:24:45 > 1:24:48- Are they oysters? - Yes.
1:24:48 > 1:24:50They make me sick.
1:24:50 > 1:24:52Well, what do we do?
1:24:52 > 1:24:55I don't know, but I can't eat them.
1:24:55 > 1:24:58Give me your plate. We'll think of something.
1:24:58 > 1:25:00The cat.
1:25:00 > 1:25:01Here, kitty!
1:25:03 > 1:25:06- Cats love fish, don't they? - I think so.
1:25:06 > 1:25:08Here. Have an oyster.
1:25:08 > 1:25:11- Oh, they're too hot. - Wait a minute, kitty.
1:25:11 > 1:25:16Oh, we'll never have time to cool them off. Give them to me.
1:25:22 > 1:25:26It's a mean thing to do, but we can't hurt her feelings.
1:25:30 > 1:25:32I'll eat mine.
1:25:39 > 1:25:43I don't see how you can do it. They make me double up.
1:25:46 > 1:25:49Well, I knew six wouldn't be enough.
1:25:49 > 1:25:55There. I think you'd like my husband. He's an oyster eater, too.
1:26:05 > 1:26:08Such an appetite! Three stuffed cabbages.
1:26:08 > 1:26:12- And two helpings of oysters. - And he's on his second steak.
1:26:12 > 1:26:17- Well, he'll be ready for dessert. - The Army serves such plain food.
1:26:17 > 1:26:20It's a pleasure to see them eat.
1:26:20 > 1:26:23- DOORBELL - Oh, I'll get it. I'll get it.
1:26:26 > 1:26:29- Somebody's at the door. - Yes, I'll get it.
1:26:29 > 1:26:32- Sit down, Mike. - Don't you like fish?
1:26:32 > 1:26:37Oh, Jo, it's just been terrible. Fish makes him sick. >
1:26:37 > 1:26:39He doubles up and gets the bends. >
1:26:39 > 1:26:44- Oh, it's just been awful! - Now, don't think a thing about it.
1:26:44 > 1:26:48If we hadn't been such fools, we'd have asked him what he liked.
1:26:48 > 1:26:51You see, Mike, you're in a funny spot tonight.
1:26:51 > 1:26:54We've all got the idea you're OUR husband,
1:26:54 > 1:26:57so we've been cooking what our husbands like.
1:26:57 > 1:27:02Oh, that's OK. Only, I'll have to clean that fireplace.
1:27:02 > 1:27:06Look. I've got pumpkin pie for dessert. Do you like it?
1:27:06 > 1:27:09- Tell the truth. - I love it.
1:27:09 > 1:27:11- DOORBELL - Coming!
1:27:11 > 1:27:14Look, I'll clear this up and serve dessert.
1:27:14 > 1:27:16Then I'll make some sandwiches. OK?
1:27:16 > 1:27:18Oh, I'm so glad you understand!
1:27:20 > 1:27:23And I'll get this downstairs cleared,
1:27:23 > 1:27:26if I have to use a baseball bat.
1:27:27 > 1:27:31Look, honey. Is this 975 West Adam Street?
1:27:31 > 1:27:35- No, this is 957. - I mean 957. Oh, thank goodness!
1:27:35 > 1:27:39I've got a telegram for 957 West Adam Street.
1:27:39 > 1:27:40Sign here, please.
1:27:40 > 1:27:45It's hard to see things in this dim-out. Especially house numbers.
1:27:45 > 1:27:47Here's your telegram.
1:28:08 > 1:28:10MIKE AND DORIS LAUGH TOGETHER
1:29:34 > 1:29:37Wake up, Chris.
1:29:37 > 1:29:40I'm sorry to have to wake you up like this...
1:29:42 > 1:29:44..but I've got to talk to somebody.
1:29:47 > 1:29:50I can't talk to them downstairs,
1:29:50 > 1:29:53because they're having a wedding down there.
1:29:53 > 1:29:56And you're the only one I can tell it to.
1:29:58 > 1:30:03I guess this is just a private thing between you and me, anyway.
1:30:03 > 1:30:06Years from now, I'll still be telling you
1:30:06 > 1:30:09how I stood there beside the train...
1:30:09 > 1:30:13'..a train like this. You'll be waiting, and I'll jump off.
1:30:13 > 1:30:18'I'll pick you up off the ground, kiss you, and take you off.'
1:30:35 > 1:30:37Little guy...
1:30:37 > 1:30:39this is your father.
1:30:41 > 1:30:42Chris...
1:30:44 > 1:30:46..this is your son.
1:30:47 > 1:30:50You two aren't ever going to meet.
1:30:51 > 1:30:56Only through me will you ever know anything about each other.
1:30:56 > 1:30:59So, now I'm making my introductions.
1:31:00 > 1:31:04This is the kid you never wanted till you met me, Chris.
1:31:04 > 1:31:07And this is your dad, young fella.
1:31:07 > 1:31:09'I think I've been loving you...
1:31:09 > 1:31:14'since the time you hit me on the forehead with a clinker.'
1:31:15 > 1:31:18I knew him when he wasn't much bigger than you.
1:31:18 > 1:31:20Well, maybe a little bigger.
1:31:22 > 1:31:25You've got his eyes.
1:31:25 > 1:31:27And that mop of hair.
1:31:27 > 1:31:31I mean that one hair on your head that never stays in place.
1:31:32 > 1:31:35It's your dad coming out, all right.
1:31:36 > 1:31:38It seems funny to call him your dad.
1:31:40 > 1:31:42He was such a baby himself.
1:31:45 > 1:31:48Just by having grown up with him,
1:31:48 > 1:31:51I know everything that will happen to you.
1:31:51 > 1:31:52When you're seven,
1:31:52 > 1:31:56some girl's going to hit you on the head with a clinker.
1:31:56 > 1:31:58And when you're ten...
1:31:58 > 1:32:00you're going to cut her hair.
1:32:00 > 1:32:05And when you're 15, you're going to take her to her first dance...
1:32:05 > 1:32:07and break her heart.
1:32:10 > 1:32:13You see, little guy, I know the ropes.
1:32:14 > 1:32:18'I've kind of made some plans about that kid of ours.
1:32:18 > 1:32:21'I want him to have the best of everything, the very best,
1:32:21 > 1:32:24'from the minute he's born.'
1:32:24 > 1:32:26Remember him, son.
1:32:26 > 1:32:30Remember your father as long as you live.
1:32:30 > 1:32:32He was a fine man, Chris boy.
1:32:33 > 1:32:35He never made speeches,
1:32:35 > 1:32:37but he went out and died,
1:32:37 > 1:32:41so that you could have a better break when you grow up,
1:32:41 > 1:32:43than he ever had.
1:32:43 > 1:32:46Not the same break, but a better one,
1:32:46 > 1:32:50because he did a lot of thinking about you...
1:32:50 > 1:32:51in his own way.
1:32:54 > 1:32:57Never forget it, little guy.
1:32:57 > 1:33:00Never forget it.
1:33:00 > 1:33:03'A big back yard with a vegetable patch.
1:33:03 > 1:33:05A place for him to play.'
1:33:09 > 1:33:11He didn't leave you any money.
1:33:12 > 1:33:14He didn't have time, Chris boy.
1:33:16 > 1:33:18No million dollars or country clubs
1:33:18 > 1:33:20or long, shiny cars for you, little guy.
1:33:23 > 1:33:29He only left you the best world a boy could ever grow up in.
1:33:29 > 1:33:33He bought it for you with his life.
1:33:33 > 1:33:35That's your heritage.
1:33:35 > 1:33:37A personal gift to you...
1:33:38 > 1:33:40..from your dad.
1:33:41 > 1:33:44And one more thing.
1:33:44 > 1:33:46As long as you live,
1:33:46 > 1:33:50don't let anybody ever say he died for nothing,
1:33:50 > 1:33:55because, if you let them say it, you let them call your dad a fool.
1:33:55 > 1:33:59You let them say he died without knowing what it was all about.
1:33:59 > 1:34:02'..to be free to live with you,
1:34:02 > 1:34:04'with enough food, in our own home.
1:34:06 > 1:34:09'That's what the war is about, I guess.'
1:34:09 > 1:34:11He died for a good thing, little guy.
1:34:12 > 1:34:17And if you ever betray it, if you ever let it slip away from you,
1:34:17 > 1:34:22if you ever let anybody talk you out of it, or swindle you out of it,
1:34:22 > 1:34:24or fight you out of it...
1:34:25 > 1:34:27..you might as well be dead, too.
1:34:30 > 1:34:32So, hang on to it, sweetie.
1:34:32 > 1:34:36Clutch on to it with those tiny little fingers.
1:34:37 > 1:34:40Grab on to it, Chris boy.
1:34:40 > 1:34:44Grab it right out of your dad's hands and hold it high.
1:34:44 > 1:34:46Hold it proud.
1:34:58 > 1:35:00MANYA: Oh, Jo! Come on down.
1:35:00 > 1:35:03It's time for you to serve the dessert.
1:35:16 > 1:35:18BABY GURGLES AND CRIES
1:35:22 > 1:35:25Don't worry, Chris. He'll grow up to be a good guy.
1:35:36 > 1:35:38Good night, Chris.
1:35:40 > 1:35:42Good night, Chris.
1:35:55 > 1:35:57SHE CRIES
1:36:00 > 1:36:03'No matter how tough things are,
1:36:03 > 1:36:07'no matter how bad they seem,
1:36:07 > 1:36:10'think of him, and you'll come through.
1:36:11 > 1:36:14'Come on, Jo. Head up.
1:36:14 > 1:36:17'Take it on the chin like a good guy.
1:36:17 > 1:36:19'Like a soldier's wife should.'