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00:00Well, home from the movies at last.
00:07Looks like it, Aunt Maddie.
00:09What, Aunt?
00:11Hello, son.
00:12Well, daughter, how was the moving picture tonight?
00:15Mmm, lovely.
00:17Mush, that's what it was.
00:19Just a lot of mush.
00:20There wasn't anybody killed in the whole thing.
00:22Oh, well, then I'll stick to these.
00:24These don't talk.
00:25Well, that big cluck Norman Maine was in the picture tonight.
00:28Never does anything but kiss a lot of girls.
00:30Norman Maine is one of the best actors in pictures.
00:33You and your movies.
00:34That's all you think about.
00:35You shouldn't be allowed to go to them at all if you're asking me.
00:38Too bad I was so busy in the kitchen.
00:41I didn't hear anybody asking you.
00:44Hello, Granny.
00:45Hello, darling.
00:46Well, of course, no one ever listens to me.
00:48They do if they're within ten miles of you.
00:50Gathering around picture shows.
00:52House all cluttered up with movie magazines.
00:54And the other day, I caught her talking to a horse with a Swedish accent.
00:57Now, sis, we're only young once, you know.
01:03Ah, Hollywood.
01:06You'd better be getting yourself a good husband and stop mooning about Hollywood.
01:10Do you know what she wants to do?
01:12She wants to go to Hollywood.
01:15I've known it all along.
01:17I've seen her making faces in the mirror and talking to herself.
01:21That's what comes of your movies.
01:22Why, what would you do if you did go to Hollywood?
01:27I'd be an actress.
01:29I would, I tell you.
01:30I've always known I could.
01:32Guys, wouldn't it be wonderful to have a movie star in her family?
01:35Oh, Miss Blodgett, may I have your autograph?
01:37You may not know it, Alec, but you're practically on your way to bed.
01:41Oh, Miss Blodgett, you're my favorite actress.
01:43Won't you tell me the secret of your success?
01:44Oh, let me alone.
01:45I asked her what's come over you.
01:48I'll tell you what's come over her.
01:50She's just a silly little girl whose head has been turned by the movies.
01:53And the sooner she forgets the whole thing, the better off she'll be.
01:56Why will I be better off?
01:58What's wrong with wanting to get out and make something of myself?
02:00What do you do that's so much better?
02:02Just because you're satisfied to sit here all your life,
02:05you think you can laugh at me.
02:06Well, someday you won't laugh at me.
02:08I'm going out and have a real life.
02:09I'm going to be somebody.
02:15You know, if it was spring, I'd say give her a good dose of sulfur and molasses.
02:25Hmm, I thought I'd find you.
02:28Oh, stop that.
02:29Now, stop crying.
02:30That isn't going to do your bit for it.
02:32Oh, I'm crying because Aunt Maddie and Alec make me so mad.
02:35Oh, Alec and Aunt Maddie.
02:37Fitter sticks.
02:38They're not important.
02:39You're the only one that counts.
02:41Esther, everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things.
02:45That means laughter.
02:47Don't you know that?
02:48Oh, I suppose I do, but...
02:50But there's a difference between dreaming and doing.
02:53The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be
02:57if only things were different.
03:00And the years roll on when they grow old.
03:03And by and by they forget everything.
03:06Even about their dreams.
03:07Oh, I don't want to be like that.
03:09I want to be somebody.
03:11Oh, yes.
03:11Oh, yes.
03:12You want to be somebody.
03:13But you want it to be easy.
03:14Oh, you modern girls give me a pain.
03:18When I wanted something better,
03:19I came across those plains in a prairie schooner with your grandfather.
03:24Oh, everyone laughed at us as they did at all the other pioneers.
03:28They said this country would never be anything but a wilderness.
03:31We didn't believe that.
03:32We were going to make a new country.
03:35Besides, we wanted to see our dreams come true.
03:39Oh, Granny, it must have been wonderful.
03:42It was wonderful.
03:44But don't you think for one single minute that it was easy, Esther Blodgett?
03:49We burned in summer and we froze in winter.
03:52But we kept right on going and we didn't complain.
03:55Because we were doing what we wanted to do.
03:57Can you understand that?
04:01Yes, I can.
04:04Could you do it?
04:07Could you do it even if it broke your heart?
04:10Because remember, Esther, for every dream of yours you may come true,
04:14you'll pay the price in heartbreak.
04:16Oh, I know what I'm talking about.
04:22You may not believe it, but I was a young girl once.
04:27A very pretty young girl.
04:28A lot prettier than you are.
04:31And I was in love with your grandfather.
04:34And when some Indian devil put a bullet through him,
04:37that is, it had gone right straight through my heart, too.
04:40But I remembered all he taught me.
04:43And I went right on.
04:44I buried him out there in that wilderness with my own hands.
04:49And I went right on that same day.
04:52And I kept right on going.
04:55Even when your mother was born.
04:58Oh, Granny.
04:59I want to make it worthwhile.
05:06You know, Esther, there'll always be a wilderness to conquer.
05:10Maybe Hollywood's your wilderness now.
05:12From all I hear, it sounds like it.
05:17But if you've got one drop of my blood in your veins,
05:20you won't let Mattie or any of her kind break your heart.
05:24You'll go right out there and break it yourself.
05:28That's your right.
05:29Here.
05:33Oh, here, here.
05:34Stop that nonsense.
05:36Here.
05:38Take this and go to your Hollywood.
05:39Oh, I can't take your money.
05:41Well, why not?
05:42But you're saving.
05:43Well, I was only saving up from my funeral.
05:45Now I don't think I'm ever going to die.
05:47Oh, Granny.
05:48How can I ever thank you?
05:50By giving me your word of honor
05:51that you'll never tell a living soul
05:53where you got that money.
05:55I promise.
05:56Remember, if you do,
05:58I'll have you arrested for robbing me.
06:07Oh, hey, hey, hey.
06:09Here we are.
06:11I'll help you, Granny.
06:12Oh, I can make it, dear.
06:15Oh, my excuse.
06:18Oh, I kissed Dad goodbye.
06:19Just a little kiss.
06:20He didn't even wake up.
06:21I bet you didn't try that on your Aunt Mattie.
06:23Oh, Aunt Mattie.
06:24Think of her face when you tell her.
06:25I am thinking about it.
06:27I've waited for that chance for 30 years.
06:30There she is, girl.
06:32Oh, thank you, Granny.
06:33Good.
06:33Good.
06:33Good.
06:34Come on, come on.
06:41Here's your picture.
06:42Prairie schooler.
06:55All aboard.
06:57Oh, Granny.
07:00Go on, go on, go on, go on.
07:04Goodbye, Granny.
07:06Goodbye.
07:07I've been waiting for you in those movie pictures.
07:10Don't tell Mattie.
07:11You know, my eyes are not as good as they used to be, but my ears are all right.
07:16So you'll remember.
07:17Talk up more than loud.
07:21All aboard.
07:23Goodbye.
07:25Bye.
07:26Bye.
07:28Bye, Granny.
07:31Bye.
07:32Bye.
07:32Bye.
07:32Bye.
07:32Bye.
07:38Do you want to go home now?
07:40I don't want to.
07:41But I will.
07:43Bye.
07:59Bye.
08:00The End
08:30The End
09:00The End
09:30Good afternoon
09:46Day, week, or month?
09:50It's a little hard to say. You see, I'm going into the movies.
09:53Well, you better take it for a week. It'll break your jump to Beverly Hills.
09:57Are all the studios really near here?
10:00All except
10:01Goldmont British.
10:03I suppose the best way to get a job is to go straight to the studios, isn't it?
10:07I haven't any illusions, you know. I'm perfectly willing to begin with a little bit of a part, or even as an extra.
10:12Six dollars, please.
10:14In advance.
10:15Oh.
10:16Oh.
10:16Oh.
10:17Oh.
10:17Oh.
10:18Oh.
10:19Oh.
10:21Oh.
10:22Oh.
10:22THE END
10:52THE END
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