02:10Going home to the islands when you could have stayed in Hollywood with all them actresses around?
02:15I give it some thought.
02:17There's a casino.
02:19I'm your pigeon.
02:22How many passengers this trip?
02:24Yeah, just one besides you.
02:27Hey.
02:29Did you ever meet this Marlene V. Pitch up close?
02:32Apart from here to there.
02:34Sexy.
02:36Very good.
02:37You know, I saw that picture of hers three times where she sang that song and had those long black stockings and that black garna belt.
02:45That gal hasn't got a thing out of place.
02:49Say, your other passenger isn't so bad.
02:51Oh.
02:53The company's got strict rules.
02:55Business and pleasure don't mix.
02:58Building tents.
02:58Why'd the police bring her aboard?
03:02Pick her this with the big casino.
03:05The cops just wanted to make sure she got out of town.
03:09Why?
03:10What are you gonna do?
03:11Put her in a book or something?
03:12Maybe.
03:13Stay away from that one, son.
03:15It'll cost you.
03:15She takes guys like you to the cleaners.
03:19Might be worthwhile.
03:21Too expensive.
03:26You know, when a lady's down to her last five bucks, a landlubber like you is made to order for her.
03:30And, uh, this lady knows her business.
03:35Except she ain't no lady.
03:37You mind if I have some coffee?
03:42Help yourself.
03:46Miss Stover?
03:48Mr. Blair.
03:49Hello.
03:49How you do?
03:54Captain, you ever been in Leesburg, Mississippi?
03:57No.
03:58Must have been your brother then.
04:00What do you mean?
04:01There's somebody there that looks like me?
04:02You're twin.
04:04Well, what's he do?
04:05Run the town?
04:08Nope.
04:08He stands in front of the courthouse and scratches himself and gocks at the girls.
04:13Makes dirty jokes and thinks he's quite a guy.
04:20You know, Captain, when a sailor runs off at the mouth, he ought to have a napkin handy to wipe his chin.
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05:00I'm sorry.
05:13Yeah?
05:14It's Jim Blair.
05:16I'd like to apologize for that gabbing in the wardrobe.
05:21So go dry on yourself, will you?
05:30I'd like to try that apology again, Miss Stover.
05:36It's not important. I've heard gutter talk before.
05:39Well, I'm really sorry it happened.
05:42Well, maybe you'd like to do me a favor.
05:45Drowning myself is out.
05:47No, you can go out living.
05:49But stop pounding that typewriter all night so I can get some sleep.
05:52Chalk up one more apology.
05:54The rest of the trip home, I'll do my writing in the daytime.
05:58What kind of things do you write?
06:00Fiction. Magazines, mostly.
06:03Do you ever buy any ideas, like, say, part of somebody's life story?
06:08Yours?
06:10Maybe.
06:11Your story's been done.
06:14Me, Mamie Stover?
06:16Don't be silly. I've never talked to a writer in my life.
06:19Only the names and geography change. The people don't.
06:22Let's see, you're, uh, 26.
06:26Any family?
06:27My father still lives in Leesburg.
06:30Boy, it makes it simple.
06:32Back in 1930...
06:34In 1933, Mamie Stover was going to graduate from Leesburg High.
06:39The best-looking girl in her class, but not the happiest.
06:42Cinderella, but no gown, no coach.
06:47She never had any pretty clothes because her father, Tom Stover, drank up the few bucks he made.
06:52Pop's name was Gus, and he didn't drink.
06:55He didn't do much of anything.
06:57But Gus Stover's daughter had one thing, her looks.
07:01The men said she was hot as a smokestack.
07:04And all his attention worried Mother Stover.
07:06Mom died a week before graduation.
07:11Who sponsored the beauty contest, Mamie? A legion of the elves.
07:15You make it sound like it happens every day.
07:17Well, it does.
07:18I work newspapers that sponsor beauty contests.
07:22I know all about these shapely cinderellas and the yearning hearts, and what happens to most of them.
07:26The only thing I can't understand is why they don't go home.
07:33You marry some have-nots like my old man.
07:38I went home once, about a year later.
07:41I'd saved up a couple hundred dollars, made a big splash.
07:45A one doll think I was rich and I'd made good.
07:49I sure got a boot out of my old man.
07:51He told them all down at the courthouse that I was going to buy him a big house and servants one of these days.
07:58And now the door is closed?
08:00I closed it.
08:03There's only two kinds of people that go home.
08:06The failures, the crawling in the back way.
08:08And the successful ones that ride down the main street in a big car while the band plays Welcome Home.
08:15I'll wait for that car.
08:21Me, I'll see you.
08:30I'll see you here.
08:31Flea fame principe.
08:34Leaning against the ship's railings, she looked out toward the horizon as if to penetrate what lay beyond.
08:37I like to stand here, she told, and it does me good.
08:40Makes me realize I have to look ahead.
08:43Only ahead, never back.
08:47Thought she said my life's been written before.
08:49Basically, it has, but you make it different.
08:51You're an interesting character study, baby.
08:53Like a fish in a bowl?
08:55Oh, of course not.
08:56Look, if you object, I'll get rid of it.
08:58Now, don't tear me up. Now, don't.
09:02Having a story written about you is almost as good as being a cover girl.
09:05You'll pardon me while I read about myself.
09:19You'll pardon me while I read about myself.
09:34You'll pardon me while I read about myself.
09:40You're Roy.
09:51I...
09:55Were you able to sleep?
09:57No.
09:59I mean, I don't think I could even respect myself...
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