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00:00Scott Paper Company takes pleasure in presenting Robert Young and Jane Wyatt with Eleanor Donoghue,
00:18Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin in Father Knows Best.
00:23Bills, circulars, more bills. Is that the best you can do for me, Harry?
00:33Now, here's a letter you don't get every day. It's from the principal of the school, Mr. Sheffield.
00:38Well, what do you know?
00:40What is it?
00:42Just a little note from Mr. Sheffield advising me that Kathy wrote the best Thanksgiving poem of the fourth grade.
00:48Kathy? Say, she must be pretty good. That's a big class she's in, 20 or 30 youngsters.
00:54Oh, it's nothing, really. All in a lifetime, Harry.
00:57Oh, don't kid me, Jim. I happen to be a father, too.
01:01Well...
01:02So long, Harry.
01:03See you tomorrow.
01:05Shall I compare thee with a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
01:12Rough winds do shake thee, darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date.
01:20Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dim.
01:26And every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or ever-changing course untrimmed.
01:32William Shakespeare.
01:34Kathleen Anderson.
01:37Kathy wrote the best poem?
01:39Out of 60 children. At least.
01:41I'd love to read it. Where is it?
01:44Oh, I haven't read it myself. They probably have it under lock and key.
01:47I might be able to persuade Kathy to give you an autographed copy.
01:50Oh, that would be very nice, Mr. Anderson.
01:53Somehow, I never pictured Kathy as a poet.
01:57I think I've always known that she has the soul of an artist.
02:01My own sweet, delicate, gentle little Kathy.
02:06Sing my own song, Kathy!
02:08I'm ready to play!
02:09Hey!
02:10Hey!
02:14Sing my own song, Kathy!
02:16Yes, Mommy?
02:17Well, if you have to yell, yell softly.
02:20I'm developing my lungs.
02:21You're developing my nerves.
02:23What are you going to do to get rid of me?
02:25I'm going to send you to the store for some bread.
02:27Can I get some raisins too?
02:29Raisins?
02:30I want to build up my muscles for the football season.
02:33Okay, champ.
02:39Oh, really, Mother? Aren't you a little old to be playing football?
02:42This belongs to Kathy, not to me.
02:45When is she going to start acting like a lady anyway?
02:48Apparently not until after the football season is over.
02:50Well, I'll get it.
02:51Daddy!
02:52Every time that phone rings, you act as though someone's going to run away with it.
02:55I'm sorry, Mother.
02:57Oh, signals two, four, six, eight.
03:00Margaret!
03:01But Jim!
03:03What are you doing home so early?
03:04Breeze there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said,
03:09This is my own, my native land, whose heart within him ne'er hath burned.
03:14At home his footsteps he hath turned.
03:16Jim, are you coming down with a cold?
03:19Nothing like that, my dear.
03:20And where is the little celebrity?
03:25Who?
03:25Kathleen, who else?
03:27Oh, she's down at the store buying raisins for her muscles.
03:30Mother, that was the newspaper.
03:32Hey, hello, Father, wanted to talk to Kathy.
03:34There's nothing, hello, Betty, surprising about that.
03:36Oh, they just probably want our predictions on the Thanksgiving Day football game.
03:40Why, Father, what are you doing home at this hour of the day?
03:43I come bearing news of import, tidings of great merit.
03:47Father, I just asked a simple question.
03:51An announcement of great magnitude.
03:53Hi, Dad, you home?
03:55What do you think I am, an ice cube?
03:57Well, your father's not in the refrigerator.
04:00Father, you haven't answered my question yet.
04:02I just thought I'd drop in unexpectedly with a little surprise for all of you.
04:06Claude Mesner's father dropped in unexpectedly one day and surprised everybody.
04:09Oh?
04:10Well, the painter was there and they forgot to tell him, see?
04:13And when he walked into the hall, the painter was painting over the door on a stepladder.
04:17Boy, I guess everybody was surprised.
04:21Jim, what is the surprise?
04:24Well, Kathleen wrote the prize-winning poem of her class, that's all.
04:29Kathy?
04:29Mm-hmm.
04:30Why, she didn't say anything about it.
04:32Well, she's modest.
04:33Kathy, modest?
04:35God, Mesner won a contest.
04:37Never mind, bud.
04:37He was the only boy in Springfield High that could hold a peanut between his toes
04:40and turn a handspring at the same time without losing it.
04:42But we are discussing the subject of poetry, not Claude Mesner's toes.
04:50Your little sister has brought honor and fame to all of us, and this may be just the beginning.
04:56Next will be short stories, then a novel.
04:59She'll be famous, recognized the world over.
05:02I can see it now, a mansion on a hill overlooking the ocean, quiet, secluded.
05:07People will drive by, point to it, and say, there lives Kathleen Louise Anderson.
05:15Well, what do you say to that?
05:17How soon do you think she can move out?
05:18You don't seem to realize that this is a memorable occasion.
05:23In fact, I think it calls for a celebration.
05:26I know.
05:27Tomorrow being Thanksgiving, instead of eating here, we'll have our Thanksgiving dinner at the
05:30most expensive restaurant in town.
05:32Not eat here?
05:33Well, the Littles are having a 15-pound turkey for their dinner.
05:36Well, Jim, I've already ordered ours.
05:38Cancel it, Margaret.
05:39We'll have a party with no fuss, no muss, and Kathy will be our guest of honor.
05:44Well, suppose they don't have turkey?
05:45It's Thanksgiving. Of course they'll have turkey.
05:49Well, I suppose Kathy would be very thrilled.
05:52Mommy!
05:53She's home!
05:54Stay where you are, kitten!
05:55Uh, now remember, listen.
05:57When Kathy tells us about the poem, I want you all to show her how pleased we are.
06:06And surprised.
06:07Sure, Dad, you can count on me.
06:11Come on.
06:11Oh, welcome home, Kathy.
06:14Come on in, sweetheart.
06:16Hello, kitten.
06:18Oh, hi, funny face.
06:20Hi, bud.
06:22I ain't done nothing to nobody.
06:26This is a poet?
06:27Bud.
06:29Haven't you got something to tell us?
06:31Who's been squealing on me?
06:34Somehow the word squeal isn't becoming to someone in your capacity now.
06:39How about snitch?
06:41Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent.
06:45The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown.
06:49Doesn't that remind you of something, sweetheart?
06:53Uh-huh.
06:54You're mad about something.
06:56Mad?
06:58Kathleen, why don't you tell us about the poem you wrote at school?
07:02You know, the one you wrote that won the contest.
07:05Oh, that.
07:06Oh, that.
07:08Oh, that indeed.
07:10Oh, honey, we're so proud of you.
07:13And surprised.
07:15Oh, Kathy, you didn't.
07:18You didn't.
07:19I'm surprised.
07:20I'm surprised.
07:22My little sister, I'm surprised.
07:25I'm surprised.
07:26Bud.
07:28You told me to be surprised.
07:29I didn't ask you to unravel.
07:31Why didn't you tell us about it, dear?
07:36Because it's not much.
07:37Just an old poem.
07:39Well, I think it's utterly fascinating.
07:42Wasn't it hard?
07:43No.
07:44There, you see?
07:45Comes naturally.
07:46Real genius.
07:48Are you going to let us read it?
07:50Well, if you want to.
07:51We certainly do.
08:01Here it is.
08:15Just think.
08:16The original manuscript.
08:19It's a poem, Daddy.
08:20It's more than that, Kathy.
08:22This is a great moment.
08:24That moment in an author's life when talent is recognized.
08:28It must have happened to Emily Bronte and William Shakespeare.
08:32And now to you.
08:35This is a moment to be remembered.
08:36Even rewarded.
08:38Tell me, Kathleen.
08:39What gifts can I shower upon you?
08:41What prize can I lay at your feet?
08:45I want some football spikes on my shoes like Bud's got.
08:49They don't cost much, Daddy.
08:51I'll go up and get Bud's shoes and show you what I mean.
08:53Did you hear what she said?
08:58What did you expect her to ask for?
09:00The Encyclopedia Britannica?
09:04Well, I think I'll take a nap.
09:05Don't you want to hear Kathy's poem?
09:07No, I'm awful tired from being so surprised.
09:10I'm awful tired from being so surprised.
09:17Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Anderson.
09:22Kathleen Joy Anderson.
09:24What's with that Joy business?
09:25Her name is Louise, not Joy.
09:27Oh, Jim, she changed it some time ago.
09:29It's just a middle name.
09:30Changed it? Why?
09:31She didn't like the name Louise.
09:34Well, it's my mother's name.
09:35And if it's good enough for my mother, it's good enough for her.
09:38Yeah, it's just a middle name.
09:39My grandmother and her mother were both named Louise,
09:41and there's no reason why she should want to change it.
09:43All right, Jim.
09:44And she's not going to change it.
09:45Read the poem, Father.
09:46You can fight over the name later.
09:50You read it.
09:51You're the actress in the family.
09:53And read it with feeling.
09:56Thanksgiving is a happy day for all the girls and boys.
10:00It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
10:05It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter bunny.
10:09Or even like your birthday when your uncle sends you money.
10:13Wait a minute.
10:14Sends her money?
10:15She's nine years old.
10:16He's never sent her a box top.
10:17Jim Anderson, I know you don't like him, but he's been very good to my sister.
10:20And if Kathy needs him for pawns...
10:21Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and now your brother-in-law.
10:24What a combination.
10:26Go ahead, Betty.
10:27Where was I?
10:29Your uncle was sending us money.
10:30It isn't like the 4th of July, or deco... decoration day, or summer vacation, or Halloween.
10:39I thought this was a poem about Thanksgiving.
10:41She'll get to it pretty soon.
10:42It's the only holiday she hasn't mentioned.
10:44Mother, make father be quiet.
10:45I'll be quiet.
10:46Oh, where shall I start?
10:49Start after the funny part where your uncle sends us money.
10:52Thanksgiving is a different day.
10:54The day I like the best.
10:57It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day of rest.
11:00Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
11:04Those skies are gray and murky.
11:08Cause that's the day when I get to eat the drumstick of a turkey.
11:13You see, it's about Thanksgiving.
11:16I'll get it.
11:19Well?
11:19Oh, she's only in the 4th grade, dear.
11:22What did you expect? Shakespeare?
11:23So I expected too much.
11:25That's the privilege of being a father.
11:27It's a very sweet poem.
11:29It's just that I expect a Thanksgiving poem to be about Thanksgiving, that's all.
11:33Not about some money-squeezing, penny-pinching uncle.
11:36Now, that has nothing to do with it, dear.
11:37You know it.
11:37Now, what's bothering you?
11:38Nothing's bothering me.
11:39Jim, what is it?
11:43Oh, it's just that I called practically everybody in town and bragged a little too much.
11:48Father, that was the newspaper calling again.
11:50And they said the school Thanksgiving program is going to be televised.
11:53Televised?
11:54Well, that's very nice.
11:55And they want Kathy to recite her poem.
11:57This poem?
11:59Tomorrow at 2.30.
12:01You mean she has to read this nonsense for the whole world to hear?
12:05That's right.
12:05Why?
12:07Because it's the best poem in the 4th grade.
12:09Oh, no.
12:10Jim Anderson, I've never seen you so unreasonable.
12:14Well, I guess it's better than watching her play Left End for Notre Dame.
12:18Well, Margaret, how does it feel to be a lady of leisure on Thanksgiving Day?
12:29Fine.
12:31Funny thing, I offered to drive Kathy down to the station and she turned me down.
12:35Well, she promised to go down with Patty Davis.
12:37I don't know.
12:38Something seemed to be bothering her.
12:40She was so polite to me at breakfast.
12:43I guess that's what's worrying me.
12:44She's never been on television before.
12:46I think she was nervous.
12:48Maybe.
12:49Bye, Dad.
12:50Bye, Mom.
12:50Bud?
12:52What are you doing?
12:53Moving out?
12:53I just thought I'd borrow your suitcase.
12:55That's all.
12:55I have to have something to carry the football letters in.
12:57They're going to give them out to the dinner and...
12:59Take it back where you got it.
13:01Well, it's not going to hurt anything.
13:03That isn't the point.
13:03You have no right to take anything without asking first.
13:06Well, you were busy.
13:06I tried to a while ago when you were shaving, remember?
13:09I said, Dad, and then you said you thought it'd be wonderful for us to have
13:12Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant for a change.
13:15And then I said, Dad, and you said...
13:17It's about time Margaret got a vacation from cooking.
13:19And I said, Dad, and then you said...
13:21Bud.
13:22Yes, sir?
13:23Take the suitcase.
13:25And next time, ask me first.
13:27I tried to.
13:28I said, Dad...
13:29Bud.
13:30Okay, so long.
13:36Sometimes, Margaret, I wonder.
13:39Wait a minute.
13:40If Bud's going to have dinner with the football team, how can he eat with us?
13:43I forgot to tell you.
13:45He said that as long as we were eating out, he'd like to have dinner with the team.
13:51Well, then, just the four of us.
13:53The three of us.
13:54The littles asked Betty to eat with them.
13:56Oh?
13:57Oh, she didn't think you'd mind as long as we were eating out.
14:02No, no, of course not.
14:05I still think it's a good idea, eating out.
14:07Oh, I do too.
14:11Quiet, isn't it?
14:13Very.
14:15It does us good to get the kids out once in a while.
14:18It gives us a chance to relax, take things easy, read the papers, things.
14:27I know what you mean, dear.
14:29All that shouting and excitement and running up and down stairs is absolutely unnecessary, isn't it?
14:36I suppose so.
14:38You standing over a hot stove all Thanksgiving day.
14:41I never minded that, dear.
14:43Basting the turkey.
14:45It was always sort of fun.
14:47Good heavens, the program started.
14:58Thank you very much, Deborah Grady.
15:00That was very nice.
15:01Our next winner is a young lady by the name of Kathleen.
15:14Kathleen Joy.
15:16Oh, I guess it's Louise.
15:19Kathleen Louise Anderson.
15:22Miss Anderson will read the poem that won her the competition in the fourth grade.
15:26Oh, why don't they just do it and get it over with?
15:28Don't be so impatient.
15:29You'd think she was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the way he's introducing her.
15:33Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kathleen Louise Anderson.
15:43She's only half on the screen.
15:45Maybe she'll just read half the poem.
15:47Yeah, she looks scared.
15:50Take a look at me.
15:51Come on.
15:58Now, read your poem, Kathleen.
16:02Thanksgiving is a happy day.
16:08Go ahead.
16:10Why doesn't she say something?
16:12Go ahead, Kathleen.
16:13You can't shut her up at home.
16:14I'm sure you can do it, Kathleen.
16:19I don't like the way he's talking to her.
16:21After all, he doesn't have to force her.
16:23Please, Miss Anderson, say something.
16:27I want my mommy and daddy.
16:29Oh, my poor little baby.
16:31Oh, Jim, how awful.
16:35I'm going down to the station and bring her home.
16:37Oh, the poor darling.
16:38Miss Anderson just remembered a previous engagement.
16:41In the meantime, we're happy to present the Springfield...
16:44Where's my hat?
16:45I don't know where your hat is.
16:48No wonder she didn't know what to say the way they scared her half to death.
16:52You'd think that announcer had better sense.
16:54Shouting at her.
16:56Just a youngster.
16:57Children have to be treated differently.
16:59Jimmy Durante would be upset on that program.
17:02He was practically screaming at her.
17:03Jimmy, don't have it.
17:05Why not?
17:05They're going to send her home to your studio in a studio car.
17:09Oh.
17:10Oh.
17:12I feel terrible.
17:18Oh, Kathy will be all right, dear.
17:21By the time she's working on her second drumstick, she'll have forgotten all about it.
17:26I'll get my coat and we'll be all ready to leave the moment she arrives.
17:30Margaret.
17:31Yes, dear?
17:32Do you mind terribly if we, uh, don't eat out?
17:37I don't mind, dear.
17:38I know.
17:39I promised you dinner.
17:40But, well, I'd just rather eat here.
17:44I'm afraid there isn't anything to eat.
17:46Oh, I saw some hamburger in the ice box.
17:48Hamburger on Thanksgiving?
17:52Well, to be perfectly honest, it just doesn't seem like Thanksgiving.
17:56It was always a special sort of day to me, even when I was a boy.
18:05A time when the whole family got together and had fun.
18:11I know.
18:12We used to do that, too.
18:14In fact, there were so many of us, we had to eat in shifts.
18:18We used to play games after dinner.
18:20So did we.
18:22Then we'd gather around the piano and sing.
18:25There's something different about Thanksgiving.
18:27It's more than just a holiday.
18:30I think that's what Kathy was trying to say in her poem, Jim.
18:34Didn't she say something about it being a happy day?
18:37She did say that, didn't she?
18:41She said, Thanksgiving is a happy day for all the girls and boys.
18:48It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
18:53It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter bunny.
18:56Or even like your birthday when your uncle...
19:05See what you can do with the hamburgers, will you, honey?
19:07I'll be, uh, reception committee for Kathy.
19:11All right, dear.
19:11All right, dear.
19:37Hello, kitten.
19:39Hi, Daddy.
19:41Hi, Mommy.
19:42Oh, there, there, honey.
19:54What's an old poem, anyway?
19:57Daddy didn't think it was any good.
20:00Oh, kitten, that's not true.
20:02Yes, it is.
20:04I heard him say it.
20:05Ow.
20:10Listen to me, honey.
20:12You're right.
20:12I, I didn't think it was too good.
20:16But I was wrong.
20:17You see, I, I expected it to be perfect.
20:20Let me tell you something that happened to me once when I was in school.
20:26I was asked to give my opinion of a poem.
20:29I did.
20:29I said it was the worst thing I'd ever heard in my life.
20:32You know, that poem was written by William Shakespeare, probably one of the greatest poets that ever lived.
20:41I never did live that down.
20:43Then I guess you don't know too much about poetry, do you, Daddy?
20:48Not a thing.
20:51That's okay.
20:51I forgive you.
20:53Anybody home?
20:54Hi, sis.
20:58Hi, Dad.
21:02Blood, what are you doing home?
21:05Oh, I don't know.
21:07Bunch of goofs sitting around talking about football.
21:10What good is that?
21:11What about your dinner with the team?
21:14Guess I just wasn't hungry.
21:16Wasn't hungry?
21:17You?
21:17I am now, though.
21:19Anybody home?
21:24Oh, hi, sis.
21:25Hi.
21:26Betty!
21:27Have you had dinner?
21:28Nope.
21:29I thought you were going to tackle turkey with the littles.
21:31Well, I was, but suddenly I got an awful headache, and there were too many people around.
21:39So after the program was over, I decided I'd come home.
21:41Did they watch me on television?
21:44Mm-hmm.
21:45Did they laugh at me?
21:46Oh, of course not.
21:47I'd better not hear anybody laughing at you.
21:49I'd punch them right in the nose.
21:50You would, bud?
21:51I sure would, not head.
21:53I thought it was a swell poem.
21:58Kind of short, but great.
22:02Why didn't you finish it, honey?
22:04Because it was Thanksgiving.
22:06I wanted my mommy, my daddy, my brother, and my sister.
22:11I was lonesome.
22:13Gee.
22:14Do you have us now, honey?
22:16Mother, I was lonesome, too.
22:19Oh, Jim.
22:21Margaret, not you, too.
22:24Yes, me, too.
22:30What's the matter with you, bud?
22:33Nothing.
22:34I just felt like blowing my nose, that's all.
22:38Then blow.
22:39Good grief.
22:45We all sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
22:51Then what are we waiting for?
22:52I'd better get some plates.
22:53Kathy, you sit there.
22:54Bud, pull up a chair.
22:56I'll get this one for mommy.
22:59There's nothing like hamburgers for Thanksgiving.
23:02I'm starving.
23:03Oh, my.
23:04You know something?
23:05This is the happiest, unhappy Thanksgiving I've ever spent.
23:08Well, I feel I'd like to say thanks in a rather special way.
23:18Oh, Lord, we give thee thanks from the depths of our humble hearts for all the blessings thou has seen fit to bestow upon us.
23:26We thank thee for the food which graces our table, the roof which covers our head.
23:35We thank thee for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom
23:40and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.
23:47We thank thee for making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understanding.
23:54But most of all, dear Lord, we thank thee for giving us the greatest gift a family may know,
24:01the gift of love for one another.
24:05Amen.
24:06Amen.
24:09Amen.
24:14Mommy, when can I wear lipstick?
24:16When you turn in your football suits, you can.
24:19Do you know what Bud did?
24:20He used my good cologne on his hair.
24:22Good morning, Betty.
24:23Two drops.
24:23That's all I use.
24:24You'd use the whole bottle.
24:25Good morning, Betty.
24:25I did not.
24:26Betty?
24:28Yes, Father?
24:29Good morning.
24:29Good morning.
24:32You know, there's one thing I'm going to enjoy about our Thanksgiving dinner yesterday.
24:36What's that?
24:37We're probably the only family in Springfield that won't be eating leftover turkey for a month.
24:43What are we having for dinner, Mom?
24:45Leftover hamburger.
24:47Good morning.
24:48Oh, wow.
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