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00:00:00Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
00:00:30He was the phenomenon of the 20s.
00:00:38I mean, you think that at that time he was as well known as Lindbergh.
00:00:42It's really quite astonishing.
00:00:46His story reflected the nature of our civilization, the character of our times.
00:00:52Yet it was also a one-man story.
00:00:55And all the themes of our culture were there.
00:00:58Heroism, will, things like that.
00:01:01But when you look back on it, it was very strange.
00:01:04Well, it is ironic to see how quickly he has faded from memory, considering what an astounding record he made.
00:01:16He was, of course, very amusing, but at the same time touched a nerve in people,
00:01:22perhaps in a way which they would prefer not to be touched.
00:01:27It certainly is a very bizarre story.
00:01:30The year is 1928.
00:01:47America, enjoying a decade of unequalled prosperity, has gone wild.
00:01:53The jazz age, it is called.
00:01:55The rhythms are syncopated.
00:01:57The morals are looser.
00:01:59The liquor is cheaper when you can get it.
00:02:01It is a time of diverse heroes and madcap stunts, of speakeasies and flamboyant parties.
00:02:11One typical party occurs at the Long Island estate of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Porter Sutton, socialites, patrons of the arts.
00:02:20Politicians and poets rub elbows with the cream of high society.
00:02:25Present at the party is Scott Fitzgerald, who is to cast perspective on the 20s for all future generations.
00:02:32He writes in his notebook about a curious little man named Leon Selwyn, or Zelman,
00:02:38who seemed clearly to be an aristocrat and extolled the very rich as he chatted with socialites.
00:02:44He spoke adoringly of Coolidge and the Republican Party, all in an upper-class Boston accent.
00:02:51An hour later, writes Fitzgerald, I was stunned to see the same man speaking with the kitchen help.
00:02:57Now he claimed to be a Democrat, and his accent seemed to be coarse, as if he were one of the crowd.
00:03:04It is the first small notice taken of Leonard Zelig.
00:03:07Florida, one year later.
00:03:12An odd incident occurs at the New York Yankees training camp.
00:03:17Journalists, anxious as always to immortalise the exploits of the great home run hitters,
00:03:22notice a strange new player, waiting his turn at bat after Babe Ruth.
00:03:27He is listed on the roster as Lou Zelig, but no one on the team has heard of him.
00:03:33Security guards are called, and he is escorted from the premises.
00:03:36It appears as a small item in the next day's newspaper.
00:03:49Chicago, Illinois, that same year.
00:03:52There is a private party at a speakeasy on the south side.
00:03:55People from the most respectable walks of life dance and drink bathtub gin.
00:04:00Present that evening was Calvin Turner, a waiter.
00:04:10And a lot of customers, a lot of gangsters come into place, because they're always good tippers and take good care of us,
00:04:16and of course we try to take care of our customers.
00:04:18But on this particular night, I looked over, and here's a strange guy coming in.
00:04:22I had never seen him before.
00:04:24So I asked him one of the other, and I said, John, you know this guy?
00:04:27You ever seen him?
00:04:28So he looks.
00:04:29No, I ain't never seen him before, man.
00:04:31I don't know who he is, but I know one thing.
00:04:32He's a tough-looking hombre.
00:04:34So I looked over, and then next thing, the guy had disappeared.
00:04:37I don't know where he went to.
00:04:39But about this time, you know, the music hits where it gets started.
00:04:41And the band started playing, and I looked, and here's a colored guy and a colored boy over there playing trumpet.
00:04:48Man, he was playing back.
00:04:50Then I looked at the guy, and I said, well, my goodness, he looks just like a gangster.
00:04:54But the gangster was white, and this guy is black.
00:04:58So I don't know what's happening.
00:05:02New York City.
00:05:04It is several months later.
00:05:06Police are investigating the disappearance of a clerk named Leonard Zellig.
00:05:10Both his landlady and his employer have reported him missing.
00:05:15They tell police he was an odd little man who kept to himself.
00:05:20Only two clues are found in Zellig's Greenwich Village flat.
00:05:24One, a photograph of Zellig with Eugene O'Neill,
00:05:29and one of him as Pagliacci.
00:05:35Acting on a tip, they trace his whereabouts to Chinatown,
00:05:39where, in the rear of a Chinese establishment,
00:05:42a strange-looking Oriental who fits the description of Leonard Zellig is discovered.
00:05:48Suspicious, the detectives try to pull off his disguise.
00:05:52But it is not a disguise, and a fight breaks out.
00:05:56He is removed by force and taken to Manhattan Hospital.
00:06:00In the ambulance, he rants and curses in what sounds like authentic Chinese.
00:06:05He is restrained with a straitjacket.
00:06:08When he emerges from the car 20 minutes later,
00:06:13incredibly, he is no longer Chinese, but Caucasian.
00:06:18Bewildered interns place him in the emergency room for observation.
00:06:23At 7 a.m., Dr. Eudora Fletcher, a psychiatrist, makes her usual rounds.
00:06:29When I first heard about this emergency case that had been brought in,
00:06:33I didn't think anything peculiar.
00:06:36And when I first laid eyes on him,
00:06:38it was a bit strange, because I mistook him for a doctor.
00:06:44He had a very professional demeanour about him.
00:06:48As a young psychiatrist, Eudora Fletcher is fascinated by Leonard Zellig.
00:06:52She convinces the conservative staff at the hospital
00:06:55to allow her to pursue a study of the new admission.
00:06:59So, what do you do?
00:07:01Oh, me? I'm a psychiatrist.
00:07:03Oh, yes?
00:07:04Yes, yes. I work mostly with delusional paranoids.
00:07:08Tell me about it.
00:07:10Oh, there's not much to tell.
00:07:11I work mostly on the continent,
00:07:14and I've written quite a few psychoanalytic papers.
00:07:17I studied a great deal.
00:07:19I work with Freud in Vienna, yes.
00:07:21We broke up the concept of penis envy.
00:07:23Freud felt that it should be limited to women.
00:07:27It's not that he was making any sense at all.
00:07:30It was just a conglomeration of psychological double talk
00:07:33that he had apparently heard
00:07:35or perhaps was familiar with through reading.
00:07:38And the funny thing was that his delivery was quite fluid
00:07:41and might have been really quite convincing
00:07:43to someone who did not know any better.
00:07:46Who was this Leonard Zellig
00:07:48that seemed to create such diverse impressions everywhere?
00:07:52All that was known of him
00:07:54was that he was the son of a Yiddish actor named Morris Zellig,
00:07:58whose performance as Puck in the orthodox version
00:08:01of A Midsummer Night's Dream was coolly received.
00:08:06The elder Zellig's second marriage
00:08:08is marked by constant violent quarrelling,
00:08:11so much so that although the family lives over a bowling alley,
00:08:14it is the bowling alley that complains of noise.
00:08:18As a boy, Leonard is frequently bullied by anti-Semites.
00:08:23His parents, who never take his part and blame him for everything,
00:08:27side with the anti-Semites.
00:08:30They punish him often by locking him in a dark closet.
00:08:33When they are really angry, they get into the closet with him.
00:08:36On his deathbed, Morris Zellig tells his son
00:08:41that life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering,
00:08:45and the only advice he gives him is to save string.
00:08:49Though brother Jack has a nervous breakdown,
00:08:52and sister Ruth becomes a shoplifter and alcoholic,
00:08:56Leonard Zellig appears to have adjusted to life.
00:08:58Somehow, he seems to have coped.
00:09:02And then, suddenly, increasingly strange behaviour.
00:09:10Fascinated by the Zellig phenomenon,
00:09:13Dr Fletcher arranges a series of experiments
00:09:15and invites the sceptical staff to observe.
00:09:18With the doctors watching,
00:09:21Zellig becomes a perfect psychiatrist.
00:09:25When two Frenchmen are brought in,
00:09:28Zellig assumes their characters
00:09:29and speaks reasonable French.
00:09:33In the company of a Chinese person,
00:09:35he begins to develop oriental features.
00:09:38By now, word has gotten out to the press,
00:09:41and the public, thirsting for thrills and novelty,
00:09:44is immediately captivated.
00:09:50The clamour is so great
00:09:52that Dr Alan Sindel is forced to issue a statement.
00:09:56We're just beginning to realise the dimensions
00:09:58of what could be the scientific medical phenomenon of the age
00:10:02and possibly of all time.
00:10:05Fresh stories roll off the press every day
00:10:07about Zellig and his puzzling condition.
00:10:10Although the doctors claim to have the situation in hand,
00:10:14no two can agree on a diagnosis.
00:10:17I'm convinced that it's glandular in nature,
00:10:19and although there's no evidence now of any misfunction,
00:10:22I'm sure that further tests
00:10:24will show a problem in the secretions.
00:10:26I'm certain it's something he picked up
00:10:27from eating Mexican food.
00:10:29This manifestation is neurological in origin.
00:10:33Now, this patient is suffering from a brain tumour,
00:10:36and I should not be surprised
00:10:38if within several weeks he died.
00:10:40Now, we have not as yet been able to locate the tumour,
00:10:43but we're still looking.
00:10:47Ironically, within two weeks' time,
00:10:50it is Dr Bersky himself who dies of a brain tumour.
00:10:54Leonard Zellig is fine.
00:10:57Throughout the weeks of testing and speculation,
00:11:00Eudora Fletcher begins to feel that the patient might be suffering
00:11:04not from a physiological disorder,
00:11:06but from a psychological one.
00:11:09It is Zellig's unstable make-up, she suggests,
00:11:12that accounts for his metamorphoses.
00:11:15The governing board of doctors is hostile to her notion.
00:11:18They conclude that Zellig's malady can be traced
00:11:21to poor alignment of the vertebrae.
00:11:24Tests prove them wrong
00:11:26and cause a temporary problem for the patient.
00:11:28Now, the press and public hang on every bit of news,
00:11:36thoroughly absorbed in the real-life drama.
00:11:39The continuing saga of the strange creature
00:11:42at Manhattan Hospital goes on.
00:11:44This morning, doctors report,
00:11:45experiments were conducted
00:11:46and several women of varying types
00:11:48were placed in close proximity to the subject,
00:11:50but no change occurred,
00:11:51leading authorities to conclude
00:11:53that the phenomenon does not occur with women.
00:11:55Later today, doctors will be experimenting
00:11:58with a midget and a chicken.
00:12:07Leonard Zellig continues to astound scientists
00:12:10at New York's Manhattan Hospital,
00:12:12where numerous tests have led nowhere
00:12:14in determining the nature
00:12:15of this astonishing manifestation.
00:12:17He is confronted by two overweight men
00:12:20at the request of the doctors.
00:12:22As the men discuss their obesity
00:12:24and initially, reticent Zellig joins in,
00:12:27swelling himself to a miraculous 250 pounds.
00:12:32Next, in the presence of two Negro men,
00:12:35Zellig rapidly becomes one himself.
00:12:38What will they think of next?
00:12:40Meanwhile, Americans all over
00:12:43have their own reactions.
00:12:45I wish I could be Lenny Zellig,
00:12:48the changing man,
00:12:49and be different people,
00:12:50and maybe someday my wishes will come true.
00:12:52Lenny Zellig is one of the finest gentlemen
00:12:57in the United States of America.
00:13:00He is the cat's pyjama.
00:13:04Trying a new approach,
00:13:05Dr. Fletcher places the subject under hypnosis.
00:13:08Right, now, tell me why you assume
00:13:11the characteristics of the person you're with.
00:13:15It's safe.
00:13:17What do you mean?
00:13:18What do you mean, safe?
00:13:22Safe?
00:13:24To be like the others?
00:13:27Yeah.
00:13:28You want to be safe?
00:13:31I want to be liked.
00:13:36Probing Zellig's unconscious,
00:13:38Dr. Fletcher gradually puts together
00:13:40the pieces of Zellig's behavioral puzzle.
00:13:42Dividing her time between the hospital
00:13:46and the 42nd Street Library,
00:13:48she writes her report.
00:13:50A closed meeting of doctors listens,
00:13:53as Dr. Fletcher describes Zellig
00:13:55as a human chameleon.
00:13:58Like the lizard that is endowed by nature
00:14:01with a marvellous protective device
00:14:02that enables it to change colour
00:14:05and blend in with its immediate surrounding,
00:14:08Zellig, too, protects himself
00:14:09by becoming whoever he is around.
00:14:12The doctors listen,
00:14:14and their reaction is sceptical.
00:14:16Impossible, they claim.
00:14:17Preposterous.
00:14:18If he's a lizard, quips one doctor,
00:14:21then we should not spend good hospital money
00:14:23feeding him,
00:14:24but simply catch him some flies.
00:14:25Well, we knew we had a good story this time,
00:14:39because it had everything in it.
00:14:41It had romance, and it had suspense,
00:14:44and then this fellow, Zellig,
00:14:45you know, he grew up poor.
00:14:47I remember my city editor came to me,
00:14:49and he said,
00:14:50Ted, we want this story on page one every day.
00:14:53And in those days,
00:14:55you'd do anything to sell papers.
00:14:58You'd get a story,
00:14:59you'd jazz it up,
00:15:00you'd exaggerate,
00:15:01you'd even maybe play with the truth a little bit.
00:15:03But here was a story,
00:15:05it was a natural.
00:15:06You just told the truth,
00:15:07and it sold papers.
00:15:09It never happened before.
00:15:11Overnight,
00:15:12Leonard Zellig
00:15:13has become the main topic of conversation everywhere,
00:15:15and is discussed with amusement and wonder.
00:15:19No social gathering is without its Leonard Zellig joke,
00:15:21and in a decade of popular dance crazes,
00:15:24a new one sweeps the nation.
00:15:27There's a brand new dance come up the river,
00:15:29just jerk your head and shake your liver,
00:15:31you'll do the chameleon.
00:15:35Photozoolium,
00:15:36make a face that's like a lizard,
00:15:38and feel that feet down in your gizzard,
00:15:40you'll do the chameleon.
00:15:43Pow!
00:15:45Stick out your tongue,
00:15:46but wait the reptiles,
00:15:47you're trying to catch a fire.
00:15:49Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do.
00:15:52Hey, hey,
00:15:53my, oh, my,
00:15:54throw your best gal down right on the floor.
00:15:56She'll be faking you for more,
00:15:58and you'll do it.
00:16:00The chameleon.
00:16:02If you hold your breath till you turn blue,
00:16:05you'll be changing colors like they do,
00:16:07and you'll do it.
00:16:09The chameleon.
00:16:11Oh, no, no, be a wiggle,
00:16:12like a salamander.
00:16:14Go this way, that way,
00:16:15hold me, and I'll do it.
00:16:18The chameleon.
00:16:20Pow!
00:16:21Stick out your tongue,
00:16:22the way the reptiles do,
00:16:24trying to catch a fly.
00:16:26Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do.
00:16:28Hey, hey,
00:16:29why, oh, my.
00:16:30Shake your shoulders,
00:16:31move your feet around,
00:16:33get right down,
00:16:34and kick your feet around.
00:16:35Doing
00:16:35the chameleon.
00:16:38Bow me, oh, no.
00:16:39What's brown and white and yellow,
00:16:42and has four eyes?
00:16:43Leonard Selig is the League of Nations.
00:16:44Not everyone, however,
00:16:48was entranced by the human chameleon,
00:16:50and amongst the fanatics,
00:16:52he was a handy symbol of iniquity.
00:16:55This creature,
00:16:56personified,
00:16:57that was bad.
00:17:00A creature
00:17:00who takes many forms
00:17:03to achieve
00:17:04the exploitation
00:17:06of the workers
00:17:08by deception.
00:17:09To the Ku Klux Klan,
00:17:14Zelig,
00:17:14a Jew
00:17:15who was able
00:17:15to transform himself
00:17:16into a Negro
00:17:17or Indian,
00:17:18was a triple threat.
00:17:22Meanwhile,
00:17:23Dr. Fletcher,
00:17:24certain that her findings
00:17:25are correct,
00:17:26begs for time
00:17:27with her patient
00:17:28to put her theories
00:17:28into operation.
00:17:32Do you recall
00:17:32the first time
00:17:33you began behaving
00:17:34like the people
00:17:35you were around?
00:17:37In school,
00:17:39some very bright people
00:17:41asked me
00:17:42if I read Moby Dick.
00:17:44Yes.
00:17:45I was ashamed
00:17:46to say
00:17:47I never read it.
00:17:48And you pretended?
00:17:50Yes.
00:17:50When did the changes
00:17:53begin happening
00:17:54automatically?
00:17:54Years ago,
00:17:58St. Patrick's Day,
00:18:00wandered into a bar,
00:18:02wasn't wearing green.
00:18:05They made remarks.
00:18:07I turned Irish.
00:18:09You told them
00:18:10you were Irish?
00:18:11My head turned red.
00:18:14My nose turned up.
00:18:17Spoke about
00:18:17the great potato famine
00:18:19and the little people.
00:18:22We do not agree
00:18:23with Dr. Fletcher's
00:18:24ideas.
00:18:26We believe those ideas
00:18:27are type dreams.
00:18:29We believe that
00:18:30any change
00:18:31in Zellig's condition
00:18:32is going to be brought about
00:18:33through certain
00:18:34experimental drugs,
00:18:36which, although risky,
00:18:37have been known
00:18:38to work wonders.
00:18:40Zellig is treated
00:18:40with the experimental drug
00:18:42somadryl hydrate.
00:18:45He undergoes
00:18:45severe mood changes
00:18:47and for several days
00:18:48will not come off
00:18:49the wall.
00:18:50Then, suddenly,
00:18:54as Dr. Fletcher
00:18:55is beginning to make
00:18:56some progress,
00:18:57the question of
00:18:57Zellig's fate
00:18:58takes a new twist
00:18:59as his half-sister,
00:19:01Ruth,
00:19:01shocks everyone
00:19:02by removing him
00:19:03from the hospital.
00:19:04He can be better
00:19:05cared for at home,
00:19:06she tells the doctors.
00:19:07He will be looked after,
00:19:08she explains,
00:19:09by her
00:19:10and her dubious-looking
00:19:11lover,
00:19:12Martin Geist,
00:19:13a businessman
00:19:14and ex-carnival promoter.
00:19:17There is very little
00:19:18resistance amongst
00:19:19the doctors
00:19:19who were relieved
00:19:20to be rid of
00:19:21the frustrating case.
00:19:23Only Dr. Fletcher
00:19:24cares about Zellig
00:19:25as a human being.
00:19:26She insists
00:19:27he desperately
00:19:28needs special care,
00:19:30but it is to no avail.
00:19:32No,
00:19:32no one was questioning
00:19:34her legal right
00:19:35to Zellig.
00:19:36I mean,
00:19:36she was his half-sister
00:19:37and his guardian,
00:19:38but she had
00:19:39a strange boyfriend
00:19:40called Geist
00:19:42that he'd been in jail
00:19:44for real estate fraud.
00:19:45He was selling
00:19:46the same piece of property
00:19:47to a lot of the same people
00:19:49and, matter of fact,
00:19:51a congressman from Delaware
00:19:52bought it twice.
00:19:55The crowds
00:19:56that line the roads
00:19:57to glimpse
00:19:57the human chameleon
00:19:58tie up traffic for days.
00:20:00He is a sight to behold
00:20:01for tourists
00:20:02and children.
00:20:04People from all over
00:20:05the country
00:20:05fight for space
00:20:06to peek
00:20:07at this new wonderment.
00:20:18Selling mementos
00:20:20while her brother
00:20:20is allowed
00:20:21to be on exhibition
00:20:22is only the beginning
00:20:23for Ruth Zellig
00:20:24and Martin Geist.
00:20:26Admission is charged
00:20:27to twice-daily demonstrations
00:20:28of Leonard's
00:20:29stunning prowess.
00:20:31He does not disappoint.
00:20:33Changing appearance
00:20:34over and over
00:20:35upon demand.
00:20:36Overnight,
00:20:37he has become
00:20:38an attraction,
00:20:39a novelty,
00:20:41a freak.
00:20:43In this 1935 film
00:20:46based on the life
00:20:47of Zellig
00:20:47called
00:20:48The Changing Man,
00:20:50the atmosphere
00:20:51is best summed up.
00:20:52We can't give up
00:20:53custody of Leonard.
00:20:54I know if I'm given
00:20:55the chance,
00:20:56I can cure him.
00:20:57It's no use.
00:20:58Even our attorney
00:20:58says it's hopeless.
00:20:59Really, Dr. Fletcher?
00:21:00May I call you Eudora?
00:21:04I tell you,
00:21:04somewhere behind
00:21:05that vacuous face,
00:21:07that zombie-like stare
00:21:08is a real human being
00:21:09and I can bring it out.
00:21:11How?
00:21:12I'll think of
00:21:12some new way,
00:21:13some technique.
00:21:15Whatever it is,
00:21:16it'll have to be personal.
00:21:17There's not much
00:21:18I can do legally.
00:21:19I'll try, but...
00:21:20They don't care about him.
00:21:22They'll exploit him.
00:21:22All they see in him
00:21:23is a chance
00:21:24to make more money.
00:21:25Look at this.
00:21:26Already they're selling
00:21:27this Leonard Zellig doll.
00:21:29The film did not exaggerate.
00:21:31There were not only
00:21:31Leonard Zellig pens
00:21:33and lucky charms,
00:21:34but clocks and toys.
00:21:35There were Leonard Zellig
00:21:36watches and books
00:21:37and a famous
00:21:38Leonard Zellig doll.
00:21:40There were aprons,
00:21:41chameleon-shaped earmuffs
00:21:42and a popular
00:21:43Leonard Zellig game.
00:21:45Everybody go chameleon.
00:21:48Everybody show chameleon.
00:21:51Take it fast or slow.
00:21:52Chameleon, chameleon,
00:21:54chameleon days.
00:21:56Everybody think chameleon.
00:21:59Every time you blink,
00:22:01chameleon.
00:22:02In your kitchen,
00:22:03think chameleon,
00:22:04chameleon,
00:22:06chameleon days.
00:22:07They're so much fun,
00:22:09they'll even jump
00:22:10right through a hoop.
00:22:12Oh!
00:22:13And they change color
00:22:14when they're swimming
00:22:16in your soup.
00:22:17Boop-oop-ee-doo.
00:22:18Flying in the air,
00:22:20chameleon.
00:22:21Crawling in your hair,
00:22:23chameleon.
00:22:24Take away all your care,
00:22:25chameleon, chameleon,
00:22:27chameleon days.
00:22:30There were many popular songs
00:22:32inspired by Leonard Zellig,
00:22:34tunes that swept the nation.
00:22:36I want you for myself alone.
00:22:44Leonard the lizard,
00:22:46see him running across the floor,
00:22:48see him skittering out the door.
00:22:50You have such reptile eyes,
00:22:55eyes like a lizard
00:22:57that weave their spell.
00:22:59In addition to the products
00:23:02and endorsements,
00:23:03there are the endless exhibition.
00:23:05In Hollywood,
00:23:06he is a great favorite
00:23:07and is offered a film contract.
00:23:10Clara Bow invites him
00:23:11for a private weekend
00:23:12and tells him
00:23:13to bring all his personalities.
00:23:16In Chicago,
00:23:17he meets heavyweight champion
00:23:18Jack Dempsey,
00:23:19who clowns with Zellig
00:23:21at his training camp.
00:23:22In Washington, D.C.,
00:23:24he is introduced
00:23:25to both Calvin Coolidge
00:23:26and Herbert Hoover.
00:23:28In France,
00:23:29he is hailed as Le Lazard.
00:23:31He is the toast
00:23:32of the Parisian musicals.
00:23:34His performance
00:23:35endears him as well
00:23:36to many leading
00:23:37French intellectuals
00:23:38who see in him
00:23:39a symbol for everything.
00:23:42His transformation
00:23:44into a rabbi
00:23:45is so realistic
00:23:46that certain Frenchmen
00:23:47suggest he be sent
00:23:48to Devil's Island.
00:23:53At the Fully Berger,
00:23:55Josephine Baker
00:23:56does her version
00:23:57of the chameleon dance
00:23:58and later tells friends
00:24:00she finds Zellig amazing,
00:24:02but a little lost.
00:24:04Everyone used to be
00:24:06at my place.
00:24:07That is, everyone.
00:24:08What?
00:24:08Someone.
00:24:10And, uh,
00:24:11occasionally,
00:24:13someone would bring, um,
00:24:15Zellig in,
00:24:17Leonard in.
00:24:18Cole Porter
00:24:19was fascinated
00:24:20by, uh,
00:24:21Leonard,
00:24:21and he once
00:24:23wrote a line
00:24:24in a song,
00:24:26uh,
00:24:27you're the tops,
00:24:28you're Leonard Zellig.
00:24:30But then he couldn't
00:24:32find anything
00:24:33to rhyme
00:24:33with Zellig.
00:24:34I'm flying high
00:24:44because I've got a feeling
00:24:46I'm falling,
00:24:47falling for nobody else
00:24:49but you.
00:24:53You caught my eye,
00:24:56now I've got a feeling
00:24:57I'm falling.
00:24:59Show me that ring
00:25:00and I'll jump right through.
00:25:04I used to travel
00:25:06single-o each
00:25:08and two
00:25:09mingle-o
00:25:10now I'm a
00:25:12jingle-o
00:25:13by you.
00:25:16Hey, Mr. Zellig,
00:25:18stand-by
00:25:19cause I've got a feeling
00:25:21I'm falling,
00:25:22falling for nobody else
00:25:25but you.
00:25:26Yeah!
00:25:27Wow!
00:25:28Though the shows
00:25:30and parties
00:25:31keep Zellig's sister
00:25:32and her lover
00:25:33rich and amused,
00:25:34Zellig's own existence
00:25:35is a non-existence.
00:25:38Devoid of personality,
00:25:40his human qualities
00:25:41long since lost
00:25:42in the shuffle of life,
00:25:43he sits alone,
00:25:45quietly staring
00:25:46into space,
00:25:47a cipher,
00:25:48a non-person,
00:25:49a performing freak.
00:25:52He who wanted
00:25:53only to fit in,
00:25:54to belong,
00:25:55to go unseen
00:25:56by his enemies
00:25:57and be loved,
00:25:59neither fits in
00:26:00nor belongs,
00:26:01is supervised
00:26:02by enemies
00:26:03and remains
00:26:04uncared for.
00:26:06The board
00:26:07at the hospital
00:26:08has all but
00:26:09forgotten Zellig.
00:26:11Only Dr. Fletcher
00:26:12continues to fight
00:26:13for his custody.
00:26:14The court
00:26:15turns her final appeal
00:26:17down.
00:26:18Throughout her
00:26:19valiant legal battle,
00:26:20she is frequently
00:26:21in the company
00:26:22of her attorney,
00:26:23Charles Coslow.
00:26:24He falls in love
00:26:25with her
00:26:26and presses
00:26:27for her hand
00:26:28in marriage.
00:26:29She is ambivalent.
00:26:31Reluctantly,
00:26:32she is beginning
00:26:33to abandon
00:26:34all hope
00:26:34of recovering
00:26:35Leonard Zellig.
00:26:36That summer,
00:26:40Geist has booked
00:26:41them in Spain.
00:26:43It is the last
00:26:44leg of a European
00:26:45tour that has been
00:26:46wildly successful.
00:26:48Relations between
00:26:49Martin Geist
00:26:50and Ruth Zellig
00:26:50have grown strained.
00:26:53They have become
00:26:53bored with one another
00:26:55and quarrel frequently.
00:26:58The situation
00:26:58grows worse
00:26:59when she meets
00:27:00Luis Martinez,
00:27:02a mediocre
00:27:02and cowardly
00:27:03bullfighter
00:27:04with whom
00:27:04she falls in love.
00:27:07Though he wishes
00:27:08to impress
00:27:09Ruth Zellig,
00:27:10Martinez displays
00:27:11his usual panic
00:27:13in the arena.
00:27:14Good fortune
00:27:15is with him,
00:27:15however,
00:27:16as the bull
00:27:16gives himself
00:27:17a brain concussion.
00:27:19Martinez takes
00:27:20credit for the kill
00:27:21and cutting off
00:27:22the bull's ear,
00:27:23presents it
00:27:23to his lover
00:27:24with great bravado.
00:27:27That evening,
00:27:28in a jealous rage,
00:27:28Martin Geist
00:27:29returns to his hotel room
00:27:31and confronts
00:27:32Ruth Zellig.
00:27:33He demands
00:27:33that she give him
00:27:35the ear.
00:27:36She refuses.
00:27:37Geist insists
00:27:38upon possession
00:27:39of the ear.
00:27:40They quarrel furiously
00:27:41and Martinez
00:27:42is discovered
00:27:43hiding in the closet.
00:27:45Geist pulls a revolver
00:27:46and shoots him.
00:27:47He turns the gun
00:27:48on Zellig's half-sister
00:27:50and kills her.
00:27:51Then he takes
00:27:52his own life.
00:27:53In an orgy
00:27:54of jealous violence,
00:27:56Leonard Zellig's life
00:27:57is turned upside down.
00:27:59At first,
00:28:16the news reverberates
00:28:17around the world.
00:28:19Then,
00:28:19just as quickly,
00:28:20the thrill-hungry public
00:28:22becomes apathetic.
00:28:24Fresh scandals appear
00:28:25and make headlines.
00:28:26events in the Jazz Age
00:28:28move too rapidly,
00:28:29like Red Grange.
00:28:31A population
00:28:32glutted with distractions
00:28:34is quick to forget.
00:28:36The 20s
00:28:36come to a crashing climax
00:28:38and still,
00:28:40Leonard Zellig
00:28:40is nowhere to be found.
00:28:42Dr. Eudora Fletcher
00:28:48searches in vain
00:28:50to locate him.
00:28:52When several leads
00:28:53prove disappointing,
00:28:54she gives up,
00:28:55discouraged.
00:28:57I felt it was a shame
00:28:58because here was
00:28:59this unique case
00:29:00that I could make
00:29:01my reputation on.
00:29:02Not that I knew
00:29:04how to cure him,
00:29:05but if I could have him
00:29:06alone
00:29:07and feel my way
00:29:11and be innovative
00:29:12and creative,
00:29:14I felt
00:29:15that I could change
00:29:16his life
00:29:17if I only had the chance.
00:29:28300,000 of the faithful
00:29:30are waiting
00:29:30before St. Peter's
00:29:31for the appearance
00:29:32of Pope Pius XI.
00:29:34Born on the shoulders
00:29:35of 12 attendants,
00:29:36the seat of the
00:29:37Adjustatoria
00:29:37carrying the Holy Father
00:29:39is drawn out
00:29:40to the central balcony
00:29:41where he bestows
00:29:42his blessing
00:29:42on Rome
00:29:43and all the world.
00:29:44This is the first time
00:29:45that this ritual
00:29:46has been performed
00:29:47in 63 years
00:29:48and brings to a climax
00:29:49on Easter Sunday
00:29:50the religious ceremonies
00:29:52of Holy Week.
00:29:53Oh, but what's this?
00:29:54A commotion
00:29:55next to the Papal Father?
00:29:57Somebody doesn't belong
00:29:58up there.
00:29:59The guards are summoned
00:30:00amidst chaos
00:30:01as his holiness
00:30:02Pope Pius XI
00:30:03tries to swap
00:30:04the intruder
00:30:04with a sacred decree.
00:30:06The faithful
00:30:06can't believe it.
00:30:08It is, of course,
00:30:09Zellig.
00:30:10He is returned
00:30:11to the United States
00:30:12by Italian authorities
00:30:13and readmitted
00:30:15to Manhattan Hospital.
00:30:18I welcome this opportunity
00:30:20to treat Leonard Zellig
00:30:22now that he's back
00:30:23as a ward of the hospital.
00:30:26I'm grateful
00:30:26that the board
00:30:27has given me this chance.
00:30:29I sincerely hope
00:30:30to return him
00:30:31to society,
00:30:33a useful,
00:30:33self-possessed citizen,
00:30:35no longer
00:30:36a curiosity
00:30:37with no life
00:30:38of his own.
00:30:39Dr. Fletcher
00:30:40has no time now
00:30:41to think of marriage.
00:30:42All her attention
00:30:43must be devoted
00:30:44to Leonard Zellig.
00:30:46Her plan
00:30:47is to bring him
00:30:48to her country home.
00:30:50She will set up
00:30:51a neutral environment
00:30:52away from society.
00:30:54Here she will begin
00:30:55searching for some
00:30:56new way to treat him
00:30:57in the hopes
00:30:58of penetrating
00:30:59his unique malady.
00:31:01Aware of the significance
00:31:02of her work,
00:31:04Eudora Fletcher
00:31:04arranges to keep
00:31:05a filmed record
00:31:06of the proceedings.
00:31:08For this,
00:31:09she contacts
00:31:10her first cousin,
00:31:11Paul DeGay,
00:31:12an inventor
00:31:13and part-time photographer.
00:31:16And she said,
00:31:18I want to make
00:31:18a record of this case
00:31:19for future generations
00:31:21and the world of science.
00:31:24And I want you
00:31:24to keep the camera
00:31:25very quiet.
00:31:26And I said,
00:31:28why don't you just
00:31:29take notes
00:31:29and write it up?
00:31:31And she said,
00:31:31Paul,
00:31:32when a man
00:31:33changes his physical
00:31:34appearance,
00:31:34you want to see it.
00:31:36You can't read about it.
00:31:38Besides which,
00:31:39I am planning
00:31:40to make history.
00:31:42The white room
00:31:43is carefully arranged
00:31:45for maximum serenity.
00:31:47It is a small study
00:31:49in Dr. Fletcher's house,
00:31:51sparsely furnished.
00:31:53Clumsy photographic
00:31:54lights are nailed
00:31:55to the wall
00:31:56to provide sufficient
00:31:57illumination.
00:31:57microphones are hidden
00:32:01in specially selected places.
00:32:04The camera shoots
00:32:05through a pane of glass
00:32:06which renders it
00:32:07relatively unobtrusive.
00:32:09Only the noise
00:32:10of the motor
00:32:11is a problem,
00:32:12but this is muffled
00:32:12with a blanket
00:32:13and anything else handy.
00:32:16From this cramped
00:32:17vantage point,
00:32:18photographer Paul DeGay
00:32:19will record the famous
00:32:21white room sessions,
00:32:23a remarkable document
00:32:24in the history
00:32:25of psychotherapy.
00:32:27By today's standards,
00:32:29white room sessions
00:32:30would seem very primitive.
00:32:33And yes,
00:32:34they were really
00:32:34quite effective
00:32:35in developing
00:32:37a very strong
00:32:38personal relation
00:32:39between doctor
00:32:40and patient.
00:32:42The question
00:32:43whether Zalick
00:32:43was psychotic
00:32:45or merely
00:32:46extremely neurotic
00:32:48was a question
00:32:50that was endlessly
00:32:51discussed among
00:32:52us doctors.
00:32:52Now I myself
00:32:55felt that
00:32:56his feelings
00:32:58were really
00:32:59not all that
00:32:59different from
00:33:00the normal,
00:33:01maybe,
00:33:02what one would call
00:33:03the well-adjusted
00:33:04normal person,
00:33:06only carried
00:33:06to an extreme degree,
00:33:08to an extreme extent.
00:33:11I myself
00:33:11felt that
00:33:13one could really
00:33:13think of him
00:33:14as the ultimate
00:33:15conformist.
00:33:16Leonard,
00:33:22do you know
00:33:22why you're here?
00:33:26To discuss
00:33:27psychotherapy,
00:33:28right?
00:33:28You're a doctor?
00:33:31Yes, I am.
00:33:32I am.
00:33:32Perhaps you've
00:33:33read my latest
00:33:34paper on
00:33:35delusional paranoia.
00:33:37Turns out
00:33:37the entire thing
00:33:38is mental.
00:33:40Now,
00:33:40suppose I tell you
00:33:41you're not a doctor.
00:33:42Well,
00:33:45don't say
00:33:47that you're
00:33:47making a joke.
00:33:51Is it always
00:33:52so bright in here?
00:33:53Oh,
00:33:53I'm recording
00:33:54these sessions
00:33:55on film,
00:33:55if you don't mind.
00:33:57No,
00:33:57there's somebody
00:33:57behind there,
00:33:58right?
00:33:58That's right.
00:33:59That's a camera.
00:34:00Mm-hmm.
00:34:01Leonard,
00:34:02Leonard,
00:34:03why don't we
00:34:04start with
00:34:04simple reality?
00:34:06Leonard,
00:34:07you're not a doctor.
00:34:08No?
00:34:09No.
00:34:10You're a patient,
00:34:11and I'm the doctor.
00:34:13Well,
00:34:14I wouldn't tell
00:34:15it to too many
00:34:16people if I were you.
00:34:18Leonard,
00:34:18you're not a doctor.
00:34:22Is she going
00:34:23to be all right?
00:34:24Because,
00:34:24you know,
00:34:25I've got to get
00:34:25back to town.
00:34:27Really,
00:34:27I have an interesting
00:34:28case treating
00:34:29two sets of
00:34:30Siamese twins
00:34:31with split personalities
00:34:32getting paid
00:34:33by eight people.
00:34:36The first week's
00:34:37sessions did not
00:34:38go too well,
00:34:39writes Dr. Fletcher
00:34:40in her diary.
00:34:41Leonard identifies
00:34:43with me
00:34:43and is convinced
00:34:44that he is a doctor.
00:34:46He is guarded
00:34:47and suspicious.
00:34:48There is something
00:34:49very appealing
00:34:50about him,
00:34:50too.
00:34:51He is quick-witted
00:34:52and energetic.
00:34:53Perhaps it is
00:34:54his very helplessness
00:34:55that moves me.
00:34:57I must keep flexible
00:34:58and play the situation
00:34:59by ear.
00:35:00How are you today,
00:35:04Leonard?
00:35:07Fine.
00:35:07I, uh,
00:35:09gotta get back
00:35:11to town soon.
00:35:12You know,
00:35:12I teach a course
00:35:13at the Psychiatric
00:35:14Institute
00:35:14and masturbation.
00:35:17I see.
00:35:17Doctor, you know.
00:35:18I see.
00:35:19Guilt-related
00:35:20masturbation.
00:35:22No, no, no,
00:35:23not guilt-related.
00:35:24I, I, I teach advanced.
00:35:27Quite a respected
00:35:27doctor there, you know.
00:35:28Leonard,
00:35:29I'd like you to
00:35:30use your eyes
00:35:30to follow this pen
00:35:31and just let yourself
00:35:32breathe deeply.
00:35:33Why?
00:35:34What?
00:35:34Relax.
00:35:35No, you're, you're,
00:35:37you're trying to
00:35:38hypnotize me,
00:35:38obviously.
00:35:39Do you mind?
00:35:39Yes, of course I mind.
00:35:40I'm a doctor.
00:35:41I'm, I'm...
00:35:42Leonard, you're not a doctor.
00:35:43I am a doctor.
00:35:43Just relax.
00:35:44No, I, I, I can't.
00:35:45I'm, I'm, I'm due
00:35:46back in town.
00:35:47I, I, I, I have
00:35:49this masturbation class,
00:35:50you know.
00:35:51If I'm, if I'm not there,
00:35:52they start without me.
00:35:54As the weeks go by,
00:35:56Dr. Fletcher grows
00:35:57more and more frustrated.
00:35:59Leonard continues
00:36:00to insist he is a doctor
00:36:02and even refuses
00:36:03to let me hypnotize him,
00:36:05she writes.
00:36:06I believe his experiences
00:36:07of the past year
00:36:08have made him more
00:36:09defensive than ever.
00:36:11It is discouraging.
00:36:13She was under great
00:36:14pressure.
00:36:15You could tell.
00:36:16She was moody
00:36:16and nervous.
00:36:18He was fine.
00:36:20Napping.
00:36:21Sitting in his chair,
00:36:21reading.
00:36:22Used to refer to himself
00:36:23as Dr. Selig.
00:36:25He was reading books
00:36:26on psychiatry.
00:36:28I told her,
00:36:28you'd better get away
00:36:29for a day and relax.
00:36:31The strain is becoming
00:36:32too much for you.
00:36:33Leaving Selig alone,
00:36:36Dr. Fletcher takes
00:36:37Paul DeGay's advice
00:36:38and she and her fiancé
00:36:40spend some hours off
00:36:41relaxing.
00:36:42They go to Broadway.
00:36:44Then to a well-known
00:36:45nightclub where,
00:36:47despite a lively stage show,
00:36:49Dr. Fletcher is distracted
00:36:50and uneasy.
00:36:52She is unable to think
00:36:53of anything but her patient.
00:36:55The atmosphere
00:36:56with her fiancé, Koslow,
00:36:57is awkward and strained.
00:36:59He is put off
00:37:00by her total obsession
00:37:01with Selig.
00:37:03Ironically,
00:37:04it is in the noisy
00:37:05and smoke-filled atmosphere
00:37:06of the nightclub
00:37:07that Eudora Fletcher
00:37:08is struck
00:37:09by a brilliant
00:37:10and innovative plan
00:37:12that will create
00:37:13a major breakthrough
00:37:14in the case.
00:37:14In the meantime,
00:37:15in between time,
00:37:17ain't we got fun?
00:37:23Dr. Selig.
00:37:25Yes?
00:37:25I wonder if you could
00:37:28help me with the problem.
00:37:30Well,
00:37:31certainly try.
00:37:33Of course,
00:37:34we can't promise anything.
00:37:35You see,
00:37:36last week I was
00:37:37with a group
00:37:38of fairly erudite people
00:37:40who were discussing
00:37:41the novel Moby Dick
00:37:42and I was afraid
00:37:44to admit
00:37:44that I hadn't read it
00:37:45so I lied.
00:37:49Uh-huh.
00:37:51You see,
00:37:52I want so badly
00:37:53to be liked,
00:37:54to be like other people
00:37:56so that I don't stand out.
00:38:02That's natural.
00:38:04Well,
00:38:04I go to such extreme lengths
00:38:06to blend in.
00:38:11You're a doctor.
00:38:13You know,
00:38:13you should know
00:38:15how to handle that.
00:38:16Well,
00:38:17the truth of the matter
00:38:19is I'm not
00:38:21an actual doctor.
00:38:25You're not?
00:38:27No, doctor.
00:38:28No,
00:38:29I've,
00:38:29I've been
00:38:30pretending
00:38:31to be a doctor
00:38:32to,
00:38:33to fit in
00:38:34with my friends.
00:38:35You see,
00:38:35they're doctors.
00:38:36that's something.
00:38:45But,
00:38:46but you're a doctor
00:38:47and,
00:38:47and you can help me.
00:38:48You have to help me.
00:38:50Sure.
00:38:51I don't,
00:38:51I don't feel that well,
00:38:53actually.
00:38:54My,
00:38:55my whole life's
00:38:56just been a lie.
00:38:58I,
00:38:58I've been posing
00:39:00as one thing
00:39:00after another.
00:39:01You need help,
00:39:04lady.
00:39:05Last night,
00:39:06last night,
00:39:07I,
00:39:07I dreamt
00:39:07that I was falling
00:39:08into fire.
00:39:10What does that mean?
00:39:11It's terrible.
00:39:12I don't know.
00:39:14Please,
00:39:14doctor,
00:39:15I know I'm,
00:39:15I'm a very complicated patient.
00:39:17Jesus,
00:39:17I don't feel that well.
00:39:19What am I suffering from?
00:39:20Who should I know?
00:39:21I'm not a doctor.
00:39:23You're not?
00:39:23No,
00:39:24am I?
00:39:25Who are you?
00:39:26What do you mean,
00:39:27who am I?
00:39:27I,
00:39:28I don't know.
00:39:29Leonard Zellig?
00:39:30Yes,
00:39:31definitely.
00:39:32Who is he?
00:39:33You?
00:39:34No,
00:39:35I'm nobody.
00:39:35I'm nothing.
00:39:37Catch me.
00:39:38I'm falling.
00:39:40Playing on Zellig's
00:39:41identity disorder,
00:39:43Dr. Fletcher
00:39:43has manipulated him
00:39:45into momentary disorientation.
00:39:47With his guard lowered,
00:39:48she quickly puts him
00:39:49under hypnosis.
00:39:50Using post-hypnotic suggestion,
00:39:52she will now be able
00:39:53to induce a trance
00:39:55at will.
00:39:56My brother beat me.
00:39:58My sister beat my brother.
00:40:03My father beat my sister
00:40:06and my brother and me.
00:40:09My mother beat my father
00:40:11and my sister and me
00:40:13and my brother.
00:40:16The neighbors beat our family.
00:40:20People down the block
00:40:22beat the neighbors
00:40:23and our family.
00:40:26I'm 12 years old.
00:40:29I run into a synagogue.
00:40:32I ask the rabbi
00:40:34the meaning of life.
00:40:37He tells me
00:40:38the meaning of life,
00:40:39but he tells it
00:40:41to me in Hebrew.
00:40:43I don't understand Hebrew.
00:40:47Then he wants
00:40:48to charge me $600
00:40:49for Hebrew lessons.
00:40:50Dr. Fletcher's therapy
00:40:54consists of a
00:40:55two-pronged attack.
00:40:57In the trance state,
00:40:58the personality
00:40:59will be deeply probed
00:41:01and then restructured.
00:41:03In the conscious state,
00:41:04she will provide love
00:41:05and affection,
00:41:07unconditional positive regard.
00:41:08You will be completely honest.
00:41:36You're in a deep trance.
00:41:38You will become
00:41:39not who you think
00:41:41I want you to be,
00:41:42but you'll be yourself.
00:41:44Now, how do you feel
00:41:45about it here?
00:41:49It's the worst.
00:41:52I hate the country.
00:41:55I hate the grass
00:41:56and the mosquitoes.
00:41:59When I'm cooking,
00:42:01your cooking is terrible.
00:42:04Your pancakes,
00:42:05I dump them in the garbage
00:42:08when you're not looking.
00:42:09Uh-huh.
00:42:10And the jokes you try
00:42:12and tell when you think
00:42:14you're amusing,
00:42:15the long and pointless,
00:42:18there's no end to it.
00:42:20I see.
00:42:22Uh-huh.
00:42:23And what else?
00:42:26I want to go to bed with you.
00:42:32Well, that surprises me.
00:42:35I didn't think you liked me very much.
00:42:38I love you.
00:42:39You do?
00:42:43You're very sweet
00:42:46because you're not as clever
00:42:49as you think you are.
00:42:51You're all mixed up
00:42:52and nervous.
00:42:55And you're the worst cook.
00:42:58Those pancakes.
00:43:00Oh, I love you.
00:43:02Oh, I want to take care of you.
00:43:06I want all my pancakes.
00:43:17I started out
00:43:18by trying to use Leonard
00:43:21to make my reputation.
00:43:22And then I found
00:43:23that I had very strong feelings for him.
00:43:26I never thought I was attractive.
00:43:28I never had a real romance.
00:43:30Charles Koslow was the type of man
00:43:32my mother felt I should marry.
00:43:40Feeling more confident
00:43:42every day with her patient,
00:43:43Dr. Fletcher takes him
00:43:44for a cautious outing,
00:43:46an afternoon at her sister's house
00:43:48in nearby Teaneck.
00:43:50Meryl Fletcher is an aviatrix,
00:43:52a fine, professional pilot.
00:43:55Eudora Fletcher is an amateur pilot,
00:43:58and the afternoon is spent relaxing,
00:44:00and retelling old flying experiences.
00:44:05As the weeks pass,
00:44:07Zellig is encouraged
00:44:07to open up more and more,
00:44:09to give his own opinions.
00:44:11What was guarded at first
00:44:13soon becomes expansive.
00:44:15I hated my stepmother,
00:44:18and I don't care who knows it.
00:44:22I love baseball.
00:44:23You know, it doesn't have to mean anything.
00:44:26It's just very beautiful to watch.
00:44:31I'm a Democrat.
00:44:32I always was a Democrat.
00:44:36Is it okay if I don't agree with you
00:44:38about that recording?
00:44:39Of course.
00:44:40I mean, you know,
00:44:41Obama's just always
00:44:43too melodramatic for me.
00:44:49You have to be your own person
00:44:50and make your own moral choices,
00:44:53even when they do require real courage.
00:44:55Otherwise, you're like a robot
00:44:57or a lizard.
00:45:01Are you really going to get married
00:45:02to that lawyer?
00:45:03I would much rather you then.
00:45:07No, I don't agree.
00:45:08I think this guy,
00:45:09Mussolini,
00:45:09is a loser.
00:45:13Are you ever going to make love?
00:45:16It has been three months
00:45:18and the board wishes
00:45:19to examine the patient.
00:45:21Dr. Fletcher says
00:45:22Zelig is not ready
00:45:23to leave the premises.
00:45:25The doctors agree
00:45:25to visit him there.
00:45:27The date is set.
00:45:29Four days hence.
00:45:30If progress is insufficient,
00:45:33she will be removed
00:45:34from the case.
00:45:37I was very nervous
00:45:38because in his waking state,
00:45:41he never remembered anything
00:45:42from his trance state.
00:45:44And I wondered
00:45:45if there could be some way
00:45:46of locking these two things together.
00:45:49And then I also was worried
00:45:50that if he was
00:45:52with strong personalities,
00:45:54he might lose his personality.
00:45:57Sunday at noon,
00:45:59the doctors arrive.
00:46:00They are greeted
00:46:01by Eudora Fletcher
00:46:02and Leonard Zelig
00:46:04and are shown
00:46:05around the grounds.
00:46:06Though Dr. Fletcher
00:46:07is tense and alert,
00:46:09Leonard Zelig seems calm
00:46:10and at ease.
00:46:12Despite the fact
00:46:13that he is surrounded
00:46:14by physicians,
00:46:14he does not turn into one.
00:46:17The encounter
00:46:18appears to be
00:46:19a resounding success
00:46:21when Dr. Henry Meyerson
00:46:22comments innocently
00:46:24about the weather,
00:46:25saying that it is
00:46:26a nice day.
00:46:28Zelig tells Dr. Meyerson
00:46:29that he does not agree
00:46:31that it is a nice day.
00:46:34Dr. Meyerson is taken aback
00:46:35at the firmness
00:46:36of Zelig's conviction.
00:46:38He points out
00:46:39that the sun is shining
00:46:40and that it is mild.
00:46:43Zelig, trained to voice
00:46:45his own personal opinions
00:46:46fearlessly,
00:46:47is too aggressive.
00:46:49He has been moulded
00:46:50too far in the other direction.
00:46:52He has become
00:46:52over-opinionated
00:46:53and cannot brook
00:46:54any disagreement
00:46:55with his own views.
00:46:56I had taken him
00:46:59too far
00:46:59in the other direction.
00:47:01He had struck
00:47:02Dr. Meyerson
00:47:02and several board members
00:47:04with a rake.
00:47:05This was not
00:47:06what we wanted.
00:47:07And yet I felt
00:47:08that I had accomplished
00:47:09something.
00:47:10I felt if I could have him
00:47:12for two more weeks,
00:47:13I could do some fine-tuning
00:47:15and turn Leonard Zelig
00:47:17back into his own man.
00:47:19Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher,
00:47:32the hero,
00:47:33or should we say
00:47:34heroine,
00:47:34of the hour.
00:47:36The beautiful
00:47:36and brilliant
00:47:37young psychiatrist
00:47:38never lost faith
00:47:39in her conviction
00:47:39that Leonard Zelig,
00:47:41the human chameleon,
00:47:42was suffering
00:47:42from a mental disorder.
00:47:44Working with her cousin,
00:47:45cameraman Paul DeGay,
00:47:47the doctor managed
00:47:47to keep a vital record
00:47:49of the proceedings,
00:47:50including rare footage
00:47:51of Zelig hypnotized.
00:47:53The patient
00:47:54and his healer
00:47:55have become
00:47:55fast friends
00:47:56in the process
00:47:57and enjoy
00:47:57one another's company
00:47:58even when she's
00:47:59not working on him.
00:48:01Result of maintaining
00:48:02a courageous
00:48:02minority opinion
00:48:04is a resounding
00:48:05success for psychiatry,
00:48:07who says women
00:48:08are just good for joy.
00:48:10Now it's on to City Hall,
00:48:12where the town's
00:48:13newest celebrities
00:48:13are given the key
00:48:14to the city.
00:48:16We're honored
00:48:17to be sent this key
00:48:18to New York City.
00:48:18to the two of you.
00:48:23And Jimmy Walker
00:48:25did want to be here
00:48:25this afternoon
00:48:26and sing Leonard
00:48:27the Lizard,
00:48:28but he was just too busy.
00:48:33After City Hall,
00:48:34Eudora Fletcher,
00:48:35the beautiful genius
00:48:36who cured
00:48:36Zelig of his
00:48:37science-defying condition,
00:48:39is honored
00:48:39by fellow scientists
00:48:40at New York's
00:48:42Waldorf Astoria.
00:48:43Present are luminaries
00:48:44from all over the world,
00:48:45not just in the field
00:48:46of psychiatry,
00:48:47but physics,
00:48:48biology,
00:48:49mathematics,
00:48:50and you name it.
00:48:51Here she is
00:48:52exchanging theories
00:48:53with Nils Anderson,
00:48:54the father
00:48:54of modern blood disease.
00:48:58Later in the week,
00:48:58Dr. Fletcher
00:48:59is again honored
00:49:00by the greatest city
00:49:01in the world
00:49:01as she gets to
00:49:02christen her first ship.
00:49:03Quite a success story
00:49:05for a little girl
00:49:06from the backwoods.
00:49:08Oh, wait,
00:49:08prepare, Dr. Fletcher,
00:49:09smash the bottle.
00:49:10The bottle containing
00:49:11nut champagne.
00:49:12I'm speaking to you
00:49:13from the home
00:49:13of Mrs. Catherine Fletcher.
00:49:15She's the mother
00:49:17of Dr. Eudora Fletcher,
00:49:19the famous psychiatrist
00:49:20so much in the news
00:49:21these days,
00:49:22and I'm going to be
00:49:23asking Mrs. Fletcher
00:49:24to begin with
00:49:26to tell us
00:49:28something about
00:49:29what it's like
00:49:29to raise a medical genius,
00:49:31and I might ask you
00:49:33about the many sacrifices
00:49:35that you've made
00:49:36to put your daughter
00:49:37through medical school,
00:49:38and could you speak
00:49:39right into the microphones,
00:49:40please?
00:49:41Sacrifices?
00:49:42We had none.
00:49:43John was a stockbroker,
00:49:45he had plenty of money,
00:49:46and I came from
00:49:47a wealthy Philadelphia family,
00:49:48so...
00:49:49Well, I'm sure
00:49:50that your daughter
00:49:50always wanted to be a doctor
00:49:52ever since she could remember.
00:49:56I don't think so.
00:49:58I always thought
00:49:59she wanted to be a flyer
00:50:00like her sister Merle
00:50:01and raise a family.
00:50:03but she was
00:50:04a very moody child.
00:50:05But still,
00:50:06a mother always dreams
00:50:07for her child
00:50:08to have the kind of success
00:50:10that your daughter has.
00:50:11She was a very difficult girl.
00:50:13Well, tell me
00:50:13about your husband.
00:50:14I understand
00:50:15that he is
00:50:15a simple businessman.
00:50:17He must be so thrilled
00:50:18and pleased
00:50:19to have his daughter
00:50:20achieve such recognition.
00:50:22John had problems.
00:50:25Depression.
00:50:26He drank.
00:50:27Well, Mrs. Fletcher,
00:50:28thank you so much
00:50:30for speaking with us today.
00:50:40Here at San Simeon,
00:50:42glorious dreamland
00:50:43of newspaper mogul
00:50:44William Randolph Hearst,
00:50:45celebrities from all walks
00:50:47of society,
00:50:48sun or play.
00:50:50There's Marie Dressler
00:50:51with Mr. Hearst.
00:50:53Always a popular guest
00:50:54at San Simeon,
00:50:55Miss Dressler accepts
00:50:56a flower
00:50:57from an ardent admirer.
00:51:00Along with her
00:51:00is Marion Davies.
00:51:02When she works,
00:51:03Miss Davies
00:51:04is always dead serious.
00:51:06But here
00:51:06at this fabulous playground,
00:51:08she shows us
00:51:09her fun side.
00:51:11There she is
00:51:12with you-know-who,
00:51:13Charlie Chaplin.
00:51:15Always kidding.
00:51:17Although New York
00:51:18is 3,000 miles away,
00:51:20Jimmy Walker
00:51:21somehow appears
00:51:22through Mr. Hearst's
00:51:23Enchanted Gateway.
00:51:24Another New Yorker
00:51:26is Leonard Zellig,
00:51:28here shown clowning
00:51:29with everybody's
00:51:30favorite cowboy,
00:51:31Tom Metz.
00:51:32Won't Tony be jealous?
00:51:34Tony is Tom's horse,
00:51:36and we always thought
00:51:37they went everywhere together.
00:51:40There's that fellow
00:51:41Chaplin again,
00:51:42this time
00:51:43with Adolph Mongeau.
00:51:46There's Claire Windsor
00:51:47and Dolores Del Rio,
00:51:49and a very charming
00:51:50Eudora Fletcher,
00:51:52chatting with Hollywood's
00:51:53newest dancing sensation,
00:51:55James Cagney.
00:51:57Oh, and what have we here?
00:51:59Only a beautiful lady
00:52:01named Carol Lombard.
00:52:03And there's Dr. Fletcher
00:52:05and Leonard Zellig,
00:52:06hitting a few
00:52:07with Bobby Jones
00:52:08on Mr. Hearst's
00:52:09golf course.
00:52:11Unless Leonard
00:52:11can go back
00:52:12to his old
00:52:13chameleon personality
00:52:14and turn into
00:52:14a golf pro,
00:52:16I'd bet my money
00:52:17on Bobby.
00:52:18But who cares
00:52:19if they're having fun?
00:52:28Leonard Zellig,
00:52:29do you want to give
00:52:30the kids of this country
00:52:31some advice?
00:52:32I sure do.
00:52:33Kids,
00:52:33you've got to be yourself.
00:52:35You know,
00:52:35you can't act like anybody else
00:52:37just because you think
00:52:38that they have
00:52:38all the answers
00:52:39and you don't.
00:52:40You have to be
00:52:41your own man
00:52:41and learn to speak up
00:52:43and say what's
00:52:43on your mind.
00:52:44Now, maybe they're not
00:52:45free to do that
00:52:46in foreign countries,
00:52:47but that's the American way.
00:52:49You can take it from me
00:52:50because I used to be
00:52:51a member of the reptile family,
00:52:53but I'm not anymore.
00:52:59I'm sitting on top
00:53:02of the world
00:53:03I'm rolling along
00:53:06Just rolling along
00:53:08Oh boy, I'm with
00:53:10the blues of the world
00:53:13I'm singing a song
00:53:16Just singing a song
00:53:18Glory, hallelujah
00:53:20I told Leonard Zellig
00:53:22Hey, let's get ready to call
00:53:24Just like Humpty Dumpty
00:53:26I'm ready to fall
00:53:29I'm sitting on top
00:53:31of the world
00:53:32My, my, my
00:53:34Rolling along
00:53:35Rolling along
00:53:38Zellig, no longer a chameleon,
00:53:43is at last his own man.
00:53:45His point of view
00:53:46on politics, art, life, and love
00:53:48is honest and direct.
00:53:50Though his taste
00:53:52is described by many
00:53:53as lowbrow,
00:53:55it is his own.
00:53:57He is finally an individual,
00:53:59a human being.
00:54:00He no longer gives up
00:54:01his own identity
00:54:02to be a safe
00:54:03and invisible part
00:54:04of his surroundings.
00:54:06Well, his taste
00:54:06wasn't terrible.
00:54:07He was the kind of man
00:54:08who preferred
00:54:09watching baseball
00:54:10to reading Moby Dick,
00:54:12and that got him off
00:54:14on the wrong foot
00:54:15or so the legend goes.
00:54:17He was much more
00:54:18a matter of symbolism.
00:54:20To the Marxists,
00:54:21he was one thing.
00:54:23The Catholic Church
00:54:24never forgave him
00:54:26for the Vatican incident.
00:54:28The American people
00:54:30in the throes
00:54:31of the Depression
00:54:31as they were
00:54:32found in him
00:54:34a symbol of possibility
00:54:35of self-improvement
00:54:37and self-fulfillment.
00:54:37And, of course,
00:54:39the Freudians had a ball.
00:54:40They could interpret him
00:54:42in any way they pleased.
00:54:44It was all symbolism.
00:54:46But there were no
00:54:46two intellectuals
00:54:47who agreed
00:54:49about what it meant.
00:54:50I don't know
00:54:51if you could call it
00:54:52a triumph of psychotherapy.
00:54:53It seems more like
00:54:54a triumph of aesthetic instincts
00:54:56because Dr. Fletcher's
00:54:57techniques didn't know
00:54:58anything to then-current
00:55:00schools of therapy,
00:55:01but she sensed
00:55:02what was needed
00:55:03and she provided it.
00:55:04And that was,
00:55:05in its way,
00:55:05a remarkable,
00:55:07creative,
00:55:07accomplishment.
00:55:09When I think about it,
00:55:10it seems to me
00:55:11that his story
00:55:11reflected a lot
00:55:12of the Jewish experience
00:55:14in America,
00:55:15the great urge
00:55:16to push in
00:55:17and to find one's place
00:55:18and then to assimilate
00:55:20into the culture.
00:55:22I mean,
00:55:22he wanted to assimilate
00:55:23like crazy.
00:55:33Eudora Fletcher's life
00:55:34has also changed
00:55:36from this experience.
00:55:38For her,
00:55:39fame and recognition
00:55:40are empty rewards
00:55:41and do not live up
00:55:42to the adolescent fantasies
00:55:44that prompted her ambition.
00:55:46She and her patient
00:55:47have fallen in love
00:55:49and it is no surprise
00:55:50when she forsakes
00:55:51the upwardly mobile
00:55:52attorney Koslow
00:55:53and announces wedding plans
00:55:55and announces wedding plans
00:55:56with Zelig.
00:55:58Now there's one thing
00:56:00to think of
00:56:00when you're blue
00:56:01There are others
00:56:04much worse off
00:56:05than you
00:56:06If a load of trouble
00:56:08should arrive
00:56:10Laugh and say
00:56:12it's great to be alive
00:56:14Keep your sunny side
00:56:17Up, up
00:56:18Hide the side
00:56:20that gets blue
00:56:22If you have
00:56:25nine sons in a row
00:56:26Baseball teams
00:56:29make money
00:56:30you know
00:56:30Keep your funny side
00:56:33Up, up
00:56:35Let your laughter
00:56:37come through
00:56:38Do
00:56:39Stand upon your legs
00:56:41Be like two bright eggs
00:56:43Keep your sunny side
00:56:45Up, up
00:56:47Keep your sunny side
00:56:50Up
00:56:51It was wonderful
00:56:53to see my sister
00:56:54and Leonard together.
00:56:56She drew strength
00:56:57from him.
00:57:00They were so much
00:57:02in love with each other
00:57:03and she looked happier
00:57:06than she had in years.
00:57:09I remember
00:57:10they decided
00:57:11to get married
00:57:12in the spring
00:57:13and then of course
00:57:16the roof fell in.
00:57:19Two weeks
00:57:20before the wedding
00:57:21an ex-showgirl
00:57:22named Leta Fox
00:57:24comes forth
00:57:25and claims
00:57:26that she is married
00:57:27to Zelig.
00:57:29She also claims
00:57:30to have had his child.
00:57:32It is
00:57:32an immediate scandal.
00:57:37We were married
00:57:38a year ago
00:57:39He said
00:57:40he was an actor
00:57:41He found it
00:57:42just like one
00:57:43and I'm in show business too
00:57:45So
00:57:47we drove to Baltimore
00:57:48and we were married
00:57:49and I have a license
00:57:51to prove it.
00:57:52He had married her
00:57:53while under
00:57:54a different personality.
00:57:56When she read
00:57:57of the plans
00:57:57for his forthcoming
00:57:58wedding to Eudora Fletcher
00:58:00she was mortified
00:58:01and decided
00:58:02to take legal action.
00:58:04Zelig says
00:58:05he will fight it
00:58:05in court
00:58:06but public opinion
00:58:07begins subtly
00:58:08to shift away from him.
00:58:11Clever attorneys
00:58:12portray Leta Fox
00:58:13as an abandoned woman.
00:58:16The child is neglected
00:58:17poor
00:58:18and fatherless.
00:58:20Zelig has sold
00:58:21his life story
00:58:22to Hollywood
00:58:22for a large sum of money.
00:58:23When the scandal breaks
00:58:25the studio
00:58:26demands its money back.
00:58:28Zelig can only return half
00:58:30as the rest
00:58:31has already been spent.
00:58:33Outraged
00:58:34the studio
00:58:35gives him
00:58:35half his life back.
00:58:37They keep the best moments
00:58:38and he is left
00:58:39with only his sleeping hours
00:58:41and mealtimes.
00:58:43Zelig is shaken
00:58:44by the scandal
00:58:45but it is only
00:58:46the beginning.
00:58:48Now
00:58:48another woman
00:58:49steps forward
00:58:50Helen Gray
00:58:51a sales girl
00:58:52from a Wisconsin gift shop
00:58:53claims that Zelig
00:58:55is the father
00:58:56of her twins.
00:58:57She tells her lawyers
00:58:58that he passed himself off
00:58:59as a fur trapper.
00:59:02Zelig
00:59:02has no recollection
00:59:03but admits
00:59:04it could have happened
00:59:05when he was under
00:59:06one of his spells.
00:59:08It is the signal
00:59:09for the floodgates
00:59:09to open.
00:59:11He married me
00:59:12up at the first
00:59:13church of Holland.
00:59:14He told me
00:59:15he was the brother
00:59:16of Duke Ellington.
00:59:17He was the guy
00:59:18who smashed
00:59:19my car up
00:59:20It was brand new.
00:59:22Then he backed up
00:59:24over my mother's wrist.
00:59:26She's elderly
00:59:27and uses her wrist
00:59:29a lot.
00:59:31He painted my house
00:59:32a disgusting color.
00:59:35He said he was a painter.
00:59:37I couldn't believe
00:59:38the results.
00:59:40Then he disappeared.
00:59:42That Zelig
00:59:43could be responsible
00:59:43for the behavior
00:59:44of each of the personalities
00:59:46he assumed
00:59:46means dozens
00:59:48of lawsuits.
00:59:49He is sued
00:59:50for bigamy
00:59:50adultery
00:59:52automobile accidents
00:59:53plagiarism
00:59:54household damages
00:59:55negligence
00:59:56property damages
00:59:57and performing
00:59:58unnecessary dental extractions.
01:00:00I would like to apologize
01:00:03to everyone.
01:00:04I'm awfully sorry
01:00:05for marrying
01:00:06all those women.
01:00:07It just
01:00:08I don't know
01:00:09it just seemed like
01:00:09the thing to do
01:00:10and to the gentleman
01:00:12whose appendix
01:00:14I took out
01:00:14I don't know
01:00:16what to say
01:00:17if it's any consolation
01:00:18I may still have it
01:00:20somewhere around the house.
01:00:21my deepest apology
01:00:24goes to the Trokman family
01:00:25in Detroit.
01:00:27I never delivered
01:00:29a baby before
01:00:30in my life
01:00:30and I just thought
01:00:32that ice tongs
01:00:34was the way
01:00:34to do it.
01:00:36Thriving mercilessly
01:00:38on loopholes
01:00:38and technicalities
01:00:39the American legal profession
01:00:41has a field day.
01:00:43Zelig
01:00:44is branded a criminal
01:00:45despite Dr. Fletcher's
01:00:47insistence
01:00:47that he cannot be
01:00:48held responsible
01:00:49for his actions
01:00:50while in his
01:00:51chameleon state.
01:00:52It is no use.
01:00:53Leonard Zelig
01:00:54sets a bad
01:00:56moral influence.
01:00:58America
01:00:58is a moral country.
01:01:01It's a God
01:01:02fearing country.
01:01:04We don't condone
01:01:06scandals.
01:01:07Scandals of fraud
01:01:08and polygamy.
01:01:11In keeping
01:01:12with a pure society
01:01:14I say
01:01:15lynch
01:01:17the little hebe.
01:01:19Throughout
01:01:20the humiliating
01:01:21ordeal
01:01:21Eudora Fletcher
01:01:22stands by
01:01:23the man she loves
01:01:24valiantly.
01:01:26Privately
01:01:27she tells friends
01:01:28that she is worried
01:01:29about Zelig's
01:01:30emotional condition
01:01:31which seems to her
01:01:32to be deteriorating
01:01:33under the weight
01:01:34of conservative
01:01:35moral opinion.
01:01:37In public
01:01:38he tries to keep up
01:01:39an appearance
01:01:40of composure
01:01:40but it is
01:01:41increasingly difficult.
01:01:43It is clear
01:01:44that he is coming apart
01:01:45when he and
01:01:46Eudora Fletcher
01:01:47dine at a Greek
01:01:47restaurant
01:01:48and in the midst
01:01:49of the meal
01:01:50Zelig begins
01:01:51to turn Greek.
01:01:59He longs desperately
01:02:00to be liked
01:02:01once again
01:02:02to be accepted
01:02:03to fit in.
01:02:05Public clamor
01:02:06over his morality
01:02:07reaches a fever pitch
01:02:08and on the eve
01:02:09of his sentencing
01:02:10Leonard Zelig
01:02:12vanishes.
01:02:21This is
01:02:22Chief Inspector
01:02:22of Police
01:02:23Thomas Dowd
01:02:24with a national
01:02:24broadcasting news break.
01:02:26Leonard Zelig
01:02:27is missing
01:02:27on the eve
01:02:28of his sentencing
01:02:29for an assortment
01:02:31of crimes
01:02:31and misdemeanies
01:02:33ranging from
01:02:34polygamy
01:02:34to fraud.
01:02:36He has disappeared.
01:02:37We are searching
01:02:38for clues
01:02:39and would appreciate
01:02:40speaking with anyone
01:02:41who might have
01:02:42any information
01:02:43leading to his apprehension.
01:02:45My sister
01:02:46was just shattered.
01:02:49She tried,
01:02:50you know,
01:02:51she tried to keep
01:02:52up a calm front
01:02:53but she was just
01:02:53too upset.
01:02:56And she wasn't
01:02:56a person
01:02:57who usually
01:02:58displayed emotion
01:02:59easily
01:03:00except where
01:03:02Leonard was concerned.
01:03:07Dr. Fletcher
01:03:08and the police
01:03:09confer daily.
01:03:10Together
01:03:10they make
01:03:11public appeals
01:03:12to anyone
01:03:12who might know
01:03:13of his whereabouts.
01:03:15Apart from
01:03:15several crank
01:03:16telephone calls
01:03:17there is
01:03:18little response.
01:03:19Months go by
01:03:20and Zelig
01:03:21is not heard from.
01:03:23Cars are searched.
01:03:24False leads
01:03:25pour in
01:03:26from everywhere.
01:03:27His jacket
01:03:28is recovered
01:03:28in Texas.
01:03:29A manhunt
01:03:30in that state
01:03:31proves futile.
01:03:32He is reported
01:03:33seen in Chicago
01:03:34in California.
01:03:36This still photo
01:03:38appears to have
01:03:39a man resembling him
01:03:40with a mariachi band
01:03:41in Mexico.
01:03:46Dr. Fletcher
01:03:47continues to search
01:03:48for Zelig
01:03:49but hopes fade
01:03:50with each passing day.
01:03:52All I could think
01:03:53of was Leonard
01:03:54and how much
01:03:56I missed him
01:03:56and loved him
01:03:57and of all
01:03:58the terrific times
01:04:00we'd spent together.
01:04:01it was really
01:04:02a very painful
01:04:03time for me.
01:04:05The year ends
01:04:07and Zelig
01:04:08is still missing.
01:04:12I just moped
01:04:13around and wept
01:04:15and one night
01:04:16after a very bad
01:04:18time
01:04:18my sister Meryl
01:04:20said to me
01:04:20come on
01:04:21let's go out
01:04:22for dinner
01:04:22let's go to a concert
01:04:24and I said
01:04:24no I can't do it
01:04:26but she insisted
01:04:27and we went out
01:04:29and finally ended up
01:04:30in a movie.
01:04:31we saw a grand hotel
01:04:32and with it
01:04:33there was a newsreel.
01:04:44Adolf Hitler
01:04:45and the National Socialist Party
01:04:47continue to consolidate
01:04:48gains in depression
01:04:50ridden Berlin.
01:04:51Denouncing the Treaty
01:04:52of Versailles
01:04:53the Nazis make
01:04:54fervent appeals
01:04:55to German patriotism
01:04:56promising to rebuild
01:04:57Eudora Fletcher
01:04:58is stunned
01:04:59by what she sees.
01:05:01Amongst the brown shirts
01:05:02she spots a figure
01:05:04who could be Zelig.
01:05:05Yes but then it really made sense
01:05:08it made all the sense
01:05:09in the world
01:05:09because although
01:05:10he wanted to be loved
01:05:12craved to be loved
01:05:14there was also
01:05:15something in him
01:05:16that desired
01:05:18immersion in the mass
01:05:20and anonymity
01:05:21and fascism
01:05:22offered Zelig
01:05:23that kind of opportunity
01:05:25so that he could
01:05:26make something
01:05:27anonymous of himself
01:05:29by belonging
01:05:30to this
01:05:31vast movement.
01:05:33She sails for Europe
01:05:35the following week.
01:05:37Ten days later
01:05:38she arrives
01:05:39in Berlin.
01:05:41Germany
01:05:41is a country
01:05:42deep in the throes
01:05:43of the Depression.
01:05:44Militarism
01:05:45and unrest
01:05:46are in the air.
01:05:48She searches everywhere
01:05:49and makes inquiries
01:05:50but it is impossible.
01:05:53After three weeks
01:05:54the authorities
01:05:55begin to get suspicious.
01:05:57They watch her
01:05:57while she is out
01:05:58they search her hotel room.
01:06:01A fourth week
01:06:02goes by
01:06:02and she is about
01:06:04to give up
01:06:04and go home
01:06:05when news of a large rally
01:06:07at Munich
01:06:07catches her attention.
01:06:10It is rumoured
01:06:11that it will be
01:06:12the largest gathering
01:06:13to date
01:06:13of Nazi personnel.
01:06:16Eudora Fletcher
01:06:17is counting on the hope
01:06:18that Zelig
01:06:19may also attend
01:06:20and that if she can
01:06:21confront him
01:06:22the strong feeling
01:06:23he has always had
01:06:24for her
01:06:25can be awakened.
01:06:27At first
01:06:28all appears
01:06:29hopeless.
01:06:30The crowd
01:06:31is huge
01:06:32and it seems
01:06:33impossible
01:06:33to locate
01:06:34any one
01:06:34particular face.
01:06:35Then suddenly
01:06:52a figure
01:06:53flanking
01:06:53the chancellor
01:06:54captures her attention.
01:06:55Behind
01:06:56and to the right
01:06:57of Hitler
01:06:57she spots
01:06:58Zelig.
01:07:00Struggling
01:07:00to make contact
01:07:01she manages
01:07:02to catch his eye.
01:07:03Like a man
01:07:05emerging
01:07:06from a dream
01:07:07Zelig notices
01:07:08her.
01:07:09In a matter
01:07:09of seconds
01:07:10everything
01:07:11comes back
01:07:11to him.
01:07:12He never
01:07:14arrived.
01:07:15Fremde
01:07:15hilfe,
01:07:16niemals
01:07:17an hilfe
01:07:19die außerhalb
01:07:20unserer
01:07:21eigenen
01:07:21nation,
01:07:22unseres
01:07:23eigenen
01:07:23folkes
01:07:24liegt.
01:07:24He
01:07:25doesn't
01:07:25Deutschland nicht geschenkt erhielten, sondern selbst nichts schaffen mussten.
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01:08:25in Poland.
01:08:27But just then, ZDF interfered,
01:08:31and Hitler was extremely upset.
01:08:35The SS wanted to grab ZDF,
01:08:40but if they would have grabbed him,
01:08:43they probably would have tortured him or maybe even shot him.
01:08:49So in the confusion, Fletcher and ZDF got out of the building
01:08:54through a side door.
01:08:56They grabbed the car, they sped away in the car,
01:08:59and the SS after them shot them.
01:09:03In rare German newsreel footage,
01:09:06a quick glimpse of the escape was recorded.
01:09:10I was flying. It was wonderful.
01:09:25And then suddenly something happened.
01:09:28I was frightened. I lost control.
01:09:31We went into a dive.
01:09:33Leonard was so terrified that he changed his personality.
01:09:37And before my eyes, because I was a pilot, he turned into one too.
01:09:43Zellig takes control of the airplane.
01:09:46Acting the role of pilot, he struggles valiantly with the aircraft.
01:09:50The Germans, who are stunned, take a full 15 minutes before they follow in hot pursuit of their quarry.
01:09:56With Eudora Fletcher unconscious, Zellig, who had never flown before in his life,
01:10:02not only escapes the German pilots,
01:10:04but sets a record for flying non-stop across the Atlantic upside down.
01:10:09With a storm of cheers and a blizzard of ticker tape, New York welcomes back Eudora Fletcher and Leonard Zellig, the human chameleon.
01:10:38His remarkable feat of aviation fills the nation with pride and earns him a full presidential pardon.
01:10:45Forgiving multitudes flock to see him as he sits by the side of his plucky bride-to-be.
01:10:50Their journey of triumph leads to City Hall.
01:10:53New York's greatest honor, the Medal of Valor, is bestowed on Zellig by Carter Dean.
01:10:58You are a great inspiration to the young of this nation who will one day grow up and be great doctors and great patients.
01:11:09This is a great thrill. I'm glad we live to see this day.
01:11:22I've never flown before in my life and it shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.
01:11:28The thing was paradoxical because what enabled him to perform this astounding feat was his ability to transform himself.
01:11:44Therefore, his sickness was also at the root of his salvation.
01:11:50And I think it's interesting to view the thing that way, that it was his very disorder that made a hero of him.
01:11:59It was really absurd in a way. I mean, he had this curious quirk, this strange characteristic.
01:12:08And for a time, everyone loved him. And then people stopped loving him.
01:12:14And then he did this stunt, you know, with the airplane. And then everybody loved him again.
01:12:20And that was what the 20s were like. And, you know, when you think about it, has America changed so much? I don't think so.
01:12:29After untangling countless legal details, Leonard Zellig and Eudora Fletcher marry.
01:12:35It is a simple ceremony, captured on home movies.
01:12:59Wanting only to be liked, he distorted himself beyond measure, wrote Scott Fitzgerald.
01:13:05One wonders what would have happened if right at the outset he had had the courage to speak his mind and not pretend.
01:13:12In the end, it was, after all, not the approbation of many, but the love of one woman that changed his life.
01:13:21As long as I have you, though there be rain and darkness too, I'll not complain, I'll laugh it through.
01:13:40Poverty may come to me, that's true. But what care what you say, I'll get by, as long as I have you.
01:14:03Poverty may come to...
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01:15:01Everybody go chameleon
01:15:03Everybody show chameleon
01:15:05Take it fast or slow
01:15:07Chameleon
01:15:09Chameleon
01:15:10Chameleon
01:15:11Dave
01:15:12Everybody think chameleon
01:15:14Every time you blink
01:15:16Chameleon
01:15:17In your kitchen sink
01:15:19Chameleon
01:15:20Chameleon
01:15:21Chameleon
01:15:22Dave
01:15:23They're all around us
01:15:25When we wake up everyday
01:15:27Ooh
01:15:28I'm glad they found us
01:15:30Cause they take the blues away
01:15:32Hey hey
01:15:33Everywhere you go chameleon
01:15:36Everything is so chameleon
01:15:39Top of your head
01:15:40To your toe
01:15:41Chameleon
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01:15:44Dave
01:15:45Chameleon
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01:15:51Chameleon
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01:15:54Chameleon
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01:16:00Chameleon
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01:16:04Chameleon
01:16:05Chameleon
01:16:06They're so much fun
01:16:08They'll even jump right through a hoop
01:16:10Oh!
01:16:11And they change color when they're swimming in your soup, boop, boop-e-doo.
01:16:17Flying in the air, chameleon.
01:16:20Crawling in your hair, chameleon.
01:16:22Take away all your care, chameleon, chameleon, chameleon days.
01:16:30There's a brand new dance come up the river.
01:16:33Just jerk your head and shake your liver.
01:16:35You'll do the chameleon.
01:16:38Go, do, do, do, do, do, make a face that's like a lizard and feel that beat down in your gizzard.
01:16:44You'll do the chameleon.
01:16:47Pow!
01:16:48Stick out your tongue, wave the reptiles to try to catch a fly.
01:16:53Inflate your lung like big crocodiles to hang, hang, my, oh, my.
01:16:58Throw your best gal down right on the floor.
01:17:00She'll be begging you for more.
01:17:02And you'll do the chameleon.
01:17:05If you hold your breath till you turn blue, you'll be changing colors like they do.
01:17:11And you'll do the chameleon.
01:17:15Oh, no, no, do, do, wiggle like a salamander.
01:17:18Go this way, that way, all meander.
01:17:20You'll do the chameleon.
01:17:23Pow!
01:17:25Stick out your tongue the way the reptiles do, trying to catch a fly.
01:17:29Inflate your lung like big crocodiles to hang, hey, my, oh, my.
01:17:34Shake your shoulders, move your seat around.
01:17:36Get right down and kick your feet around.
01:17:39Do it.
01:17:40La chameleon.
01:17:42Volley, oh, no.
01:17:43La chameleon.
01:17:44La chameleon.
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