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00:22I'm sure you'll be a fine actor one of these days, however I doubt if this will occur during
00:28my lifetime. Meanwhile, you say you have a part-time job selling shoes. My advice is to make it full
00:36-time.
00:37Goodbye, my boy. So much for sentimentality. Now, there goes an unfit student for the Jules
00:44Benedict Theater Workshop. Now, who here thinks he is fit, hmm? Come, come. All right, that girl.
01:27I'm sure you'll be right back.
01:50Oh, Mr. Benedict, what an impressive office.
01:54Only when I'm in it. You've taught all these famous people. I taught them how to be famous.
02:01Yes. Sit. Is that the way you usually walk across a room? Like a salmon struggling upstream?
02:14Well, shall I do it again? Please. You've already flunked walking. Now, Miss, uh, uh...
02:23Marie. Anne Marie. Can't even walk across a room and already you have a stage name?
02:30Oh, no, it isn't. My father's name is Marie. And your mother's name is Sam. May I ask why
02:37do you wish to become an actress? Well, I've been told to have a little talent. I'm sure
02:43that's accurate. You've filled out your application? Yes, sir. Oh, Mr. Benedict, it means a great deal
02:50for me to get into your workshop. I've been looking forward for this appointment for months.
02:55The application, please. Yes, sir. Here it is.
03:03You folded it. Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh.
03:14Now, let's see. Previous stage experience. College Dramatic Society. Several leads at the
03:23Community Playhouse. Medal for Best Actress at Camp Winnie-Poo. Why didn't you just write
03:35none? Mm-hmm. Mm. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Well, Miss Marie. All right, Miss.
03:53Mr. Benedict, I won't take up any more of your time. You have not been dismissed. Well,
03:57it's obvious I'm not going to be accepted. Young lady, I am never obvious. But I watched
04:02you reading my application and the way you kept shaking your head. There only seemed to
04:06be one thing that pleased you. What was it? Where it says here you have no contagious diseases.
04:14You have just won the privilege of being turned down after you auditioned for me. Oh, I have?
04:20Oh, Mr. Benedict, you mean I'm going to audition for you? I mean, I'll audition right after
04:23I'm turned down after the audition. I'm so excited about it. You remind me of a wind-up
04:29toy. Now, take the script with you and study the scene on page 18. The phone conversation
04:36between Florence and Albert. You want me to play Florence? I mean, of course you want
04:40the way to play Florence. No, it's fine, it's fine. I'll be fine. Yes. Be back here tonight
04:43precisely at 8.15. I'll be here at 7. 8.15. All right. Okay. 8.15. Just synchronizing my watch.
04:53I'll be right on time. Thanks a lot, Mr. Benedict. 8.15. Yes. Thank you very much.
04:57I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back.
05:15Oh, Judy, the most exciting thing has happened. Oh, I didn't know you were on the phone.
05:18Oh, it's my sister in Larchmont. She's having another fight with her husband.
05:21Oh, that's too bad. Well, come on over when you're through. I'll never be through.
05:23They haven't got a marriage. It's a marathon boxing match.
05:26Margaret, I just can't come up this afternoon. There's no one to stay with Stanley.
05:31I can't get a sitter on such short notice.
05:35Hey, wait a minute. Maybe I can. Don't go away.
05:40Boy, you really look excited.
05:43What happened? I finally got my audition for the Benedict workshop.
05:47That's wonderful. When? Tonight at 8.15.
05:49Perfect. I'll be back by 6.30. Margaret, I can come. I found someone to sit with Stanley.
05:54No, you haven't. Margaret, I'll call you back.
05:58Judy, I just can't tonight. This audition's too important to me.
06:00But you won't be late if I'm back by 6.30.
06:02But you won't be back by 6.30. Why?
06:05I don't have to tell you. You'll think of something.
06:06You'll do it? No, I just can't. I've got too much to do this afternoon.
06:09I've got three pages of dialogue to memorize, and with the baby hearing, it won't bother him.
06:13It will bother him. I mean, it'll bother me. I've got to do my hearing.
06:16And press my dress, and then take a shower, then get dressed.
06:18All right, Ann. If that's your last word.
06:21Judy, I promise I'll babysit for two weeks straight for you, but I just can't tonight.
06:25If you can't, you can.
06:37Hello?
06:39Margaret.
06:40No, this is Ann.
06:42Judy's in her own apartment.
06:45I'm in my own apartment.
06:48Oh, she must have taken my phone out by mistake.
06:51Yeah.
06:52We really should get different colors.
06:54Or shorter cords.
06:59Well, Margaret, I...
07:01Margaret, you...
07:03Yes, yes.
07:05Sure.
07:07Okay.
07:08Yeah, I'll tell her.
07:09All right.
07:10Bye.
07:18I told Margaret I'd stay with the baby.
07:20Huh?
07:20She just called me on your phone in my house, and you're right.
07:22You better get up there.
07:23Oh, Ann, thank you.
07:24If there's ever anything I could do for you.
07:26Just be back at 6.30.
07:40Hello, Albert.
07:41Hello, Albert.
07:42I asked you not to call me again.
07:45Hello, Albert.
07:46I asked you not to call me again.
07:49Hello, Albert.
07:50I asked you not to call me again.
07:52Hello?
07:53Albert!
07:54I asked you not to call me again.
07:57Of course I love you.
07:58I wish I didn't.
07:59It'd be so much easier for the both of us.
08:01It'd be so much easier.
08:02It'd be so much easier for the both of us.
08:05Well, Albert's my boyfriend.
08:08He's terribly rich, and I'm terribly poor.
08:10Am I fine?
08:13Oh, sweetheart.
08:14It isn't that sad.
08:16No.
08:16No, it isn't that sad.
08:18They get married at the end.
08:22You probably have a baby, and I'll have to take care of her.
08:27Here.
08:28Play with your rattle.
08:31Here.
08:32Here's a teddy bear.
08:36Okay.
08:37You're teasing me?
08:40No, no.
08:44You're very tired.
08:47You're so sleepy.
08:50Your eyes are beginning to close.
08:53You're very tired.
08:56You're so sleepy.
08:58Your eyes are beginning to close.
09:05Your mouth isn't.
09:11Stanley, what is it you want?
09:18Of course.
09:20You're hungry.
09:21You poor little darling.
09:22You want a bologna sandwich?
09:25I think it's a set of teeth.
09:27Okay.
09:28I'll fix your lunch.
09:28You stay right there.
09:29I'm going to get you some lunch.
09:30Albert, we live in two separate worlds, but there is something you could do for me.
09:36You're going to come over and take care of Stanley so I don't miss my audition.
09:40Albert, we live in two different worlds.
09:42I could never move into yours, and you wouldn't want any part of mine.
09:45Come on, Stanley.
09:46You finished that milk an hour ago.
09:48Come on.
09:49Oh, Albert, we've got to be realistic.
09:52Did you ever stop to think of what your parents might say?
09:56Good boy.
09:57Right on cue.
09:59You little devil.
10:00Come on.
10:01You're such a good boy.
10:02We'd like to tell your mommy.
10:04I'd tell your mommy that you drank all your milk and you went drinking.
10:08Yes.
10:08Yes.
10:11No, no.
10:11Good boy.
10:12No, no.
10:13Please, please.
10:14Hello?
10:14Judy, hi.
10:15Yes.
10:16Everything's just great.
10:17Oh, he's happy as a lark.
10:20Judy, what are you?
10:21I'm still in Larchmont.
10:23Judy, you promised me back at 6.30.
10:25I know, but my big lummox brother-in-law just came home and Margaret's here and I'm afraid
10:31to leave them alone together.
10:33I'm setting one of them down here to sit with Stanley.
10:35What if Leon sits with Stanley?
10:37Well, fine.
10:38Fine.
10:38Can you get him?
10:39I don't have to.
10:40He has early office hours today and he'll be home any minute.
10:42All right, Judy.
10:44But if he isn't, you better get ready for a bigger fight here than you have over there.
10:48Okay.
10:49I know.
10:50All right.
10:50Bye.
10:56Who's only kidding?
10:58That wouldn't hurt your mother.
11:02If your father doesn't get home, I may kill him.
11:15Just a minute.
11:16Just a minute.
11:17Just a minute.
11:19Hi.
11:19Oh, Leon, am I glad to see you.
11:21Well, you've never been that glad to see me before.
11:23Never been this glad to see anybody before.
11:25I've got an audition tonight at 8.15.
11:26Yeah.
11:27Judy wasn't home, so I figured she might be...
11:30Oh, hey there, champ.
11:32What are you doing over here?
11:34Judy's up in Larchmont with your sister-in-law and her sparring partner.
11:36At it again, huh?
11:37Yes, sweetheart.
11:39Come on, boy.
11:39Stanley, there's Daddy.
11:40Come on, buddy.
11:41Daddy, there's Stanley.
11:42Hey there, big boy.
11:44You been having fun with Aunt Annie?
11:45No, I've been rehearsing all day.
11:47There's no need for that.
11:48Listen, when the time comes, I'm sure you're gonna make a fine little mummy.
11:51Thanks, Leon.
11:52Listen, you want me to take this up over there?
11:54No, I'll be back in a few minutes to pick him up, please.
11:56Oh, okay.
11:56Now leave the key, and when you come back, just put it there.
11:59Leave the key or...
12:00Take the key, I mean.
12:01Take the key, right.
12:01And just...
12:02And when you come back, leave it right there.
12:03Right, okay.
12:04Say bye-bye, Annie.
12:05Thanks a lot.
12:06Bye-bye.
12:06Bye-bye.
12:10Bye-bye.
12:12Bye-bye.
12:12Bye-bye.
12:14Bye-bye.
12:16Bye-bye.
12:17Bye-bye.
12:17Bye-bye.
12:18Bye-bye.
12:18Who is it?
12:22Leon?
12:23Oh, okay, Leon.
12:24Leave the key.
12:25Right.
12:26I, uh...
12:27I've gotta leave Stanley, too.
12:30What?
12:31Stanley, I, uh...
12:32I'm...
12:33I'm putting him in the buggy.
12:36Leon! Leon, you can't do this to me.
12:37I've got that audition tonight.
12:39I'm sorry, Annie, but I just got a call from the hospital.
12:41Another little person's about to come into the world.
12:43And another big person's about to go out.
12:45Oh, Leon, you can't do this to me.
12:47There's no other way. It's an emergency.
12:49What about my emergency?
12:50Would you leave your baby with a babbling, hopeless, incompetent?
12:53No.
12:54Oh, I get it. You're making a little joke.
12:58No, I'll be back as soon as possible.
13:00Ten at the latest.
13:00Ten?
13:01Well, 9.30 if the patient's early.
13:03If I'm late, Mr. Benedict will never speak to me again.
13:05I'm sorry, Annie, but in the overall scheme of things,
13:07the miracle of birth has still got to come first.
13:09Now, goodbye.
13:12All right.
13:14You're right.
13:23Some miracle you are.
13:28What are you so happy about?
13:30You like to see people suffer?
13:32Wait till I start getting delirious.
13:34And you'll really enjoy yourself.
13:44What is this?
13:46You can't possibly be hungry again, sweetheart.
13:48Please.
13:49Hello?
13:50Please be quiet.
13:52I haven't said anything yet.
13:54Not you, Sandy.
13:55Judy, where in the heck are you?
13:57I'm still in Larchmont.
13:59I'm sorry.
14:00Is anyone coming over?
14:02Oh, I've called everybody.
14:03Don has to work and George has a date and my mother and father are out.
14:07What am I going to do?
14:09Anne, I've made a decision.
14:11Are you coming home?
14:12No.
14:13You can take Stanley with you.
14:15Take Stanley with me?
14:17Oh, now don't worry.
14:18He's been out the evening before.
14:20I know, but I can't take a baby to an audition.
14:22Why not?
14:23I taught him how to clap hands.
14:26Oh, don't be ridiculous.
14:27It's out of the question and it's 7.30.
14:29Then what are you going to do?
14:30What can I do?
14:31I'm going to take Stanley to the audition.
14:33Good.
14:34But I'd like him to be dressed real nice.
14:37How dressed up can a baby get?
14:39Anne, go into his room and in his dresser, under the navy sweater, you'll find the blue
14:43knit suit with the striped top.
14:44Okay, all right.
14:46In the dresser, under the blue sweater, the navy little thing with the striped top.
14:49Okay, hold down while I find him.
15:10Okay, I got him.
15:11Now, in the chest by the crib, you'll find his yellow coat as Grandma Harriet gave him
15:15for Christmas and the hat from Cousin Selma.
15:18Judy, why didn't you tell me before I could have gotten him when I went for the Rompers?
15:20Oh, I was afraid you'd have too much to remember.
15:23Okay, okay.
15:24I'll get him.
15:33Oh!
15:33Oh!
15:33Oh!
15:34Oh!
15:34Oh!
15:35Oh!
15:35Oh!
15:36Oh!
15:36Oh!
15:37Oh!
15:38Oh!
15:49Of course I love you, Albert.
15:50I wish I didn't.
15:51It'd be so much easier for both of us.
15:54I realize that the court has a busy calendar, but we're both interested in seeing that justice
15:59be done.
15:59And the only way that justice can be done is if the jury will bring in a murderer verdict
16:04in the first degree.
16:06The prosecution rests.
16:09An excellent idea.
16:10And after that performance, I'd advise you, young man, to throw yourself on the mercy
16:15of the court or out the window.
16:18Next applicant, please.
16:20Miss Anne Marie.
16:23Come, come.
16:23I have no patience with proudiness.
16:26Down here, Mr. Benedict.
16:27I'm here.
16:28Here I am.
16:29Here I am.
16:29Right on time.
16:30Right on time.
16:3118.
16:3118.
16:33Well, if you're doing Goldilocks, won't you need a mama and a papa bear?
16:37Oh, oh, this isn't in me.
16:39I mean, I was just carrying it for, for good luck.
16:46Well, I'm ready whenever you are.
16:50Well, go ahead.
16:52Oh, I thought you'd give me a signal.
16:57Ah!
16:58What was that?
17:00I heard a baby.
17:07I see a baby.
17:13Miss Marie, in my office this morning, you were unmarried and childless.
17:19Yes, sir.
17:20I'm aware of the great strides being made in the medical profession, but this...
17:24Oh, he isn't mine, Mr. Benedict.
17:25It belongs to my next-door neighbor.
17:27You see, she had to go up to Larchmont because her sister was having a fight with her husband,
17:31and she had no one to leave the baby with, and Judy just had to get up there to protect
17:33her sister, and you really don't care, do you?
17:36What are you chatting about?
17:38Well, sir, I know I shouldn't have brought him, but it was the only way I could get here
17:41on time, and I just couldn't pass up this opportunity to be a pupil in your class.
17:46A pupil, possibly.
17:47But never in my class.
17:50Now, why don't you and nature's little wonder go into my office and wait until you are called?
17:56Yes, sir.
17:57And don't drool on anything.
18:00Either of you.
18:02Thank you, sir.
18:11You tell me if I'm messing up this office, but it doesn't matter.
18:14I can't have you rolling off the desks.
18:17There.
18:18That's good.
18:18Okay, now, that's it.
18:19Albert, we've got to be realistic.
18:21Albert.
18:22Albert, we've got to be realistic.
18:23Miss Anne-Marie.
18:25That's us, Stanley.
18:26Okay, now, sweetheart.
18:27You just lie there and think pleasant thoughts.
18:29No noise.
18:30Only burp if you have to.
18:33Love you.
18:34Okay.
18:35Okay.
18:35Okay.
18:40All right, Miss Marie.
18:42If things are all under control in daddy-land, let's take it from the phone call.
18:52Hello, Albert.
18:54Albert, I told you not to call me again.
18:56Please, dear, you must listen.
18:59Of course I love you, but...
19:02But I hear the baby crying.
19:09Stanley, Stanley, please.
19:11Now, please, sweetheart, stop crying.
19:12Come on.
19:13I'll only be a few minutes.
19:15There.
19:15Okay.
19:16Oh, thank you, sweetheart.
19:18Okay, be a good boy.
19:19Good boy.
19:20Okay.
19:25Shall I start at the beginning?
19:26Yes.
19:27Starting at the end makes it too short.
19:32Hello, Albert.
19:33Albert, I asked you not to call me again.
20:02Please, please, dear.
20:05Please, you must listen.
20:07Albert, what was your parents' name?
20:08Albert, send me.
20:09No, no, no.
20:10No, Albert.
20:11Albert, I just wanted to...
20:12That will be enough, Miss Marie.
20:16Now, I suggest that when you hang up the phone with Albert, you immediately call the Hollywood
20:22Palace and see if they can use a girl, a baby, and a teddy bear.
20:27Now, get that squalling bundle of milk and talcum powder out of here.
20:31Oh, you can't help it, Mr. Benedict.
20:33Weren't you ever a baby?
20:34I'll thank you not to rake up the past.
20:37But what about my audition?
20:39You've lost your audition.
20:40You are now fighting for your life.
20:43Get that squabbling, babbling disaster out of here.
20:47Now, see here, Mr. Benedict.
20:49I don't mind your attacking me, but I will not allow you to attack my friend's baby.
20:53You're a cruel, heartless man.
20:55Miss Marie, you are using up my acoustics.
20:58Sure, what do you care?
20:59If Herman and Margaret kill each other, you're just safe and sound in your snug little workshop.
21:02Well, I'll tell you something.
21:04You attack the fenceless little babies because they can't talk back to you.
21:06Well, I can't.
21:07I'll tell you what you really are.
21:09No, I'm not going to tell you what you really are at all.
21:11I'm just going to let you stay up all night trying to guess.
21:16Did you hear the way she spoke to me?
21:20No one gets away with that in the Benedict workshop except Benedict.
21:26Well, Stanley, it's over.
21:28Boy, we really blew it.
21:30But don't let it get you down, sweetheart.
21:31Here, hold this.
21:32It wasn't your fault.
21:33No, sir.
21:35At least it wasn't a total loss.
21:37We had fun in the taxi on the way down, didn't we?
21:39Sure.
21:40And you just forget about Mr. Benedict.
21:42I'm sure he didn't mean all those terrible things he said.
21:44He's a big stinker.
21:45Are you kidding?
21:46He's just a best darn teacher.
21:49Who cares about this dumb workshop anyway?
21:54I do.
21:55But I'll get over it.
21:56Yes.
21:57Sure.
21:58And someday when you're all grown up, you'll come and see me, Stanley.
22:03And I'll be selling things.
22:05I'll probably be selling teddy bears.
22:06And you can tell all your friends I made her what she is today.
22:10There we go.
22:12There.
22:12We're going to get out of this terrible place.
22:15Yes, sir.
22:16And this time we're going to take the subway.
22:18You better believe it.
22:22That was quite the performance.
22:24I wasn't acting.
22:26I know.
22:27But it takes a certain talent to come across as a real person.
22:32May we go now?
22:33Yes.
22:34I'll reserve the rest of my comments till after your audition tomorrow night.
22:38My audition?
22:40Certainly not mine.
22:43You mean you're giving me another chance?
22:45After everything I've just said?
22:48I'm a bit curious about those things you wanted me to stay up nights.
22:53Guessing.
22:55Oh.
22:56You are?
22:59Well, I think I'll just save some of my comments, too.
23:05Till after the audition.
23:15I'm sorry, Albert, but it's all over, and this is goodbye.
23:19Goodbye, Albert.
23:22Thank you, Miss Marie.
23:24I'll see you in my office in exactly two minutes.
23:32He hated it.
23:33Otherwise, he'd have said something nice.
23:36On the other hand, I mean, even if he loved it, he never says anything nice.
23:40Of course, he did say thank you, Miss Marie.
23:43But that could mean he was thankful it was all over.
23:45No, no.
23:46I'm going to think positive.
23:47It was terrific.
23:48And I hope he thinks so, because I really don't.
23:57Come in.
23:58I know it's only been one minute and 48 seconds, Mr. Benedict,
24:01but I just couldn't wait any longer.
24:02I just had to find out.
24:04Now it's two minutes.
24:06Well, Miss Marie, I'd say your acting was just adequate.
24:11Your projection, just passable.
24:14Diction needs a lot of work.
24:17As for the way you moved...
24:20It's obvious I didn't make it.
24:22Quite the contrary.
24:23Mary, I want you in the workshop.
24:26You'll be my greatest challenge.
24:29I mean, you don't understand you at all.
24:31I mean, I...
24:33I wasn't really terrific on the stage tonight.
24:35I could tell you weren't thrilled by my performance.
24:38And last night I said some really terrible things to you,
24:41and I just don't understand why you want me in your workshop.
24:47That's my way of getting even.
25:13That's my way of getting even.
25:14I'm being...
25:27I'm...
25:34I don't know.
25:36I mean, you can't.
25:40I'm...
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