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00:00:26Since the beginning man has looked
00:00:28into the awesome reaches of infinity and asked the eternal questions.
00:00:33What is time? And what is space?
00:00:36What is life? And what is death?
00:00:48Through a hundred civilizations, philosophers and scientists
00:00:52have come with answers.
00:00:53But the bewilderment remains.
00:00:55For each human soul must find the secret in its own faith.
00:01:00The tender and haunting legend of the portrait of Jenny
00:01:03is based on the two ingredients of faith.
00:01:06Truth and hope.
00:01:09There is such a portrait that hung in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
00:01:14And there was such a girl named Jenny who sat for it.
00:01:18So much is true.
00:01:20For the rest, science tells us that nothing ever dies but only changes.
00:01:26That time itself does not pass but curves around us.
00:01:30And that the past and the future are together at our side forever.
00:01:37Out of the shadows of knowledge and out of a painting that hung on a museum wall
00:01:41comes our story.
00:01:43The truth of which lies not on our screen, but in your heart.
00:01:59And now, portrait of Jenny.
00:02:05New York is a cold place in the winter.
00:02:07It was no warmer in the winter of 34.
00:02:11Yet there is a type of suffering for the artists,
00:02:14which is worse than anything a winter or poverty can do.
00:02:18It is more like a winter of the mind.
00:02:22A dreadful feeling of the world's indifference.
00:02:25Yes.
00:02:26My courage had all run out.
00:02:41Yes, sir.
00:02:42What can I do for you?
00:02:43Well, you can buy one of my pictures, perhaps.
00:02:46Yes, but of course we buy very, very little.
00:02:48Almost nothing.
00:02:49Times being what they are.
00:02:52However, let me see what you have.
00:03:02Landscapes.
00:03:03Mostly.
00:03:04Yes.
00:03:04Too bad.
00:03:05These are some things I did up at Cape Cod.
00:03:08That is the fisheries at North Truro.
00:03:11Yes.
00:03:14Landscapes.
00:03:15Yes.
00:03:16Landscapes.
00:03:18Here are some sketches of the city.
00:03:20That is the bridge.
00:03:21Yes.
00:03:22Yes.
00:03:22It is a good bridge, but I just don't happen to like bridges.
00:03:25They can't do it.
00:03:25They come in every day, but it doesn't.
00:03:28Oh, Miss Finney.
00:03:29You startled me.
00:03:30This is my partner, Miss Finney.
00:03:33I don't believe I caught your name.
00:03:35I didn't say it.
00:03:38My name is Ebon Adams.
00:03:40What are you so defensive about?
00:03:42I'm not.
00:03:42I'm Ebon Adams.
00:03:43Perhaps it would be better if you weren't.
00:03:45You might eat more.
00:03:47Don't be in such a hurry.
00:03:48Let's see what you've got here.
00:03:49There's nothing there that will interest you or your pardon.
00:03:52You're probably right.
00:03:54I'd like to see what interests you.
00:03:57Sit down, Adams.
00:03:59You may not sell anything, but at least you'll rest.
00:04:02I'd advise you to sit.
00:04:09You paint a nice flower.
00:04:12Did you ever read Robert Browning?
00:04:14Long time ago.
00:04:16Do you remember his poem about Andrea del Sato,
00:04:18the perfect painter?
00:04:21Proportion, anatomy, color.
00:04:23He had everything and nothing.
00:04:26He painted a perfect hand,
00:04:28while Raphael drew a formless claw.
00:04:33But Raphael loved his work.
00:04:35Poor Andy del Sato.
00:04:37I think I get your point.
00:04:39There isn't a drop of love in any of these.
00:04:42Oh, really, Miss Finney.
00:04:44Don't be soft, Matthews.
00:04:45I'm an old maid and nobody knows more about love
00:04:48than an old maid.
00:04:49What's the matter with you, Adams?
00:04:52We have to learn to care deeply for something.
00:04:55We'll take the flower.
00:04:57Huh?
00:04:58I happen to have a weakness for flowers.
00:05:00He doesn't do them too badly.
00:05:03Give you $12 and a half for it.
00:05:04There's any argument.
00:05:05There's no sale.
00:05:06There's no argument.
00:05:07You pay him, Mr. Matthew.
00:05:09I haven't had your change of a dollar.
00:05:12I haven't got a dime.
00:05:13Gear lowest, 50 cents.
00:05:17If you want more flowers, I've got a carload of them than home.
00:05:19I was afraid of that.
00:05:21Good day.
00:05:25Thank you very much.
00:05:26Good day, Miss Finney.
00:05:28I don't think you really wanted the picture.
00:05:31If I hadn't wanted it, I wouldn't have taken it.
00:05:34You have beautiful eyes.
00:05:36Goodbye.
00:05:38Oh, dear.
00:05:39I'm afraid that picture isn't worth more than a couple of dollars.
00:05:43No, but Adams is.
00:05:45Yes, but we're supposed to be in the business for profit, Miss Finney.
00:05:50I thought.
00:05:51I bought this for myself.
00:05:53Oh.
00:05:54It's wonderful what a little compliment can do.
00:05:58My first in 20 years, Mr. Matthews.
00:06:04At last, I had a little money in my pocket.
00:06:07But I think I was a little lightheaded from not having had enough to eat.
00:06:11Suddenly, I had the awareness of something extraordinary.
00:06:15The city sounds were muted and far away.
00:06:19They seemed to come from another time.
00:06:22Like the sound of summer in a meadow long ago.
00:06:31It belongs to me.
00:06:39Isn't anybody here with you?
00:06:41No.
00:06:42Why should there be?
00:06:43It's getting pretty dark.
00:06:44Oughtn't you go home?
00:06:46Well, I don't have to go home yet.
00:06:48Nobody's ready for me.
00:06:51Anyway, you're with me.
00:06:55I'm Jenny.
00:06:56Jenny?
00:06:57Jenny what?
00:06:58Jenny Appleton.
00:06:59Father and mother are actors and actresses.
00:07:01They're working down at Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:07:03They do juggling on a rope.
00:07:05Did you say Hammerstein's?
00:07:07Uh-huh.
00:07:07Why?
00:07:08Because it was torn down years ago when I was a boy.
00:07:11You must be thinking of some other place because I was there yesterday.
00:07:14Well, now really, I...
00:07:16Now, let me see your pictures, mister.
00:07:18Adams.
00:07:19How do you know they are pictures?
00:07:21Oh, I just know.
00:07:22No.
00:07:27Those are awful little windows for such a big church.
00:07:30They have to be little.
00:07:31There's so much wind in Cape Cod.
00:07:33I don't like it.
00:07:34It scares me.
00:07:35The wind?
00:07:36No, the black water.
00:07:39There should be a lighthouse out there in the ocean.
00:07:42Yes, there should be.
00:07:43How did you know?
00:07:45I don't exactly remember.
00:07:47Someday I'll show it to you.
00:07:48Out there on the rocks.
00:07:49The land's in light.
00:07:51But you said you didn't remember.
00:07:53I don't.
00:07:54I just know.
00:07:58I wish I liked your pictures, but I don't.
00:08:01That's what everybody says.
00:08:03That's why I can't sell them.
00:08:05Maybe you shouldn't paint places.
00:08:08Why don't you paint people instead?
00:08:09Cecily Brown's home is full of pictures of people.
00:08:12Who's Cecily Brown?
00:08:13She's my best friend.
00:08:15I go to school every day now, but only in the mornings.
00:08:17What are you learning?
00:08:19Well, yesterday we learned about the Kaiser.
00:08:21He's the king of Germany.
00:08:22He was a long time ago.
00:08:24You're wrong.
00:08:25Cecily Brown's father's in Germany now, and he sees them all the time.
00:08:28Well, he was...
00:08:28He says the Kaiser rides around on a white horse, and he likes to fight.
00:08:32I can fight, too.
00:08:34I can fight Cecily.
00:08:35She's bigger, but I'm stronger.
00:08:37I can fight her good.
00:08:38I thought you said Cecily Brown was your best friend.
00:08:40She is.
00:08:42It's fun to have somebody to play with.
00:08:45Don't you have anybody to play with?
00:08:47No.
00:08:51Well, I'm afraid I have to go now.
00:08:53Well, it's a little lonesome here all by myself.
00:08:56So I'll walk away with you if you don't mind.
00:09:00I know a song. Would you like to hear it?
00:09:02I'd love to.
00:09:03You know.
00:09:03I'd love to hear it.
00:09:05Where I come from...
00:09:15Nobody knows.
00:09:22And where I am going
00:09:31Everything goes
00:09:35The wind blows
00:09:39The sea flows
00:09:45Nobody knows
00:09:49And where I am going
00:10:01Nobody knows
00:10:09Who taught you that?
00:10:11Nobody, it's just a song
00:10:14Do you know the game I like to play best?
00:10:16What?
00:10:17It's a wishing game
00:10:18I'll tell you what I wish most
00:10:20What do you wish?
00:10:21Well, first you have to close your eyes and turn around three times
00:10:26I wish that you would wait for me to grow up
00:10:28So that we could always be together
00:10:34But you won't, I guess
00:10:37Well, I can't talk to you anymore
00:10:39Goodbye
00:10:54Goodbye
00:10:54I'll get your parcel
00:10:55Oh, thank you
00:11:01Funny kind of a kid
00:11:05Jenny
00:11:22Is that you, Mr. Adams?
00:11:24Yes, Mrs. Jeex
00:11:26You always come in so extremely quiet
00:11:28I can hardly hear you, Mr. Adams
00:11:29So thoughtful of my other tenants
00:11:31I didn't want to disturb anybody
00:11:32Of course not
00:11:33A fine gentleman like you
00:11:36Would five dollars do for a while?
00:11:37It won't do, but I'll take it
00:11:38I hope I'll have some more for you soon
00:11:40You'd better see that you do
00:11:41I don't suppose you'd be interested in another one of my sketches until I...
00:11:44Oh no, my bathroom's full of them now
00:11:46Where would I put another one? In my parlor?
00:11:48No, I wouldn't expect anything like that
00:11:53You certainly have a way, Mrs. Jeex
00:11:56Play with him like a cat with a mouse
00:11:57And then you pounce
00:11:58But he is attractive, isn't he?
00:12:00And a gentleman besides
00:12:02That's what makes it so hard to throw him out
00:12:04Oh, but he's an ornament to your house, Mrs. Jeex
00:12:06Just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things
00:12:11Of course, he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent
00:12:16Painting things?
00:12:18Women?
00:12:19Women in the...
00:12:21Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman
00:12:22A gentleman just don't paint women in the...
00:12:25No, of course not
00:13:05No, of course not
00:13:06stayed in my mind and I thought of the last thing she'd said to me about waiting
00:13:11for her to grow up. But people can't wait for other people to grow up. There was
00:13:18something different about that child. I wondered if my pencil could catch it.
00:13:36Hiya, Mac. Morning, Gus. Morning, is it? You've slept it all the way. It's gone forever and a grand
00:13:42morning it was, too. I worked pretty late last night. I didn't get to sleep at dawn.
00:13:47Had your breakfast yet? Well, no. Now it's about having some lunch with me. No, no, I'm not gonna eat
00:13:53on you, Gus. You have to work too hard for your money. Wait a minute, I've got some money of
00:13:57my own. No care. I sold a picture yesterday, twelve dollars and a half. Well, what do you know? Today
00:14:02you're having lunch on me. It's a great pleasure, Mac. Just come along a minute while I fix up the
00:14:07hack and we'll soon be on our way. You know, Gus, I can't get you at all. Why should you
00:14:13care if I eat? Well, maybe I don't like to see people go hungry.
00:14:17Let me put it this way, Mac. I got a lot of respect for a guy that's doing what he's
00:14:21got to do, even if maybe it's killing him. Now, you want to paint pictures, so you're going right ahead
00:14:27doing it no matter. I like that, Mac.
00:14:29You know, most of the time a fella's got the idea that there's nothing much to life, except getting through
00:14:35it as easy and as comfortable as he can, making a quarter here, a dollar there, eating, sleeping, and dying.
00:14:43And then a fella like you comes along, who's not thinking too much about them things. He'll start you wondering.
00:14:50Wondering if maybe you're not missing something.
00:14:55Hop in. I'd like to recommend my friend Moore and his corned beef and cabbage.
00:15:00It's almost like home. You couldn't pay me to eat anywhere else.
00:15:04Oh, sorry, Mac.
00:15:05Oh, it's all right.
00:15:07Oh, well.
00:15:10Well, take into wearing scarves.
00:15:14That isn't mine. I found it.
00:15:16Belongs to a little girl I met in the park.
00:15:18Yeah, pretty big scarf for a little girl.
00:15:20Funny kid.
00:15:21She said her parents were acrobats at Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:15:24Yeah, Hammerstein's was torn down years ago.
00:15:26Of course it was.
00:15:27But she said she was there yesterday.
00:15:29Yeah, that's kids for you.
00:15:31Always dreaming up something.
00:15:33Well, what do you know?
00:15:34Sarah Bernhardt's coming to America for a farewell tour.
00:15:37Sarah Bernhardt? Have you gone crazy?
00:15:39Well, that's what it says here.
00:15:41Sarah Bernhardt, distinguished French tragedianee, arrives next month.
00:15:46Let me see.
00:15:48Well, that is what it says.
00:15:51Say, this paper's dated 1910.
00:15:551910? Where'd you pick up an old paper like that?
00:15:57A little girl in the park had it. Her scarf was wrapped in her.
00:16:01Gus.
00:16:03Read that. Read that ad.
00:16:05Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:16:06Eva Tangway, the American comedienne.
00:16:09Will Rogers, expert lariat thrower.
00:16:12The Appletons, novelty high wire act.
00:16:14Well, what about it?
00:16:15It's just what she said.
00:16:16I don't get you.
00:16:17She said her name was Jenny Appleton.
00:16:20So?
00:16:21I'm not going to think of it.
00:16:23She wasn't dressed the way the kids are now.
00:16:25Oh, look, Mac.
00:16:26You're not trying to believe this kid, are you?
00:16:29Of course not.
00:16:30Okay, okay, eat your lunch.
00:16:32As my mother used to say,
00:16:33if you got too little in your stomach,
00:16:35you got too much in your head.
00:16:38I see.
00:16:40You think I'm imagining things.
00:16:42Oh, no, Gus.
00:16:44She was real enough, all right.
00:16:46I saw her.
00:16:47What's more, I could draw her for you.
00:16:49Hi, Gush.
00:16:50Hi, Mac.
00:16:51How are things?
00:16:52I think my friend, Mac.
00:16:52Mac here's the owner of the joint.
00:16:54Hello, Mr. Moore.
00:16:55Is everything all right, sir?
00:16:57Couldn't be better.
00:16:57I'm glad to hear you say it.
00:16:59And you, Gus, everything all right?
00:17:01Sure, sure, I guess so.
00:17:03What do you mean, I guess so?
00:17:04Anything wrong?
00:17:06No, no, I guess not.
00:17:07Is the food all right?
00:17:09Sure, sure.
00:17:10And what's griping you?
00:17:12Well, I kind of hate to say this, Mac.
00:17:14You're not the sort of man I like to hurt.
00:17:17But if you don't see me around for a while,
00:17:20don't be surprised.
00:17:21I thought I might start eating down at Nick's for a change.
00:17:23Nick's?
00:17:24Yeah.
00:17:25Nick's?
00:17:26And what's wrong with Nick's?
00:17:28No, nothing the matter with Nick's.
00:17:31I suppose, if you like that type of place.
00:17:34So you're going to start eating down at Nick's.
00:17:39It's a nice day, we're having.
00:17:40A beautiful day.
00:17:41It is, and more.
00:17:43So you're going to start eating down at Nick's, eh?
00:17:46Yeah, I thought I might.
00:17:50It's all kind of people to make a world.
00:17:53All kinds.
00:17:54And some of them hasn't a trace of friendship or loyalty.
00:17:58Well, uh...
00:18:00A fella likes a change once in a while.
00:18:02A change from what?
00:18:03Well, it's this room, the joint.
00:18:06It's dark in here, Mac.
00:18:07Dark?
00:18:09Dark.
00:18:10You ought to brighten it up.
00:18:11Brighten up the joint, Mac.
00:18:13What would you want me to do?
00:18:14Oh, well, I don't know, Mac.
00:18:15I hadn't got that far.
00:18:17Suppose I could hang his three picture here and there.
00:18:22You know, it's a crying shame
00:18:24you couldn't have a whole scene painted right on the wall.
00:18:28Of course, I know that can't be done, but...
00:18:31Why can't it be done?
00:18:33Didn't he ever hear tell the murials?
00:18:36Murials, eh?
00:18:37Pictures painted onto a wall.
00:18:39Is that right, Mac?
00:18:40Is it possible to paint a picture right on the wall?
00:18:42Of course it's possible.
00:18:43It's done all the time.
00:18:45See, you dumb ox.
00:18:47As a matter of fact,
00:18:48this wall would lend itself to a mural very nicely.
00:18:51Well, look, what are we thinking of?
00:18:53Here we got one of the grandest artists in the whole world
00:18:55sitting right at the table.
00:18:56And why don't we ask him to do something?
00:18:58You could squeeze it in, Mac.
00:19:00You could squeeze it in between all your other, uh, commissions.
00:19:04Well, uh, I don't know.
00:19:06You could drop in here now, say, around noontime or suppertime.
00:19:10It won't cost you a cent.
00:19:12Aye.
00:19:13Excuse me a minute.
00:19:15I've got to post this.
00:19:20Lost him.
00:19:21Had him and I lost him.
00:19:22Let it go, Gus.
00:19:23Don't say any more about him.
00:19:31Up the rebels.
00:19:33Up the rebels.
00:19:35Three beers, Mac.
00:19:36Come on.
00:19:36Mac, did you ever see Mick Collins?
00:19:38I never did and I've often regretted it.
00:19:40Here's what you should do, Mac.
00:19:42Right over the barn, dear.
00:19:43A patron of Michael Collins.
00:19:46Mick Collins himself and he leading his men in a battle
00:19:49against the might of England.
00:19:51Just a minute, Gus.
00:19:52Why, a man alive would be the greatest thing that ever hit this town.
00:19:55Moose Alhambra would be the rallying place for every Irish patriot to come to.
00:19:59Why, man, you wouldn't have standing room at the barn.
00:20:01And it wouldn't cost you a cent.
00:20:03It's so much kind of interesting.
00:20:05Now, here's how I see it.
00:20:06Or should I say how my friend Mac here sees it.
00:20:09It's early dawn on a small hill in Ireland.
00:20:12And there, there on a carpet of shamrock,
00:20:16under an old elm stands to be coving.
00:20:19And leaning on his gun, waiting for a zero hour.
00:20:22And all the Burfies and Flanagan's and O'Shea's are waiting with him.
00:20:25In a brief moment, Mick himself will lead him in a battle
00:20:28and lead him to victory.
00:20:30Up the rebels!
00:20:31Up the rebels!
00:20:32You've got to pay it, Mr. Arley.
00:20:34You've got to do it right.
00:20:36Up the rebels!
00:20:37Up the rebels!
00:20:38Up the rebels!
00:20:38Up the rebels!
00:20:47Up the rebels!
00:20:48What's this?
00:20:49A sketch of a little girl I saw in the park.
00:20:51It's very good.
00:20:53Isn't it, Miss Binney?
00:20:55Yes, I think you have something there, Adams.
00:20:57Do you know why I like it?
00:20:58Why?
00:20:59There's a quality about the girl that reminds me of long ago.
00:21:03And there ought to be something timeless about a woman.
00:21:06Something eternal.
00:21:08You can see it in all the great portraits of the past.
00:21:10They make you feel you could meet those women anywhere
00:21:13and be inspired by them.
00:21:15Well then, Mr. Adams, I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:21:17I'll take that sketch.
00:21:19I'll give you $25 for it.
00:21:21And I don't care what Miss Finney says.
00:21:23I'm not going to say anything.
00:21:26Now, Adams, you can stop feeling sorry for yourself.
00:21:28Oh, no.
00:21:29Things are looking out for getting three meals a day for painting a mural
00:21:32and now $25.
00:21:34Thank you for a sketch.
00:21:36A sketch.
00:21:37Well, thank you.
00:21:41Where are you going now?
00:21:42Nowhere, anywhere.
00:21:44Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:21:47And where I'm going, anything goes.
00:21:50What's that?
00:21:51Oh, it's a song that little girl sang in the park.
00:21:53Well, if you don't know where you're coming or going,
00:21:55perhaps you'd like a cup of tea.
00:21:56Well, I don't care if I do.
00:21:58Come along.
00:22:01See you later, Mr. Matthews.
00:22:03Oh, yes.
00:22:04As you say, Miss Finney.
00:22:09You know, I haven't been to ice skating since I was a kid in Maine.
00:22:12Who brought up the name?
00:22:13South Paris, Maine.
00:22:14Pretty swanky here.
00:22:16It was a nice little town.
00:22:18Rivers, lakes, mountains.
00:22:20My father ran the general store until he died.
00:22:23My mother died a couple of years later.
00:22:25And I worked myself through three years of college.
00:22:28And then...
00:22:30Fascinating, isn't it?
00:22:31I think it's interesting.
00:22:33I want to ask you advice about something.
00:22:35I don't feel sorry for myself the way you said.
00:22:37I'm facing a very practical problem.
00:22:39Oh, that is something.
00:22:40An artist facing practical problems.
00:22:42Oh, not the kind you think.
00:22:43I don't mind being hungry.
00:22:45I don't even care about having good diets at the landlady.
00:22:48But...
00:22:49Well, I know every artist who ever amounted to anything went through a lot more than I have.
00:22:53But they knew they had something.
00:22:56It takes a lot of beating when you know that.
00:22:58But who do I think I am?
00:22:59Why should I believe that...
00:23:01Of all the thousands of struggling artists...
00:23:04I'm one who has something worth saying.
00:23:08Oh, relax, Adams.
00:23:10Come and sit down.
00:23:11It irritates me when you go on like that.
00:23:14You know...
00:23:14Something about you appeals to me.
00:23:16I can't imagine what.
00:23:18I think you're like the beau I wanted when I was young.
00:23:22When I was doubting myself.
00:23:24Not you too?
00:23:25Even me.
00:23:27Look what it's brought me.
00:23:28Just a frustrated old maid lecturing a frustrated young artist.
00:23:33Miss Penny.
00:23:35What shall I do?
00:23:36I think the sketch shows you what you can do.
00:23:38All you need is a little inspiration.
00:23:40Any inspiration.
00:23:41That little girl in the park.
00:23:44Well...
00:23:45I guess that does it.
00:23:47How's about you and me taking a twirl on the ice?
00:23:49Oh.
00:23:49Go along with you.
00:23:51Thanks, Miss Penny.
00:24:21Hello, Mr. Adams.
00:24:23Hello, Mr. Adams.
00:24:30Hello, Jenny.
00:24:32Is this fun?
00:24:33I can't believe it's you.
00:24:35Why not?
00:24:36Well, you've grown so much taller.
00:24:38Well, maybe you didn't see me so good before.
00:24:40No, I'm sure you've grown.
00:24:42Of course I have.
00:24:43I'm hurrying.
00:24:45Don't you remember our wish?
00:24:46Sure I do.
00:24:48Let's skate.
00:24:51Let's go a little faster.
00:25:08You're feeling so funny.
00:25:10I feel so funny, too.
00:25:15Oh, by the way, I have something here of yours.
00:25:17Oh, what a pretty scarf.
00:25:19It's in the parcel on the bench.
00:25:20You said it was yours.
00:25:22Did I?
00:25:23Well, if I said so, it must be true.
00:25:26I'll tell you what.
00:25:27Why don't you keep it for me until I grow up?
00:25:29Then I'll have one more reason to grow up fast.
00:25:31All right.
00:25:32I owe you a favor anyway.
00:25:34You do?
00:25:34Why?
00:25:35I did a little sketch of you the other day and I sold it.
00:25:37Oh, I'm glad.
00:25:38The man who bought it told me how to paint portraits.
00:25:40What do you think of that?
00:25:42Well, who would you paint, Mr. Adams?
00:25:44I don't know.
00:25:46I haven't decided yet.
00:25:49Maybe.
00:25:51Will you let it be me?
00:25:53Who else?
00:25:54Whee!
00:25:55I'm going to have my picture painted.
00:25:57Won't Emily be mad?
00:25:59Emily?
00:26:00Emily's my best friend.
00:26:01She had her picture painted by Mr. Fromkis
00:26:03and I said you were going to do mine.
00:26:05How did you know that?
00:26:06Well, I wished it and then I closed my eyes and turned around three times.
00:26:09But Emily still said you wouldn't paint me and so I slapped her.
00:26:13Emily?
00:26:13I thought it was Cecily you always fought with.
00:26:16Cecily?
00:26:18Oh, you don't mean Cecily Brown, do you?
00:26:21Well, she moved away to Boston three years ago.
00:26:24I thought I told you.
00:26:25No, you didn't.
00:26:27That's funny.
00:26:28Well, it doesn't matter.
00:26:30Come on, let's skate.
00:26:34Well, I'll have to be going pretty soon.
00:26:37Oh, don't go.
00:26:38How would you like some hot chocolate?
00:26:39Oh, I love hot chocolate.
00:26:41Get it right over there.
00:26:44Oh, how wonderful.
00:26:45Welcome.
00:26:47Oh, Jenny, where do you live?
00:26:50I'd like to come and see you.
00:26:51Well, I don't think there's any place you can come and see me yet.
00:26:56Huh?
00:26:56Why?
00:26:57Oh, it's just the way it is.
00:27:00When will you start my portrait?
00:27:02Well, whenever your parents will let you.
00:27:05Where are they now?
00:27:06At Hammerstein's.
00:27:08Well, they're still at Hammerstein's, huh?
00:27:10And they've got wonderful new tricks, way up on a high wire.
00:27:14Sometimes it scares me to watch them.
00:27:16Of course, that's silly.
00:27:17That's why they're so famous.
00:27:19They scare everybody.
00:27:20Yeah.
00:27:22I'd like to see them.
00:27:24Then I could ask that permission you to come and sit for me.
00:27:28Why don't you take me down to Hammerstein's to see them?
00:27:30Oh, yes.
00:27:31Do let's go.
00:27:32I can get us in free.
00:27:34Could you go to the matinee Saturday?
00:27:35I think so.
00:27:37Where'll we meet?
00:27:39Well, let's meet, let's meet here in the park.
00:27:42At that bench where we met before.
00:27:44I'll be there at two o'clock.
00:27:45At least I'll try.
00:27:51That was wonderful chocolate.
00:27:55You're welcome.
00:27:56Well, I really must go now.
00:27:58Must you?
00:28:00I hate it to stop.
00:28:02Because when will we ever have it again?
00:28:06Well, goodbye.
00:28:07Goodbye.
00:28:23Looking for someone at us?
00:28:26I was just watching the little girl I was talking to you about.
00:28:41I know now that Spinney didn't see Jenny.
00:28:43But all I knew then was that she kept a watchful eye on me as though I were a patient
00:28:48that needed watching.
00:28:50I was happy when I realized it was Saturday and I could scarcely wait to find out what Jenny was
00:28:55going to present to me as Hammerstein's.
00:29:00But at last there was no sign of Jenny.
00:29:03Apparently she had forgotten.
00:29:05On impulse I decided to find out for myself what I could about Jenny's parents.
00:29:10Well, I had a bet with a friend of mine.
00:29:12I wonder if you can help me.
00:29:13You remember the old Hammerstein theater?
00:29:15Do I remember it?
00:29:16What?
00:29:17You came to the right party to ask about Hammerstein's.
00:29:20I claimed it used to be right around here somewhere and my friend thinks...
00:29:22Your friend loses.
00:29:24Hammerstein's used to stand right there where the Rialto is now.
00:29:27Yes, sir.
00:29:28I just want to ask you one more question.
00:29:29Do you remember the Appletons?
00:29:31The Appletons?
00:29:32They used to have an act.
00:29:33Trapeze.
00:29:34Trapeze?
00:29:35Seems to me.
00:29:35Look.
00:29:37You go over the Rialto and ask old Pete.
00:29:39He's a doorman or something.
00:29:41He used to play Hammerstein's.
00:29:42Pretty good song and dance man in his day.
00:29:44He might know.
00:29:46Thanks a lot.
00:29:48Appleton.
00:29:50Appleton.
00:29:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:53There were the four Appletons.
00:29:55That was in 1902.
00:29:59They were clowns.
00:30:00They were very good too, like from Jenna.
00:30:02This was a high wire act.
00:30:04Husband and wife.
00:30:051910.
00:30:06Then there was Mike and Pat Appleton, Irishess.
00:30:11They did some songs at Peter Pettering.
00:30:15That was 1904 or 1905, maybe.
00:30:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:221910.
00:30:24Please, let me do it my way.
00:30:29I have to go backwards and then start from the beginning, you see.
00:30:34Otherwise, I will not remember.
00:30:35And I don't like not to remember.
00:30:37Then I think I'm getting a little old, you see.
00:30:43I'm sorry to put you into all this trouble.
00:30:45No trouble at all.
00:30:46I have a very good memory, huh?
00:30:48It's only sometimes that I don't remember things very well.
00:30:53She...
00:30:53Ah.
00:30:54Clara, they know.
00:30:56Clara who?
00:30:57Clara Morgan.
00:30:58She was with a wardrobe at Hammerstein's.
00:31:01Everybody went to her with his troubles.
00:31:04Ah.
00:31:06Close colored people.
00:31:07Very wise people.
00:31:09Well, they know what trouble is.
00:31:11You know how I can find her?
00:31:14Sure, I know where you can find her.
00:31:16Well, where does she live?
00:31:18Live?
00:31:19Live?
00:31:19Oh, 332 East 135th Street.
00:31:25Thank you very much.
00:31:26Good memory, no?
00:31:28Just one.
00:31:29Bye.
00:31:30Oh, thank you.
00:31:30Thank you so much.
00:31:36They were all wonderful acts.
00:31:40For me, they had more glamour than anything you see today.
00:31:44You sort of felt as though you knew all the artists personally.
00:31:49Ah, here it is.
00:31:51These are the Appletons.
00:31:53Mary and Frank Appleton.
00:32:03This little girl.
00:32:05That's their daughter, Jenny.
00:32:07Their daughter?
00:32:09Yes.
00:32:10Isn't it possible that...
00:32:12This child is their granddaughter?
00:32:15Oh, no.
00:32:17I knew Jenny when this picture was taken.
00:32:19She was a darling little girl.
00:32:21With big, sad eyes.
00:32:24She used to come backstage and sit on my lap.
00:32:27I used to give her rock candy.
00:32:29Do you know where she is now?
00:32:31No.
00:32:32I lost track of her after her parents were killed that night on the trapeze.
00:32:37That was many years ago.
00:32:39The wire broke.
00:32:40Jenny was in the theater looking when it happened.
00:32:44Are you sure you don't remember what happened to her?
00:32:47Well, it seems as if I remember some talk about her aunt wanting to put her in a convent.
00:32:53Jenny wasn't a Catholic.
00:32:55But her aunt said a convent was the best place for a girl to be.
00:33:00Thank you very much, Mrs. Morgan.
00:33:03I appreciate your giving me your time.
00:33:06Thank you, Mr. Adams.
00:33:07It isn't often I have a chance to share my memories.
00:33:11I do hope you find Jenny.
00:33:13She was a dear little girl.
00:33:14I hope so, too.
00:33:16Thank you again.
00:33:21That night everything seemed like a dream to me.
00:33:24The towers of the city, the myriad lights.
00:33:27But now I knew that Jenny was not just an imaginative child.
00:33:32Not just a child denying time and reason.
00:33:36Instinctively, I found myself approaching the bench in the park.
00:33:40Jenny's bench.
00:33:41And as I did, I was conscious of an unaccustomed atmosphere.
00:33:48As though time were melting with the snow.
00:33:54Were the sobs that I heard part of the illusion?
00:34:03Jenny, what's the matter?
00:34:07What are you crying about?
00:34:09Father and mother.
00:34:10Father?
00:34:11Something's happened.
00:34:12They've had an accident.
00:34:13I knew it would happen.
00:34:15The wire broke.
00:34:16I knew it would happen.
00:34:18I was always scared it would happen.
00:34:20And tonight...
00:34:21Tonight?
00:34:23Oh, Jenny, I know how you feel.
00:34:26I know how much it hurts.
00:34:27But you see, it isn't hurting them.
00:34:29Please try to think of it that way.
00:34:32But they're dead.
00:34:33We all die sometimes.
00:34:35I love them.
00:34:37They love me.
00:34:38And you mustn't be too unhappy.
00:34:39They wouldn't want you to be, would they?
00:34:41Would they?
00:34:43No.
00:34:43No.
00:34:45They told me once they, they said if anything happened to them, I mustn't be unhappy.
00:34:51Because they were doing what they wanted to do.
00:34:55And, and if they, if anything happened, it would happen to them both at the same time, the way they
00:35:05wanted.
00:35:05Do you see?
00:35:07Yes.
00:35:10So I, I shouldn't cry, I shouldn't.
00:35:13They wouldn't like it.
00:35:14They died the way they wanted.
00:35:16That's right.
00:35:18So I, I guess I'm only crying for myself.
00:35:23Because they're gone and because I'm lonely.
00:35:25No, no, no, don't Jenny.
00:35:27But maybe I won't always be lonely.
00:35:31I don't know why.
00:35:33But I don't think I will be lonely very long.
00:35:36Because I'm, I'm hurrying.
00:35:38I'm hurrying fast now.
00:35:40My aunt is sending me to a convent and...
00:35:42Convent?
00:35:44You want to go?
00:35:45Of course I do.
00:35:47After that I'll be grown up, don't you understand?
00:35:50No, Jenny, I, I, I don't understand.
00:35:52I wish I did, but I don't understand any of it.
00:35:54Each time I see you, you've, you've changed.
00:35:57You're older.
00:35:58You talk about things that happened, well, that happened long ago.
00:36:03Did they?
00:36:05Sometimes I kind of think that too.
00:36:08But maybe that's because I have to find something.
00:36:11But, find what?
00:36:14I'm not sure.
00:36:17But I think I'll know someday.
00:36:20I think I'll know when I find it.
00:36:24Do you know what?
00:36:25I think you'll know too.
00:36:27I hope so.
00:36:30You wait for me, won't you?
00:36:32You'll give me a little more time.
00:36:34All right, Jenny.
00:36:37Listen.
00:36:40It's the stars.
00:36:42Can't you hear them?
00:36:48Listen to the stars coming out.
00:37:11Cold, cold months followed each other that year.
00:37:16From the mystery which surrounded Jenny, my thoughts turned themselves away.
00:37:20It was not in my hands.
00:37:22Nothing was in my hands.
00:37:24Any more than I could bring the spring nearer before it's time.
00:37:28Or keep the winter from clinging to the earth.
00:37:31With a bitter grip.
00:37:34Skipper!
00:37:36Skipper!
00:37:43Skipper!
00:37:44Skipper!
00:37:44You bad boy.
00:37:46Hello, Adams.
00:37:47Hello, Mr. Matthews.
00:37:48He always runs away when we get near the park.
00:37:51Thank you very much for catching him.
00:37:52I didn't catch him.
00:37:53He just ran right up to me.
00:37:55Oh, that's a great compliment from Skipper.
00:37:57He doesn't usually take to strangers unless he thinks they're in trouble.
00:38:02Trouble?
00:38:04What kind of trouble could he have sensed about me?
00:38:07I suppose most artists go through something of the sort.
00:38:10Sooner or later, it's not enough for them just to live and paint and have enough.
00:38:16Or nearly enough to eat.
00:38:18No.
00:38:19Sooner or later, they want recognition.
00:38:22They want to sell their work.
00:38:23Good men, even great men, have failed to do that.
00:38:28But I...
00:38:29I don't think that's all that's bothering you.
00:38:33Mr. Matthews was right.
00:38:35There was something else.
00:38:37My memory was beginning to play tricks on me.
00:38:40I was seized by memories so urgent that they were more real to me than what was before me.
00:38:52Everything reminded me of Jenny.
00:39:04Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:39:06And where I'm going, everyone goes.
00:39:10Finally, spring broke through.
00:39:12I tried to work, but mostly I was content to do nothing.
00:39:16I knew in my heart that I would never be anything until and unless Jenny returned.
00:39:24I needed to tell someone.
00:39:26And who was there to tell but Spinney?
00:39:30Maybe I will paint only one important painting in my life, but that much I know I can do.
00:39:36The portrait of Jenny?
00:39:37Yes.
00:39:38It's the first thing and only thing I've ever been sure of in my life.
00:39:41You couldn't do it without her.
00:39:43Of course not.
00:39:44I suppose she doesn't make another appearance.
00:39:48I can't even think of that.
00:39:50I didn't realize how much you needed her.
00:39:52It took you a long time to find something to bring your talent to life.
00:39:56You couldn't find it, so...
00:39:58So you think I created her because I needed her for...
00:40:01An inspiration, perhaps.
00:40:04Maybe you really saw her.
00:40:05Maybe you didn't.
00:40:07What's the difference?
00:40:08As you grow older, you'll learn to believe in lots of things you can't see.
00:40:13Better get that canvas ready for her.
00:40:22Come in.
00:40:26Hiya, Mac.
00:40:27Gus.
00:40:27It's a grand day outside.
00:40:29For New York.
00:40:30What you doing in here?
00:40:31Preparing a canvas for a portrait.
00:40:33You don't tell me.
00:40:35So that's the way you do it.
00:40:36That's the way you do it.
00:40:45Speaking of paintings...
00:40:49I dropped into Moore's yesterday.
00:40:51I know.
00:40:53He's upset because I haven't finished the job.
00:40:56After all, he made a deal, Mac.
00:40:58I let him down, huh?
00:41:00Well, Mick Collins is a little upset too, Mac.
00:41:02Waiting to lead his men into battle and having only half a leg to stand on.
00:41:06You tell Moore I'll be in soon.
00:41:10I'll finish it somehow.
00:41:12Sure.
00:41:14Sure.
00:41:14Gus.
00:41:16Don't think I'm ungrateful.
00:41:18It's all right, Mac.
00:41:20As my mother used to say,
00:41:21if there's stardust in your head, sure there's a jumble in your soul.
00:41:48It was a grand idea.
00:41:50A grand idea.
00:41:51Quiet, everybody.
00:41:52Quiet.
00:41:53The unveiling's about to take place.
00:41:55Have a grand idea.
00:41:58Let's go.
00:42:00Let's go.
00:42:01Let's go.
00:42:03Let's go.
00:42:05Let's go.
00:42:10Let's go.
00:42:13Let's go.
00:42:18Then hurrah for liberty, says the Champagne Pops.
00:42:22Then hurrah for liberty, says the Champagne Pops.
00:42:26Then hurrah for liberty, says the Champagne Pops.
00:42:27Hooray for Eben Adams!
00:42:31Hooray for Eben Adams. Hooray.
00:42:35The cheers were hollow in my ears, for I knew the mural was worthless.
00:42:39I knew in my heart that I was worthless.
00:42:43Suddenly I felt fear.
00:42:46The world seemed curiously empty and silent.
00:42:50One note would bring it all to life, one note would make an instrument of it.
00:42:56But apparently that note was not to be played.
00:43:00The world of my art was to remain an empty box.
00:43:24It's not true.
00:43:27It can't be you.
00:43:29Oh, yes, yes, yes it is.
00:43:31See?
00:43:32I tried to get here sooner, but I couldn't.
00:43:35You're beautiful and grown sour.
00:43:38Well, of course I have. I'm hurt.
00:43:40I'm in my first year of college at the Congress.
00:43:43Wonderful dress.
00:43:44Do you like it? It's our Sunday dress.
00:43:47Oh, look, you can see the bridge from here.
00:44:00Eben, I thought of you so much.
00:44:03It could fill an eternity.
00:44:05What did you think?
00:44:06About how wonderful it all is.
00:44:09Now I've searched, searched.
00:44:12And now, how we'll be together always.
00:44:17I'm almost sure.
00:44:19Do you know what Emily wants to know?
00:44:21What?
00:44:22When you're going to marry me.
00:44:25Don't laugh at me, Eben.
00:44:27I know I'm not old enough yet, but I will be soon.
00:44:31What's that?
00:44:33That's a sketch of Radio City.
00:44:35Radio City?
00:44:37I've never heard of it.
00:44:39Well, it hasn't been built very long.
00:44:42You like it?
00:44:44Uh-huh.
00:44:50That's strange.
00:44:52What's the matter, Jenny?
00:44:55That's Land's End Light.
00:44:57That's right.
00:44:58Land's End Light.
00:45:00How do you know?
00:45:01Have you ever been there?
00:45:04I...
00:45:04I don't know.
00:45:06I...
00:45:07I think...
00:45:08It's an old deserted lighthouse up on Cape Cod.
00:45:12I did that sketch several years ago.
00:45:16Makes me unhappy.
00:45:19Well...
00:45:19In that case, we'll just put it aside.
00:45:25Look, Jenny, the canvas.
00:45:28The canvas?
00:45:29The canvas?
00:45:29The canvas for your portrait.
00:45:31Your portrait.
00:45:32The one we planned.
00:45:35Oh, Eben, you're going to do it.
00:45:37I was so sure you'd be here one day.
00:45:39I haven't been able to do anything else.
00:45:40Sit over here.
00:45:41Where?
00:45:41Please.
00:45:43Right there where I dreamed you'd sit.
00:45:45The girls will be so jealous when I tell them.
00:45:47Turn your head the other way.
00:45:47Some of my friends are taking the veil next Sunday.
00:45:49There.
00:45:50It'll be lovely to watch.
00:45:51Will you come and see it with me?
00:45:52I'd love to, Jenny.
00:45:53Now, please.
00:45:53Hold still.
00:45:54Turn your head.
00:45:55There.
00:45:55A few of my classmates will be leaving then, too.
00:45:57I hate to have them go.
00:45:58Jenny, your hand.
00:46:01Turn your head.
00:46:05There.
00:46:05Hold that.
00:46:08Do you?
00:46:08Eben, promise you won't forget me.
00:46:20Mom!
00:46:37Hello.
00:46:40Hello, Evan.
00:46:52Hello, Evan.
00:46:53Hello, Jenny. I was afraid.
00:46:56Afraid you might not be here.
00:46:57I told you I'd be here.
00:46:59We'd better hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
00:47:08We'd better hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
00:47:17We'd better hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
00:47:31We'll be so excited to see the ceremony.
00:47:54See, those with the candles are the ones who are taking the veil.
00:47:58Our teachers are in back of them.
00:48:00The first one is old sister Mary Margaret.
00:48:03She teaches history.
00:48:04And next to her is sister Mary Euphamia, who teaches science.
00:48:11And over there near the entrance is my favorite, sister Mary of Mercy.
00:48:20I'm so glad you're waiting for me, Evan.
00:48:31That's not a temptation but to reverse the evil.
00:48:41Isn't it beautiful?
00:48:44I always feel a little closer to the truth of things in here.
00:48:50As if pretty soon I would understand.
00:49:10How beautiful the world is, Edmund. The sun goes down in the same lovely sky, just as it did yesterday
00:49:16and will tomorrow.
00:49:19When is tomorrow, Jenny?
00:49:21Does it matter? It's always. This was tomorrow once.
00:49:27Where I come from, nobody knows. And where I'm going, everything goes.
00:49:32I've heard that somewhere.
00:49:33Of course you have. You sang it to me that first day in the park.
00:49:36Did I? I'd forgotten.
00:49:38The wind blows, the sea flows. God knows.
00:49:44I think he knows, Edmund.
00:49:58So this is where the master works.
00:50:00Well, there's much of a place. It's over here, Spenny.
00:50:09Of course, it isn't finished yet.
00:50:11Don't be coy. Let's see it.
00:50:17Well...
00:50:22What do you think?
00:50:23Well, Adams, you found what you were looking for.
00:50:41You like it?
00:50:43Adams, I've been setting pictures for many years.
00:50:45And in my business, it's always a dream that someday you'll come across, shall we say, a great picture.
00:50:53This is, I feel now, a sort of fulfillment of my...
00:50:56Oh.
00:50:58He means he likes it.
00:51:00Oh, glad.
00:51:01Do you remember my saying the order is something eternal about a woman?
00:51:05Something not of the present nor of the past.
00:51:08Well, here, you caught it.
00:51:09It's the face of that same little girl.
00:51:12Yet what you've seen in that face is without age or time.
00:51:17Well, it isn't finished.
00:51:19It really isn't, I've...
00:51:20Take it easy, Adams.
00:51:21It's a great picture.
00:51:26Carried forward on a wave of exultation, I worked eagerly to complete the portrait.
00:51:31The face framed in its dark hair, the brown eyes tenderly dreaming.
00:51:37I began to realize that I was caught by an enchantment beyond time and change.
00:51:42I knew at last that love is endless, and today's little happiness only part of it.
00:52:00I knew I'd find you here.
00:52:03I've looked for you here so often.
00:52:05I had to see you tonight.
00:52:07You know, I've just graduated from college and...
00:52:10Wonderful.
00:52:11Now we can be together always.
00:52:15Well, I...
00:52:16I'm afraid we'll have to wait a little longer.
00:52:19You see, my aunt is ill, and she wants me to go away with her for the summer.
00:52:25When do you have to go?
00:52:28Tomorrow.
00:52:29I couldn't go without saying goodbye.
00:52:31Goodbye.
00:52:31Oh, it'll only be for a few months.
00:52:34Anyway, we have until the morning, and...
00:52:37I think a little more.
00:52:39Jenny, I...
00:52:41be...
00:52:41lost without you.
00:52:43No, no, don't say that, Eben.
00:52:46Can't both of us be lost.
00:52:51Look at the moonlight on the water.
00:52:54It makes a pathway across the river.
00:52:58The Jersey hills are over there, aren't they?
00:53:01In the distance.
00:53:03You say it sadly, Eben.
00:53:05Aren't you happy?
00:53:06I've been thinking.
00:53:07No matter how far away that kind of distance is,
00:53:11it can be reached.
00:53:13Over there, beyond the hills, one can drive to it.
00:53:16North among the pines, eastward to the sea.
00:53:20It's...
00:53:20It's the only kind of distance I ever knew anything about before.
00:53:24But now I...
00:53:26I feel it's another kind of distance, a...
00:53:28a cruel distance, a...
00:53:31a distance of yesterday and tomorrow, and it frightens me.
00:53:38that there's no way to bridge it.
00:53:40There is.
00:53:42At this moment, I know there is.
00:53:46I want it to be forever.
00:53:48It will be.
00:53:50Have faith.
00:54:01How still it is.
00:54:04Listen.
00:54:07The whole city is sleeping.
00:54:10No one left in the world but us.
00:54:13No one but us.
00:54:15Oh, Eben.
00:54:16No one left.
00:54:28Life's beginning again.
00:54:31Look, the little boat put its lights out.
00:54:34Night's over, it's tomorrow.
00:54:36Jenny, I'm not going to think of the summer of the future at all.
00:54:39I leave that to you.
00:54:40why we met how it came about I don't know I know we were meant for each other the
00:54:46strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear
00:54:50them apart oh Eben I wish you'd finished my portrait
00:55:02Eben Eben do you think people can know what lies ahead I mean what's going to happen to them
00:55:14you know how you feel sad about things sometimes about things that have never happened
00:55:24perhaps they're the things that are going to happen to us
00:55:29perhaps we know it and we're just afraid to admit it to ourselves
00:55:35I guess that's silly I guess it's just my funny mind
00:55:51Jenny I
00:55:57Jenny Jenny Jenny
00:56:00hello Eben
00:56:01hello
00:56:02where are we
00:56:04together
00:56:07poor darling you must be worn out I'm sorry
00:56:10I fell asleep
00:56:12yeah
00:56:13come here
00:56:16look
00:56:17look
00:56:18look
00:56:18look
00:56:19it's finished
00:56:21oh Eben
00:56:25is it really of me?
00:56:28it's you
00:56:28portrait of Jenny
00:56:32oh I think it's a fine painting
00:56:36do you?
00:56:38I think it will make you famous
00:56:42I think someday it will hang in a museum and people will come from all over the world to see
00:56:47it
00:56:49if they do it it won't be my work they'll come to see
00:56:55it'll be you
00:56:56thank you Eben
00:56:58and now you're beside it
00:57:12Eben
00:57:13I don't think
00:57:15Eben
00:57:17I want always just to sit and watch you paint
00:57:20now that I've found the perfect model I'll paint her again and again
00:57:23I didn't mean that
00:57:25I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world
00:57:28you're the most beautiful thing in the world
00:57:33but Eben
00:57:34these pictures of yours
00:57:37of the sea
00:57:38and
00:57:39and land's end light
00:57:40each time I see them
00:57:42my
00:57:43my heart seems to stop
00:57:44curious
00:57:46tell us suppose it is a forlorn sort of place
00:57:49well
00:57:49don't let's talk about it anymore
00:57:52tell me about Paris
00:57:53did you study there?
00:57:55yes indeed
00:57:56oh Eben I wish we could be there together
00:57:58it would be such fun
00:58:00we'll do it Jenny
00:58:02I'll take you to the Luxembourg
00:58:04and to the fair at Fontainebleau
00:58:05oh yes Eben
00:58:06yes
00:58:07we'll go out to the forest of Saint Claude
00:58:09in the spring and drink new wine under the trees
00:58:12oh Eben I feel as though we were there already
00:58:14as though we've been spending our whole lives together
00:58:20oh
00:58:20oh
00:58:21Jenny
00:58:23what is it that makes a man and woman know that
00:58:26all the other men and women in the world
00:58:27they belong to each other
00:58:30and is it just chance they're being alive in the world at the same time
00:58:36you think it's possible that
00:58:38there might have been others in other times whom we might have loved
00:58:43oh no no others
00:58:45among all the people who lived from world's end to world's end
00:58:49there's just one you must love
00:58:51one you must seek until you find him
00:58:54you Eben
00:58:55you my darling
00:59:01I must go Eben
00:59:03please don't go Jenny
00:59:04I don't want to but
00:59:06we'll meet again when summer ends
00:59:08are you sure Jenny?
00:59:10I don't know quite where
00:59:13the wind blows
00:59:15the sea flows
00:59:18oh Eben I want to be sure
00:59:20tell me you're sure
00:59:22I'm sure Jenny
00:59:24I'll get my thing for you
00:59:33oh Eben
00:59:34what a lovely scarf
00:59:35sure is Jenny
00:59:37a present for me?
00:59:38I thought you'd like it
00:59:39I've been saving it for a long time
00:59:41ever since we first met in the park
00:59:54Jenny
00:59:56a
01:00:08a
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01:00:19a
01:00:20a
01:00:20a
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01:00:39a
01:00:39a
01:00:48a
01:00:48dreadful loneliness
01:00:50where was she?
01:00:54yonder
01:00:56yonder
01:00:58was the home of my sweetheart
01:01:01yonder
01:01:03yonder
01:01:17yonder
01:01:23yonder
01:01:24yonder
01:01:26yonder
01:01:29yonder
01:01:30yonder
01:01:32yonder
01:01:47yonder
01:01:48I'm minding my own business, but you're carrying quite a load, Mac.
01:01:52I'll be yourself.
01:01:53Gus, you don't understand, and...
01:01:55Mac, supposing... Now, remember, I'm only supposing, but...
01:01:58Supposing what, Gus?
01:01:59Well, supposing she didn't ever come back.
01:02:02She's got to.
01:02:05Can't beat it out.
01:02:06Yeah, but if something happened to her,
01:02:09don't you have to go on living, pal?
01:02:11Don't you?
01:02:13You've never believed the whole thing, have you, Gus, about Jenny?
01:02:15Well, now, don't be putting words in me mouth. Doesn't matter.
01:02:19It doesn't matter whether you believe.
01:02:20It doesn't matter whether anybody believes, because...
01:02:24I know.
01:02:25Sure you do, sure.
01:02:28But weren't you telling me she goes to a convent?
01:02:31She's not there anymore. She graduated.
01:02:33Oh.
01:02:35Yeah, but the sisters are great ones for keeping in touch.
01:02:39Yes, she liked the sisters.
01:02:40There was one who was a favorite.
01:02:42Why don't you ask her?
01:02:43Jenny said she felt closer to the truth there.
01:02:46Look, Mac, I'll drive you out first thing in the morning.
01:02:49If you promise to get a good night's sleep.
01:02:50You'll have to let me owe you for the ride, Gus.
01:02:53Your money don't signify, Mac.
01:02:55As my mother used to say, if you've got friendship in your heart,
01:02:57sure you don't...
01:03:00What was it my mother used to say?
01:03:08I don't know what I expected to find at the convent.
01:03:11I knew only that it was there that Jenny had found some inner truth.
01:03:16It was there that she had said to me, I think he knows Eben.
01:03:21For the first time since I had last seen Jenny, I had a feeling of not being alone.
01:03:26A feeling that the world and Jenny and I were one.
01:03:30What if for a while we had lost our way?
01:03:34Yesterday rose again ahead of us.
01:03:37We had found beauty together and we could never lose it.
01:03:45What was it you wished to see me about?
01:03:47Well, I wanted to ask you about a girl who graduated from here.
01:03:53I thought possibly you might have some information as to where she is.
01:03:56I might.
01:03:57We often keep in touch with the girls after they leave.
01:04:01What was her name?
01:04:03Jenny Appleton.
01:04:06Jenny Appleton?
01:04:08Yes.
01:04:09You remember her, don't you?
01:04:11Yes.
01:04:13Yes, I remember Jenny very well.
01:04:16Even though she was not of our faith, Jenny was one of my favorite pupils.
01:04:21A lovely girl with a strange spiritual beauty
01:04:26and a gentle kind of sadness that always troubled me.
01:04:30I think that describes it perfectly.
01:04:32Have you any idea where she is?
01:04:35Why, Jenny died.
01:04:38When?
01:04:40Years ago.
01:04:44Oh, I'm afraid I shocked you.
01:04:48Well, no.
01:04:50We obviously aren't speaking the same person.
01:04:53Did you know her family?
01:04:55No, I just know they were killed in an accident.
01:04:58A wire rope?
01:04:59They were trapeze performers?
01:05:00Yes.
01:05:01Well, I'm afraid it must be the same Jenny Appleton.
01:05:04Her aunt brought her to us shortly after her parents' death.
01:05:08She stayed with us until she graduated.
01:05:11Then her aunt came and took her up to New England for the summer.
01:05:14We corresponded a great deal.
01:05:18Would you care to have me read you one of her letters?
01:05:21Please.
01:05:26Won't you sit down?
01:05:33I was so touched by her letters that I saved them.
01:05:36This is the last one she ever wrote to me.
01:05:40My dear sister Mary of Mercy, we are returning very soon.
01:05:44The summer has been a very long and lonely one.
01:05:47How I want to see you again and sit and talk to you about all that has been worrying me.
01:05:52I know you tried to teach me how beautiful the world is
01:05:56and how it keeps on being beautiful every day, no matter what happens to us.
01:06:02But sometimes, I have the dreadful feeling that this beauty will never be complete for me.
01:06:09That I will never find someone to love who will love me.
01:06:14It's a thought that terrifies me, dear sister.
01:06:17And I need your comfort and your wisdom to help me.
01:06:22Your loving Jenny.
01:06:26That was the year the terrible tidal wave hit the New England coast.
01:06:31October 5th.
01:06:33I remember it well.
01:06:36I always offer my communion for Jenny on that day.
01:06:40I afterwards learned that Jenny was in the habit of sailing out every day alone
01:06:45to a little cove near an abandoned lighthouse.
01:06:48Lance had light.
01:06:50During one of those trips, the waves struck.
01:06:53That was the last anyone ever saw of her.
01:06:56Lance had light.
01:06:57That's where I'll find her.
01:06:59But Jenny is dead, Mr. Adams.
01:07:01You must accept that fact.
01:07:03I won't accept it.
01:07:05Don't tell me she's dead.
01:07:06I held her in my arms three months ago, not ten years ago.
01:07:10I love her.
01:07:10I want her back.
01:07:11What vision has been brought to save you, I can't say.
01:07:14But don't doubt the ways of Providence.
01:07:17You must have faith.
01:07:18We know so little, so very little.
01:07:22I don't mean to be abrupt, and I'm grateful for your kindness.
01:07:25When did you say that wave struck the coast?
01:07:27October 5th.
01:07:28And today is?
01:07:29October 1st.
01:07:31That leaves me four days.
01:07:33But Mr. Adams, that October 5th was many years ago.
01:07:36Are you so sure?
01:07:38You say we know so little.
01:07:40You say Jenny's parents were killed.
01:07:42I found her sobbing on a bench the night it happened.
01:07:45You say she was a student here.
01:07:47I visited her here.
01:07:48You say she went to New England with her aunt.
01:07:51I was with her just before she left.
01:07:54Then how can you say it all happened many years ago?
01:07:58Yes, we know so little.
01:08:02And yet now, I know a little more.
01:08:06I know now the pattern of Jenny's life.
01:08:09But I also know that I am part of it.
01:08:13She herself said that strands of our lives were woven together
01:08:17and that neither time nor the world could break them.
01:08:20This I have faith in.
01:08:23Thank you, Mother.
01:08:24I must hurry now.
01:08:25Thank you for your kindness.
01:08:50Where are you keeping yourself?
01:08:52What's wrong, Adams?
01:08:53I'm going away, Spinney.
01:08:54I don't know for how long.
01:08:55Here's my portrait of Jenny.
01:08:57Will you store it for me until I come back?
01:08:58Of course.
01:09:00Where are you going?
01:09:01I think I know where she's going to be.
01:09:02I've got to be there waiting for her.
01:09:04A little place up on Cape Cod called Land's End.
01:09:09Well, Adams.
01:09:10Where have you been?
01:09:11I've got a lot of commissions for you.
01:09:13In that case, perhaps you'll advance me $100.
01:09:17Ah, well...
01:09:17Give him the $100, Mr. Matthew.
01:09:19Yes.
01:09:21Yes.
01:09:21What's the matter, Adams?
01:09:22Is there something wrong?
01:09:23Never mind.
01:09:23I'll just pay you, Mr. Matthew.
01:09:25As you say, Miss Spinney.
01:09:28Thank you, Spinney.
01:09:29Thanks for everything.
01:09:30Bye, Mr. Matthews.
01:09:31Goodbye, my boy.
01:09:32Have a good rest.
01:09:33We'll do big things together later.
01:09:35Take me a little church while you're there.
01:09:37A little white church with a big steeple.
01:09:41Don't get yourself drowned in the sea.
01:09:44What makes you say that?
01:09:45Oh, men do such foolish things.
01:09:47I'm afraid of the ocean.
01:09:49You're tough.
01:09:50Sea wouldn't get you.
01:09:52Tough ones drown too, you know.
01:09:55Bye.
01:10:23Any warning of the storm yet?
01:10:25What storm is that?
01:10:26The hurricane that's coming up.
01:10:27Heh.
01:10:28No hurricane coming up around here, young fella.
01:10:31Fairweather.
01:10:33That's what it says.
01:10:35Right there.
01:10:36How far in advance would the barometer show up when we're coming up?
01:10:39Far enough.
01:10:40Didn't show far enough when we heard that hurricane back in the 20s.
01:10:44I've heard about that hurricane.
01:10:46Happened just about this time of year, didn't it?
01:10:48Yeah.
01:10:50By golly.
01:10:52Come to think of it, it was October 5th.
01:10:55I remember.
01:10:58Because October 4th is my birthday.
01:11:01Today.
01:11:02I'd like to get out to Land's End Light.
01:11:04You know where I can charter a boat?
01:11:07Land's End Light.
01:11:09Can't think of any reason.
01:11:12Why anybody would want to go out there?
01:11:14Never mind my reasons.
01:11:15Do you know someone with a boat?
01:11:17My pa's got a trim, little boat.
01:11:19That's fine.
01:11:20Would you mind taking me to your pa?
01:11:22No.
01:11:23Come to think about it, I don't think Ma would like him to rent a boat.
01:11:27Well, I reckon you better go down and see Eek.
01:11:30I've heard tell how he rents his boat sometimes.
01:11:32Well, I find Eek.
01:11:34Oh, it ain't hard to find Eek.
01:11:36He's always sitting in the same place.
01:11:37Where's that?
01:11:38Well, I'll tell you now.
01:11:40You go down to the jetty and ask for an old cousin named...
01:11:49It's mighty nice of you to rent me a boat.
01:11:50Uh-huh.
01:11:51You could go in there and buy a new one.
01:11:53What you'll pay in me?
01:11:55But what I don't see is how you figure to get her out tomorrow and all this muck.
01:12:02Ain't a breath of wind stirring.
01:12:05There'll be wind, all right.
01:12:07Plenty of it.
01:12:09Maybe.
01:12:10Never been too sure about them things.
01:12:13Not since that hurricane we had back in the twenties.
01:12:17What about the wave?
01:12:19I heard something about a great wave.
01:12:26Great wave.
01:12:28Hey, uh...
01:12:29It was a wave, all right.
01:12:31Sometimes I think I never seen it.
01:12:33That I just read about it.
01:12:35Like something in the scriptures.
01:12:38It come up out of the sea like a mountain.
01:12:41Coming.
01:12:42Coming toward the land.
01:12:44Like the day of judgment.
01:12:47You didn't happen to know a girl, a visitor who was caught by the wave.
01:12:51Her name was Jenny Appleton.
01:12:54You know what's queer, you should ask me that.
01:12:56I used to rent her my boat.
01:12:59I should never forget it till the day I die.
01:13:01Did you know her?
01:13:03Yes, I...
01:13:04I knew her.
01:13:05Pretty little thing, wasn't she?
01:13:07Such big, sad eyes she had.
01:13:10Big, sad eyes.
01:13:13Something about her that seemed to come from far away.
01:13:16What happened exactly?
01:13:18Where was she when the wave struck?
01:13:20Well, she reached land's end point.
01:13:22That much is certain.
01:13:24But I found the bow of my boat tied to the wharf there.
01:13:26Well, anyway, what was left of it?
01:13:28Let me ask you something.
01:13:30If she had made the lighthouse, she might have been saved.
01:13:34Isn't that so?
01:13:35Yeah.
01:13:36But she didn't make it.
01:13:39No, I know.
01:13:40It was a pretty tough climb up them rocks.
01:13:43And all that wind.
01:13:46Especially for a female.
01:13:48I suppose, what?
01:13:49Alone.
01:14:20How much change?
01:14:21Wastasa's upper Ford?
01:14:21Yeah.
01:14:21No.
01:14:43Butcher, you must go back needs.
01:17:27Jenny!
01:17:35Jenny!
01:17:46Jenny!
01:18:05Jenny!
01:18:06Jenny!
01:18:06Jenny!
01:18:21Jenny!
01:18:46Jenny!
01:18:50Jenny!
01:18:56Jenny!
01:18:58Jenny!
01:19:03Abby!
01:19:10Abby!
01:19:14Abby!
01:19:16Abby!
01:19:16Abby!
01:19:21Abby!
01:19:26Abby!
01:19:28Abby!
01:19:32Abby!
01:19:35Abby!
01:19:40Abby!
01:19:46And so we found our love.
01:19:48Now we must lose it?
01:19:49No, no, Evan, now we're just beginning.
01:19:51There is no life, my darling, until you are loved and been loved.
01:19:55And then there is no death.
01:20:00You can switch to the lighthouse fast.
01:20:01But you're fighting nothing, Evan, nothing!
01:20:30Please, Evan, go without me.
01:20:32No.
01:20:33There's nothing in life, nothing at all without you.
01:20:35You must live on, Evan.
01:20:36But with Dave.
01:20:44Dave, come!
01:20:45Goodbye, my darling.
01:20:50Danny!
01:20:53Danny!
01:21:20There, young fellow.
01:21:22A shave will make you feel better.
01:21:24Morning, Captain Cobb.
01:21:25Morning.
01:21:27Spinny.
01:21:27Hello, Adams.
01:21:28What are you doing here?
01:21:30Well, frankly, I was worried about you.
01:21:32I thought I'd come up and see how you were doing.
01:21:34Captain Cobb kindly let me visit you,
01:21:37so you see we're both his guests.
01:21:39That's nice of you, thanks.
01:21:40Oh, Tinezen.
01:21:42But let me tell you, young fellow,
01:21:44it's a mighty lucky night.
01:21:45You told Eek where you was aiming to sail for her.
01:21:48It ain't likely we'd ever have been able to find you at all.
01:21:51No sirreebub.
01:21:53Did they find anyone else?
01:21:55There weren't nobody else darn fool enough
01:21:57to keep a boat out in that bloke.
01:21:59But, but her boat.
01:22:01What's she saying?
01:22:03She, she had a boat.
01:22:04I don't rightly know what you're talking about, young fellow.
01:22:08But there weren't no other boat at all
01:22:10but out from any place around these parts that day.
01:22:12And you can bet your boots on that.
01:22:17Can't figure out why Eek ever rented Emmer's boat.
01:22:23You saw Jenny again, didn't you, Adam?
01:22:29It's awful.
01:22:33I tried to hold on to her.
01:22:36The wave.
01:22:37Take it easy.
01:22:40At least you saw her again.
01:22:45Yes.
01:22:47I'm...
01:22:49Glad you at least believe...
01:22:51about Jenny.
01:22:55Yes, Adam.
01:23:01You, you, you do, don't you?
01:23:03You believe it, that's all that matters.
01:23:08Here.
01:23:10Here.
01:23:15Where?
01:23:16Where?
01:23:22Where'd you get that scarf?
01:23:24This.
01:23:26It was near you when they found you on the beach.
01:23:33Yes, Benny.
01:23:35Yes, Benny.
01:23:36I saw Jenny again.
01:23:39You mean this is Jenny?
01:23:47It's all right.
01:23:50I haven't lost it.
01:23:55Everything's all right now.
01:23:56Everything's all right now.
01:24:19Everything's all right now.
01:24:19The portrait of Jenny.
01:24:22Isn't she beautiful?
01:24:24I wonder if she was real.
01:24:26Oh, she must have been.
01:24:27What does it matter?
01:24:29She was real to him or she couldn't look so alive.
01:24:31How very wise you are.
01:24:42Oh, in heaven, is it really of me?
01:24:45I think someday it will hang in a museum...
01:24:48and people will come from all over the world to see it.
01:25:21Oh, her, the loìœ ë¥¼ with her.
01:25:23Oh, there you are.
01:25:23I love her.
01:25:24It's time.
01:25:24We'll do it.
01:25:25What do you want?
01:25:25What does this matter?
01:25:27Oh, my God.
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