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00:00:25Since the beginning, man has looked into the awesome reaches of infinity
00:00:29and asked the eternal questions, what is time and what is space, what is life and what
00:00:37is death?
00:00:47Through a hundred civilizations, philosophers and scientists have come with answers, but
00:00:53the bewilderment remains, for each human soul must find the secret in its own faith.
00:00:59The tender and haunting legend of the portrait of Jenny is based on the two ingredients of
00:01:04faith, truth and hope.
00:01:08There is such a portrait that hung in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
00:01:12And there was such a girl named Jenny who sat for it.
00:01:17So much is truth.
00:01:19For the rest, science tells us that nothing ever dies but only changes.
00:01:24That time itself does not pass but curves around us.
00:01:29And that the past and the future are together at our side forever.
00:01:36Out of the shadows of knowledge, and out of a painting that hung on a museum wall, comes
00:01:41out of a painting that tells us our story, the truth of which lies not on our screen, but
00:01:46in your heart.
00:01:57And now, portrait of Jenny.
00:02:04New York is a cold place in the winter.
00:02:07It was no warmer in the winter of 34.
00:02:10Yet there is a type of suffering for the artists, which is worse than anything a winter or poverty
00:02:16can do.
00:02:17It is more like a winter of the mind, a dreadful feeling of the world's indifference.
00:02:25My courage had all run out.
00:02:40Yes, sir.
00:02:41What can I do for you?
00:02:42Well, you can buy one of my pictures, perhaps.
00:02:45Yes, but of course we buy very, very little.
00:02:47Almost nothing.
00:02:48Times being what they are.
00:02:51However, let me see what you have.
00:02:59Hmm.
00:03:01Hmm.
00:03:01Hmm.
00:03:01Hmm.
00:03:01Landscapes.
00:03:02Mostly.
00:03:03Yeah.
00:03:03Too bad.
00:03:04These are some things I did up at Cape Cod.
00:03:07That's the fisheries at North Truro.
00:03:10Hmm.
00:03:15Landscapes.
00:03:17There are some sketches of the city.
00:03:19That's the bridge.
00:03:20Yes.
00:03:21Yeah, yeah.
00:03:21It's a good bridge, but it's a good bridge.
00:03:22I just don't happen to like bridges.
00:03:24They come in every day, but it doesn't.
00:03:27Oh, Spiddy.
00:03:28You startled me.
00:03:29This is my partner, Miss Spiddy.
00:03:32I don't believe I caught your name.
00:03:34I didn't say it.
00:03:37My name is Ebon Adams.
00:03:39What are you so defensive about?
00:03:41I'm not.
00:03:41I'm Ebon Adams.
00:03:42Perhaps it would be better if you weren't.
00:03:44You might eat more.
00:03:46Don't be in such a hurry.
00:03:47Let's see what you've got here.
00:03:49There's nothing there that will interest you.
00:03:51Are you pardoned?
00:03:52You're probably right.
00:03:53I'd like to see what interests you.
00:03:56Sit down, Adams.
00:03:58You may not sell anything, but at least you'll rest.
00:04:01I'd advise you to sit.
00:04:08And paint a nice flower.
00:04:11Do you ever read Robert Browning?
00:04:13Long time ago.
00:04:15Do you remember his poem about Andrea del Sato,
00:04:17the perfect painter?
00:04:20Proportion, anatomy, color.
00:04:22He had everything and nothing.
00:04:24He painted a perfect hand,
00:04:27while Raphael drew a formless claw.
00:04:31But Raphael loved his work.
00:04:34Poor Andy del Sato.
00:04:36I think I get your point.
00:04:38There isn't a drop of love in any of these.
00:04:41Oh, really, Miss Finney.
00:04:43Don't be soft, Matthews.
00:04:44I'm an old maid,
00:04:45and nobody knows more about love than an old maid.
00:04:49What's the matter with you, Adams?
00:04:50We have to learn to care deeply for something.
00:04:54We'll take the flower.
00:04:56What?
00:04:57I happen to have a weakness for flowers.
00:04:59He doesn't do them too badly.
00:05:02Give you twelve dollars and a half for it.
00:05:03There's any argument.
00:05:04There's no sale.
00:05:05There's no argument.
00:05:06You pay him, Mr. Matthew.
00:05:08I have your change of a dollar.
00:05:11I haven't got a dime.
00:05:13He'll owe us fifty cents.
00:05:16If you want more flowers,
00:05:17I've got a carload of them at home.
00:05:18I was afraid of that.
00:05:20Good day.
00:05:24Thank you very much.
00:05:25Good day, Miss Finney.
00:05:27I don't think you really wanted the picture.
00:05:30If I hadn't wanted it, I wouldn't have taken it.
00:05:33You have beautiful eyes.
00:05:35Goodbye.
00:05:37Oh, dear.
00:05:38I'm afraid that picture isn't worth more than a couple of dollars.
00:05:42No, but Adam's is.
00:05:44Yes, but we're supposed to be in the business for profit, Miss Finney.
00:05:49I thought.
00:05:50I bought this for myself.
00:05:52Oh, it's wonderful what a little compliment can do.
00:05:57My first in twenty years, Mr. Matthews.
00:06:03I had a little money in my pocket.
00:06:06But I think I was a little lightheaded from not having had enough to eat.
00:06:10Suddenly, I had the awareness of something extraordinary.
00:06:14The city sounds were muted and far away.
00:06:18They seemed to come from another time.
00:06:21Like the sound of summer in a meadow long ago.
00:06:30It belongs to me.
00:06:38Isn't anybody here with you?
00:06:40No.
00:06:41Why should there be?
00:06:42It's getting pretty dark.
00:06:43Oughtn't you go home?
00:06:45Well, I don't have to go home yet.
00:06:47Nobody's ready for me.
00:06:50Anyway, you're with me.
00:06:54I'm Jenny.
00:06:55Jenny?
00:06:56Jenny what?
00:06:57Jenny Appleton.
00:06:58Father and mother are actors and actresses.
00:07:00They're working down at Hammerstein's Victoria.
00:07:02They do juggling on a rope.
00:07:04Did you say Hammersteens?
00:07:06Uh-huh. Why?
00:07:07Because it was torn down years ago when I was a boy.
00:07:10You must be thinking of some other place because I was there yesterday.
00:07:13Well, now, really, I...
00:07:15Now, let me see your pictures, mister.
00:07:17Adams.
00:07:18How do you know they are pictures?
00:07:20Oh, I just know.
00:07:26Those are awful little windows for such a big church.
00:07:29They have to be little.
00:07:30There's so much wind in Cape Cod.
00:07:32I don't like it.
00:07:33It scares me.
00:07:34The wind?
00:07:35No, the black water.
00:07:38There should be a lighthouse out there in the ocean.
00:07:41Yes, there should be.
00:07:42How did you know?
00:07:44I don't exactly remember.
00:07:46Someday I'll show it to you.
00:07:47Out there on the rocks.
00:07:48The land's in light.
00:07:50But you said you didn't remember.
00:07:52I don't.
00:07:53I just know.
00:07:57I wish I liked your pictures, but I don't.
00:08:00That's what everybody says.
00:08:02That's why I can't sell them.
00:08:04Maybe you shouldn't paint places.
00:08:07Why don't you paint people instead?
00:08:08Cecily Brown's home is full of pictures of people.
00:08:11Who's Cecily Brown?
00:08:12She's my best friend.
00:08:14I go to school every day now, but only in the mornings.
00:08:16What do you learn?
00:08:18Well, yesterday we learned about the Kaiser.
00:08:20He's the king of Germany.
00:08:21He was a long time ago.
00:08:22No.
00:08:23You're wrong.
00:08:24Cecily Brown's father's in Germany now, and he sees them all the time.
00:08:27Well, he was...
00:08:27He says the Kaiser rides around on a white horse, and he likes to fight.
00:08:31I can fight, too.
00:08:33I can fight Cecily.
00:08:34She's bigger, but I'm stronger.
00:08:36I can fight her good.
00:08:37I thought you said Cecily Brown was your best friend.
00:08:39She is.
00:08:41It's fun to have somebody to play with.
00:08:44Don't you have anybody to play with?
00:08:46No.
00:08:50Well, I'm afraid I have to go now.
00:08:52Well, it's a little lonesome here all by myself.
00:08:55So I'll walk away with you if you don't mind.
00:08:59I know a song. Would you like to hear it?
00:09:01I'd love to.
00:09:05Where I come from
00:09:16Nobody knows
00:09:21And where I am going
00:09:30Everything goes
00:09:33The wind blows
00:09:37The sea flows
00:09:44Nobody knows
00:09:48Nobody knows
00:09:49Nobody knows
00:09:50And where I am going
00:10:00Nobody knows
00:10:09Who taught you that?
00:10:10Nobody, it's just a song.
00:10:13Do you know the game I like to play best?
00:10:15What?
00:10:16It's a wishing game.
00:10:17I'll tell you what I wish most.
00:10:19What do you wish?
00:10:20Well, first you have to close your eyes and turn around three times.
00:10:24I wish that you would wait for me to grow up
00:10:27So that we could always be together.
00:10:33But you won't, I guess.
00:10:36Well, I can't talk to you anymore.
00:10:38Goodbye.
00:10:39Goodbye.
00:10:53I'll get your parcel.
00:10:55Oh, thank you.
00:11:00Funny kind of a kid.
00:11:04Jenny!
00:11:21Is that you, Mr. Adams?
00:11:23Yes, Mrs. Jeex.
00:11:25You always come in so extremely quiet, I can hardly hear you, Mr. Adams.
00:11:29So thoughtful of my other tenants.
00:11:30I didn't want to disturb anybody.
00:11:32Of course not, a fine gentleman like you.
00:11:35Would five dollars do for a while?
00:11:36It won't do, but I'll take it.
00:11:37I hope I'll have some more for you soon.
00:11:39You'd better see that you do.
00:11:40I don't suppose you'd be interested in another one of my sketches until I...
00:11:43Oh, no!
00:11:44My bathroom's full of now.
00:11:45Where would I put another one?
00:11:46In my parlor?
00:11:47No, I wouldn't expect anything like that.
00:11:52You certainly have a way, Mrs. Jeex.
00:11:55Play with him like a cat with a mouse, and then you pounce.
00:11:57But he is attractive, isn't he?
00:11:59And a gentleman besides.
00:12:01That's what makes it so hard to throw him out.
00:12:03Oh, but he's an ornament to your house, Mrs. Jeex.
00:12:05Just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things.
00:12:10Of course, he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent.
00:12:15Painting things?
00:12:17Women?
00:12:18Women in the...
00:12:19Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman.
00:12:22A gentleman just don't paint women in the...
00:12:24No.
00:12:25Of course not.
00:12:35Mr. Bunce, I think we won commend them all to me.
00:12:35... hmm, isn't it, she doesn't know she's everami ever.
00:12:56To be the only girl's day, or even if she's forced...
00:12:58to think of it, lighting it would do.
00:13:03And next summer, I shall try and arrangery was a girl.
00:13:05sang stayed in my mind and I've thought of the last thing she'd said to me about
00:13:10waiting for her to grow up but people can't wait for other people to grow up
00:13:16there was something different about that child I wondered if my pencil could catch
00:13:35hiya Mac morning guys morning is it you've slept it all the way it's gone forever and a grand morning
00:13:41it was too I worked pretty late last night I didn't get to sleep at dawn that's your breakfast yet
00:13:49well no now it's about having some lunch with me no no I'm not gonna eat on you guys you
00:13:53have to
00:13:53work too hard for your money wait a minute I've got some money of my own no care I sold
00:13:58a picture
00:13:58yesterday twelve dollars and a half well what do you know today you're having lunch on me it's a
00:14:03great pleasure Mac just come along a minute while I pick up the hack and we'll soon be on our
00:14:07way
00:14:08you know Gus I can't get you at all why should you care if I eat well maybe I don't
00:14:14like to see
00:14:14people go hungry let me put it this way Mac I got a lot of respect for a guy that's
00:14:20doing what
00:14:20he's got to do even if maybe it's killing him now you want to paint pictures so you're going right
00:14:26ahead doing it no matter I like that Mac you know most of the time fellas got the idea that
00:14:30there's
00:14:31nothing much to life except getting through it as easy and as comfortable as he can making a quarter
00:14:37a dollar here dollar there eating sleeping and dying then a fella like you comes along who's not
00:14:44thinking too much about them things he'll start you wondering wondering if maybe you're not missing
00:14:51something hop in I'd like to recommend my friend Moore and his corned beef and cabbage
00:14:59it's almost like home you couldn't pay me to eat anywhere else oh sorry Mac oh it's all right oh
00:15:06well
00:15:09now taking to wearing scarves hmm that isn't mine I found it belongs to a little girl I met in
00:15:16the
00:15:16park yeah pretty big scarf for a little girl funny kid she said her parents were acrobats at
00:15:22Hammerstein's Victoria yeah Hammerstein's was torn down years ago of course it was but she said she
00:15:27was there yesterday yeah that's kids for you always dreaming up something well what do you know
00:15:32well Sarah Bernhardt's coming to America for a farewell tour Sarah Bernhardt have you gone crazy well
00:15:38that's what it says here Sarah Bernhardt distinguished French Tragediani arrives next month let me see
00:15:47well that is what it says say this paper is dated 1910 1910 where'd you pick up an old paper
00:15:55like
00:15:56that a little girl in the park had it her scarf was wrapped in her Gus read that read that
00:16:03ad
00:16:04Hammerstein's Victoria Eva Tangway the American Comediani Will Rogers expert lariat thrower the
00:16:11Appletons novelty high wire act well what about it it's just what she said I don't get you she
00:16:16said her name was Jenny Appleton so I'm not gonna think of it she she wasn't dressed the way the
00:16:23kids
00:16:23are now now look Mac you're not trying to believe this kid are you of course okay okay eat your
00:16:30lunch
00:16:31as my mother used to say if you got too little in your stomach you got too much in your
00:16:35head I
00:16:37I see you think I'm imagining things oh no Gus she was real enough all right I saw her what's
00:16:47mark a drawer for you hi Gus hi Mac how are things my friend Mac back here's the owner of
00:16:52the joint
00:16:53hello mr. Moore everything all right sir couldn't be better I'm glad to hear you say it and you Gus
00:16:58everything all right sure sure I guess so what do you mean I guess so anything wrong no no I
00:17:06guess
00:17:06not is the food all right sure sure and what's great when you but I kind of hate to say
00:17:12this Mac
00:17:13you're not the sort of man I like to hurt but if you don't see me around for a while
00:17:18don't be
00:17:19surprised I thought I might start eating down at Nick's for a change Nick's yeah Nick's and what's
00:17:26wrong with Nick's no nothing the matter with Nick's I suppose if you like that type of place so
00:17:34you're going to start eating down at Nick's it's a nice day we're having a beautiful day it is and
00:17:41more so you're going to start eating down at Nick's eh yeah I thought I might hey it's all
00:17:50kind of people to make a world all kinds and some of them hasn't a trace of friendship or loyalty
00:17:56well uh a fella likes a change once in a while a change from what well it's uh this room
00:18:04that the
00:18:04joint it it's dark in here Mac dark dark you ought to brighten it up brighten up the joint Mac
00:18:11what
00:18:12would you want me to do oh well I don't know Mac I hadn't got that far suppose I could
00:18:17hang his
00:18:18three picture here and there you know it's a crying shame you couldn't have a whole scene
00:18:25painted right on the wall of course I know that can't be done but why can't it be done didn't
00:18:32he
00:18:32were here tell the mule reels mule reels hey pictures painted onto a wall is that right Mac is
00:18:39it possible to paint a picture right on the wall of course it's possible it's done all the time
00:18:44see you dumb ox as a matter of fact this wall would lend itself to a mural very nicely well
00:18:50look what
00:18:50are we thinking of here we got one of the grandest artists in the whole world sitting right at the
00:18:55table and why don't we ask him to do something you could squeeze it in Mac you could squeeze it
00:19:00in
00:19:00between all your other commissions well I don't know you could drop in here now say around noontime or
00:19:08suppertime it won't cost you a cent aye excuse me a minute I've got to post this lost him had
00:19:20him
00:19:20and I lost him let it go Gossam don't say any more about it up the rebels up the rebels
00:19:34three beers Mac did you ever see Mick Collins I never did and I often regretted it here's what
00:19:40you should do Mac right over the bar here a painting of Michael Collins Mick Collins himself
00:19:46and he leading his men in the battle against the might of England just a minute Goss why a man
00:19:52alive would be the greatest thing that ever hit this town who is Alhambra would be the rallying
00:19:56place for every Irish Patriot to come to why man you wouldn't have standing room at the bar and it
00:20:00wouldn't cost you a cent it's so much kind of interesting now here's how I see it or should I
00:20:06say
00:20:06how my friend Mac here sees it it's early dawn on a small hill in Ireland and there there on
00:20:14a carpet of
00:20:14shamrock under an old elm stands me Collins leaning on his gun waiting for a zero hour and all the
00:20:21Murphy's and Flanagan's and O'Shea's are waiting with him in a brief moment Mick himself will lead
00:20:26him in a battle and lead him to victory up the rebels up the rebels you've got to paint it
00:20:32Mr.
00:20:47what's this sketch of a little girl I saw in the park very good isn't it Miss Binney yes I
00:20:54think you
00:20:55You have something there, Adams.
00:20:56Do you know why I like it?
00:20:57Why?
00:20:58There's a quality about the girl that reminds me of long ago.
00:21:02And there ought to be something timeless about a woman.
00:21:06Something eternal.
00:21:07You can see it in all the great portraits of the past.
00:21:09They make you feel you could meet those women anywhere
00:21:12and be inspired by them.
00:21:14Well then, Mr. Adams, I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:21:16I'll take that sketch.
00:21:18I'll give you $25 for it.
00:21:20And I don't care what Miss Finney says.
00:21:22I'm not going to say anything.
00:21:25Now, Adams, you can stop feeling sound of yourself.
00:21:27Oh, no.
00:21:28Things are looking up.
00:21:29Getting three meals a day for painting a mural
00:21:31and now $25.
00:21:34For a sketch.
00:21:35A sketch.
00:21:37Well, thank you.
00:21:40Where are you going now?
00:21:41Nowhere.
00:21:42Anywhere.
00:21:43Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:21:46And where I'm going, anything goes.
00:21:49What's that?
00:21:50Oh, it's a song that little girl sang in the park.
00:21:52Well, if you don't know where you're coming or going,
00:21:54perhaps you'd like a cup of tea.
00:21:55Well, I don't care if I do.
00:21:57Come along.
00:22:00See you later, Mr. Matthews.
00:22:02Oh, yes, as you say, Miss Finney.
00:22:08You know, I haven't been to ice skating since I was a kid in Maine.
00:22:11Who brought up his name?
00:22:12South Paris, Maine.
00:22:14It's pretty swanky, yes.
00:22:15It was a nice little town.
00:22:17Rivers, lakes, mountains.
00:22:19My father ran the general store until he died.
00:22:22My mother died a couple of years later.
00:22:24And I worked myself through three years of college.
00:22:27And then I...
00:22:29Fascinating, isn't it?
00:22:30I think it's interesting.
00:22:32I want to ask you advice about something.
00:22:34I don't feel sorry for myself the way you said.
00:22:36I'm facing a very practical problem.
00:22:38Oh, that is something.
00:22:39An artist facing practical problems.
00:22:41Oh, not the kind you think.
00:22:43I don't mind being hungry.
00:22:44I don't even care about having to dodge the landlady.
00:22:47But...
00:22:48Well, I know every artist who ever amounted to anything went through a lot more than I have.
00:22:52But they knew they had something.
00:22:55Take a lot of beating when you know that.
00:22:57But who do I think I am?
00:22:58Why should I believe that...
00:23:00Of all the thousands of struggling artists...
00:23:03I'm one who has something worth saying.
00:23:07Oh, relax, Adams.
00:23:09Come and sit down.
00:23:10It irritates me when you go on like that.
00:23:13You know, something about you appeals to me.
00:23:15I can't imagine what.
00:23:17I think you're like the beau I wanted when I was young.
00:23:21When I was doubting myself.
00:23:23Not you, too?
00:23:24Even me.
00:23:26Look what it's brought me.
00:23:27Just a frustrated old maid lecturing a frustrated young artist.
00:23:32Miss Penny, what shall I do?
00:23:35I think the sketch shows you what you can do.
00:23:38All you need is a little inspiration.
00:23:39Any inspiration.
00:23:40That little girl in the park.
00:23:44Well, I guess that does it.
00:23:46How's about you and me taking a twirl on the ice?
00:23:48Oh, go along with you.
00:23:51Thanks, Miss Penny.
00:23:51Let's go along.
00:23:52Let's go.
00:23:53Let's go.
00:24:08Let's go along with you.
00:24:20Hello, Mr. Adams.
00:24:29Hello, Jenny.
00:24:31Isn't this fun?
00:24:32I can't believe it's you.
00:24:34Why not?
00:24:35Because you've grown so much taller.
00:24:37Well, maybe you didn't see me so good before.
00:24:39No, I'm sure you've grown.
00:24:41Of course I have.
00:24:42I'm hurrying.
00:24:44Don't you remember our wish?
00:24:45Sure I do.
00:24:47Let's skate.
00:24:50Let's go a little faster.
00:25:07You're feeling so funny.
00:25:09I feel so funny, too.
00:25:14Oh, by the way, I have something here, viewers.
00:25:16Oh, what a pretty scarf.
00:25:18It's in the parcel on the bench.
00:25:19You said it was yours.
00:25:21Did I?
00:25:22Well, if I said so, it must be true.
00:25:25I'll tell you what.
00:25:26Why don't you keep it for me until I grow up?
00:25:28Then I'll have one more reason to grow up fast.
00:25:30All right.
00:25:30I owe you a favor, sir.
00:25:33You do?
00:25:33Why?
00:25:34I did a little sketch of you the other day, and I sold it.
00:25:36Oh, I'm glad.
00:25:37Madam Boarder told me I ought to paint portraits.
00:25:39What do you think of that?
00:26:09Well, who would you paint, Mr. Adams?
00:26:10Well, she didn't paint me, and so I slapped her.
00:26:12Emily, I thought it was Cecily you always fought with.
00:26:15Cecily?
00:26:17Oh, you don't mean Cecily Brown, do you?
00:26:20Well, she moved away to Boston three years ago.
00:26:23I thought I told you.
00:26:23No, you didn't.
00:26:26That's funny.
00:26:27Well, it doesn't matter.
00:26:29Come on, let's skate.
00:26:33Well, I'll have to be going pretty soon.
00:26:36Oh, don't go.
00:26:37How would you like some hot chocolate?
00:26:38Oh, I love hot chocolate.
00:26:40Get it right over there.
00:26:43Oh, how wonderful.
00:26:44Welcome.
00:26:47Oh, Jenny, where do you live?
00:26:49I'd like to come and see you.
00:26:51Well, I don't think there's any place you can come to.
00:26:53Come and see me, yet.
00:26:55Huh? Why?
00:26:56Oh, it's just the way it is.
00:26:59When will you start my portrait?
00:27:01Oh, whenever your parents will let you.
00:27:04Where are they now?
00:27:05At Hammerstein's.
00:27:07Well, they're still at Hammerstein's, huh?
00:27:09And they've got wonderful new tricks,
00:27:11way up on a high wire.
00:27:13Sometimes it scares me to watch them.
00:27:15Of course, that's silly.
00:27:16That's why they're so famous.
00:27:18They scare everybody.
00:27:19Yeah.
00:27:21I'd like to see them.
00:27:23But then I could ask that permission
00:27:25you to come and sit for me.
00:27:27Why don't you take me down to Hammerstein's to see them?
00:27:29Oh, yes.
00:27:30Do let's go.
00:27:31I can get us in free.
00:27:33Could you go to the matinee Saturday?
00:27:34I think so.
00:27:36Where'll we meet?
00:27:38Well, let's meet.
00:27:39Let's meet here in the park.
00:27:40At that bench where we met before.
00:27:43I'll be there at two o'clock.
00:27:45At least I'll try.
00:27:50That was wonderful chocolate.
00:27:54You're welcome.
00:27:55Well, I really must go now.
00:27:57Must you?
00:27:59I hate it to stop.
00:28:01Because when will we ever have it again?
00:28:05Well, goodbye.
00:28:06Goodbye.
00:28:22Looking for someone, Adams?
00:28:25I was just watching the little girl I was talking to you about.
00:28:40I know now that Spinney didn't see Jenny.
00:28:42But all I knew then was that she kept a watchful eye on me
00:28:46as though I were a patient that needed watching.
00:28:49I was happy when I realized it was Saturday
00:28:51and I could scarcely wait to find out
00:28:53what Jenny was going to present to me as Hammerstein's.
00:28:59But at last, there was no sign of Jenny.
00:29:02Apparently, she had forgotten.
00:29:04On impulse, I decided to find out for myself
00:29:06what I could about Jenny's parents.
00:29:09Well, I had a bet with a friend of mine.
00:29:11I wonder if you can help me.
00:29:12You remember the old Hammerstein Theater?
00:29:14Do I remember it?
00:29:15But you came to the right party to ask about Hammerstein's.
00:29:19I claimed it used to be right around here somewhere
00:29:21and my friend thinks...
00:29:21Ah, your friend loses.
00:29:23Hammerstein's used to stand right there
00:29:24where the Rialto is now.
00:29:26Yes, sir.
00:29:27I just want to ask you one more question.
00:29:28Do you remember the Appletons?
00:29:30The Appletons?
00:29:31They used to have an act.
00:29:32Trapeze.
00:29:33It's trapeze.
00:29:34Seems to me...
00:29:35Look, you go over the Rialto and ask old Pete.
00:29:38He's a doorman or something.
00:29:40He used to play Hammerstein's.
00:29:41Pretty good song and dance man in his day.
00:29:43He might know.
00:29:45Thanks a lot.
00:29:47Appletons.
00:29:49Appletons.
00:29:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:52There were the four Appletons.
00:29:54That was in 1902.
00:29:58They were clowns.
00:29:59They were very good, too, like from Vienna.
00:30:01This was a high wire act.
00:30:03Husband and wife, 1910.
00:30:05Then there was Mike and Pat Appleton, Irishers.
00:30:10They did some songs and peter-petering.
00:30:14That was 1904 or 1905, maybe.
00:30:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:211910.
00:30:23Please, let me do it my way.
00:30:28I have to go backwards and then start from the beginning, you see.
00:30:33Otherwise, I will not remember.
00:30:34And I don't like not to remember.
00:30:37Then I think I'm getting a little old, you see.
00:30:42I'm sorry to put you to all this trouble.
00:30:44No trouble at all.
00:30:45I have a very good memory, huh?
00:30:47It's only sometimes that I don't remember things very well.
00:30:52She...
00:30:52Ah?
00:30:53Clara, they know.
00:30:55Clara who?
00:30:56Clara Morgan.
00:30:57She was with a wardrobe at Hammerstein's.
00:31:00Everybody went to her with his troubles.
00:31:04Ah, close-colored people.
00:31:06Very wise people.
00:31:08Well, they know what trouble is.
00:31:10You know how I can find her?
00:31:13Sure, I know where you can find her.
00:31:15Well, where does she live?
00:31:16Live?
00:31:18Live?
00:31:18Oh, 332 East 135th Street.
00:31:24Thank you very much.
00:31:25Good memory, no?
00:31:27Just one.
00:31:28Oh, thank you.
00:31:30Thank you so much.
00:31:35They were all wonderful acts.
00:31:39For me, they had more glamour than anything you see today.
00:31:43You sort of felt as though you knew all the artists personally.
00:31:47Ah, here it is.
00:31:50These are the Appletons.
00:31:52Mary and Frank Appleton.
00:32:02This little girl.
00:32:04That's their daughter, Jenny.
00:32:06Their daughter?
00:32:07Yes.
00:32:09Isn't it possible that this child is their granddaughter?
00:32:14Oh, no.
00:32:15I knew Jenny when this picture was taken.
00:32:18She was a darling little girl with big, sad eyes.
00:32:23She used to come backstage and sit on my lap.
00:32:26I used to give her rock candy.
00:32:28Do you know where she is now?
00:32:30No.
00:32:31I lost track of her after her parents were killed that night on the trapeze.
00:32:36That was many years ago.
00:32:38The wire broke.
00:32:39Jenny was in the theater looking when it happened.
00:32:43Are you sure you don't remember what happened to her?
00:32:45Well, it seems as if I remember some talk about her aunt's wanting to put her in a convent.
00:32:52Jenny wasn't a Catholic, but her aunt said a convent was the best place for a girl to be.
00:32:59Thank you very much, Mrs. Morgan.
00:33:02I appreciate your giving me your time.
00:33:05Thank you, Mr. Adams.
00:33:07It isn't often I have a chance to share my memories.
00:33:10I do hope you'll find Jenny.
00:33:12She was a dear little girl.
00:33:13I hope so, too.
00:33:15Thank you again.
00:33:20That night, everything seemed like a dream to me.
00:33:23The towers of the city, the myriad lights.
00:33:26But now I knew that Jenny was not just an imaginative child.
00:33:31Not just a child denying time and reason.
00:33:35Instinctively, I found myself approaching the bench in the park.
00:33:39Jenny's bench.
00:33:40And as I did, I was conscious of an unaccustomed atmosphere.
00:33:47As though time were melting with the snow.
00:33:53Were the sobs that I heard part of the illusion?
00:34:02Jenny, what's the matter with you?
00:34:05What are you crying about?
00:34:08Father, mother.
00:34:09Father?
00:34:10Something's happened.
00:34:11They've had an accident.
00:34:12I knew it would happen.
00:34:14The wire broke.
00:34:15I knew it would happen.
00:34:17I was always scared it would happen.
00:34:19And tonight.
00:34:20Tonight.
00:34:22Oh, Jenny, I know how you feel.
00:34:25I know how much it hurts.
00:34:26But, see, it isn't hurting them.
00:34:28Please try to think of it that way.
00:34:31But they're dead.
00:34:33We all die sometimes.
00:34:35I love them.
00:34:36They love me.
00:34:37And you mustn't be too unhappy.
00:34:38They wouldn't want you to be, would they?
00:34:40Would they?
00:34:42No.
00:34:42No.
00:34:44They told me once.
00:34:45They said if anything happened to them, I mustn't be unhappy.
00:34:51Because they were doing what they wanted to do.
00:34:54And, and if they, if anything happened, it would happen to them both, at the same time, the way they
00:35:04wanted.
00:35:04Well, you see.
00:35:06Yes.
00:35:09So, I, I shouldn't cry, should I?
00:35:12They wouldn't like it.
00:35:13They died the way they wanted.
00:35:15That's right.
00:35:17So, I, I guess I'm only crying for myself.
00:35:22Because they're gone and because I'm lonely.
00:35:24No, now, now, don't, Jenny.
00:35:26But maybe I won't always be lonely.
00:35:30I don't know why.
00:35:32But I, but I don't think I will be lonely very long.
00:35:35Because I, I'm hurrying.
00:35:37I'm hurrying fast now.
00:35:39My aunt is sending me to a convent and...
00:35:41Convent?
00:35:43You want to go?
00:35:44Of course, I do.
00:35:46After that, I'll be grown up.
00:35:47Don't you understand?
00:35:49No, Jenny, I, I, I don't understand.
00:35:51I wish I did, but I don't understand any of it.
00:35:54Each time I see you, you've, you've changed.
00:35:56You're older.
00:35:57You talk about things that happen, well, that happened long ago.
00:36:02Did they?
00:36:04Sometimes I kind of think that, too.
00:36:07But maybe that's because I have to find something.
00:36:10But, find what?
00:36:13I'm not sure.
00:36:17But I think I'll know someday.
00:36:20I think I'll know when I find it.
00:36:23Do you know what?
00:36:24I think you'll know, too.
00:36:27I hope so.
00:36:29You'll wait for me, won't you?
00:36:31You'll give me a little more time.
00:36:33I'm all right, Jenny.
00:36:37Listen.
00:36:39It's the stars.
00:36:42Can't you hear them?
00:36:47Listen to the stars coming out.
00:37:11Cold, cold months followed each other that year.
00:37:15From the mystery which surrounded Jenny, my thoughts turned themselves away.
00:37:20It was not in my hands.
00:37:21Nothing was in my hands.
00:37:23Any more than I could bring the spring nearer before its time.
00:37:27Or keep the winter from clinging to the earth with a bitter grip.
00:37:33Oh, Skipper!
00:37:35Skipper!
00:37:42Skipper!
00:37:43Skipper!
00:37:44Skipper!
00:37:44You bad boy.
00:37:45Hello, Adams.
00:37:46Hello, Mr. Matthews.
00:37:47He always runs away when we get near the park.
00:37:50Thank you very much for catching him.
00:37:51I didn't catch him.
00:37:52He just ran right up to me.
00:37:53Oh, that's a great compliment from Skipper.
00:37:56He doesn't usually take to strangers unless he thinks they're in trouble.
00:38:01Trouble?
00:38:03What kind of trouble could he have sensed about me?
00:38:06I suppose most artists go through something of the sort.
00:38:09Sooner or later, it's not enough for them just to live and paint and have enough.
00:38:14Or nearly enough to eat.
00:38:17No.
00:38:18Sooner or later, they want recognition.
00:38:21They want to sell their work.
00:38:22Good men, even great men, have failed to do that.
00:38:27But I...
00:38:28I don't think that's all that's bothering you.
00:38:32Mr. Matthews was right.
00:38:34There was something else.
00:38:36My memory was beginning to play tricks on me.
00:38:39I was seized by memories so urgent that they were more real to me
00:38:43than what was before me.
00:38:51Everything reminded me of Jenny.
00:39:03Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:39:05And where I'm going, everyone goes.
00:39:09Finally, spring broke through.
00:39:11I tried to work, but mostly I was content to do nothing.
00:39:15I knew in my heart that I would never be anything until and unless Jenny returned.
00:39:23I needed to tell someone.
00:39:26And who was there to tell but Spinney?
00:39:29Maybe I will paint only one important painting in my life, but that much I know I can do.
00:39:35The portrait of Jenny?
00:39:36Yes.
00:39:37It's the first thing and only thing I've ever been sure of in my life.
00:39:40You couldn't do it without her.
00:39:42Of course not.
00:39:43I suppose she doesn't make another appearance.
00:39:46Then...
00:39:47I can't even think of that.
00:39:48I didn't realize how much you needed her.
00:39:51It took you a long time to find something to bring your talent to life.
00:39:55You couldn't find it, so...
00:39:57So you think I created her because I needed her for...
00:40:00An inspiration, perhaps.
00:40:03Maybe you really saw her.
00:40:04Maybe you didn't.
00:40:06What's the difference?
00:40:07As you grow older, you'll learn to believe in lots of things you can't see.
00:40:12Better get that canvas ready for her.
00:40:21Come in.
00:40:25Hiya, Mac.
00:40:26Gus.
00:40:26It's a grand day outside.
00:40:28We're in New York.
00:40:29What you doing in here?
00:40:30Preparing a canvas for a portrait.
00:40:32You don't tell me.
00:40:34So that's the way you do it.
00:40:35That's the way you do it.
00:40:44Speaking of paintings, I dropped into Moore's yesterday.
00:40:50I know.
00:40:52He's upset because I haven't finished the job.
00:40:55After all, you made a deal, Mac.
00:40:57I let him down, huh?
00:40:59Well, Mick Collins is a little upset too, Mac.
00:41:01Waiting to lead his men into battle and having only half a leg to stand on.
00:41:05You tell Moore, I'll be in soon.
00:41:09I'll finish it somehow.
00:41:11Sure.
00:41:12Sure.
00:41:14Gus, don't think I'm ungrateful.
00:41:17It's all right, Mac.
00:41:19As my mother used to say,
00:41:21if there's stardust in your head, sure there's a jumble in your soul.
00:41:44You were right, Gus.
00:41:46Look, there isn't a standing room at the bar.
00:41:47That's what I told you, Mac.
00:41:48It was a grand idea, a grand idea.
00:41:50Quiet, everybody, quiet.
00:41:52The unveiling's about to take place.
00:41:55Hello, don't you!
00:41:56Hello, don't you!
00:41:58Hello, don't you!
00:41:59Hello, don't you!
00:41:59Hello, don't you!
00:41:59There shall let the genus all, says the Champan-Bot.
00:42:03Tis Mac Collins, brave and tall, says the Champan-Bot.
00:42:07And will Ireland then be free, says the Champan-Bot.
00:42:12Yes, Ireland shall be free.
00:42:14Oh, let's set her to the sea.
00:42:17Then hurrah for liberty, says the Champan-Bot.
00:42:21Then hurrah for liberty, says the Champan-Bot.
00:42:26Hooray for Eben Adams!
00:42:30Hooray for Eben Adams.
00:42:33Hooray.
00:42:34The cheers were hollow in my ears,
00:42:36for I knew the mural was worthless.
00:42:39I knew in my heart that I was worthless.
00:42:43Suddenly I felt fear.
00:42:45The world seemed curiously empty and silent.
00:42:50One note would bring it all to life.
00:42:52One note would make an instrument of it.
00:42:55But apparently that note was not to be played.
00:42:59The world of my art was to remain an empty box.
00:43:02The world of my art was to remain an empty box.
00:43:17Jenny!
00:43:20Eben!
00:43:22Oh!
00:43:23It isn't true!
00:43:25It...
00:43:26It can't be you!
00:43:28Oh, yes, yes, yes it is!
00:43:30See?
00:43:31I tried to get here sooner, but I couldn't.
00:43:34You're beautiful and grown so.
00:43:37Well, of course I have. I'm hurt.
00:43:39Well, I'm in my first year of college at the Congress.
00:43:42Wonderful dress.
00:43:43Do you like it? It's our thunder dress.
00:43:46Oh, look, you can see the words from here.
00:43:59Eben, I've thought of you so much. It could fill an eternity.
00:44:04What did you think?
00:44:05About how wonderful it all is.
00:44:08And how I've searched, searched.
00:44:11And now, how we'll be together always.
00:44:16I'm almost sure.
00:44:19Do you know what Emily wants to know?
00:44:20What?
00:44:21When you're going to marry me.
00:44:24Don't laugh at me, Eben.
00:44:26I know I'm not old enough yet, but I will be soon.
00:44:30What's that?
00:44:32That's a sketch of Radio City.
00:44:35Radio City? I've never heard of it.
00:44:38Well, it hasn't been built very long.
00:44:41I like it.
00:44:49It's strange.
00:44:51What's the matter, Jenny?
00:44:54That's Land's End Light.
00:44:56That's right.
00:44:57Land's End Light.
00:44:59How do you know?
00:45:00Have you ever been there?
00:45:03I don't know.
00:45:06I think...
00:45:08It's an old deserted lighthouse up on Cape Cod.
00:45:11I did that sketch several years ago.
00:45:15It makes me unhappy.
00:45:18Well...
00:45:19In that case, we'll just put it aside.
00:45:24Look, Jenny, the canvas.
00:45:27The canvas?
00:45:28The canvas for your portrait.
00:45:30Your portrait.
00:45:31Your portrait.
00:45:31The one we planned.
00:45:34Oh, Eben, you're going to do it.
00:45:36I was so sure you'd be here one day.
00:45:38I haven't been able to do anything else.
00:45:39Sit over here.
00:45:40Where?
00:45:41Please.
00:45:42Right there where I dreamed you'd sit.
00:45:44The girls will be so jealous when I tell them.
00:45:46Turn your head the other way.
00:45:46Some of my friends are taking the veil next Sunday.
00:45:48There.
00:45:49It'll be lovely to watch.
00:45:50Will you come and see it with me?
00:45:51I'd love to, Jenny.
00:45:52Now, please, hold still.
00:45:53Turn your head.
00:45:54A few of my classmates will be leaving then, too.
00:45:56I hate to have them go.
00:45:57Jenny, your hand.
00:46:00Turn your head.
00:46:03There.
00:46:04Hold that.
00:46:07Eben, promise you won't forget me.
00:46:32Hello.
00:46:36Hello.
00:46:39Hello.
00:46:40Hello, Eben.
00:46:51Hello, Eben.
00:46:52Hello, Eben.
00:46:53I was afraid.
00:46:55Afraid you might not be here.
00:46:56I told you I'd be here.
00:46:59We'd better hurry if we want to see the ceremony.
00:47:01Thank you, Eben.
00:47:10Yes.
00:47:54See, those with the candles are the ones who are taking the veil.
00:47:57Our teachers are in back of them.
00:47:59The first one is old Sister Mary Margaret.
00:48:02She teaches history.
00:48:03And next to her is Sister Mary Euphemia, who teaches science.
00:48:10And over there near the entrance is my favorite, Sister Mary of Mercy.
00:48:19I'm so glad you're waiting for me, Evan.
00:48:26I'm so glad you're waiting for me.
00:48:29It's not a temptation, but deliverance.
00:48:33Amen.
00:48:39Isn't it beautiful?
00:48:43I always feel a little closer to the truth of things in here.
00:48:49As if, pretty soon, I would understand.
00:49:09How beautiful the world is, Edwin.
00:49:11The sun goes down in the same lovely sky, just as it did yesterday and will tomorrow.
00:49:18When is tomorrow, Jenny?
00:49:20Does it matter?
00:49:22It's always.
00:49:24This was tomorrow once.
00:49:27Where I come from, nobody knows.
00:49:28And where I'm going, everything goes.
00:49:31I've heard that somewhere.
00:49:32Of course you have.
00:49:33You sang it to me that first day in the park.
00:49:35Did I?
00:49:36I'd forgotten.
00:49:37The wind blows, the sea flows.
00:49:41God knows.
00:49:44I think he knows, Edwin.
00:49:57So this is where the master works.
00:49:59Well, there's much of a place.
00:50:01It's over here, Spenny.
00:50:08Of course, it isn't finished yet.
00:50:10Don't be coy.
00:50:11Let's see it.
00:50:13Well.
00:50:21What do you think?
00:50:23Where?
00:50:25Where?
00:50:26Well, Adams, you found what you were looking for.
00:50:40You like it?
00:50:42Adams, I've been selling pictures for many years.
00:50:44And in my business, it's always a dream that someday you'll come across, shall we say, a great picture.
00:50:52This is, I feel, how a sort of fulfillment of my home.
00:50:57He means he likes it.
00:50:59Oh, glad.
00:51:00Do you remember my saying, there ought to be something eternal about a woman?
00:51:05Something not of the present nor of the past.
00:51:07Well, okay, you caught it.
00:51:08It's the face of that same little girl.
00:51:11Yet what you've seen in that face is without age or time.
00:51:16Well, it hasn't finished.
00:51:18It really isn't.
00:51:19Take it easy, Adams.
00:51:20It's a great picture.
00:51:25Carried forward on a wave of exultation, I worked eagerly to complete the portrait.
00:51:30The face framed in its dark hair, the brown eyes tenderly dreaming.
00:51:36I began to realize that I was caught by an enchantment beyond time and change.
00:51:41I knew at last that love is endless, and today's little happiness only part of it.
00:51:48Heaven!
00:52:00Somehow I knew I'd find you here.
00:52:02I've looked for you here so often.
00:52:04I had to see you tonight.
00:52:06You know, I've just graduated from college and...
00:52:09Wonderful.
00:52:10Now we can be together always.
00:52:15Well, I'm afraid we'll have to wait a little longer.
00:52:18You see, my aunt is ill, and she wants me to go away with her for this summer.
00:52:24When do you have to go?
00:52:27Tomorrow.
00:52:28I couldn't go without saying goodbye.
00:52:30Goodbye.
00:52:30Oh, it'll only be for a few months.
00:52:33Anyway, we have until the morning, and I think a little more.
00:52:38Jenny, I'd be lost without you.
00:52:42No, no, no, don't say that, Eben.
00:52:45Can't both of us be lost.
00:52:50Look at the moonlight on the water.
00:52:54It makes a pathway across the river.
00:52:57And the Jersey hills are over there, aren't they?
00:53:01In the distance.
00:53:02You say it sadly, Eben.
00:53:04Aren't you happy?
00:53:05I've been thinking, no matter how far away that kind of distance is, it can be reached.
00:53:12Over there, beyond the hills, one can drive to it.
00:53:16North among the pines, eastward to the sea.
00:53:19It's the only kind of distance I ever knew anything about before.
00:53:23But now I feel it's another kind of distance, a...
00:53:27a cruel distance, a...
00:53:30a distance of yesterday and tomorrow, and it frightens me.
00:53:36It frightens me that there's no way to bridge it.
00:53:39There is.
00:53:41At this moment, I know there is.
00:53:45I want it to be forever.
00:53:47It will be.
00:53:50Have faith.
00:54:00How still it is.
00:54:03Listen.
00:54:06The whole city's sleeping.
00:54:09No one left in the world but us.
00:54:12No one but us.
00:54:14Oh, Eben.
00:54:27Life's beginning again.
00:54:30Look, the little boat put its lights out.
00:54:33Night's over.
00:54:33It's tomorrow.
00:54:35Jenny, I'm not going to think of the summer or the future at all.
00:54:38I leave that to you.
00:54:40Why we met, how it came about, I don't know.
00:54:42I know we were meant for each other.
00:54:45The strands of our lives are woven together,
00:54:47and neither the world nor time can tear them apart.
00:54:51Oh, Eben, I wish you'd finished my portrait.
00:55:01Eben, Eben, do you think people can know what lies ahead?
00:55:09I mean, what's going to happen to them?
00:55:13You know how you feel sad about things sometimes?
00:55:18About things that have never happened.
00:55:23Perhaps they're the things that are going to happen to us.
00:55:28Perhaps we know it,
00:55:30and we're just afraid to admit it to ourselves.
00:55:34I guess it's just my funny mind now.
00:55:50Jenny, I...
00:55:56Jenny.
00:55:57Jenny, Jenny.
00:55:59Hello, Eben.
00:56:01Hello.
00:56:03Where are we?
00:56:04Together.
00:56:06Poor darling.
00:56:07You must be worn out.
00:56:09I'm sorry.
00:56:09I fell asleep.
00:56:11There.
00:56:13Come here.
00:56:15Oh, look.
00:56:17Well.
00:56:18It's finished.
00:56:21Oh, Eben.
00:56:25Is it really of me?
00:56:27It's you.
00:56:28Portrait of Jenny.
00:56:31What?
00:56:33I think it's a fine painting.
00:56:35Do you?
00:56:37Do you?
00:56:37I think it will make you famous.
00:56:41I think someday it will hang in a museum,
00:56:43and people will come from all over the world to see it.
00:56:48If they do it,
00:56:50it won't be my work you'll come to see.
00:56:54It'll be you.
00:56:55Thank you, Eben.
00:56:57Thank you, Eben.
00:56:58And now you're beside it.
00:57:11Eben.
00:57:12I don't see.
00:57:14Eben.
00:57:16I want always just to sit and watch you paint.
00:57:19Now that I've found the perfect model,
00:57:21I'll paint her again and again.
00:57:22No, I didn't mean that.
00:57:24I mean, I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world.
00:57:28You're the most beautiful thing in the world.
00:57:32But, Eben, these pictures of yours, of the sea, and land's end light,
00:57:39each time I see them, my heart seems to stop.
00:57:44Curious.
00:57:45Tell us, suppose it is a forlorn sort of place.
00:57:48Oh, well, don't let's talk about it any more.
00:57:51Tell me about Paris.
00:57:53Did you study there?
00:57:54Yes, indeed.
00:57:56Oh, Eben, I wish we could be there together.
00:57:58It would be such fun.
00:57:59We'll do it, Charlie.
00:58:01I'll take you to the Luxembourg,
00:58:03and to the fair at Fontainebleau.
00:58:04Oh, yes, Eben, yes.
00:58:06We'll go out to the forest of Saint-Cloud in the spring
00:58:09and drink new wine under the trees.
00:58:11Oh, Eben, I feel as though we were there already,
00:58:13as though we've been spending our whole lives together.
00:58:19Oh, Jenny.
00:58:22What is it that makes a man and a woman know that
00:58:25all the other men and women in the world,
00:58:26they belong to each other?
00:58:29And is it just chance they're being alive in the world
00:58:32at the same time?
00:58:35You think it's possible that
00:58:37there might have been others in other times
00:58:39whom we might have loved,
00:58:41might have loved us?
00:58:43Oh, no, no others.
00:58:44Among all the people who lived from world's end
00:58:48there's just one you must love,
00:58:50one you must seek until you find him.
00:58:53You, Eben, you, my darling.
00:59:00I must go, Eben.
00:59:02Please don't go, Jenny.
00:59:03I don't want to, but we'll meet again when summer ends.
00:59:07Are you sure, Jenny?
00:59:09I don't know quite where.
00:59:12The wind blows.
00:59:14The sea flows.
00:59:17Oh, Eben, I want to be sure.
00:59:19Tell me you're sure.
00:59:21I'm sure, Jenny.
00:59:23I'll get my thing for you.
00:59:32Oh, Eben, what a lovely scarf.
00:59:34Sure is, Jenny.
00:59:36A present for me?
00:59:37I thought you'd like it.
00:59:39I've been saving it for a long time.
00:59:40Ever since we first met in the park.
00:59:53Jenny.
01:00:06Chip.
01:00:30In the afternoons, the sun slanted lore over the city, and sometimes at evening a wedge of wild duck wavered
01:00:37southward against the Manhattan sky.
01:00:39Summer turned away into fall, but Jenny did not return.
01:00:46I felt a dreadful loneliness.
01:00:49Where was she?
01:00:53Yonder, yonder, was the home of my sweetheart.
01:01:01Yonder, yonder, t'was so long ago.
01:01:07Yonder, yonder, was so long ago.
01:01:10I remember my lover, and the kiss of no other, no other love.
01:01:20Oh, yonder, yonder, was so long ago, was so long ago.
01:01:45I suppose I ought to be minding my own business,
01:01:48but you're carrying quite a load, Mac, all by yourself.
01:01:52Gus, you don't understand, and...
01:01:54Mac, supposing... Now, remember, I'm only supposing, but...
01:01:57Supposing what, Gus?
01:01:58Well, supposing she didn't ever come back.
01:02:01She's got to. Can't beat it out.
01:02:05Yeah, but if something happened to her,
01:02:08don't you have to go on living, pal? Don't you?
01:02:12You've never believed the whole thing, have you, Gus, about Jenny?
01:02:15Well, now, don't be putting words in my mouth.
01:02:16It doesn't matter.
01:02:18It doesn't matter whether you believe.
01:02:19It doesn't matter whether anybody believes, because...
01:02:23I know.
01:02:24Sure you do, sure.
01:02:27But weren't you telling me she goes to a convent?
01:02:31She's not there anymore. She graduated.
01:02:32Oh.
01:02:34Yeah, but the sisters are great ones for keeping in touch.
01:02:38Yes, she liked the sisters.
01:02:39There was one who was a favorite.
01:02:41Well, why don't you ask her?
01:02:42Jenny said she felt closer to the truth there.
01:02:45Look, Mac, I'll drive you out first thing in the morning,
01:02:48if you'll promise to get a good night's sleep.
01:02:49You'll have to let me owe you for the ride, Gus.
01:02:52Your money don't signify, Mac.
01:02:54As my mother used to say, if you've got friendship in your heart,
01:02:57sure you don't...
01:02:59What was it my mother used to say?
01:03:07I don't know what I expected to find at the convent.
01:03:10I knew only that it was there that Jenny had found some inner truth.
01:03:15It was there that she had said to me,
01:03:17I think he knows, Eben.
01:03:20For the first time since I had last seen Jenny,
01:03:23I had a feeling of not being alone.
01:03:25A feeling that the world and Jenny and I were one.
01:03:29What if for a while we had lost our way?
01:03:33Yesterday rose again ahead of us.
01:03:36We had found beauty together,
01:03:39and we could never lose it.
01:03:42Good afternoon.
01:03:43Good afternoon.
01:03:44What was it you wished to see me about?
01:03:46Well, I wanted to ask her about a girl who graduated from here.
01:03:52I thought possibly you might have some information as to where she is.
01:03:55I might.
01:03:56We often keep in touch with the girls after they leave.
01:04:00What was her name?
01:04:02Jenny Appleton.
01:04:05Jenny Appleton?
01:04:07Yes.
01:04:08You remember her, don't you?
01:04:10Yes.
01:04:12Yes, I remember Jenny very well.
01:04:15Even though she was not of our faith, Jenny was one of my favorite pupils.
01:04:19A lovely girl with a strange spiritual beauty and a gentle kind of sadness that always troubled me.
01:04:29I think that describes her perfectly.
01:04:32Have you any idea where she is?
01:04:34Why, Jenny died.
01:04:38When?
01:04:39Years ago.
01:04:43No.
01:04:43Oh, I'm afraid I've shocked you.
01:04:47Well, no.
01:04:50We obviously aren't speaking with the same person.
01:04:52Did you know her family?
01:04:54No, I just know they were killed in an accident.
01:04:56A wire broke?
01:04:58They were trapeze performers?
01:04:59Yes.
01:05:00Well, I'm afraid it must be the same Jenny Appleton.
01:05:03Her aunt brought her to us shortly after her parents' death.
01:05:07She stayed with us until she graduated.
01:05:10Then her aunt came and took her up to New England for the summer.
01:05:13We corresponded a great deal.
01:05:17Would you care to have me read you one of her letters?
01:05:20Please.
01:05:25Won't you sit down?
01:05:32I was so touched by her letters that I saved them.
01:05:35It's the last one she ever wrote to me.
01:05:39My dear sister Mary of Mercy, we are returning very soon.
01:05:43The summer has been a very long and lonely one.
01:05:46How I want to see you again and sit and talk to you about all that has been worrying me.
01:05:50I know you tried to teach me how beautiful the world is.
01:05:55And how it keeps on being beautiful every day.
01:05:58No matter what happens to us.
01:06:01But sometimes I have the dreadful feeling that this beauty will never be complete for me.
01:06:08That I will never find someone to love who will love me.
01:06:13It's a thought that terrifies me dear sister.
01:06:16And I need your comfort and your wisdom to help me.
01:06:21Your loving Jenny.
01:06:25That was the year the terrible tidal wave hit the New England coast.
01:06:30October 5th.
01:06:32I remember it well.
01:06:35I always offer my communion for Jenny on that day.
01:06:39I afterwards learned that Jenny was in the habit of sailing out every day alone
01:06:43to a little cove near an abandoned lighthouse.
01:06:47Landsat light.
01:06:49During one of those trips the waves struck.
01:06:52That was the last anyone ever saw of her.
01:06:55Landsat light.
01:06:56That's where I'll find her.
01:06:58But Jenny is dead, Mr. Adams.
01:07:00You must accept that fact.
01:07:02I won't accept it.
01:07:04Don't tell me she's dead.
01:07:05I held her in my arms three months ago, not ten years ago.
01:07:09I love her, I want her back.
01:07:10What vision has been about saved you I can't say.
01:07:13But don't doubt the ways of Providence.
01:07:16You must have faith.
01:07:17We know so little.
01:07:19So very little.
01:07:21I don't mean to be abrupt and I'm grateful for your kindness.
01:07:24When did you say that wave struck the coast?
01:07:26October 5th.
01:07:28And today is?
01:07:28October 1st.
01:07:30That leaves me four days.
01:07:32But Mr. Adams that October 5th was many years ago.
01:07:35Are you so sure?
01:07:37You say we know so little.
01:07:39You say Jenny's parents were killed.
01:07:42I found her sobbing on a bench the night it happened.
01:07:44You say she was a student here.
01:07:46I visited her here.
01:07:47You say she went to New England with her aunt.
01:07:50I was with her just before she left.
01:07:53Then how can you say it all happened many years ago?
01:07:57Yes.
01:07:59We know so little.
01:08:01And yet now I know a little more.
01:08:05I know now the pattern of Jenny's life.
01:08:08But I also know that I am part of it.
01:08:13She herself said that strands of our lives were woven together
01:08:16and that neither time nor the world could break them.
01:08:19This I have faith in.
01:08:22Thank you mother.
01:08:23I must hurry now.
01:08:24Thank you for your kindness.
01:08:31To the deep.
01:08:32To the deep.
01:08:32To the deep.
01:08:32To the deep.
01:08:39To the deep.
01:08:49To the deep.
01:08:49To the deep.
01:08:49Where have you been keeping yourself?
01:08:51What's wrong Adams?
01:08:52I'm going away Spina.
01:08:53I don't know for how long.
01:08:54Here's my portrait of Jenny.
01:08:56Will you store it for me until I come back?
01:08:57Of course.
01:08:59Where are you going?
01:08:59I think I know where she's going to be.
01:09:01I've got to be there waiting for her.
01:09:03Little place up on Cape Cod called Land's End.
01:09:07Well, Adam!
01:09:09Where have you been? I've got a lot of commissions for you.
01:09:12In that case, perhaps you'll advance me $100.
01:09:15Ah, well...
01:09:16Give him the $100, Mr. Matthew.
01:09:18Yes.
01:09:20What's the matter, Adam? Is there something wrong?
01:09:22Never mind, I'll just pay you, Mr. Matthew.
01:09:24As you say, Miss Finney.
01:09:27Thank you, Spinney. Thanks for everything.
01:09:29Goodbye, Mr. Matthews.
01:09:30Goodbye, my boy. Have a good rest.
01:09:32We'll do big things together later.
01:09:34Paint me a little church while you're there.
01:09:37A little white church with a big steeple.
01:09:40And don't get yourself drowned in the sea.
01:09:43What makes you say that?
01:09:44Oh, men do such foolish things.
01:09:46And I'm afraid of the ocean.
01:09:48You're tough. Sea wouldn't get you.
01:09:51Tough ones drown too, you know.
01:09:54Bye.
01:10:22Any warning of the storm yet?
01:10:24What storm is that?
01:10:25The hurricane that's coming up.
01:10:27No hurricane coming up around here, young fella.
01:10:30Fair weather.
01:10:32That's what it says.
01:10:34Right there.
01:10:35How far in advance would the barometer show up when we're coming up?
01:10:38Far enough.
01:10:39Didn't show far enough when we heard that hurricane back in the 20s.
01:10:43I heard about that hurricane.
01:10:45Happened just about this time of year, didn't it?
01:10:47Yeah.
01:10:49By golly.
01:10:51Come to think of it, it was October 5th.
01:10:54I remember.
01:10:57Because October 4th is my birthday.
01:11:00Today.
01:11:01I'd like to get out to Land's End Light.
01:11:03You know where I didn't charter a boat?
01:11:06Land's End Light.
01:11:08Can't think of any reason.
01:11:11Why anybody would want to go out there?
01:11:13Never mind my reasons.
01:11:14Do you know someone with a boat?
01:11:16My pa's got a trim, little boat.
01:11:18That's fine.
01:11:19Would you mind taking me to your pa?
01:11:21No.
01:11:22Come to think about it, I don't think Ma'd like him to rent a boat.
01:11:26Well, I reckon you'd better go down and see Eek.
01:11:29I've heard tell you how he rents his boat sometimes.
01:11:31Well, I find Eek.
01:11:33Oh, it ain't hard to find Eek.
01:11:35He's always sitting in the same place.
01:11:36Where's that?
01:11:37Well, I'll tell you now.
01:11:39You go down to the jetty and ask for an old codger named...
01:11:48It's mighty nice of you to rent me a boat.
01:11:49Uh-huh.
01:11:50You could darn near buy a new one.
01:11:52Know what you'll pay in me.
01:11:54But what I don't see is...
01:11:56...how you figure to get her out tomorrow and all this muck.
01:12:01Ain't a breath of wind stirring.
01:12:04There'll be wind, all right.
01:12:07Plenty of it.
01:12:08Maybe.
01:12:09Never been too sure about them things.
01:12:12Not since that hurricane we had back in the twenties.
01:12:16What about the wave?
01:12:18I heard something about a great wave.
01:12:25Great wave.
01:12:27Hey, uh...
01:12:28It was a wave, all right.
01:12:30Sometimes I think I never seen it.
01:12:32That I just read about it.
01:12:34Like something in the scriptures.
01:12:37It come up out of the sea like a mountain.
01:12:40Coming.
01:12:42Coming toward the land.
01:12:43Like the day of judgment.
01:12:46You didn't happen to know a girl...
01:12:48...a visitor who was caught by the wave.
01:12:50Her name was Jenny Appleton.
01:12:53You know, it's queer you should ask me that.
01:12:56I used to rent her my boat.
01:12:58I should never forget it till the day I die.
01:13:00Did you know her?
01:13:02Yes, I knew her.
01:13:04Pretty little thing, wasn't she?
01:13:06Such big, sad eyes she had.
01:13:09Big, sad eyes.
01:13:12Something about her that seemed to come from far away.
01:13:15What happened exactly?
01:13:17Where was she when the waves struck?
01:13:19Well, she reached land's end point.
01:13:21That much is certain.
01:13:23Because I found the bow of my boat tied to the wharf there.
01:13:25Well, anyway, what was left of it?
01:13:27Let me ask you something.
01:13:29If she had made the lighthouse, she might have been saved.
01:13:33Didn't that so?
01:13:34Yeah.
01:13:35But she didn't make it.
01:13:38No, I know.
01:13:39It was a pretty tough climb up them rocks.
01:13:42And all that wind.
01:13:45Especially for a female.
01:13:47I suppose it would.
01:13:49Alone.
01:13:52It was a pretty tough climb up!
01:13:55Ah!
01:14:01Well, I know.
01:14:07But I could say my scapIMUM.
01:14:07But I could say it's okay.
01:14:07I could say my song.
01:14:08I can see it.
01:14:08Let me give up.
01:14:08If I give away.
01:14:08It's okay.
01:14:09If it is my scapIMUM, it's okay.
01:14:12Yes, I can see it.
01:14:12I could say it's okay.
01:14:15It's okay.
01:14:18It's okay.
01:14:18Oh, my God.
01:14:56Oh, my God.
01:15:19Oh, my God.
01:15:52And a great and strong wind rent the mountains and break in pieces the rocks before the Lord.
01:16:00For the Lord was not in the wind.
01:16:30Oh, my God.
01:16:52Oh, my God.
01:16:57Oh, my God.
01:17:26Oh, my God.
01:17:45Jenny!
01:17:45Jenny!
01:18:04Jenny!
01:18:05Jenny!
01:18:06Jenny!
01:18:09Jenny!
01:18:18Jenny!
01:18:45Jenny!
01:18:49Jenny!
01:18:51Jenny!
01:19:05Jenny!
01:19:13Jenny!
01:19:17I was afraid I wouldn't find you.
01:19:20I'll never let you go again, never.
01:19:22It's been so long, Evan.
01:19:24Evan, look at you.
01:19:25Evan, the wave is coming.
01:19:27It's all right, whatever happens.
01:19:28Whatever happens, it's you, I want you, and I just dreams of you.
01:19:32Evan.
01:19:32Please believe me.
01:19:33The wave will strike again, and soon.
01:19:34We can have a whole life band together.
01:19:36We have all eternity together, Evan.
01:19:38Can't you see?
01:19:40We were lonely, unloved.
01:19:42Time made an error.
01:19:43But you waited for me, and so we found our love.
01:19:47Now we must lose it.
01:19:48No, no, Evan, now we're just beginning.
01:19:50There is no life, my darling, until you were loved, been loved.
01:19:54And then there is no death.
01:19:59We must reach the lighthouse fast.
01:20:00But you're fighting nothing, Evan, nothing.
01:20:30You must live on, Evan, but with faith.
01:20:42There's no death.
01:20:48Jenny!
01:20:51Jenny! Jenny!
01:21:19There, young fellow. A shave will make you feel better.
01:21:23Morning, Captain Cobb.
01:21:25Morning.
01:21:26Spinny.
01:21:26Hello, Adams.
01:21:27What are you doing here?
01:21:29Well, frankly, I was worried about you.
01:21:31I thought I'd come up and see how you were doing.
01:21:34Captain Cobb kindly let me visit you, so you see we're both his guests.
01:21:38That's nice of you, thanks.
01:21:39Oh, Tenezen.
01:21:41But let me tell you, young fellow,
01:21:42it's a mighty lucky thing you told Eek where you was aiming to sail for.
01:21:47But it ain't likely we'd ever have been able to find you at all.
01:21:50No, sir, Eek, Bob.
01:21:52Did they find anyone else?
01:21:54There weren't nobody else darn fool enough to keep a boat out in that blow.
01:21:59But... but her boat.
01:22:00What's she saying?
01:22:02She... she had a boat.
01:22:03I don't rightly know what you're talking about, young fellow.
01:22:07But there weren't no other boat at all
01:22:09without some any place around these parts that day.
01:22:11And you can bet your boots on that.
01:22:16Can't figure out why Eek ever rented Emmer's boat.
01:22:22You saw Jenny again, didn't you, Adam?
01:22:28It's awful.
01:22:30Don't...
01:22:32I tried to hold on to her.
01:22:35The wave.
01:22:37Take it easy.
01:22:38At least you saw her again.
01:22:44Yes.
01:22:46I'm...
01:22:47I'm glad you at least believe...
01:22:50about Jenny.
01:22:54Yes, Adam.
01:22:59You... you do, don't you?
01:23:01You believe it.
01:23:03That's all that matters.
01:23:07Here.
01:23:09Here.
01:23:14Where?
01:23:21Where'd you get that scarf?
01:23:24This...
01:23:25It was near you when they found you on the beach.
01:23:33Yes, Benny.
01:23:35I saw Jenny again.
01:23:39You mean this is Jenny?
01:23:46It's all right.
01:23:49I haven't lost it.
01:23:53Everything's all right now.
01:24:19The portrait of Jenny.
01:24:21Isn't she beautiful?
01:24:23I wonder if she was real.
01:24:25Oh, she must have been.
01:24:26What does it matter?
01:24:28She was real to him or she couldn't look so alive.
01:24:30How very wise you are.
01:24:41I know.
01:24:42Oh, Evan, is it really of me?
01:24:45I think some day it will hang in a museum...
01:24:47and people will come from all over the world to see it.
01:25:17You are so naughty.
01:25:18You are so naughty.
01:25:20Who's going to do?
01:25:21I never thought it was no nice.
01:25:21Oh, my God.
01:25:23He's got a little sick.
01:25:23So, I know you see his head.
01:25:23Let's go...
01:25:23It's all right.
01:25:23Your name is, too.
01:25:23Three years ago.
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