Father's Little Dividend (1951) ELIZABETH TAYLOR

[Music] so [Music] kelly kelly hurry up we've only got five minutes i'll be right down [Music] i'd like to say a few words about what's happened to me over the past year you women may not sympathize you think men have it easy but that's why you're wrong man is a very delicate and if you treat him right you flatter him and butter him up a little bit he's good for years but if somebody rocks the boat well you know how it is man you work hard for years trying to build a home raise a family and then comes one wonderful day when for the first time in your life you feel you're a little ahead of the game things have eased up at the office the kids are all set married or well along in school or both and you're raring to go you think of all the wonderful things you would have done in your life you just had time you go fishing you go big game hunting you might even climb mount everest anyway you're on top of the world you begin to feel you're a combination of don juan and columbus and that's just the moment they choose to let you have it i remember it was just a year ago today i caught my usual commuters train it was late as usual it was such a beautiful day that i let the bus go by and walked home from the station it was one of those first warm days in may when everything seems to come to life i felt particularly well i was thinking what a lucky man i was with a nice house all paid for three children all paid for and a beautiful wife ally hi boys hold on ellie i'm home coming ellie was radiant that night she seemed to be floating out of here stanley what kept you is late that's a nice day i walked damn what's the matter can a fella kiss his wife oh you won't have time to change we have to start right away right where we going okay and buckley asked it to their apartment for dinner tonight she phoned this morning said she had some good news oh oh buckley put over the deal i guess with the chain stores huh that plastic bag of his well i don't think that's that big news i think it's something much more important than that more important than that why that means thousands of dollars i don't know what could be more important than that so nothing get my coat will you do it yeah nice tommy night ben nye mom kate said she was sorry she couldn't have you too but she had to have buckley's father and mother is kay gonna cook mm-hmm you better take your bicarb with you oh boy your jokes get funnier every day you drop her on your way to the game oh and uh delilah stack of the dishes do you miss the first of the picture tell me don't study too late remember if the rug man calls tell them to call it damn what's got into you it's spring it must be yes sir we're in a rut ellie not that it isn't a pleasant rut but i think we ought to get out of it you know you're a very beautiful woman ellie i stan a very very beautiful woman trouble is i never see you come home at night you want to know if i've seen the hole in the carpet or whether i'll fix the leaky faucet or something oh i don't mean that it's your fault no i think we ought to forget about it though we get the house we get the whole thing go away and take a trip no reason why we can't we're as free as the air kind of like when we were first married 4k came along only this time we're not broke we could even go to europe i think we better wait and hear what kay has to say hallelujah what about hollywood that's the place how about it ellie let's oh sure waikiki beach moonlight on waikiki flowers ukulele romance [Music] well i'm going to call up that travel agency in the morning find out about those craters hi there hello darling there she was my k the darling of my heart i couldn't yet believe she was a married woman she still seemed like a kid to me playing at keeping house how are you you feeling all right feeling all right look at her how does she look never looked better in her life thank you how's he treating you oh fine you missing don't talk hello hello i was full of the milk of human kindness that night i even looked at my son-in-law with a friendly eye i don't say that he was my ideal but i was getting used to him well the banks are you nice to see you have you been okay say uh do you think you could kind of do away with that father bank stuff just call me stanley okay stan not stan stanley stanley yeah okay stanley how about a little golf on sunday hey you're right it's wonderful to see you again how are you oh so so so so why you look wonderful doris how are you how are you what's wrong with the old man it's the spring it always takes it out of here makes it out puts it into me doesn't it i suppose you got the same message we did some very important views okay okay i can't wait you had your cocktails oh darling you can't do this too but you tell us we're all here now no thank you but i hope it is i know what it is great news eh buckley oh well i i think it is oh buckley did you tell them and not tell us no no no no no no no no i guessed it you really put it over didn't you buckley he's not right it's not that horrid contra contractors i thought it was thousands of dollars oh and we hoped it was a big before i prayed for a baby and now to hit this that's what it is it is a baby that's wonderful congratulations i've never seen such excitement kay was passed around like a loving cup i can't tell you how delighted i am buckley stood by trying to look modest he only succeeded in looking slightly half-witted i grinned and tried to join in but somehow there was a fly in the ointment i couldn't put my finger on it but there was definitely a fly yes sir that's the greatest news i've had in years how about that grandpa grandpa that was the fly grandpa first he steals my daughter now he makes a grandpa out of me i do wish he'd go to dr barnes after all he's taken care of her all her life but i suppose this man is all right though good gracious november that doesn't give me much time and i have a million things to do ben tommy what do you want them for i want to tell them ben tommy wake up tommy ben boys do you hear me nothing wrong what is it what's the matter the most exciting news kay's having a baby right now no silly in november poor barkley what do you mean poor buckley wouldn't say that if you'd been there tonight he was just bursting with prague we were standing there telling him how delighted he were and he just stood there looking sort of cute and shy wasn't he cute stanley cutest thing you ever saw oh all right all right you're all like you men good night tommy sorry i woke you up now night fans go back to your books good night good night tommy um no need of broadcasting this you know mrs dixon please ellie what are you doing calling people up at this time of the night will you please ask her to call mrs thanks the minute she comes in i have some very important news to tell you ruth dixon would not forgive me if i didn't tell her right away you know i think i'll give kay a baby show we could have it on a saturday and you could ask the men to come in after ellie do we really have to blaze in this thing from the housetops huh you know after all it really isn't our affair stanley what's the matter with you i swear you act as though you almost didn't like the idea i don't why stanley for heaven's sake why i'll tell you why exactly why in the first place they haven't got room enough for a baby the little apartment they live isn't big enough for the two of them much less a baby but they can only second place they can't afford a baby babies cost money the older they get the more they cost what do they think they're going to use for money you heard them tonight didn't you when i asked them if he had the contract said no but did that phase him oh no no he just stood there looking cute cute and he's the one who's going to be the father well i'll tell you something if he's got any idea that i'm going to pay for it he's got another thing coming i just got through paying for the wedding but stan that's another thing i think they ought to wait wait for what for seven or eight years that's what what do they know about children why cain's just a child herself here she gets out of college mary's the first guy she comes in contact with now she signed her with a baby stanley banks you listen to me i left school to marry you do you remember that and you remember when we were married of course you don't we were married on the 4th of september what's that got to do and you remember when k was born on 21st of june exactly while my class was up there on the platform graduating i was home having a baby well i don't oh stanley ah i know they haven't money and the apartment is small but those things don't really matter do they the important thing is that we're going to have a grandchild darling it's like getting a dividend it's like getting a dividend yeah something comes to you and you don't even lift a finger you have none of the responsibilities of a baby none of the hardships all you have to do is love it [Applause] hello ruth i have the most marvelous news for you i'm going to be a grandmother it's like giving you this isn't that divine oh we're so excited yes kate told us about it tonight ellie didn't seem to mind the idea maybe women were different but when i thought a grandfather well i was the guy who was going places the whole world of adventure was waiting just waiting for me to give it the nod and now a grandfather i thought of the other grandfathers i knew where they were old old men a toothless old codger down the street a client of ours is only fun was cutting people out of his will those ancient dodos at the club you'd have to use a stethoscope to be sure they were still living [Music] i didn't belong with them i wasn't ready for the mothball jet why i hadn't even begun to live [Music] only trouble with me was i was a little out of condition i spent the next afternoon in the gym [Music] that evening i felt like a million but the next morning i fell closer to a hundred oh stanley buckley's here for your golf match uh what's the matter what have you done oh oh oh nothing here here don't let me help you oh no no where's the pain it's it's all over oh whatever did you do what happened i'll call dr bonds and get him over here right now oh i don't want any doctor stanley for all we know might be your appendix how could i haven't got an appendix and you know him well i'll get buckley buckley if i don't want a doctor i certainly don't want buckley i thought he might be able to help help don't you think he's done enough all i want is a hot bath with some epsom salts all right the next week ellie gave what she called a stork shower this is one form of highway robbery not punishable by law [Applause] [Music] [Music] tell me how wonderful that you got home in town you should see the things they gave kay everyone was so sweet they all brought her something what else could they do honey oh stan you make it sound so sordid go on in case oh no no no i had no place for a man hi pop where are you going don't you want to come in and see my plunder well i'll see it later oh come on standing when you're finished i have something very important i want to talk over y'all be in the kitchen buckley looked like a man going down for the third and last time but i decided to let him stew in his own juice [Music] what do you want mom right i uh wanted to talk to you before the dunstan's got here oh you know how worried i've been about how we're gonna rattle around in this house after ben leaves for school in the fall well i had a wonderful idea today oh i say we asked kay and buckley to move in with us are you crazy for stanley would be so simple we could make a sitting room for them out of kay's old bedroom and knock through a door to ben's room and that could be their bedroom then if we put tommy in the spare room we could put connecting doors from the bathroom and that would be the nursery right next to our room we could even knock through a door to our room so if the baby cried yes that'd be great noah ellie no no damn it won't cost much i had the contractor over here today it's a perfect place for the baby and the wonderful thing would be that if they wanted to go out some evening or even go away for a week or two they wouldn't have to worry we'd be right here yeah yeah now look kelly i know how anxious you've been to get your hooks into that baby but the answer is no i've been all through that you know the two o'clock feedings and the colic and the measles and all the rest of it and i'm not going through it again especially with somebody else's baby but it wouldn't be like that stan it would be fun to have a baby yeah you can go over and see the baby at their apartment when they get it all washed and ironed but it's not coming here and that's final well you know that apartment isn't big enough all right tell them to buy a house they can't afford a house well they should have thought of that before i don't understand how you can be so hard on a poor innocent little baby the duncans are here would you please come out and talk to am i gonna say goodbye to the girls of course come on [Applause] while i'm a little i always say the only exercise i get is embelling the men that take it really this baby's the best thing that ever happened to her but it's giving him a new lease on life so oh no no no no not now you sit down ellie you sit down oh i beg your pardon here because i've got something i want to show you okay buckley come here i want you to see your present here take this out of the way will you stand now we're gonna need a lot of room here y'all boy what is it get some blue flint here hand me that chair a blue print for the future a blueprint for happiness then i stand just hold that side down will you and you hold the other side ellie there now you two kids take a look at that what is it it's your new home well i'll tell you i was looking over our house just the other day and it came to me like an inspiration that whole west wing it was the perfect place for you kids so i called up my architect and i had him come right out here let me show you your own study your own living room dining alcove kitchen and laundry and over here babies room nurses room and master bedroom and it's all plenty commodious yeah ellie was fit to be tied she saw that baby slipping out of her hands your living room is 26 by 22. is that big enough and best of all you will have two babysitters ready made that's right well kids how about it wait it's wonderful isn't it badly yeah yeah jeez i had to swallow you i'll get that team now you understand of course that there's nothing final about these particular plans i just thought i'd give you a general idea of what it might look like now if you'd like to have your entrance here well that can be managed i'll call up the architecture it's all your fault it never would would have happened if you'd let me ask them here ellie i don't get it you're more excited about this baby than you were about any of ours well you don't understand this is the time that kay needs me the most i was i was gonna take so much of her shoulders i was gonna help her with the shopping and help fix the baby clothes and fix them all right all right ellie if it means so much have it here i don't it's too late now they're going to the dust and we'll never see it don't be silly though you heard what doris dunstan said this baby was the best thing in the world would ever happen to her to her but they're gonna take over that baby body and so now this is ridiculous oh wait it was so sweet of you so wonderful and and we'll never be able to thank you enough but it's really better this way we'd only have gotten in your way i'm sorry you went to all this trouble and expense dad we should have told you sooner have you already bought it well practically we made a deposit on sunday i see what's this cale you got a house i didn't realize that you were in a position to buy well yeah we got a mortgage from the bank a mortgage what's wrong with a mortgage i had a mortgage myself until a few years ago you tell me all about the housekeeping where is it it's in the new development it's just darling isn't it it's just big enough for me to take care of easily and there's a nice backyard for the baby and bob and fliss are gonna buy out is it furnished well uh no it isn't but we thought we could buy some unpainted furniture oh you can't lift a finger you don't have to do a thing i'll do the whole business what's [Music] the next few weeks i'd stop at the new house to pick up ellie she was working time and overtime [Music] well it still smells stanley make it stay out here but we come together to be here any minute let's sit in the shade i feel so guilty mom's doing so much all nonsense you know that's the breath of life for her where do we sit how about we [Music] oh i think it's just right the harshest loved it they said they never would have moved it hadn't gotten too small for them [Music] oh that must be little bobby parts i'll extend it to how did you feel when you had your first baby did it make any difference between you and mom's i i mean how did you feel well i felt fine i mean really well i felt all right well i guess my nose was a little out of joint at first i've been high man with your mother for over a year and then suddenly you came along took the spotlight he must have hated me no no i don't think it was that bad i think the worst time was the first night we took you home you know yeah i remember we got you home give your six o'clock feeding got your bedded down then we must have gone to your room a dozen times the next hour to see how you were of course if you were quiet we wanted to see if we were dead and if you cried we went in to see what was wrong with you i remember lying awake that night thinking to myself now what have we got into here we were two perfectly happy people free is the air now we're trapped trapped by 20 inches of screaming humanity do all fathers feel that way only know about myself i remember that morning you you woke with the dawn screaming your head off and your mother went in to heat your formula and i went in to see what i could do about quieting you and i stuck a finger at you and you grabbed it grabbed it with such a grip from that moment on you had me hooked while buckley gets over that quickly you have to butt him up a little you know make him think he's still part of the family thanks oh there he is oh hello there how are you hi well what's new wonders to be accomplished today you can see it tomorrow take her along now you'll be late for the party mom zumpy can help but there's nothing left to do your father and i are locked up have fun okay goodbye i got the most wonderful bargain today a million look at that product for all the windows and this is for the bedroom just waiting to see the price you'll be very proud of me i'm staying right within their budget i'm having a marvelous time there's only one thing wrong i haven't done a thing about the nursery i could cry about it what's the matter herbert's doing it dunstan he was so upset about they're not moving in with him he said the least they could do would be to let him furnish the nursery he's going to give him a crib and a bassinet and a screen and a chest of drawers will probably all be done in 14 karat gold what are we gonna give the baby stan what are you so surprised about did you think i was gonna give the baby a present well as a matter of fact there was something i was looking at today that would make a wonderful presence you put it right in this window and it keeps the air clean and the right temperature it's very pretty and modern looking it's quite expensive what's the name of it i don't know the name of it but it will only extend this one from a downtown you see uh you regulate it from here controls the air and the temperature at all times see no dust no soot no pollen wonderful ellie's idea i wish we'd had one for tommy probably wouldn't have those adenoids it is wonderful and look over here wait i want to show you this now you see you turn it on and leave it here beside his crib and then you can go out and close the door and if he cries or even if there's any change in his breathing you can hear it from anywhere in the house no well they're certainly going to love that and here's his combination bath and dressing table right just the right size what is that what is that oh that's mine i thought he might as well get used to it he'll be going there someday oh he will oh yes as a matter of fact i've already registered in the class of 1973. i'm a dartmouth man myself oh that's a good college too now this bath stand i want you to notice the height of it a good college a good college we beat you in football in 1947 1948 and 1949 and we shall probably and we have defeated you five years running in hockey and our bobsled team is probably the finest that has ever been developed in the history a good guy that's one of the funniest reminds you've ever made i know you've made some oh no no now listen here and you know it's collapsing well what do you think of artisan nursery isn't it lovely fine fine the wonderful thing is most of it can grow up within the shelves for instance it'll hold his toys now but later he can use it for his tennis racket well he was right they had taken over the baby lock stock and barrel some things oh thank you dear isn't that a beautiful racket box mother johnson gave it to me she gave me the whole album i remember that i used to listen to classical music while i was waiting for buckley i think that's why he whistles so well have you ever heard him whistle no no i haven't well you should ask him sometime yes i will i certainly will by the way son what are you going to call this baby of yours we've had some terrible arguments about having me we're going through all the telephone books the dictionaries the baby books bonnie we found a couple of things we both liked come on sit down sit down uh if it's a boy we thought we might call him andrew andrew who's andrew well there's andrew jackson and andrew nordell besides we like the name andrew and we both like the name jonathan oh no better call him john well uh we also thought we might call a michael that's a good name oh you can't call him michael i went to school with a michael and he smelled well now ellie just because you're michael smelt you know it doesn't mean that all michaels have to smell you know a name that i've loved ever since i first read little women lauren larry remember how dear he was how about timothy i think that has everything do you like the name of timothy k well i now ellie they've already told you they've been all through this why do we suggest any more names besides the names they have are wonderful jonathan michael andrew they're all wonderful names but you have to think of two names that go together andrew dunstan that doesn't sound very good stanley they haven't made up their minds they need our help if i may interrupt i think you're going about this all wrong my idea would be to use a family name that's right the first grandson is always supposed to have the name of the paternal grandfather isn't he no no no no doris that's not what i meant i was thinking of my great grandfather malcolm or well say uncle wilfred well if we're talking about family names what about stanley stanley dustin that ought to satisfy everybody well we did think about that no no no no one stanley in the family is enough you're right how about cornelius that's a family name and then let's see there's gregory and dexter and david i had some wonderful names in my family too milo and fennington bennington wow that's a nice that would be a nice name we're all talking about boys names what if it's a girl we've got to decide on a girl's name oh you won't be a girl don't worry the dungeons always run to boys i'm not worried i wanted to be a girl i like you where you going darling i i thought i'd wash the dishes oh nothing at the store i'll do it please let me go you do too much kay you must rest more oh i don't agree with you i think some work is good for you i think she should have a maid i'd be worried i don't mean she should work if she's tired it's this young doctor i've always said she should have gone to our family we wanted her to go to our doctor too nothing he's fine he's wondering he told me not to pay and he tends to do that nobody seems to realize this is my baby mine and buckley you seem to think for the way you talk well i'll have you know this i'm gonna have my baby the way i want to well now that we've succeeded in reducing her to hysterics what do you say we get out of here and go home oh she's just high school i'll get them oh thanks huh uh we're gonna run along kitten please come in pop they'll never forgive me no no now we we deserve much worse than that it wasn't you you never interfere but but the others mother and father don't in it and moms i'm doing too much i'm doing too little she wants a girl they want a boy no matter what the baby is somebody's gonna be disappointed yeah i think you what you'll have to do is have uh you know twins one of each sex thank you for you pups you're the only one with any sense oh no no i'm just as bad as the rest of them but i'll tell you this there's going to be no more of it it'll never happen again we'll never gang up on you again believe me thanks man you relax kitten now from now on it's going to be your way and and you won't let them make a fuss with dr nordell will you what do you mean dear well the johnson said they were going down to have a talk with him oh pops you won't let them do that oh of course i will what nonsense is your doctor you have confidence in him faith in him no one has a right to destroy that confidence thanks it isn't their fault really it's just that well i i guess they just don't understand the new way of looking at things well after all as dr nordell says birth is a perfectly natural thing a glorious thing and once you be conscious every minute so so they don't miss a second of it he believes that a woman should be aware of the wonderful thing that's happening to her and another thing he doesn't believe that a woman should be separated from her baby for one second after it's born you you should carry it with you right right back to your room and and keep it there with you sleeping right there with you in your hospital room that is a little new isn't it oh pops that's not new primitive woman has always done it dr nordell was in the pacific and he said the women there what why they were never separated from their babies they they kept them slung on their backs for the first two years of their lives and he said it was wonderful for the babies he said if he had his wife all of his mothers would do that you'd carry them on your back while you were doing your housework and then when it got hungry you'd swing it around and feed it and then swing it back again he says it gives the baby a wonderful feeling of security uh darling you're you're you know you're sure that this doctor i mean you're not gonna start that too no no no no no no no no dr nordell is wonderful he he's marvelous he's well he's simply terribly wonderful i'm darling i'm sure he is i'm sure he is oh thank you for i'm sure now you you just go to sleep and relax okay yeah good night good night [Music] dr nordell will be with you in a minute please be seated thank you i just don't like the idea i thought we said last night the dunstans and all of us that we weren't going to interfere anymore in their affairs i'm not going to have my daughter walking around for two years with a papoose on her back darling i tell you that's figurative he didn't mean that literally just want to be sure good morning good morning good morning i'm so glad you came now i've met the whole family mr mrs dunstan senior were in this morning they were they were a little anxious thought kaye was doing too much but i think i convinced him that she was all right that's a wonderful daughter you have thank you oh excuse me don't you mrs banks thank you so what can i do for you well as a matter of fact my wife has been a little worried too and uh uh you know how mothers are at this time only daughter and all that sort of thing i thought the best thing to do would be to bring her down here and let her have a talk with you i think that's very sensible what particularly worries you mrs banks well actually i i well actually it's the whole thing isn't it uh i mean uh about it all being so natural and everything i'm just trying to take away any fear she might have you know the fear of pain can really produce pain but if she understands the whole process if she has confidence in me if she knows that i'm going to be right there with her to help her when she wants help if she trusts me that's half the battle isn't it yes it is and then afterwards having the baby in the room with her i'm trying to persuade my mothers to go back to caring for their babies themselves feeding them themselves bathing them being close to them instead of handing them over to some nurse i know this is a lot to ask of your daughter it's it's a full-time job but believe me the rewards will be great not only for the baby but the k there you are ellie i told you all of your worry for nothing it's a thank you doctor you were nice to give her so much of your time it's to my advantage if i have you with me then believe me everything is going to be that much easier well you certainly have us thank you very much for the next month or two everything was peaceful too peaceful i should have known it was the calm before a storm early that's telephone ellie hello hello buckley what buckley you know what time it is it's a quarter of three i'm sorry i didn't realize is kay there okay why of course she isn't here what would she hello hello uh uh buckley i'll i'll take this downstairs hang on hello now what do you mean is she here i thought if she were there i could come and pick her up if she were there when did she leave what time did she leave well i don't know i i've been out for a few hours i just got back a little while ago or was it a fight did you have a fight well we'd had an argument yes look if anything happens to her i'll kill myself don't worry i'll do it for you did did you look did she take anything with her a bag or anything she took her hat box and her umbrella and her toilet case her toothbrush and oh well don't worry about it then she took a toothbrush she's not headed for the river uh uh did you call up any try anybody else on the phone well you might do that all right i'll be right over any word no you call her friends everyone i could think of in the hotels and i can't wait any longer i'm going to call the police no no no no wait don't don't do that yet maybe we can figure this thing out uh uh she take the car no is there a bus runs by at this hour anybody you think i might have picked her up i've covered the field hold on it must be a cab what's the number fairview six fairview 61098 but there's no use asking them they told me they don't give out that information except to the police failure 6.098 they said they had to make it a blanket ruler too many wives wanting to leave their husbands do you have much cash i don't believe so i give her money but she keeps losing it is this the first time she's left you what do you mean by that oh come come come my boy i'm married too now has she ever done anything like this before no she locked me out a few times but that's all hello hello the green cab company uh now i know this is against your rules but i i certainly would appreciate it if you could help me out uh did you get a call last night from 324 adam street look i told you once it's against rules well uh you see i'm i'm not her husband you see i'm her father and uh she's uh well she's uh she's expecting uh you know and uh you know how they are in that condition sometimes say dude if you could find it in your heart to help me i certainly would appreciate it well there was a call where did you take her thanks thanks very very much we won't forget this where'd she go home home home what do you mean home this is her home oh i'm sorry i'm sorry i mean my home come on i'll wait here do you want her to come back or don't you yes well then you'll have to go and get him that's the first law of marriage you can't expect any self-respecting wife to come home under her own power i don't suppose you want to tell me what the quarrel was about if you don't mind i'd rather not talk about it okay i don't know whether you know it but your daughter's got a terrible temper i'm sorry and this business tonight why it's like a child and a spoiled child at that she's got to grow up she's got to be made to realize that she can't go running home to you every time there's something that she doesn't like well what do you want me to do pack up and move [Music] so [Music] hi forgot your key i suppose why didn't you ring oh i didn't want to wake up your mom's i'm all right the doctor told me to sleep with plenty of fresh air well you certainly had your share for the night i guess come on first time i want you to know this box i've left luckily i've loved him for good i wish you'd tell moms for me ask her not to fuss it's no use it's over for good no i'd rather not have to talk about all right kitten it'll be however you want to get all that come on i'll have your room ready for you ninja oh pups why did it have to end like this everything was so wonderful at first i felt fine everybody was so sweet to me it takes too long that song drags out too long i'm ugly now i'm clumsy dog darling don't say that don't you know that you have a beauty now that you never had before i know what i look like i'm so stupid i can't do any of the things i used to do now when i need him most have lost he doesn't love me anymore kitten you mustn't think things like that he loves you more than ever he's fighting with worry well he just said to me if anything happened to you he'd kill himself what do you mean did he call you he's right out there now i suppose he told you everything didn't tell me anything you said you had an argument an argument that's wonderful do you know what it really is that someone else pops he's found someone else he goes off and leaves me every night and tells me he goes to the office but it isn't true i've called the office and he isn't there he's in love with someone else please wouldn't talk about it tomorrow you've got to get your arrest i'll i'll i'll send him away i'll send him away [Music] she's here she's been asleep i wouldn't try to talk to her if i were you in the mood she's in now did she say why we had a fight yes look i i'd like to say something just for the record it's not true not a word of it i've been working every night after all you're gonna have a baby you know i i want to give him she said that she phoned me twice there nobody answered believe me it it must have been just a few minutes i stepped out for a cup of coffee i told her this again and again she won't believe me but you ought to have more sense and argue with her at a time like this you know she isn't herself well i'm not myself either i even thought of having a man call kate and tell it and i said to myself she doesn't believe me she doesn't believe me that i'm working like crazy night after night for her and the baby she doesn't take my word for it then it doesn't matter it's finished anyway it's off it's finished now wait wait a minute we'll all talk about this in the morning we've had some sleep as far as i'm concerned there's nothing more to say yeah i use your phone i like to call a cab i'll drive you home just as soon as i get k settled thanks i'd rather take a cab search yourself he's calling a cab i suppose he denied everything he told me his side of it you don't believe him do you darling i only know that he really loves you oh that isn't true he doesn't love me he doesn't care whether i live or die oh i never should have married him a little late to think about that now uh uh come on now you really must get your sleep don come on come on now i'm going to forgive me for interrupting your phone is out of order well that's ridiculous hello hello i'm raider you're taking home pops i can take care of myself operator you're not supposed to carry things you know that i'll take them up we don't need your help do we bother no no no no no no you don't have a room for her down here someplace you can fix up as a bedroom there's a couch in the living room she wants to try that find a little hardman you know you're not supposed to walk up and downstairs another thing she's supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day she forgets so if you could remind me i'll try under exercise dr noedell wants to walk two to three hours each day uh now in the morning and now in the afternoon and we usually take a walk in the evening and she's supposed to be in bed at 9 00. i'll try and remember and the calcium pills did you bring your pills no i forgot i'll go home and get them want to do in the morning i'll give them to your father when he takes me home out in your shoes you know you can't do them yourself oh buckley broccoli what's happening to it haven't you heard brendan baby [Music] so [Music] hmm [Applause] stanley stanley [Music] stanley time to get up [Music] wake up sleepyhead as the days went on and nothing happened the tension mounted buckley watch k as if you were a time bomb that's our book oh what is it okay what's the matter oh i reneged i had a heart in my hand all the time i don't know what i must be thinking about as november came and the great event drew nearer and nearer we all waited with baited breath is that the phone no dude well i guess i'll get a little air stanley hmm as long as you're going would you give this to k k who said anything about k i never could fool ellie but i hoped i could fool kay stanley hello hello hello hi is this a beautiful night see those stars mom sent me over with this one come on open it up we're gonna don't mind us man let me take your coat oh i can i can do it i can do it at least let me help you all right i'm glad you came by tonight she's awfully low are you wrong no no no she's just nervous we should talk to him oh it's lovely what is it a beautiful bed jacket isn't that pretty [Music] you certainly are going to knock their eyes out of the hospital i'll go pack it right now okay okay now that your father's here you won't mind i'd like to get some cigarettes you don't have to run right along dude i can squeeze out a couple of minutes i guess i will be long hold everything till i get back you look wonderful kitten oh i feel fine it's just buckling i wish you talked to him he's so jittery what's he jittery about oh he he's afraid that oh something will go wrong shouldn't feel like that of course i i can't tell him that uh that it's going to be easy for you it may not be but but i do know this that when the time comes you you mother seemed to have a courage and a strength you never knew you had i hope so i hope so as anything going wrong the doctors and the scientists have been working for hundreds of years now so that you and your baby can be safe nothing's going to go wrong you know that don't you i know oh i wish it was over it will be sold out and i'm sure that that when you hold your baby in your arms you'll think it was worth anything you went through are they silly it's like the first day you took me to the dentist every night we put our clothes where we could grab them in a hurry we were like members of a fire brigade ready to jump at the first alarm well happened almost any time now huh i suppose so sometime within the next two or three weeks two or three weeks i couldn't live like this another two or three weeks hello uh sorry to wake you but i just brought kay to the hospital huh no i don't know anything yet the doctor's with her now stanley you can't do that you've got to really dress there's no telling how long will be down there remember to put the razor in your pocket the razor yes your electric razor then it doesn't matter where you have to go to shape and a clean shirt wait tommy please and i guess you've got a wire band so you can find the mess again i must remember the truth of the world breakfast in case the baby's born what kept you i'll just get dressed i have to get my clothes out i'll drive [Music] we'll never get there don't go so fast ellie we're in a business district [Music] california [Music] keep your eye on the road your ties on crooked fix it [Music] come on now ellie pull over here let me drive come on stanley be careful no no no you can't make it there's a train will you relax you're making me nervous [Music] you realize what you've done you've broken every regulation in the book you've passed everything on the wrong side you've gone through red lights you've exceeded the speed limit i know but this is an emergency for the first time in my life i long for the sight of a motorcycle cop target with your family what what's the matter what happened nothing happened it it was a false alarm i'm sorry we've got you all this way oh it's all right nothing at all nothing wrong good night good night good night i'm sorry [Music] uh is that your car there anyone over there yes it is there's something wrong officer yes lady there is he's parked in front of a fire hydrant after a week the strain became too much for me i decided to take a sleeping pill [Applause] oh we'll be right there what it's already here it's a boy he arrived just a half an hour ago huh okay he's fine the doctor says everything's just fine yeah that's wonderful one give her our love give her a lovely day ellie remind me to tell you something in the morning tell me what stanley tell me what stanley wake up tell me is it something about kay emily this is a boy oh stan oh is that wonderful a [Music] boy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i wondered if they were crazy or was i he looked as old as methuselah to me all he needed was a derby darling who do you think he's like he looks exactly like kate okay oh i think you're wrong there ellie he's a duncan through and through they are calling it call him son him not happily they're talking about calling him herbert i believe they are oh heaven isn't that wonderful i hope you don't mind i mean since you're the maternal grandfather no no no oh i should say i know matter of fact i think herbert is just the name for it i admit he looked a little better by the time kate got him home perfect did you ever see anything so good dude i've had a bit of taken what is he going to be christian for five or six months we want to wait for reverend girlsworthy come on bob you have your picture taken with the baby i don't know we've all had our pictures yeah we'll sit him right here how about that my boy is that all right with you he's smiling at you harry said oh catch him just talking about him no i don't oh no don't give them to me no no you said that now go and smile at your grandfather see it's no use turn him around so we can see his face come on turn around that's it that's it oh see it's that look take him please please take him what do you mean i didn't do anything to him i think he's tired we really must go oh by the way stan i had this made up for you it's a photographic record of the baby from the day he was born yeah look at him here and then wait wait and take a look at that and here here is it amazing well he changes it every day not to me he doesn't coming news here put in your pocket show the boys you know goodbye dear goodbye goodbye stanley take good care of our dwight good boy how about a dwight big drink huh yes sir come in he's quiet oh no no oh no now look it's no use you know you didn't have anything to do with you it just there were so many other people around him it scared him come on oh come on in everything's all right now he's not scared anymore is he darling now you've got a nice man here and you're gonna give him a big smile cause you're a good boy now look who's come to see you who is that huh wow who is that is that your grandfather yeah oh honey you're a terrible child [Music] what happened nothing nothing i think he just took a look at me that's so funny he's such a good tempered baby the doctor said he'd never seen a baby with such a wonderful disgrace oh i'm sure i'm sure and it isn't because you're a man he was smiling all over the place at herbert well now come on let's let's blow let's blow it off we've come to apologize we want to say that we're very sorry for being so rude no no no you tell him you forgive him come on now honey give him a great big [Music] time no ellie i'm not going to take off my tie it's a perfectly nice tie and i happen to like it it was a present from tommy and i'm not going to take it off just because he doesn't like it oh stanley the way you talk he's a baby an innocent little baby he doesn't know what it is that disturbs him he is not an innocent little baby he's an individual with very definite likes and dislikes as an individual i respect his right to have a likes and dislikes but i also reserve the right to have a few of my own from that time on i gave him a wide berth [Music] it was live and let live between us until one weekend six months later just the bank's house well yes see you tomorrow [Music] the thing i had feared had come to pass he had invaded the sanctity of my home hi pops hi hi jay you have a visitor it's all right with you pops and you don't mind oh no no i'm delighted delighted he's nice pops really is it just that what you two gonna start off on the wrong foot that's all and i thought well if i left him here for a couple of days alone with you alone well i mean i i won't be here myself i'm going to boston buckley has to go there and see mr wellsford you know the chainstorm man and he asked me to come and i said i couldn't leave the baby but mom said to go ahead and she'd take care of all pops i know you're gonna love him just as soon as you get to know him he has been a little strange oh there's my taxi i gotta run yeah and remember this pops if he so much as let's how to peep at you you have my permission to spank him and spank him good yeah bye bye bye zen is that you yes it's me the most wonderful thing has happened i thought you'd never get here ah yes kay told me well come up and see him quick quit of course we're not quite organized yet but where is he i don't want to step on him can you draw over there what is that well that's my dress scarf what are you doing with my dress what what what's going on well he's eating my scarf oh that's all right you're as clean as can't hurt i'm kind of my darling wouldn't you have to be in that particular drawer with all my shirts i took the shirts out there right there you can put them back now outstanding so wonderful having a baby in my arms again who is a sweet boy who's an angry look at the shirt who's going to sleep with a nice big room you're going to sleep in this room no you're going to tommy's where's tommy going into ben's room i want him right here so i can hear him if he cries you know he's good but strange house and everything no mommy or poppy but he's going to be a good boy isn't he course he is i'm sorry i can't go to the dixons but you're going anyway i phoned ruth and she's delighted to have an extra man it's all set yeah well i'm not going i'm not standing no no no no no not going without you that you're friends well that's ridiculous you can't eat here there's no food in the house of course there's last night's clam you don't mind waiting on yourself where's delilah she's making up k's room who's going to sleep in kay's room you are now look look look stanley is the only room in the house where you can't possibly hear the baby and i promise kay you wouldn't be disturbed everything's ready miss bane oh good until i would you mind taking these and sterilizing them you can use the canning pot you don't have to tell me i remember mr banks isn't it just wonderful having a baby in the house oh it's just wonderful just wonderful just wonderful great great [Music] so so so [Music] um all week i look forward to sunday morning no alarm clock no train to catch no office just uninterrupted slumber [Music] i just had to let you be so cute what time was it six o'clock six o'clock well go back to sleep dear bye say bye bye bye oh no oh no sunday afternoon i had counted on a good 18 holes of golf but ellie thought the baby and i should get together 45 minutes later he finally corked off [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] here's your oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] boy [Music] they were nice kids i was having a good time look come on [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i was wondering whether or not to tell ellie about it she'd probably think i was crazy playing ball with a lot of kids [Music] so what do you think you're going with it i suddenly thought maybe ellie came and got him i didn't take the train i flew i got the homesick for the baby where is the baby shouldn't he be home by now don't you worry he's with your father so he's all right you should see your phone [Music] please hello hello is anybody here anybody here hello hello hello lots of officers has anybody turned in a baby here i've lost a baby is it your baby oh no no no it's my daughter's baby it's my grandson where'd you lose him i i lost him in the park it was in the park and in in his carriage i left him for a second when i came back he was gone and the carriage was gone you say you only left him for a second well maybe a minute i don't know five minutes you know some kids were playing soccer and i went to watch him get kind of interested you forgot your grandchild well i guess i did for the minute that's fine that's wonderful they give you a child of mine and you run off and forget them no matter jack you're losing your marble oh wait a minute this kind of talk is do you did you understand what i said a baby has been lost a little baby has why don't you do what you're supposed to do do something get on the television teletype or whatever you do describe the babies five months six six months old wearing a little white you know what babies wear he's got got on a little cap i think would you know what color is either ah brown brown blue i i don't know but you are sure it's a boy yeah i don't blame you i don't blame you you haven't said anything to me i haven't said to myself my daughter's home now waiting for the baby i don't know what to do i'm going crazy i'll i'll do anything look i'll have a big reward whatever whatever i have to do if you'll just help me well it just so happens we picked up your baby oh thank god but it wasn't any five minutes you were gone it was near a half an hour yes sir where is he in here yeah hi just a minute what's your daughter's phone number i'm gonna call her up and check oh no don't you don't please please don't do it don't do it you don't know i couldn't stand it i couldn't face my daughter uh please i promise y'all do anything if you'll give me the kid i'll take him right home i won't stop anywhere i promise you well i'll talk it over with the boys i've taken quite a fancy to this kid they got any idea you weren't treating him right you'd never get out of here alive all right boys they've come for him i dreaded the moment when he'd see me i knew if he started to cry i was cooked i said a little prayer don't let him cry just this once don't let him cry come on son we're going home [Music] well that's my boy that's my boy from that time on i was his pigeon [Music] the day of the baby's christening came at last he was the center of a little world his grandparents his parents and his godparents all of us gathered together for the solemn occasion i couldn't help feeling we were ganging up on him pinning the name of herbert on a poor defenseless child suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of god funny how i had resented the very idea of him kay i was furious at both of them making me a grandfather it seemed to spell the end of my life and now now i couldn't imagine life without him our heavenly father now and forevermore we were coming to his big moment we all watched him with baited breath how would he behave when the reverend gauls worthy took him in his arms would he be terrified would he cry not that baby to him the reverend gallsworthy was just another face to be explored name this child stanley banks [Music] [Music] stanley banks i baptize thee in the name of the father the son and the holy ghost amen we receive this child in the congregation of christ's flock and to sign him with the sign of stanley banks my grandchild he shall not be ashamed my first grandchild [Applause] [Music] me you

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