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The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecolo | dG1fWVp5T3hFMDR3bkU
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00:00 [music]
00:03 For God's sake, Vivi, you can't!
00:05 This is my one chance of happiness, Morris, and I'm taking it, and I'll need the car!
00:10 [laughs]
00:11 Where are they? Is it too late?
00:13 Why didn't you stop them?
00:15 Who is he?
00:17 Their marriage was a moment of celebration.
00:20 Darling, we're going to get married, be broke, we may even starve.
00:24 Absolute hell!
00:26 I love you. I love you more than life itself.
00:31 She was his inspiration.
00:33 Yes?
00:35 Without a shadow of a doubt.
00:37 Any money or prospects?
00:39 I have published one small book of poetry.
00:41 His work was her entire life.
00:43 Vivi, have you seen my shoes?
00:45 In my briefcase. Where is it?
00:47 I'm afraid they're gone.
00:49 A great poet shouldn't have to work in a squalid little bag.
00:51 He should be here, writing poems, where I can help him.
00:55 Before Vivian rushed you headlong into this, did she tell you anything?
00:59 Oh, please, don't!
01:01 Nothing? Nothing at all?
01:03 May I ask about the marriage?
01:05 It was a bond she thought could never be broken.
01:07 Lovely child.
01:09 I think I should tell you that your wife's condition will not improve if I listen.
01:11 You don't realise, of course, what she's doing to you.
01:13 To your reputation.
01:15 You're wrong. You're quite wrong.
01:17 This whole way of going on is ridiculous!
01:19 Stop it! Stop it!
01:21 The patient fails to understand her social position and her duty to society.
01:25 A love that could never be ended.
01:27 I haven't made her happy.
01:29 Even while it tore them apart.
01:31 T.S. Eliot is the greatest living poet in the English language.
01:35 Mrs. Vivian Eliot, under the Lunacy Act,
01:37 I'm obliged to take you away from here to a proper place of detention.
01:39 I'm not going to let you go.
01:41 I'm not going to let you go.
01:43 I'm not going to let you go.
01:45 I'm not going to let you go.
01:47 I'm not going to let you go.
01:49 I'm obliged to take you away from here to a proper place of detention.
01:51 That'll be done.
01:53 He has my undying love.
01:55 He will have it until the last breath leaves my body.
01:57 And he has it.
01:59 Don't let him, ma'am!
02:01 [Music]