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Jennie solves her money problems by writing her memoirs and plays. She divorces an unfaithful George and becomes involved in her sons' lives.
Starring:
Lee Remick as Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup as Lord Randolph Churchill
Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill
Cyril Luckham as Duke of Marlborough...
Jennie solves her money problems by writing her memoirs and plays. She divorces an unfaithful George and becomes involved in her sons' lives.
Starring:
Lee Remick as Jennie Jerome
Ronald Pickup as Lord Randolph Churchill
Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill
Cyril Luckham as Duke of Marlborough...
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00:00You
00:30You
01:00You
01:19Hello
01:21Lovely day for a spin. Oh
01:24Every darling my memoirs
01:26Keep no, I really must finish this chapter you and you
01:56I
02:11Say are you there?
02:17Come on then best go find Jack and Gooney
02:26I
02:50Thought I'd go for a spin you wanna come
02:56Sure
03:26I
03:28I
03:52Want you to be perfectly understood that my criticisms are in no way personal
03:59The chapter on politics is I'm afraid absolutely dreadful. Well, it's only my notes for the chapter
04:05That's why I wanted you to read it. I was hoping you'd be able to tell me how to pull it all together
04:09I'm rather busy. You know, the colonies do take up a good deal of my time. I want your advice Winston
04:15I'm not asking you to write it for me. Ah
04:18well
04:19My advice is to get your facts straight. Otherwise, you may well find your memoirs being reviewed as romantic fiction. I
04:27Wouldn't dream of competing with you on that line now mama nothing personal
04:32You have all the makings here of a charming woman's book about the last 30 years
04:35But it will charm no one if you get things wrong and hurt people's feelings
04:40Well, it is precisely so that I won't get things wrong that I've asked you to read it. You might be more helpful
04:46You'll find various suggestions and emendations in the margin. Oh, thank you darling. You are good
04:53I've drawn attention to all the gross historical errors for the minor ones
04:57I refer you to my life with Papa apart from those the book is full of good things
05:02And I'm sure it will be a great success. Oh, I do hope so
05:05Dreadfully hard up that phrase has been on your lips as long as I can remember mama
05:10Oh, but darling you don't realize George has been having the most awful time in the city
05:14He won't be able to take a penny out of the firm this year
05:18We've been thinking we might sublet this place furnished you mustn't do that. Where would Jack and I go for weekends?
05:23Well, you'll be in Africa. I shall come back. I hope
05:28You don't understand how expensive it is to run our establishment. That will be true anywhere else, too
05:36What
05:37We've worked it out
05:38We'd actually be making a saving if we lived at the Ritz
05:41If you're really planning to live there on your writing mama, perhaps you had better take up romantic fiction
05:47I don't think I could it's not me somehow
05:51But I have had a very good idea for a play one can make a lot of money from a play, you know
05:57You wouldn't be ashamed of me if I wrote for the stage
06:00When my very first public speech was to defend the ladies of the Empire Theatre from the vicious attacks of prudes and Puritans
06:06Well, I didn't propose to Ethel Barrymore. She turned you down.
06:11I remain unsoured
06:13Well, it is only an idea.
06:16I keep getting ideas
06:20Ethel wasn't right for you darling, but I wish I knew someone who was
06:23I'd rather you left it to me if you don't mind, but you're so dilatory
06:2733 and still a bachelor. It's very bad Winston. All politicians should be married
06:33People don't trust bachelors in my view too much marrying is just as bad as too little
06:39Well, that is personal
06:41What?
06:43George is very fond of you Winston. I don't see why you...
06:45I didn't mean that
06:47He's just as entitled to his political views as you are to yours
06:50Mama
06:52George is a very good sort
06:54I've never thought anything else
06:58I must go and solve the problems of the colonies
07:00I expect their secrets are scattered the length and breadth of Hertfordshire by now
07:04I left my papers in my aerial summer house
07:06Thank you for taking so much trouble with my book darling
07:08Oh, if you lavish time and trouble on it, it will be very good. I'm sure
07:32Poor George
07:34Barnet to St Albans
07:36That's 10 miles almost exactly
07:38In 22 and a quarter minutes
07:40Not bad was it? Wonderful darling
07:42I'll be most of it straight of course
07:44If it hadn't been for a damn fool policeman in South Mims holding everyone up
07:47I could probably have broken the 20
07:49Plus several innocent pedestrians legs
07:51George I do hope you won't get yourself arrested
07:53It could be most embarrassing
07:55For George or for you Mr Winston
07:58Oh, I won't get caught. Don't you worry
08:00I'd be grateful if you didn't
08:05I'll tell you the most embarrassing moment of my life Gooney
08:08Darling? At luncheon?
08:10Is Gooney fit to hear?
08:11Oh yes please
08:12I blush to think of it even now
08:13Then spare us please
08:14You didn't spare me
08:15Really?
08:17My dear chap
08:18The most embarrassing moment of my life was going into the club the day you deserted your party
08:22And went over to the Liberals
08:23Several people wouldn't even speak to me
08:25There was no need to feel embarrassed George
08:27I wasn't I assure you
08:28No politics at luncheon please
08:35Mr Winston wouldn't be at the colonial office if he hadn't swapped parties would he?
08:39Some people Gooney consider that loyalty is more important than personal gain
08:44I shall be very embarrassed if this old and boring subject isn't dropped at once
08:48Sorry darling
08:51Anyway Winston
08:52Since you are in this awful government
08:54Can't you do something about the police?
08:56There isn't a single sportsman in the entire force
08:58I'd always understood it was one of the glories of England that our policemen don't shoot
09:03The whole country is nothing but one enormous speed trap
09:06As if there wasn't enough real crime to keep policemen busy
09:09Speeding is a real crime
09:10Well it shouldn't be it's ridiculous
09:12I will have a word with the Home Secretary George
09:15If you will let me have a brief paper setting forth your arguments
09:18I will see it reaches the proper quarter
09:20Winston
09:22I'm afraid Miss Gooney
09:25That my mother only incites George to break the law
09:28George is a very good driver aren't you darling?
09:30We haven't had an accident yet
09:32What about the time he tipped you in the ditch?
09:34That was only because the lights failed
09:36Speeding and driving without lights
09:38Will this tale of criminality have no end?
09:40George's motoring sounds terribly expensive
09:42Perhaps you ought to start a fund to bail him out
09:52Castle always said I shouldn't go into the city
09:54I'm not the right type
09:56If only it didn't make you so unhappy
09:58Some people are born to make money some aren't
10:00It's not a question of character or intelligence
10:02It's just what you're born with
10:04I wish someone in this family had been born with it
10:06I thought Jack would be
10:08Jack's alright he's got Castle behind him
10:10I haven't
10:12The depression can't go on forever can it?
10:14God knows
10:16Even when it is over
10:18It's all so beastly Jenny
10:20Going after people you call your friends
10:22Trying to sell them shares
10:24People giving other people tips
10:26I can't stick it I really can't
10:28Darling you simply must
10:30After a day in the city I feel absolutely unclean
10:32It's no use going on and on about it George
10:34Think of the good things
10:36You'll be going to Scotland soon
10:38Think of the fish you'll catch
10:40I expect the conditions will be all wrong
10:42They always are
10:44Everything's so damn difficult isn't it?
10:46Everyone always said you should have married an heiress George
10:48If you would insist on marrying me
10:50You were warned
10:52Perhaps I should have listened
10:54Oh don't be an idiot
10:56Not for my sake Jenny but for yours
10:58What do I do for you? Nothing
11:00What can I do?
11:02My wretched sisters live in the lap of luxury
11:04Eating off gold plate while I
11:06I can't even pay the interest on the mortgage
11:08Of my father's estate
11:10How can I possibly give you the things you want
11:12And are used to
11:14I've failed you
11:16It's no use pretending
11:18You should be an actor there wouldn't be a dry eye in the house
11:20That's perfectly true
11:22I mean I couldn't even afford to take you to cows this year
11:24Well
11:26Laney says it was very dull
11:28That was only to comfort you for not being there
11:30There's no need to remove
11:32The comfort by saying so
11:34Anyway I expect it was dull
11:36Without us
11:38Sheila and Daisy enjoyed it
11:40Well I'm glad they both did marry for money
11:42And they're both perfectly miserable as a result
11:44Delighted they finally managed to get some pleasure
11:46Out of life at last
11:48My mother ruined all our lives
11:50George
11:52So long as you're married to me I refuse to accept for one minute
11:54That your life has been ruined
11:56I have to work in London
11:58So do most people
12:00But I hate it
12:02You should thank God you've got someone to come and complain to
12:04Do I complain a lot?
12:06Yes
12:08Darling
12:10Let's change the subject
12:12Sorry
12:14Now
12:16What do you think
12:18What do you think
12:20Well they were laughing a lot together at lunch
12:22But he spent the rest of the day up that stupid tree
12:24He left it to Jack
12:26Well perhaps he's shy
12:28Perhaps he's asked Jack to do his wooing for him
12:30You shouldn't think he'd trust him
12:32I certainly wouldn't
12:34Winston will be alright
12:36He'll find a girl
12:38He's successful
12:40Darling if you really think that women marry men because they're successful
12:42Why on earth do you think I married you?
12:44I sometimes wonder
12:46You are silly
12:48Come here
12:56You know what you are don't you
12:58You are a pussycat
13:00Oh
13:04Goodbye Mama
13:06More memoirs
13:08My play darling
13:10Oh well I won't interrupt a fellow genius
13:12Have you seen Goonie
13:14No
13:32Have you seen Goonie
13:34No
13:36No
13:38Finally stay within the law George
13:40Aye I'm going
14:02Bye Mr Winston
14:04Bye
14:06Bye
14:10My darlings both of you
14:12How simply wonderful
14:14But I thought it was Winston
14:16We know you did
14:18But you were wrong weren't you
14:20Well I'm delighted I couldn't be more pleased
14:22Of course we'll have to wait
14:24I'm a penniless maiden you know
14:26Oh money money who cares about money
14:28My Papa does
14:30Oh well we'll soon fix him
14:32It's so strange Mama I thought Goonie would never marry a poor man like me
14:34I'm too strong to fight against
14:36Do you think Papa might put up a bit of a struggle
14:38Oh
14:40I'm sorry I'm just so happy
14:42Oh you mustn't call me that
14:44Not now
14:46What shall she call you
14:48Why not Jenny like everyone else
14:50I don't think that would be quite proper
14:52I would like to call you Belmare
14:54My Lord
14:56And beautiful mother
14:58BM for short
15:00Oh Mama isn't she
15:02That's one in the eye for Winston isn't it
15:04Give him something to think about in Africa
15:06Apparently they've been in love for six months
15:08And none of us knew
15:10Rafty old Jack
15:12They're afraid her father may be off with her Catholics you know
15:14Oh Lord
15:16All that rot
15:20Oh I think I've got a cold
15:22Oh dear not another
15:24Pretty seedy altogether
15:26That awful London
15:28Do you suppose anyone ever gets married
15:30Do you suppose anyone ever gets married
15:32Without someone being against it
15:34I don't think so
15:36They were awfully against us weren't they
15:42Jenny
15:44I felt so rotten this afternoon
15:46I went to see the doctor
15:48George
15:50He says I'm awfully run down
15:52He suggests Switzerland
15:54Can we afford it
15:56Well we can afford for one of us to go
16:00San Moritz alone
16:02Well things have been going so badly for him recently
16:04You know how he is
16:06He's never had much stamina
16:08The doctor says it's just what he needs
16:10How many weeks has the doctor prescribed
16:12Oh three or four
16:14My dear
16:16Well I can't afford to go
16:18Can you afford not to
16:20A little flirt might be just the thing he needs
16:22To cheer him up
16:24He's certainly been having one or two of those from what I hear
16:26Oh who from
16:28Daisy
16:30Oh Daisy I know what she says
16:32Poor George so much
16:34Younger than Jenny
16:36And she can't have any children
16:38And of course at her age
16:40She didn't put it quite like that
16:42If she seriously thinks George wants children
16:44She doesn't understand him at all
16:46I'm sure you're right darling
16:48But what does he want
16:50George
16:52His ideal would be to drive very fast
16:54To somewhere he could shoot and fish all day
16:56And then drive very fast back again for dinner
16:58And then
17:00Bed of course
17:02Well that's what I thought
17:04That's why I can't understand you letting him go to Samritz on his own
17:06I don't mind him flirting just so long as he comes back
17:08Which he always does you know
17:10I do hope you're being wise
17:14Well to tell you the truth Lainie
17:16George has been rather getting on my nerves lately
17:18Do us both good to be apart for a bit
17:20I don't see what good it'll do you
17:22Well it's just what I want
17:24To see him play
17:26What happened George
17:28Were you kicked by a chamois
17:30You are not to tease him
17:32It makes his nose bleed
17:34Surgery is the bloodiest of sports
17:36But why
17:38Well when George was a child
17:40They didn't do his adenoids properly
17:42That's what's been wrong
17:44Making him so depressed all the time
17:46So when Switzerland proved no good
17:48They decided to operate
17:50I am sorry
17:52Tell him what big game you bagged
17:54Yes well
17:56I got a rhino
17:58And a warthog
18:00And every kind of antelope
18:02You can think of
18:04But my prize was a velderbeest
18:06It equaled the record
18:08You'll have all the luck
18:12Jack's the lucky one
18:14He's brought his capture home alive
18:16I expect you'll find someone yourself now
18:18It's off in the way
18:20Don't you like the idea
18:22Oh of course I do
18:24Though it does make me feel rather old
18:26You can't feel as old as I do
18:28Is Africa so very debilitating
18:30Asquith's offered me the board of trade
18:34Oh Winston
18:36The cabinet
18:38What can I say Winnie
18:40Would it be terribly technical
18:42Standing on this committee and that committee
18:44I have said that I refuse to be shut up in a soup kitchen
18:46With Mrs Sidney Webb
18:48Dimly
18:50Across gulfs of ignorance
18:52I see the outline of a policy
18:54For a minimum standard of life
18:58It is a most important office
19:00Oh Winston
19:02At thirty three
19:04Peel was prime minister at twenty one
19:06Jane
19:08I think I'm going to have a nosebleed
19:14I'd come and help you fight the election darling
19:16But
19:18I don't think I should leave George at the moment
19:20Do you
19:22I expect we'll manage without you
19:24Don't worry
19:26I'm hardly the attraction I used to be anyway
19:28Politically or otherwise
19:30Nonsense
19:32My use to you
19:34Was as a link with Papa
19:36But people have forgotten him now
19:38And you've outgrown him
19:40And me
19:42You need a woman of your own Winston
19:44I only wish I were
19:46By the way
19:48You'll be electioneering on the twelfth I suppose
19:50Probably why
19:52I've asked Blanche
19:54And Clementine
19:56We used to be such good friends Blanche and I
19:58When you were little
20:00Long before Clementine was even born
20:02Oh dear
20:04Mama
20:06I do believe that writing your memoirs
20:08Has made you melancholy
20:10I was sighing more for Blanche than myself
20:12In a dreadful town
20:14Bringing up the children
20:16Seafood, places like that
20:18While her husband
20:20Why can't we all complain too much
20:22Poor Clementine has to give French lessons
20:24At half a crowd an hour
20:26I sat next to her at Lady St. Hellier's the other night
20:28She seemed quite nice
20:30And pretty I think don't you
20:32She hasn't read my life as Papa though
20:34If that's the way you judge girls
20:38Darling if you do come
20:40Be kind to her won't you
20:42And to poor Blanche
20:44I shall beam upon them like a lighthouse
20:46If I come that is
20:48Don't be too much of a lighthouse will you
20:50Don't boom with your foghorn
20:52I never boom
20:54Just remember they're not your electors darling
20:56That's all I ask
21:02Oh Blanche
21:04Oh Jenny
21:06Don't cross your bridges before they're hatched
21:08Hey stop plotting
21:22Jack
21:24Oh hello
21:26Come up here I want to talk to you
21:28I say in the holy of holies
21:38Come up
21:40This side
21:44So this is what the cabinet room looks like
21:46Don't leave the ladder down we'll have George up here
21:48Poor George
21:50Very poor and likely to get poorer
21:52I'm an athletic so pull up the ladder
22:02Well what's the matter finding the trade figures a bit heavy going
22:04What's this
22:06Estate secret
22:08They better remain one if you ask me
22:10Thank you but I don't
22:12Oh pity
22:14I actually have some advice for once
22:16Oh
22:18Yes don't
22:20I see why not
22:22Castle says so
22:24What
22:26Castle says whatever you do don't sell
22:28Oh well if I had anything to sell
22:30Quite
22:32Excuse me
22:34Did you hear the things they say to Gooney and me
22:36I'm sure they mean well
22:38Undoubtedly but it's no excuse Winnie
22:40Marriage is a fearful responsibility
22:42Well it's a responsibility
22:44I don't see that it need be fearful
22:46So many things can go wrong
22:52In my mind George is rather an exceptional case you know
22:54Hmm
23:00Do you remember how Papa used to
23:02Shoo us away with his newspaper
23:04Did he
23:06Yes
23:08Well Jack
23:10Now you're about to be married I really feel
23:12I must say
23:14I absolutely refuse to take any advice at all
23:16From the unmarried
23:18Ah well
23:20That was something I rather
23:24What's the matter with you
23:26Nothing
23:30What do you think of Miss Hozier
23:32Not bad
23:34I mean
23:36I mean
23:38I couldn't ask for a nicer sister in law
23:42Really
23:44Absolutely
23:46It hasn't come to that yet of course
23:48No
23:50I hardly know her
23:52That might be an advantage
23:54She still hasn't read my life of Papa
23:56Winston
23:58I thought
24:00When we go to Blenheim
24:02Hello
24:04Oh God
24:06I'm just going to St Albans
24:08Do you want to come
24:22Come
24:30This is a fine way to chaperone a young girl Jenny
24:32Isn't it
24:52Well done
25:04Oh boy
25:06I must just say this
25:08I can't wish you a better wife
25:10Or happier days
25:12Than I've had with Jenny
25:14Thank you George
25:16You're going to find it awfully lonely
25:18Without either of them Jenny
25:20I've still got George
25:22Yes
25:24Besides I'm going to be extremely busy
25:26Oh
25:28George met Mrs. Patrick Campbell
25:30And asked her to read my play
25:32Oh my dear and all the other excitement
25:34I forgot to tell you
25:36Mrs. Pat's going to do it
25:38Jenny that's wonderful
25:40Mary has had a faux squash
25:42Faux squash
25:48Mary has had a faux squash
25:54Mary has had a faux squash
25:58It's not an easy line Mrs. West
26:00Would you like me to change it
26:02Mary has had a faux squash
26:06I could cut it perhaps
26:08Oh no certainly not
26:10I like it I like it very much
26:12It's a challenge
26:14And I always enjoy a challenge
26:16Mary has had a faux squash
26:20That sounds as though she's had a sun and air
26:22Not a miscarriage
26:24Mary's had a faux squash
26:26Mary's had a faux squash
26:30I shall find a way Mrs. West
26:32Never fear
26:34I always find a way
26:36Perhaps the French sounds a bit effective
26:38No
26:40I don't think so
26:42Well I'm certainly not going to say
26:44Miscarriage on the London stage
26:46I should never be able to raise my head in public again
26:48And if this is what the upper classes say
26:50Then let them say it by all means
26:52It's what I say
26:54Quite
26:56Your play if I may say so Mrs. West
26:58Has all the marks of intense personal experience
27:00It is felt
27:02Your two women
27:04Fighting over their man
27:06It has the ring of truth about it
27:08Mary's had a faux squash
27:10It is a comedy Mrs. Campbell
27:12Indeed it is
27:14And such a very modern one
27:16That's just what attracts me to it
27:18Yet there are overtones and undertones
27:20It is a very rich play
27:22Will it be awfully expensive to put on
27:24All plays are awfully expensive to put on
27:26And this has
27:28Oh how many sets
27:30Only four
27:32And I was going to suggest I help you with those
27:34Fourteen
27:36Well if you count the butler and the servants
27:38On stage as in life Mrs. West
27:40Servants have to be paid
27:42And rather more than in real life I'm afraid
27:44No his borrowed plumes can hardly be cheap
27:46Not of course that you would want it cheap
27:48Oh no
27:50No no that's why I was so pleased that you
27:52Quite
28:00George perhaps we should discuss the arrangements
28:02Oh yes
28:04Oh your husband is to be your business manager
28:06How very wise
28:08No not exactly
28:10Oh it's so easy for the weaker sex to fall into unscrupulous hands in the theatre
28:12There are so many of them
28:14But Mr. West I believe is something in the city
28:16He is a gentleman
28:18Well I hope so
28:20If only I had a husband in the city
28:22If only I had a husband
28:24It must be a hard life for a woman on her own
28:28Well I've never been quite on my own Mr. West
28:32I have a manager
28:34And a secretary
28:36And darling Imogen
28:38And of course my dear children
28:40Incidentally Mrs. West
28:42Do call us George and Jenny
28:44Oh yes please
28:46Well Jenny there is a part in your play which I simply cannot believe you did not write
28:48With my darling daughter in mind
28:50She will be perfect and you will love her I know
28:52She is called Stella as I am
28:54Mother and daughter
28:56Two stars to twinkle across the footlights
28:58Well she twinkles
29:00As I shine
29:02Oh don't I know it
29:04I have been an admirer of yours
29:06Ever since I saw you in the second Mrs. Tanqueray
29:08Is it possible
29:10Were babes in arms admitted to the stalls
29:14As at Eton my father took me
29:16He was dreadfully shocked
29:18And weren't you
29:20I was thrilled
29:22Have you any special ideas
29:24About the production of his Borrowed Plumes
29:26Mrs. Campbell
29:28Stella
29:30I think
29:32I think we must have
29:34An ingenious production
29:36Very strongly cast
29:38We shall need an exceptional actor for the husband
29:40The handsome major with a VC
29:42Who writes such
29:44Sadly undistinguished plays
29:46Yes
29:48Do you find him quite convincing Stella
29:50Completely
29:52I have never met a VC who could write
29:54Let alone write a play
29:56They bring together different sort of talent
29:58He must be very handsome
30:00I was thinking of asking Henry Enly
30:02Oh he would be perfect
30:04Yes and even better
30:06I think he's free for me
30:08Is it quite his sort of thing
30:10I mean I think Jenny's play is awfully good
30:12But well it is a bit
30:14Melodramatic
30:16No
30:18I've grown awfully tired of plays
30:20That are all talk haven't you
30:22I'd like something to happen
30:24I'm quite sure it will
30:26I think
30:28That
30:30That
30:32Darling you simply can put your own things on the stage
30:34That why ever not
30:36Well it's like appearing yourself
30:38Nonsense everyone knows how good I am at doing up houses
30:40It'll be a positive advertisement for me
30:42And my dear actors have no
30:44Idea of taste at all
30:46You should see Mrs. Plath's house
30:48If I left it to her the whole thing would be indescribably middle class
30:50And vulgar
30:52The play took place in a vulgar middle class hotel
30:54No darling Bray
30:56And that's just act one
30:58Act two is a proper London house
31:00And I do so want it to look right
31:02Thank you John
31:04And then there's the wicked woman's boudoir in act three
31:06What wicked woman
31:08The one who tries to take the major away from his wife
31:10Darling I do hope it's not going to be very French
31:12Is there an awful lot of adultery
31:14I don't think so
31:16Rather less than in real life actually
31:22Oh
31:24Oh
31:26Oh
31:28Oh
31:30Oh
31:32Oh
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32:48Oh dear me
32:50Good afternoon Mr Amy
32:52How's it going?
32:54Well to tell you the truth Mrs West it isn't going at all at the moment
32:56We're waiting for Mrs Pat
32:58Oh but she's been so good
33:00Without her I'm afraid my play simply wouldn't exist
33:02I think she's trying to make absolutely sure of her lines
33:06Well there you are
33:08She's an absolute angel
33:12How do you and your wife get on?
33:14Oh as well as most married couples
33:16We've lived together for ten years
33:18If you can stand that strain
33:20It ought to last forever
33:22And is it a strain?
33:26I'm sorry I seem to have
33:32How many years have you been married?
33:34Oh you mean us
33:36Nine
33:38And can you stand the strain?
33:42Not too well anymore
33:44No
33:46I rather thought not
33:48I don't know why
33:50We just don't get on the way we used to
33:52I'd rather not talk about it
33:54Are you sure?
33:56Oh it isn't Jenny's fault
33:58You mustn't think that
34:00No
34:06Have you ever thought of becoming an actor George?
34:08Good heavens no
34:10You read very well
34:12You have the looks
34:14Thanks
34:16There's always a shortage of truly handsome leading men
34:18I mean you really ought to be playing the major in this
34:20I take it he is modelled on you
34:22Perhaps
34:24But it's certainly true that my wife is
34:26Very much more successful in life than I am
34:30Mary has had rather a faux squash than
34:38I say the
34:40The play is pretty bad isn't it?
34:44Well it's very clever
34:46In its way
34:48Jenny is clever
34:50Oh yes I'm sure she is
34:52She's a very remarkable woman
34:54Taken all round
34:56As I believe she has been
34:58Several times
35:00What?
35:02Taken all round
35:06You really mustn't talk about Jenny like that
35:08Why ever not?
35:10Well she's always been faithful to me
35:12Which hasn't made it any easier for me
35:14I can tell you
35:16Oh fidelity
35:18I didn't know the aristocracy believed in that
35:20Oh I don't
35:22I should hope not
35:24Fidelity is strictly for the middle class
35:26Oh quite
35:28I mean a chap must do something
35:30What a naughty boy you are George
35:32Aren't you?
35:38Thank you
35:40I expect you're feeling very nervous
35:42Mrs West I know I always do
35:44Well you know I'm not
35:46I don't know why but as a matter of fact
35:48I feel absolutely calm
35:50I wish I did
35:52I expect it's because I don't know the horrors before me
35:54Yes
35:56It's not much fun having a cabinet minister as a stepson
35:58I can tell you
36:00Especially when there's only a fortnight between you
36:04And then between you and your wife
36:06Well
36:08It didn't seem to matter but
36:10Now
36:12Well I know it sounds awfully
36:14Caddish but
36:16Well it does
36:20How very sad
36:22You see I've no one to talk to
36:24Stella
36:26How well I know that feeling
36:28Yes you must have been
36:30Desperately lonely yourself
36:32Oh I've got my sisters
36:34But they're both disgustingly rich
36:36And don't really approve of me
36:38And I've always loathed my mother
36:40I didn't think there's anything
36:42Sadder in the world than a mother and son
36:44Who cannot love each other
36:46Well you see how it's been
36:48Oh yes
36:52Oh dear George
36:54What you need, what I need, what we all need
36:56I mean it's all so simple really
36:58Isn't it because we never get it
37:00To be loved for ourselves alone
37:04I don't think I've ever had a woman's
37:06Undivided love
37:10Nor I a man's
37:14Stella
37:16No George not here
37:18Oh come on why not
37:20Because George
37:22There is only one rule in modern life
37:24But if you want to be my friend
37:26You really must observe it I insist
37:30Yes Stella
37:32It doesn't matter what you do
37:34As long as you don't do it in the street
37:36And frighten the horses
37:52Am I not the one to blame
37:54I feel I don't enter into his plans
37:56And amusements half enough
37:58His fishing and shooting
38:00What's wrong with your work
38:02Your book and your play
38:04He has more time for frivolities than you
38:06He doesn't do half as much work
38:08But that's just it
38:10My writing so much bores him
38:12And if it does what's it worth to me
38:14He's not bored
38:16He's jealous
38:18Nonsense how could he be
38:20Because you're successful and he's not
38:30Door slams
38:40A man always ends by
38:42Hating the woman who has found him out
38:44One and six please miss
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39:46Oh my dear
39:48Stella you were magnificent
39:50Simply wonderful
39:52Thank you my dear
39:54Oh but nothing compared with the audience
39:56You wouldn't find it
39:58Everyone was here
40:00It was the greatest
40:02Too kind Henry
40:04That was frightfully good
40:06Thank you
40:08Roses oh how beautiful
40:10That was magnificent
40:12Thank you my dear
40:14It really was very very good
40:16Thank you darling
40:18Jack wanted us to bring the baby
40:20But I told him it was going to be far too risky
40:22Yes I say Mama some of it was a bit hot
40:24Nonsense virtue triumphed in the end
40:26What more can you ask
40:28Nothing
40:30Triumph of virtue is the supreme end of all art
40:32Mama I congratulate you
40:34Well what with Goonies baby
40:36And Clemmie's about to arrive
40:38And me with my play
40:40What a creative family we are
40:42George though seems bent on self destruction
40:46What a silly boy you are
40:48I want to celebrate your triumph with a kiss
40:50What in front of an audience
40:52It's not the streets Stella
40:54Well if it's not in the street
40:56I suppose it must be alright
41:02George you'll never make a leading man
41:04If you can't do better than that
41:06Come on then teach me
41:10They do say a woman's work is never done
41:16Let's see now
41:18You see this is frightfully uncomfortable
41:20But it looks very well
41:22Much better
41:36Darling I am sorry
41:38If only the play had been more of a success
41:40But it was you got some very good reviews
41:42Of the audience
41:44You mustn't pay any attention to the times
41:46It's gone completely downhill
41:48Since Northcote got a hold of it
41:50How that man dares to write about the hat
41:52And not even mention the play
41:54Those people like giving pain
41:56Of course they wouldn't do it otherwise would they
41:58But they praised her
42:00I do think given the circumstances
42:02She might have played the villainess not the heroine
42:04Darling you mustn't take it seriously
42:06What else can I do
42:08Can I say something
42:10Everyone knows George is very susceptible
42:12To women of a certain age
42:14But it's never meant anything in the past
42:16You've almost encouraged him yourself
42:18When he went to Switzerland
42:20This is quite different
42:22Of course it's not
42:24He's left home
42:26For Mrs Pat
42:28No it's far more serious than that
42:30He started saying he wants children
42:32I thought George was a gentleman at least
42:34George is a
42:36George
42:40Of course he was at Eton
42:42So was Papa
42:48I always knew it might happen
42:52I doubt if that makes it better for her now
42:54No
42:58Something's starting off about Etonians isn't there
43:00I mean you know that story of George
43:02About taking the tarts on the river
43:04No
43:06I've always made rather a point
43:08Of not listening to George's stories
43:10Yes
43:12Do you think he noticed
43:14Perhaps he did
43:18Perhaps we should have been nicer to George
43:20Not on your life
43:22Well
43:26What about the tarts on the river
43:30He was with some Italian friends
43:32They'd just left
43:34Sacked I suppose
43:36Should have been
43:38Do you want me to tell you this story
43:40Not much
43:42The tarts said they wanted to see Eton Chapel
43:44So they all got out of the boat at Windsor
43:46And went to Eton
43:48Into the chapel
43:50But then they suddenly felt this was rather letting the side down
43:52So they all sneaked off and left them
43:54Who left who
43:56The Etonians left the tarts
43:58In Eton Chapel
44:00Yes
44:02Quite right
44:04Etonians are a bit off
44:06Quite
44:08We wouldn't have done that at Harrow would we
44:10Certainly not
44:12Of course we didn't have a river at Harrow
44:14We wouldn't have done it
44:16No of course not
44:18But George
44:20A sense of shame should be
44:22An educative emotion
44:24Yes it should teach one
44:26Not to do the same thing again
44:28We all know by now
44:30That George is incapable
44:32Of learning anything
44:34Even about tarts
44:36He sees himself as a knight at arms
44:38Of course
44:40Rescuing damsels in distress
44:42I thought he caused more distress than he relieved
44:44Myself
44:46Well Mrs Pat is in for an education
44:50What will Mama do now Winnie
44:52What she's always done
44:56Yes
44:58Well thank God at Harrow
45:00They warned us against theatrical ladies
45:02Hear hear
45:06I'm awfully glad you didn't marry Ethel Barrymore Winnie
45:08So am I
45:10An heir
45:12You do understand Jenny
45:14You hate children
45:16I don't think so
45:18I needn't see very much of them anyway need I
45:20Just so long as they're there
45:22Darling
45:24I have loved you as I've never loved anyone else
45:26You know that
45:28Prince of Wales was right in the beginning
45:30No Jenny absolutely not
45:32I don't regret a thing
45:34It's just that
45:36Well things aren't quite what they were between us are they
45:40I'm beginning to get on
45:42I'm beginning to see
45:44To feel the truth in what my father said
45:46I am the son and heir
45:48I do have a duty
45:50You knew that when you married me
45:52Darling
45:54Believe me I'm
45:56I'm not proud of saying these things now
45:58It's just that when I was young then I didn't
46:00You're a child now you'll always be a child
46:02You are father
46:06I hope you don't imagine
46:08Mrs Pat will give you an heir
46:10It has nothing to do with Mrs Pat
46:12Oh George for heaven's sake
46:14Except that she's taught me to see things differently I don't deny that
46:16Jenny
46:18Jenny
46:20You think of me as a child
46:22That's how you've always thought of me
46:24It's been quite a change to be thought of as a man
46:26It was about time wasn't it
46:28Well if it isn't
46:30Mrs Pat who is it
46:32Well until I'm free there can't be anyone
46:34Do you honestly expect me to believe
46:38Charles Kinski's wife has died
46:40Did you see
46:42Oh no I didn't
46:44Oh I say I'm sorry
46:46I've made so many mistakes
46:48In my life
46:50I did so hope you weren't one of them
46:52Oh Jenny don't say that
46:54I know how much I owe you
46:56If I've ever done anything in the world
46:58It's all been due to you
47:00Well what have you done
47:02What chance have I ever had to do anything
47:06But if I ever do
47:08It will be entirely due to your good influence
47:10Without you I'd have been
47:12No one
47:14Yet you do want to do without me it seems
47:16No Jenny never
47:18It's just that
47:20You want a divorce
47:22Yes
47:24Well you'll have to do the dirty work on Dan if I will
47:26Oh of course I'll arrange the whole thing
47:28Spare me the details
47:30Will I have to appear in court
47:32Well I think
47:34Just to say that I've deserted you
47:38Well that won't be too bad will it
47:40At least I shall be able to speak the truth
47:42Darling
47:44Of course we shall remain very good friends
47:46Oh I hope so
47:48Although we won't be able to see much of each other I'm afraid
47:50The proctor wouldn't like that
47:52He might call it collusion
47:54And then you wouldn't get your freedom
47:56And you must have that so that you can get your son and heir
47:58Yes
48:02I hope you enjoy your freedom George
48:04Oh Jenny don't think of it like that
48:06We've had so many happy days together
48:10Yes
48:12I suppose so
48:14Oh Jenny don't
48:16Don't what spoil it
48:18Well yes
48:22We shall have to give up Salisbury Hall of course
48:24Well
48:26That's up to you
48:28You don't expect me to live here alone do you
48:30No I suppose not
48:34You know there's only one thing in all this that surprises me George
48:40I can't imagine why I'm letting you go so easily
48:42Can you
48:48Because we still love each other
48:50Because it's best
48:52I
48:54Love you
49:22I love you
49:52I
49:54Love you
49:56I love you
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