August 21, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
the Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good to the last drop. To be or not to be?
That's quite a question.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is whether it's nobler in the mind to suffer the
slings and arrows ab outrageous fortune or to take arms
against the sea of troubles.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
That's a question too, and quite a problem.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In Springfield, in the white frame house on Maple Street,
the Andersons are old hands when it comes to questions
and problems, big problems, little problems.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
They've had their share of them, all like this. I've
never seen anything like it in my whole life. Jim, Oh,
bless the Lord. This food to our use in our lives.
That I service. I'm in.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
All right, Kathy, eat your dinner, say Dad?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Tell me golf is a game of skill.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
He couldn't do anything wrong, and I couldn't do anything right.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Dad, What is it? Bud? Look at Betty. What about her? Betty? Betty?
What what's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Nothing, father, nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Will stop daydreaming and eat your dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yes, father, she still thinks she's Camille, all right, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think she's not well. Holy cal mom.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
She walks around coughing all the time.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Never mind by, Just eat your dinner and be quiet.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Holy cow.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know what he did on the sixth hole, Margaret.
He sliced one out of bounds. It hit a tree
and bounced right back on the green. Yes, dear, that's
a great way to win the semi finals, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Skill U Daddy? What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Why is he call Marguerite the lady of the Camellias.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Because that's what she wore camellias. No, I'll forget about
it and eat your dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Gee, whiz, Betty, will you please pass the butter?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What is it? Betty?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It's very kind of you, monsieur, to speak to me
so gently. What here is the butter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
My fine out lot, Betty. Wasn't the name of what's
gotten into you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well then stop it. The play is over. You were wonderful,
You were sensational. But it's over now, come on back
to earth.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's all right, Jim. It may take her a few days,
but you'll get.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Over it, I know.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
But a man can stand just so much. We've had
Camille for breakfast, dinner, and supper for the last month,
and I'm getting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Sick of it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
If this keeps up, she won't be in any more plays.
And that's a promise.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What a play? And I love you.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Nobody even got shot or anything.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Father, What is it?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Betty?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Do you know who was in the audience last night?
We were a talent scout from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wouldn't it be wonderful?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Father, don't fall into the swimming pool. Why, Betty, I
saw the show last night.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
And well, this is a practical world. You've got to realize,
Jim Margaret. I'm merely trying to explain to.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You, Jim, she's so young. Letter dream just for a
little while.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, I think the entire thing is ridiculous, me too,
each of dinner.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Be quiet, gee, whiz, I'm going to dedicate myself my
entire life.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
To the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Blud passed the potatoes? Please?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you want to know why?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No? Come on, Bud, Hey.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Dad, thank you, Because there are moments when I lose
myself in that dream, because there are days when I'm
worry of the life I lead and imagine that I
have another Because in the midst of my turbulent existence,
though my reason, my pride, my senses are alive, my
heart is so tired of never finding tender understandings.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Little new people care. Shut up?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But mother, what he said?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Bud, How dare you speak that way to your sister?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Well?
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Holy how mom?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Jim, will you please say something to Bud Eh? Hello,
Bud Hi bad Jim Anderson. It is not funny. And
I don't care what Betty did. There's no Exulce's right, budd.
You shouldn't have said it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I know, Dad, But good Gray, Oh Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're sorry, and uh, well, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I'm sorry, Betty.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
I shouldn't have said what I said.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You want me to forgive you, dear, when what is
there to forgive.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
In a world such.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
As hours ready for Pete's sake, cut it out.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
But father, who's been spouting Camille around here until I've
got it coming out of my ears, now.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Stop it very well.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
But when I'm a famous movie star and they asked me,
who is responsible for my success?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Margaret? She isn't just counting her chicken. She's selling next year's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Eh, Betty, we mustn't raise our hopes too high?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Do you mean our hopes? Bud? That was the doorbell?
Speaker 10 (06:02):
I know?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well? Answer it? Holy call?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Think there was a law that nobody else.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Was allowed to open the door. Margaret.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You certainly don't think that Betty has a chance of
being a movie star, do you?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Why not? I've seen certain people a lot less talented
than Betty.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
But she isn't trained for it. She isn't prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Father, they train you, and she and Jannie Ligtt are
both preparing.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
What Kathy?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, you and Jannie were trying on sweaters, and she said, Kathy, Kathy,
why don't you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Go in and do your homework?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I haven't finished my mouth.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well finish it and behave yourself, all right, Betty? Oh, Billy,
come on, Hello, Billy, glad to see you.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Hello, mis Randerson, missus Anderson. Beautiful evening, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hello, Billy? Are your mother and father just fine? Thank you?
Would you care for a piece of cake?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No?
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Thanks, We've got to run along.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Janie Liggot's thronging a big party for the Dramatic Club,
sort of a celebration, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, Betty was telling us, Bud, what are you doing
out there?
Speaker 9 (07:04):
I'm waiting for the doorbell doing again?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Stop being such a smart at. I can come back here,
unless you'd rather skip for dinner.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Well, every time I sit down, the doorbell wings, and
I'm the only one who ever gets to answer.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It's set down and finish your dinner. Holy call.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We were just talking about the play, weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We, Jim, Yes, we certainly were.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We thought it was wonderful, didn't we do?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yes, we certainly were talking about it.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Billy, tell him what the club critiques said about live performance?
Speaker 11 (07:44):
Well, as the director of the various productions, I run
a critique after each performance, a sort of a symposium,
and we're quite ruthless in our critical.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Analysis, in a constructive way, of course.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So of course, what did he say? Never mind? Just milk,
I drank it. We'll drink buds. Go ahead, Billy.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Well, as I was saying, we decided that while Betty's
performance lacked the polish of a more experienced artiste, it
had warmth, spirit and a certain objective maturity.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
You can only describe as it claw.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
You don't say, oh, yes, why when she was dying,
didn't you notice the brilliant resonance in her cough?
Speaker 9 (08:28):
She had a timber you'll find in mighty few cameals.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well, she comes by it naturally. Her grandfather was a
champion hog caller.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Jim, Billy and Betty are being quite sincere and earnest.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, so am I.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Just because you can call loud, that doesn't mean they're
going to send you to Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Who said anything about Hollywood, Billy Smith? You told me
there was a talent scout in the audience.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Woman's place is in the home, caring for her family, sharing.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
The joys and sorrows of the man she loves.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Have you ever heard anything more prehistoric?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I really don't think Margaret.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Betty, this is one quarrel you aren't going to drag
us into. If you and Billy want to fight, do
it on your own time.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But father, he's so pigheaded.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
I am not pig headed. I just believe in equal.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Rights from him, that's all, Betty. If you're going to
the leggots, go.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I spent a whole month preparing for Camille Betty, and
then he has the nerve.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To tell me Betty, yes, father, go.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Well, come on, Billy, good night everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I will be out too late.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mother, all right, dear, have a good time. Good night.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Gosh, Betty, I didn't mean to get you all excited.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm not excited that.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
There's no reason why I can't take a screen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Tips if I wanted.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
But why I told you in the very beginning of
all the idiotic arguments I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, at least it's a little different, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
What is it, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Why doesn't Billy want Betty to go into the movies?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I don't know, Baby, I guess he just wants her
to stay in Springfield.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why so they can smooth dopey Bud.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, if she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Know, Bud.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
If there are any clinical replies to be given around here,
please let me give them.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Holy call, Kathy. You see, when you're very young and
in love, you dream up all kinds of things. Now, actually,
there isn't any reason for Betty and Billy there.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You see what I told you it was gonna ring again?
And you said ours being a smart alec.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't know. Isn't there going to be one evening.
We can go through without all this fuss and excitement.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Bud, stop making such an issue of it and answer
the door.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I'll answer it myself. He can finish his dinner. I'll
go Dad, never mind, just do as you're told. Has
to walk a full twenty feet to get to the
front door. You think it was going to kill him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll pour your coffee, dear.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
All right, Margaret, I'll be right back, mister Anderson. Yes,
my name is Kay, Alfred K. May I come in? Why? Yes,
come right in? Thank you.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
You probably heard that I was in town.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well quite frankly, no, oh, I thought you had.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Mister Anderson, I represent the Metropolitan Picture Corporation of Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Metropolitan You mean you you're the talent scout.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You did hear about the Margaret?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
He's here, He.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Came the talent scout. He's it. I mean he's here.
He's right here now, mister.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Anderson, there's no need to get.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Excited me too, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
This is my wife, Missus K.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
I mean.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Missus Anderson. I'm Alfred K of Metropolitan Pictures.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Oh no, holy cow, Now.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Let's not get excited. Children.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Let's just keep our heads just to keep our heads.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Bud, call Niets immediately, tell him to send Betty home
at once.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Ok. Mom, Oh, I wouldn't go to all that trouble missus. Anderson.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh, it's no trouble, mister kay no trouble at all.
And let's go into the living room where we can
be more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you. That'll be very nice.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can't imagine how excited we are, mister kay.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I think I can.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
After all, a thing like this doesn't happen every day,
it does it?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Don't I get to say hello?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh, I'm sorry Kathy that mister kay This is our
younger daughter, Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
I noticed her in the audience last night.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
How are you, Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm very pleased to meet you, sir.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Sweet child.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Mister Anderson, Mom, Betty is there yet. But I told
him about the talent scout and they said send her
home the second that she came in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
That's fine, Bud, just fine.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're very proud of Betty, mister Kaye.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
But I'm not sure she wants to go into pictures
you see.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Well, that needn't bother us. Mister Anderson. I want to
talk to you about a screen test for Kathleen.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Kaddy, Oh No.
Speaker 12 (13:47):
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Speaker 4 (14:28):
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Speaker 12 (14:31):
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Speaker 3 (15:00):
A very few minutes have passed in the white frame
house on Maple Street, and the status is not what
you would call exactly. Quote, Betty is on her way
back from the legates to meet the talent scout, and
Billy Smith, who was jealous, doesn't want her to meet
(15:21):
the talent scout, we think, But that's all right because
the talent scout has left anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And besides, he didn't want Betty, he wanted Kathy.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And furthermore, well you can see how with just a
little consideration and common sense, normal excitement can be completely
controlled and turned into a sort of seething confusion like this.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But Daddy, you said you didn't want me to go
into the movie.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I know, but you didn't have to tell him you'd
rather be a lady wrestler.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well I would, Jim.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I'm worried about what about Betty? What are we going
to tell her?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What can we tell her?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Don't tell her the truth, that's all, Jim.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There are times when the truth can be very cruel,
especially to an imaginative young girl.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, I'm certainly not going to lie to her.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Lying is a sam, Kathy, why don't you dry up?
Can't you see we've got a problem, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Bud, Kathleen, if you start that phony coughing again.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm sorry, father. I'll try to control myself, even though
something deep within me stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Margaret. If she's going to keep that up, she won't.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Jim, we new Kathy. Well, I what Kathy, Darling? Mommy
and Daddy have a great problem. We need your help.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Boy, are you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But well, holy Carl if you have to count on that,
not head mother, But if you can't behave yourself, I'd
suggest you go to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'm sorry, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
The plain truth of the matter is that the man
wasn't impressed with Betty's performance.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's what we'll have to tell her.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I know, Jim, but not right away.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I still think he was a little out of his
mind telling me Kathy looked like a Da Vinci cheruping.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm sorry, Daddy, I forgot Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yes, dear, do you suppose we made a mistake? We
could have sent her all the way out to California?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Jim, what have you got against California?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You just keep it up? But that's all when I
get to be a lady wrestler.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Kathy, Please, we have a very great favor to ask
if you and we haven't very much time, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I say, you're making a mistake. Tell Betty the truth
and if she isn't big enough to take it, Jim, believe.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Me, this is one time when the truth is a
very dangerous thing. If we can just convince Betty that
she doesn't want to go to Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I can just see that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We can try, Jim. If we succeed and she doesn't
want to go, then it won't make any difference if
she finds out about Kathy.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
In other words, you're going to put yourself at the
mercy of that cherup.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What else can we do? Dad? How would it be
just a moment?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
God?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Please, Kathy, will you promise not to say anything to
Betty about mister Kay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Not even I'm a cherup, not even that she will.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I have here a list titled damages for May Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Four windows, one windshield, two rose bushes, one shrub?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Is that just nay?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
First half? Gosh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, okay, Mommy, I won't talk, Thank you, dear boy.
Parents can sure louse up your life.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Kathy.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
We're in the living room, baddie, Remember Kathy, not a word? Okay, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You mean I can't even.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Call I'm sorry, we took so long, but you know
how traffic is these days.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
We left the second Janie tollas.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But mother worries.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He well, you see, dear, But Janie said the talent
scout was here. She told me, Daddy send him away.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
Father, Kathy, Well, I didn't tell her, who Bud take
Kathy upstairs?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Come on, squirt, I.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Don't want to go upstairs. I won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Anna.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Well, yeah, well, stop holding me. Why you always have them?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Poll me?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Father, you didn't send him away?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Tell me you didn't send him away.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I'm sorry, Betty, but I did.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Oh father, Betty, your father, and I felt it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
My entire life is ruined everything.
Speaker 13 (20:13):
I'd hope for everything I'd plan, Betty, if.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You'd only try to understand.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Understand, mister Anderson, this sort of treachery passes all understanding.
What as Betty's director, I say you have perpetrated a
crime against the arts, stolen from the silver screen, one
of his most glittering gems.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
You have proloited a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Which side of you on? Anyway? You said you didn't
want Betty to go into pictures.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
I said that I did.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Bengali high truby under a bushel basket dis cecilby de mill.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh, go home, father, stop saying father.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
If you must know the truth, Jim, please Margaret. If
they're going to accused me of having ruined the movie
in the.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Cry, whatever we did was for your good, you must
know that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But after I'd worked so hard and so long a
whole month, and it's just thrown away.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Honey, you aren't ready to be an actress. You haven't
lived enough or suffered enough.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
I could have lived and suffered in Hollywood, couldn't I.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Betty's a great actress, one of the greatest I've ever directed,
and I've had almost two years of it.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Wait a minute, Billy, Betty.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know you might think Springfield is pretty dull and monotonous,
but this is where you belong.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
This is your home.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
That has nothing to do with it. I wanted a career,
I wanted to be a success, and you spoiled everything,
did I.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Betty. There's one thing you've got to learn.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
There are a great many kinds of career. Has a career,
very fine career. Your mother and millions of women just
like your mother. They've raised families, they've built homes, they've
worked for their husbands and help them in a thousand
different ways. Without women like your.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Mother, life would be a very difficult thing.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
True, being a wife and a mother isn't as glamorous
as being a movie star, but the rewards are so
much greater.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I never heard of anybody getting an oscar for being
a mother.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Well, they give out different rewards to mothers. They give
a mother a baby's tears to carry in her heart.
They give her laughter and love to comfort her on
lonely nights. They give her dirty faces to wash and
hymns to let out. They give her the greatest collection
of memories a woman can want. You can take all
your picture stars, all your scientists, all your women who
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have made names for themselves in industry and commerce. And
the most successful woman, the woman with the greatest possible career,
is still the plane every day. Ye just a minute, Margaret,
weren't you kids told to go upstairs?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
We are upstairs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You didn't say we couldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well, go do your homework or something. Holy call, I'll
get it.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Father be I'm sorry I was such a goose.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Oh you weren't at all, Betty. You just didn't.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Understand being a mother is a very difficult thing, very difficult.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Indeed, especially if you're a man. Yes, never mind, Betty.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Naturally we realize that you're very disappointed.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Oh no, I'm not, mother, not really. I guess.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Well, anyway, you've got something Jeanie Leggett hasn't got.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
They didn't want her to be a movie star.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Wait until she hears I turned it down.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Oh, Billy, just a second, Betty, let's not make a
big thing out of this. So who's that on the phone, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh, I took care of it. It was just a
reporter from the Springfield Harald.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Kathy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yes, father, what did he want own information about the
screen test?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Jim, you'd better call him back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh, he doesn't have to, Mommy. I told him, man,
everything he wanted to know, which is what. Well, he
wanted to know if it was true that miss Betty
Anderson had been offered a screen test?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And what did you tell him?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I told him yes, and I told him she turned
it down, and he wanted to know why. So I told.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Him, Kathy, what did you tell him?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, just what you said. I told him that Betty
didn't want to go to Hollywood, and he said why?
And I told him she was going to stay in
Springfield an account, she was going to be your mother.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
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Speaker 4 (26:23):
It's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
A day is past, and in Springfield, the Andersons wait
anxiously for the newspaper, which is to carry a retraction
on the original story about Betty Anderson, American mother, buried
on one of the back pages.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
They're going to find the retraction, all right, and it
breeds like this.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
The editors of the Springfield Herald regret a slight inaccuracy
in yesterday's story concerning the screen test offered to Miss
Betty Anderson of this city.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
We are happy to.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
State that there is no basis of fact in the
report that she is to.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Be a mother. In an effort to learn the complete.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Details in this matter, however, the Herald, with its policy
of accurate reporting, interviewed mister Alfred Kay of Metropolitan Pictures
as he was leaving from the Springfield Airport. Mister Kay
confirmed the fact that miss Anderson had been offered a
test and supplied the true facts concerning her refusal. After
completing her education in Springfield, he told us, miss Anderson
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is going to embark on a career as a lady wrestler.
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Speaker 3 (29:01):
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Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good to the last drop. To be or not to be?
That's quite a question.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is whether it's nobler in the mind to suffer the
slings and arrows ab outrageous fortune or to take arms
against the sea of troubles.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
That's a question too, and quite a problem.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In Springfield, in the white frame house on Maple Street,
the Andersons are old hands when it comes to questions
and problems, big problems, little problems.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
They've had their share of them, all like this. I've
never seen anything like it in my whole life. Jim, Oh,
bless the Lord. This food to our use in our lives.
That I service. I'm in.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
All right, Kathy, eat your dinner, say Dad?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Tell me golf is a game of skill.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
He couldn't do anything wrong, and I couldn't do anything right.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Dad, What is it? Bud? Look at Betty. What about her? Betty? Betty?
What what's the matter with you?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Nothing, father, nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Will stop daydreaming and eat your dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yes, father, she still thinks she's Camille, all right, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think she's not well. Holy cal mom.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
She walks around coughing all the time.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Never mind by, Just eat your dinner and be quiet.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Holy cow.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know what he did on the sixth hole, Margaret.
He sliced one out of bounds. It hit a tree
and bounced right back on the green. Yes, dear, that's
a great way to win the semi finals, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Skill U Daddy? What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Why is he call Marguerite the lady of the Camellias.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Because that's what she wore camellias. No, I'll forget about
it and eat your dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Gee, whiz, Betty, will you please pass the butter?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What is it? Betty?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
It's very kind of you, monsieur, to speak to me
so gently. What here is the butter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
My fine out lot, Betty. Wasn't the name of what's
gotten into you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Father?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well then stop it. The play is over. You were wonderful,
You were sensational. But it's over now, come on back
to earth.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's all right, Jim. It may take her a few days,
but you'll get.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Over it, I know.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
But a man can stand just so much. We've had
Camille for breakfast, dinner, and supper for the last month,
and I'm getting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Sick of it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
If this keeps up, she won't be in any more plays.
And that's a promise.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What a play? And I love you.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Nobody even got shot or anything.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Father, What is it?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Betty?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Do you know who was in the audience last night?
We were a talent scout from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wouldn't it be wonderful?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Father, don't fall into the swimming pool. Why, Betty, I
saw the show last night.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
And well, this is a practical world. You've got to realize,
Jim Margaret. I'm merely trying to explain to.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You, Jim, she's so young. Letter dream just for a
little while.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, I think the entire thing is ridiculous, me too,
each of dinner.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Be quiet, gee, whiz, I'm going to dedicate myself my
entire life.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
To the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Blud passed the potatoes? Please?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do you want to know why?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
No? Come on, Bud, Hey.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Dad, thank you, Because there are moments when I lose
myself in that dream, because there are days when I'm
worry of the life I lead and imagine that I
have another Because in the midst of my turbulent existence,
though my reason, my pride, my senses are alive, my
heart is so tired of never finding tender understandings.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Little new people care. Shut up?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But mother, what he said?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Bud, How dare you speak that way to your sister?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Well?
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Holy how mom?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Jim, will you please say something to Bud Eh? Hello,
Bud Hi bad Jim Anderson. It is not funny. And
I don't care what Betty did. There's no Exulce's right, budd.
You shouldn't have said it.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I know, Dad, But good Gray, Oh Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're sorry, and uh, well, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I'm sorry, Betty.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
I shouldn't have said what I said.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You want me to forgive you, dear, when what is
there to forgive.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
In a world such.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
As hours ready for Pete's sake, cut it out.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
But father, who's been spouting Camille around here until I've
got it coming out of my ears, now.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Stop it very well.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
But when I'm a famous movie star and they asked me,
who is responsible for my success?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Margaret? She isn't just counting her chicken. She's selling next year's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Eh, Betty, we mustn't raise our hopes too high?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Do you mean our hopes? Bud? That was the doorbell?
Speaker 10 (06:02):
I know?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Well? Answer it? Holy call?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Think there was a law that nobody else.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Was allowed to open the door. Margaret.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You certainly don't think that Betty has a chance of
being a movie star, do you?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Why not? I've seen certain people a lot less talented
than Betty.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
But she isn't trained for it. She isn't prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Father, they train you, and she and Jannie Ligtt are
both preparing.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
What Kathy?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, you and Jannie were trying on sweaters, and she said, Kathy, Kathy,
why don't you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Go in and do your homework?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I haven't finished my mouth.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well finish it and behave yourself, all right, Betty? Oh, Billy,
come on, Hello, Billy, glad to see you.
Speaker 11 (06:47):
Hello, mis Randerson, missus Anderson. Beautiful evening, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hello, Billy? Are your mother and father just fine? Thank you?
Would you care for a piece of cake?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No?
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Thanks, We've got to run along.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Janie Liggot's thronging a big party for the Dramatic Club,
sort of a celebration, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, Betty was telling us, Bud, what are you doing
out there?
Speaker 9 (07:04):
I'm waiting for the doorbell doing again?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Stop being such a smart at. I can come back here,
unless you'd rather skip for dinner.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Well, every time I sit down, the doorbell wings, and
I'm the only one who ever gets to answer.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It's set down and finish your dinner. Holy call.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We were just talking about the play, weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We, Jim, Yes, we certainly were.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We thought it was wonderful, didn't we do?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yes, we certainly were talking about it.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Billy, tell him what the club critiques said about live performance?
Speaker 11 (07:44):
Well, as the director of the various productions, I run
a critique after each performance, a sort of a symposium,
and we're quite ruthless in our critical.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Analysis, in a constructive way, of course.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So of course, what did he say? Never mind? Just milk,
I drank it. We'll drink buds. Go ahead, Billy.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Well, as I was saying, we decided that while Betty's
performance lacked the polish of a more experienced artiste, it
had warmth, spirit and a certain objective maturity.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
You can only describe as it claw.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
You don't say, oh, yes, why when she was dying,
didn't you notice the brilliant resonance in her cough?
Speaker 9 (08:28):
She had a timber you'll find in mighty few cameals.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well, she comes by it naturally. Her grandfather was a
champion hog caller.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Jim, Billy and Betty are being quite sincere and earnest.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, so am I.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Just because you can call loud, that doesn't mean they're
going to send you to Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Who said anything about Hollywood, Billy Smith? You told me
there was a talent scout in the audience.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Woman's place is in the home, caring for her family, sharing.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
The joys and sorrows of the man she loves.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Have you ever heard anything more prehistoric?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I really don't think Margaret.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Betty, this is one quarrel you aren't going to drag
us into. If you and Billy want to fight, do
it on your own time.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But father, he's so pigheaded.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
I am not pig headed. I just believe in equal.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Rights from him, that's all, Betty. If you're going to
the leggots, go.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I spent a whole month preparing for Camille Betty, and
then he has the nerve.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
To tell me Betty, yes, father, go.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Well, come on, Billy, good night everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I will be out too late.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mother, all right, dear, have a good time. Good night.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Gosh, Betty, I didn't mean to get you all excited.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm not excited that.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
There's no reason why I can't take a screen.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Tips if I wanted.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
But why I told you in the very beginning of
all the idiotic arguments I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, at least it's a little different, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
What is it, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Why doesn't Billy want Betty to go into the movies?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I don't know, Baby, I guess he just wants her
to stay in Springfield.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why so they can smooth dopey Bud.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, if she doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Know, Bud.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
If there are any clinical replies to be given around here,
please let me give them.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Holy call, Kathy. You see, when you're very young and
in love, you dream up all kinds of things. Now, actually,
there isn't any reason for Betty and Billy there.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You see what I told you it was gonna ring again?
And you said ours being a smart alec.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I don't know. Isn't there going to be one evening.
We can go through without all this fuss and excitement.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Bud, stop making such an issue of it and answer
the door.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I'll answer it myself. He can finish his dinner. I'll
go Dad, never mind, just do as you're told. Has
to walk a full twenty feet to get to the
front door. You think it was going to kill him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll pour your coffee, dear.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
All right, Margaret, I'll be right back, mister Anderson. Yes,
my name is Kay, Alfred K. May I come in? Why? Yes,
come right in? Thank you.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
You probably heard that I was in town.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well quite frankly, no, oh, I thought you had.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Mister Anderson, I represent the Metropolitan Picture Corporation of Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Metropolitan You mean you you're the talent scout.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You did hear about the Margaret?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
He's here, He.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Came the talent scout. He's it. I mean he's here.
He's right here now, mister.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Anderson, there's no need to get.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Excited me too, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
This is my wife, Missus K.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
I mean.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Missus Anderson. I'm Alfred K of Metropolitan Pictures.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Oh no, holy cow, Now.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Let's not get excited. Children.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Let's just keep our heads just to keep our heads.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Bud, call Niets immediately, tell him to send Betty home
at once.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Ok. Mom, Oh, I wouldn't go to all that trouble missus. Anderson.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh, it's no trouble, mister kay no trouble at all.
And let's go into the living room where we can
be more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you. That'll be very nice.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can't imagine how excited we are, mister kay.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I think I can.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
After all, a thing like this doesn't happen every day,
it does it?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Don't I get to say hello?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh, I'm sorry Kathy that mister kay This is our
younger daughter, Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
I noticed her in the audience last night.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
How are you, Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm very pleased to meet you, sir.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Sweet child.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Mister Anderson, Mom, Betty is there yet. But I told
him about the talent scout and they said send her
home the second that she came in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
That's fine, Bud, just fine.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're very proud of Betty, mister Kaye.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
But I'm not sure she wants to go into pictures
you see.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Well, that needn't bother us. Mister Anderson. I want to
talk to you about a screen test for Kathleen.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Kaddy, Oh No.
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Speaker 3 (15:00):
A very few minutes have passed in the white frame
house on Maple Street, and the status is not what
you would call exactly. Quote, Betty is on her way
back from the legates to meet the talent scout, and
Billy Smith, who was jealous, doesn't want her to meet
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the talent scout, we think, But that's all right because
the talent scout has left anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And besides, he didn't want Betty, he wanted Kathy.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
And furthermore, well you can see how with just a
little consideration and common sense, normal excitement can be completely
controlled and turned into a sort of seething confusion like this.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But Daddy, you said you didn't want me to go
into the movie.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I know, but you didn't have to tell him you'd
rather be a lady wrestler.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well I would, Jim.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I'm worried about what about Betty? What are we going
to tell her?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What can we tell her?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Don't tell her the truth, that's all, Jim.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There are times when the truth can be very cruel,
especially to an imaginative young girl.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, I'm certainly not going to lie to her.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Lying is a sam, Kathy, why don't you dry up?
Can't you see we've got a problem, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Bud, Kathleen, if you start that phony coughing again.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm sorry, father. I'll try to control myself, even though
something deep within me stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Margaret. If she's going to keep that up, she won't.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Jim, we new Kathy. Well, I what Kathy, Darling? Mommy
and Daddy have a great problem. We need your help.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Boy, are you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But well, holy Carl if you have to count on that,
not head mother, But if you can't behave yourself, I'd
suggest you go to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'm sorry, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
The plain truth of the matter is that the man
wasn't impressed with Betty's performance.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's what we'll have to tell her.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I know, Jim, but not right away.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I still think he was a little out of his
mind telling me Kathy looked like a Da Vinci cheruping.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'm sorry, Daddy, I forgot Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yes, dear, do you suppose we made a mistake? We
could have sent her all the way out to California?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Jim, what have you got against California?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You just keep it up? But that's all when I
get to be a lady wrestler.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Kathy, Please, we have a very great favor to ask
if you and we haven't very much time, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I say, you're making a mistake. Tell Betty the truth
and if she isn't big enough to take it, Jim, believe.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Me, this is one time when the truth is a
very dangerous thing. If we can just convince Betty that
she doesn't want to go to Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I can just see that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We can try, Jim. If we succeed and she doesn't
want to go, then it won't make any difference if
she finds out about Kathy.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
In other words, you're going to put yourself at the
mercy of that cherup.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What else can we do? Dad? How would it be
just a moment?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
God?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Please, Kathy, will you promise not to say anything to
Betty about mister Kay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Not even I'm a cherup, not even that she will.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I have here a list titled damages for May Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Four windows, one windshield, two rose bushes, one shrub?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Is that just nay?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
First half? Gosh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, okay, Mommy, I won't talk, Thank you, dear boy.
Parents can sure louse up your life.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Kathy.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
We're in the living room, baddie, Remember Kathy, not a word? Okay, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You mean I can't even.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Call I'm sorry, we took so long, but you know
how traffic is these days.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
We left the second Janie tollas.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But mother worries.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He well, you see, dear, But Janie said the talent
scout was here. She told me, Daddy send him away.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
Father, Kathy, Well, I didn't tell her, who Bud take
Kathy upstairs?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Come on, squirt, I.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Don't want to go upstairs. I won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Anna.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Well, yeah, well, stop holding me. Why you always have them?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Poll me?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Father, you didn't send him away?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Tell me you didn't send him away.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I'm sorry, Betty, but I did.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Oh father, Betty, your father, and I felt it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
My entire life is ruined everything.
Speaker 13 (20:13):
I'd hope for everything I'd plan, Betty, if.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You'd only try to understand.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
Understand, mister Anderson, this sort of treachery passes all understanding.
What as Betty's director, I say you have perpetrated a
crime against the arts, stolen from the silver screen, one
of his most glittering gems.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
You have proloited a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Which side of you on? Anyway? You said you didn't
want Betty to go into pictures.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
I said that I did.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Bengali high truby under a bushel basket dis cecilby de mill.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Oh, go home, father, stop saying father.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
If you must know the truth, Jim, please Margaret. If
they're going to accused me of having ruined the movie
in the.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Cry, whatever we did was for your good, you must
know that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But after I'd worked so hard and so long a
whole month, and it's just thrown away.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Honey, you aren't ready to be an actress. You haven't
lived enough or suffered enough.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
I could have lived and suffered in Hollywood, couldn't I.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Betty's a great actress, one of the greatest I've ever directed,
and I've had almost two years of it.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Wait a minute, Billy, Betty.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know you might think Springfield is pretty dull and monotonous,
but this is where you belong.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
This is your home.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
That has nothing to do with it. I wanted a career,
I wanted to be a success, and you spoiled everything,
did I.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Betty. There's one thing you've got to learn.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
There are a great many kinds of career. Has a career,
very fine career. Your mother and millions of women just
like your mother. They've raised families, they've built homes, they've
worked for their husbands and help them in a thousand
different ways. Without women like your.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Mother, life would be a very difficult thing.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
True, being a wife and a mother isn't as glamorous
as being a movie star, but the rewards are so
much greater.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I never heard of anybody getting an oscar for being
a mother.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Well, they give out different rewards to mothers. They give
a mother a baby's tears to carry in her heart.
They give her laughter and love to comfort her on
lonely nights. They give her dirty faces to wash and
hymns to let out. They give her the greatest collection
of memories a woman can want. You can take all
your picture stars, all your scientists, all your women who
(22:51):
have made names for themselves in industry and commerce. And
the most successful woman, the woman with the greatest possible career,
is still the plane every day. Ye just a minute, Margaret,
weren't you kids told to go upstairs?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
We are upstairs.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You didn't say we couldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well, go do your homework or something. Holy call, I'll
get it.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Father be I'm sorry I was such a goose.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Oh you weren't at all, Betty. You just didn't.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
Understand being a mother is a very difficult thing, very difficult.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Indeed, especially if you're a man. Yes, never mind, Betty.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Naturally we realize that you're very disappointed.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Oh no, I'm not, mother, not really. I guess.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Well, anyway, you've got something Jeanie Leggett hasn't got.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
They didn't want her to be a movie star.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Wait until she hears I turned it down.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Oh, Billy, just a second, Betty, let's not make a
big thing out of this. So who's that on the phone, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh, I took care of it. It was just a
reporter from the Springfield Harald.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Kathy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yes, father, what did he want own information about the
screen test?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Jim, you'd better call him back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh, he doesn't have to, Mommy. I told him, man,
everything he wanted to know, which is what. Well, he
wanted to know if it was true that miss Betty
Anderson had been offered a screen test?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And what did you tell him?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I told him yes, and I told him she turned
it down, and he wanted to know why. So I told.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Him, Kathy, what did you tell him?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, just what you said. I told him that Betty
didn't want to go to Hollywood, and he said why?
And I told him she was going to stay in
Springfield an account, she was going to be your mother.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
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Speaker 4 (26:23):
It's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
A day is past, and in Springfield, the Andersons wait
anxiously for the newspaper, which is to carry a retraction
on the original story about Betty Anderson, American mother, buried
on one of the back pages.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
They're going to find the retraction, all right, and it
breeds like this.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
The editors of the Springfield Herald regret a slight inaccuracy
in yesterday's story concerning the screen test offered to Miss
Betty Anderson of this city.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
We are happy to.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
State that there is no basis of fact in the
report that she is to.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Be a mother. In an effort to learn the complete.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Details in this matter, however, the Herald, with its policy
of accurate reporting, interviewed mister Alfred Kay of Metropolitan Pictures
as he was leaving from the Springfield Airport. Mister Kay
confirmed the fact that miss Anderson had been offered a
test and supplied the true facts concerning her refusal. After
completing her education in Springfield, he told us, miss Anderson
(27:27):
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