Female (1933) Movie Script
[MACHINERY WHIRRING]
Hey, Gus, you better tie your hat on
before you go in there.
- The president's blowing the roof off.
- Who's getting it?
Did you get me that seat...?
PETTIGREW: The president's
waiting for that coffee.
Okay, Mr. Pettigrew.
MAN: Our figures prove that a
minimum average of 3 million cars...
...must be built every year in order to
maintain 21 million cars on the road.
Heretofore, the Drake Motorcar Company
has supplied...
...17 and eight-tenths
percent of the total.
Just a minute. I've been listening
to you for over an hour...
...and all I've heard is a lot of statistics.
You've all got statistic poisoning.
In case you don't know it,
this business is slipping fast.
We're making better motorcars
than when Father was alive.
- We're not selling them. Why?
MAN: But, for the last three years...
That's the trouble with you.
All I've heard is "the last three years."
Our problem is this year.
And it's your business to sell cars.
That's all.
Oh, Cooper.
- Can I speak with you a moment, please?
- Yes, Miss Drake.
- How long have you been here?
- Sixteen days to be exact.
ALISON: You like your work?
- Oh, yes, indeed. Very much.
I've been trying to make an appointment
to talk over a new sales plan of my own.
Well, I haven't got time
to go into that now.
Suppose you come to my house to dinner
tonight at 7:30. We'll talk about it then.
That's all.
Thank you very much.
Attractive fellow, don't you think?
Pettigrew, you're an old snoop.
Yes, just a moment please.
- I wanna see those advertising layouts.
- Mr. Warren's waiting to see you.
MAN 1: Mr. Logan wants
to talk about the paint.
- I haven't time.
- I'm sorry, Miss Drake has...
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Hello, Logan. I'll give you
my decision tomorrow. Yeah.
MAN 2:
Miss Drake, will you sign these, please?
- Mrs. Brown is calling on you.
- Mrs. Brown? Never heard of her.
Change the date on this.
Contract starts on the15th.
PETTIGREW: She said to tell you...
- Why will you worry me with visitors?
[PHONE RINGS]
Very well. She said to tell you Harriet.
She went to school with you.
- Harriet.
- For you, Miss Drake.
Harriet Brown. Of course.
I suppose I'll have to see her.
Well, tell her to come in.
Send those right away. That'll be all.
- Hello. How much for the reduction?
PETTIGREW: This way, please.
ALISON: No. No, I won't consider it.
- Alison.
Hello, Harriet.
Now, tell him to make me a better offer.
This is a surprise.
I just couldn't go by
without stopping in.
ALISON: Sit down.
- I'm driving to Rochester alone.
- Don't you think I'm brave?
- Positively heroic.
- How well you're looking.
- So are you. Not a day older.
Why, I've got loads to tell you.
And I wanna hear all about you.
Of course, I can't get over
your running this enormous factory.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
- Oh, I hope you're not busy.
- Oh, no. No.
BRIGGS [O VER INTERCOM]: Markley
wants to know about the Kazmo shipment.
Tell him to take that up
with the branch manager.
- How is your husband, Tom?
- You mean Dick.
- Oh, Dick, yes.
HARRIET: He's fine.
He's treasurer of the company now.
[PHONE RINGS]
Is he? There were two
children, weren't there. Hello.
Three. Two boys and a girl.
Two boys and a girl.
What? No, not yours, Bradley.
Yeah? Well, I told you what to tell him.
Why didn't you do it?
Well, that's my answer and that's final.
Two girls and a boy. I'm so sorry.
I mean, about the telephone.
[HARRIET CHUCKLES]
- Where are you staying?
- Hotel. I'm leaving in the morning.
ALISON: Where are your bags?
- Downstairs in the car.
BRIGGS: What about that
shipment to Los Angeles?
Take it up with Transportation.
Briggs, tell Pettigrew
to get Mrs. Brown's bags.
- You're coming to stay with me tonight.
HARRIET: Oh, I can't.
Nonsense. We'll have a beautiful
old-fashioned visit. I'll be five minutes.
[INTERCOM BUZZING]
Briggs, take
Mrs. Brown down to my car.
MAN: San Francisco calling.
- Oh, San Francisco. Put them on.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello.
- Isn't this exciting?
[PETTIGREW CHUCKLING]
ALISON: No, of course not.
Send them in later. Hello.
JAMES: Good afternoon, miss.
HARRIET: Good afternoon.
- Take Mrs. Brown up to my room.
- Yes, miss.
- I won't be a second.
- All right.
This way please, madam.
ALISON: So, you've been fighting again.
- No.
Didn't you promise to stay out
of preliminaries at the stadium?
This was a main event.
Wanna be on your heels when you're 30?
And blind like those
pork-and-bean fighters?
- A guy made a crack.
ALISON: What did he say about me?
Oh, it wasn't about you.
Now, listen, Puggy. Things people say
about me don't bother me.
Thanks just the same.
- What a pretty little...
ALISON: Come on, Prince.
Come on, babies.
- You must relax, Miss Drake.
ALISON: All right, I'll try.
- Oh, Della.
DELLA: Yes?
Della, will you telephone the factory...
...and tell Mr. Pettigrew that I'll handle
that Ajax Glass contract in the morning.
- Very well.
WOMAN: You really must relax, Miss Drake.
- Lemon or cream, madam?
- Cream and two sugars, please.
Cream and two sugars?
My, you're a reckless woman.
- No wonder you look happy.
- Yes, I'm afraid marriage agrees with me.
But come, you haven't yet told me
what I want to hear.
- What?
HARRIET: Any romance in the offing?
Romance? Me? Haven't got time.
HARRIET:
Aren't you ever going to fall in love?
It's a career in itself.
It takes too much time and energy. To me
a woman in love is a pathetic spectacle.
She's either so miserable she wants to die,
or she's so happy you want to die.
- Aren't you ever going to marry?
- No, thanks. Not me.
You know, a long time ago, I decided to
travel the same open road that men travel.
So I treat men the way
they've treated women.
You haven't much respect for men.
Of course, I know for some women
men are a household necessity.
I'd rather have a canary.
My, but you've changed, Alison.
You're not the same girl I knew in school.
Why, you used to be so romantic
and so... Well, so different.
- You mean I've grown hard and cynical?
HARRIET: Something like that.
Oh, well, perhaps you're right.
Darling, you can't work with men...
...for 14 hours a day for five years
and not lose your girlish illusions.
If it does that to you,
why did you go into business?
Necessity, because when Father died,
I was the only who knew anything about it.
And now, here I am.
I can't let go.
It's like holding a tiger by the tail.
Oh, but I love it.
The battling and the excitement.
- I don't think I could do without it now.
- But you're missing so much.
- The real things.
- You mean men?
HARRIET: Yes.
- Oh, I see lots of men.
But I've never found a real one.
Oh, give me a cap.
Ooh! Harriet,
have some more tea.
[MUSIC PLAYING
ON RECORD PLAYER]
JAMES: Coffee, madam?
HARRIET: Not for me.
JAMES: Coffee, sir?
COOPER: Thanks.
JAMES: Is there anything else?
- Thanks, I'll ring.
- Very good, miss.
- Cigarette, Harriet?
No, thanks. Well, I know
you two want to talk business.
It's 9:30 and I promised to call
my husband. Good night, Mr. Cooper.
- Good night.
HARRIET: Good night, Alison.
ALISON: Good night. See you.
HARRIET: All right.
- Give my love to To... To Dick.
- Indeed, I will.
Nice girl, Harriet. Goes to bed early.
- More coffee?
- No, thanks.
- Are you sure?
- No more, please.
ALISON:
Hmm.
Music.
- Isn't it lovely?
- It certainly is.
Good. We're alone.
About my scheme, Miss Drake.
I think the greatest way to boost sales...
...will be a series of pep meetings
in all our branches throughout the country.
You see, when I was in college...
...we used to have these big
pep meetings before every game.
I might have known
you were a football player.
COOPER:
Yes. I played my freshman year...
...and I made the varsity
in my sophomore year.
- Really?
- Yes.
You see, the psychology of these
pep meetings is to work up enthusiasm.
Are you naturally enthusiastic?
Oh, I have the loveliest room. Yes.
No, darling, it's not raining here.
What? Your underwear? Well, I didn't
know it was going to turn cold.
Now, don't forget to de-ice the icebox.
And take your mineral oil every night.
Yes, yes. I'll tell her.
I don't want to disturb her now.
She's downstairs in a conference.
COOPER:
Gee, I can't quite figure you out.
At the office, you're so strict
and all business, kind of.
I mean, entirely mental.
But you wouldn't want me to be
entirely mental all the time, would you?
No, I guess you would have to relax
once in a while.
But I can't get used
to seeing you this way.
- What way?
- So... So human.
Oh, I'm really quite human.
You'd be amazed.
Gee, at the office you're certainly
pretty tough. Everybody's scared of you.
Oh, but that's at the office.
You're not scared of me now, are you?
No, I should say not.
Maybe I shouldn't bother you
with my sales promotion plan tonight.
ALISON:
Some other time...
...don't you think?
[BUZZING]
- Time for the vodka. Take my hand.
- Thank you.
- Vodka, that's a Russian hooch, ain't it?
- It is a devastating Russian liquor.
What's she putting that out for?
It was the custom
of Catherine the Great...
...to serve vodka to her soldiers
to fortify their courage.
General Motors 23 five-eighths.
[PHONE RINGS]
Just a minute.
I'll call you back.
All right?
Goodyear 25 seven-eighths,
Steel 52 and a quarter.
American Radiator 18 and a half. Okay.
I'm seeing the Western Electric men
at 11:00.
- What about the Chamber of Commerce?
- I'm out of town.
BRIGGS: Market's off this morning.
- Oh.
Tell Chase to unload my amalgamated.
- Drink your coffee while it's hot.
- What's the latest on you and Henry?
- Have you decided to take him back?
- Yes, I had to.
He says without me,
he's like a ship tossing on a wild sea.
He was tossing the last night I saw him.
Has he promised to give up drinking?
He's only going to
take a little beer with his meals.
You wouldn't have these problems
if you were a fallen woman.
Oh, Miss Alison.
- Good morning.
MEN: Good morning.
- Hello, Harriet.
HARRIET: Good morning, dear.
Good-Iooking men, those secretaries.
- Are they?
- And in your bedroom too.
They might as well be adding machines.
- Oh, Alison, you're hopeless.
- No, just resigned.
If you'll wait for me while I dress
I'll drive you down.
All right, dear. You mean
you've started your business day?
I always get work done
before breakfast.
You worked so late last night.
That business conference.
[TSKING]
Where do you get all that energy?
Cooper.
- Have a good time?
- Why, yes. I had a very pleasant evening.
COOPER: Good morning.
- Good morning.
[DOOR SHUTS]
PETTIGREW:
A very pleasant evening.
ALISON: Take a memorandum
to the Sales Department.
"To stimulate sales,
I would suggest sending a letter...
...to the wife of each salesman
in all our branches."
You got that?
I can't go on this way.
- What are you talking about?
- I can't stand it any longer.
Being near you all day.
Having you ignore me.
I'm a busy woman. I can't be annoyed
with jealous or moody men about me.
- But I love you.
- That's enough of that.
Pettigrew, make arrangements to transfer
Mr. Briggs here to our Montreal office.
- What?
- Does Mr. Briggs want to go to Montreal?
- Mr. Briggs is going to Montreal.
- But I don't wanna go.
That will be all.
Mr. Pettigrew will arrange
for your transportation.
And from now on, I'll have
nothing but women secretaries.
Of course. Men are rather distracting.
Get me two sensible women.
It takes more than flat heels
and glasses to make a sensible woman.
[CHUCKLES]
Mmm.
This looks like romance.
Shall I open them?
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
MAN [O VER INTERCOM]:
Mr. McMillan wants to see you.
Tell Mr. McMillan
I'll see him at 2:00.
Tell Mr. Cooper
I want to see him right away.
Well...
...shall I have them put it in water?
Just a minute.
Oh.
- Miss Drake wishes to see me.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Well, go right ahead.
Good morning, Miss Drake.
I understand you want to see me.
ALISON:
That will be all, Pettigrew.
Hello, Alison.
Listen, Cooper. No more flowers.
Don't get sentimental, understand?
- But, Alison...
- Miss Drake.
- But last night...
ALISON: Forget last night.
- But out at your home, l...
- This is my office.
I'm only interested
in making automobiles here.
That's what you are being paid for.
Is that plain?
Yes.
I guess it is.
That will be all.
I'll see you in Montreal.
[PETTIGREW SINGING]
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
Yes?
Oh.
Yes, Miss D.
The usual amount?
I'll tend to it right away.
PETTIGREW: Hello, Ed.
- Hello, Pet. What's new?
Mr. Cooper of our Sales Department
is to receive a bonus with his salary.
- Another one, huh?
- Yes.
Our bonus arm is growing and growing.
I'm afraid that young lady
is riding for a fall.
Oh, no, not Miss D.
She's a superwoman.
- Super my eye.
- You don't appreciate her.
She's the only honest woman
I've ever met.
There's nothing of the hypocrite
about Miss D.
That's more than you can say about
the men she comes in contact with.
Look at them. A pack of spineless
yes men all after her for her money.
She sees through them.
That's why she tosses them aside.
Just as Napoleon would
have dismissed a ballet girl.
Why, she's never met a man yet
that's worthy of her.
And she never will.
One of these days she'll meet a man
that will knock her right on her rear.
When that happens, my friend, I'll make you
a present of a pair of hand-knitted drawers.
- And I suppose you'll knit them.
- Yes.
I like that.
Oh.
Striking design, but is it practical?
- Why, yes. I could show you.
- Well, I haven't time to discuss it now.
Suppose you come to my house
to dinner tonight. We'll talk about it.
Why, thank you very much. Thank you.
[BUZZING]
- I'll race you across.
- All right.
On your mark...
...get set, go.
Beat you that time.
[ORGAN PLAYING]
You know, it's difficult for me
to realize that I'm actually here with you.
- Is it? Why?
- I don't know.
People at the factory
think of you as they see you there.
I never have.
I've always thought of you like this.
It's very flattering
that you thought of me at all.
I can't imagine your being
very much flattered.
No?
Don't you know a woman's always flattered
when a man thinks about her?
- Shan't need you anymore tonight, James.
JAMES: Very good, miss.
And I am a woman.
As lovely as one of those
marble statues in the night.
ALISON:
Oh, not that one.
The position is so ridiculous.
No, I mean so perfectly
poised and cool.
Cool? That's strange.
I was thinking that about you.
You're a very cool young man.
Have some vodka.
Oh, no, thanks.
I'm intoxicated enough for the night, and...
- The night and what?
- And the music. Oh, this is heavenly.
This probably sounds foolish...
...but I've always felt
I knew you in another incarnation.
- Don't tell me you were a king in Babylon.
- No, I was just a poor shepherd.
And you were a goddess
driving by in a golden chariot.
It's too beautiful.
You're so ethereal, so spiritual.
You don't know
much about women, do you?
No.
[YAWNS]
Oh, it's late. I've got lot of reading to do.
- Oh, I'm afraid l...
- How would you like to study off in Paris?
Why, I've always wanted to do that.
I never felt I belonged in an office.
- You belong in a museum.
- I beg your pardon?
Nothing, you're a nice kid.
See Mr. Pettigrew in the morning...
...and we'll arrange
about that art business.
- Do you mean it? I can't thank you.
- Don't thank me.
- Send me a postcard from Paris.
- You are a goddess.
Cold and pure, I know.
Well, good night, felly boy.
Oh, oh. You gave me such a start,
Mr. Pettigrew.
[CHUCKLING]
- Everything going all right?
- Oh, yes. Thank you so much.
I made them give you a new typewriter.
Oh, you've been very considerate,
Mr. Pettigrew.
It's a pleasure Miss Frothingham.
Did you find a nice place to live?
Oh yes, a lovely little flat,
way up high with a view.
Of course it's not awfully elaborate.
- But it's homey.
- I'm sure you make it that.
- Live with your folks?
- No, I live alone.
I live alone too.
[STRAW SQUEAKS]
[PHONE RINGING]
Yes? No, Miss Drake
can't be disturbed now.
She's in a room in conference
with department heads.
ALISON:
No use kidding ourselves.
We can't send out next year's model
with what we've got.
We need one more feature. Something
that no other car in our class will have.
I'll tell you what it's gonna be.
An automatic gear shift.
It's a good idea, but we couldn't
manufacture it for our price.
- Why not?
- Well, for one thing...
...it would take a year to develop it.
- There's one already developed.
I was talking with the inventor.
- Who is he?
- Name's Thorne.
- Why don't we hire him?
- You can't, he's with Consolidated.
- Get him from them.
- He's got a contract.
- We'll get him.
- You can't break his contract.
I suppose that's never been done.
- Are there ways to get around it?
- Well, it's unethical.
Unethical my foot.
What's that got to do with business?
- You lawyers waste time with trick words.
- I tell you, it can't be done.
Oh, that's an old song and dance of yours.
"It can't be done."
It's gonna be done
if I have to get a new lawyer.
Get me Judge Cutty of Cutty, Blaire
and McNeal. Put him on my private wire.
I'll show you. Contract or no contract,
we're gonna get this man Thorne.
Why people want to give
blasted parties for, I don't know.
Such language.
ALISON: Well, if you had to go through
what I've got to go through tonight...
I detest parties.
A lot of people I don't want to see...
...telling me things I don't want to hear.
I suppose these out-of-town deals
have to be entertained.
- Well, it's business.
ALISON: It certainly isn't pleasure.
Ouch.
You make these other women look as if
they were at a hard-times party.
Oh, say it isn't so.
WOMAN: You're looking
divine tonight, darling.
You really think so?
You know what I always tell people?
That you're the smartest woman in America.
- So what?
- Well, so a lot of things.
The way you run your business,
for example. It's marvelous.
But just the same,
a woman as smart as you should...
Buy insurance from you. Is that it?
Well, I wasn't thinking of that
but now that you mentioned it...
Now that I've mentioned it
suppose we both forget how I feel.
Better watch your husband.
Not my little man.
He knows what he's doing.
[PEOPLE APPLAUDING]
ALISON:
Hello, Georgie.
I've been trying all evening
to get you alone.
Why, George,
you sound positively Spanish.
Perhaps I am.
Alison, I'm a man of few words.
Will you marry me?
Mr. Mumford, this is so sudden.
Yes, I know. And it's rather wet
and awkward too.
I'm in love with you.
You're everything a woman should be.
How do you know?
You've only met me in a business way.
Now, listen. It's time I settle down.
I don't have to tell you
how much money I've made.
I sell more of your cars
than any other dealer in the country.
And I'm going to expand. I've got plans.
- You sell the cars, I make them, is that it?
MUMFORD: Exactly.
- So if you married me...
MUMFORD: It would help both of us.
I see. With my output
and your distribution...
- We'd sweep the country.
- You see, I'm not very fond of sweeping.
I'm not a bit domestic.
[DELLA SINGING]
- Nice party downstairs, isn't it?
- What's nice about it?
Lots of stuffed shirts and hypocrites.
Flattering, conniving, kowtowing.
None were on the level.
They all want something.
I'm beautiful, I'm brilliant,
I'm this, I'm that.
They think I'm stupid enough
to believe that?
- Who am I?
- Who? Why, you're Miss Drake.
That's just it, Miss Drake.
President of the Drake Motor Car Company.
That's why they bow
and scrape and lie to me.
Doesn't anybody like me for myself?
Suppose I'm a nobody.
What would happen?
- Well, where are you going?
- Out.
What's your hurry, babe?
[GUN POPPING]
MAN:
Get your change, lady.
One please.
I'll take one too.
Strong, silent type, huh?
- What do you want me to do, start singing?
- Go ahead. Don't mind me.
- You shoot pretty well.
- Did you notice it?
- Yeah, where did you learn?
- I was the Buffalo Bill once.
You remember me, the cowgirl
with the long blond curls?
I didn't recognize you
without your horse.
Poor old Dobbin.
There was a wonderful horse
and a true pal.
Do you believe that the horse
is man's best friend?
Oh, there's no doubt about it.
Do you ever stop to think
what we owe to the horse?
Well, I can look any horse in the eye
and tell him I don't owe him a cent.
I had a horse once.
Now see what you've done?
- Pardon me.
- Thank you.
Miss, come up and see me sometime.
Where do we go from here?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You must have been Ionely to spend
your evening in a shooting gallery.
Nothing else to do. I just landed in town.
I don't know anybody here.
Besides, shooting galleries
are an old weakness of mine.
I used to work in one once.
- Really?
- Yeah. For a whole year, when I was a kid.
Tell me more about you.
Listen, what's the idea
of all these questions?
You working for the government?
Just trying to get acquainted.
- What's your name?
- You're too fresh. Eat your sandwich.
You know, every time I eat a hamburger
I think about my horse.
- Why, did your horse like hamburgers?
- More than air.
He was insane on the subject.
Why, he'd eat six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12 hamburgers in a row.
You know that's a lot
of hamburgers for one horse.
Yes. Well, I think I'm going
to let you two horse lovers...
...settle this thing between yourselves.
Good night. Pleasant dreams.
Hey, wait a minute.
Where are you going?
Now, listen. We've had a big evening.
I took you dancing
and bought you an elegant supper.
You get on your bicycle and peddle along
wherever you're going.
- I'm going with you.
- Oh, no.
You're a nice kid
but I don't take pickups home with me.
Understand?
Good night.
Must be something wrong
with your technique, dearie.
[LAUGHING]
Oh, shut up.
Oh, l...
Say, what is this?
Are you following me around?
Can't help myself. You're so irresistible.
You work here?
Yeah. Do you?
Uh-huh. I just started today.
What department are you in?
Pickup Department.
Enjoy your work?
Wonder how long
you'll keep your job here?
Well, I've got a two-years' contract.
- Not that it's any of your business.
- No?
Here are those blueprints
you wanted, Mr. Thorne.
Oh, thanks very much.
Thorne?
Is that who you are?
You're an engineering genius.
Listen, I told you last night
you are too fresh.
FROTHINGHAM:
Mr. Thorne is here.
ALISON:
Oh, yes. Yes, send him in.
This is getting to be a gag.
Say, you better get out of that chair...
...before the boss comes in.
Come on, come on, come on.
- Sit down.
- Baby, you certainly are fresh.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
FROTHINGHAM:
What message have you for Larson?
There's a director's meeting on the 13th.
I want him here.
FROTHINGHAM:
But he sailed for England.
ALISON:
Well, telephone his hotel in London.
- Shall I sign these, Miss Drake?
- Yes, I want them to go airmail tonight.
Sit down.
Miss Drake. You, you...
I sent for you
because I want to get started right away.
How soon can you let me
have a working model?
Well, that depends.
- I'd like to go over my design with you.
- I haven't got time to talk about it now.
Come to my house to dinner tonight
and we can discuss it then.
Seven thirty.
Is that understood?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[CLEARS THRO AT]
THORNE: I've put the clutch here.
You see the advantage of that.
Do you see the advantage of that?
- What?
- I was explaining about the clutch.
ALISON:
Oh, the clutch. Of course.
I was thinking about something else.
[BUZZING]
MAN:
Vodka again?
[BUZZING]
I should say vodka very definitely.
THORNE:
Six.
Seven.
Now, the rear axle
is three-quarters floating...
...equipped with tapered roller bearings
of excess radial load and thrust capacity.
- Um, doesn't vodka affect you at all?
- No.
- Well, not very much.
- But most men...
I mean vodka, you know, would...
I was in Russia on an engineering job.
We used to brush our teeth with it.
Russia. How interesting.
I do wish you'd tell me about it.
Are you bored with these
engineering details?
Bored? Of course I'm not bored.
Perhaps I'm not just in the mood
for blueprints tonight.
Leave them here
and I can look them over later.
Very well.
Now, here's to the new model Drake.
Oh, no. No, let's forget
about automobiles tonight.
- Here's to you.
- And to you.
[WHISTLES]
Eight.
You know, you're a very amazing person.
ALISON:
Because I run a factory?
No, because you forget
so completely running a factory.
You mean, because I become
so completely a woman.
Yeah, that's it.
Few people have the intelligence
to realize that.
They confuse the two things
so hopelessly.
Few people have the advantage of meeting
you in a shooting gallery as a pickup...
...and then having drinks with you
in a "10 Cents a Dance" palace.
- I found out quite a bit about you.
- You know, I needed you that night.
I needed to have someone
accept me as plain woman.
So you resented it a little.
You know,
you have a perfectly charming smile.
Now, about this clutch.
There are one or two things that...
ALISON:
I think the reason that I resented it...
...is because you refused
to take me seriously.
You were amused.
- What did you expect?
- Oh, I don't know what.
If you had said, "Come here,"
yanked me into a corner and kissed me...
...I'd have been terribly grateful.
It would have made me
feel more sure of myself...
...if someone wanted me
for what I am without all this.
Well, I can't imagine you
being unsure of yourself.
ALISON: Can't you?
- No.
A girl who works 12 to 14 hours a day
in an office making rapid-fire decisions...
...isn't very apt to become unsure
of herself just because she left her office.
You're terribly wrong.
[WHISTLES]
It's excellent vodka.
I'm so glad you like it.
Well, there's just one more point
about these blueprints...
...that I wanna show you here.
Oh, we were forgetting business
so beautifully.
Must you talk about automobiles?
Yes.
I thought engineering was a profession,
not an affliction.
All right. We'll talk about it tomorrow
at the factory.
I must be going.
Oh, but it's really quite early.
- Besides, you must have another drink.
- Oh, no, no. No more vodka.
Oh, but you wouldn't leave me all alone,
would you?
Come, sit down here.
I want you to talk to me.
- About what?
- About me.
Oh, I see.
Well, you may be president
of the Drake Automobile Company...
...but I was engaged as an engineer,
not as a gigolo.
And I'm not holding my job
by humoring any little whims of yours.
I assure you this is not a little whim.
And hereafter, when you want to talk
business, you can see me at the factory.
- You're very rude.
- I'm very sorry.
Good night, Miss Drake.
[PETTIGREW SINGING]
Good morning, Miss Frothingham.
- Good morning, Mr. Pettigrew.
- Well, you are looking radiant this morning.
Mmm, what an intoxicating perfume.
Is it Galahad's Breath of Love?
No, Passion Flower No.2.
It's delicious.
Have you changed your mind
about coming up to my flat...
...to see my pictures?
Oh, I really shouldn't.
Oh! I made a mistake.
It's encouraging to know
that you do make mistakes.
Oh, Mr. Pettigrew.
How's her disposition this morning?
Terrible. I don't know
what's the matter with her lately.
- Is she alone?
- No.
- A detective's in there.
- Detective?
"Tuesday night, Thorne had dinner alone
from 7:10 to 8:20 at the athletic club.
Walked home alone and went to bed.
Also alone.
Wednesday night, 7 to 8:45,
Thorne had dinner at the Red Onion Cafe...
...with Miss Joyce."
- Who?
DETECTIVE:
Miss Joyce, his secretary.
"Afterward attended performance
of James Cagney in Picture Snatcher...
...at the Lyric Theater.
- Thorne then drove girl to her apartment."
- And?
"Remained five minutes in vestibule
then drove home alone."
That's enough.
You want me to continue the investigation,
Miss Drake?
No, that's all.
- See Mr. Pettigrew about your fee.
- Yes, ma'am.
I knew you'd forget it,
so I bought this for you on the way down.
Thank you, you're spoiling me.
There.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Pardon me, please.
McKay isn't satisfied with the new
clutch. I'd like to see a blueprint.
All right, I made another adjustment
yesterday. Here we are.
You'll have to increase
the tension of the plate springs.
I've already done that. But you'll probably
get a better idea from the working model.
I'd like to see a test run
as soon as possible.
- Tonight at 8:00.
- All right, I'll have them run it for you.
- I want you there.
- Sorry, can't make it.
- Why not?
- I have an engagement.
Break it.
I can't, it's with a lady.
- Doesn't make any difference.
- Oh, yes, it does.
That blond stenographer of Thorne's.
I want her discharged immediately.
Certainly, Miss D.
Now, wait a minute.
I've got a better idea.
Keep her working tonight.
You give her enough copying to do
to keep her here until 12:00.
Yes, Miss D.
ALISON:
Never mind.
Leave the girl alone.
What's happened to me?
I'm getting petty.
Look here, what kind of a woman
do men like?
- How do they want them to act?
- Well, that depends.
A man of Jim Thorne's type, for example,
wants a woman who will look up to him.
Gentle, feminine,
someone he can protect.
That's because Jim Thorne is strong.
And rather primitive, perhaps.
The dominant male, my dear.
Gentle and feminine, eh?
Hmm.
So that's what they want.
Well...
...we strive to please.
[MACHINERY BUZZING]
Hello, Jim.
[CLEARS THRO AT]
Well, busy?
- This time, I think we've got it.
- Have we? Good.
By the way, Jim,
there's something I want to ask.
Now, don't say no
before you think this over.
Late this afternoon...
...the heads of the departments and their
families are having a picnic at Belle Isle.
We're particularly anxious
you should be there.
- A picnic?
- Of course, I know...
...you'd consider it vanity
and all that sort of thing.
But just at this time it's very necessary
that we have an informal get-together.
- Well, I'm afraid that...
- You won't have to stay long.
Just make an appearance.
It will mean a good deal to the company.
I hope we can count on you.
Well, if that's the case,
I suppose I'll have to go.
PETTIGREW:
Fine.
ALISON:
Oh, hello. What are you doing here?
What is this? A frame-up?
A frame-up?
- Oh, I don't know what you mean.
- Where is the employees' picnic?
- Am I the only employee invited?
- Oh, didn't they tell you?
Oh, that's too bad.
It was called off...
...so I decided
to have a picnic by myself.
Well, I hope you enjoy yourself.
Good night.
Mr. Thorne?
Would you mind helping me light this fire
before you go?
I don't seem to be able to.
All right.
ALISON:
Oh.
No trick for you at all, is it?
- Have you lived much in the open?
- Yes, and I should have stayed there.
Yes, you did tell me that you had
a camp in the Adirondacks, didn't you?
It must be lovely there.
I can't think of anything that compares with
a meal cooked over a campfire, can you?
Oh, I must make some coffee.
You should have brought your butler
and your chef along.
Oh, no. That's just the point.
I want to get away
from everything civilized.
Isn't this a heavenly spot?
I must get some water for the coffee.
There's a spring right back there
through the woods. Oh, uh...
I wonder if you'd mind
very much watching that.
I won't be a minute.
[SCREAMS]
Oh!
- What's that?
- Oh, it's an owl. Give me that thing.
Still angry with me for
having tricked you into coming out here?
I was at first.
Why did you do it?
Oh, I don't know.
But we had such fun the night we met
at the shooting gallery.
Then when you found out who I was
we didn't have a good time anymore.
Do you realize that we haven't mentioned
the factory or the business...
...once since we've been here?
Do you realize that I know you
as four entirely different people?
The girl at the shooting gallery,
she was amusing.
- Then the girl at the factory.
- Tell me about her.
Well, she's a very efficient, capable
sort of thinking machine.
- Oh.
- And the girl at your house...
...that night for dinner.
Didn't like her.
Why not?
Well, perhaps because I'm a man
and I prefer to do my own hunting.
Oh.
And the girl you are here tonight.
Which one do you like best?
This one.
Which one do you think is real?
This one.
TOM: Good morning, Alison.
ALISON: Hello, Tom.
- You're looking fresh as a rose this morning.
- You put that in writing?
[TOM CHUCKLING]
Fifty-two, 47, 45.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, dear. I hardly know what I'm doing.
Hello. No, Miss Drake
notified him yesterday.
- The director's meeting's at 2:30 sharp.
- Hey, give me a hand, will you?
Thanks.
- Have you found it?
- I've only got two hands.
- I can't wait all day for it.
- I swear.
Here it is.
[PHONE RINGS]
Hello. No, Miss Drake
can't tend to that today. All right.
WOMAN: Did you have an appointment?
- Nope.
Oh, wait a minute.
Hello.
I'll finish that later. Put my call
through to New York, will you?
That will be all.
That will be all.
[ALISON AND THORNE CHUCKLING]
[PHONE RINGING]
ALISON:
Yep? Hello, Mr. Brehr.
Huh?
Oh, suppose that you get tough.
We can be tough too.
All right, don't be late.
I've been down to the city hall.
They smoke the worst cigars in the city.
- What were you doing in the city hall?
- Very important business. Look, look.
What do you think of that?
- Well, it's a marriage license.
- Haven't you heard?
You're about to become Mrs. Thorne.
Come on.
Oh, Jim, you're not serious about that,
are you?
What do you mean?
- Well, we...
- Wait a minute, let's get this thing straight.
- Are you telling me you won't marry me?
- I never thought of such a thing.
- Last night didn't mean anything to you?
- Oh, of course it did, but...
Well, marriage isn't for me... For us.
After all, we can be so happy as we are.
Oh, don't let's spoil everything.
Then you don't love me.
Oh, Jim, you're being unreasonable.
- I'm just one of the boys?
- Don't be absurd.
You're being old-fashioned.
- Is it old-fashioned to want to be decent?
- Oh...
I suppose you think you're too superior
for marriage and love and children.
The things that women were born for.
Who do you think you are? Are you
so drunk with your own importance...
...you think you can make your own rules?
Well, you're a fake.
You've been playing so long
you've begun to believe it.
The great superwoman.
Cracking your whip
and making these poor fools jump around.
You and your new freedom. Why, if you
weren't so pathetic, you'd be funny.
- You'd better go.
- Don't worry, I'm on my way.
But the laugh's on me,
offering a marriage license to a pickup.
New York's on the wire.
Hello.
We could go on arguing another hour
and be just where we started.
This company must have money.
MAN 1:
Why not take the security crossover?
MAN 2: And let them get control
of Drake and kick Alison out?
That's what they're after.
And if we accept their terms,
that's exactly what will happen.
They've made the other banks lay off.
The commercial, the union and the rest.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN 2:
This is a freeze out.
- Did you try his house?
- Yes.
He left there an hour ago
with a suitcase.
MAN 3: Why should we sacrifice everything?
MAN 4: What can we do?
They've got us.
There's nothing left but a compromise.
Wait a minute now. It just happens that
Alison controls 51 percent of our stock.
We've been doing all the shouting.
But I know you haven't been
sitting there daydreaming.
You're not going to give up this easily.
You're too much of a fighter.
It's up to you, Alison.
What are we going to do?
Why, were you... We've got to...
We've got to...
I can't go on.
I don't belong here.
This is no place for a woman.
I know, I've always thought
I was different.
I've always tried to beat life
the way men beat it but I can't. I can't.
All this crazy, frantic struggle,
fighting with bankers...
...trying to save the business,
what's it to me?
You do what you like with it. I don't care.
That's right, my dear. Have a good cry.
It's just what you need.
Of course, I've been expecting this
for some time. It's only natural.
You couldn't go on as you have been.
Living on your nerves, running this
big business all by yourself.
You're just a woman, after all.
This job was too much for you.
I don't wonder you quit.
- What are we going to do?
- I don't know.
Gentlemen, I apologize.
Please forget that that ever happened.
- We can't compromise.
MAN 1: Now you're talking.
If the bankers in this town won't play ball,
there are bankers that will.
I'll go to New York tonight.
I've never failed to get money yet.
I want to talk to George Barkley.
The State National Bank in New York.
Oh, uh... Uh...
Get me police headquarters.
Switch them on in my private office.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello.
- Miss Drake.
We got a line on that party.
He left town three hours ago
in a gray Packard Roadster...
...license X4878 heading east
on the number 9 highway.
Call Puggy. Tell him to fill the gas tank
for a long trip.
- But you're leaving tonight for New York.
- I'm not going to New York.
But my dear, the most important
appointment of your life...
...with those bankers at 4 tomorrow.
No Petti, there's something
much more important than that.
But you must be there.
If you don't get that loan, the company...
Think of what you're doing.
ALISON:
Too late for that.
Miss D, you can't do this.
Move over. We're going faster
than you know how to drive.
- Have you lost your mind?
- Yes.
I'm sure it was him.
He stopped here for gas.
ALISON: Which road did he take?
- He turned right towards Mapletown.
Better let me take it.
That's the man you're after.
I give him his breakfast.
He had fried eggs and bacon...
- How long ago?
WOMAN: Just after we opened up. I'd say...
- About an hour ago.
- No such thing.
- That was the man who had ham and eggs.
- Bacon and eggs.
The man in the gray car,
how long ago did he pass?
An hour ago.
[GUN POPPING]
ALISON:
Jim.
Jim.
Jim, I can't go on without you.
I'm not playing a part.
I'm not a superwoman.
I'm just...
They're gonna
take the business from me.
I was to meet the bankers in New York
at 4:00 this afternoon. I couldn't go.
I had to find you.
Oh, Jim, take me wherever you're going.
I'll marry you, if you still want me to.
What time did you say you had to meet
those bankers this afternoon?
- At 4:00, but it's too late now.
- No, it isn't.
We'll catch a plane at Hopefield.
Come on.
MAN:
Hey, wait.
[PIG SQUEALING]
- You forgot your prize.
- Oh, thank you.
Goodbye, Lulu.
We're going to make it.
I'd like to see anybody
take that business away from you.
[CHUCKLES]
Somebody already has
taken it away from me.
- Who?
- You.
You're gonna run it from now on.
I never wanna see that factory again.
What about you?
Oh, didn't you know?
I'm gonna have nine children.
- Is that all?
- That's all.
[PIG SQUEALING]
Hey, Gus, you better tie your hat on
before you go in there.
- The president's blowing the roof off.
- Who's getting it?
Did you get me that seat...?
PETTIGREW: The president's
waiting for that coffee.
Okay, Mr. Pettigrew.
MAN: Our figures prove that a
minimum average of 3 million cars...
...must be built every year in order to
maintain 21 million cars on the road.
Heretofore, the Drake Motorcar Company
has supplied...
...17 and eight-tenths
percent of the total.
Just a minute. I've been listening
to you for over an hour...
...and all I've heard is a lot of statistics.
You've all got statistic poisoning.
In case you don't know it,
this business is slipping fast.
We're making better motorcars
than when Father was alive.
- We're not selling them. Why?
MAN: But, for the last three years...
That's the trouble with you.
All I've heard is "the last three years."
Our problem is this year.
And it's your business to sell cars.
That's all.
Oh, Cooper.
- Can I speak with you a moment, please?
- Yes, Miss Drake.
- How long have you been here?
- Sixteen days to be exact.
ALISON: You like your work?
- Oh, yes, indeed. Very much.
I've been trying to make an appointment
to talk over a new sales plan of my own.
Well, I haven't got time
to go into that now.
Suppose you come to my house to dinner
tonight at 7:30. We'll talk about it then.
That's all.
Thank you very much.
Attractive fellow, don't you think?
Pettigrew, you're an old snoop.
Yes, just a moment please.
- I wanna see those advertising layouts.
- Mr. Warren's waiting to see you.
MAN 1: Mr. Logan wants
to talk about the paint.
- I haven't time.
- I'm sorry, Miss Drake has...
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Hello, Logan. I'll give you
my decision tomorrow. Yeah.
MAN 2:
Miss Drake, will you sign these, please?
- Mrs. Brown is calling on you.
- Mrs. Brown? Never heard of her.
Change the date on this.
Contract starts on the15th.
PETTIGREW: She said to tell you...
- Why will you worry me with visitors?
[PHONE RINGS]
Very well. She said to tell you Harriet.
She went to school with you.
- Harriet.
- For you, Miss Drake.
Harriet Brown. Of course.
I suppose I'll have to see her.
Well, tell her to come in.
Send those right away. That'll be all.
- Hello. How much for the reduction?
PETTIGREW: This way, please.
ALISON: No. No, I won't consider it.
- Alison.
Hello, Harriet.
Now, tell him to make me a better offer.
This is a surprise.
I just couldn't go by
without stopping in.
ALISON: Sit down.
- I'm driving to Rochester alone.
- Don't you think I'm brave?
- Positively heroic.
- How well you're looking.
- So are you. Not a day older.
Why, I've got loads to tell you.
And I wanna hear all about you.
Of course, I can't get over
your running this enormous factory.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
- Oh, I hope you're not busy.
- Oh, no. No.
BRIGGS [O VER INTERCOM]: Markley
wants to know about the Kazmo shipment.
Tell him to take that up
with the branch manager.
- How is your husband, Tom?
- You mean Dick.
- Oh, Dick, yes.
HARRIET: He's fine.
He's treasurer of the company now.
[PHONE RINGS]
Is he? There were two
children, weren't there. Hello.
Three. Two boys and a girl.
Two boys and a girl.
What? No, not yours, Bradley.
Yeah? Well, I told you what to tell him.
Why didn't you do it?
Well, that's my answer and that's final.
Two girls and a boy. I'm so sorry.
I mean, about the telephone.
[HARRIET CHUCKLES]
- Where are you staying?
- Hotel. I'm leaving in the morning.
ALISON: Where are your bags?
- Downstairs in the car.
BRIGGS: What about that
shipment to Los Angeles?
Take it up with Transportation.
Briggs, tell Pettigrew
to get Mrs. Brown's bags.
- You're coming to stay with me tonight.
HARRIET: Oh, I can't.
Nonsense. We'll have a beautiful
old-fashioned visit. I'll be five minutes.
[INTERCOM BUZZING]
Briggs, take
Mrs. Brown down to my car.
MAN: San Francisco calling.
- Oh, San Francisco. Put them on.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello.
- Isn't this exciting?
[PETTIGREW CHUCKLING]
ALISON: No, of course not.
Send them in later. Hello.
JAMES: Good afternoon, miss.
HARRIET: Good afternoon.
- Take Mrs. Brown up to my room.
- Yes, miss.
- I won't be a second.
- All right.
This way please, madam.
ALISON: So, you've been fighting again.
- No.
Didn't you promise to stay out
of preliminaries at the stadium?
This was a main event.
Wanna be on your heels when you're 30?
And blind like those
pork-and-bean fighters?
- A guy made a crack.
ALISON: What did he say about me?
Oh, it wasn't about you.
Now, listen, Puggy. Things people say
about me don't bother me.
Thanks just the same.
- What a pretty little...
ALISON: Come on, Prince.
Come on, babies.
- You must relax, Miss Drake.
ALISON: All right, I'll try.
- Oh, Della.
DELLA: Yes?
Della, will you telephone the factory...
...and tell Mr. Pettigrew that I'll handle
that Ajax Glass contract in the morning.
- Very well.
WOMAN: You really must relax, Miss Drake.
- Lemon or cream, madam?
- Cream and two sugars, please.
Cream and two sugars?
My, you're a reckless woman.
- No wonder you look happy.
- Yes, I'm afraid marriage agrees with me.
But come, you haven't yet told me
what I want to hear.
- What?
HARRIET: Any romance in the offing?
Romance? Me? Haven't got time.
HARRIET:
Aren't you ever going to fall in love?
It's a career in itself.
It takes too much time and energy. To me
a woman in love is a pathetic spectacle.
She's either so miserable she wants to die,
or she's so happy you want to die.
- Aren't you ever going to marry?
- No, thanks. Not me.
You know, a long time ago, I decided to
travel the same open road that men travel.
So I treat men the way
they've treated women.
You haven't much respect for men.
Of course, I know for some women
men are a household necessity.
I'd rather have a canary.
My, but you've changed, Alison.
You're not the same girl I knew in school.
Why, you used to be so romantic
and so... Well, so different.
- You mean I've grown hard and cynical?
HARRIET: Something like that.
Oh, well, perhaps you're right.
Darling, you can't work with men...
...for 14 hours a day for five years
and not lose your girlish illusions.
If it does that to you,
why did you go into business?
Necessity, because when Father died,
I was the only who knew anything about it.
And now, here I am.
I can't let go.
It's like holding a tiger by the tail.
Oh, but I love it.
The battling and the excitement.
- I don't think I could do without it now.
- But you're missing so much.
- The real things.
- You mean men?
HARRIET: Yes.
- Oh, I see lots of men.
But I've never found a real one.
Oh, give me a cap.
Ooh! Harriet,
have some more tea.
[MUSIC PLAYING
ON RECORD PLAYER]
JAMES: Coffee, madam?
HARRIET: Not for me.
JAMES: Coffee, sir?
COOPER: Thanks.
JAMES: Is there anything else?
- Thanks, I'll ring.
- Very good, miss.
- Cigarette, Harriet?
No, thanks. Well, I know
you two want to talk business.
It's 9:30 and I promised to call
my husband. Good night, Mr. Cooper.
- Good night.
HARRIET: Good night, Alison.
ALISON: Good night. See you.
HARRIET: All right.
- Give my love to To... To Dick.
- Indeed, I will.
Nice girl, Harriet. Goes to bed early.
- More coffee?
- No, thanks.
- Are you sure?
- No more, please.
ALISON:
Hmm.
Music.
- Isn't it lovely?
- It certainly is.
Good. We're alone.
About my scheme, Miss Drake.
I think the greatest way to boost sales...
...will be a series of pep meetings
in all our branches throughout the country.
You see, when I was in college...
...we used to have these big
pep meetings before every game.
I might have known
you were a football player.
COOPER:
Yes. I played my freshman year...
...and I made the varsity
in my sophomore year.
- Really?
- Yes.
You see, the psychology of these
pep meetings is to work up enthusiasm.
Are you naturally enthusiastic?
Oh, I have the loveliest room. Yes.
No, darling, it's not raining here.
What? Your underwear? Well, I didn't
know it was going to turn cold.
Now, don't forget to de-ice the icebox.
And take your mineral oil every night.
Yes, yes. I'll tell her.
I don't want to disturb her now.
She's downstairs in a conference.
COOPER:
Gee, I can't quite figure you out.
At the office, you're so strict
and all business, kind of.
I mean, entirely mental.
But you wouldn't want me to be
entirely mental all the time, would you?
No, I guess you would have to relax
once in a while.
But I can't get used
to seeing you this way.
- What way?
- So... So human.
Oh, I'm really quite human.
You'd be amazed.
Gee, at the office you're certainly
pretty tough. Everybody's scared of you.
Oh, but that's at the office.
You're not scared of me now, are you?
No, I should say not.
Maybe I shouldn't bother you
with my sales promotion plan tonight.
ALISON:
Some other time...
...don't you think?
[BUZZING]
- Time for the vodka. Take my hand.
- Thank you.
- Vodka, that's a Russian hooch, ain't it?
- It is a devastating Russian liquor.
What's she putting that out for?
It was the custom
of Catherine the Great...
...to serve vodka to her soldiers
to fortify their courage.
General Motors 23 five-eighths.
[PHONE RINGS]
Just a minute.
I'll call you back.
All right?
Goodyear 25 seven-eighths,
Steel 52 and a quarter.
American Radiator 18 and a half. Okay.
I'm seeing the Western Electric men
at 11:00.
- What about the Chamber of Commerce?
- I'm out of town.
BRIGGS: Market's off this morning.
- Oh.
Tell Chase to unload my amalgamated.
- Drink your coffee while it's hot.
- What's the latest on you and Henry?
- Have you decided to take him back?
- Yes, I had to.
He says without me,
he's like a ship tossing on a wild sea.
He was tossing the last night I saw him.
Has he promised to give up drinking?
He's only going to
take a little beer with his meals.
You wouldn't have these problems
if you were a fallen woman.
Oh, Miss Alison.
- Good morning.
MEN: Good morning.
- Hello, Harriet.
HARRIET: Good morning, dear.
Good-Iooking men, those secretaries.
- Are they?
- And in your bedroom too.
They might as well be adding machines.
- Oh, Alison, you're hopeless.
- No, just resigned.
If you'll wait for me while I dress
I'll drive you down.
All right, dear. You mean
you've started your business day?
I always get work done
before breakfast.
You worked so late last night.
That business conference.
[TSKING]
Where do you get all that energy?
Cooper.
- Have a good time?
- Why, yes. I had a very pleasant evening.
COOPER: Good morning.
- Good morning.
[DOOR SHUTS]
PETTIGREW:
A very pleasant evening.
ALISON: Take a memorandum
to the Sales Department.
"To stimulate sales,
I would suggest sending a letter...
...to the wife of each salesman
in all our branches."
You got that?
I can't go on this way.
- What are you talking about?
- I can't stand it any longer.
Being near you all day.
Having you ignore me.
I'm a busy woman. I can't be annoyed
with jealous or moody men about me.
- But I love you.
- That's enough of that.
Pettigrew, make arrangements to transfer
Mr. Briggs here to our Montreal office.
- What?
- Does Mr. Briggs want to go to Montreal?
- Mr. Briggs is going to Montreal.
- But I don't wanna go.
That will be all.
Mr. Pettigrew will arrange
for your transportation.
And from now on, I'll have
nothing but women secretaries.
Of course. Men are rather distracting.
Get me two sensible women.
It takes more than flat heels
and glasses to make a sensible woman.
[CHUCKLES]
Mmm.
This looks like romance.
Shall I open them?
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
MAN [O VER INTERCOM]:
Mr. McMillan wants to see you.
Tell Mr. McMillan
I'll see him at 2:00.
Tell Mr. Cooper
I want to see him right away.
Well...
...shall I have them put it in water?
Just a minute.
Oh.
- Miss Drake wishes to see me.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Well, go right ahead.
Good morning, Miss Drake.
I understand you want to see me.
ALISON:
That will be all, Pettigrew.
Hello, Alison.
Listen, Cooper. No more flowers.
Don't get sentimental, understand?
- But, Alison...
- Miss Drake.
- But last night...
ALISON: Forget last night.
- But out at your home, l...
- This is my office.
I'm only interested
in making automobiles here.
That's what you are being paid for.
Is that plain?
Yes.
I guess it is.
That will be all.
I'll see you in Montreal.
[PETTIGREW SINGING]
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
Yes?
Oh.
Yes, Miss D.
The usual amount?
I'll tend to it right away.
PETTIGREW: Hello, Ed.
- Hello, Pet. What's new?
Mr. Cooper of our Sales Department
is to receive a bonus with his salary.
- Another one, huh?
- Yes.
Our bonus arm is growing and growing.
I'm afraid that young lady
is riding for a fall.
Oh, no, not Miss D.
She's a superwoman.
- Super my eye.
- You don't appreciate her.
She's the only honest woman
I've ever met.
There's nothing of the hypocrite
about Miss D.
That's more than you can say about
the men she comes in contact with.
Look at them. A pack of spineless
yes men all after her for her money.
She sees through them.
That's why she tosses them aside.
Just as Napoleon would
have dismissed a ballet girl.
Why, she's never met a man yet
that's worthy of her.
And she never will.
One of these days she'll meet a man
that will knock her right on her rear.
When that happens, my friend, I'll make you
a present of a pair of hand-knitted drawers.
- And I suppose you'll knit them.
- Yes.
I like that.
Oh.
Striking design, but is it practical?
- Why, yes. I could show you.
- Well, I haven't time to discuss it now.
Suppose you come to my house
to dinner tonight. We'll talk about it.
Why, thank you very much. Thank you.
[BUZZING]
- I'll race you across.
- All right.
On your mark...
...get set, go.
Beat you that time.
[ORGAN PLAYING]
You know, it's difficult for me
to realize that I'm actually here with you.
- Is it? Why?
- I don't know.
People at the factory
think of you as they see you there.
I never have.
I've always thought of you like this.
It's very flattering
that you thought of me at all.
I can't imagine your being
very much flattered.
No?
Don't you know a woman's always flattered
when a man thinks about her?
- Shan't need you anymore tonight, James.
JAMES: Very good, miss.
And I am a woman.
As lovely as one of those
marble statues in the night.
ALISON:
Oh, not that one.
The position is so ridiculous.
No, I mean so perfectly
poised and cool.
Cool? That's strange.
I was thinking that about you.
You're a very cool young man.
Have some vodka.
Oh, no, thanks.
I'm intoxicated enough for the night, and...
- The night and what?
- And the music. Oh, this is heavenly.
This probably sounds foolish...
...but I've always felt
I knew you in another incarnation.
- Don't tell me you were a king in Babylon.
- No, I was just a poor shepherd.
And you were a goddess
driving by in a golden chariot.
It's too beautiful.
You're so ethereal, so spiritual.
You don't know
much about women, do you?
No.
[YAWNS]
Oh, it's late. I've got lot of reading to do.
- Oh, I'm afraid l...
- How would you like to study off in Paris?
Why, I've always wanted to do that.
I never felt I belonged in an office.
- You belong in a museum.
- I beg your pardon?
Nothing, you're a nice kid.
See Mr. Pettigrew in the morning...
...and we'll arrange
about that art business.
- Do you mean it? I can't thank you.
- Don't thank me.
- Send me a postcard from Paris.
- You are a goddess.
Cold and pure, I know.
Well, good night, felly boy.
Oh, oh. You gave me such a start,
Mr. Pettigrew.
[CHUCKLING]
- Everything going all right?
- Oh, yes. Thank you so much.
I made them give you a new typewriter.
Oh, you've been very considerate,
Mr. Pettigrew.
It's a pleasure Miss Frothingham.
Did you find a nice place to live?
Oh yes, a lovely little flat,
way up high with a view.
Of course it's not awfully elaborate.
- But it's homey.
- I'm sure you make it that.
- Live with your folks?
- No, I live alone.
I live alone too.
[STRAW SQUEAKS]
[PHONE RINGING]
Yes? No, Miss Drake
can't be disturbed now.
She's in a room in conference
with department heads.
ALISON:
No use kidding ourselves.
We can't send out next year's model
with what we've got.
We need one more feature. Something
that no other car in our class will have.
I'll tell you what it's gonna be.
An automatic gear shift.
It's a good idea, but we couldn't
manufacture it for our price.
- Why not?
- Well, for one thing...
...it would take a year to develop it.
- There's one already developed.
I was talking with the inventor.
- Who is he?
- Name's Thorne.
- Why don't we hire him?
- You can't, he's with Consolidated.
- Get him from them.
- He's got a contract.
- We'll get him.
- You can't break his contract.
I suppose that's never been done.
- Are there ways to get around it?
- Well, it's unethical.
Unethical my foot.
What's that got to do with business?
- You lawyers waste time with trick words.
- I tell you, it can't be done.
Oh, that's an old song and dance of yours.
"It can't be done."
It's gonna be done
if I have to get a new lawyer.
Get me Judge Cutty of Cutty, Blaire
and McNeal. Put him on my private wire.
I'll show you. Contract or no contract,
we're gonna get this man Thorne.
Why people want to give
blasted parties for, I don't know.
Such language.
ALISON: Well, if you had to go through
what I've got to go through tonight...
I detest parties.
A lot of people I don't want to see...
...telling me things I don't want to hear.
I suppose these out-of-town deals
have to be entertained.
- Well, it's business.
ALISON: It certainly isn't pleasure.
Ouch.
You make these other women look as if
they were at a hard-times party.
Oh, say it isn't so.
WOMAN: You're looking
divine tonight, darling.
You really think so?
You know what I always tell people?
That you're the smartest woman in America.
- So what?
- Well, so a lot of things.
The way you run your business,
for example. It's marvelous.
But just the same,
a woman as smart as you should...
Buy insurance from you. Is that it?
Well, I wasn't thinking of that
but now that you mentioned it...
Now that I've mentioned it
suppose we both forget how I feel.
Better watch your husband.
Not my little man.
He knows what he's doing.
[PEOPLE APPLAUDING]
ALISON:
Hello, Georgie.
I've been trying all evening
to get you alone.
Why, George,
you sound positively Spanish.
Perhaps I am.
Alison, I'm a man of few words.
Will you marry me?
Mr. Mumford, this is so sudden.
Yes, I know. And it's rather wet
and awkward too.
I'm in love with you.
You're everything a woman should be.
How do you know?
You've only met me in a business way.
Now, listen. It's time I settle down.
I don't have to tell you
how much money I've made.
I sell more of your cars
than any other dealer in the country.
And I'm going to expand. I've got plans.
- You sell the cars, I make them, is that it?
MUMFORD: Exactly.
- So if you married me...
MUMFORD: It would help both of us.
I see. With my output
and your distribution...
- We'd sweep the country.
- You see, I'm not very fond of sweeping.
I'm not a bit domestic.
[DELLA SINGING]
- Nice party downstairs, isn't it?
- What's nice about it?
Lots of stuffed shirts and hypocrites.
Flattering, conniving, kowtowing.
None were on the level.
They all want something.
I'm beautiful, I'm brilliant,
I'm this, I'm that.
They think I'm stupid enough
to believe that?
- Who am I?
- Who? Why, you're Miss Drake.
That's just it, Miss Drake.
President of the Drake Motor Car Company.
That's why they bow
and scrape and lie to me.
Doesn't anybody like me for myself?
Suppose I'm a nobody.
What would happen?
- Well, where are you going?
- Out.
What's your hurry, babe?
[GUN POPPING]
MAN:
Get your change, lady.
One please.
I'll take one too.
Strong, silent type, huh?
- What do you want me to do, start singing?
- Go ahead. Don't mind me.
- You shoot pretty well.
- Did you notice it?
- Yeah, where did you learn?
- I was the Buffalo Bill once.
You remember me, the cowgirl
with the long blond curls?
I didn't recognize you
without your horse.
Poor old Dobbin.
There was a wonderful horse
and a true pal.
Do you believe that the horse
is man's best friend?
Oh, there's no doubt about it.
Do you ever stop to think
what we owe to the horse?
Well, I can look any horse in the eye
and tell him I don't owe him a cent.
I had a horse once.
Now see what you've done?
- Pardon me.
- Thank you.
Miss, come up and see me sometime.
Where do we go from here?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You must have been Ionely to spend
your evening in a shooting gallery.
Nothing else to do. I just landed in town.
I don't know anybody here.
Besides, shooting galleries
are an old weakness of mine.
I used to work in one once.
- Really?
- Yeah. For a whole year, when I was a kid.
Tell me more about you.
Listen, what's the idea
of all these questions?
You working for the government?
Just trying to get acquainted.
- What's your name?
- You're too fresh. Eat your sandwich.
You know, every time I eat a hamburger
I think about my horse.
- Why, did your horse like hamburgers?
- More than air.
He was insane on the subject.
Why, he'd eat six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12 hamburgers in a row.
You know that's a lot
of hamburgers for one horse.
Yes. Well, I think I'm going
to let you two horse lovers...
...settle this thing between yourselves.
Good night. Pleasant dreams.
Hey, wait a minute.
Where are you going?
Now, listen. We've had a big evening.
I took you dancing
and bought you an elegant supper.
You get on your bicycle and peddle along
wherever you're going.
- I'm going with you.
- Oh, no.
You're a nice kid
but I don't take pickups home with me.
Understand?
Good night.
Must be something wrong
with your technique, dearie.
[LAUGHING]
Oh, shut up.
Oh, l...
Say, what is this?
Are you following me around?
Can't help myself. You're so irresistible.
You work here?
Yeah. Do you?
Uh-huh. I just started today.
What department are you in?
Pickup Department.
Enjoy your work?
Wonder how long
you'll keep your job here?
Well, I've got a two-years' contract.
- Not that it's any of your business.
- No?
Here are those blueprints
you wanted, Mr. Thorne.
Oh, thanks very much.
Thorne?
Is that who you are?
You're an engineering genius.
Listen, I told you last night
you are too fresh.
FROTHINGHAM:
Mr. Thorne is here.
ALISON:
Oh, yes. Yes, send him in.
This is getting to be a gag.
Say, you better get out of that chair...
...before the boss comes in.
Come on, come on, come on.
- Sit down.
- Baby, you certainly are fresh.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
FROTHINGHAM:
What message have you for Larson?
There's a director's meeting on the 13th.
I want him here.
FROTHINGHAM:
But he sailed for England.
ALISON:
Well, telephone his hotel in London.
- Shall I sign these, Miss Drake?
- Yes, I want them to go airmail tonight.
Sit down.
Miss Drake. You, you...
I sent for you
because I want to get started right away.
How soon can you let me
have a working model?
Well, that depends.
- I'd like to go over my design with you.
- I haven't got time to talk about it now.
Come to my house to dinner tonight
and we can discuss it then.
Seven thirty.
Is that understood?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
[CLEARS THRO AT]
THORNE: I've put the clutch here.
You see the advantage of that.
Do you see the advantage of that?
- What?
- I was explaining about the clutch.
ALISON:
Oh, the clutch. Of course.
I was thinking about something else.
[BUZZING]
MAN:
Vodka again?
[BUZZING]
I should say vodka very definitely.
THORNE:
Six.
Seven.
Now, the rear axle
is three-quarters floating...
...equipped with tapered roller bearings
of excess radial load and thrust capacity.
- Um, doesn't vodka affect you at all?
- No.
- Well, not very much.
- But most men...
I mean vodka, you know, would...
I was in Russia on an engineering job.
We used to brush our teeth with it.
Russia. How interesting.
I do wish you'd tell me about it.
Are you bored with these
engineering details?
Bored? Of course I'm not bored.
Perhaps I'm not just in the mood
for blueprints tonight.
Leave them here
and I can look them over later.
Very well.
Now, here's to the new model Drake.
Oh, no. No, let's forget
about automobiles tonight.
- Here's to you.
- And to you.
[WHISTLES]
Eight.
You know, you're a very amazing person.
ALISON:
Because I run a factory?
No, because you forget
so completely running a factory.
You mean, because I become
so completely a woman.
Yeah, that's it.
Few people have the intelligence
to realize that.
They confuse the two things
so hopelessly.
Few people have the advantage of meeting
you in a shooting gallery as a pickup...
...and then having drinks with you
in a "10 Cents a Dance" palace.
- I found out quite a bit about you.
- You know, I needed you that night.
I needed to have someone
accept me as plain woman.
So you resented it a little.
You know,
you have a perfectly charming smile.
Now, about this clutch.
There are one or two things that...
ALISON:
I think the reason that I resented it...
...is because you refused
to take me seriously.
You were amused.
- What did you expect?
- Oh, I don't know what.
If you had said, "Come here,"
yanked me into a corner and kissed me...
...I'd have been terribly grateful.
It would have made me
feel more sure of myself...
...if someone wanted me
for what I am without all this.
Well, I can't imagine you
being unsure of yourself.
ALISON: Can't you?
- No.
A girl who works 12 to 14 hours a day
in an office making rapid-fire decisions...
...isn't very apt to become unsure
of herself just because she left her office.
You're terribly wrong.
[WHISTLES]
It's excellent vodka.
I'm so glad you like it.
Well, there's just one more point
about these blueprints...
...that I wanna show you here.
Oh, we were forgetting business
so beautifully.
Must you talk about automobiles?
Yes.
I thought engineering was a profession,
not an affliction.
All right. We'll talk about it tomorrow
at the factory.
I must be going.
Oh, but it's really quite early.
- Besides, you must have another drink.
- Oh, no, no. No more vodka.
Oh, but you wouldn't leave me all alone,
would you?
Come, sit down here.
I want you to talk to me.
- About what?
- About me.
Oh, I see.
Well, you may be president
of the Drake Automobile Company...
...but I was engaged as an engineer,
not as a gigolo.
And I'm not holding my job
by humoring any little whims of yours.
I assure you this is not a little whim.
And hereafter, when you want to talk
business, you can see me at the factory.
- You're very rude.
- I'm very sorry.
Good night, Miss Drake.
[PETTIGREW SINGING]
Good morning, Miss Frothingham.
- Good morning, Mr. Pettigrew.
- Well, you are looking radiant this morning.
Mmm, what an intoxicating perfume.
Is it Galahad's Breath of Love?
No, Passion Flower No.2.
It's delicious.
Have you changed your mind
about coming up to my flat...
...to see my pictures?
Oh, I really shouldn't.
Oh! I made a mistake.
It's encouraging to know
that you do make mistakes.
Oh, Mr. Pettigrew.
How's her disposition this morning?
Terrible. I don't know
what's the matter with her lately.
- Is she alone?
- No.
- A detective's in there.
- Detective?
"Tuesday night, Thorne had dinner alone
from 7:10 to 8:20 at the athletic club.
Walked home alone and went to bed.
Also alone.
Wednesday night, 7 to 8:45,
Thorne had dinner at the Red Onion Cafe...
...with Miss Joyce."
- Who?
DETECTIVE:
Miss Joyce, his secretary.
"Afterward attended performance
of James Cagney in Picture Snatcher...
...at the Lyric Theater.
- Thorne then drove girl to her apartment."
- And?
"Remained five minutes in vestibule
then drove home alone."
That's enough.
You want me to continue the investigation,
Miss Drake?
No, that's all.
- See Mr. Pettigrew about your fee.
- Yes, ma'am.
I knew you'd forget it,
so I bought this for you on the way down.
Thank you, you're spoiling me.
There.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Pardon me, please.
McKay isn't satisfied with the new
clutch. I'd like to see a blueprint.
All right, I made another adjustment
yesterday. Here we are.
You'll have to increase
the tension of the plate springs.
I've already done that. But you'll probably
get a better idea from the working model.
I'd like to see a test run
as soon as possible.
- Tonight at 8:00.
- All right, I'll have them run it for you.
- I want you there.
- Sorry, can't make it.
- Why not?
- I have an engagement.
Break it.
I can't, it's with a lady.
- Doesn't make any difference.
- Oh, yes, it does.
That blond stenographer of Thorne's.
I want her discharged immediately.
Certainly, Miss D.
Now, wait a minute.
I've got a better idea.
Keep her working tonight.
You give her enough copying to do
to keep her here until 12:00.
Yes, Miss D.
ALISON:
Never mind.
Leave the girl alone.
What's happened to me?
I'm getting petty.
Look here, what kind of a woman
do men like?
- How do they want them to act?
- Well, that depends.
A man of Jim Thorne's type, for example,
wants a woman who will look up to him.
Gentle, feminine,
someone he can protect.
That's because Jim Thorne is strong.
And rather primitive, perhaps.
The dominant male, my dear.
Gentle and feminine, eh?
Hmm.
So that's what they want.
Well...
...we strive to please.
[MACHINERY BUZZING]
Hello, Jim.
[CLEARS THRO AT]
Well, busy?
- This time, I think we've got it.
- Have we? Good.
By the way, Jim,
there's something I want to ask.
Now, don't say no
before you think this over.
Late this afternoon...
...the heads of the departments and their
families are having a picnic at Belle Isle.
We're particularly anxious
you should be there.
- A picnic?
- Of course, I know...
...you'd consider it vanity
and all that sort of thing.
But just at this time it's very necessary
that we have an informal get-together.
- Well, I'm afraid that...
- You won't have to stay long.
Just make an appearance.
It will mean a good deal to the company.
I hope we can count on you.
Well, if that's the case,
I suppose I'll have to go.
PETTIGREW:
Fine.
ALISON:
Oh, hello. What are you doing here?
What is this? A frame-up?
A frame-up?
- Oh, I don't know what you mean.
- Where is the employees' picnic?
- Am I the only employee invited?
- Oh, didn't they tell you?
Oh, that's too bad.
It was called off...
...so I decided
to have a picnic by myself.
Well, I hope you enjoy yourself.
Good night.
Mr. Thorne?
Would you mind helping me light this fire
before you go?
I don't seem to be able to.
All right.
ALISON:
Oh.
No trick for you at all, is it?
- Have you lived much in the open?
- Yes, and I should have stayed there.
Yes, you did tell me that you had
a camp in the Adirondacks, didn't you?
It must be lovely there.
I can't think of anything that compares with
a meal cooked over a campfire, can you?
Oh, I must make some coffee.
You should have brought your butler
and your chef along.
Oh, no. That's just the point.
I want to get away
from everything civilized.
Isn't this a heavenly spot?
I must get some water for the coffee.
There's a spring right back there
through the woods. Oh, uh...
I wonder if you'd mind
very much watching that.
I won't be a minute.
[SCREAMS]
Oh!
- What's that?
- Oh, it's an owl. Give me that thing.
Still angry with me for
having tricked you into coming out here?
I was at first.
Why did you do it?
Oh, I don't know.
But we had such fun the night we met
at the shooting gallery.
Then when you found out who I was
we didn't have a good time anymore.
Do you realize that we haven't mentioned
the factory or the business...
...once since we've been here?
Do you realize that I know you
as four entirely different people?
The girl at the shooting gallery,
she was amusing.
- Then the girl at the factory.
- Tell me about her.
Well, she's a very efficient, capable
sort of thinking machine.
- Oh.
- And the girl at your house...
...that night for dinner.
Didn't like her.
Why not?
Well, perhaps because I'm a man
and I prefer to do my own hunting.
Oh.
And the girl you are here tonight.
Which one do you like best?
This one.
Which one do you think is real?
This one.
TOM: Good morning, Alison.
ALISON: Hello, Tom.
- You're looking fresh as a rose this morning.
- You put that in writing?
[TOM CHUCKLING]
Fifty-two, 47, 45.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, dear. I hardly know what I'm doing.
Hello. No, Miss Drake
notified him yesterday.
- The director's meeting's at 2:30 sharp.
- Hey, give me a hand, will you?
Thanks.
- Have you found it?
- I've only got two hands.
- I can't wait all day for it.
- I swear.
Here it is.
[PHONE RINGS]
Hello. No, Miss Drake
can't tend to that today. All right.
WOMAN: Did you have an appointment?
- Nope.
Oh, wait a minute.
Hello.
I'll finish that later. Put my call
through to New York, will you?
That will be all.
That will be all.
[ALISON AND THORNE CHUCKLING]
[PHONE RINGING]
ALISON:
Yep? Hello, Mr. Brehr.
Huh?
Oh, suppose that you get tough.
We can be tough too.
All right, don't be late.
I've been down to the city hall.
They smoke the worst cigars in the city.
- What were you doing in the city hall?
- Very important business. Look, look.
What do you think of that?
- Well, it's a marriage license.
- Haven't you heard?
You're about to become Mrs. Thorne.
Come on.
Oh, Jim, you're not serious about that,
are you?
What do you mean?
- Well, we...
- Wait a minute, let's get this thing straight.
- Are you telling me you won't marry me?
- I never thought of such a thing.
- Last night didn't mean anything to you?
- Oh, of course it did, but...
Well, marriage isn't for me... For us.
After all, we can be so happy as we are.
Oh, don't let's spoil everything.
Then you don't love me.
Oh, Jim, you're being unreasonable.
- I'm just one of the boys?
- Don't be absurd.
You're being old-fashioned.
- Is it old-fashioned to want to be decent?
- Oh...
I suppose you think you're too superior
for marriage and love and children.
The things that women were born for.
Who do you think you are? Are you
so drunk with your own importance...
...you think you can make your own rules?
Well, you're a fake.
You've been playing so long
you've begun to believe it.
The great superwoman.
Cracking your whip
and making these poor fools jump around.
You and your new freedom. Why, if you
weren't so pathetic, you'd be funny.
- You'd better go.
- Don't worry, I'm on my way.
But the laugh's on me,
offering a marriage license to a pickup.
New York's on the wire.
Hello.
We could go on arguing another hour
and be just where we started.
This company must have money.
MAN 1:
Why not take the security crossover?
MAN 2: And let them get control
of Drake and kick Alison out?
That's what they're after.
And if we accept their terms,
that's exactly what will happen.
They've made the other banks lay off.
The commercial, the union and the rest.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN 2:
This is a freeze out.
- Did you try his house?
- Yes.
He left there an hour ago
with a suitcase.
MAN 3: Why should we sacrifice everything?
MAN 4: What can we do?
They've got us.
There's nothing left but a compromise.
Wait a minute now. It just happens that
Alison controls 51 percent of our stock.
We've been doing all the shouting.
But I know you haven't been
sitting there daydreaming.
You're not going to give up this easily.
You're too much of a fighter.
It's up to you, Alison.
What are we going to do?
Why, were you... We've got to...
We've got to...
I can't go on.
I don't belong here.
This is no place for a woman.
I know, I've always thought
I was different.
I've always tried to beat life
the way men beat it but I can't. I can't.
All this crazy, frantic struggle,
fighting with bankers...
...trying to save the business,
what's it to me?
You do what you like with it. I don't care.
That's right, my dear. Have a good cry.
It's just what you need.
Of course, I've been expecting this
for some time. It's only natural.
You couldn't go on as you have been.
Living on your nerves, running this
big business all by yourself.
You're just a woman, after all.
This job was too much for you.
I don't wonder you quit.
- What are we going to do?
- I don't know.
Gentlemen, I apologize.
Please forget that that ever happened.
- We can't compromise.
MAN 1: Now you're talking.
If the bankers in this town won't play ball,
there are bankers that will.
I'll go to New York tonight.
I've never failed to get money yet.
I want to talk to George Barkley.
The State National Bank in New York.
Oh, uh... Uh...
Get me police headquarters.
Switch them on in my private office.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello.
- Miss Drake.
We got a line on that party.
He left town three hours ago
in a gray Packard Roadster...
...license X4878 heading east
on the number 9 highway.
Call Puggy. Tell him to fill the gas tank
for a long trip.
- But you're leaving tonight for New York.
- I'm not going to New York.
But my dear, the most important
appointment of your life...
...with those bankers at 4 tomorrow.
No Petti, there's something
much more important than that.
But you must be there.
If you don't get that loan, the company...
Think of what you're doing.
ALISON:
Too late for that.
Miss D, you can't do this.
Move over. We're going faster
than you know how to drive.
- Have you lost your mind?
- Yes.
I'm sure it was him.
He stopped here for gas.
ALISON: Which road did he take?
- He turned right towards Mapletown.
Better let me take it.
That's the man you're after.
I give him his breakfast.
He had fried eggs and bacon...
- How long ago?
WOMAN: Just after we opened up. I'd say...
- About an hour ago.
- No such thing.
- That was the man who had ham and eggs.
- Bacon and eggs.
The man in the gray car,
how long ago did he pass?
An hour ago.
[GUN POPPING]
ALISON:
Jim.
Jim.
Jim, I can't go on without you.
I'm not playing a part.
I'm not a superwoman.
I'm just...
They're gonna
take the business from me.
I was to meet the bankers in New York
at 4:00 this afternoon. I couldn't go.
I had to find you.
Oh, Jim, take me wherever you're going.
I'll marry you, if you still want me to.
What time did you say you had to meet
those bankers this afternoon?
- At 4:00, but it's too late now.
- No, it isn't.
We'll catch a plane at Hopefield.
Come on.
MAN:
Hey, wait.
[PIG SQUEALING]
- You forgot your prize.
- Oh, thank you.
Goodbye, Lulu.
We're going to make it.
I'd like to see anybody
take that business away from you.
[CHUCKLES]
Somebody already has
taken it away from me.
- Who?
- You.
You're gonna run it from now on.
I never wanna see that factory again.
What about you?
Oh, didn't you know?
I'm gonna have nine children.
- Is that all?
- That's all.
[PIG SQUEALING]