I Am a Camera (1955) - full transcript
In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
I AM A CAMERA
Subtitles by Seglora
My name is Christopher Isherwood.
I'd like to think that I
need say no more
But perhaps I'd better
add I'm a novelist
comfortably off,set in my ways
A confirmed bachelor
Sentimental melodies have a
profound and moving effect on me
They seem to go to my stomach
They make me feel that maybe I
have missed something in life
Unfortunately I can't always miss
.the literary cocktail parties to
which I'm invited by my publisher
They always stage these things...
when they are trying to promote
the more dubious items on their list
A gaggle of female journalists was in
evidence from which I gathered
Some ladies murky memoirs
were being fostered on the public
The more worthless the book...
...the more they need noise
and alcohol to launch it.
Higher though it is only civil on
such occasions to know at least ..
the name of the unfortunate author
I could hardly believe my eyes
Sally Bowles!
"The lady goes on hoping"
by SALLY BOWLES
It's impossible
What? Do you know her?
I knew her my boy,if anyone ever knew her
It is quite a story
And you needn't lick your lips
A story in which nothing happened
and yet everything happened
To me even more than to her
I was struggling with my first book
and losing every round
I was broke,my only asset
was the knowledge of German
So I went to Berlin
It was 1931
New Year's Eve in fact
Money was short.....
...the book was getting nowhere...
...so I stayed at home and
stared out of the window
Sign of celebration were
few and far from glamorous
Berlin in those days was
the dreary hopeless place
The Nazis not yet in power..
...were hanging about street corners...
...making themselves unpleasant
I was a foreigner
What could I do?
I knew in my heart at heart
that I was ducking the issue
But I took refuge in a
very convenient phrase
I said eye to myself:
"I am a camera".
Good title
"I am a camera".
Herr Isherwood.
-Hello, Fritz.
- Hello.
-What did you say?
-I said I am a camera.
A camera?
With its shutter open
Just watching it,quite detached
Taking pictures of it all to be developed
sooner or later and printed
Now sit down here in big chair
-You will feel better then.
- Mrs Schneider...
...I didn't mean I am a
camera,I meant I'm like one.
Now I understand. You mean
writing is photograph,ja?
-Yes
- It would be good if..
...look after yourself a little more
and eat a little more...
...not to work so hard all time.
All day he lies down to think.
All night I hear him walking
up and down,up and down
Now if he would find himself
a nice young lady...
...he wouldn't walk up and down so much
- You and your young ladies
-You go and get Herr Wendel some beer
- All right
I didn't expect you tonight,you old gigolo
I thought you were going out
dancing with that
what's her name,the little widow?
That's a little question
The say she's got 300 000 marks,yes...
...but she also weights 160 pounds
I fear I shall never marry
The fortunes get smaller and the
ladies get larger all the time
The inflation
Perhaps I'm too much an idealist
I telephoned Gerda tonight I was
badly ill and cannot not dance...
...but she would not believe me
But this I find ultimately insulting
-So what are you up to now?
- First and foremost my dear friend
...to take you out tonight.
Also you should not sit and brood over your
"verdammte" manuscript
-Will you come?
- Where?
Something very interesting
I promise you
Well my friend.....
...yesterday at this party
I met a young lady
Now look if you think you
are going to to involve me...
Zwei bier, bitte.
English my boy
So fresh so innocence...
...but underneath one could
sense full of enthusiasm and possibilities
Her mother she told me where
French you know,what that means.
I know what it means, but she,
I think,does not yet know.
And now ladies and gentlemen
our new star,the famous English
-Is that her?
-Yes
Fraulein. Sally Bowles!
I saw him in a caf? in Berl?n.
Well?
And saw the place where love affairs begins
The lilac convey
The world was young then
A ukulele sounded gaily within
I only saw the lamplight on his head
He only picked his hat up from a chair
A minute later
...he paid the waiter.
-Good,uh?
- And when I dare to...
...look again,
he wasn't there.
One night was dark.....
What do you think?
She's got talent
Personality
-I don't know
...but I remember thinking him...
...the finest man I seen.
Never ask where I found for I cannot say
...but I know I love him now
until my dying days
He left a minute after I came in
A funny way for lovers to begin
I can't forget him...
...I never met him.
I only saw him in a caf? in Berlin
Bravo! Bravo!
Bravo!
Bravo!
Bravo, bravo!
It seems to me sooner or later
this lovely young girl will be seized
...lousy types here...
- So what?
So I say to myself it is going
to happen anyway,why not me?
Naturally I must marry sooner
or later and then must live
But I dance with Gerda I think later
When I see this girl and get
me the look of the eyes
She said something of going to Paris soon
Chris,I intend to go there
too and live with her
What on?
In my idealistic mood
I don't think of money
She said something about a film contract
Paris,my boy,Paris,with such a film star!
If you going to live on what
she makes as a film star
I think you both better
take sandwiches along
Shut up!
My dear Miss...
...allow my congratulations
- Thanks
Oh,yes,at Rudy's yesterday
I remembered your eyes
If they were asking me to look
at you and yet not see you
Allow me this is Mr Isherwood
he is writing a very famous novel
-Chris,Miss Sally Bowles.
- How do you do
-How do you do
-You will join here,Miss?
Thank you,I just adore it,
but I off to Paris tonight
Tonight!
With two something train with Pierre
-Pierre?
-Yes,he is my fianc?e.
He's wonderful,aren't you darling
-So the lousy type got that first
- You sneer at everything
I must be losing my judgement,
my sixth sense
Perhaps I have better get
married to Gerda while I can
You see anyway I was
too frank with her..
I didn't listen to Fritz's moan
His innocent little English girl...
...seemed to be having trouble
with her unpleasant fianc?e
I observed it with the correct
camera like detachment
But I couldn't help feeling
sorry for her all the same
-Please
-Don't argue.Give me the money.
Come on,you won't wait forever
Skol
Give me the money I said!
-Don't you trust me?
-Darling.
Now listen .
Do you want trouble?
All right...All right
All right.
Darling!
Darling!
You will come back?
That's an interesting situation
To me no more
Lets go and talk to her
If you'll excuse me I think I'll
go ultimately to Gerda
Maybe at home,lonely,worrying about me
After all I have got a heart
-May I?
-Do
But at least till Pierre comes back
He is terribly jealous,you know
At least I think he is
Poor little thing,trying so hard
to appear sophisticated
Naive as a school girl trustful as a child
...defenseless in the night world of Berlin
She had changed her clothes for the train
The hour came and passed
She bravely tried to pretend the
man would still come back for her
At last I had to say it
He won't come.
I suppose he won't
Shall I see you home?
Well...
Only to the front door
Which way?
Just any way I mean I thought I was
going to Paris so I gave up my room
Well I suppose we'd better
find you a hotel.
Well,yes but...
You see,Pierre took all my money
To turn it into a terrific lot of Francs
on the black exchange he said
The trouble is I almost none left my self
Well there is only one thing for it,
you'd better come home with me
Well,all right
There is an empty room at my place,
in fact I'm moving it in tomorrow
-There it is
-Oh,so I said
Yes?
Awfully nice to put me up,
you see tonight...
...when Pierre didn't come
back I made an absolute vow,never
You needn't be afraid of me
There is no room for
that sort of thing in my life
you see I've work to do,very important work
Must he?
I'm sorry the other room is locked
The land lady is always locking
everything up all the time
But you can have the bed over
there,I'll sleep here on the sofa
Is this your bed?
Perfectly pure
This is rather like somebody
or other's isn't it?
You know I rather like this room
You can take it if you like,
as I said,I'm giving it up
That'll be fine
This is rather mouldy and
sinister,isn't it?
Just right for me if I'm
going to be sort of a nun
I'm moving across the passage
so I can keep an eye on you
You mean because of men like Pierre?
I admit I do fall for them rather
Pierre is such a thrill
When he walked up
When was it?
Was it Wednesday,two three nights ago
Walked so divinely sinister
But you said he was your fianc?e!
He was more of a faun really
Last night he made me feel as I was
some marvellous kind of nymph
...miles away from anywhere
in the middle of the forest
Then the landlady came in and
made the most boring remarks
I may not be absolutely exactly
what some people call a virgin.
...that's no reason for her to
call me was she called me,is it?
So what if Pierre did happen to be there?
Any way I meant to be
terribly faithful to him
That's pretty well makes
him my fianc?e,doesn't it?
I suppose it is a point of resemblance
Well,we just go to bed
or do we have a drink first?
I've got a pupil in the morning,
I give English lessons
I think we better go to bed
All right
You can undress in there,behind the curtain
I bet you're afraid of me
Of course I did make a vow
Now look here Sally
-Yes
-If you're going to live here...
Well,we'll talk about it in the morning
Good Night,Chris
Good Night, Sally
Good Night
Good Night
I wondered what on
earth I let myself in for
I thought of my quiet life
and my program of work
"Well", I thought,
"I can deal with all this in the morning".
Mr. Isherwood!
Mr. Isherwood!
Mr. Isherwood,half eleven.
...and Fraulein Landauer will be
here half past for her lesson
It's time to wake up lazy boor
Oh..what
Where is Herr Isherwood?
Here I am Fraulein Schneider
But Herr Isherwood when I said
...a young lady
- I've been most divinely chaste
Chaste?
This much I see
Now look here, Schneiderchen,
to be chaste is to be pure
...to be virgin.
- Chaste maybe,Herr Isherwood..
...but when you are caught..
- Look here,Fraulein Schneider...
...this is Miss Bowles a very
respectable young English lady
-Practically a nun. You see I made a vow
- She wanted a room exactly like this one
...so I brought her here
- I wouldn't be bad as a lodger
-I'm awfully quiet
-Quiet ? Yes, not a sound did I hear
So light,so slim
Should I be chased,so help me
God,the neighbours below..
...they would go bang bang on the ceiling
I bet you've been chased
all over the place in your time
When Fraulein Landauer come here Isherwood
...what shall I do?
- God,I've forgotten!
Sally, get some clothes
on as quickly as you can
-Is the little room open?
-Already I cleaned it
Good,I'm washing,Sally have it please
The Fraulein studying in
Berlin or perhaps a profession?
Well, I was a future film star
A film star!
But present I'm singing in a night club
-At least I was
- So
Herr Isherwood have told Fraulein
that this room with breakfast
is fifty marks?
I think it is an absolute dream
-Sally!
-Coming
No!
Which I slipped a bit
Not dressed? But I asked you to get dressed
-But darling,I had to do my nails
-Get that off
No,no,put something on
-Darling I can't!
-Get in there
-Draw the curtains
-So!
Fraulein Schneider she says
you should give English lessons.
"Here is the foot and here is the knee"
Ha,ha.
Stop all this nonsense
and let Sally get dressed
My pupil will be here any minute
a very proper innocent young girl
If you turn your back a minute
I have a pain in my back,dear Miss,
with all this that got behind it
He is jealous,he had his eye
on you last night
Chris!
Don't worry were just like
two little white rabbits something
When I was young,dear Miss,
I also kept those pets
Now listen,Fritz,it's nothing
between Sally and me!
Strange but true
Well,in that case,dear Miss
Yes she is now!
My pupil,my only pupil.
Sally,get something on quick!
Fritz, help me,stop her!
Guten Morgen,Frohe Neu Jahre,
schoenes Wetter haben
-Hello Chris!
-Good Morning,Natalia
-I'm not too late? Have I kept you waiting?
-No,no.Not a bit
I come to say to you unfortunately
I cannot have my lesson today.
-Do you mind?
-Not in the very least,I assure you
May I present Fritz Wendel?
-Miss Natalia Landauer.
-How do you do
But we stand here in the hall?
I have eight minutes
Chris, I wish you a Happy New Year
I hope it will calm and peaceful
I hope so too
I mean I hope you continue
to take your lesson
But certainly,yes
Only today there is a great
meeting on the unemployment..
...to get help for poor
people who have no work
This winter there are many who
do not have clothes to cover them
-Yes,I know
-And I am one of them!
One of the unemployed I mean,they'll
never take me back to Windermere.
I mean they got so petty last night
because I told them I was leaving...
..without giving them a year of notice
Can't find my shoes
This is Miss Sally Bowles
Miss Natalia Landauer.
-How do you do
-How do you do
-You have been taking lessons?
-No, I'm English
-I just dropped in
-Dear Miss,your shoe
Thank you
Thank you for lunch,Schneider,
here on the table,please
You permit that I get you a little coffee?
-How do you take it??
-Black
I too,black like Othello
Will you have a little roll,dear Miss?
Thanks
I'm dying for breakfast
Natalia,is your father better?
From his cold,yes.But now he
has much trouble with the store
The Nazis now start to campaign
that all department stores
...are owned by Jews
- Landauer?
-It is a very bad thing.
But they have the most
beautiful store in all Berlin
-Coffee my dear?
-Thank you
-Please sugar for your coffee
-No,no,I never take it
I could make a compliment,that
you are sweet enough already
...that would be old happening.
.
-And scientifically not kind
-You like science,I too
Well if I did make a vow
Unmarried people stay always young
-Like you
-Thank you
Come on Fritz I'll make
you a prairie oyster
it will do you all the good in the world
I saw some eggs over here
and Worcester sauce
You often feel paralysed and dead.
after a terrific and insane sort of a night
absolutely nothing in the world
.
good for you as a prairie oyster
I think we live on them
I think Sally rather likes to chock people
Chris,it's obvious an evil thing to say
Why do say that I am out to shock people?
Why do you paint your finger
nails green for example?
To attract men,that's why
You know to feel their eyes..
...running up like mice.
What absolutely foolish rubbish
No,that is good to attract men
A girl when she is healthy
that is what she most wishes,no?
And I will tell you,if you
will not be shocked
...if I were in love with
a man,really in love...
and we couldn't get married,
I would not hesitate to live with him,
By me it is good to meet a young
lady who is strong and free
...and above these conventions...
...which are in these days gaga
-I'll make you an oyster
-Thank you
Despise conventions,dear Miss,I too
Look here Natalia, I hope you
don't think that Sally and I
Yes,because of this
Really, Schneider,
leaving her...
Chris! Schneider!
Good!
-I hope we meet again,Miss Bowles
-I hope
must go to the unemployment meeting
Dear Miss,may I come with you?
Fritz darling
Would you take me to the Windermere?
I left my bag there I'd better collect it
I am most sorry,this meeting for
the unemployed ,it is a duty
May I have the pleasure?
If you are really going,yes
Good Bye, Chris.
You are interested in social
problems,dear Miss,I too
I must say I think he is
a rather bogus character.
I suppose he is in a way,perhaps as
he rather fancy himself as a gigolo
But I don't know there is
something rather sad about Fritz
He'll be quite a bit sadder if he thinks he
is going to make a hit with that girl
...I told him this.
She'll never fall for that
I'll be off I think
Should I'd better get my things cleared up.
-Bye Chris.
-Bye, Sally.
Sally certainly seemed to grow
on people,but I was determined
she wasn't to interfere with my work
And I made up my mind to tell
her so in no uncertain term
-Back again?
-Yes
I'm just finishing
-What did they say at the Windermere?
-There was nobody there but the doorman
I say
You don't absolutely hate me throwing
you out of your room like this
Poor mangy old thing
-Me?
-No, this
-Cripes Is this your hairbrush?
-I've been meaning to wash it
-You're losing your hair?
-I don't know,do you think so?
You tell me you take all those!
Only when I need them
What are there?Things to restore
your strength or something?
No,just vitamins and things.
Do you want some?
No thanks,I've rather too
much vitality already
Me in my innocent youth.
Where is the other?
My very best pair,Kurt brought
me those I scarcely worn them
That old pig will never give me
the other one if I left it in my old room
Glad I took a few towels
Knew it would serve the right for
something or other,half a 60 marks pair
I hope it hit somebody
No.It is lying there
looking rather,you know
There is a little boy,he is
just pouncing on
He is running around corner with it
Perhaps he has got a one legged sister
Are you really writing the famous novel?
Well.I'm sort of working
on the general idea
It's hard work,I can tell you
Which reminds me, ever since last night
I've been meaning to tell you
I tell you lots of thin to put in it
You know secrets of of a woman's life
Moments of passion
Yes I expect you can, but no cry
as I was about to say
Christ
There's my shoe
-Sally I'm trying to tell you something
-This time it did hit somebody
Chris...
...I'm awfully glad we
are going to be friends
I don't think I ever had
a real friend before
One or two girls maybe.
Girls are like feminine
Can you cook?
Eggs and things
Have you ever read "Trilby"?
I would be rather like that
I'll get jobs and become a terrific
well known night club singer
Maybe a film star!
In between I inspire you and
we'll have meals together
Bet you wear belts as well as braces
-Mentally maybe I do
-I wish I could be a pupil for you.
But I couldn't pay you until I got a job
And of course I speak English already.
But I'll darn your socks and
things and cook for you
...and wash up and do the cleaning
Sally was going to be the little house wife
She spent her time going around agents
Whatever she may have got from
them,it certainly was not the job
Pupils were scarcer than ever
The rent was unpaid
And Schneider no longer cleaned up for us
As for my famous novel
The less said about that the better
Before long I was forced to pay
a visit to my brokers
...to negotiate a loan
I was mortified to find...
..that cameras was not highly rated in
the financial circles of the Hauptstrasse
I find so
-Chris!
-Hello, Chris.
-Hello
-Hello, Fritz. Hello, Natalia.
-Hello!
-How is the work,Chris?
-Not so bad
-Writing hard?
It goes well enough.. Fine.
As Mr Landauer was saying
to me the other day
-...to work is good.
-But my lieber Fritz...
...it was not of Chris he said that.
How is Sally? She is always out when I come
Well,she is looking for a job,you know
We put a note on the door
This week and next I can
no more take my lessons
You see my father send us to the mountains
I've been invited for the week end
At least I'll go and stay at the inn
Well,that'll be all right,of course
-Good Bye, Chris.
-Bye, Chris.
Komm fort schnell
we'll be late
I don't know,other people
seemed to be having fun
..but I reminded myself that it
wasn't my business to have fun
I had to get back to my
little room and my work
I began to feel that my
program was a lot of rot
That everything I ever
written was spiritedly
...cold and dead
That I never should be a writer.
Hello,are you asleep?
-No.
-I thought you might be working
-I just washed my hair
-You are always washing your hair
Food is ready what there is of it
Agent have anything?
He said maybe next week
He took me out for a drink afterwards
that's why I was late
Somehow,however,he got the impression..
...that today was my birthday
-Not with it
-Yes with
Is it the writing?
You see I put down what I do,
I put down what they say
Lord knows,they are all terribly unhappy
It adds up to nothing
Why not have someone leave
them a terrific lot of money?
Talk of something you understand
A most strictly understanding let
a terrific lot of money
I thought about it a great deal
Many books were people are left
with lot of money where actually fine.
They are not even people
I've read over what I had done
They seem to have no faces,nothing
Well if you put in,say,that a girl got
violet eyes with some sort
of beautiful sensuous mouth
-That's a face,isn't it?
-No.
-Or if a man got terrific..
-Don't be stupid.
No faces?
Well,bottoms up,I say
What's the good to trying to explain?
What's the good of trying to write?
What's the good of anything?
Oh, Chris...
It'll get better
You write a book and
it will be terribly good
Everybody knows that you are a genius
Yes.I told them so myself
-No
-What then
No!
A puritan all of a sudden
If you like
Just where I'm concerned
You're the puritan
You hate me,Chris.That's why it was ugly
We don't be able to
talk to each other again
I know that I talk like a fool very often
But...
All right, Sally.
I'll go to bed
Chris...
It'll get better
After this horrible winter
we all feel different
Truly
Sally was right.
Spring came at last.
And all the starved capped in the
neighbourhood,ourselves included
...began to feel life was worth living
The bookshops blossomed with new editions
Unfortunately all by other authors
We were still as hard up as ever
...but we could have drifted
along quite happily...
...but for that memorable day which began
...with a visit to the Landauer.
mothballs and old England
Respectable enough?
Then my fox you see I haven't the necklace
They'll see my fox
Perhaps I should brush
it with some hairs on it
-Oh,make up your mind,it's getting late.
-I am ready.
I bet they give us a terrific lunch.
Now over your sudden glum
Well it's no that.It's.
...it's that I may have contracted
a rather fatal disease
Why do you always choose a day
when we are going somewhere?
What is for heavens sent
Locomotor ataxia
-What?
-It's a form of paralysis.
Look here
It's pretty final
Let me try
Well,it's probably just a
bit of house maid's knee
Good Morning ,my humble friends
-Are you ready?
-Almost
-Chris got a touch of locomotor
-What
Locomotor ataxia.Look here
You? Impossible. Let me...
See? You are hitting high up.
You will live I think
Extraordinary
Come along.I've been out here and ready
...Natalia's parents has lent
me a car to pick you up
Do you mean to say that let
you drive their car?
Why not?
But this one happens to be the limousine
so ultimately the chauffeur drives
Well,if we are going to be driven by
a chauffeur I am going to wear my hat
Penniless people should avoid
contact with the rich
Already poor Fritz was
acting like a son in law
Though we all knew he was
getting nowhere with Natalia
As for Sally...
...it might have been the chauffeur...
...it might have been the car...
...but something transformed her.
She looked at the Landauer house.
...as she had not seen glass
or concrete before
Or flowers,or silver or servants
It all went to her head like wine
So did the wine.
By the afternoon she was treading on air
-That is stirring
-You remember the Charleston?
Perfectly.
Fritz,get the record,
it's on the left side,please
Chris.
I just adore old fashioned dancing
Chris...
If you were rich would
you buy me a fur coat?
No.
You know sometimes I think Chris
has no heart at all
I wish I had none
Poor old Fritz you've got it
badly,haven't you?
You know?
It's for money
Sally, I tell you it isn't.
I swear to you
I don't see you after it
any longer besides this
...prevents you treating
her like other girls
You have to admit you are a bit respectful
To Natalia,how not?
Vowing is not going to do you any good
If I were a girl like Natalia
...I'd be rather impressed by a pounce
A pounce?
Well,you know.
It is impossible
How can anyone pounce on Natalia?
Anybody can pounce on anybody
and generally they do
-This was funny music
-You've splendid, Natalia.
-Another record?
-It's after five..
..we have to fly
- Oh, no. You do not stay for the evening?
It's going to be a party,
more people are coming.
We'd love to..
we'd got a friend and he
is feeling awfully bad.
I'm so sorry..
...but my mother and father
went out in the car.
That's all right,we'll take the train.
Well,it's a great pity but if you must
We left Fritz to his fate
..and caught up with our
own only too quickly.
Step by step as we made our way home
...Sally's fever was mounting
Look!
Diamonds!
-Oh, Chris,I feel such a hunger.
-Want a sausage?
-I mean a spiritual hunger
-Come on
I've serious thought of
becoming a femme fatale
You know the kind of bankers,
princes,and people fall in love.
...and absolutely ruin themselves.
- First catch your prince
If I could hire a horse and
go riding in the Tiergarten
...and it could run away with me
and all of a sudden dashing..
All right
Never get married, Chris.
That is the sort of man who
kills the soul of a woman
...who bring her down to earth..
..and you make it to desert..
...or horrible dead and dry.
Look at this old thing
Chris, I'm so thirsty
it's all your fault
When we get back to Hauptstarsse
I'll buy you a beer
Beer! The sort of thirst you
don't know anything about.
Chris!
I need a champagne cocktail
I've been in a limousine in a
wonderful house
Chris, if only you could understand...
I know you got money
70 marks is for our rent tomorrow
-I've been guarding them for days
-I know
-What will Frau Schneider say?
-Look
Three marks each for the drink and one
for the tip that's only seven marks
Give it a rest it will keep
her quiet come on
It's all very well for bankers and princes
...but I can't afford to be ruined
Well,just one you understand
I'm sure you would appreciate
the service here
We have the best cocktails in
Berlin,what do you want?
Champagne cocktails
Which type of champagne,Madam?
Pure champagne of course.
I suppose I didn't ask for
a drop of absinthe in it
I suppose you have been
done for better not.
Anyway I think you are rather
intimidated by a place like this
To me it seems the most
natural thing in the world
More than Frau Schneiders lousy dump anyway
...where I expect every single
night to be simply crawled on by bedbugs
Chris,why don't we be able to go
to the races every day in the spring
-...unles we do a lot of sailing.
-Thanks
You do look like an utter
fool like grinning like that
The trouble with you Chris is that you are
probably the most insensitive man I ever met
One thing you don't understand women
I hate to say this,Chris
but I don't think you are a real writer
and I don't think really you have a talent
Chris! I drunk it all up and
I didn't really noticed
Dear,have mine
Encores de champagne cocktails
I have to admit the service is
awfully good here,I like that
I'd like to come to this place often
Chris, you do look so glum
Well,it we going to spend a bit of
the rent money on champagne
we might as well enjoy it
Here is to poor old Schneider
Chris, I'm feeling so much better
Caviare pour Madam?
Well,yes
Oui Merci.
Beluga or Astrakhan caviare,Madam?
Some of the big ones,la grande
La!
Sally!
-Pour Vous Monsieur?
-Thank you no.
I realize I was so hungry
Nor did I
Have ever Madame tried the Caspian caviare?
Practically jamais.
Just a little.
Chris, got to try it
Only a bit salty it makes me thirsty.
Encore un cocktail de champagne
This servuga caviare has
almost no salt at all.
I think I should like that,oui
Sally!
Sally!
Darling, have you got a cigarette?
Cigarette
Look, Chris!
Yellowish cigarette with tubes
Oh,it's lovely I got to have this bear
I feel so Russian tonight
Five marks for cigarette,Monsieur
and 20 marks for the bear
Spasiba
Sally,you have gone absolutely
stark staring raving mad
Enjoy,you can't keep counting
pennies all the time
I think I must have a good
deal Russian blood in me
My grand mother was Russian
She escaped from Russia in the
middle of the winter on a sledge
Pursued by wolves and she
threw a serf to them
Only 45 marks left and the bill
is going to cost hundreds
-For 5 champagne cocktails...
-And the caviare
I thought that was free,I mean
with the drinks like peanuts
-Chris,what will they do to you
-We should probably end up in jail.
No,lets have another drink and talk it over
-No,no
-Encore un champagne cocktail,Madame
-Oui.
Now look here Sally there
is only one thing to do
You finish this course and
drink just water
and walk out I'll stay and talk with him
Oh, Chris,you would only
make an awful mess.
Merci
-I could do it better.
-Oh,shut up
That's not very nice,
I'm trying to be helpful
Any mess you get into,you are
trying to get out by using
...your extremely inadequate sex appeal
My sex appeal is adequate?
It's adequate
Inadequate
Adequate...
Chris, you are so upset you
wouldn't say a thing like that
One Martini.
There is always a way out, Chris.
Lady,how do you like to tilt
that glass a little bit further?
I'm sorry really
Don't worry I like the flavour
In that case please
I never say no to a drink but
the next one is on me
We couldn't think of
it unless you insist
I'm coming up just to do that
-Sally!
-Chris,stop being an idiot
Say,hello.
Mortimer is the name,Clive Mortimer
This is my brother
Mr Isherwood,the Mr Isherwood
-My name Sally Bowles
-Glad to know you,Mrs Bowles.
Miss
But he is your brother?
Adopted,just adopted
Just adopted,as a matter of fact
If you find it confusing his name
is Chris and mine is Sally
Chris, old boy,I wanna tell you right now
you got a mighty pretty sister
-Hey,what do you care for drinking?
-We call them "same again"
The best drink in the world
Hi,come,let's have
the same again all around
Encore trois champagne cocktails
Chris, Sally, I got an idea
A fellow was telling me that for
dinner and a floor show there is
...nothing like
the Alhambra Palace Garden.
-Know anything about the joint?
-Yes
-What?
-We can't afford to go there
That sounds good!
-Is it the pops,the real pops?
-Oh,definitely
-Can we have a real good time there?
I simply adore The Alhambra wherever it is
That's where we are going tonight,kids
The Alhambra Palace Gardens
Hi,come,let's have the cheque,
but the cheque is on me!
And afterwards the Femina
Hello,and eldorado!
And now to the Resi.
And now to bed
Hey!
You are a great guy,Chris
a real great guy
But Sally...
Some people would have called
it an ordinary hang over
But I was furious of Sally and felt
I was on the brink of the grave
Sally had brought me to this,
I could hardly wait for her return
...to tell her that our
relationship was finished
But low be hope but she
blew in bubbling with life
...and had the impudence
to imply that I was jealous
I do think people are so
ridiculous about love
Why shouldn't they take it
as a part of the spring?
You know lambs hopping cocks
popping and all that sort of thing
What are you doing in bed?
Darling
Are you really ill? Oh,Chris
Is it because I..?
Leave me in peace
Chris,I wouldn't dream
of doing such a thing
Clive!
Ya,baby!What is it?
Come up quickly!
It's Chris he's got
What?
-Rheumatic fever,I think.
-Rheumatic fever
Chris, I feel terrible
-So do I
You might be crippled for life
-Oh,Chris could I rub you?
-Oh,no
Where is he?
Show me the old horse!
Who says he is sick?
-I do
-Brother,you ought to know
You don't look so good
Rheumatic fever...
Oh,look,kids, this is not a sort of
doublet,let's him get him around in a hotel
There is another bedroom in the suite
on the other side of the living room
We'll get him there,stick
him in the back of the car
Covering him up and get him down
come on honey give us a hand will you
-Give us a shot.
-Leave me alone
I don't think we should add
any more hot water bottles,Clive
No?
I think we really should have ice bags to
prevent the fluid mounting to the brain.
What fluid?
It is nothing,darling
This is a silly old book
You see when it gets there
I read about a scientific doctor
...put a guy's brain right out
and put in a chimp's brain
No time at all he was up around and
carrying some blonde up a tree.
But Chris wants to write a book
He had his chance in bed,won't he?
Look,once he turned the corner...
They say champagne is
awfully good for sick people
That's my apartment,sister
I told them as I came in
Fine, fellows,
put it down
Clive, darling,perhaps we should have
some brandy to dampen his heart
This guy is going to get
Napoleon Brandy.
Clive, you are wonderful
It will give you the will to live,
won't it darling?
It didn't do much for Napoleon
-Hello
-Guten Tag.
-Guten Tag
-Guten Tag, Herr doctor.
Here is your patient
We thought it was first rheumatic fever
But now we are rather
inclined to fear meningitis
Perhaps I better make the examination
Guten Tag
Don't you think he seems
rather cold and brutal?
I told them to get the
best doctor in all Berlin
-But what is he going to do to him?
-He'll give him the works,honey.
When these Germans examine the guy,
they examine him...
... penthouse to basement
Do you see what I mean?
I hope he makes him well and then we
should take him for a drive in Tiergarten
Hire a wheel chair, if you like,baby and
we'll take him around the night spots
Clive...
Don't you think we should let people know?
Just a few close friends I mean
Call them up get them around here
I got to like to see these guys
No alcohol, a light supper
a good night sleep...
...and tomorrow morning
you'll be perfectly well
Guten Tag
"An idiot", I decided,
"but at least a harmless one".
What followed was an absolute night mare
Guten Tag
Clive and Sally were not satisfied
in turning the place into..
...into a night club. The day one
into a hospital as well.
Did your doctor examine your
sympathetic nervous system?
-Of course he did,ulcers?
-Or hardening of the arteries
Or softening of the brain
I'm going to get this fellow
to work on your spine
Sally!Come here!
Look at this.What does it say?
"Disorders of the blood,brain,nerves..
...skin, lungs
and bowels. The water cure".
Pretty well covers the field,yah
unless the poor guy got bunions
And look at this,a guy with
sparks coming out of him
Electrotherapy
I'm going to get these,birds,I'm going
to get them up here right away
There
What are you going to do?
Oh, no!
I'm perfectly all right!
No,I mean!
No!
Sally, there are two people
outside to see you
Hello
Fraulein,if you please,
where is the bath room?
There is one through there
-For me is necessary two bath rooms
-Well
One bath very hot one bath very cold
Because it is hydrotherapy
In that case there is another
one through there
Thank you
Please
No, no...!
Sally!
Hey,that masseur,sure gives him a go
Poor Chris!
No, no, no!
Fraulein,is there more ice cubs?
Absolutely,anything you want
Thank you
Hello
Oh,yeah,do come in,
the patient is having a massage
He says he needs a chair
Clive,darling,the most divine and
sinister little doctor do give him a drink
No, please don't!
Clive!
Sally! Sally! Clive! No!
Keep up the singing kids,or
we have the manager in
Sally, give him a guitar!
Very good,girl.
Sally! Sally, please!
Clive! Ah, no!
Clive, pleaser!
Sally!
Sally, Clive!
Clive,all this is doing Chris so much good
Clive,couldn't it be wonderful to spend
the rest of our life helping sick people
...have a sort of a hospital
- Yes,baby!
I must need some medicine
You are healing
Couldn't be all right?
Sally!
Everything is going to be wonderful
Darling,it will be all right,I promise you
Absolutely wonderful
Clive!Sally!
You're all right,darling
Sally!
Absolutely fine!
When I woke,feeling a new man..
...I was rested,relaxed,my
muscles toned up beyond belief
I borrowed a pair of pants
and went back home
I was inspired my style seemed
to have crackled with electricity
No doubt I could have
written a master piece..
..but my dear friends turned up
and dragged me out again
Come on,let's get him out of here,quick
Now and then I was ashamed about sponging
..but was Sally's childish enjoyment
and her winning ways
...Clive being so warm giving
and my own lack of system
...I was content to play along
Until one afternoon that
madness reached its climax
And Clive insisted we should all go
Honolulu and then places!
Baby, we are off to Honolulu
-Now look at these folders
-No,there is a limit to everything
Look pal,Tahit?.
Where Cezanne cut his ear off?
What's that?
Some guy's funeral,they,
they giving him a work
Stressberg probably,
it were in the papers today
An old guy the Nazis bumped off?
This is the time to get out off
Look, Japan, Singapore...
Is there a bar there
The Long Bar they call it.
But I can't travel with you and Sally.
Chris,why not?
It will be sheer absolute heaven
Well for one thing I don't
have any money.
Don't worry about money,look India
Some marvellous maharajah they
offer my weight in diamonds
...to spend one night in his harem
Egypt!
Cruising down the Nile with the
desert all around us and moonlight
...and those sinister sensual harem.
...watching us on the top of the pyramids
Chris, pal come on...
-Well I don't know.
Good,that's a stop,that's
what I like to hear
Now listen you need some tropical kits
I got to go to Paris for a couple of days
but while I am gone get
your assets,all you need.
I'll be back Thursday we'll leave Friday
Next stop, Honolulu!
-We shall never come back,you know
-Who wants to come back?
I can see us ten years from
now you married to Clive
...and I'll be a sort of private secretary
A bit glassy in the eye
a bit heavier around the jaw
Not if you make plenty of exercise
Here is your tropical kit,
do try it on again
Anyway you write your book
in the next few months
Would have been one of
these round the world book
They are always a success.
They are shapeless bestsellers
Tahit?, Honolulu...! Ten days
that didn't shake the world
I didn't know if people felt
like this in the middle ages
...when they sold their souls to the devil
Chris, you look marvellous
You look absolutely irresistible
You say the craziest things
There is always a moment
when it is not too late,Sally
When you have your last chance
...and no one ever seems to take it
Come in
Hello, Fritz.
-You are ultimately off then?
-Yes they too,both going away
My other room is empty.What am I to do?
Schneider, darling,you get other tenants
-They don't match after all
-Other tenants?
In these times when the banks close down.
...and the knackwurst is 1 mark and 50...
And even the potatoes will
get up everything goes wrong
It is the Jews,believe me,are
up to bring the country down
You know that is absolutely rubbish
You should listen to the radio,to
the speeches,Herr Isherwood.
But you don't care you're going away
How are you, Fritz?
Not good,not good at all
Chris, not more of your things.
We'll be here to Christmas
How is Natalia?
You remember the advice you gave me?
I attempted but it put her against me
She sent me a note that she will not
see me,she will never see me again
-You must have made an awful mess of it
-Quite possible,but I love her
Also she is worried about
all the attacks on the Jews.
It's not my fault that her father
get threatening letters all the time
From some lousy Nazi,I suppose
Every day they get something,
I tried to comfort her,she screamed at me
...her father is worried sick and
her mother is falling down fainting
...and now will I go please,please
So I go
Maybe if you went back in a day or two?
Chris...
Can I tell you something? Sally too
Yes of course
Sally,these are yours.
Telegram
It is something so bad,
so disgusting,I don't know how to
-It can't be!
-What is it?
It's nothing
Look, Fritz,we got terrible lot to do
Oh,Sally, no
Yes we have. Look,Fritz, I'm
not trying to get rid of you
Of course
I understand
Good Bye.Good Bye, Chris.
-Fritz, wait a minute!
-It doesn't matter,I go
Sally, that was cruel.There is something
wrong,Fritz is in trouble
Yes and so are we.Real trouble
Listen to this.
"Sally dear: Sorry must postpone our jaunt.
Crazy people here insist
a trip up the Amazon
Let's hope for next year or some time
Love to both, Clive".
-Well
-Well...
I mean it is an outrage.What does he
think we are brushing us off like this?
What we are suppose,something rather cheap.
Don't start moralizing
I'd wish I'd started sooner
At least he could let us know
before we spent all our money
All whose money?
All right,make yourself out as a saint,
you can't do anything else
Pretend you are glad of it!
-Yes I am,I most certainly am!
-We were well off before I suppose.
Shut in this home not been
able to go out to a caf?
You moaning all the time
and sucking my blood
...like some dreary clammy,vampire
...just because you have
someone to talk to about arts
You,your precious book,you can't even write
...just because you want to be known as
the most wonderful writer in the world
And along comes Clive and you're
jealous of of him
-You believe that!
-Yes
-Because he was a man
-Not a very fastidious one
What do you mean by that?
I dare you to tell me what you mean by that
I mean.When you're leaving this room
You can take your things,take everything
if you like and move out of here
I will not stay here even if you begged
me on your knees to be nagging
-Preached by you
-Good
You can finish your packing I'm
going out when I come back
Don't worry,I'll be gone
Hello, Fritz.
-Not gone yet?
-Not going.
Everything is off
Fritz,what was you trying to say?
Nothing
It didn't sound like nothing
What is not said,what else
can it sound like?
Now,look Fritz...
Better I keep it to myself
A drink?
No, thank you
Fritz, I came to apologize,I've been
It's not easy to say one
is ashamed of one self
No?
Supposing you were a Jew?
What do you mean?
And had denied it,lied about it
That's what I had to say
That I was a cheat,a coward,a liar
-Oh,come now, Fritz.
-Now you know
When did you start being that
particular sort of idiot?
Years ago.When I left school
Thins that happened there?
When I came to Berlin I thought:
"No more of that".
But I suppose of having given
people the wrong impression
...you find it hard to take it back
I did not want to take it back,
I wanted to be smart, set and popular
...make a rich marriage
Here in Germany even before Hitler.
...people made it miserable to be a Jew.
They made it uncomfortable,
you made it miserable
Free English lessons
All right,from now on I
won't be miserable anymore
Everyone shall know
Have you told Natalia?
It is because of her that I...
I can no longer,I will no longer
If she and her family are to be
threatened by insults than I too
Have you told her?
She will have it
Not from you?
Let my face part in two?
She already hates me,that's not enough?
Do you think it would hurt her less
if I went there?Told her myself?
I told you I'm a coward
Was,past tense,another free lesson
When I left Fritz...
...it seemed I was back in real life
again after a long crazy dream
It's amazing how little
of the world one can see
...from the back seat of someone's car
They have destroyed everything
I had.I have to leave everything
But now I was walking...
...and on my own two feet
And therefore must we
Germans live since 1O years
...without dignity
under the ignominy...
...beause of the Jewish subordinates...
...and parasites has sold us out!!
The liberation is soon here
Unser F?hrer...
...Adolf Hitler...
...has risen
Germany wake up!
We,the national socialists
...are Germans!
When I now think of all that
happened in the world since then
...that little scuffle seemed
nothing to write home about
But it got me out of my
wretched protective shell
Now with Sally off my neck
...I was ready to start a new chapter
Herr Isherwood!
Never would I thought it of him
What's that?
Herr Isherwood,it is not good to treat a
young lady so,for this I'm ashamed of you
No I'm going to make her some
herbal tea to calm her
-Is she still here?
-Is she still here!
What brutality! What evil! These men!
These men
What have you been saying to Schneider?
I don't know
Maybe she thinks that somehow
your are the father.
What?
The father
Chris, what's happened to you?
-Oh,nothing
Do you mean to say you're?
I'm afraid so,I've been worried
about if for quite a time
Tried not to think about it just now I was
...I was going to the taxi
I feel faint all of a sudden
But this is serious
You do sort of find the right word
for things,darling,don't you?
Haven't you better to lie down and rest?
You are angry that I'm still here?
Chris, I'm frightened
I've made things up so much,
never thought about anything
Now it's here and real
Don't worry,we'll see this through
Clive?
Well,haven't we better
get in touch with him
I mean you can always find him in person
I know,actually he sent another telegram
Telling me about some
film friend of his in Paris
Passing me on I suppose
Chris, don't talk to me about Clive
All the same.
...I think we ought to be very
practically about having this baby
Practically is just not having it
I suppose so,still I don't like the idea
I'm not exactly crazy about it, darling
Would it help at all if I?
...if you were...
...if it was official if we got married?
Chris...
Now,I'll marry you if it will
do any good,it needn't be
Chris, I'll never forget you saying never
There is a limit even for me
Here,dear Fraulein, some good herb tea
Fraulein Schneider,there has
been a lot of misunderstanding
...about Fraulein Sally leaving
about her little trouble
...and about the man
responsible for all this.
He's left the country and I never
want to see him again
What?
Then indeed Herr Isherwood,
I'm sorry,I misunderstood
So no marriage...
That is sad
Then for a young lady in such misfortune
there is nothing but Frau Pitzberger
Who?
Is she a doctor?
Herr Isherwood,she is everything
If you have a wart,heavens
forbid or a carbuncle
...she charmed it away
If you wish a young lady
to fall in love with you
she will give you to
put into her coffee
If you wish your fortune
-Where does she live?
-No, that sort of thing will never do.
Fraulein, Sally must have the
best attention the best possible
Naturally, but Herr Isherwood,
that needs much money
We can sell all the stuff,
we'll get something for it
Not much,darling,we tried
everything on so much
...there is some egg on the
n?glig? already
Well if it isn't enough I can work
I wrote about the subject nearest at hand
...what I'd seen and felt on that
walk back from Fritz' place
"Portrait of Berlin"I called it
I went out and took it to the Berlin
editor of an American magazine
Sally!
-I've been waiting and waiting
for you to come in
This is good
Good.It's wonderful what do you think?
They are going to be married
Really?
Natalia's father is going to Switzerland
and Fritz is going ,he's going to be
-Sort of a partner
-Not the business partner...
...there is other work to do
Natalia is going to have millions
of the most divine babies
I'm so glad
Does make oneself old fashioned
Chris,you wouldn't believe
it,when I told her
- Didn't spit in your eye?
- She knew it all the time.
We must go.There is much to do
-Are you going for good?
-I do not know
But I must believe that the German
people one day will understand
...what these Nazis are
And then you come back?
Perhaps.But you write to us and
visit us if you can,both of you
-Good Bye, Natalia.
-Good Bye, Chris.
-Good Bye, Natalia.Good luck
- Good Bye, Sally.
-Good Bye, Sally.
-Good Bye, Fritz.
Must say my advice turned out rather well
Anyway it takes the shine
of my little triumph
All the same,he read it,he liked it ,
he paid for it,cash on the barrel head
Chris,I think you're wonderful!
And what we got for the clothes and
things it will pay for everything
I called the place you can go right
away,they see you this afternoon.
And by tomorrow maybe it will be all over
-Well,I suppose I....
-What?
I suppose I'd better change and
get a tooth brush or something
Nervous?
Well,tell me what happened,
what did the editor say?
Well,he seemed an awfully nice sort of chap
And he said he is going to turn
it out with lots of photographs.
Yes he wants to see me again this afternoon
Why?
He didn't say except I suppose he wants
to make some changes or something
-Chris, you mustn't come up.
-Why not?
You should go back to that editor
But I can't let you go to
that place all alone
Nonsense,Chris,look,he may be testing
you,see if you are keen.
He may be offering you a terrific job
Maybe going to retire and looking for
a real young man to take his place
Please, Chris.
Well,all right
And look,darling,there is
something to tell you
You are sending me some
marvellous bunch of flowers
...and write to me actually
throbbing on the card...
...and show it to the nurses
so they won't think I'm...
Well,you know
Good Luck, darling
CURTIS B. RYLAND
Berlin Editor
When I got back to the editor
he had marvellous news for me
...and a breathtaking question
-Now,can you leave tomorrow?
-I...
-You are a free agent.
-Well...
-No wife no family..
-No
Fine
Listen,I'm in a rush,we'll talk in the
car I'll drop you off near your home
I get the idea "A portrait of Madrid",
" A portrait of Stockholm"
A copy for you,and if I don't see
you tomorrow,Good Luck
Thank you
-Watch that deadline
-Right
250 dollars and all expenses paid
I was ready to go I felt quite
a pang of leaving Sally
...but I knew she was in good
hands and well looked after
Sally!
Chris, darling,I changed my mind
I think I began to when Natalia was here
...talking about the millions of marvellous
babies she was going to have.
Then Chris I went away from that
dreadful place,there was a traffic jam
And the taxi stopped in front of the
most wonderful shop in the world
...all for little children
Full of cradles,bottles
...little clothes,little shoes
Yes,but...
I thought that if you were so terrible
decent to say we could get married
I said what?
Chris.
You are quite right,I absolutely did.
Oh Dear
Darling,I knew you wouldn't let me down
so I went in a bought a few things
When I came out I saw a policeman
who held up the traffic..
...Chris don't scoff at me,but he seemed
to me to have the face of an angel
If I ever find him he would have
Everything is going to be
absolutely perfect!
The only topic I can't find
is really ideally name
The whole list in the encyclopedia
Aaron Isherwood,
Abel Isherwood...
...Anthony Isherwood...
Anthony is not bad but not for first
-Also Athelstane Isherwood...
-What did you say?
"Athelstane",darling,that's sort of
name would have an awful effect
...on a person's love life,
don't you think?
No,before that above Anthony.
Not for the first I said then
of course it my be a girl
In that case it could be
Ada Isherwood, Adeline...
Why do you look like that,darling?
You don't want it to be
an only child,do you?
There were complexes now
the children must be sound
...in mind and body,
that's remind me my milk
What are you doing?
Daddy is going to have a drink too
Alcohol is rightly called treacherous
The bottle I took to bed with me nothing
reminded me of other bottles
The bed seemed to rock
like a confounded crib
If I dozed for a moment I
had visions of a boy like Clive.
...followed by a string of
girls all exactly like Sally
I don't think my health has ever completely
recovered from the agony of that night.
-Sleep well,darling?
-No
Here is our coffee I made
it good and strong
Coffee but I thought you were drinking milk
Milk is all right,personally I think a
dash of absinthe would improve it
This morning is coffee
-About Theodor...
-Theodor
Isherwood, the name I choose last night
while you were out.
I'd forget what I would say about it
Darling,there is something
I have to tell you.
Sally, please don't tell me anymore.
Not today,possible not at all
-Darling,it could change your plans
-They are very much changed already
We could change them back again
You see darling,I was never
much good at arithmetic
Sally,do you mean?
I mean that people who are
strange and extraordinary
...terrific sort of personalities...
...are usually rather above being
good at figures and all that
I could never understand dates
Yes,Sally,but Theodor, tell
me please? Is he?
He isn't.I suppose in a way
he never really was
He was a mistake?
I don't think it is very nice to call
him that,behind his back I mean
Sally, sit down,relax I'll get
the rest of the breakfast
I can see tell by the way you talk you
are not thinking of marriage any more
You never really wanted to marry me, Chris.
I'm suppose I'm not the marrying kind
-The taxi is here,Fraulein
-This coffer here,please
You're leaving?
For Paris, of course.
Chris, you forget everything
I told you about that friend of Clive
he make such terrific films
Clive said in the telegram that he
told him all about me.
...and was longing to meet me
-You know what that means?
-Yes I'm afraid I do
Well then...
Darling!
Don't come down
I take my last look at you in the room here
Chris...
-It has been fun
-Hasn't it?
You remember the very first day I was here?
I'd said I would inspire you,you
didn't quite believe me,did you,darling
You did look like a dying fish
But you see it all come true ,I mean
You have really written something at last
You wouldn't have except
for me,inspiring,isn't it?
Most likely in an unusual sort of way
Nothing is quite usual,Chris.
Life isn't like that
You certainly aren't
I should hope not , I mean having
every sort of adventure
...be the most wonderful
and fabulous personality
You'll be a success too
in a writer's sort of way
Darling I must fly or I miss my train
I almost wish I would
Good Bye, Chris.
Good Bye, Sally.
-I'll send you a postcard
- Do
-I do love you.Good Bye
-Good Bye,Sally
Of course the promised
post card never arrived
And perhaps it was just as well
Who knows I might got
embroiled with her again
Well I suppose I'd better go
and say,how do you do
I must admit...
...when I saw her name on the book
I thought of a certain shudder...
...like someone walking over my grave
-Grave of your youth
--Youth...
We can thank heaven on our bended knees
we managed to reach years of discretion.
Chris!
-Sally!
-How absolutely marvellous to see you
I've been sitting surrounded by
the most lascivious looking critics
Have I changed?
Not in the very least
You have,you seem more mature,manly
You were so absolutely
unbelievable so repressed,darling
...in those days
-You live in London?
-Yes,I have a little house.
How marvellous
I mean I'm stuck here in a most
dreary little furnished room
What? With all this?Succesfull authoress?
Yes,I get terrific royalties you know when?
...after the first 200000 copies
have been sold
Presently I have written
my head off,you know
Last night we had a little
celebration in my place
The landlady came in and said
and made the most boring remarks
So I had to leave.
I suppose you'd better find your hotel
To tell you the truth,darling,
bankrupt,not a penny in the world
There is only one thing for it
you'd better come home with me.
All right?
There is a spare room in which I could
Darling!You still a rather like a
somebody or other aren't you?
Good Bye everybody
I was hoping to ask
Darling you look marvellous in grey hair,
you look absolutely irresistible
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My name is Christopher Isherwood.
I'd like to think that I
need say no more
But perhaps I'd better
add I'm a novelist
comfortably off,set in my ways
A confirmed bachelor
Sentimental melodies have a
profound and moving effect on me
They seem to go to my stomach
They make me feel that maybe I
have missed something in life
Unfortunately I can't always miss
.the literary cocktail parties to
which I'm invited by my publisher
They always stage these things...
when they are trying to promote
the more dubious items on their list
A gaggle of female journalists was in
evidence from which I gathered
Some ladies murky memoirs
were being fostered on the public
The more worthless the book...
...the more they need noise
and alcohol to launch it.
Higher though it is only civil on
such occasions to know at least ..
the name of the unfortunate author
I could hardly believe my eyes
Sally Bowles!
"The lady goes on hoping"
by SALLY BOWLES
It's impossible
What? Do you know her?
I knew her my boy,if anyone ever knew her
It is quite a story
And you needn't lick your lips
A story in which nothing happened
and yet everything happened
To me even more than to her
I was struggling with my first book
and losing every round
I was broke,my only asset
was the knowledge of German
So I went to Berlin
It was 1931
New Year's Eve in fact
Money was short.....
...the book was getting nowhere...
...so I stayed at home and
stared out of the window
Sign of celebration were
few and far from glamorous
Berlin in those days was
the dreary hopeless place
The Nazis not yet in power..
...were hanging about street corners...
...making themselves unpleasant
I was a foreigner
What could I do?
I knew in my heart at heart
that I was ducking the issue
But I took refuge in a
very convenient phrase
I said eye to myself:
"I am a camera".
Good title
"I am a camera".
Herr Isherwood.
-Hello, Fritz.
- Hello.
-What did you say?
-I said I am a camera.
A camera?
With its shutter open
Just watching it,quite detached
Taking pictures of it all to be developed
sooner or later and printed
Now sit down here in big chair
-You will feel better then.
- Mrs Schneider...
...I didn't mean I am a
camera,I meant I'm like one.
Now I understand. You mean
writing is photograph,ja?
-Yes
- It would be good if..
...look after yourself a little more
and eat a little more...
...not to work so hard all time.
All day he lies down to think.
All night I hear him walking
up and down,up and down
Now if he would find himself
a nice young lady...
...he wouldn't walk up and down so much
- You and your young ladies
-You go and get Herr Wendel some beer
- All right
I didn't expect you tonight,you old gigolo
I thought you were going out
dancing with that
what's her name,the little widow?
That's a little question
The say she's got 300 000 marks,yes...
...but she also weights 160 pounds
I fear I shall never marry
The fortunes get smaller and the
ladies get larger all the time
The inflation
Perhaps I'm too much an idealist
I telephoned Gerda tonight I was
badly ill and cannot not dance...
...but she would not believe me
But this I find ultimately insulting
-So what are you up to now?
- First and foremost my dear friend
...to take you out tonight.
Also you should not sit and brood over your
"verdammte" manuscript
-Will you come?
- Where?
Something very interesting
I promise you
Well my friend.....
...yesterday at this party
I met a young lady
Now look if you think you
are going to to involve me...
Zwei bier, bitte.
English my boy
So fresh so innocence...
...but underneath one could
sense full of enthusiasm and possibilities
Her mother she told me where
French you know,what that means.
I know what it means, but she,
I think,does not yet know.
And now ladies and gentlemen
our new star,the famous English
-Is that her?
-Yes
Fraulein. Sally Bowles!
I saw him in a caf? in Berl?n.
Well?
And saw the place where love affairs begins
The lilac convey
The world was young then
A ukulele sounded gaily within
I only saw the lamplight on his head
He only picked his hat up from a chair
A minute later
...he paid the waiter.
-Good,uh?
- And when I dare to...
...look again,
he wasn't there.
One night was dark.....
What do you think?
She's got talent
Personality
-I don't know
...but I remember thinking him...
...the finest man I seen.
Never ask where I found for I cannot say
...but I know I love him now
until my dying days
He left a minute after I came in
A funny way for lovers to begin
I can't forget him...
...I never met him.
I only saw him in a caf? in Berlin
Bravo! Bravo!
Bravo!
Bravo!
Bravo, bravo!
It seems to me sooner or later
this lovely young girl will be seized
...lousy types here...
- So what?
So I say to myself it is going
to happen anyway,why not me?
Naturally I must marry sooner
or later and then must live
But I dance with Gerda I think later
When I see this girl and get
me the look of the eyes
She said something of going to Paris soon
Chris,I intend to go there
too and live with her
What on?
In my idealistic mood
I don't think of money
She said something about a film contract
Paris,my boy,Paris,with such a film star!
If you going to live on what
she makes as a film star
I think you both better
take sandwiches along
Shut up!
My dear Miss...
...allow my congratulations
- Thanks
Oh,yes,at Rudy's yesterday
I remembered your eyes
If they were asking me to look
at you and yet not see you
Allow me this is Mr Isherwood
he is writing a very famous novel
-Chris,Miss Sally Bowles.
- How do you do
-How do you do
-You will join here,Miss?
Thank you,I just adore it,
but I off to Paris tonight
Tonight!
With two something train with Pierre
-Pierre?
-Yes,he is my fianc?e.
He's wonderful,aren't you darling
-So the lousy type got that first
- You sneer at everything
I must be losing my judgement,
my sixth sense
Perhaps I have better get
married to Gerda while I can
You see anyway I was
too frank with her..
I didn't listen to Fritz's moan
His innocent little English girl...
...seemed to be having trouble
with her unpleasant fianc?e
I observed it with the correct
camera like detachment
But I couldn't help feeling
sorry for her all the same
-Please
-Don't argue.Give me the money.
Come on,you won't wait forever
Skol
Give me the money I said!
-Don't you trust me?
-Darling.
Now listen .
Do you want trouble?
All right...All right
All right.
Darling!
Darling!
You will come back?
That's an interesting situation
To me no more
Lets go and talk to her
If you'll excuse me I think I'll
go ultimately to Gerda
Maybe at home,lonely,worrying about me
After all I have got a heart
-May I?
-Do
But at least till Pierre comes back
He is terribly jealous,you know
At least I think he is
Poor little thing,trying so hard
to appear sophisticated
Naive as a school girl trustful as a child
...defenseless in the night world of Berlin
She had changed her clothes for the train
The hour came and passed
She bravely tried to pretend the
man would still come back for her
At last I had to say it
He won't come.
I suppose he won't
Shall I see you home?
Well...
Only to the front door
Which way?
Just any way I mean I thought I was
going to Paris so I gave up my room
Well I suppose we'd better
find you a hotel.
Well,yes but...
You see,Pierre took all my money
To turn it into a terrific lot of Francs
on the black exchange he said
The trouble is I almost none left my self
Well there is only one thing for it,
you'd better come home with me
Well,all right
There is an empty room at my place,
in fact I'm moving it in tomorrow
-There it is
-Oh,so I said
Yes?
Awfully nice to put me up,
you see tonight...
...when Pierre didn't come
back I made an absolute vow,never
You needn't be afraid of me
There is no room for
that sort of thing in my life
you see I've work to do,very important work
Must he?
I'm sorry the other room is locked
The land lady is always locking
everything up all the time
But you can have the bed over
there,I'll sleep here on the sofa
Is this your bed?
Perfectly pure
This is rather like somebody
or other's isn't it?
You know I rather like this room
You can take it if you like,
as I said,I'm giving it up
That'll be fine
This is rather mouldy and
sinister,isn't it?
Just right for me if I'm
going to be sort of a nun
I'm moving across the passage
so I can keep an eye on you
You mean because of men like Pierre?
I admit I do fall for them rather
Pierre is such a thrill
When he walked up
When was it?
Was it Wednesday,two three nights ago
Walked so divinely sinister
But you said he was your fianc?e!
He was more of a faun really
Last night he made me feel as I was
some marvellous kind of nymph
...miles away from anywhere
in the middle of the forest
Then the landlady came in and
made the most boring remarks
I may not be absolutely exactly
what some people call a virgin.
...that's no reason for her to
call me was she called me,is it?
So what if Pierre did happen to be there?
Any way I meant to be
terribly faithful to him
That's pretty well makes
him my fianc?e,doesn't it?
I suppose it is a point of resemblance
Well,we just go to bed
or do we have a drink first?
I've got a pupil in the morning,
I give English lessons
I think we better go to bed
All right
You can undress in there,behind the curtain
I bet you're afraid of me
Of course I did make a vow
Now look here Sally
-Yes
-If you're going to live here...
Well,we'll talk about it in the morning
Good Night,Chris
Good Night, Sally
Good Night
Good Night
I wondered what on
earth I let myself in for
I thought of my quiet life
and my program of work
"Well", I thought,
"I can deal with all this in the morning".
Mr. Isherwood!
Mr. Isherwood!
Mr. Isherwood,half eleven.
...and Fraulein Landauer will be
here half past for her lesson
It's time to wake up lazy boor
Oh..what
Where is Herr Isherwood?
Here I am Fraulein Schneider
But Herr Isherwood when I said
...a young lady
- I've been most divinely chaste
Chaste?
This much I see
Now look here, Schneiderchen,
to be chaste is to be pure
...to be virgin.
- Chaste maybe,Herr Isherwood..
...but when you are caught..
- Look here,Fraulein Schneider...
...this is Miss Bowles a very
respectable young English lady
-Practically a nun. You see I made a vow
- She wanted a room exactly like this one
...so I brought her here
- I wouldn't be bad as a lodger
-I'm awfully quiet
-Quiet ? Yes, not a sound did I hear
So light,so slim
Should I be chased,so help me
God,the neighbours below..
...they would go bang bang on the ceiling
I bet you've been chased
all over the place in your time
When Fraulein Landauer come here Isherwood
...what shall I do?
- God,I've forgotten!
Sally, get some clothes
on as quickly as you can
-Is the little room open?
-Already I cleaned it
Good,I'm washing,Sally have it please
The Fraulein studying in
Berlin or perhaps a profession?
Well, I was a future film star
A film star!
But present I'm singing in a night club
-At least I was
- So
Herr Isherwood have told Fraulein
that this room with breakfast
is fifty marks?
I think it is an absolute dream
-Sally!
-Coming
No!
Which I slipped a bit
Not dressed? But I asked you to get dressed
-But darling,I had to do my nails
-Get that off
No,no,put something on
-Darling I can't!
-Get in there
-Draw the curtains
-So!
Fraulein Schneider she says
you should give English lessons.
"Here is the foot and here is the knee"
Ha,ha.
Stop all this nonsense
and let Sally get dressed
My pupil will be here any minute
a very proper innocent young girl
If you turn your back a minute
I have a pain in my back,dear Miss,
with all this that got behind it
He is jealous,he had his eye
on you last night
Chris!
Don't worry were just like
two little white rabbits something
When I was young,dear Miss,
I also kept those pets
Now listen,Fritz,it's nothing
between Sally and me!
Strange but true
Well,in that case,dear Miss
Yes she is now!
My pupil,my only pupil.
Sally,get something on quick!
Fritz, help me,stop her!
Guten Morgen,Frohe Neu Jahre,
schoenes Wetter haben
-Hello Chris!
-Good Morning,Natalia
-I'm not too late? Have I kept you waiting?
-No,no.Not a bit
I come to say to you unfortunately
I cannot have my lesson today.
-Do you mind?
-Not in the very least,I assure you
May I present Fritz Wendel?
-Miss Natalia Landauer.
-How do you do
But we stand here in the hall?
I have eight minutes
Chris, I wish you a Happy New Year
I hope it will calm and peaceful
I hope so too
I mean I hope you continue
to take your lesson
But certainly,yes
Only today there is a great
meeting on the unemployment..
...to get help for poor
people who have no work
This winter there are many who
do not have clothes to cover them
-Yes,I know
-And I am one of them!
One of the unemployed I mean,they'll
never take me back to Windermere.
I mean they got so petty last night
because I told them I was leaving...
..without giving them a year of notice
Can't find my shoes
This is Miss Sally Bowles
Miss Natalia Landauer.
-How do you do
-How do you do
-You have been taking lessons?
-No, I'm English
-I just dropped in
-Dear Miss,your shoe
Thank you
Thank you for lunch,Schneider,
here on the table,please
You permit that I get you a little coffee?
-How do you take it??
-Black
I too,black like Othello
Will you have a little roll,dear Miss?
Thanks
I'm dying for breakfast
Natalia,is your father better?
From his cold,yes.But now he
has much trouble with the store
The Nazis now start to campaign
that all department stores
...are owned by Jews
- Landauer?
-It is a very bad thing.
But they have the most
beautiful store in all Berlin
-Coffee my dear?
-Thank you
-Please sugar for your coffee
-No,no,I never take it
I could make a compliment,that
you are sweet enough already
...that would be old happening.
.
-And scientifically not kind
-You like science,I too
Well if I did make a vow
Unmarried people stay always young
-Like you
-Thank you
Come on Fritz I'll make
you a prairie oyster
it will do you all the good in the world
I saw some eggs over here
and Worcester sauce
You often feel paralysed and dead.
after a terrific and insane sort of a night
absolutely nothing in the world
.
good for you as a prairie oyster
I think we live on them
I think Sally rather likes to chock people
Chris,it's obvious an evil thing to say
Why do say that I am out to shock people?
Why do you paint your finger
nails green for example?
To attract men,that's why
You know to feel their eyes..
...running up like mice.
What absolutely foolish rubbish
No,that is good to attract men
A girl when she is healthy
that is what she most wishes,no?
And I will tell you,if you
will not be shocked
...if I were in love with
a man,really in love...
and we couldn't get married,
I would not hesitate to live with him,
By me it is good to meet a young
lady who is strong and free
...and above these conventions...
...which are in these days gaga
-I'll make you an oyster
-Thank you
Despise conventions,dear Miss,I too
Look here Natalia, I hope you
don't think that Sally and I
Yes,because of this
Really, Schneider,
leaving her...
Chris! Schneider!
Good!
-I hope we meet again,Miss Bowles
-I hope
must go to the unemployment meeting
Dear Miss,may I come with you?
Fritz darling
Would you take me to the Windermere?
I left my bag there I'd better collect it
I am most sorry,this meeting for
the unemployed ,it is a duty
May I have the pleasure?
If you are really going,yes
Good Bye, Chris.
You are interested in social
problems,dear Miss,I too
I must say I think he is
a rather bogus character.
I suppose he is in a way,perhaps as
he rather fancy himself as a gigolo
But I don't know there is
something rather sad about Fritz
He'll be quite a bit sadder if he thinks he
is going to make a hit with that girl
...I told him this.
She'll never fall for that
I'll be off I think
Should I'd better get my things cleared up.
-Bye Chris.
-Bye, Sally.
Sally certainly seemed to grow
on people,but I was determined
she wasn't to interfere with my work
And I made up my mind to tell
her so in no uncertain term
-Back again?
-Yes
I'm just finishing
-What did they say at the Windermere?
-There was nobody there but the doorman
I say
You don't absolutely hate me throwing
you out of your room like this
Poor mangy old thing
-Me?
-No, this
-Cripes Is this your hairbrush?
-I've been meaning to wash it
-You're losing your hair?
-I don't know,do you think so?
You tell me you take all those!
Only when I need them
What are there?Things to restore
your strength or something?
No,just vitamins and things.
Do you want some?
No thanks,I've rather too
much vitality already
Me in my innocent youth.
Where is the other?
My very best pair,Kurt brought
me those I scarcely worn them
That old pig will never give me
the other one if I left it in my old room
Glad I took a few towels
Knew it would serve the right for
something or other,half a 60 marks pair
I hope it hit somebody
No.It is lying there
looking rather,you know
There is a little boy,he is
just pouncing on
He is running around corner with it
Perhaps he has got a one legged sister
Are you really writing the famous novel?
Well.I'm sort of working
on the general idea
It's hard work,I can tell you
Which reminds me, ever since last night
I've been meaning to tell you
I tell you lots of thin to put in it
You know secrets of of a woman's life
Moments of passion
Yes I expect you can, but no cry
as I was about to say
Christ
There's my shoe
-Sally I'm trying to tell you something
-This time it did hit somebody
Chris...
...I'm awfully glad we
are going to be friends
I don't think I ever had
a real friend before
One or two girls maybe.
Girls are like feminine
Can you cook?
Eggs and things
Have you ever read "Trilby"?
I would be rather like that
I'll get jobs and become a terrific
well known night club singer
Maybe a film star!
In between I inspire you and
we'll have meals together
Bet you wear belts as well as braces
-Mentally maybe I do
-I wish I could be a pupil for you.
But I couldn't pay you until I got a job
And of course I speak English already.
But I'll darn your socks and
things and cook for you
...and wash up and do the cleaning
Sally was going to be the little house wife
She spent her time going around agents
Whatever she may have got from
them,it certainly was not the job
Pupils were scarcer than ever
The rent was unpaid
And Schneider no longer cleaned up for us
As for my famous novel
The less said about that the better
Before long I was forced to pay
a visit to my brokers
...to negotiate a loan
I was mortified to find...
..that cameras was not highly rated in
the financial circles of the Hauptstrasse
I find so
-Chris!
-Hello, Chris.
-Hello
-Hello, Fritz. Hello, Natalia.
-Hello!
-How is the work,Chris?
-Not so bad
-Writing hard?
It goes well enough.. Fine.
As Mr Landauer was saying
to me the other day
-...to work is good.
-But my lieber Fritz...
...it was not of Chris he said that.
How is Sally? She is always out when I come
Well,she is looking for a job,you know
We put a note on the door
This week and next I can
no more take my lessons
You see my father send us to the mountains
I've been invited for the week end
At least I'll go and stay at the inn
Well,that'll be all right,of course
-Good Bye, Chris.
-Bye, Chris.
Komm fort schnell
we'll be late
I don't know,other people
seemed to be having fun
..but I reminded myself that it
wasn't my business to have fun
I had to get back to my
little room and my work
I began to feel that my
program was a lot of rot
That everything I ever
written was spiritedly
...cold and dead
That I never should be a writer.
Hello,are you asleep?
-No.
-I thought you might be working
-I just washed my hair
-You are always washing your hair
Food is ready what there is of it
Agent have anything?
He said maybe next week
He took me out for a drink afterwards
that's why I was late
Somehow,however,he got the impression..
...that today was my birthday
-Not with it
-Yes with
Is it the writing?
You see I put down what I do,
I put down what they say
Lord knows,they are all terribly unhappy
It adds up to nothing
Why not have someone leave
them a terrific lot of money?
Talk of something you understand
A most strictly understanding let
a terrific lot of money
I thought about it a great deal
Many books were people are left
with lot of money where actually fine.
They are not even people
I've read over what I had done
They seem to have no faces,nothing
Well if you put in,say,that a girl got
violet eyes with some sort
of beautiful sensuous mouth
-That's a face,isn't it?
-No.
-Or if a man got terrific..
-Don't be stupid.
No faces?
Well,bottoms up,I say
What's the good to trying to explain?
What's the good of trying to write?
What's the good of anything?
Oh, Chris...
It'll get better
You write a book and
it will be terribly good
Everybody knows that you are a genius
Yes.I told them so myself
-No
-What then
No!
A puritan all of a sudden
If you like
Just where I'm concerned
You're the puritan
You hate me,Chris.That's why it was ugly
We don't be able to
talk to each other again
I know that I talk like a fool very often
But...
All right, Sally.
I'll go to bed
Chris...
It'll get better
After this horrible winter
we all feel different
Truly
Sally was right.
Spring came at last.
And all the starved capped in the
neighbourhood,ourselves included
...began to feel life was worth living
The bookshops blossomed with new editions
Unfortunately all by other authors
We were still as hard up as ever
...but we could have drifted
along quite happily...
...but for that memorable day which began
...with a visit to the Landauer.
mothballs and old England
Respectable enough?
Then my fox you see I haven't the necklace
They'll see my fox
Perhaps I should brush
it with some hairs on it
-Oh,make up your mind,it's getting late.
-I am ready.
I bet they give us a terrific lunch.
Now over your sudden glum
Well it's no that.It's.
...it's that I may have contracted
a rather fatal disease
Why do you always choose a day
when we are going somewhere?
What is for heavens sent
Locomotor ataxia
-What?
-It's a form of paralysis.
Look here
It's pretty final
Let me try
Well,it's probably just a
bit of house maid's knee
Good Morning ,my humble friends
-Are you ready?
-Almost
-Chris got a touch of locomotor
-What
Locomotor ataxia.Look here
You? Impossible. Let me...
See? You are hitting high up.
You will live I think
Extraordinary
Come along.I've been out here and ready
...Natalia's parents has lent
me a car to pick you up
Do you mean to say that let
you drive their car?
Why not?
But this one happens to be the limousine
so ultimately the chauffeur drives
Well,if we are going to be driven by
a chauffeur I am going to wear my hat
Penniless people should avoid
contact with the rich
Already poor Fritz was
acting like a son in law
Though we all knew he was
getting nowhere with Natalia
As for Sally...
...it might have been the chauffeur...
...it might have been the car...
...but something transformed her.
She looked at the Landauer house.
...as she had not seen glass
or concrete before
Or flowers,or silver or servants
It all went to her head like wine
So did the wine.
By the afternoon she was treading on air
-That is stirring
-You remember the Charleston?
Perfectly.
Fritz,get the record,
it's on the left side,please
Chris.
I just adore old fashioned dancing
Chris...
If you were rich would
you buy me a fur coat?
No.
You know sometimes I think Chris
has no heart at all
I wish I had none
Poor old Fritz you've got it
badly,haven't you?
You know?
It's for money
Sally, I tell you it isn't.
I swear to you
I don't see you after it
any longer besides this
...prevents you treating
her like other girls
You have to admit you are a bit respectful
To Natalia,how not?
Vowing is not going to do you any good
If I were a girl like Natalia
...I'd be rather impressed by a pounce
A pounce?
Well,you know.
It is impossible
How can anyone pounce on Natalia?
Anybody can pounce on anybody
and generally they do
-This was funny music
-You've splendid, Natalia.
-Another record?
-It's after five..
..we have to fly
- Oh, no. You do not stay for the evening?
It's going to be a party,
more people are coming.
We'd love to..
we'd got a friend and he
is feeling awfully bad.
I'm so sorry..
...but my mother and father
went out in the car.
That's all right,we'll take the train.
Well,it's a great pity but if you must
We left Fritz to his fate
..and caught up with our
own only too quickly.
Step by step as we made our way home
...Sally's fever was mounting
Look!
Diamonds!
-Oh, Chris,I feel such a hunger.
-Want a sausage?
-I mean a spiritual hunger
-Come on
I've serious thought of
becoming a femme fatale
You know the kind of bankers,
princes,and people fall in love.
...and absolutely ruin themselves.
- First catch your prince
If I could hire a horse and
go riding in the Tiergarten
...and it could run away with me
and all of a sudden dashing..
All right
Never get married, Chris.
That is the sort of man who
kills the soul of a woman
...who bring her down to earth..
..and you make it to desert..
...or horrible dead and dry.
Look at this old thing
Chris, I'm so thirsty
it's all your fault
When we get back to Hauptstarsse
I'll buy you a beer
Beer! The sort of thirst you
don't know anything about.
Chris!
I need a champagne cocktail
I've been in a limousine in a
wonderful house
Chris, if only you could understand...
I know you got money
70 marks is for our rent tomorrow
-I've been guarding them for days
-I know
-What will Frau Schneider say?
-Look
Three marks each for the drink and one
for the tip that's only seven marks
Give it a rest it will keep
her quiet come on
It's all very well for bankers and princes
...but I can't afford to be ruined
Well,just one you understand
I'm sure you would appreciate
the service here
We have the best cocktails in
Berlin,what do you want?
Champagne cocktails
Which type of champagne,Madam?
Pure champagne of course.
I suppose I didn't ask for
a drop of absinthe in it
I suppose you have been
done for better not.
Anyway I think you are rather
intimidated by a place like this
To me it seems the most
natural thing in the world
More than Frau Schneiders lousy dump anyway
...where I expect every single
night to be simply crawled on by bedbugs
Chris,why don't we be able to go
to the races every day in the spring
-...unles we do a lot of sailing.
-Thanks
You do look like an utter
fool like grinning like that
The trouble with you Chris is that you are
probably the most insensitive man I ever met
One thing you don't understand women
I hate to say this,Chris
but I don't think you are a real writer
and I don't think really you have a talent
Chris! I drunk it all up and
I didn't really noticed
Dear,have mine
Encores de champagne cocktails
I have to admit the service is
awfully good here,I like that
I'd like to come to this place often
Chris, you do look so glum
Well,it we going to spend a bit of
the rent money on champagne
we might as well enjoy it
Here is to poor old Schneider
Chris, I'm feeling so much better
Caviare pour Madam?
Well,yes
Oui Merci.
Beluga or Astrakhan caviare,Madam?
Some of the big ones,la grande
La!
Sally!
-Pour Vous Monsieur?
-Thank you no.
I realize I was so hungry
Nor did I
Have ever Madame tried the Caspian caviare?
Practically jamais.
Just a little.
Chris, got to try it
Only a bit salty it makes me thirsty.
Encore un cocktail de champagne
This servuga caviare has
almost no salt at all.
I think I should like that,oui
Sally!
Sally!
Darling, have you got a cigarette?
Cigarette
Look, Chris!
Yellowish cigarette with tubes
Oh,it's lovely I got to have this bear
I feel so Russian tonight
Five marks for cigarette,Monsieur
and 20 marks for the bear
Spasiba
Sally,you have gone absolutely
stark staring raving mad
Enjoy,you can't keep counting
pennies all the time
I think I must have a good
deal Russian blood in me
My grand mother was Russian
She escaped from Russia in the
middle of the winter on a sledge
Pursued by wolves and she
threw a serf to them
Only 45 marks left and the bill
is going to cost hundreds
-For 5 champagne cocktails...
-And the caviare
I thought that was free,I mean
with the drinks like peanuts
-Chris,what will they do to you
-We should probably end up in jail.
No,lets have another drink and talk it over
-No,no
-Encore un champagne cocktail,Madame
-Oui.
Now look here Sally there
is only one thing to do
You finish this course and
drink just water
and walk out I'll stay and talk with him
Oh, Chris,you would only
make an awful mess.
Merci
-I could do it better.
-Oh,shut up
That's not very nice,
I'm trying to be helpful
Any mess you get into,you are
trying to get out by using
...your extremely inadequate sex appeal
My sex appeal is adequate?
It's adequate
Inadequate
Adequate...
Chris, you are so upset you
wouldn't say a thing like that
One Martini.
There is always a way out, Chris.
Lady,how do you like to tilt
that glass a little bit further?
I'm sorry really
Don't worry I like the flavour
In that case please
I never say no to a drink but
the next one is on me
We couldn't think of
it unless you insist
I'm coming up just to do that
-Sally!
-Chris,stop being an idiot
Say,hello.
Mortimer is the name,Clive Mortimer
This is my brother
Mr Isherwood,the Mr Isherwood
-My name Sally Bowles
-Glad to know you,Mrs Bowles.
Miss
But he is your brother?
Adopted,just adopted
Just adopted,as a matter of fact
If you find it confusing his name
is Chris and mine is Sally
Chris, old boy,I wanna tell you right now
you got a mighty pretty sister
-Hey,what do you care for drinking?
-We call them "same again"
The best drink in the world
Hi,come,let's have
the same again all around
Encore trois champagne cocktails
Chris, Sally, I got an idea
A fellow was telling me that for
dinner and a floor show there is
...nothing like
the Alhambra Palace Garden.
-Know anything about the joint?
-Yes
-What?
-We can't afford to go there
That sounds good!
-Is it the pops,the real pops?
-Oh,definitely
-Can we have a real good time there?
I simply adore The Alhambra wherever it is
That's where we are going tonight,kids
The Alhambra Palace Gardens
Hi,come,let's have the cheque,
but the cheque is on me!
And afterwards the Femina
Hello,and eldorado!
And now to the Resi.
And now to bed
Hey!
You are a great guy,Chris
a real great guy
But Sally...
Some people would have called
it an ordinary hang over
But I was furious of Sally and felt
I was on the brink of the grave
Sally had brought me to this,
I could hardly wait for her return
...to tell her that our
relationship was finished
But low be hope but she
blew in bubbling with life
...and had the impudence
to imply that I was jealous
I do think people are so
ridiculous about love
Why shouldn't they take it
as a part of the spring?
You know lambs hopping cocks
popping and all that sort of thing
What are you doing in bed?
Darling
Are you really ill? Oh,Chris
Is it because I..?
Leave me in peace
Chris,I wouldn't dream
of doing such a thing
Clive!
Ya,baby!What is it?
Come up quickly!
It's Chris he's got
What?
-Rheumatic fever,I think.
-Rheumatic fever
Chris, I feel terrible
-So do I
You might be crippled for life
-Oh,Chris could I rub you?
-Oh,no
Where is he?
Show me the old horse!
Who says he is sick?
-I do
-Brother,you ought to know
You don't look so good
Rheumatic fever...
Oh,look,kids, this is not a sort of
doublet,let's him get him around in a hotel
There is another bedroom in the suite
on the other side of the living room
We'll get him there,stick
him in the back of the car
Covering him up and get him down
come on honey give us a hand will you
-Give us a shot.
-Leave me alone
I don't think we should add
any more hot water bottles,Clive
No?
I think we really should have ice bags to
prevent the fluid mounting to the brain.
What fluid?
It is nothing,darling
This is a silly old book
You see when it gets there
I read about a scientific doctor
...put a guy's brain right out
and put in a chimp's brain
No time at all he was up around and
carrying some blonde up a tree.
But Chris wants to write a book
He had his chance in bed,won't he?
Look,once he turned the corner...
They say champagne is
awfully good for sick people
That's my apartment,sister
I told them as I came in
Fine, fellows,
put it down
Clive, darling,perhaps we should have
some brandy to dampen his heart
This guy is going to get
Napoleon Brandy.
Clive, you are wonderful
It will give you the will to live,
won't it darling?
It didn't do much for Napoleon
-Hello
-Guten Tag.
-Guten Tag
-Guten Tag, Herr doctor.
Here is your patient
We thought it was first rheumatic fever
But now we are rather
inclined to fear meningitis
Perhaps I better make the examination
Guten Tag
Don't you think he seems
rather cold and brutal?
I told them to get the
best doctor in all Berlin
-But what is he going to do to him?
-He'll give him the works,honey.
When these Germans examine the guy,
they examine him...
... penthouse to basement
Do you see what I mean?
I hope he makes him well and then we
should take him for a drive in Tiergarten
Hire a wheel chair, if you like,baby and
we'll take him around the night spots
Clive...
Don't you think we should let people know?
Just a few close friends I mean
Call them up get them around here
I got to like to see these guys
No alcohol, a light supper
a good night sleep...
...and tomorrow morning
you'll be perfectly well
Guten Tag
"An idiot", I decided,
"but at least a harmless one".
What followed was an absolute night mare
Guten Tag
Clive and Sally were not satisfied
in turning the place into..
...into a night club. The day one
into a hospital as well.
Did your doctor examine your
sympathetic nervous system?
-Of course he did,ulcers?
-Or hardening of the arteries
Or softening of the brain
I'm going to get this fellow
to work on your spine
Sally!Come here!
Look at this.What does it say?
"Disorders of the blood,brain,nerves..
...skin, lungs
and bowels. The water cure".
Pretty well covers the field,yah
unless the poor guy got bunions
And look at this,a guy with
sparks coming out of him
Electrotherapy
I'm going to get these,birds,I'm going
to get them up here right away
There
What are you going to do?
Oh, no!
I'm perfectly all right!
No,I mean!
No!
Sally, there are two people
outside to see you
Hello
Fraulein,if you please,
where is the bath room?
There is one through there
-For me is necessary two bath rooms
-Well
One bath very hot one bath very cold
Because it is hydrotherapy
In that case there is another
one through there
Thank you
Please
No, no...!
Sally!
Hey,that masseur,sure gives him a go
Poor Chris!
No, no, no!
Fraulein,is there more ice cubs?
Absolutely,anything you want
Thank you
Hello
Oh,yeah,do come in,
the patient is having a massage
He says he needs a chair
Clive,darling,the most divine and
sinister little doctor do give him a drink
No, please don't!
Clive!
Sally! Sally! Clive! No!
Keep up the singing kids,or
we have the manager in
Sally, give him a guitar!
Very good,girl.
Sally! Sally, please!
Clive! Ah, no!
Clive, pleaser!
Sally!
Sally, Clive!
Clive,all this is doing Chris so much good
Clive,couldn't it be wonderful to spend
the rest of our life helping sick people
...have a sort of a hospital
- Yes,baby!
I must need some medicine
You are healing
Couldn't be all right?
Sally!
Everything is going to be wonderful
Darling,it will be all right,I promise you
Absolutely wonderful
Clive!Sally!
You're all right,darling
Sally!
Absolutely fine!
When I woke,feeling a new man..
...I was rested,relaxed,my
muscles toned up beyond belief
I borrowed a pair of pants
and went back home
I was inspired my style seemed
to have crackled with electricity
No doubt I could have
written a master piece..
..but my dear friends turned up
and dragged me out again
Come on,let's get him out of here,quick
Now and then I was ashamed about sponging
..but was Sally's childish enjoyment
and her winning ways
...Clive being so warm giving
and my own lack of system
...I was content to play along
Until one afternoon that
madness reached its climax
And Clive insisted we should all go
Honolulu and then places!
Baby, we are off to Honolulu
-Now look at these folders
-No,there is a limit to everything
Look pal,Tahit?.
Where Cezanne cut his ear off?
What's that?
Some guy's funeral,they,
they giving him a work
Stressberg probably,
it were in the papers today
An old guy the Nazis bumped off?
This is the time to get out off
Look, Japan, Singapore...
Is there a bar there
The Long Bar they call it.
But I can't travel with you and Sally.
Chris,why not?
It will be sheer absolute heaven
Well for one thing I don't
have any money.
Don't worry about money,look India
Some marvellous maharajah they
offer my weight in diamonds
...to spend one night in his harem
Egypt!
Cruising down the Nile with the
desert all around us and moonlight
...and those sinister sensual harem.
...watching us on the top of the pyramids
Chris, pal come on...
-Well I don't know.
Good,that's a stop,that's
what I like to hear
Now listen you need some tropical kits
I got to go to Paris for a couple of days
but while I am gone get
your assets,all you need.
I'll be back Thursday we'll leave Friday
Next stop, Honolulu!
-We shall never come back,you know
-Who wants to come back?
I can see us ten years from
now you married to Clive
...and I'll be a sort of private secretary
A bit glassy in the eye
a bit heavier around the jaw
Not if you make plenty of exercise
Here is your tropical kit,
do try it on again
Anyway you write your book
in the next few months
Would have been one of
these round the world book
They are always a success.
They are shapeless bestsellers
Tahit?, Honolulu...! Ten days
that didn't shake the world
I didn't know if people felt
like this in the middle ages
...when they sold their souls to the devil
Chris, you look marvellous
You look absolutely irresistible
You say the craziest things
There is always a moment
when it is not too late,Sally
When you have your last chance
...and no one ever seems to take it
Come in
Hello, Fritz.
-You are ultimately off then?
-Yes they too,both going away
My other room is empty.What am I to do?
Schneider, darling,you get other tenants
-They don't match after all
-Other tenants?
In these times when the banks close down.
...and the knackwurst is 1 mark and 50...
And even the potatoes will
get up everything goes wrong
It is the Jews,believe me,are
up to bring the country down
You know that is absolutely rubbish
You should listen to the radio,to
the speeches,Herr Isherwood.
But you don't care you're going away
How are you, Fritz?
Not good,not good at all
Chris, not more of your things.
We'll be here to Christmas
How is Natalia?
You remember the advice you gave me?
I attempted but it put her against me
She sent me a note that she will not
see me,she will never see me again
-You must have made an awful mess of it
-Quite possible,but I love her
Also she is worried about
all the attacks on the Jews.
It's not my fault that her father
get threatening letters all the time
From some lousy Nazi,I suppose
Every day they get something,
I tried to comfort her,she screamed at me
...her father is worried sick and
her mother is falling down fainting
...and now will I go please,please
So I go
Maybe if you went back in a day or two?
Chris...
Can I tell you something? Sally too
Yes of course
Sally,these are yours.
Telegram
It is something so bad,
so disgusting,I don't know how to
-It can't be!
-What is it?
It's nothing
Look, Fritz,we got terrible lot to do
Oh,Sally, no
Yes we have. Look,Fritz, I'm
not trying to get rid of you
Of course
I understand
Good Bye.Good Bye, Chris.
-Fritz, wait a minute!
-It doesn't matter,I go
Sally, that was cruel.There is something
wrong,Fritz is in trouble
Yes and so are we.Real trouble
Listen to this.
"Sally dear: Sorry must postpone our jaunt.
Crazy people here insist
a trip up the Amazon
Let's hope for next year or some time
Love to both, Clive".
-Well
-Well...
I mean it is an outrage.What does he
think we are brushing us off like this?
What we are suppose,something rather cheap.
Don't start moralizing
I'd wish I'd started sooner
At least he could let us know
before we spent all our money
All whose money?
All right,make yourself out as a saint,
you can't do anything else
Pretend you are glad of it!
-Yes I am,I most certainly am!
-We were well off before I suppose.
Shut in this home not been
able to go out to a caf?
You moaning all the time
and sucking my blood
...like some dreary clammy,vampire
...just because you have
someone to talk to about arts
You,your precious book,you can't even write
...just because you want to be known as
the most wonderful writer in the world
And along comes Clive and you're
jealous of of him
-You believe that!
-Yes
-Because he was a man
-Not a very fastidious one
What do you mean by that?
I dare you to tell me what you mean by that
I mean.When you're leaving this room
You can take your things,take everything
if you like and move out of here
I will not stay here even if you begged
me on your knees to be nagging
-Preached by you
-Good
You can finish your packing I'm
going out when I come back
Don't worry,I'll be gone
Hello, Fritz.
-Not gone yet?
-Not going.
Everything is off
Fritz,what was you trying to say?
Nothing
It didn't sound like nothing
What is not said,what else
can it sound like?
Now,look Fritz...
Better I keep it to myself
A drink?
No, thank you
Fritz, I came to apologize,I've been
It's not easy to say one
is ashamed of one self
No?
Supposing you were a Jew?
What do you mean?
And had denied it,lied about it
That's what I had to say
That I was a cheat,a coward,a liar
-Oh,come now, Fritz.
-Now you know
When did you start being that
particular sort of idiot?
Years ago.When I left school
Thins that happened there?
When I came to Berlin I thought:
"No more of that".
But I suppose of having given
people the wrong impression
...you find it hard to take it back
I did not want to take it back,
I wanted to be smart, set and popular
...make a rich marriage
Here in Germany even before Hitler.
...people made it miserable to be a Jew.
They made it uncomfortable,
you made it miserable
Free English lessons
All right,from now on I
won't be miserable anymore
Everyone shall know
Have you told Natalia?
It is because of her that I...
I can no longer,I will no longer
If she and her family are to be
threatened by insults than I too
Have you told her?
She will have it
Not from you?
Let my face part in two?
She already hates me,that's not enough?
Do you think it would hurt her less
if I went there?Told her myself?
I told you I'm a coward
Was,past tense,another free lesson
When I left Fritz...
...it seemed I was back in real life
again after a long crazy dream
It's amazing how little
of the world one can see
...from the back seat of someone's car
They have destroyed everything
I had.I have to leave everything
But now I was walking...
...and on my own two feet
And therefore must we
Germans live since 1O years
...without dignity
under the ignominy...
...beause of the Jewish subordinates...
...and parasites has sold us out!!
The liberation is soon here
Unser F?hrer...
...Adolf Hitler...
...has risen
Germany wake up!
We,the national socialists
...are Germans!
When I now think of all that
happened in the world since then
...that little scuffle seemed
nothing to write home about
But it got me out of my
wretched protective shell
Now with Sally off my neck
...I was ready to start a new chapter
Herr Isherwood!
Never would I thought it of him
What's that?
Herr Isherwood,it is not good to treat a
young lady so,for this I'm ashamed of you
No I'm going to make her some
herbal tea to calm her
-Is she still here?
-Is she still here!
What brutality! What evil! These men!
These men
What have you been saying to Schneider?
I don't know
Maybe she thinks that somehow
your are the father.
What?
The father
Chris, what's happened to you?
-Oh,nothing
Do you mean to say you're?
I'm afraid so,I've been worried
about if for quite a time
Tried not to think about it just now I was
...I was going to the taxi
I feel faint all of a sudden
But this is serious
You do sort of find the right word
for things,darling,don't you?
Haven't you better to lie down and rest?
You are angry that I'm still here?
Chris, I'm frightened
I've made things up so much,
never thought about anything
Now it's here and real
Don't worry,we'll see this through
Clive?
Well,haven't we better
get in touch with him
I mean you can always find him in person
I know,actually he sent another telegram
Telling me about some
film friend of his in Paris
Passing me on I suppose
Chris, don't talk to me about Clive
All the same.
...I think we ought to be very
practically about having this baby
Practically is just not having it
I suppose so,still I don't like the idea
I'm not exactly crazy about it, darling
Would it help at all if I?
...if you were...
...if it was official if we got married?
Chris...
Now,I'll marry you if it will
do any good,it needn't be
Chris, I'll never forget you saying never
There is a limit even for me
Here,dear Fraulein, some good herb tea
Fraulein Schneider,there has
been a lot of misunderstanding
...about Fraulein Sally leaving
about her little trouble
...and about the man
responsible for all this.
He's left the country and I never
want to see him again
What?
Then indeed Herr Isherwood,
I'm sorry,I misunderstood
So no marriage...
That is sad
Then for a young lady in such misfortune
there is nothing but Frau Pitzberger
Who?
Is she a doctor?
Herr Isherwood,she is everything
If you have a wart,heavens
forbid or a carbuncle
...she charmed it away
If you wish a young lady
to fall in love with you
she will give you to
put into her coffee
If you wish your fortune
-Where does she live?
-No, that sort of thing will never do.
Fraulein, Sally must have the
best attention the best possible
Naturally, but Herr Isherwood,
that needs much money
We can sell all the stuff,
we'll get something for it
Not much,darling,we tried
everything on so much
...there is some egg on the
n?glig? already
Well if it isn't enough I can work
I wrote about the subject nearest at hand
...what I'd seen and felt on that
walk back from Fritz' place
"Portrait of Berlin"I called it
I went out and took it to the Berlin
editor of an American magazine
Sally!
-I've been waiting and waiting
for you to come in
This is good
Good.It's wonderful what do you think?
They are going to be married
Really?
Natalia's father is going to Switzerland
and Fritz is going ,he's going to be
-Sort of a partner
-Not the business partner...
...there is other work to do
Natalia is going to have millions
of the most divine babies
I'm so glad
Does make oneself old fashioned
Chris,you wouldn't believe
it,when I told her
- Didn't spit in your eye?
- She knew it all the time.
We must go.There is much to do
-Are you going for good?
-I do not know
But I must believe that the German
people one day will understand
...what these Nazis are
And then you come back?
Perhaps.But you write to us and
visit us if you can,both of you
-Good Bye, Natalia.
-Good Bye, Chris.
-Good Bye, Natalia.Good luck
- Good Bye, Sally.
-Good Bye, Sally.
-Good Bye, Fritz.
Must say my advice turned out rather well
Anyway it takes the shine
of my little triumph
All the same,he read it,he liked it ,
he paid for it,cash on the barrel head
Chris,I think you're wonderful!
And what we got for the clothes and
things it will pay for everything
I called the place you can go right
away,they see you this afternoon.
And by tomorrow maybe it will be all over
-Well,I suppose I....
-What?
I suppose I'd better change and
get a tooth brush or something
Nervous?
Well,tell me what happened,
what did the editor say?
Well,he seemed an awfully nice sort of chap
And he said he is going to turn
it out with lots of photographs.
Yes he wants to see me again this afternoon
Why?
He didn't say except I suppose he wants
to make some changes or something
-Chris, you mustn't come up.
-Why not?
You should go back to that editor
But I can't let you go to
that place all alone
Nonsense,Chris,look,he may be testing
you,see if you are keen.
He may be offering you a terrific job
Maybe going to retire and looking for
a real young man to take his place
Please, Chris.
Well,all right
And look,darling,there is
something to tell you
You are sending me some
marvellous bunch of flowers
...and write to me actually
throbbing on the card...
...and show it to the nurses
so they won't think I'm...
Well,you know
Good Luck, darling
CURTIS B. RYLAND
Berlin Editor
When I got back to the editor
he had marvellous news for me
...and a breathtaking question
-Now,can you leave tomorrow?
-I...
-You are a free agent.
-Well...
-No wife no family..
-No
Fine
Listen,I'm in a rush,we'll talk in the
car I'll drop you off near your home
I get the idea "A portrait of Madrid",
" A portrait of Stockholm"
A copy for you,and if I don't see
you tomorrow,Good Luck
Thank you
-Watch that deadline
-Right
250 dollars and all expenses paid
I was ready to go I felt quite
a pang of leaving Sally
...but I knew she was in good
hands and well looked after
Sally!
Chris, darling,I changed my mind
I think I began to when Natalia was here
...talking about the millions of marvellous
babies she was going to have.
Then Chris I went away from that
dreadful place,there was a traffic jam
And the taxi stopped in front of the
most wonderful shop in the world
...all for little children
Full of cradles,bottles
...little clothes,little shoes
Yes,but...
I thought that if you were so terrible
decent to say we could get married
I said what?
Chris.
You are quite right,I absolutely did.
Oh Dear
Darling,I knew you wouldn't let me down
so I went in a bought a few things
When I came out I saw a policeman
who held up the traffic..
...Chris don't scoff at me,but he seemed
to me to have the face of an angel
If I ever find him he would have
Everything is going to be
absolutely perfect!
The only topic I can't find
is really ideally name
The whole list in the encyclopedia
Aaron Isherwood,
Abel Isherwood...
...Anthony Isherwood...
Anthony is not bad but not for first
-Also Athelstane Isherwood...
-What did you say?
"Athelstane",darling,that's sort of
name would have an awful effect
...on a person's love life,
don't you think?
No,before that above Anthony.
Not for the first I said then
of course it my be a girl
In that case it could be
Ada Isherwood, Adeline...
Why do you look like that,darling?
You don't want it to be
an only child,do you?
There were complexes now
the children must be sound
...in mind and body,
that's remind me my milk
What are you doing?
Daddy is going to have a drink too
Alcohol is rightly called treacherous
The bottle I took to bed with me nothing
reminded me of other bottles
The bed seemed to rock
like a confounded crib
If I dozed for a moment I
had visions of a boy like Clive.
...followed by a string of
girls all exactly like Sally
I don't think my health has ever completely
recovered from the agony of that night.
-Sleep well,darling?
-No
Here is our coffee I made
it good and strong
Coffee but I thought you were drinking milk
Milk is all right,personally I think a
dash of absinthe would improve it
This morning is coffee
-About Theodor...
-Theodor
Isherwood, the name I choose last night
while you were out.
I'd forget what I would say about it
Darling,there is something
I have to tell you.
Sally, please don't tell me anymore.
Not today,possible not at all
-Darling,it could change your plans
-They are very much changed already
We could change them back again
You see darling,I was never
much good at arithmetic
Sally,do you mean?
I mean that people who are
strange and extraordinary
...terrific sort of personalities...
...are usually rather above being
good at figures and all that
I could never understand dates
Yes,Sally,but Theodor, tell
me please? Is he?
He isn't.I suppose in a way
he never really was
He was a mistake?
I don't think it is very nice to call
him that,behind his back I mean
Sally, sit down,relax I'll get
the rest of the breakfast
I can see tell by the way you talk you
are not thinking of marriage any more
You never really wanted to marry me, Chris.
I'm suppose I'm not the marrying kind
-The taxi is here,Fraulein
-This coffer here,please
You're leaving?
For Paris, of course.
Chris, you forget everything
I told you about that friend of Clive
he make such terrific films
Clive said in the telegram that he
told him all about me.
...and was longing to meet me
-You know what that means?
-Yes I'm afraid I do
Well then...
Darling!
Don't come down
I take my last look at you in the room here
Chris...
-It has been fun
-Hasn't it?
You remember the very first day I was here?
I'd said I would inspire you,you
didn't quite believe me,did you,darling
You did look like a dying fish
But you see it all come true ,I mean
You have really written something at last
You wouldn't have except
for me,inspiring,isn't it?
Most likely in an unusual sort of way
Nothing is quite usual,Chris.
Life isn't like that
You certainly aren't
I should hope not , I mean having
every sort of adventure
...be the most wonderful
and fabulous personality
You'll be a success too
in a writer's sort of way
Darling I must fly or I miss my train
I almost wish I would
Good Bye, Chris.
Good Bye, Sally.
-I'll send you a postcard
- Do
-I do love you.Good Bye
-Good Bye,Sally
Of course the promised
post card never arrived
And perhaps it was just as well
Who knows I might got
embroiled with her again
Well I suppose I'd better go
and say,how do you do
I must admit...
...when I saw her name on the book
I thought of a certain shudder...
...like someone walking over my grave
-Grave of your youth
--Youth...
We can thank heaven on our bended knees
we managed to reach years of discretion.
Chris!
-Sally!
-How absolutely marvellous to see you
I've been sitting surrounded by
the most lascivious looking critics
Have I changed?
Not in the very least
You have,you seem more mature,manly
You were so absolutely
unbelievable so repressed,darling
...in those days
-You live in London?
-Yes,I have a little house.
How marvellous
I mean I'm stuck here in a most
dreary little furnished room
What? With all this?Succesfull authoress?
Yes,I get terrific royalties you know when?
...after the first 200000 copies
have been sold
Presently I have written
my head off,you know
Last night we had a little
celebration in my place
The landlady came in and said
and made the most boring remarks
So I had to leave.
I suppose you'd better find your hotel
To tell you the truth,darling,
bankrupt,not a penny in the world
There is only one thing for it
you'd better come home with me.
All right?
There is a spare room in which I could
Darling!You still a rather like a
somebody or other aren't you?
Good Bye everybody
I was hoping to ask
Darling you look marvellous in grey hair,
you look absolutely irresistible
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