Lovers and Lollipops (1956) - full transcript

- Come on.
- Here, can you get him?

All right, Peggy, that's right.

Got home early.

Peter was through early.

Oh, honey, let me see your face.

- There, there, that's better.
- Mama.

Got nobody to play with.

Everybody's at camp
but me and that stupid Jane.

You know you're going to camp
soon as Peter finishes the book.

I know. Look what he gave me.

Daddy!



- Hi.
- Hi, honey.

Peggy, come up
and take care of your fish.

Have you washed yet?

Sure,
I'm watering my fish already.

Well, don't make the water
too hot this time.

I won't.

Peggy,

found a couple new matchbooks
for your collection.

Gotta stay in your places, boys.

All the others have to do it,

so do you, so do you, so do you.

Did you tell aunt Judy
camp's been postponed

for a couple of weeks?

Come on, Bobby.



Bobby.

Ooh.

Got to put your water in.

You know what?

Jamie was teasing me
again today.

What'd I tell you to do
when she starts that?

- Ignore her.
- And why?

'Cause she's
an unhappy little girl.

Do you know what I told her?

I told her she was a liar,

because I really do
have a father,

only he's dead.

- Goodnight, darling.
- 'Night, mama.

Do Dee do Dee Clementine

do Dee do Dee Clementine

Peggy, go do that
in the bathroom.

I bet you don't know
I'm a model now, like my mother.

Since when?

Hey, kid, you're dripping.

- Look.
- She's half right, Carol.

She's not actually
a professional model, but,

a photographer's doing
a kids' picture book with her

and well, she's having
a wonderful time with him.

Who are you going out with?

Old friend.

Old, old friend.

Name's Larry.

Do I know Larry?

No.

Well,
if he's an old, old friend,

how come I don't know him?

Cause I knew him
a long, long time ago.

I got a piece of a puzzle

that will, will not fit

I've got a piece of a puzzle

- You know where you wanna eat?
- You pick the spot.

It's your choice tonight.

Okay, I'll pick the spot.

Carol, you won't forget
to turn off Peggy's light?

I won't.

- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.

You did, you did!

Oh, Peggy, stand still.

But, it's in my eyes!

Don't you want
to look nice for Larry?

Where are we going?

Central park.

We may even go
to the museum for lunch.

All done.

Hi, Larry.

Hi.

Oh, what a beautiful Rose.

Larry, this is Peggy.

Well, hello, Peggy.

Wonder what's in that package.

That is a present for Peggy.

Ooh, thank you.

You're very welcome.

Mama, look.

Peggy, let's go inside.

Peggy, it's too hot for games.

You go inside and cool off.

- I'll get her, okay?
- Okay.

- M-u-s...
- Peggy, let's go in.

E-u-m.

Peggy, let me
check the boat inside.

No.

Well, they won't allow you
to take it in.

You can't sail a boat
in a museum.

Maybe I can.

Wait till we get
to central park.

They don't have
any lakes in here.

Well, they ought to.

Where'd ya go?

Oh, we were just
looking at pictures.

Well, why didn't you check it
in the first place?

Maybe I should've tied
a string to her, too.

Look, she's more interested
in the motor boats now anyway.

You know, parts of south America
are just fabulous,

but there's no place
like New York City.

Gonna go back?

Well, I've got a month's leave
to make up my mind.

What would you do if you stayed?

I'm not quite sure.

The company's pretty rough
on transfers.

Plus, my father would love to
have me take over his business,

but it's his business,

and who wants to go back
and live in that burg?

I'm gonna have to visit him
in a couple of days.

What'll I do with it?

I can't stop it.

What made you run down
to south America for so long?

Oh, the usual pressures,

and the work was
the kind of work that I liked.

With all the construction
around Sao Paulo

and the rest of south America is
a regular engineer's paradise.

Have you ever been up
in the statue of Liberty?

I never have either.

Both times
when I left the country,

when I was in the army
and I went to south America,

as I went past it,
I was feeling pretty sad.

But, coming back,

I got such a special
kind of a feeling.

I'd like to climb it

that sound crazy?

What?

Would you like to go
sightseeing?

Sure.

Mama, a boy threw my boat
in the water.

What happened to the string?

Okay, come on, Peggy,
I'll get it.

Hey, come on!

Whoa!

Lucky your father
was able to get it.

He's not my father.

Look how tiny.

You think Peggy's all right?

Oh, sure.

Stomachache was just an act.

Doesn't like being left
with Carol on Sundays.

Can you see the people
in the crown?

Of course.

"With silent lips,

'give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free.

The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp
beside the golden door!™

Sorry.

Look, that's just like Peggy.

She hasn't been here either.

Have to bring her sometime.

Larry, do you mind
if we don't climb to the crown?

- It's so high.
- What do you mean?

Look how low it is.

Okay, we've got
lots more to do anyway.

You look beautiful.

- Have you had enough?
- No.

But I'll take some more later.

Let's get a souvenir for Peggy.

Oh, look.

Look.

Would you like one?

How much?

Would you mind
taking a picture for us

with the park in the background?

Sure, where do you snap?

This is the thing you snap.

Can you get the park in?

Oh, no.

Okay, that's swell.

You wanna get closer?

Closer.

- Okay.
- Thanks a lot.

- Can you take one of us?
- Sure.

Closer.

Oh, I'm frightfully sorry.

Closer.

Wish you didn't
have to work tomorrow.

I don't, I don't work every day.

Wonderful

more sightseeing?

Well, I'd love to,
but I promised

I'd look at a new house
for a friend of mine.

He's planning on buying it.

I got a rented car
to drive out in.

Would you like
to keep me company?

Sure.

You know we've been together
since 9:00 this morning?

But really,
she's been cranky all day long.

Well, I hope she didn't
give you too much trouble.

- No.
- Goodnight, Carol, thanks.

Thank you, goodnight.

Oh, look, a fireplace.

Ne's been and gone already.

It's beautiful

okay, I'll take it.

Well, take it easy now,
we haven't seen it yet.

It's enough for me.

Oh, wonderful.

Oh yeah, how about that?

What is that?

It's just the damper.

What are these?

What are those?

How pretty.

Would you mind
saying a few words

into the microphone, please?

Yes, this is a lovely house,
and I'll take it.

Want this on?

Larry?

Larry, closets.

Know what?

- What?
- I'm hungry.

Well, let's hop into the car
and go get something to eat.

Got a better idea.

- What?
- Let's eat here.

Here?

What'll we eat?

You can go down
and get something.

Okay, what'll I get?

Whatever you want.

Okay.

Don't forget to buy
some hot dogs, and hurry back!

What's all this?

Hey.

Boy, am I in the right place?

And flowers, too!

Wait till you see
the ones I bought you.

Oh, they're sweet.

How do ya like the bunny?

Did you bring this for me?

That's for Peggy,
this is for you.

I'm starved... oh, wood.

Got enough here
to stay for a week.

Be nice, wouldn't it?

Mama, look at the camera
Peter gave me.

Oh, how lovely.

You must be Larry.

Yeah, hello, Peter.

Look at Peggy.

Get closer, Larry.

Do it like Peter.

That's very good, nice and still

good girl.

Peter, you've been
handling her beautifully.

Well, she's been
wonderful to work with

- goodbye, Larry.
- Bye.

- Gotta go now.
- Okay.

Goodbye, Peggy.

I'll be calling you.

Will you read to me?

- This?
- Yes, this.

- It's a little technical.
- It's okay.

"If this failure
of these pioneers

to communicate with one another

seems surprising,
you should remember that

dissemination
of technical information

had not reached
its present state."

"Does this strike you
as remarkable

that the techniques
for making..."

"High quality sound..."

"High quality sound."

"Records for the use of

electromagnetism

were not made use of
until some 20 years

after

the individual theories

had been put forward?

Wouldn't you have
thought the engineer

working on the same problem

long after the first idea..."

"Had been put forward

for a very thorough
investigation

into all the discoveries

pertaining to that idea..."

"The idea

of laying a sound wave..."

I don't like that story.

Read me another one.

- What other story?
- That one.

- Where?
- Over there.

There? Yeah

Any particular one?

- That one.
- Okay.

"This whale's name
was Fairchild Harrington,

and he lived in
one of the biggest houses

you could imagine."

"For the house
Fairchild lived in

was the whole pacific ocean.

It was so big that,
just in case he ever wanted to,

he could run up
to the north pole."

Do you wanna read? Yes.

Okay, try it here.

"Sahara desert.

Now this needn't had

presented too much of a problem.

However,

Fairchild didn't know yet

was that his dis..."

"Place"

"displacement was going to be

- too great for the..."
- Peggy, bedtime.

"Suez canal." "Suez canal."

I wish we had television.

Goodnight, Peggy.

I left my doll on the couch.

That's mine.

It's a hot night.

Could cool off in a movie.

I'm not in the mood for a movie.

Could always get a babysitter.

I'd rather stay right here.

Where'd you get that?

My grandmother gave it to me.

- Oh, Peggy.
- I'm hungry.

You just ate.

I'm still hungry.

Well, go in the kitchen
and get yourself a cookie

or something.

Peggy, goodnight.

Did you look like that
when you were seven?

I don't know.

What did you look like
when you were seven?

I had curls.

Oh, no. Yes.

Oh, no.

You think maybe we could
lock the door or something?

If we really have
trouble with her.

I have to brush my teeth,
don't I?

I just ate something.

Finish brushing your teeth
and get right back into bed.

Now.

I don't feel good!

I'm hot all over.

Peggy, just throw off a sheet.

It's a hot night.

Tomorrow, let's get
a babysitter.

I think I have a temperature
or something.

You haven't got a temperature.

Now, just throw off a sheet.

Go to sleep.

Peggy!

Are you up again?

If you don't stop that,
I'm gonna have to come in there

and spank you.

You better not
or I'll tell my mother.

She doesn't believe
in hitting children.

Carol, do you like Larry?

Sure.

I think he's cute.

Is your mother gonna marry him?

Of course not.

I've been feeling wonderful
ever since I first got back.

Being home again,
seeing the city with you.

I wish I hadn't told my father
I'd go back there tomorrow.

Ann, I didn't say
I was really going.

I don't see how I can now.

I'd rather stay here with you.

Besides, I'd hoped to be able
to take you back with me

when I went.

You know what? “What?

Did you know
that a baby kangaroo

is smaller than
my little finger,

and it goes in
its mother's pocket

and doesn't come out for months?

I didn't know that.

Larry, are you gonna marry
my mother?

Ooh, this is much bigger
than Janie's.

Isn't mom supposed
to get a ring?

Sure.

She'll get a wedding ring later.

Hi.

What's this?

It's our engagement present.

On!

Well, you think
that's the right place for it?

Where else are you gonna put it?

You know, it needs something.

Oh, no, not that.

- Not there.
- Yes, I like it.

- Oh, no.
- But I like it.

And, now, to repeat
the local weather

look at Peggy.

Heat and humidity continuing

on the eastern sea coast

perfect weather for the beach.

Temperature, 78.

Turn it off!

- We don't want to honk the horn.
- I'm all ready!

Okay?

Ooh, I forgot something.

Peggy, a doll carriage
at the beach?

I'll take care of it myself.

Peggy!

I'll get it.

No, no, no, no, I'll get it.

I'll meet you over
by the soft drink stand.

Okay.

A million, trillion,
billion cars.

A million...

A million, trillion,

a million, trillion cars.

Ooh, a parking space.

Larry...

Come on!

Come get your carriage.

Peggy!

All right, Peggy,
here's your things.

I'm going to the beach.

What happened?
I thought you got lost.

Oh, no. How can you get lost
in a parking lot?

- Come on.
- Hey, wait a second.

I need a drink of something.

Why'd you get so filthy?

Coke, please. Large.

- What were you doing?
- Nothing.

Now how do you expect
to drag that across the sand?

I'll go slow.

Mama, wait for Mel

- Feel good?
- Sure.

Where's Peggy?

You know you're not
supposed to go in

without telling me first.

- Come on!
- Oh!

Wait! Wait a second!

Look what I brought for Peggy.

Oh, not now, Larry.

Not all at once.

Oh, okay.

Be right back.

Hey, Peggy?

You know you're not supposed
to have those now.

I want 'em now.

Well, all right.

Don't eat "em all now, huh?

Don't eat 'em all.

The only thing wrong
with New York

is you have to, uh...

You have no place to park a car.

I'd still like to live
in the country.

Yeah, but you have to be
a millionaire.

Can you picture me
being a commuter?

Sure.

Where's Peggy?

There.

Did I tell you
that Brockman thinks

he can get me transferred
to the New York office?

Wonderful

well, I don't think
he can swing it,

but I'm willing to try.

He's arranged for us
to have dinner

with one of the vps
and his wife.

Peggy give you a hard time
in the parking lot?

Uh-huh.

Larry, I know it's hard
in the beginning.

Got to give her a little time.

She'll get to love you
as much as I do.

Well, it's only for a day,
and dad will meet her

after we're married anyhow.

Isn't it that you just
don't want to take her with us

to meet him now?

What you're actually doing
is ask... asking me

to pretend she doesn't exist.

He's an old guy.

I just don't want to shock him.

Peggy.

Peggy!

Stay out of the water!

You've let Peggy
go in the water alone.

You know she's not supposed
to go in the water alone.

Well, she knows that too,
doesn't she?

She's a child.

She was right here.

I didn't go swimming.

I just went in to wash the sand
out of my hair.

I think I swallowed a sucker.

Where did you get a sucker?

Larry gave it to me.

I want to go home.

That's just where we're going.

Here, Larry, Larry.

Very nice.

Now, Peggy, let's have
a little smile.

Yeah, Larry,
let's have a little smile.

I-p-p-o-p-o-t-a-m-u-s.

Peggy, come inside,
I have a present for ya.

No.

I don't want to go inside.

Don't you want to see
your present?

I don't want to go inside.

Oh, Peggy.

It's a doll.
Don't you want to see it?

I like my old doll.

What did I do wrong?

She's in a mood, Larry.

Why don't you just leave it?

Well, if she doesn't like
this one,

why don't I take her downtown
and let her pick one out

that she does like?

It isn't the doll
she doesn't like.

It's just that she's attached
to the old one,

the one that frank gave her.

Besides, you don't know
what it's like

taking a kid to a toy store.

They don't know what they want,

and you can't get them
out of the place.

Did you ever try
using a bow tie?

I hate them.

I don't see why
it'll be such a job

to take a kid to a store.

Try it.

Okay, I will. It's about time

she did something alone with me.

How long is Peter gonna be
hanging around here?

Oh, Larry, you can't expect her

to accept you overnight.

She... she doesn't feel
the way we do.

Okay, okay, let's not argue,
especially not today.

Shall I wear my new dress
tonight?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll get Peggy ready.

This is what I want.

You looked at that
over an hour ago

and you didn't want it.

What do you want it now for?

But I want it.

Uh, one of these, please.

Let's go get some lunch.

You know what?

Platypuses eat a whole lot

of big, fat, juicy worms
every day.

How do you know?

Peter told me.

Come on.

All right,
you've had enough now.

Come on, we're going.

Larry? “What?

I have to go to the bathroom.

Why didn't you tell me when
we were in the store before?

All right.

Go in the restaurant.

Ooh, my ankle!

You know you're not
supposed to do that.

My ankle hurts.

Stomach hurts too,

and he made me pick
a present in a hurry.

And it was a rotten sandwich

and he made me eat
every bit of it.

Then he made me fall,
so I broke my ankle

- and then he hit me.
- Peggy, Peggy,

you know that's not true.

You're a liar and I hate you.

And he lost me too.

I told you she didn't look well
this morning.

What did you do to her?

What do you mean
what did I do to her?

It's just been impossible
to handle her all day long.

When is the babysitter coming?

Did you have to hit her?

You don't believe that, do ya?

Well, what if I had?

I'm sick and my ankle
is growing.

I can't leave her alone
when she's like this.

You know how much tonight means.

This is gonna put John
in a fine spot.

She's just... she's just doing it

to try to keep you
from going out.

Can't you go without me?

How?

You don't think she got sick
from eating

that sandwich, do ya?

I hope not.

I still have to call the doctor,

you saw her ankle,
and I can't leave her alone

when she's like this.

Besides, it's partly my fault.

How can you be so blind?

I suppose you think
you're right.

Well, uh,

you're about as right
as that thing on the TV set.

What's wrong with it?

Well, if you don't know,
I can't tell ya.

Larry, I think you wanted
this argument.

Are you gonna come out with me
tonight or not?

Mama, I can't get
my program clear.

I told you not to play
with the inside dials.

E-g-g

I told you not to play
with the phone.

It's for two people.

I was only spelling.

Mommy, my matches are all upset.

Oh, everything happens to me.

Play with me, mama.

Oh, Peggy, you're going to camp
in a couple of days.

Can't you find something to do
for 48 hours?

No

Isn't Peter going to be
shooting you tomorrow?

Yeah, the last time.

Peggy, go find your camera
and take some pictures.

There's no film in it

stop wiggling your tooth
and go away

and stop annoying me.

Go on.

Hello.

I'm fine.

No, but I'm here.

Oh, lots of things.

My favorite fish Bobby is sick.

Television set is broken.

Wait a minute.

My tooth is very shaky.

Larry, where have you been
all this time?

Well, that's a silly reason.

Yes, I missed you.

She's at the grocer's,
but I'm here.

Right now?

All right, bye.

- Hi, Peggy.
- Hi.

- Is your mother home yet?
- No.

I've got a present for ya.

Ooh, a puppy.

Isn't he cute?

Come on.

Come on!

Come on.

Isn't he sweet?

Thanks.

Come on, Peggy,
let's go find your mother.

No, I want to stay here
and play with the dog.

You can take the dog with ya,
come on.

- How do you like that car?
- It's nice,

but the roof can't come off

yeah, but it's ours. It is?

Yup.

Larry, can I have
an ice cream cone?

Peggy, let's go home now,
I think we missed her.

Janie, look what I got!