Dinner at Eight

Hey, wait a minute. Where's my change? 743 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,734 Had to go to a new place. Cost half a dollar more. 744 00:37:15,817 --> 00:37:17,610 Who told you to go to a new... 745 00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,252 Well, a little drink. 746 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:37,213 Any reason why I shouldn't? 747 00:37:37,297 --> 00:37:38,965 No, of course not. 748 00:37:40,175 --> 00:37:43,178 Except, at mother's tonight... 749 00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,890 I want them to see you at your best. Larry, don't. 750 00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:49,225 Oh, Paula, mind your own business, will you? 751 00:37:49,309 --> 00:37:52,020 - Don't talk to me like that. - I'll do as I please. 752 00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:03,072 Darling... 753 00:38:03,156 --> 00:38:05,366 Darling, let's not quarrel. 754 00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:07,118 Oh, I'm sorry. 755 00:38:07,202 --> 00:38:09,162 I'm kind of on edge today, 756 00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:11,498 deciding about this play and... 757 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:13,082 everything. 758 00:38:13,166 --> 00:38:14,751 It's my fault. 759 00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:16,795 I'm a little jumpy myself. 760 00:38:19,339 --> 00:38:22,342 Ernest gets back from abroad this evening. 761 00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:23,885 Ernest? 762 00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:25,929 Will he be there at your mother's? 763 00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:27,305 Poor Ernest. 764 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,642 I'm awfully sorry for him. 765 00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:33,186 He's so sweet. 766 00:38:34,771 --> 00:38:37,816 I can't understand yet what's happened. 767 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:39,150 Less than a month ago, I thought 768 00:38:39,234 --> 00:38:41,528 I was in love with him. 769 00:38:41,611 --> 00:38:44,364 And you were one of those million-dollar movie stars. 770 00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:46,574 Now listen, Paula, I want to tell you something-- 771 00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:47,909 I know, I know. 772 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:49,577 Ernest is just the sort of young man 773 00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:50,829 I should marry. 774 00:38:50,912 --> 00:38:52,163 And you're the sort that girls 775 00:38:52,247 --> 00:38:53,915 are always warned against. 776 00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:57,669 Well, I don't give a hoot what people say. 777 00:38:59,045 --> 00:39:00,964 I know all the things you've done. 778 00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:02,423 I know how many times you've been married. 779 00:39:02,507 --> 00:39:03,758 I'm still married. 780 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:05,343 I don't care. 781 00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:11,099 I'm sick of hiding my love for you. 782 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:13,768 I'm sick of scheming and pretending. 783 00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:18,356 Do you think I can go on with Ernest? 784 00:39:19,691 --> 00:39:21,860 After all we've been to each other? 785 00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:25,154 You don't know anything about me. 786 00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:27,991 You've known me a month. 787 00:39:28,074 --> 00:39:30,743 Larry, how can you? 788 00:39:31,411 --> 00:39:34,497 A month. As though time were important. 789 00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:36,791 It is important. 790 00:39:38,084 --> 00:39:40,795 There are other things important. 791 00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:42,881 You're a kid of 19. 792 00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:47,635 You're 19 and I'm 47... 793 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,679 I'm almost 40. 794 00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:54,058 You'll be telling me next I'm not old enough 795 00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:55,852 to know the facts of life. 796 00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:58,563 You don't. Not the real facts. 797 00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:00,273 You can't. 798 00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:02,775 Everything has been too easy for you. 799 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:07,989 You don't know what it means to be up against it. 800 00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:10,575 Keep fighting them every second. 801 00:40:10,658 --> 00:40:13,745 To pull yourself up, hand over hand 802 00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:16,748 while they're waiting with a knife to cut the rope. 803 00:40:18,374 --> 00:40:20,251 Well, I'm not through yet. 804 00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:22,921 I'll show them. 805 00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:25,840 If they think I'm finished... 806 00:40:25,924 --> 00:40:27,759 Larry, make sense. 807 00:40:27,842 --> 00:40:29,802 What's that got to do with our love? 808 00:40:31,012 --> 00:40:32,138 Love. 809 00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:34,265 Love. 810 00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:40,355 You want to know the truth, Paula? 811 00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:42,523 I love you. 812 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:44,734 As much as I can love any woman. 813 00:40:45,902 --> 00:40:48,237 But it isn't real love anymore. 814 00:40:48,321 --> 00:40:50,031 There have been too many. 815 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,450 I've been in love a 100 times. 816 00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,119 I've had three wives. 817 00:40:55,203 --> 00:40:57,121 Do you want to know about them? 818 00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:58,373 No. 819 00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:03,544 Well, there was Violet. 820 00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:05,588 She was a vaudeville hoofer. 821 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:08,633 Rooming houses, dirty kimonos, 822