:02:01
Here's some mail for you.
:02:03
Well, I started out holding the hoops
for Miller's Wonder Dogs.
:02:07
- I guess I can always go back to it.
- For Pete's sake, Naomi.
:02:10
You're too classy for vaudeville.
You ought to go back to legit.
:02:14
Yeah, they loved me in Detroit.
:02:16
There's real prestige in legit.
New parts all the time.
:02:20
You don't have to worry about getting old.
:02:23
What's the matter, honey?
You look like you saw a ghost.
:02:25
- No.
- Bad news?
:02:28
Well, it's a laugh, that's all.
:02:32
- "Dearest mother."
- I told you it was a laugh.
:02:35
"I don't know if you ever think of me,
but I think of you.
:02:38
"I'm graduating from high school this year
and I'm in the senior play on May 20.
:02:43
"I suppose this doesn't sound much
to a great star like you."
:02:47
Go ahead.
:02:48
"And I know your career
must keep you very busy."
:02:50
Gets funnier, doesn't it?
:02:51
"But there's only one present I would like
and that is to have you there.
:02:55
"Your adoring, Lily."
:02:57
You never said...
:02:59
That I had a kid?
I've got three. Two girls and a boy.
:03:01
And I walked out on them. My husband, too.
:03:04
1900, it wasn't going to be
a Happy New Year for me,
:03:06
it was going to be a happy new century.
:03:08
Not much to be proud of, is it?
:03:10
And you haven't seen them
in all these years?
:03:12
I had a reason. Lots of reasons.
:03:14
You should have seen me trying to be
a wife of a schoolteacher
:03:17
back there in the great big town
of Riverdale, Wisconsin.
:03:20
I don't think the town approved of me.
After a while, he didn't either.
:03:24
He always said
I'd wind up disgracing him and the kids.
:03:27
- I guess, maybe I did.
- Another man?
:03:30
I pulled out before
there was a scandal that would have...
:03:33
I guess I did the right thing.
:03:36
There's somebody back there
who lets me know how they're doing.
:03:39
She says they're doing just fine.
:03:41
Sure be fun to go up there
and see how they all look.
:03:43
The catch is they'd see me,
the great big star.
:03:47
I'm supposed to be in Europe
doing Shakespeare.
:03:50
- Is that so?
- That's my story and I'm stuck with it.
:03:53
- It'll be great going back. You gotta, Naomi.
- Oh, Belle.
:03:56
The kid's counting on it.
They don't have to know how you're doing.