About Mrs. Leslie Page #2

Synopsis: Mrs. Leslie, rooming house landlady, reminisces in flashbacks about her past as a cafe entertainer and her involvement with the mysterious George Leslie, who originally hires her as a vacation "companion" but tells her nothing of his life outside the vacations. In subplots, Mrs. Leslie's tenants and neighbors carry on soap-opera lives.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Daniel Mann
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.2
APPROVED
Year:
1954
104 min
96 Views


I'd just like you to be a little

more careful in the future.

You know, it takes time

and effort to grow flowers.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Leslie.

I'll be more careful.

I wish you would.

They add so much

to the appearance of the house.

Beverly hills wouldn't be nearly

as lovely without its flowers.

Mrs. Leslie,

whenever I'm stopped

for speeding or something,

I always tell the cop,

"okay, give me the ticket,

but no lecture, please."

So tell me what you want:

Money, blood?

Just tell me.

Don't lecture.

You're quite a man,

aren't you, Mr. McKay?

You're not afraid of anything,

cops or landladies

or anything in the world.

All I meant was...

Okay, I'll be more careful

about the flowers next time,

Mrs. Leslie.

I'm sorry.

I'm watching.

Isn't that the car

I gave your brother?

Be nice to him, darling,

for mother's sake.

Happy Birthday, mom.

Landon, I knew you'd come.

I told felice you'd come.

What's this?

Well, open it.

Landy, you haven't said hello

to Lewis and your sister.

Hi, felice, Lewis.

Try and be more pleasant.

It's aimez-moi.

When you were

in the perfume department,

I remembered

that was your favorite.

Thank you, dear.

Thank you.

LAN, darling,

where have you been hiding?

You look fine, sis,

real nervous.

It's just an expression.

I wish you'd come back

to live with us, LAN.

Lewis is terribly upset

about the way you ran out.

I've never seen him so hurt.

I'll see

he gets a purple heart.

Get the chip

off your shoulder, LAN.

Try and understand Lewis.

He wants to love you.

He wants to help you.

"He wants. He wants."

How about what I want?

LAN, dear.

Now, look, I spent two years

in Korea taking orders

and nearly a year in this place

jumping every time

he snapped his fingers.

I can't play bridge and golf

and scrabble

with him day and night

and accomplish anything.

I've got to work, do something.

I don't want to be kept.

You don't understand him,

darling.

Lewis is lonely.

They why did you break up

his home?

He had a family

he was getting along with.

Don't you talk that way to me.

Len, why do you fight

with us?

We love you.

I lie awake nights

wondering where you are.

Mother, you can know

where I am every night

if you'll come with me.

Get out of here.

Will you do it, mom?

- Mother.

- "Mother."

Yes, Lewis?

LAN, why don't you come up

and see mother's birthday gift

from all of us?

I bought my own birthday gift

this year, thanks.

With what?

As long as you ask,

I hocked one of those

wristwatches you gave me.

And how do you plan living

after you've hocked

all the other things

you've gotten out of me?

I don't like the way

you put that...

Things I've gotten out of you.

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Viña Delmar

Viña Delmar (January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publication of her risqué novel, Bad Girl, which became a bestseller in 1928. Delmar also wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy, The Awful Truth, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1937. more…

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