Happy Birthday, Wanda June Page #4

Synopsis: A family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years prior.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Mark Robson
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.1
R
Year:
1971
105 min
455 Views


WOODLY:

I'm glad you brought your vacuum

cleaner.

SHUTTLE:

Is that a fact?

WOODLY:

That maid just quit. The place is

a mess. You can start in the

master bedroom.

PENELOPE:

Please--

SHUTTLE:

He's not anybody to tell somebody

else what to do in a master bedroom.

PENELOPE:

I'll get ready, Herb. I didn't

expect you this soon.

(to all)

Please--won't everybody be nice to

everybody else while I'm gone?

All freeze, except for PENELOPE, who comes forward to

address the audience. Lights on set fade as spotlight comes

on.

PENELOPE:

Most men shunned me--even when I

nearly swooned for want of love. I

might as well have been girdled in

a chastity belt. My chastity belt

was not made of iron and chains and

chickenwire, but of Harold's lethal

reputation.

SHUTTLE comes into the spotlight.

SHUTTLE:

I keep having this nightmare--that

he catches us.

PENELOPE:

Doing what?

SHUTTLE:

He'd kill me. He'd be right to

kill me, too--the kind of guy he is.

PENELOPE:

Or was. We haven't done anything

wrong, you know.

SHUTTLE:

He'd assume we had.

PENELOPE:

That's something I suppose.

SHUTTLE:

All through the day I'm so

confident. That's why I'm such a

good salesman, you know? I have

confidence, and I look like I have

confidence, and that gives other

people confidence. People laugh

sometimes when they find out I'm a

vacuum cleaner salesman. They stop

laughing, though, when they find

out I made forty-three thousand

dollars last year. I've got six

other salesmen working under me,

and what they all plug into is my

confidence. That's what charges

them up.

PENELOPE:

I'm glad.

SHUTTLE:

I was captain of the wrestling team

at Lehigh University.

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