Two for the Seesaw Page #3

Synopsis: Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from Greenwich Village, and the two try to straighten out their lives together.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Robert Wise
Production: United Artists
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
APPROVED
Year:
1962
119 min
848 Views


Warm milk. If I'm relaxing,

there's no point in being casual about it.

- What bed you got, you don't sleep?

- A cot from the Salvation Army for $8.

No wonder. Feel that.

Go on, take a feel.

You know what I paid

for the mattress? 59 bucks.

I'd never be without a good bed.

You're in it a third of your life.

- You must lead a very straight-laced life.

- OK. Half.

You get a good bed,

you'll stop walking so much.

Until I stop walking, I can't afford

to make my bedbugs comfortable.

- Vicious circle.

- Bedbugs?!

Among other things, yeah.

Lawyer or no lawyer,

you're not working, Jerry?

Getting unstuck from a piece

of flypaper can be very hard work.

No, no.

I know why I'm drinking this.

Why are you?

- I got an ulcer, in the duodenum.

- Serious?

I thought ulcers in women

went out with the vapours.

Isn't that a man's disease nowadays?

- Well, I got it.

- Which are you, by the way?

The old-fashioned type or the manly,

same rules for me as for you?

Why? What's the difference?

It might influence whether

I drink this and go or stay all night.

You don't exactly lead up to things,

do you?

Who's Mr America? Is that your ex?

Wally wasn't around long enough to snap

a picture. That's Larry, my partner.

Somehow there's less of you here.

Well, ulcers you put on weight.

Supposed to eat six meals a day.

The last haemorrhage, I'd put on 18lbs!

- The last?

- I hope. I've got just so much blood.

- How many have you had?

- Two.

When I never looked healthier, they

operated on me for something different!

Appendicitis. No kidding,

I'm a physical wreck, practically.

Your physique, wrecked though it may be.

That's what's wrong with me.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing wrong with me except

of course our problem.

- Make up our minds.

- About what?

Am I staying over? I appreciate

the invitation but I don't think I'll insist.

I don't get it, Jerry.

First, you can't decide whether to eat

with me, then it's into bed. How come?

Just testing. How will I know

what to think till I hear what I say?

Is that the way you decide everything,

in your head?

It saves a lot of false moves.

How do you decide things?

Not in my head. A couple of false moves

might get you further.

Let's not rush. Let's examine

what we'd be getting into.

Who said yes yet? Is this some new line,

supposed to be putting me in the mood?

- You mean it's not?

- Oh, boy!

All right, try a more conventional

approach, a little soft music.

- Something I've missed.

- (soft music)

- You haven't got a radio, even?

- I haven't got a television set either.

But everybody's got a radio.

You can get a radio for 19.95.

- Jerry, are you broke?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Isobel Lennart

Isobel Lennart (May 18, 1915 - January 25, 1971) was an American screenwriter and playwright. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lennart moved to Hollywood, where she was hired to work in the MGM mail room, a job she lost when she attempted to organize a union. She joined the Communist Party in 1939 but left five years later. Lennart's first script, The Affairs of Martha, an original comedy about the residents of a wealthy community who fear their secrets are about to be revealed in an exposé written by one of their maids, was filmed in 1942 with Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, and Richard Carlson. This was followed in quick succession by A Stranger in Town, Anchors Aweigh, and It Happened in Brooklyn. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the motion picture industry. Although she was never blacklisted, Lennart, a former member of the Young Communist League, testified to HUAC in 1952 to avoid being blacklisted. She later regretted this decision. Lennart's later screen credits include A Life of Her Own, Love Me or Leave Me, Merry Andrew, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Sundowners, and Two for the Seesaw. In 1964, Lennart wrote the book for the Broadway musical Funny Girl, based on the life and career of Fanny Brice and her tempestuous relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein. It catapulted Barbra Streisand to fame and earned her a Tony Award nomination. In 1968, Lennart wrote the screen adaptation, which won her a Writers Guild of America award for Best Screenplay. It proved to be her last work. Three years later, she was killed in an automobile accident in Hemet, California. Lennart married actor/writer John Harding in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945. They had two children, Joshua Lennart Harding (December 27, 1947 - August 4, 1971) and Sarah Elizabeth Harding (born November 24, 1951). more…

All Isobel Lennart scripts | Isobel Lennart Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Two for the Seesaw" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/two_for_the_seesaw_22411>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    Two for the Seesaw

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.