
The Fountain of Youth
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- 1958
- 27 min
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Orson Welles speaking.
How'd you like to stay just as young as
you are an not to grow a day older?
For the next, two hundred years.
Oh, I'm not plugging some
new miracle cosmetic.
The question is actually faced
by the characters in our
story, two men and a girl.
The eternal triangle, plus eternal youth
which we'll bring you, if we
may, in just a few seconds.
I hope you enjoy it.
The Fountain of Youth.
Back in the twenties,
hailed as the discoverer of the
scientific fountain of youth.
But we may start of with
the girl in case, here she is
As of course she's Caroline
Coates, the world famous actress.
Actress is a word some of you
may question for she was
not strictly speaking an actress
at all, Caroline was simply
One of those creatures who stands
talent, greater than
beauty and whose
universe do we adore
A privileged few, of
course adored Caroline
at close range and, if you excuse
the expression, in the flesh.
One of these was Alan Brody,
a tennis champion. Here he is.
Science tells us that
men of this time fall
quickly and painless in and out of love.
Others, like Dr. Baxter,
here he is again,
a man born for one passion only
at most two, a passion for
their job and for one woman.
They never give up.
Men of this type frequently
devote themselves to science
and if interested in certain
function of the glands
this often takes them to Vienna.
Wait a minute!
We are getting a-head of our
stills. Before going to Vienna
Humphrey Baxter spent
an evening in New York
him to the theater to see a show
which was also, very indirectly
concerned with the glands.
Humphrey leaned forward in his seat,
the moment passed unnoticed because,
everyone else in the theater
also leaned forward.
- You happen to know that
girl? He asked his friend.
- Why, Hupmhrey, they said
get to know anybody like Caroline Coates.
Humphrey realized that he'd need
only two or three introductions
to breach the gap between oneself
and anyone anywhere in the world.
He asked everyone he knew stating
his purpose very clearly, and
sure enough, not long after that, there
he was in fashionable Long Island.
Talking to Caroline Coates.
He found her amazingly ignorant
of the man's important
recent scientific research.
And you can imagine the effect of
this gone to gosh young man lecturing
of this popular idol of twenty three
on the doctor's glands.
Caroline's smart friends were amused...
and then amazed
for she had fallen hand
over heels in love
- Who are you calling dear?
- Letty Partridge
Who?
Hello, Letty? I want you to be the
first to know, we are getting married.
- Wonderful darling, who is it?
- Baxter, the gland man.
The grand man! Oh, gland.
Well, Caroline! How nice for you!
I think I mentioned that the title of this
the fountain of youth.
Of course there are all sorts of fountains
some are beautiful, some are
purely mythological, some are silly fountains
it was near a silly fountain that the
mythological Narcissus was drowned.
It was his own reflection he
fell for and he fell in.
Of course the silliest of all,
is the fountain of youth.
Old Ponce de Leon thought that one was
somewhere down in Florida, this was
invention of Miami Beach.
He aged a lot looking for
it, but he was only human.
Almost all of us wish we were
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