Luckily the palatial size of the house, coupled with the servants watching Johnny Carson at a million decibels, means no one hears the shot, so after locking Henry’s door from the inside Grace hops off the balcony onto a tree limb and springs to the lawn as deftly as Catwoman to make good her getaway back to the home cinema. Setting a medical file open on his bed and his book on the side table, she places the gun in Henry’s grip and – BLAM – rids herself of the old killjoy for good. She returns in time for Raymond to change the reel.Īfter the meddling servant has beetled off again, Grace sneaks up to Henry’s room and finds him deep in a drug-induced slumber. After Raymond has set the film rolling and returned to his late supper, Grace jallops out across the lawn and removes a gun from the glove box of Henry’s car. Once she’s safely in front of said movie ( Walking My Baby Back Home – a big hit from her past), Grace puts the rest of her plan into action. “Stubborn, stuffy, sick old man.” Grace sure knows how to sweet talk husband Henry! Old Henry subsequently downs a double dose of sleeping draught. As soon as his back’s turned, Grace empties the contents of the extra sleeping pill into his milk before flouncing off to watch her favourite movie. Henry’s unwillingness to finance a pipe dream seals his fate. I rather suspect they’ve had this conversation several times before… He won’t be bankrolling the comeback, and he chides Grace for living in a fantasy world. Henry doesn’t so much as rain on Grace’s parade as smite it with a hurricane. “So, by financing my own production, I will be before the public again, and they will learn to love me all over again.“ After all: “The qualities that make a star never diminish,” she reasons. She sneaks a sleeping pill from the unguarded medicine cabinet and shimmies up to her bedroom – a gaudily decorated monstrosity, replete with photographs of herself from earlier days – before finally popping in to see Henry.Īs butler Raymond delivers Dr Willis his bedtime milk and designated sleeping pill, Grace whirls about the room, cooing about how the crowd loved her and how half a mill of Henry’s hard-earned dollars will be a great investment. Once home, the energetic Grace sashays around like a woman in love… with herself. Watching the interview on TV at home, her decrepit husband Dr Henry Willis switches off the set and turns his attentions instead to a good book. While Grace is loving the limelight, someone else is less impressed. Grace herself will cough up $500,000 in funding to make it a reality. Buoyed by the reception to the movie (which featured snippets of classic musicals, including those she and Ned appeared in), Grace takes the opportunity to reveal she’s plotting her comeback in a new Broadway show that darling Ned will direct and choreograph. Glamming it up like ’twere 1953: Wheeler and Diamond
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