Most scenes together: Elise McKenna & William Fawcett Robinson (4), Richard Collier & William Fawcett Robinson (3), Richard Collier & Elise McKenna (2)
Somewhere in Time quotes
Page 1 of 2Come back to me.
If there's anything I can do for you, just let me know. My name is Arthur and I live in the bungalow behind the hotel.
All right, thanks a lot. [repeated line] See you around, Arthur.
Have we ever met before?
Have we ever met? No, no, I don't think so.
No, no, I'm sure we haven't. Have a nice stay here, Mr. Collier. [leaves Richard's room]
Yes. Are you all right?
Yes, yes, I'm quite all right.
I'm sorry if I startled you.
No, you didn't startle me.
I think I did.
May I speak to you please?
[Elise leaves the lake]
Have you been waiting all this time for our return?
This is hardly the time to discuss, McKenna.
Have you?
Yes. Does that surprise you?
Our relationship is strictly business.
Strictly business?
I'm involved with you as an actress, Mr. Robinson, not a doormat. Do not attempt to wipe your boots on me. Richard, I shall leave a ticket for you at the theater door.
[Richard leaves her room]
When I knew her, she was kind and thoughtful. But she was just too much within herself. She seemed empty somehow.
She wasn't always that way, was she?
Oh, no, not at all. People who knew her when she was young said that she was quick and bright and full of fun. Strong, willful, not at all the way she was later.
What made her change?
I don't know. But the change seemed to have taken place about 1912, after she performed in a play at the Grand Hotel.
Arthur, you know in the Hall of History, there's a photograph, a young woman. There's no nameplate.
Yes, that's Elise McKenna. She was a famous actress in her day. Starred in a play in the hotel theater.
I-I'm sorry. Did you say there was a theater here?
Yes. Down by the lake.
Really? When was this play done?
That was in 1912.
I owe you an apology. I understand you now. You have nothing but the best motives in mind for her, but so do I. Of course, she'll continue to act, she will continue to grow, and she will become everything you want her to be.
With you at her side?
Yes, with me at her side.
Never.
My God. You really think you own her, don't you?
Collier, I know who you are. Ever since you came here, I've known from the start. You came to destroy her.
God, you're out of your mind.
This is not for a play, Miss Roberts. This is something very personal. [shows her the pocket watch]
Where did you get that?
Well, she gave it to me, ma'am. At the opening night of a play that I wrote at Millfield College about eight years ago.
That watch was very precious to her. She never, never left it out of her possession. It disappeared the night she died.
She died that night?
I must admit. He was somewhat more charming than other that we've encountered in the past, you and I. A trifle more sincere, perhaps.
Then he wasn't the one that you spoke of?
No, he's not.
Then you were wrong about him, weren't you? You're wrong. I love him, and he's going to make me very happy. Do you understand that, William? I love him.
What difference... can that make now? He's gone.
I'll find him, William. Don't you dare try to stop me. Now, if you will excuse me while I change.
Of course. May I remind you... that we leave within the hour? [leaves her dressing room]
Are you a guest here, sir?
You're Robinson.
Are you a guest at the hotel?
Yes, yes I am.
Then I must ask you to stop annoying Miss McKenna any further. If you do not, I shall see that you're put out. [walks back to Elise]
What did you say to him?
Oh, what I've always said to men of his sort. [points her to the hotel]
Come back to me.
One of the most revered actresses of the American stage, for many years, she was the theater's greatest box-office draw. Under the guidance of her manager William Fawcett Robinson, Elise McKenna was the first American actress to create a mystique in the public's eye. Never seen in public in her later years. Apparently without an offstage life, the absolute quintessence of seclusion.