Scenes with Eleanor Roosevelt
5 scenes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[on first arriving at Warm Springs]
I can't stay here. This place is a wreck.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin.
Tom Loyless
Look on the bright side, most of your time will be spent in the water. Look, we've fallen on some hard times...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hard times?! This place should be condemned!
Tom Loyless
[short pause]
Yes, it's true, we've seen better days. But then, I imagine, so have you. [short pause] I'd be happy to drive you back to the train station right now if that's what you'd like?
Eleanor Roosevelt
My husband is concerned.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fire. [short pause] I'm very frightened of fire. I can't get out if I'm upstairs I...
Tom Loyless
Oh, of course. We have other options.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You want to stay?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
New York has the best doctors and hospitals in the country.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I need something new.
Eleanor Roosevelt
[short pause]
This isn't about getting better, is it? You don't want to come home. You don't want to live with us.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I refuse to be a burden to anyone--
Eleanor Roosevelt
You're not a burden, you're my husband.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I want to offer you the freedom you once so generously offered me. Listen, all you've ever known is duty to me and to a political career and unless I can walk again, no longer exists. You've been...exemplary. Now I'm telling you...that your free to go.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't want freedom. I want a marriage. I want a life with you.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Perhaps I can't imagine what you think that life is going to be.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oh, Franklin. It's not up to me to imagine. It's up to you.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
Eleanor Roosevelt
How am I supposed to talk to you?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Like I was!
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't know how to any more.
Louis McHenry Howe
[FDR is about to make a speech.]
What's the matter?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What if I fall?
Louis McHenry Howe
If you fall, you just get up again.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If I fall in front of thousands of people, I'll lose everything... except their pity. They'll never see past my legs.
Eleanor Roosevelt
My darling, they'll never see past your legs... until you do.
R Reporter
[last lines]
Mrs. Roosevelt, do you think that polio has affected your husband's mind?
Eleanor Roosevelt
[smiling]
Yes, I do! I certainly do!
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