WEBVTT 00:00:03.833 --> 00:00:09.033 [The Mental Health Board Series,Emotions of Every-Day Living] 00:00:09.033 --> 00:00:12.333 [Number 4, North Carolina Board of HealthPresents] 00:00:12.333 --> 00:00:16.333 Farewell to Childhood, Copyright 1951, M.H.F.B., Inc.] 00:00:16.333 --> 00:00:20.599 [A Herbert Kerkow Production] 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.100 [The Mental Health Film Board,K. Appel, M.D.; T.A.C. Rennie, M.D. 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:25.033 L. Baumgartner, M.D.; H.P. Rome, M.D.C. Binger, M.D.; L. Saul, M.D. 00:00:25.033 --> 00:00:29.899 J.M. Bobbitt, Ph.D.; C. SchlaiferM.R. Kaufman, M.D.; A. Altman, Exec. Sec.] 00:00:29.900 --> 00:00:34.900 [Sponsored by the National Association for Mental Health, Inc.] 00:00:34.900 --> 00:00:36.233 [Supervising for the Mental Hygiene SectionNorth Carolina Board of Health 00:00:36.233 --> 00:00:39.933 J.W.R. Norton, M.D., State Health Officer, David A. Young, M.D. 00:00:39.933 --> 00:00:44.433 Psychiatric Consultants: Thomas A.C. Rennie, M.D., John P. Lambert, M.D. 00:00:44.433 --> 00:00:49.433 Film Editor, Stanley Cypher; Dialogue Director, Joyce Henry] 00:00:49.433 --> 00:00:52.233 [Screen Play by Frank Beckwith 00:00:52.233 --> 00:00:56.033 From Original Treatments by Len Peterson and Ben Kerner 00:00:56.033 --> 00:01:00.399 Directed and Photographed By Julian Roffman] 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:16.433 [Music] 00:01:16.433 --> 00:01:21.133 [Narrator:] North Carolina families live in these particular homes, 00:01:21.133 --> 00:01:26.033 but like homes in every state, they are the expression of a love. 00:01:26.033 --> 00:01:31.433 The love that men and women feel for each otherand for their children. 00:01:31.433 --> 00:01:37.733 The Stuart family happens to live in this home, and like most other families, 00:01:37.733 --> 00:01:47.499 they are held together by love. 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:55.400 But like other loving parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart can be quite angry on occasion. 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.966 [Mrs. Ellen Stuart:] Will you look at that? 00:01:57.966 --> 00:02:00.932 If I've told her once, I've told her a hundred times. 00:02:00.933 --> 00:02:06.799 She will not put her things away. Oh no, not Miss Leading Lady. 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:10.500 [Mr. Stuart:] Now Ellen, you can't expect her to run upstairs with her stuff 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:12.900 every time she comes in the house. 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:17.200 [Mrs. Stuart:] I tell you, it's nothing but temper and tantrums and sulks. 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:19.566 She was all over that by the time she was six. 00:02:19.566 --> 00:02:21.799 Now she's fifteen and starting all over again. 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.833 [Mr. Stuart:] Oh, let's not go through all that again. 00:02:25.833 --> 00:02:28.433 Can't we have any peace and quiet around here anymore? 00:02:28.433 --> 00:02:34.433 [Mrs. Stuart:] Go ahead, take her side. You and that school counselor, Mrs. Soames. 00:02:34.433 --> 00:02:39.999 [Mr. Stuart:] You know very well that Mrs. Soamesis supposed to advise the boys and girls at school. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.566 That's her job! 00:02:41.566 --> 00:02:43.099 [Mrs. Stuart:] "Advise." 00:02:43.100 --> 00:02:48.366 [Mrs. Stuart imitating Susan:] "Mrs. Soames says I should go out for the Dramatic Society." 00:02:48.366 --> 00:02:53.266 "Mrs. Soames says I might make a great actress." 00:02:53.266 --> 00:02:55.399 [Mrs. Stuart:] I could have been an actress! 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:57.166 Anybody could. 00:02:57.166 --> 00:03:01.266 You think she'll talk to me about it? Oh no! 00:03:01.266 --> 00:03:10.566 I'm just left out of everything. 00:03:10.566 --> 00:03:16.866 [Mr. Stuart:] What do you want? A pin? 00:03:16.866 --> 00:03:19.799 Where is she now? 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.000 [Mrs. Stuart:] She said she was going to a party at Glenda Ford's. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.900 [Mr. Stuart:] Oh. 00:03:24.900 --> 00:04:29.266 [Music and teens dancing, eating, and drinking] 00:04:29.266 --> 00:04:33.999 [Susan Stuart:] Pete! 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.066 Pete, you shouldn't have done it. 00:04:36.066 --> 00:04:38.599 [Soft sobbing] 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:53.566 [Pete Bolton:] Golly Susan, what's the matter? 00:04:53.566 --> 00:04:58.132 [Susan blows her nose.] 00:04:58.133 --> 00:05:00.999 You sound like the Angel Gabriel. Honk, honk! 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.000 [Susan:] Don't. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:21.466 [Pete:] Gee Susan, no matter what anybody says, there's nothing wrong about a kiss. 00:05:21.466 --> 00:05:25.732 [Susan:] Thanks for bringing me home, Pete. I had a swell time. 00:05:25.733 --> 00:05:28.199 [Pete:] I had a swell time, too. 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:32.300 [Coughing] 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:41.466 [Susan:] Father, mother, this is Pete. 00:05:41.466 --> 00:05:43.566 [Pete:] I'm afraid it's all my fault, Mr. Stuart. 00:05:43.566 --> 00:05:46.432 [Mr. Stuart:] I'm afraid it is. 00:05:46.433 --> 00:05:50.566 It might improve matters if you went home. 00:05:50.566 --> 00:05:54.699 [Pete:] Sorry, Susan. I'll be seeing you. 00:05:54.700 --> 00:06:00.666 [Susan:] Goodnight, Pete. 00:06:00.666 --> 00:06:04.466 He's the nicest boy I know, and you did everything you could to embarrass me. 00:06:04.466 --> 00:06:08.166 [Mr. Stuart:] I don't think much of anyone who brings you home at this hour of night. 00:06:08.166 --> 00:06:11.099 [Mrs.Stuart:] Is this the kind of advice Mrs. Soames gives you? 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:13.566 [Susan:] Pete Bolton is my friend. 00:06:13.566 --> 00:06:16.599 [Mrs. Stuart:] You know we only want what's best for you, Susan. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:21.200 [Mr. Stuart:] Susan, where were you? 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:23.300 [Susan:] Where I'd told you I'd be, at Glenda's! 00:06:23.300 --> 00:06:28.733 [Mr. Stuart:] Oh no, you weren't! Not after 11 o'clock. I know, I called Glenda. 00:06:28.733 --> 00:06:29.833 [Susan:] You called her! 00:06:29.833 --> 00:06:31.233 [Mr. Stuart:] Yes, I did. 00:06:31.233 --> 00:06:34.499 [Mrs. Stuart:] We had to, Susan. We were so worried. 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:36.666 [Susan:] I'm not going to be spied upon. 00:06:36.666 --> 00:06:39.266 You make a fool of me in front of my friends. 00:06:39.266 --> 00:06:42.832 I'm not doing anything wrong, and I have the right to lead my own life. 00:06:42.833 --> 00:06:45.199 [Music] 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:47.200 [Mr. Stuart:] Susan, come back here! 00:06:47.200 --> 00:07:04.733 [Door slamming] 00:07:04.733 --> 00:07:09.599 [Susan:] I might as well be dead for all anyone cares. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.800 I work, and I try. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.133 Every other kid has a good time. 00:07:16.133 --> 00:07:32.666 Nobody picks on them. 00:07:32.666 --> 00:07:48.966 Every other girl has better clothes than mine. 00:07:48.966 --> 00:07:52.332 I'll do something wonderful... 00:07:52.333 --> 00:07:59.666 like finding a million dollars or becoming a modern Florence Nightingale. 00:07:59.666 --> 00:08:07.199 Then look out! 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:19.366 If I weren't so ugly, I might join the foreign service like Mata Hari. 00:08:19.366 --> 00:08:34.666 You're only Susan Stuart, and you have skin like an alligator. 00:08:34.666 --> 00:08:37.532 You're a woman of mystery. 00:08:37.533 --> 00:08:45.033 You have all the allure of the Orient. 00:08:45.033 --> 00:08:49.266 Who are you? 00:08:49.266 --> 00:08:58.366 You're a beautiful actress, the most beautiful actress in the whole world! 00:08:58.366 --> 00:09:04.766 And I love you. 00:09:04.766 --> 00:09:09.332 Goodnight, my beloved. 00:09:09.333 --> 00:09:18.066 You dope! 00:09:18.066 --> 00:09:31.899 [Music and chatter] 00:09:31.900 --> 00:09:34.533 [Susan:] That's the most adorably divine cardigan I've seen in years! 00:09:34.533 --> 00:09:36.599 [Girl 1:] Dassett's, they've got a new shipment. 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.933 [Susan:] That's a pretty ribbon too, but I think a coral one 00:09:38.933 --> 00:09:41.333 would look prettier in my hair. 00:09:41.333 --> 00:09:45.133 [Pete:] Hey, looks like Mac Martin's got himself a new date. 00:09:45.133 --> 00:09:47.033 [Girl 1:] Yikes! Look at those clothes. 00:09:47.033 --> 00:09:50.533 [Susan:] Oh, she's high society. She always dresses like that. 00:09:50.533 --> 00:09:52.533 [Girl 1:] Maybe that's what her mother wants her to wear. 00:09:52.533 --> 00:09:57.633 [Susan:] Don't talk about mothers to me. Why can't they grow up like the rest of us? 00:09:57.633 --> 00:09:59.066 [Girl 1:] They don't get out much. 00:09:59.066 --> 00:10:01.699 [Boy 1:] Hey Pete, did you hear that Jim Harrow's old man is making him work 00:10:01.700 --> 00:10:03.366 in the store to pay for that fender? 00:10:03.366 --> 00:10:04.799 [Pete:] He'll be there for life. 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:05.766 [Susan:] Parents! 00:10:05.766 --> 00:10:08.566 [Boy 1:] My pop's giving me fits. One day it's grow up and be a man, 00:10:08.566 --> 00:10:12.766 and the next day you're out too late. 00:10:12.766 --> 00:10:15.366 [Girl 1:] Here comes your friend. 00:10:15.366 --> 00:10:22.132 [Pete:] Hi, Mac. [Girls:] Hi, Mac! 00:10:22.133 --> 00:10:23.633 [Susan:] That's my part in the play! 00:10:23.633 --> 00:10:24.833 [Girl 2:] No, it isn't. 00:10:24.833 --> 00:10:26.066 You're going to play Katie. 00:10:26.066 --> 00:10:28.532 [Susan:] Kate! That's the old woman. 00:10:28.533 --> 00:10:30.899 [Girl 2:] Yes! 00:10:30.900 --> 00:10:32.766 Well, goodbye now. 00:10:32.766 --> 00:10:38.499 See you later. 00:10:38.500 --> 00:10:40.333 [Susan:] They can't do this to me. 00:10:40.333 --> 00:10:43.266 I'm going to go tell Mrs. Soames. 00:10:43.266 --> 00:10:44.899 That was my part in the play. 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:47.733 I was just right for it. 00:10:47.733 --> 00:10:51.566 Kate's as old as my mother. 00:10:51.566 --> 00:10:55.566 I'll show them: I'll resign from the Dramatic Society. 00:10:55.566 --> 00:10:57.466 [Pete:] Hey, take it easy. 00:10:57.466 --> 00:11:00.132 [Susan:] Oh, you're just like all the rest, but I'll resign. 00:11:00.133 --> 00:11:03.133 Just you wait and see, or I'll kill myself first! 00:11:03.133 --> 00:11:06.933 [Girl 1:] Susan! 00:11:06.933 --> 00:11:08.899 [Boy 1:] What gives with her? 00:11:08.900 --> 00:11:10.966 [Pete:] Who knows? Women... 00:11:10.966 --> 00:11:17.432 Come on, sit down. 00:11:17.433 --> 00:11:19.066 [Mrs. Stuart:] Not at all, Glenda. 00:11:19.066 --> 00:11:23.199 Now, I'm not trying to check up on Susan the way she thinks. 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:29.300 I just wondered whether you'd happened to see her, and if she said where she was going. 00:11:29.300 --> 00:11:34.266 Oh, she said she was going to see Mrs. Soames. 00:11:34.266 --> 00:11:39.832 Well, then that's probably where she is. 00:11:39.833 --> 00:11:40.933 No. 00:11:40.933 --> 00:11:43.666 Then of course I won't worry! 00:11:43.666 --> 00:11:44.966 Thank you, Glenda. 00:11:44.966 --> 00:11:48.366 Bye-bye. 00:11:48.366 --> 00:11:50.666 So that Soames woman again! 00:11:50.666 --> 00:11:53.732 Doesn't she know we expect that child home in time for dinner? 00:11:53.733 --> 00:11:56.433 I've a good mind to go over there and tell her exactly what I think. 00:11:56.433 --> 00:11:58.266 [Mr. Stuart:] Why don't you? 00:11:58.266 --> 00:12:00.599 [Mrs. Stuart:] No, I didn't mean exactly that. 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.466 Naturally, I'm worried about Susan and so are you,and it does seem... 00:12:03.466 --> 00:12:05.832 [Mr. Stuart:] Why don't you go and see her then? 00:12:05.833 --> 00:12:07.666 [Mrs. Stuart:] Now don't go on insisting on my going. 00:12:07.666 --> 00:12:09.532 [Mr. Stuart:] Why not? 00:12:09.533 --> 00:12:12.666 She may have some advice for us. 00:12:12.666 --> 00:12:14.132 [Mrs. Stuart:] All right. 00:12:14.133 --> 00:12:16.833 Dinner can wait, and you're coming with me. 00:12:16.833 --> 00:12:22.199 She's your daughter too, you know. 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.900 [Susan:] Why, why did it have to be me? 00:12:25.900 --> 00:12:29.133 It frightens me. 00:12:29.133 --> 00:12:31.899 Not getting the part frightens me. 00:12:31.900 --> 00:12:34.433 I must be a dreadful person. 00:12:34.433 --> 00:12:37.866 [Mrs. Soames:] No, you're not dreadful. 00:12:37.866 --> 00:12:41.032 [Susan:] Don't try to tell me that. I know! 00:12:41.033 --> 00:12:43.033 [Mrs. Soames:] I'm not a very brilliant person... 00:12:43.033 --> 00:12:45.833 [Susan:] Oh, you are! You know you are! 00:12:45.833 --> 00:12:49.199 [Mrs. Soames:] But I've seen enough young peopleafter years of teaching, to know 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:55.200 to know that you're not a bit different from the rest of your crowd. 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.700 [Susan:] Then why am I lonely? 00:12:58.700 --> 00:13:01.066 [Mrs. Soames:] You're not alone. 00:13:01.066 --> 00:13:06.799 Your classmates have the same sense of "being at sea." 00:13:06.800 --> 00:13:09.400 Childhood is an island. 00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:11.966 You've left that behind. 00:13:11.966 --> 00:13:14.466 On the edge of the sea is a mainland. 00:13:14.466 --> 00:13:21.866 You'll be grown up when you reach it. 00:13:21.866 --> 00:13:27.832 On this sea your traveling, grownups can sometimes seem pretty obstinate and trying. 00:13:27.833 --> 00:13:33.099 Mother and fathers sometimes have problems,worries you may not know anything about. 00:13:33.100 --> 00:13:36.866 Sometimes parents can seem awfully unreasonable. 00:13:36.866 --> 00:13:39.266 It's hard for them to change. 00:13:39.266 --> 00:13:41.999 Easier for you, you're younger. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:48.833 Will you try to understand them as people Susan,to give in a little here and there? 00:13:48.833 --> 00:13:51.366 [Susan:] I will if you say so. 00:13:51.366 --> 00:13:57.566 I trust you. 00:13:57.566 --> 00:13:59.599 Mrs. Soames, if only I had a... 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:00.866 [Doorbell rings.] 00:14:00.866 --> 00:14:09.799 Oh darn, should I go? 00:14:09.800 --> 00:14:11.700 Mother! 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:13.133 [Mrs. Soames:] This is a pleasure. Come in, won't you? 00:14:13.133 --> 00:14:24.299 [Mr. Stuart:] Thank you. 00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:29.066 [Mrs. Stuart:] I've, uh, wanted to talk to you about Susan, Mrs. Soames. 00:14:29.066 --> 00:14:31.232 I guess I've waited long enough. 00:14:31.233 --> 00:14:33.433 [Mrs. Soames:] I'd like that. 00:14:33.433 --> 00:14:35.933 Susan, why don't you run along with your father? 00:14:35.933 --> 00:14:37.433 [Mr. Stuart:] That's a good idea. 00:14:37.433 --> 00:14:39.166 [Susan:] But I don't want to. 00:14:39.166 --> 00:14:42.766 [Mrs. Soames:] I'm sure you don't. 00:14:42.766 --> 00:14:44.699 [Mr. Stuart:] It's awfully nice of you to see us, Mrs. Soames. 00:14:44.700 --> 00:14:46.300 [Mrs. Soames:] It's a pleasure, Mr. Stuart. 00:14:46.300 --> 00:14:47.366 [Mr. Stuart:] I hope we're not intruding. 00:14:47.366 --> 00:14:49.799 [Mrs. Soames:] Not at all. 00:14:49.800 --> 00:14:51.400 [Susan:] G'night, Mrs. Soames. 00:14:51.400 --> 00:14:54.033 [Mrs. Soames:] Goodnight, dear. 00:14:54.033 --> 00:14:54.999 [Mr. Stuart:] Goodnight. 00:14:55.000 --> 00:15:00.766 [Mrs. Soames:] Goodnight, Mr. Stuart. 00:15:00.766 --> 00:15:07.599 [Mrs. Soames:] Won't you sit down, Mrs. Stuart? 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.100 [Susan:] You two absolutely ruin everything. 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:15.966 By the time that conversation is over, I may as well leave town. 00:15:15.966 --> 00:15:18.032 The dickiest thing you could have let her do. 00:15:18.033 --> 00:15:19.199 Why did you? 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.133 [Mr. Stuart:] I thought it was a good idea. 00:15:21.133 --> 00:15:25.366 [Susan:] Golly, who wants to have their friends dragged into a family argument? 00:15:25.366 --> 00:15:28.432 [Mr. Stuart:] Susan, maybe your mother knows best. 00:15:28.433 --> 00:15:29.633 [Susan:] Why? 00:15:29.633 --> 00:15:33.433 Why does it just naturally have to be that parents know best? 00:15:33.433 --> 00:15:37.966 [Mr. Stuart:] We're trying, Susan. 00:15:37.966 --> 00:15:43.332 That's why your mother went to Mrs. Soames. 00:15:43.333 --> 00:15:48.966 [Susan:] Oh, why can't you see things my way? 00:15:48.966 --> 00:15:53.066 [Mrs. Stuart:] I'm afraid you don't know what it's like to live with Susan day after day, Mrs. Soames. 00:15:53.066 --> 00:15:57.166 [Mrs. Soames:] That's true enough, although we do see a great deal of her at school. 00:15:57.166 --> 00:16:01.232 [Mrs. Stuart:] She just does whatever comesinto her mind. 00:16:01.233 --> 00:16:03.566 [Mrs. Soames:] We think it's quite a good one. 00:16:03.566 --> 00:16:06.499 [Mrs. Stuart:] Mind of a 15-year-old? 00:16:06.500 --> 00:16:10.033 [Mrs. Soames:] When do you want her to start using it, this 15-year-old mind? 00:16:10.033 --> 00:16:12.633 When she's 18? Or 24? 00:16:12.633 --> 00:16:14.266 Surely you don't want that, Mrs. Stuart. 00:16:14.266 --> 00:16:17.099 [Mrs. Stuart:] No... 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:18.666 [Mrs. Soames:] Cream and sugar? 00:16:18.666 --> 00:16:31.532 [Mrs. Stuart:] Thanks, I'll have a little cream. 00:16:31.533 --> 00:16:35.999 [Mrs. Soames:] Her disatisfaction is her strength. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.300 She's got to think with the mind she has, Mrs. Stuart. 00:16:40.300 --> 00:16:45.400 You and I, we must never be guilty of holding life back. 00:16:45.400 --> 00:16:49.300 [Mrs. Stuart:] But it's, it's as though I couldn't share her life anymore. 00:16:49.300 --> 00:16:50.300 She's never at home. 00:16:50.300 --> 00:16:52.900 When she is, she's so irritable and contrary. 00:16:52.900 --> 00:16:53.900 Why? 00:16:53.900 --> 00:16:56.066 [Mrs. Soames:] Don't worry about it, Mrs. Stuart. 00:16:56.066 --> 00:16:57.832 They all have to go through it. 00:16:57.833 --> 00:17:06.233 This period of struggle, uncertainty, revolt. That's how they grow up to be independent people. 00:17:06.233 --> 00:17:07.799 Trust Susan. 00:17:07.800 --> 00:17:16.666 She can handle freedom because you've given her a good foundation of sound values. 00:17:16.666 --> 00:17:22.032 [Mrs. Stuart:] Tell me, what's happened between me and my daughter? 00:17:22.033 --> 00:17:24.999 [Mrs. Stuart:] She needs her friends and her gang. 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.000 They all do. 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.166 She needs to know some boys. 00:17:30.166 --> 00:17:34.666 You wouldn't want to have her unattractive, ignored. 00:17:34.666 --> 00:17:37.099 Oh, I know it's a difficult period. 00:17:37.100 --> 00:17:38.533 She's hotheaded. 00:17:38.533 --> 00:17:43.166 Disagrees with you about everything, wants to run life on her own terms. 00:17:43.166 --> 00:17:51.199 Just now she's kicking over some of the traces,but never was there a time when she needed you more. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:57.066 We can help, if we can only remember to keep hands off. 00:17:57.066 --> 00:18:02.366 If we don't declare war on them, we can only remember that underneath it all, 00:18:02.366 --> 00:18:06.066 they're so uncertain about everything. 00:18:06.066 --> 00:18:08.466 Make her your friend. 00:18:08.466 --> 00:18:16.232 Give her about three more years in which to grow.You're going to be very proud of her. 00:18:16.233 --> 00:18:17.966 [Susan:] I don't know what's gotten into you. 00:18:17.966 --> 00:18:19.932 You never used to pick on me. 00:18:19.933 --> 00:18:22.499 [Mr. Stuart:] Oh baby, you mustn't feel that way. 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:23.666 [Susan:] I'm not a baby! 00:18:23.666 --> 00:18:25.532 And I don't want to be cuddled. 00:18:25.533 --> 00:18:28.666 I...I want to be understood. 00:18:28.666 --> 00:18:34.332 [Mr. Stuart:] Sure. Sure you do, Susan. 00:18:34.333 --> 00:18:41.366 We all want to be understood, even your mother. 00:18:41.366 --> 00:18:44.766 I'll try. 00:18:44.766 --> 00:18:47.732 I'll try real hard, Susie. 00:18:47.733 --> 00:18:54.966 [Door slamming] 00:18:54.966 --> 00:18:58.866 [Mrs. Stuart:] Mrs. Soames told me about the part, Susan. 00:18:58.866 --> 00:19:03.199 I'm sorry you didn't get the one you wanted. 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.766 I thought...you know that white lace dress of mine? 00:19:07.766 --> 00:19:11.332 Well, Mrs. Soames and I thought it would be just perfect for your second act! 00:19:11.333 --> 00:19:12.966 That is, if you think it's right. 00:19:12.966 --> 00:19:16.966 [Susan:] Oh brother! 00:19:16.966 --> 00:19:24.166 [Mrs. Stuart:] It's hanging in the closest in my hall, and don't say brother! 00:19:24.166 --> 00:19:27.799 [Mr. Stuart:] Say, it looks as if you made out all right. 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:42.733 [Mrs. Stuart:] Yes. 00:19:42.733 --> 00:19:47.833 You know she's eleventh in a class of 46?Susan! 00:19:47.833 --> 00:19:50.299 [Mr. Stuart:] Say, that's fine! 00:19:50.300 --> 00:19:54.366 [Mrs. Stuart:] I can remember now a little more of what it was like. 00:19:54.366 --> 00:19:57.166 She's going through a very difficult period. 00:19:57.166 --> 00:20:01.866 [Mr. Stuart;] Yes, and we've got to give her a lot of understanding. 00:20:01.866 --> 00:20:06.266 We've got to show her, make her really know that we love her. 00:20:06.266 --> 00:20:10.032 [Susan:] Mother. 00:20:10.033 --> 00:20:15.299 Mother, it's wonderful. It's wonderful! 00:20:15.300 --> 00:20:18.066 It's just perfect for me and just right for the part. 00:20:18.066 --> 00:20:21.699 Oh Mom, you're wonderful. 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:23.433 [Mrs. Stuart:] I feel as though I've lost you. 00:20:23.433 --> 00:20:28.733 [Susan:] Oh Mom, don't be silly! 00:20:28.733 --> 00:20:31.966 You know what, it's not bad. 00:20:31.966 --> 00:20:34.566 It's not bad at all. 00:20:34.566 --> 00:20:36.666 I wonder if Pete'll like it. 00:20:36.666 --> 00:20:41.699 [Mr. Stuart:] Well now, it's not supposed to be boy bait! 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:43.466 [Susan:] Well, I like that! 00:20:43.466 --> 00:20:44.966 You loved it on Mother. 00:20:44.966 --> 00:20:46.832 Always trying to take the fun out of... 00:20:46.833 --> 00:20:50.199 [Mrs. Stuart:] Susan, don't bother your father when he wants to read. 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:52.666 Turn around. 00:20:52.666 --> 00:20:59.366 Go over here, I want to see it that way. 00:20:59.366 --> 00:21:01.966 [Susan:] Some people! 00:21:01.966 --> 00:21:07.366 You know, I was wondering, if we let it up in the front and down in the back, 00:21:07.366 --> 00:21:09.199 maybe it wouldn't wiggle so. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:14.100 [Mrs. Stuart:] Looks pretty good to me just the way it is. 00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:21.700 [Mr. Stuart:] Well, it looks as if you girls are going to work things out all right, for now. 00:21:21.700 --> 00:21:25.466 [Narrator:] No, the trials of adolescence aren't settled in one day. 00:21:25.466 --> 00:21:33.599 They must be lived through day after day, year after year. 00:21:33.600 --> 00:21:42.266 Parents are dismayed by rebellion strangely mixedwith the need for guidance and support. 00:21:42.266 --> 00:21:50.999 Adolescents are mortified by inner and outer forces urging them toward maturity while holding them back, 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:59.200 and for both generations, the only answers are love and understanding. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:07.933 [Music] 00:22:07.933 --> 00:22:11.133 [THE END. This film has been approved byNational Institute of Mental Health, 00:22:11.133 --> 00:22:21.699 Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency]