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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