hello, marty, when you coming home? where you now? because your cousin thomas and his wife virginia, they're here. they had another fight with your aunt catherine.  i don't know.
okay, you come on home, okay.
he coming home right now.
she was here, you know, wednesday, and i said, "catherine, my sister"
well, i don't know what you want me to do, virginia. if you want me, i'll go talk to her tonight.
sure.
well.
no, virginia, i know how you feel.
she's right. she's right. young husband and wife, they should have their own home. and my sister catherine, she's my sister, but i gotta admit, she's an old goat. and plenty-a times in my life, i feel like throwing the milk bottle at her myself. and i tell you now, as far as i'm concerned, if catherine wantsa come live here with me and marty, it's all right with me.
we gotta ask marty, of course.
you just sit here, i gotta turn the fire on under the cooking.
oh, he's fine. you know a nice girl he can marry?
well, i don't know. he sits arounna house alla time. you know a place he can go where he can find a bride?
the stardust ballroom. it's loaded with tomatoes.
he's here.
marty, thomas and virginia are here. they had another fight with your aunt catherine. so they ask me, would it be all right if catherine come to live with us. so i said, all right with me, but we have to ask you. marty, she's a lonely old lady. nobody wants her. everybody's throwing her outta their house.
you gotta good heart.
he says okay, it's all right catherine comes here.
sure! sure! it's gonna be nice! it's gonna be nice! i'll come over tonight to your house, and i talk with catherine, and you see, everything is gonna work out all right.
siddown, thomas, siddown.
that's all right, that's all right.
i'm gonna see you tonight.
so what are you gonna do tonight, marty?
why don't you go to the stardust ballroom?
i say, why don't you go to the stardust ballroom? it's loaded with tomatoes.
tomatoes.
thomas. he told me it was a very nice place.
marty, i don't want you hang arounna house tonight. i want you to go take a shave and go out and dance.
you gonna get married.
marty.
you gonna die without a son.
put on your blue suit.
you not ugly.
marty.
is catherine here?
i think it be a better idea if you and thomas go out, because otherwise she's gonna start a fight with you, and everybody's gonna be yelling.
hello, thomas.
don't worry. i'm gonna take care-a the whole thing.
it's me, catherine! how you feel?
i came to see you. how you feel?
i been getting a pain in my shoulder.
i feel fine.
well, how's everything with you?
my son marty's fine. everybody's fine.
we gotta postcard from my son nickie and his bride. they're inna big hotel in florida on their honeymoon. everything is very nice.
oh.
i don't think i remember him.
who?
well, i always like to visit you, catherine, because you always got such cheerful news.
hey, why don't you go to the movie? your mother and me, we're gonna be baby-sitter.
sure, sure.
it's her baby too, you know.
well, it ain't your baby.
you told me.
what happen?
ufa!
catherine, i want you come live in my house with marty and me.
you son thomas and virginia, they come to my house this afternoon.
your son thomas and his wife virginia.
this afternoon, about four, five o'clock.
you know what they say. they say things are no good in this house. catherine, your son is married. leave him in peace. he wantsa be alone with his wife. they don't want no old lady sitting inna balcony. now i tell you what i think. i want you come live with me in my house with marty and me. in my house, you have your own room. you don't have to sleep onna couch inna living room like here. we will cook inna kitchen and talk like when we were girls. you are dear to me, and you are dear to marty. we are pleased for you to come.
catherine, don't make an opera outta this. the three-a you anna baby live in three skinny rooms. you are an old goat, and she has an italian temper. she is a good girl, but you drive her crazy. catherine, you are no fool. you know this is no good, an old woman living with a husband and wife. two women inna same kitchen, anna house burns down.
oh, catherine, please! don't make a tragedy. you come to my house where you know you be happier yourself.
i know it pains.
catherine, you are very dear to me. we have cried many times together. when my husband died, i would have gone insane if it were not for you. i ask you to come to my house, because i can make you happy. please come to my house.
catherine, my sister.
hello, marty, when you come home?
siddown, siddown. you want some chicken? we got some chicken in the ice box.
well, siddown a minute. i just come inna house. i'll take off my coat. siddown a minute.
oh, it's a sad business. my sister, catherine, she don't get along with her daughter-in-law, so she's gonna come live with us.
oh, sure. siddown, siddown. marty, tell her siddown.
did you offer the young lady some fruit?
it's a very sad business, i tell you. a woman, fifty-six years old, all her life, she had her own home. now she's just an old lady, sleeping on her daughter-in-law's couch. it's a curse to be a mother, i tell you. your children grow up and then what is left for you to do? what is a mother's life but her children? it is a very cruel thing when your son has no place for you in his home.
hobby! what can she do? she cooks and she cleans. you gotta have a house to clean. you gotta have children to cook for. these are the terrible years for a woman, the terrible years.
you don't think my sister catherine should live in her daughter-in-law's house?
where do you think a mother-in-law should go?
well, maybe that's what they teach you in new york university. in real life, it don't work out that way. you wait till you are a mother.
sure.
sure.
sure.
goodnight.
hello, thomas, how do you feel?
you wanna cuppa coffee?
hey, i come home from your house last night, marty was here with a girl.
marty.
well, what marty you think is gonna be here in this house with a girl?
oh sure. this girl is a college graduate.
that's the first time marty ever brought a girl to this house. she seems like a nice girl. i think he has a feeling for this girl. you heard him sing. he been singing like that all morning.
i don't sell this house, i tell you that. this is my husband's house. i had six children in this house.
catherine, you are a blanket of gloom. wherever you are, the rain follows. someday, you gonna smile, and we gonna declare a holiday.
sure.
i'm all set.
that was a nice girl last night, marty. she wasn't a very good-looking girl, but she looks like a nice girl. i said, she wasn't a very good-looking girl.  not very pretty.
she looks a little old for you. about thirty-five, forty years old?
she's more than twenty-nine years old, marty. that's what she tells you.
she looks thirty-five, forty. she didn't look italian to me.
i said, is she italian girl?
she don't look italian to me. what kinda family she come from? there was something about her i didn't like. it seems funny, the first time you meet her, she comes to your empty house alone. these college girls, they all one step fromma streets.
she didn't look italian to me.
i don't like her.
don't bring her to the house no more.
i don't know! she don't look like italian to me. plenny a nice italian girls around.
so what are you gonna do tonight, marty?