Build a movie plot around this: Who does George try to persuade to return? Betty
Betty Preisser (Kim Novak), an attractive 24 year old divorcee, works as a secretary in the hard-boiled atmosphere of Manhattan's garment district. Her workaholic boss Jerry (Frederick March) is feeling his own mortality. He's overworked and lonely. He's a 56 year old widower, but still enmeshed in his family obligations. His bossy older sister Evelyn has moved in with him and he has a married daughter Lillian and grandchild who live nearby.Betty hasn't been feeling well lately and has been typing at home. Jerry comes to her walk-up on the downscale far East Side to pick up some papers. She tells Jerry she's upset about her divorce. Ordinarily, Jerry would tune out an employee like her, but he's lonely and he feels empathy for her. He comes inside and she pours out her heart to him. She and her husband George married because of sexual attraction and because all her friends were getting married. But her ardor cooled off pretty fast and eventually his did, too. He got a job playing the piano in Las Vegas and the marriage ended. She's a conventional young woman without a lot of insight into her own behavior. She's living with her mother and now she regrets that the marriage ended. Jerry gets pulled into her story; she makes him feel needed in a way that his family doesn't. He gives her fatherly advice: stop feeling sorry for yourself and start dating again so she'll meet a "nice young fella." But he's the one who falls for her.Later, at dinner at his daughter's, he tells his sister and daughter about her. His sister's ears perk up. She's no fool. Betty also models for Jerry's dress company. Jerry has a co-worker Lachman, who's a real dirty old man. He's what Jerry's afraid he'll become if he gives into his infatuation with Betty. Jerry gets obsessed with Betty. He just "happens" to walk past her building and casually run into her by "accident." Betty, not the brightest bulb on the tree, is happy to be the object of his attention. "Jerk! Jerk!" Jerry slaps himself on the forehead. He knows he's stepping in...