He mentioned that the Earth-Time reading gave the year as 3955 A.D.[Note: In the original film, the Earth-Time year was 3978] and that they had "followed Taylor""s trajectory.In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the ""heiress"" was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland).They are actors in the roles.] Speaking about his successful marriage, the balding husband talks directly into the camera with his white haired wife next to him:I was sitting with my friend Arthur Kornblum, in a restaurant, it was a Horn and Hardart Cafeteria, and this beautiful girl walked in - [he gestures toward his wife] - and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl? I""m going to marry her.Because Schindler can""t decide, he hires eighteen of the prettiest, most ""qualified"" young ladies as secretaries - and is posed with them by a photographer outside the re-possessed plant in front of the imposing sign for the factory:D.