1 00:01:30,683 --> 00:01:35,177 Stage 5. Mr. Amiel is rehearsing right now. 2 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:48,528 Very nice. 3 00:01:48,734 --> 00:01:53,172 Honey, could you put your hand up by your throat? 4 00:01:53,373 --> 00:01:57,969 Telephone, Mr. Amiel. Transatlantic, Paris. Jonathan Shields. 5 00:01:58,178 --> 00:02:00,510 -Who? -Jonathan Shields. 6 00:02:00,714 --> 00:02:04,013 -Number one! -Bring the boom back to one. 7 00:02:04,952 --> 00:02:08,183 I'm sorry, Mr. Amiel just left. 8 00:02:10,190 --> 00:02:17,119 Hello? Yes. Who? One moment, please. 9 00:02:17,331 --> 00:02:21,962 Miss Georgia! It's Paris, France. It's him! 10 00:02:22,769 --> 00:02:25,034 I can't hear you. 11 00:02:25,238 --> 00:02:28,800 It's Mr. Jonathan! Jonathan Shields. 12 00:02:29,010 --> 00:02:31,842 I still can't hear you. 13 00:02:33,047 --> 00:02:35,311 Miss Lorrison is out. 14 00:02:35,516 --> 00:02:41,944 No, I don't know. No. I don't know where. 15 00:02:42,156 --> 00:02:44,851 No, I don't know who... 16 00:02:45,059 --> 00:02:49,791 ...nor where, nor what. Out is out! 17 00:02:57,105 --> 00:02:58,970 Hello. 18 00:02:59,173 --> 00:03:01,039 What? 19 00:03:01,242 --> 00:03:05,235 Talk a little louder, please. It's a bad connection. 20 00:03:05,446 --> 00:03:08,472 Yes, this is James Lee Bartlow. 21 00:03:09,685 --> 00:03:11,481 Paris? 22 00:03:12,487 --> 00:03:14,615 Mr. Shields? 23 00:03:16,425 --> 00:03:19,417 ls Mr. Shields paying for this call? 24 00:03:20,428 --> 00:03:23,091 Put him on. 25 00:03:23,298 --> 00:03:27,496 Hello, Jonathan? Drop dead. 26 00:04:44,415 --> 00:04:48,351 -Hello, hello, hello. -Harry, how are you? 27 00:04:48,552 --> 00:04:50,679 -Georgia. -Harry. 28 00:04:51,522 --> 00:04:57,792 Since I became 60, more beautiful women have kissed me than ever before. 29 00:04:57,995 --> 00:05:01,089 You youngsters wouldn't know anything about that. 30 00:05:01,298 --> 00:05:04,529 Nice to see you. That waistline is back down. 31 00:05:04,735 --> 00:05:08,603 -Still keeping long hours. -A little bit of midnight oil. 32 00:05:08,806 --> 00:05:13,403 You can tell a successful author by a cashmere jacket. 33 00:05:13,612 --> 00:05:18,345 I'm trying to get a wardrobe like yours. You're known for your style. 34 00:05:18,549 --> 00:05:22,008 Georgia, darling. Come over and sit down. 35 00:05:22,219 --> 00:05:24,585 Freddie, take this chair. 36 00:05:25,924 --> 00:05:31,920 -Congratulations on the Pulitzer Prize. -Thanks, Harry. 37 00:05:32,130 --> 00:05:35,998 -Your picture was great as usual, Fred. -Thank you, Harry. 38 00:05:36,201 --> 00:05:39,796 And you, my pretty one, you really made me cry. 39 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:42,337 Have I flattered you enough? 40 00:05:42,541 --> 00:05:45,705 Here's why I asked you here in the middle of the night. 41 00:05:45,911 --> 00:05:49,313 Why Jonathan called you today. 42 00:05:49,514 --> 00:05:55,214 Jimmy told me you told him to drop dead. ls that Pulitzer language? 43 00:05:55,421 --> 00:05:58,652 James Lee never wrote a better line! 44 00:05:58,857 --> 00:06:05,388 Well, here it is. After two years Jonathan's ready to produce a picture. 45 00:06:05,598 --> 00:06:10,399 He wants you to write it, you to direct and you to star. 46 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:16,634 On the name Jonathan Shields, it's impossible to raise five cents. 47 00:06:16,843 --> 00:06:21,645 But on Fred Amiel, Georgia Lorrison, James Lee Bartlow... 48 00:06:21,848 --> 00:06:25,683 ...I can raise $2,000,00o by tomorrow noon. 49 00:06:26,253 --> 00:06:30,746 I'm not going to beg you after two years of begging for Jonathan. 50 00:06:30,957 --> 00:06:34,416 That's enough. I know you'll never work with him again. 51 00:06:34,628 --> 00:06:36,618 But he doesn't get that. 52 00:06:37,296 --> 00:06:40,698 Please. A favor to me, not to him. 53 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:45,600 Will you give me your answer while I get him on the phone? 54 00:06:47,007 --> 00:06:48,702 Good. 55 00:06:49,911 --> 00:06:52,174 Get me the transatlantic operator. 56 00:06:52,379 --> 00:06:55,713 We're ready to talk with Jonathan Shields in Paris. 57 00:06:55,916 --> 00:06:58,885 -Yes, sir. -Thank you. 58 00:06:59,753 --> 00:07:02,278 You won't work with him. I don't blame you. 59 00:07:02,656 --> 00:07:08,220 Why should you? You've done enough for him already...and vice versa. 60 00:07:08,429 --> 00:07:14,459 Fred, you knew him first. You must have known him for 15 or 16-- 61 00:07:14,668 --> 00:07:16,466 18 years. 62 00:07:17,272 --> 00:07:21,140 18 years ago at that funeral. 63 00:07:21,341 --> 00:07:26,245 That guy standing next to me. How should I know who he was? 64 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:30,144 We are met, my friends, on a solemn occasion. 65 00:07:30,352 --> 00:07:33,286 This man, Hugo Shields... 66 00:07:33,487 --> 00:07:37,687 ...whose memory we all cherish in our hearts... 67 00:07:37,893 --> 00:07:41,886 ...whose loss we mourn so deeply. 68 00:07:42,932 --> 00:07:46,025 Hugo Shields, one of the pioneers... 69 00:07:46,234 --> 00:07:50,137 ...who built our great motion-picture industry. 70 00:07:50,339 --> 00:07:52,636 A madman who almost wrecked it. 71 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:57,778 A man of vision. An artist, who created in the new medium-- 72 00:07:57,980 --> 00:08:00,709 A butcher who sold all but the pig's whistle. 73 00:08:00,915 --> 00:08:05,251 Hugo Shields brought entertainment to millions. 74 00:08:05,454 --> 00:08:08,946 He will never be forgotten. 75 00:08:10,125 --> 00:08:14,323 Stay in line and take it easy. You'll get your dough. 76 00:08:18,802 --> 00:08:21,167 Thank you, Mr. Shields. 77 00:08:22,572 --> 00:08:24,402 You're Shields? 78 00:08:24,607 --> 00:08:28,133 You were hired to perform. $11 to act like a mourner. 79 00:08:28,344 --> 00:08:32,179 You didn't do your job, you don't get paid. Next. 80 00:08:32,382 --> 00:08:34,110 Next! 81 00:08:39,824 --> 00:08:45,784 That afternoon I drove into the Hollywood Hills. I just had to. 82 00:09:03,013 --> 00:09:07,712 -It's me, Big Mouth. -Come for a fight or your 11 bucks? 83 00:09:07,917 --> 00:09:12,980 The things I said at the funeral were childish and cheap. I'm sorry. 84 00:09:13,190 --> 00:09:16,090 -Wait a minute. -What is it? 85 00:09:18,562 --> 00:09:22,054 You in the business? What do you do? 86 00:09:22,265 --> 00:09:26,828 Bit of everything: assistant director on Poverty Row, four-day quickies... 87 00:09:27,038 --> 00:09:32,033 ...sold a couple of story ideas. To eat I work as an extra and do stunts. 88 00:09:32,243 --> 00:09:35,837 -What I aim to be is a director. -What's stopping you? 89 00:09:36,047 --> 00:09:40,007 I can direct better than most of the hacks I work for. 90 00:09:40,217 --> 00:09:46,157 When it comes to telling people how good I am, I get tongue-tied. 91 00:09:46,358 --> 00:09:48,848 I'm not that tongue-tied with you. 92 00:09:49,060 --> 00:09:52,223 -You are looking for a job? -Yeah. 93 00:09:52,430 --> 00:09:55,025 So am I. 94 00:09:55,233 --> 00:09:57,633 Come on in. 95 00:10:06,878 --> 00:10:10,814 lf my father had died last year, I'd be a millionaire. 96 00:10:11,016 --> 00:10:14,975 Next year, he'd have put up a new studio for me to inherit. 97 00:10:15,188 --> 00:10:17,178 This year, I don't have a dime. 98 00:10:17,389 --> 00:10:21,883 -Who paid the crowd at the funeral? -That was the last of the cash. 99 00:10:22,095 --> 00:10:27,226 He lived in a crowd. I couldn't let him be buried alone. 100 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:48,684 The best legal counsel advised me to change my name. 101 00:10:48,888 --> 00:10:52,984 Because the town thought your father was a heel? 102 00:10:57,329 --> 00:10:59,958 He wasn't a heel. 103 00:11:00,166 --> 00:11:02,931 He was the heel. 104 00:11:03,136 --> 00:11:07,869 We couldn't stand living in the same town, but I liked him a lot. 105 00:11:08,075 --> 00:11:11,134 He made great pictures. So will I. 106 00:11:12,411 --> 00:11:14,676 You haven't got much to begin with. 107 00:11:14,882 --> 00:11:19,683 No, he brought me up to start at the top. How do you start at the bottom? 108 00:11:19,886 --> 00:11:23,118 -Are you gonna change your name? -Change it? 109 00:11:24,224 --> 00:11:28,593 I'm gonna ram the name of Shields down their throats. 110 00:11:31,031 --> 00:11:33,124 Where are you living? 111 00:11:33,333 --> 00:11:37,134 Until they kick me out, this is my bed and board. 112 00:11:37,337 --> 00:11:38,998 Come on. 113 00:11:45,712 --> 00:11:48,738 By the way, my name is Fred Amiel. 114 00:11:48,950 --> 00:11:50,974 -Hi. -Hi. 115 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,517 18 years ago, living was cheap here, but jobs were sky-high. 116 00:12:01,729 --> 00:12:04,197 Particularly if your name was Shields. 117 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:07,960 Some days we'd hit with a quickie or a Western on Poverty Row... 118 00:12:08,168 --> 00:12:10,262 ...and eat well. 119 00:12:17,078 --> 00:12:19,240 Okay, boys. Let's go. 120 00:12:24,787 --> 00:12:27,050 Grab that one. 121 00:12:28,090 --> 00:12:30,649 And some nights we played. 122 00:12:30,858 --> 00:12:35,022 We crashed only the very best parties. 123 00:12:35,230 --> 00:12:41,760 lf the actor counts five between each word, you think he's good. 124 00:12:41,971 --> 00:12:45,737 And directing? lf you don't film it, get it in the cutting room. 125 00:12:45,941 --> 00:12:50,344 Man's in love, cut to a cactus. She goes crazy, fade into a wheel. 126 00:12:50,546 --> 00:12:53,448 Montage, montage! But where is your story? 127 00:12:53,649 --> 00:12:56,015 All right, so I won't argue with you. 128 00:12:56,218 --> 00:13:00,746 I'm taking off my agent hat and putting on my friendship hat. 129 00:13:00,956 --> 00:13:04,893 This boy can be the biggest ever, your next Victor Ribera. 130 00:13:05,095 --> 00:13:10,225 He's got everything: heart, brains and he's beautiful to look at. 131 00:13:27,652 --> 00:13:31,644 I don't care what she writes about me. It's what she wrote about Arturo. 132 00:13:31,855 --> 00:13:34,722 He hit me and hurt me. 133 00:13:34,925 --> 00:13:39,088 I'm not always yelling about a star's right to a private life. 134 00:13:39,297 --> 00:13:42,423 Fans are entitled to see us in the flesh sometimes. 135 00:13:42,632 --> 00:13:45,430 Only last week I was in New York.... 136 00:13:45,635 --> 00:13:51,506 I've got a full house, and you can't have four of a kind. No. 137 00:13:51,708 --> 00:13:54,269 Not even in one of your B pictures! 138 00:13:54,478 --> 00:13:58,208 -Harry, I think you're bluffing. -Put up or shut up. 139 00:13:58,416 --> 00:14:02,318 Money talks, and I've got money. I raise you 500. 140 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,923 -Right back at you. -Five, and five more. 141 00:14:07,124 --> 00:14:10,786 -Call. -Four fours. 142 00:14:11,562 --> 00:14:17,364 When did you begin to tell the truth? Don't tell me"today." What time today? 143 00:14:36,521 --> 00:14:41,083 -Harry Pebbel's a great poker player. -Yeah. 144 00:14:41,292 --> 00:14:46,321 But my father could always beat him, and I could always beat my father. 145 00:14:46,530 --> 00:14:51,593 -To get in a game like that, I need-- -You're crazy! 146 00:14:51,803 --> 00:14:56,934 All I need is a few hundred dollars for my first stack of chips. 147 00:14:57,942 --> 00:15:03,848 What's a few hundred dollars when four citizens pool their resources? 148 00:15:10,857 --> 00:15:13,518 Came the dawn.... 149 00:15:21,733 --> 00:15:24,259 -Good night, gentlemen. -Good night. 150 00:15:25,370 --> 00:15:28,863 -Jonathan! -How much did you win? 151 00:15:31,210 --> 00:15:33,542 -Five hundred? -A thousand? 152 00:15:33,746 --> 00:15:37,046 -More than that. Six thousand. -Jonathan! 153 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:39,377 I lost. 154 00:15:39,585 --> 00:15:43,851 To be exact, I lost $6,351 . 155 00:15:44,057 --> 00:15:47,685 -Who won? -Harry Pebbel. 156 00:15:48,761 --> 00:15:52,198 Harry, I admit it. I lost the money and I owe you. 157 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:55,664 -I wish I could pay. -It's breaking your heart. 158 00:15:55,868 --> 00:15:58,861 -I could give you an lOU. -What would I do with it? 159 00:15:59,072 --> 00:16:03,065 You don't run this studio, but you're an executive producer. 160 00:16:03,276 --> 00:16:05,336 -B pictures-- -They make money. 161 00:16:05,546 --> 00:16:07,843 You have four producers, why not five? 162 00:16:08,048 --> 00:16:11,643 At $300 a week I could pay you off, slowly, but surely. 163 00:16:11,852 --> 00:16:14,878 $6,351 . 164 00:16:15,088 --> 00:16:18,581 -All right, you got the job. -I thought so. 165 00:16:19,493 --> 00:16:23,486 So you're a genius boy. You think you blackmailed me! 166 00:16:23,698 --> 00:16:25,666 Harry, that's a horrid word. 167 00:16:25,867 --> 00:16:29,962 Well, get this. My unit turns out 18 pictures a year. 168 00:16:30,171 --> 00:16:36,632 I cry for ideas. lf you'd sweat out a story the way you do $6,351 ... 169 00:16:36,845 --> 00:16:41,178 ...I'd have hired you anyway. Why didn't you come to me? Too proud? 170 00:16:41,381 --> 00:16:43,406 I tried to. I couldn't get in. 171 00:16:43,618 --> 00:16:47,054 -You know who gave me my first job? -My father. 172 00:16:47,256 --> 00:16:50,656 -You angle things the cute way. -I'll pay you $100 a week. 173 00:16:50,859 --> 00:16:55,592 I wouldn't take a dime. Just bring me a picture I can shoot, Genius Boy. 174 00:16:55,796 --> 00:17:00,326 -One day you'll work for me. -Get me Joe Clareton in publicity. 175 00:17:00,535 --> 00:17:04,632 Meanwhile, I need an office with a desk for my assistant. 176 00:17:08,643 --> 00:17:11,909 Shields. Amiel. 177 00:17:13,482 --> 00:17:18,418 -That's a big dream, Jonathan. -lf you dream, dream big. 178 00:17:18,621 --> 00:17:23,284 Meanwhile, you'll be drawing a modest check each Thursday. 179 00:17:23,492 --> 00:17:26,256 It's time you two made it legal. 180 00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:30,091 -Tell him he's crazy, Kay. -You're crazy. 181 00:17:30,299 --> 00:17:33,360 -Tell him I'm not. -He's not. 182 00:17:33,569 --> 00:17:36,766 I just happen to have a ring with me. 183 00:17:36,972 --> 00:17:41,341 Syd Murphy knows a friend who knows a jeweler. 184 00:17:41,544 --> 00:17:45,708 -Shall we? -Tell him yes, Kay. 185 00:17:49,085 --> 00:17:52,350 He said to tell me yes. 186 00:18:03,832 --> 00:18:07,132 She says yes very nicely. 187 00:18:09,506 --> 00:18:14,239 The next few years, Shields produced 11 B pictures for Harry Pebbel. 188 00:18:15,413 --> 00:18:18,346 I directed the third and five more after that. 189 00:18:18,548 --> 00:18:24,076 We weren't really picturemakers, we were second-hand dealers. 190 00:18:24,287 --> 00:18:26,346 But we learnt our trade. 191 00:18:26,557 --> 00:18:30,084 Then, one cloudy day, Harry Pebbel assigned us a horror... 192 00:18:30,294 --> 00:18:32,785 ...called The Doom of the Cat Men. 193 00:18:34,532 --> 00:18:39,366 This the sort of thing you had in mind? They need freshening up, though. 194 00:18:39,570 --> 00:18:41,800 -I can't get into this. -Don't worry. 195 00:18:42,006 --> 00:18:46,102 lf they don't turn around too much, some muslin will hide it. 196 00:18:46,310 --> 00:18:50,076 This needs fitting. Our department will take care of that. 197 00:18:51,349 --> 00:18:54,648 This may be a problem unless you get a thinner man. 198 00:18:54,852 --> 00:18:58,447 This material is imported. We can't get it anymore. 199 00:18:58,655 --> 00:19:02,252 But don't let that be an obstacle. Here, the perfect fit. 200 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:06,157 This will give the full effect. Lots of character and detail. 201 00:19:06,364 --> 00:19:09,390 Plenty of fright. Needs puffing, but it'll do. 202 00:19:09,601 --> 00:19:13,263 You gotta visualize it in the lights, use imagination. 203 00:19:13,472 --> 00:19:16,031 Shoulder pads will straighten it out. 204 00:19:16,241 --> 00:19:19,971 This will give you the effect. lt'll be good. 205 00:19:36,595 --> 00:19:39,586 -What if--? -Suppose we-- 206 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,600 -Five men dressed like cats look like.... -Five men dressed like cats. 207 00:19:53,812 --> 00:19:57,806 When an audience pays to see this, what do they pay for? 208 00:19:58,017 --> 00:20:03,546 -To get the pants scared off them? -What scares us more than anything? 209 00:20:08,528 --> 00:20:10,587 -The dark! -Of course, and why? 210 00:20:10,797 --> 00:20:15,700 The dark has a life of its own, and all sorts of things come alive. 211 00:20:15,901 --> 00:20:19,999 -Suppose we never show the cat men. -Exactly. 212 00:20:20,206 --> 00:20:21,867 No cat men. 213 00:20:22,075 --> 00:20:28,503 What do we put on the screen that'll make the backs of their necks crawl? 214 00:20:29,850 --> 00:20:32,341 Two eyes shining in the dark. 215 00:20:32,553 --> 00:20:35,544 A dog: frightened, growling, showing its fangs. 216 00:20:35,756 --> 00:20:38,816 A bird: its neck broken, feathers torn from its throat. 217 00:20:39,026 --> 00:20:42,517 A little girl: screaming, claw marks down her cheeks. 218 00:20:49,336 --> 00:20:50,894 Cut! 219 00:20:52,072 --> 00:20:54,801 Okay, boys, new deal. Wrap it up! 220 00:20:55,175 --> 00:20:57,700 This is my first star! 221 00:20:59,113 --> 00:21:03,777 The night of the sneak preview, Harry Pebbel still hadn't seen it. 222 00:21:03,984 --> 00:21:07,386 Jonathan and I had made sure of that. 223 00:21:12,593 --> 00:21:15,154 Go, go, go! 224 00:22:08,651 --> 00:22:11,449 -Hurry, hurry. -Now, sir. 225 00:22:40,683 --> 00:22:44,483 "lt stinks": 1 ."Fair": 8. 226 00:22:44,687 --> 00:22:48,818 "Good": 24."Very good": 47. We've never had cards like this. 227 00:22:49,025 --> 00:22:53,655 -Give us more like this one. -"Excellent": 34."Outstanding": 17. 228 00:22:53,864 --> 00:22:57,459 I'll put these in the executive dining room. That'll show 'em. 229 00:22:57,668 --> 00:23:00,864 -What Harry Pebbel can do.... -Be at my office at 1o:oo a.m. 230 00:23:01,071 --> 00:23:04,871 I'll give you your next assignment. You did all right. 231 00:23:05,075 --> 00:23:09,274 I did a great job at producing. Tell that to the executives. 232 00:23:09,479 --> 00:23:13,438 And remember that"Shields" is not spelled P-E-B-B-E-L. 233 00:23:13,650 --> 00:23:18,645 I don't wanna give you too much credit. Just enough to keep you hungry. 234 00:23:27,531 --> 00:23:31,194 By the way, my name is spelled A-M-I-E-L. 235 00:23:31,402 --> 00:23:34,029 I thought of taking a small bow myself. 236 00:23:34,238 --> 00:23:37,800 A small bow never helped anybody. Get this straight, Fred. 237 00:23:38,009 --> 00:23:40,443 We're building Shields Productions. 238 00:23:40,645 --> 00:23:42,910 What we'll ram it down their throats. 239 00:23:43,114 --> 00:23:45,105 -It's big enough for both of us. -I know. 240 00:23:45,317 --> 00:23:49,685 A five-cent story, a ten-cent budget and a two-cent leading man... 241 00:23:49,888 --> 00:23:53,653 ...and we put it over. We're getting to know our business. 242 00:23:53,858 --> 00:23:57,692 -Yes, Mother. -Let's go back and get my car. 243 00:23:58,897 --> 00:24:02,423 When I work on a picture, it's like romancing a girl. 244 00:24:02,634 --> 00:24:06,627 You see her, you want her, you go after her. The big moment. 245 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:10,672 Then, the letdown. Every time. The after-picture blues. 246 00:24:10,876 --> 00:24:14,972 Don't worry. Someday you'll learn to love 'em and leave 'em. 247 00:24:18,817 --> 00:24:22,913 -Why are you turning off here? -This you got to see. 248 00:24:35,767 --> 00:24:41,001 Crow's Nest. George Lorrison built this. 249 00:24:41,506 --> 00:24:43,497 This is where he died. 250 00:24:43,710 --> 00:24:48,169 I wouldn't have missed it for anything. Can we go home now? 251 00:24:55,054 --> 00:25:00,721 So this is how actors used to live. Cheerful little place, isn't it? 252 00:25:00,927 --> 00:25:05,831 Now, if we can just find out where he keeps the boiling oil.... 253 00:25:08,435 --> 00:25:10,959 The rumpus room. 254 00:25:16,042 --> 00:25:21,447 Jonathan, will you please tell me what we're doing here? 255 00:25:21,648 --> 00:25:23,615 You scouting a location? 256 00:25:23,816 --> 00:25:27,548 Sure, that's it. For our next Harry Pebbel production. 257 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:31,019 lt could be The Bat Men Fly Again... 258 00:25:31,225 --> 00:25:34,661 ...or Mama Vampire and the Three Little Bloodsuckers. 259 00:25:34,863 --> 00:25:38,229 -We don't even have to show-- -Hold this. 260 00:25:47,274 --> 00:25:50,801 Lorrison's idea of my old man. 261 00:25:51,813 --> 00:25:55,909 Lorrison's last three pictures were for my father. 262 00:25:56,817 --> 00:26:00,777 He gave me my first drink when I was 13. 263 00:26:00,988 --> 00:26:05,288 My first cigar at 14. And when I was 15... 264 00:26:05,493 --> 00:26:07,984 ...he taught me the facts of life. 265 00:26:14,869 --> 00:26:16,928 He was a great actor... 266 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:23,000 -...and a great man. -He was a rat and a drunk. 267 00:26:30,853 --> 00:26:34,050 -Who are you? -His daughter. 268 00:26:34,255 --> 00:26:39,056 -I didn't know he had one. -Neither did he half the time. 269 00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:43,220 -What are you doing up there? -Get out. 270 00:26:43,432 --> 00:26:46,525 "A rat and a drunk." What talk about your father! 271 00:26:46,735 --> 00:26:51,195 He was my father. Now, shut up and leave me alone? 272 00:26:51,407 --> 00:26:56,276 -Go on, blow. -Somebody ought to tan your rear! 273 00:26:58,081 --> 00:27:00,708 Wanna try it? 274 00:27:03,386 --> 00:27:05,945 I changed my mind. 275 00:27:06,155 --> 00:27:08,556 Now, will you get out of here? 276 00:27:08,757 --> 00:27:10,919 Go on, get out! 277 00:27:37,087 --> 00:27:42,548 The next morning, Jonathan received our next assignment. 278 00:27:42,759 --> 00:27:44,784 Did you see Harry? 279 00:27:47,097 --> 00:27:50,295 Well, what's our next picture? 280 00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:55,129 Get a good grip on yourself. 281 00:27:56,806 --> 00:27:59,002 You ready? 282 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:02,509 Our next picture will be The Son of the Cat Men. 283 00:28:08,719 --> 00:28:10,983 That settles it. 284 00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:15,790 The time has come. 285 00:28:17,061 --> 00:28:21,555 The Faraway Mountain. It's a great book. 286 00:28:23,134 --> 00:28:25,194 Three studios tried to lick it and couldn't. 287 00:28:25,403 --> 00:28:27,429 Well, I can! 288 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,267 Here's my outline, scene for scene. 289 00:28:32,844 --> 00:28:35,368 -You know what Harry will say. -Yeah. 290 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:39,540 "Look, I've told you a hundred times, Genius Boy... 291 00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:43,777 ...I want pictures that end with a kiss and ink on the books." 292 00:28:43,989 --> 00:28:48,051 Jonathan, this is my baby. I found it and I licked it. 293 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:52,720 I've been nursing it till I was sure we could handle it. Now I'm sure. 294 00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,796 Remember what you said last night? 295 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,935 Enough practice. It's time we made one for real. 296 00:28:58,136 --> 00:29:03,005 lt cries for a million dollar budget and location in Veracruz... 297 00:29:03,207 --> 00:29:08,408 ...but you producing and me directing, we can do it on a Harry Pebbel budget. 298 00:29:08,615 --> 00:29:13,848 -For a guy who's tongue-tied-- -I could always talk to you. 299 00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:17,249 You really wanna do this one, Fred. 300 00:29:17,457 --> 00:29:20,290 I wanna direct it so much I can taste it. 301 00:29:21,227 --> 00:29:23,695 All right, let's do it. 302 00:29:23,895 --> 00:29:26,091 Let's do it! 303 00:29:30,236 --> 00:29:33,262 I've said 100 times I don't wanna win awards. 304 00:29:33,473 --> 00:29:36,033 Give me pictures that end with a kiss and ink on the books. 305 00:29:36,242 --> 00:29:38,402 I make this picture, or I quit. 306 00:29:41,648 --> 00:29:44,378 This is my baby. I found it, and I licked it. 307 00:29:44,584 --> 00:29:46,814 I wanna produce it so much I can taste it! 308 00:29:47,020 --> 00:29:50,478 I'm handing it to you, father of The Son of the Cat Men. 309 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:55,891 Do I produce The Faraway Mountain or don't I? 310 00:29:56,095 --> 00:29:58,586 All right, Genius Boy. 311 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:02,257 You've got it coming to you. Make it and hang yourself. 312 00:30:03,270 --> 00:30:05,897 Why don't you fire me and get it over with? 313 00:30:07,073 --> 00:30:09,543 I know the talk around the studio. 314 00:30:09,743 --> 00:30:14,271 They say I need you, that you do the work and I get the credit. 315 00:30:14,481 --> 00:30:17,882 You think I don't know anything. Well, I know one thing: 316 00:30:18,084 --> 00:30:22,318 Every studio in town turned this stinker down. Go ahead, make it. 317 00:30:22,523 --> 00:30:26,687 lt'll lay such a bomb you'll never get another job in this industry. 318 00:30:26,894 --> 00:30:31,853 Will I let you produce it? You're on suspension if you don't! 319 00:30:33,334 --> 00:30:36,133 I thought my Faraway Mountain outline was perfect. 320 00:30:36,337 --> 00:30:39,068 After three weeks with Jonathan, it was twice as good. 321 00:30:39,273 --> 00:30:42,437 We worked day and night. Kay kept the coffee hot and handy. 322 00:30:42,644 --> 00:30:45,908 As Jonathan shaped our material, I saw what Hollywood... 323 00:30:46,114 --> 00:30:50,813 ...later came to call the"Shields touch, " Jonathan's magic. 324 00:30:52,553 --> 00:30:54,579 Our toughest problem was a leading man. 325 00:30:54,789 --> 00:30:57,986 On a Harry Pebbel budget, a top star was out of the question. 326 00:30:58,194 --> 00:31:01,492 So, I directed tests, a dozen tests. 327 00:31:02,430 --> 00:31:04,193 Action. 328 00:31:05,534 --> 00:31:07,592 So you are Theresa. 329 00:31:07,802 --> 00:31:11,466 I find you as your brother told me, alone in the great house... 330 00:31:11,673 --> 00:31:14,574 ...silent, proud and beautiful. 331 00:31:14,776 --> 00:31:17,803 What is it? Are you afraid of me? 332 00:31:20,348 --> 00:31:22,816 Switch over to the next one. 333 00:31:25,554 --> 00:31:27,316 Action. 334 00:31:29,158 --> 00:31:33,287 So you are Theresa. I find you as your brother told me I would... 335 00:31:33,495 --> 00:31:38,434 ...alone in the great house, proud, silent and beautiful. 336 00:31:39,335 --> 00:31:42,327 -Who's the girl? -Douvane said she could test with him. 337 00:31:42,538 --> 00:31:45,406 What did she promise? Who is she? 338 00:31:45,609 --> 00:31:48,543 George Lorrison's daughter. 339 00:31:48,744 --> 00:31:51,178 Why didn't you shoot her face? 340 00:31:51,381 --> 00:31:53,815 She was drunk. 341 00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:58,853 This is murder, Syd. Let's have that list again. 342 00:32:01,858 --> 00:32:05,191 You're the director, pick your poison. 343 00:32:05,395 --> 00:32:07,454 Jonathan. 344 00:32:07,664 --> 00:32:10,791 -What about Victor Ribera? -Gaucho? 345 00:32:11,001 --> 00:32:14,061 -Why not? -Sure you'd like him. Who wouldn't? 346 00:32:14,271 --> 00:32:19,265 -Why can't we get Gaucho? -The whole town's after Latin lovers. 347 00:32:19,476 --> 00:32:23,879 -You wouldn't stand a chance. -How do we know till we've tried? 348 00:32:24,881 --> 00:32:28,373 Maybe you could talk him into it, Jonathan. 349 00:32:31,621 --> 00:32:35,057 Syd, what would appeal to a guy like that? 350 00:32:35,258 --> 00:32:39,423 Gaucho? Well, if I know Gaucho.... 351 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:04,212 I'll drive. 352 00:33:49,269 --> 00:33:51,498 Jonathan forgot one thing. 353 00:33:51,703 --> 00:33:54,571 He forgot he couldn't drink. 354 00:34:06,152 --> 00:34:11,112 Nice boy. But does he always take on so much altitude? 355 00:34:11,324 --> 00:34:14,191 He's been working night and day for three weeks. 356 00:34:14,394 --> 00:34:17,558 Besides which, he hardly ever drinks. 357 00:34:17,764 --> 00:34:21,667 -He wants me to make a picture? -Yeah. 358 00:34:21,868 --> 00:34:25,929 Why does he go to all this lovely trouble? I'm a very simple man. 359 00:34:26,139 --> 00:34:30,873 I read. What I like, I act. What I do not like... 360 00:34:31,078 --> 00:34:34,410 ...I do not act. Very simple. 361 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,912 A conference was held in Pebbel's office... 362 00:35:08,115 --> 00:35:10,983 ...to discuss production plans for The Faraway Mountain. 363 00:35:11,186 --> 00:35:14,245 The suspense was killing me. 364 00:35:16,890 --> 00:35:20,257 -Yes, Mr. Pebbel? -You can go to lunch now. 365 00:35:21,428 --> 00:35:25,763 -Why don't you take a look in there? -I think I'll stay here and be nervous. 366 00:35:25,967 --> 00:35:28,492 -Good luck. -Thanks. 367 00:35:35,876 --> 00:35:37,675 Jonathan.... 368 00:35:38,780 --> 00:35:43,740 -Didn't he go for Gaucho? -Go for him? He had a hemorrhage! 369 00:35:43,952 --> 00:35:47,217 First time a star said he'd be in a Pebbel picture. 370 00:35:47,422 --> 00:35:51,654 Harry went to bat for us. He slugged it out with the front office! 371 00:35:51,861 --> 00:35:55,660 The Faraway Mountain will be made with a million-dollar budget. 372 00:35:55,865 --> 00:35:58,390 Location in Veracruz. Von Ellstein to direct. 373 00:35:58,601 --> 00:36:03,162 Gaucho. Wendy for the girl. Chapman my cameraman.... 374 00:36:03,371 --> 00:36:06,205 -Von Ellstein to direct-- -You're taken care of. 375 00:36:06,409 --> 00:36:09,639 No separate panel, but your name on the screen: assistant to the producer. 376 00:36:09,844 --> 00:36:14,214 -Thanks. -You know the story. It's your baby. 377 00:36:14,418 --> 00:36:19,081 I want you on the set. You have any ideas, I'll tell Von Ellstein. 378 00:36:19,289 --> 00:36:23,122 Thanks, again. Von Ellstein to direct-- 379 00:36:23,325 --> 00:36:26,021 -You said he was the best. -Sure he is. 380 00:36:28,098 --> 00:36:32,933 Fred, I'd rather hurt you now than kill you off forever. 381 00:36:33,135 --> 00:36:35,501 You're not ready to direct a million dollar picture. 382 00:36:35,705 --> 00:36:38,231 But you're ready to produce one. 383 00:36:39,542 --> 00:36:41,534 With Von Ellstein, I am. 384 00:36:41,745 --> 00:36:44,474 You're stealing my picture! lt was my idea! 385 00:36:44,681 --> 00:36:46,740 Without me it was only an idea. 386 00:36:48,919 --> 00:36:53,083 All right, Jonathan. Let's put it this way. 387 00:36:53,290 --> 00:36:55,986 You gave me your word. 388 00:36:57,761 --> 00:37:00,559 So I did. 389 00:37:00,764 --> 00:37:04,666 I got the starting date. ln two weeks you leave for Veracruz. 390 00:37:04,868 --> 00:37:07,497 Mr. Von Ellstein, you'll go one week earlier. 391 00:37:07,704 --> 00:37:10,366 Mr. Shields, I don't like producers... 392 00:37:10,574 --> 00:37:12,633 ...but for a man with such a script... 393 00:37:12,843 --> 00:37:15,074 ...it'll be a pleasure to break my rule. 394 00:37:15,279 --> 00:37:17,907 Today, I shall buy a producer lunch. 395 00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:20,448 -Am I included? -By all means, no. 396 00:37:20,651 --> 00:37:25,781 Today I've seen a script prepared by a producer who thinks like a director. 397 00:37:25,990 --> 00:37:29,585 -13 years I've been making pictures-- -Goodbye, Jonathan. 398 00:37:29,794 --> 00:37:31,693 Fred.... 399 00:37:32,764 --> 00:37:34,698 So long, Fred. 400 00:37:34,899 --> 00:37:40,098 This is the first time I've found a script I can direct exactly as it is.... 401 00:37:42,173 --> 00:37:45,006 I always said the boy was a genius. 402 00:37:54,018 --> 00:37:57,716 Are you looking at the Oscar he got for The Faraway Mountain? 403 00:37:57,922 --> 00:38:02,417 I know what you have against Jonathan, and no wonder. 404 00:38:02,628 --> 00:38:04,686 Look what he did to you, Fred. 405 00:38:04,896 --> 00:38:08,560 He brushed you off his coattail, so you had to stand alone. 406 00:38:09,368 --> 00:38:13,896 And all you've got in the world is a wife, six kids, two Academy Awards... 407 00:38:14,106 --> 00:38:16,574 ...and every studio in town after you. 408 00:38:16,775 --> 00:38:21,542 Why, Jonathan ruined you! Look what he did to me. 409 00:38:22,949 --> 00:38:26,941 I gave him his chance to do The Faraway Mountain. 410 00:38:27,152 --> 00:38:31,089 Four months later, his contract's up, and he walks out of the studio. 411 00:38:33,793 --> 00:38:36,091 And I go right with him. 412 00:38:38,031 --> 00:38:40,794 I know how you feel about him, Georgia. 413 00:38:41,834 --> 00:38:45,271 After all, you're a woman and an actress. 414 00:38:45,471 --> 00:38:51,240 The first time I saw Jonathan, I was not a woman or an actress. 415 00:38:51,444 --> 00:38:54,606 The next time I saw him, five years later... 416 00:38:54,814 --> 00:38:58,945 ...I wasn't an actress. I was a nothing. 417 00:38:59,152 --> 00:39:04,682 We'll sign you up outside. 9:oo people, we'll need you in the background. 418 00:39:04,891 --> 00:39:08,952 Following people, on your way out please report to wardrobe. 419 00:39:09,162 --> 00:39:11,255 - Mr. Amiel? -What is it, Georgia? 420 00:39:11,465 --> 00:39:14,024 I'd like to sign out early if I could. 421 00:39:14,234 --> 00:39:17,568 They're casting a bit at Shields. lf I could get there by 3-- 422 00:39:17,771 --> 00:39:21,035 -Go ahead. Good luck. -Thanks, Mr. Amiel. 423 00:39:22,909 --> 00:39:25,845 Gus drove me over. He waited while I changed. 424 00:39:26,046 --> 00:39:30,243 There were few agents in town with fewer clients than Gus. 425 00:39:30,451 --> 00:39:33,818 He was the kind of agent who handled only bit players... 426 00:39:34,021 --> 00:39:37,286 ...and who never could get into a major producer's office. 427 00:39:44,832 --> 00:39:47,266 Gus is still my agent. 428 00:39:49,436 --> 00:39:53,203 Girls, will you come in, please? Line up right across here. 429 00:39:53,408 --> 00:39:57,936 You stand here, you over here. Honey, will you come down here? 430 00:39:58,146 --> 00:39:59,977 Thank you. 431 00:40:02,751 --> 00:40:04,719 They're for the drugstore bit. 432 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,582 -How about the newborn baby? -Four here at 3:45. 433 00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:13,856 Girls. Mr. Shields, Mr. Pebbel, Mr. McDill. 434 00:40:14,062 --> 00:40:16,655 How do you do? 435 00:40:26,909 --> 00:40:29,900 You're the director. ls the girl on the end all right? 436 00:40:33,282 --> 00:40:35,216 Yeah, sure. 437 00:40:35,917 --> 00:40:39,945 -You're it. -Thank you. Girls, come with me. 438 00:40:48,130 --> 00:40:50,689 My call came two days later. 439 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:53,460 By then, I'd memorized my one line. 440 00:40:53,669 --> 00:40:55,694 I'll wait. 441 00:40:58,808 --> 00:41:01,902 Read any good books lately? 442 00:41:07,784 --> 00:41:10,149 -Cut. -How was it? 443 00:41:12,956 --> 00:41:15,982 -Was that all right with you? -Take it again? 444 00:41:16,193 --> 00:41:20,186 -Once again, boys! Here we go! -How's the makeup? 445 00:41:25,969 --> 00:41:28,130 Try it again. 446 00:41:33,010 --> 00:41:35,774 All right, roll. 447 00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:38,941 -Speed. -Action. 448 00:41:46,623 --> 00:41:49,024 I'll wait. 449 00:41:53,363 --> 00:41:56,594 Read any good books lately? 450 00:42:07,912 --> 00:42:10,847 -Cut! -How was it? 451 00:42:11,816 --> 00:42:14,340 Print that. Let's have a test. 452 00:42:14,718 --> 00:42:17,382 -Move in for a close-up. -New deal, boys. 453 00:42:34,706 --> 00:42:37,504 Your door was unlocked. 454 00:42:59,698 --> 00:43:03,031 For a one-day bit, you sure expect a lot of company. 455 00:43:04,170 --> 00:43:08,037 For that kind of company, I don't have to trot here at 4:oo a.m. 456 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:12,904 -All I have to do is pick up a phone. -Well, pick one up! 457 00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:19,517 You were under contract to Al Cope. 458 00:43:20,986 --> 00:43:23,922 -Can you hear me? -Yes. 459 00:43:24,891 --> 00:43:30,726 -You were under contract, right? -Three years ago, for six months. 460 00:43:30,930 --> 00:43:34,161 Until they found they had another cluck. 461 00:43:34,367 --> 00:43:37,063 Did you ever play a real part in a picture? 462 00:43:37,270 --> 00:43:41,433 Last year I played lead in a little epic called Jungle Tigress. 463 00:43:41,641 --> 00:43:47,102 I ran it. You played straight man to a chimpanzee. I've tried to find.... 464 00:43:52,753 --> 00:43:55,846 I've been trying to find one decent foot of film on you. 465 00:43:56,055 --> 00:43:58,387 -Is there any? -Yes. 466 00:44:00,193 --> 00:44:02,559 That one line I did yesterday. 467 00:44:02,762 --> 00:44:06,995 That was good. But it's not enough to go by. 468 00:44:09,969 --> 00:44:12,495 I want you to make a test for me. 469 00:44:25,186 --> 00:44:27,984 All right, Mr. Shields. 470 00:44:28,190 --> 00:44:31,352 lsn't this scene supposed to go something like this? 471 00:44:31,559 --> 00:44:37,123 I'll make a test for you, and you'll be good to me, and I'll be good to you. 472 00:44:39,433 --> 00:44:43,369 Who's kidding who? It's 4 in the morning. 473 00:44:43,571 --> 00:44:48,339 The test, I don't want it. I wouldn't be any good anyway. 474 00:44:48,543 --> 00:44:51,239 Just a waste of good film. 475 00:44:54,449 --> 00:45:00,149 But you're a nice-looking guy, and you did go to a lot of trouble. 476 00:45:01,556 --> 00:45:05,014 And it's getting late, so shall I turn out the light? 477 00:45:12,167 --> 00:45:15,068 You're very generous. 478 00:45:16,205 --> 00:45:18,297 Too generous. 479 00:45:19,307 --> 00:45:22,209 You're a Lorrison, all right. 480 00:45:39,262 --> 00:45:42,289 The Queen, my lord, is dead. 481 00:45:42,498 --> 00:45:48,130 She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. 482 00:45:49,205 --> 00:45:52,504 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... 483 00:45:52,708 --> 00:45:56,236 ...creeps in this petty pace from day to day... 484 00:45:56,445 --> 00:46:00,405 ...to the last syllable of recorded time. 485 00:46:01,285 --> 00:46:07,120 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. 486 00:46:07,324 --> 00:46:11,260 Out, out, brief candle. 487 00:46:12,063 --> 00:46:14,393 Life's but a walking shadow... 488 00:46:14,598 --> 00:46:18,296 ...a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage-- 489 00:46:18,502 --> 00:46:21,335 Turn that off and get out! I wanna get some sleep. 490 00:46:21,538 --> 00:46:24,735 It is a tale told by an idiot. 491 00:46:25,475 --> 00:46:30,538 Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 492 00:46:30,748 --> 00:46:33,113 Turn it off! I don't wanna hear it! I hate him! 493 00:46:33,316 --> 00:46:36,252 Make up your mind. You hate him, and you build this shrine. 494 00:46:36,453 --> 00:46:40,014 He died 10 years ago, and you've been holding a wake since. 495 00:46:40,223 --> 00:46:42,215 You can't be a star in a cemetery. 496 00:46:42,426 --> 00:46:47,728 Stop pitching! I'm one girl who doesn't wanna be a star. 497 00:46:48,332 --> 00:46:51,734 Because he was a drunk, you are! He loved girls, so you're a tramp! 498 00:46:51,936 --> 00:46:55,463 You forget one thing. He did it with style. 499 00:46:58,142 --> 00:47:00,077 And you.... 500 00:47:03,114 --> 00:47:06,049 -Put that down. -Suicide, how many times? 501 00:47:06,251 --> 00:47:08,218 Twice. Put that pipe down! 502 00:47:10,189 --> 00:47:13,488 Too sacred to touch? 503 00:47:16,928 --> 00:47:20,092 Don't waste any sleep over me, Mr. Shields. 504 00:47:20,299 --> 00:47:24,166 The last time I tried to commit suicide was six months ago. 505 00:47:24,370 --> 00:47:27,168 -There won't be any next time. -Won't there? 506 00:47:28,172 --> 00:47:30,368 No. 507 00:47:30,575 --> 00:47:36,105 People who knew my father give me extra work now and then. 508 00:47:37,216 --> 00:47:41,210 I drink what I want and see who I want. 509 00:47:41,420 --> 00:47:43,547 Who knows? 510 00:47:43,756 --> 00:47:47,193 Someday I may even get married... 511 00:47:47,393 --> 00:47:50,726 ...to a nice upright assistant assistant. 512 00:47:50,929 --> 00:47:54,161 And make him miserable for the rest of his life... 513 00:47:54,366 --> 00:47:58,166 ...because you're a Lorrison: haunted, living by make-believe. 514 00:47:58,370 --> 00:48:02,636 You're acting now, playing the doomed daughter of the great man. 515 00:48:02,841 --> 00:48:05,537 The acting isn't good enough. 516 00:48:05,745 --> 00:48:08,578 The cheap performance of a bit player, not a star. 517 00:48:08,782 --> 00:48:11,774 That's all, until you pull yourself from this tomb! 518 00:48:11,985 --> 00:48:15,443 Until you can see people as they are, yourself as you are! 519 00:48:15,656 --> 00:48:19,455 Until you can do this to your father's picture... 520 00:48:19,659 --> 00:48:21,627 ...and laugh as he would have! 521 00:48:21,829 --> 00:48:25,491 That's not a god talking, Georgia, that's only a man! 522 00:48:29,303 --> 00:48:31,065 You! 523 00:48:34,842 --> 00:48:38,004 Miss Lorrison! Miss Lorrison! 524 00:48:39,179 --> 00:48:41,978 You better tell her it's all right. 525 00:48:44,717 --> 00:48:47,515 It's all right, Mrs. Curry. 526 00:49:24,658 --> 00:49:26,819 Good night, Georgia. 527 00:49:28,629 --> 00:49:30,564 Good night. 528 00:49:38,874 --> 00:49:42,310 It takes two hours to get ready for a screen test. 529 00:49:42,512 --> 00:49:45,844 Two very-early-in-the-morning hours. 530 00:49:46,047 --> 00:49:48,948 Hello, honey. Here you are. 531 00:49:49,150 --> 00:49:52,175 -Let's run the scene again. -Thanks, Gus. 532 00:49:56,992 --> 00:50:00,257 "I think you understand." 533 00:50:00,462 --> 00:50:03,864 You mean you're through with me. This is the end. 534 00:50:04,066 --> 00:50:09,628 -"To put it that bluntly--" -It means that little to you? 535 00:50:09,839 --> 00:50:14,434 "Look, my dear. We are two civilized people. 536 00:50:14,644 --> 00:50:16,976 Let us act like civilized people." 537 00:50:17,179 --> 00:50:21,479 They told me about you. I didn't believe them. You hear-- 538 00:50:21,684 --> 00:50:24,448 -"But you're everything...." -Oh, yeah. 539 00:50:24,654 --> 00:50:27,714 But you're everything they said. You hear evil. 540 00:50:27,924 --> 00:50:33,056 You see evil. You speak evil. You are evil. 541 00:50:33,262 --> 00:50:37,632 -Fine. Let's run it again. -Okay. 542 00:50:39,369 --> 00:50:41,495 ...to put it bluntly. 543 00:50:41,704 --> 00:50:44,936 It means that little to you? 544 00:50:45,142 --> 00:50:48,338 Look, my dear. We're two civilized people. 545 00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:51,070 Let us act like civilized people. 546 00:50:51,281 --> 00:50:55,182 They told me about you. I didn't believe them. 547 00:50:55,385 --> 00:50:57,376 But you're everything they said. 548 00:50:57,587 --> 00:51:02,388 You hear evil. You see evil. You speak evil. 549 00:51:03,660 --> 00:51:06,322 You are evil! 550 00:51:14,605 --> 00:51:16,767 What do you think? 551 00:51:18,542 --> 00:51:23,138 Dear Jonathan, since you've paid me $100,000 to direct this picture... 552 00:51:23,347 --> 00:51:25,043 ...a lot of pound sterling... 553 00:51:25,248 --> 00:51:28,013 ...presumably you want my kind of picture. 554 00:51:28,218 --> 00:51:32,053 With this girl, I tell you, it won't be my kind of picture. 555 00:51:32,256 --> 00:51:34,622 -She's impossible. -Quite. 556 00:51:34,827 --> 00:51:38,159 She's wooden, gauche, artificial. 557 00:51:38,363 --> 00:51:41,855 -Completely out of the question. -Quite. 558 00:51:42,833 --> 00:51:44,859 Syd? 559 00:51:45,069 --> 00:51:48,368 Jonathan, since you hire me partly to yes you-- 560 00:51:48,574 --> 00:51:51,667 -You're fired. -She stinks. 561 00:51:51,876 --> 00:51:57,041 -You're hired. Harry? -I know we can get her for nothing. 562 00:51:57,248 --> 00:52:00,012 For nothing you get nothing. 563 00:52:00,218 --> 00:52:02,482 She's nothing. 564 00:52:03,287 --> 00:52:08,282 There were few agents in town with fewer clients than Gus... 565 00:52:08,494 --> 00:52:12,521 ...but the few he had he knew well. 566 00:52:33,218 --> 00:52:35,483 I told you not to waste your film. 567 00:52:35,689 --> 00:52:39,750 Gus, check with Harry Pebbel. He's drawing up the contracts. 568 00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:44,056 -She's in it? -Of course. 569 00:52:44,263 --> 00:52:47,392 You mean you're gonna give her a part? 570 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,625 The part. 571 00:52:52,037 --> 00:52:54,268 Georgia! 572 00:52:57,843 --> 00:53:00,608 Mr. Shields, you're a very stubborn man. 573 00:53:00,813 --> 00:53:04,409 Very, when I'm right. I know I'm right about you. 574 00:53:04,616 --> 00:53:08,714 I gave you no help. The test was atrocious, but it proved one thing. 575 00:53:08,922 --> 00:53:13,359 When you're on the screen, the audience is looking at you. 576 00:53:14,928 --> 00:53:17,523 That's star quality... 577 00:53:17,732 --> 00:53:19,665 ...Lorrison quality. 578 00:53:20,668 --> 00:53:25,105 Careful, Mr. Shields. You're looking at me, but you see my father. 579 00:53:25,305 --> 00:53:27,432 He gave me his name, but that's all. 580 00:53:27,641 --> 00:53:30,667 Don't make a mistake. 581 00:53:32,712 --> 00:53:34,646 Georgia... 582 00:53:34,849 --> 00:53:39,843 ...no more doomed daughter, no more whimpering, no more drinking-- 583 00:53:40,054 --> 00:53:43,148 -And no more men? -By and by. 584 00:53:43,358 --> 00:53:46,120 Gus, pull yourself together! 585 00:53:46,327 --> 00:53:50,923 I can't help it, Mr. Shields. I'm a very emotional man. 586 00:53:55,836 --> 00:54:01,537 The picture was to start in six weeks. And six weeks seemed like forever. 587 00:54:01,742 --> 00:54:06,543 Then, suddenly, with fittings, hairdressing and makeup tests... 588 00:54:06,747 --> 00:54:09,216 ...five of them were gone. 589 00:54:10,752 --> 00:54:15,746 I don't know what to do. The waist has to be tight. The train, long-- 590 00:54:15,956 --> 00:54:19,222 Evelyn, will you tell me what's worrying you? 591 00:54:19,428 --> 00:54:22,362 Would you walk over there, please? 592 00:54:27,869 --> 00:54:29,734 Now, turn. 593 00:54:32,141 --> 00:54:36,373 Mr. Shields, I'm afraid Miss Lorrison can't carry a dress like this. 594 00:54:36,578 --> 00:54:39,412 lt takes an enormous amount of poise. 595 00:54:39,615 --> 00:54:45,576 You have to walk like a grand duchess or hold yourself like Lilly Langtree. 596 00:54:45,788 --> 00:54:49,120 Miss Lorrison will hold herself like Miss Lorrison. 597 00:54:49,325 --> 00:54:52,658 Miss Lorrison happens to be an actress. 598 00:54:53,630 --> 00:54:56,256 Make a wider turn, Georgia. 599 00:54:58,401 --> 00:55:00,835 That's it. Now, come over here. 600 00:55:02,671 --> 00:55:05,471 You're all right. Come here. 601 00:55:06,676 --> 00:55:09,337 Sit down. Can you sit down? 602 00:55:09,545 --> 00:55:11,240 -No. -Perfect. 603 00:55:11,448 --> 00:55:15,474 Everybody out now, please. I wanna talk to my star. 604 00:55:20,023 --> 00:55:23,753 -One week to go. Nervous? -A little. 605 00:55:23,961 --> 00:55:26,828 -Tired? -Very. 606 00:55:27,030 --> 00:55:29,589 You work very hard, you're a good girl. 607 00:55:29,799 --> 00:55:31,892 How good? 608 00:55:32,102 --> 00:55:36,869 I'm sending you away. Palm Springs for the rest of the week. 609 00:55:37,073 --> 00:55:39,975 -Must I? -Absolutely. 610 00:55:40,177 --> 00:55:43,612 Till you're on set next week, I want you to sleep... 611 00:55:43,814 --> 00:55:46,977 ...relax, and not think about a thing. 612 00:55:47,184 --> 00:55:49,880 Not even you? 613 00:55:51,021 --> 00:55:54,924 -You said no drinking. -One drink. 614 00:56:05,770 --> 00:56:08,534 To Georgia, my star. 615 00:56:10,974 --> 00:56:14,172 -You said no men. -So I did. 616 00:56:18,049 --> 00:56:20,882 -We'd agreed. -You agreed all by yourself. 617 00:56:21,085 --> 00:56:25,954 -Don't put words in my mouth. -Well, they sure come flapping out. 618 00:56:26,157 --> 00:56:32,926 My pavilion for the garden party, it was to be three feet off the ground. 619 00:56:33,131 --> 00:56:37,465 That three feet will cost, with charges and extra shooting time... 620 00:56:37,669 --> 00:56:40,638 ...$25,000, more or less, and with you, more. 621 00:56:40,839 --> 00:56:43,865 I can't shoot without it. I won't shoot without it. 622 00:56:44,075 --> 00:56:47,568 I'm building an entire sequence to that one moment. 623 00:56:47,779 --> 00:56:50,976 -So move the camera up! -I will not cheat the shot! 624 00:56:51,183 --> 00:56:54,983 -That's not the way I function. -I'm not asking you to change-- 625 00:56:55,186 --> 00:56:57,178 Jonathan! 626 00:57:00,092 --> 00:57:03,926 I have something to show you. This is wonderful. 627 00:57:04,130 --> 00:57:07,929 You can't say that. I have to look after the budget. 628 00:57:08,134 --> 00:57:11,001 Look. My new car. 629 00:57:11,203 --> 00:57:15,867 I don't care where you put the camera. Put your camera there. 630 00:57:16,075 --> 00:57:20,307 -A boom costs 150 dollars a day. -We talked about that 3 weeks ago. 631 00:57:20,512 --> 00:57:24,210 -Like to drive it around the block? -I'm busy. 632 00:57:24,417 --> 00:57:28,183 -As smooth a drive you'll never have. -Gaucho, I'm busy. 633 00:57:28,388 --> 00:57:31,949 -How long would a quick ride take? -Gaucho, I'm busy. 634 00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:36,857 You're always busy! Why don't you live a little? Adi�s. 635 00:57:46,405 --> 00:57:52,072 -I can't be shooting up their noses! -Nobody's asking you to shoot up.... 636 00:57:53,179 --> 00:57:57,344 Gentlemen, there seems to be an honest difference of opinion. 637 00:57:57,550 --> 00:58:00,383 -We'll have to make a compromise. -You bet. 638 00:58:00,587 --> 00:58:03,148 The compromise, gentlemen, is this. 639 00:58:03,356 --> 00:58:08,419 Harry, shut your penny-pinching mouth and build him his platform! 640 00:58:35,022 --> 00:58:39,550 The night before we started shooting, I came back from Palm Springs. 641 00:58:39,761 --> 00:58:43,218 I tried to sleep. I couldn't. 642 00:58:43,431 --> 00:58:46,868 I don't know what drew me to the empty stage. 643 00:58:47,069 --> 00:58:49,799 I guess I was scared. 644 00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:30,536 "To my new star, who will make me very proud of her. Jonathan." 645 00:59:41,557 --> 00:59:43,956 It was cold on the set. 646 00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,062 And suddenly, my throat was dry. 647 00:59:47,263 --> 00:59:51,723 So dry I knew I had to have a drink. 648 01:00:10,487 --> 01:00:13,081 The papers know, but I asked them to lay off. 649 01:00:13,290 --> 01:00:15,850 She'll burn up every column in the country. 650 01:00:16,059 --> 01:00:20,894 I wanted to do a picture with her, make a star of someone this town discarded. 651 01:00:21,098 --> 01:00:26,229 Cross her off. Let me contact the agents and see who's available. 652 01:00:28,806 --> 01:00:31,137 All right. Cast it and get it over with. 653 01:00:31,341 --> 01:00:34,903 I'll tell Whitfield to shoot around the part. 654 01:00:39,149 --> 01:00:41,208 -Sorry I'm late. -Get out a release. 655 01:00:41,418 --> 01:00:45,946 We're signing Anne Gavery for the part tomorrow morning. 656 01:00:50,195 --> 01:00:53,722 -The morgue gives me the jitters. -Forget her. 657 01:00:53,931 --> 01:00:56,628 I've covered everything: waterfront, jails, hospitals... 658 01:00:56,835 --> 01:00:59,496 ...scraped the Main Street booze parlors. 659 01:00:59,704 --> 01:01:03,105 -I told you to forget her. -I have professional pride. 660 01:01:03,309 --> 01:01:09,645 I thought I knew every rathole in town. She's found a new one, or she's left. 661 01:01:10,649 --> 01:01:16,416 Janitor says she sometimes locks her door and leaves for days at a time. 662 01:01:16,622 --> 01:01:21,285 Where would I go for days at a time? I try to put myself in her place.... 663 01:01:40,179 --> 01:01:43,080 Hello, Georgia. 664 01:01:46,285 --> 01:01:49,186 You forgot... 665 01:01:50,223 --> 01:01:54,022 ...you forgot to tie your tie. 666 01:03:06,334 --> 01:03:09,302 You're sorry, aren't you? 667 01:03:10,905 --> 01:03:16,309 Should I wash your mouth with soap and send you to bed without supper? 668 01:03:17,378 --> 01:03:20,142 Why did you do it, Georgia? 669 01:03:21,083 --> 01:03:23,608 Do you know why? 670 01:03:26,822 --> 01:03:28,983 Why? 671 01:03:29,190 --> 01:03:34,288 Because I was afraid I'd louse things up for you... 672 01:03:35,297 --> 01:03:37,731 ...because I love you. 673 01:03:38,834 --> 01:03:41,303 I do, you know. 674 01:03:45,107 --> 01:03:48,304 It's cold sitting on the ground. 675 01:03:51,179 --> 01:03:54,513 Georgia, come here. 676 01:03:57,819 --> 01:03:59,811 Sit down. 677 01:04:17,139 --> 01:04:21,201 Georgia, love is for the very young. 678 01:04:22,011 --> 01:04:25,469 "For the very young." I like that. 679 01:04:27,250 --> 01:04:30,584 Would you marry me, Jonathan? 680 01:04:30,787 --> 01:04:33,381 Not even a little bit. 681 01:04:34,191 --> 01:04:37,285 -That's too bad. -Why? 682 01:04:38,961 --> 01:04:42,055 Because I'd make you a good wife. 683 01:04:42,266 --> 01:04:46,702 Well, right now I don't need a wife, I need a star. 684 01:04:48,806 --> 01:04:51,865 It's cold not sitting on the ground. 685 01:04:52,075 --> 01:04:55,476 Let's go in by the fire, shall we? 686 01:05:04,888 --> 01:05:09,416 We're signing Anne Gavery for the part. 687 01:05:09,626 --> 01:05:14,256 -Oh? She'll be good. -I think she will. 688 01:05:14,465 --> 01:05:18,196 Why, that big ham, she couldn't-- Well, she.... 689 01:05:18,403 --> 01:05:20,461 Here. 690 01:05:20,672 --> 01:05:25,165 Jonathan, if we were married, I wouldn't take up much room. 691 01:05:25,376 --> 01:05:29,106 Put those things on. Your clothes will be dry soon. 692 01:06:03,248 --> 01:06:06,650 -Hello. -I've been trying to reach you. 693 01:06:06,852 --> 01:06:10,844 -Oh, Harry-- -You have a picture in production. 694 01:06:11,056 --> 01:06:13,081 -I know. -We have to get a new star. 695 01:06:13,292 --> 01:06:17,661 -Harry-- -Listen to me, and don't interrupt. 696 01:06:28,907 --> 01:06:31,308 Jonathan, are you there? 697 01:06:31,511 --> 01:06:37,142 -Hello. Hello. -Harry, forget about Anne Gavery. 698 01:06:37,349 --> 01:06:40,113 Have you gone crazy? Are you drunk? 699 01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,914 I said forget about her. Georgia is right here. 700 01:06:44,123 --> 01:06:46,319 Everything's fine. We'll use her. 701 01:06:46,526 --> 01:06:49,494 I don't know what you've got in your mind. 702 01:06:49,696 --> 01:06:53,256 -You'll make a fool of yourself. -I'll take that chance. 703 01:06:53,466 --> 01:06:58,403 We'll see. I know. Harry, listen to me-- 704 01:06:58,605 --> 01:07:03,201 Harry, shut up, and listen to me! These are my instructions: 705 01:07:03,409 --> 01:07:06,174 Georgia's in. We'll shoot in the morning. 706 01:07:06,379 --> 01:07:11,510 -You call Whitfield and tell him. -lf I go to the bank, they'll laugh. 707 01:07:14,789 --> 01:07:18,383 Everybody knows about this girl. No studio will touch her-- 708 01:07:18,592 --> 01:07:22,222 Harry, shut up and listen to me. 709 01:07:22,430 --> 01:07:25,990 Don't worry. Everything's gonna be all right. 710 01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:30,260 -I know just how to handle her now. -You know how to handle her! 711 01:07:43,183 --> 01:07:45,049 They're.... 712 01:07:45,853 --> 01:07:47,980 They're blue. 713 01:07:54,395 --> 01:07:57,387 Blue is my, my lucky... 714 01:08:06,875 --> 01:08:09,002 ...color. 715 01:08:22,057 --> 01:08:24,753 We were 14 weeks shooting the picture. 716 01:08:24,959 --> 01:08:28,828 The most wonderful 14 weeks I'd ever known. 717 01:08:29,031 --> 01:08:31,591 Change that line right there. 718 01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,394 ...see him. Up! 719 01:08:35,737 --> 01:08:39,104 They'll throw pennies at us. It's ridiculous. 720 01:08:39,307 --> 01:08:42,402 This is a dramatic moment. The guy you love is onstage. 721 01:08:42,611 --> 01:08:46,240 You see him, and you know somebody's gonna kill him. 722 01:08:46,449 --> 01:08:49,213 lf you're gonna joke about.... 723 01:08:49,419 --> 01:08:54,550 You're not taking this seriously. I'll try once more, and that's all. 724 01:08:56,859 --> 01:08:59,292 This mumbo jumbo doesn't make any sense. 725 01:08:59,494 --> 01:09:03,226 Try again. Make love while you're lighting the cigarette. 726 01:09:03,433 --> 01:09:06,300 Go ahead. Take it. 727 01:09:06,502 --> 01:09:09,699 Light it. Look up. That's it. 728 01:09:09,906 --> 01:09:13,899 All the time thinking, thinking. That's it. 729 01:09:14,110 --> 01:09:17,945 That's a lot better. Wasn't that much better? 730 01:09:19,382 --> 01:09:21,441 Jonathan was a perfectionist. 731 01:09:21,651 --> 01:09:24,917 When he loved a scene, money meant nothing... 732 01:09:25,122 --> 01:09:28,215 ...fatigue even less, his or anyone else's. 733 01:09:28,425 --> 01:09:33,885 We did it over and over and over till we could hardly stand. 734 01:09:46,744 --> 01:09:51,772 -All right, cut. How was that? -Try it again. 735 01:09:51,983 --> 01:09:56,283 Jonathan! For heaven's sake! Fun is fun! 736 01:09:57,222 --> 01:10:01,590 -Did they get it? -I don't know. They're still arguing. 737 01:10:01,792 --> 01:10:05,854 Oh, brother! This is amateur night in Dixie! 738 01:10:06,064 --> 01:10:08,725 They'll make up their minds or lose Baby. 739 01:10:08,933 --> 01:10:12,164 -Hi, Baby. -You were gonna get me into pictures. 740 01:10:12,369 --> 01:10:16,534 lt takes a little while, Baby. I worked as an extra for three years. 741 01:10:16,740 --> 01:10:20,472 -This is good experience. -This is experience? 742 01:10:20,678 --> 01:10:24,546 By the time I get a speaking part, they'll have to carry me. 743 01:10:24,749 --> 01:10:28,549 -You're pretty when you're mad. -Thanks a lot. 744 01:10:28,752 --> 01:10:32,814 Wrap it up! Get these people outside! 745 01:10:33,025 --> 01:10:35,787 Stage setup first thing in the morning! 746 01:10:38,630 --> 01:10:42,760 -Good night, Miss Lorrison. -Good night, George. 747 01:10:44,235 --> 01:10:46,328 I thought that take was good. 748 01:10:46,539 --> 01:10:50,440 Pretty good, but I wanna get more out of Gaucho. 749 01:10:52,011 --> 01:10:53,774 -Happy? -Very. 750 01:10:53,978 --> 01:10:56,948 -Are you, Jonathan? -Very. 751 01:10:57,149 --> 01:11:01,552 -May I buy you dinner tonight? -And tomorrow night. 752 01:11:01,755 --> 01:11:06,350 That's the look I want on that wedding scene. Can you give me that? 753 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:08,619 I'll try. 754 01:11:15,301 --> 01:11:17,667 Mr. Shields, we're five over budget. 755 01:11:17,870 --> 01:11:21,807 I need you to sign these sheets before I can send out the checks. 756 01:11:22,008 --> 01:11:24,875 Good night. Hurry up, Baby. 757 01:11:25,077 --> 01:11:27,375 Be an angel, bring my car around. 758 01:11:27,581 --> 01:11:31,573 S�, se�or. You want me to wash it for you too? 759 01:11:31,785 --> 01:11:33,979 Georgia. 760 01:11:34,187 --> 01:11:38,453 -You were wonderful in that scene. -Thank you. 761 01:11:38,657 --> 01:11:43,062 Every day I watch you grow more and more an actress. 762 01:11:49,069 --> 01:11:53,598 To give truth to a performance, there's nothing like love. 763 01:11:53,807 --> 01:11:57,504 -Love is for the very young. -Love is for the birds! 764 01:12:02,116 --> 01:12:04,913 -Good night, Georgia. -Good night, Gaucho. 765 01:12:10,358 --> 01:12:13,816 Lila, that wasn't nice! 766 01:12:14,028 --> 01:12:17,589 I guess it depends on who a girl has dinner with. 767 01:12:17,797 --> 01:12:20,391 Shh, Baby. 768 01:12:20,601 --> 01:12:24,934 She gets to be a star, I get to park a convertible. 769 01:12:25,138 --> 01:12:29,839 Don't talk like that about Georgia, or Jonathan. He is a great man. 770 01:12:30,945 --> 01:12:34,847 There are no great men, buster. There's only men. 771 01:12:36,385 --> 01:12:39,410 The last two weeks of the picture, I was in a dream... 772 01:12:39,620 --> 01:12:41,987 ...a bad dream. 773 01:12:42,757 --> 01:12:45,726 All right, Jonathan! 774 01:12:45,928 --> 01:12:47,919 Action! 775 01:13:03,378 --> 01:13:07,109 -They're ready, Miss Lorrison. -She'll be right there. 776 01:13:07,315 --> 01:13:11,845 I don't know what to do. I feel sick and frightened. 777 01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:14,488 You're tired. You've been trying so hard. 778 01:13:14,690 --> 01:13:17,853 But they think I'm such a fool, or temperamental-- 779 01:13:18,061 --> 01:13:20,392 It's only a few more days. 780 01:13:20,595 --> 01:13:23,894 I feel like I'm gonna scream. I can't help myself. 781 01:13:24,100 --> 01:13:27,535 Hurry, Miss Lorrison. Please, they're all waiting. 782 01:13:29,572 --> 01:13:32,096 We were on the last scene. 783 01:13:32,308 --> 01:13:35,744 We finished a little before dawn. 784 01:13:36,512 --> 01:13:39,311 We're alone now. 785 01:13:40,782 --> 01:13:43,616 And I can talk to you. 786 01:13:45,422 --> 01:13:50,586 Now I can tell you what I never could tell you before. 787 01:13:52,528 --> 01:13:56,123 You must forgive me, my darling. 788 01:13:56,332 --> 01:13:59,267 You mustn't mind my crying... 789 01:14:00,636 --> 01:14:03,606 ...now that it's too late. 790 01:14:04,273 --> 01:14:07,175 Now, at last, I can tell you. 791 01:14:08,277 --> 01:14:11,213 I love you, Gregory. 792 01:14:11,781 --> 01:14:15,013 I love you. I love you so.... 793 01:14:54,459 --> 01:14:56,859 After the opening, there was a party. 794 01:14:57,062 --> 01:14:59,792 It was a lovely top-of-the-world party. 795 01:14:59,997 --> 01:15:02,466 It was my party, and everybody was there. 796 01:15:02,667 --> 01:15:06,068 And everybody made a fuss over me. Everybody... 797 01:15:06,271 --> 01:15:08,638 ...but Jonathan. 798 01:16:00,392 --> 01:16:04,658 You wouldn't come to my party, so I brought my party to you. 799 01:16:04,864 --> 01:16:07,298 Jonathan, it was so wonderful. 800 01:16:07,500 --> 01:16:10,868 Everything you wanted for me. Just as you promised. 801 01:16:11,071 --> 01:16:13,538 They applauded, cheered, oohed and aahed. 802 01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:17,107 Georgia, go back and enjoy it. 803 01:16:19,145 --> 01:16:21,341 But there's no one to enjoy it with. 804 01:16:21,547 --> 01:16:27,145 Why, that's silly. Everybody in town is fighting to be near the new star. 805 01:16:27,354 --> 01:16:30,551 You know what I mean, Jonathan. 806 01:16:30,758 --> 01:16:34,249 Georgia, I have to be alone tonight. 807 01:16:34,461 --> 01:16:37,056 After a picture's done, something happens. 808 01:16:37,264 --> 01:16:42,133 It's a feeling of letdown, of emptiness. 809 01:16:42,336 --> 01:16:46,738 It's bad. It gets worse. I can't help it. 810 01:16:46,940 --> 01:16:51,969 I know. Syd and Harry have told me about that. But tonight-- 811 01:16:52,180 --> 01:16:55,308 I'd only depress you. I want you to go back now. 812 01:16:55,515 --> 01:16:59,418 -You've got bows to take. Take them! -Darling. 813 01:16:59,619 --> 01:17:04,421 I was afraid you might be angry or resent my coming here... 814 01:17:04,625 --> 01:17:06,592 ...but I had to take that chance. 815 01:17:06,793 --> 01:17:11,094 Right in the middle of everything, suddenly I knew one thing so clearly. 816 01:17:11,299 --> 01:17:16,498 The party is where you are: depressed or gay or angry... 817 01:17:16,704 --> 01:17:21,573 ...or tender or in any of your moods. I know them all. 818 01:17:21,776 --> 01:17:25,178 Let's have our party. We've got so much to celebrate. 819 01:17:25,380 --> 01:17:29,611 We'll ice the champagne. We'll light the fire. 820 01:17:29,818 --> 01:17:32,048 We'll put on the records and dance. 821 01:17:32,254 --> 01:17:36,418 I'll help you pull yourself out of this the way you helped me. 822 01:17:36,624 --> 01:17:39,719 Give me that chance, darling? Please? 823 01:17:39,928 --> 01:17:44,159 Please don't shut me out. Please. 824 01:17:57,813 --> 01:18:00,247 You said you'd get rid of her quick. 825 01:18:01,017 --> 01:18:03,007 Now, go back to your party. 826 01:18:05,220 --> 01:18:09,156 The picture's finished, Georgia. You're business, I'm company. 827 01:18:09,358 --> 01:18:14,058 Shut up! Shut up, and get back upstairs! 828 01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:23,364 Oh, I forgot to tell you, Georgia. 829 01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:26,167 I saw the picture. 830 01:18:26,376 --> 01:18:28,843 I thought you were swell. 831 01:18:31,881 --> 01:18:34,315 Good night, Georgia. 832 01:18:40,457 --> 01:18:42,788 Stop looking like that. 833 01:18:42,992 --> 01:18:45,426 Remember, I didn't ask you here. 834 01:18:45,629 --> 01:18:48,097 You couldn't stay where you belong. 835 01:18:48,299 --> 01:18:51,096 You couldn't enjoy what I made possible for you. 836 01:18:51,302 --> 01:18:53,600 You'd rather have this. 837 01:18:53,804 --> 01:18:59,071 Well, congratulations. You've got it all laid out for you... 838 01:18:59,276 --> 01:19:01,506 ...so you can wallow in self-pity. 839 01:19:01,713 --> 01:19:06,843 A betrayed woman, the wounded doe, with all the dribble that goes with it. 840 01:19:07,051 --> 01:19:09,111 "He doesn't love me. He was lying. 841 01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:13,120 Lovely moments, tender words. He's lying. He's cheap and cruel! 842 01:19:13,324 --> 01:19:17,226 That low woman Lila!" Well, maybe I like Lilas. 843 01:19:17,427 --> 01:19:21,296 Maybe I like to be cheap sometimes. Maybe everybody does. 844 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,934 Or don't you remember? 845 01:19:26,004 --> 01:19:27,972 Get that look off your face! 846 01:19:28,173 --> 01:19:32,768 Who gave you the right to dig into me and decide what I'm like? 847 01:19:32,977 --> 01:19:35,741 How do you know how I feel about you? 848 01:19:35,947 --> 01:19:41,044 Maybe I don't want anybody to own me, you or anybody. Get out! 849 01:19:41,252 --> 01:19:43,220 Get out! 850 01:20:59,833 --> 01:21:04,133 I told you I'd never work for him again, and I never will. 851 01:21:04,337 --> 01:21:08,933 I don't blame you, Georgia. Jonathan certainly ruined you. 852 01:21:09,142 --> 01:21:14,238 You were a drunk and a tramp playing bit parts, and he made a star of you. 853 01:21:14,448 --> 01:21:17,440 You had an ironclad contract with Shields Productions. 854 01:21:17,652 --> 01:21:20,246 lron, I know, because I drew it myself. 855 01:21:20,454 --> 01:21:23,981 Starting at $100 a week, we owned you body and soul. 856 01:21:24,192 --> 01:21:27,456 The next morning you walked right into this office. 857 01:21:27,661 --> 01:21:32,463 That same look on your face as now, and you threw the contract in my face. 858 01:21:32,667 --> 01:21:36,467 Jonathan let you do with it. I wanted to take you to court. 859 01:21:36,670 --> 01:21:39,469 But he said no. So you signed with ANL... 860 01:21:39,674 --> 01:21:42,904 ...and made them the millions we should have made. 861 01:21:43,110 --> 01:21:48,412 For the last seven years, you've been in the top 10 in every popularity poll. 862 01:21:49,249 --> 01:21:52,345 Yes, Jonathan sure fouled you up. 863 01:21:53,421 --> 01:21:57,653 Jim, you're pretty happy with yourself these days, aren't you? 864 01:21:57,859 --> 01:22:02,228 You and your Poolutzer-- Poolitzer. 865 01:22:02,430 --> 01:22:05,763 "To James Lee Bartlow, whose first book"...so and so... 866 01:22:06,567 --> 01:22:09,502 ..."graduate of Harvard and the Sorbonne".... 867 01:22:09,704 --> 01:22:15,939 "1949, professor of Medieval History at a leading Southern university." 868 01:22:22,283 --> 01:22:27,244 Summer is the quietest time of year in a college town, and the loveliest. 869 01:22:27,456 --> 01:22:30,482 I was outlining what I hoped would be my second novel. 870 01:22:30,692 --> 01:22:34,253 My first, on which I'd labored seven years, was just out. 871 01:22:34,464 --> 01:22:37,626 Surprisingly, for a scholarly work about early Virginia... 872 01:22:37,833 --> 01:22:41,133 ...my book was enjoying a brisk nationwide sale. 873 01:22:41,336 --> 01:22:44,362 Possibly because it was liberally peppered with sex... 874 01:22:44,573 --> 01:22:48,908 ...because, after all, early Virginia was liberally peppered with sex. 875 01:22:49,111 --> 01:22:51,875 Was that why Hollywood had bought it? 876 01:22:53,016 --> 01:22:55,780 Why did I stay away from home that afternoon? 877 01:22:55,985 --> 01:22:59,250 Because Rosemary, my wife, was entertaining the symposium... 878 01:22:59,454 --> 01:23:01,754 ...factory wives who met bimonthly... 879 01:23:01,958 --> 01:23:05,359 ...to enjoy a little culture and a lot of gossip. 880 01:23:06,495 --> 01:23:10,864 Rosemary was reading a paper on the island of St. Daniels... 881 01:23:11,067 --> 01:23:13,501 ... which we visited the summer before. 882 01:23:13,703 --> 01:23:17,366 "The techniques of courtship, marriage and consummation. 883 01:23:17,574 --> 01:23:19,872 These are the concern of the anthropologist... 884 01:23:20,076 --> 01:23:22,510 ...rather than of the sociologist. 885 01:23:22,713 --> 01:23:26,911 They are certainly not for the drawing room. 886 01:23:30,654 --> 01:23:32,621 The Longhorns: 887 01:23:32,823 --> 01:23:37,055 Dating back to the misty past of the first Spanish explorers...." 888 01:23:39,863 --> 01:23:42,627 Her paper seemed to be getting a good reception. 889 01:23:42,833 --> 01:23:45,734 Possibly because it was liberally peppered with sex... 890 01:23:45,935 --> 01:23:48,996 ...because, after all, the island of St. Daniels... 891 01:23:49,206 --> 01:23:52,141 ...is liberally peppered with sex. 892 01:24:03,187 --> 01:24:05,678 I started to work. 893 01:24:08,292 --> 01:24:11,558 James Lee doesn't mind one bit. Do you, darling? 894 01:24:11,763 --> 01:24:14,026 He never minds. 895 01:24:14,866 --> 01:24:16,993 Autograph, Miss Rosser? 896 01:24:17,201 --> 01:24:20,535 Dear Miss Rosser, isn't this just like a man? 897 01:24:20,739 --> 01:24:24,470 I fixed his study with everything an author could want... 898 01:24:24,677 --> 01:24:27,440 ...and there he sits in a dreary old rocker... 899 01:24:27,646 --> 01:24:30,638 ...clickety-clack on that dilapidated old portable. 900 01:24:30,849 --> 01:24:35,218 I suppose we'll be losing you to Hollywood now, Professor Bartlow. 901 01:24:35,420 --> 01:24:40,050 The James Lee Bartlows in Hollywood, isn't that a ridiculous idea? 902 01:24:40,257 --> 01:24:44,161 Besides which, what could Hollywood possibly offer us? 903 01:24:44,363 --> 01:24:47,991 Besides which, Hollywood hasn't asked us. 904 01:24:48,199 --> 01:24:50,531 What did he write? 905 01:24:54,472 --> 01:24:59,206 Oh, professor! You shouldn't have! 906 01:25:00,812 --> 01:25:03,646 Ladies, look what Mr. Bartlow wrote! 907 01:25:04,550 --> 01:25:08,213 James Lee, you have a very naughty mind... 908 01:25:09,522 --> 01:25:11,717 ...I'm happy to say. 909 01:25:11,924 --> 01:25:15,291 James Lee, no. There are ladies out there. No.... 910 01:25:47,294 --> 01:25:50,285 I started to work. 911 01:25:55,368 --> 01:25:58,337 Mrs. Bartlow says eat. lt'll do you good. 912 01:25:58,538 --> 01:26:00,666 Thanks, Milly. 913 01:26:00,874 --> 01:26:03,502 I started to work. 914 01:26:10,885 --> 01:26:12,715 Hello. 915 01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:16,320 Yes, this is Professor Bartlow. 916 01:26:16,523 --> 01:26:18,185 Who? 917 01:26:18,391 --> 01:26:20,189 Where? 918 01:26:20,394 --> 01:26:23,727 Oh. Yes, put him on. 919 01:26:27,168 --> 01:26:30,797 Hello, Mr. Shields. Fine, thanks. 920 01:26:31,005 --> 01:26:35,807 I heard on the extension. Hollywood! Jonathan Shields. 921 01:26:38,146 --> 01:26:40,512 Sure I'm glad you bought the book. 922 01:26:40,716 --> 01:26:45,448 I hope your movie of it makes me as happy as your check did. 923 01:26:47,322 --> 01:26:49,085 No. 924 01:26:49,291 --> 01:26:52,692 No, I'm sorry. I don't see how I can. 925 01:26:52,894 --> 01:26:55,887 Tell him you're working on your new novel. Go on. 926 01:26:56,098 --> 01:26:59,761 I need all summer to work on my new book. 927 01:27:01,436 --> 01:27:05,634 -Don't tell him what it's about. -Get your hand away. 928 01:27:05,841 --> 01:27:09,004 I'd rather not discuss it until it's finished. 929 01:27:11,180 --> 01:27:15,311 My, just listen to that man talk! 930 01:27:15,517 --> 01:27:20,750 All expenses paid. You just tell him you'll think it over. 931 01:27:20,956 --> 01:27:24,858 No, it's impossible. I can't come out now. 932 01:27:26,896 --> 01:27:29,456 Say something charming for goodbye. 933 01:27:29,666 --> 01:27:34,467 -Goodbye, Mr. Shields. -James Lee, that was not charming. 934 01:27:34,671 --> 01:27:37,800 He has enough charm for all three of us. 935 01:27:39,007 --> 01:27:43,502 -He surely rubbed you the wrong way. -He surely did. 936 01:27:45,247 --> 01:27:47,739 Darling... 937 01:27:47,951 --> 01:27:52,216 ...I don't want you to feel sorry you didn't say yes to Mr. Shields. 938 01:27:52,422 --> 01:27:56,654 What if we do spend the whole hot summer here? It doesn't matter. 939 01:27:56,861 --> 01:28:02,264 Someday, I know we'll get to travel and see all those wonderful places. 940 01:28:02,466 --> 01:28:08,233 So don't you ever feel one bit sorry you didn't say yes, James Lee. 941 01:28:13,811 --> 01:28:17,406 Does a trip to Hollywood mean that much to you? 942 01:28:17,614 --> 01:28:19,106 Me?! 943 01:28:27,558 --> 01:28:31,324 After all, it was only for two weeks, all expenses paid. 944 01:28:31,528 --> 01:28:34,929 It's not like Mr. Shields wanted me to write a screenplay. 945 01:28:35,132 --> 01:28:40,296 All he wanted was to talk, to get my ideas on his ideas. 946 01:28:42,340 --> 01:28:45,707 -Is this everything? -Yeah, that's all. 947 01:28:47,111 --> 01:28:49,477 Mrs. Bartlow, is this bungalow all right with you? 948 01:28:49,681 --> 01:28:52,878 -It's completely enchanting! -Good. 949 01:28:53,084 --> 01:28:55,950 -The studio car is yours for the stay. -Thank you. 950 01:28:56,154 --> 01:28:58,349 I have to meet a guy from the syndicate. 951 01:28:58,556 --> 01:29:02,686 He's a nice guy, but he hated our last two pictures. 952 01:29:02,894 --> 01:29:05,055 -Bye. -When do I see the great man? 953 01:29:05,263 --> 01:29:10,291 Jonathan? Drop around the studio tomorrow. Not too early, not too late. 954 01:29:10,502 --> 01:29:12,494 Bye, Mrs. Bartlow. 955 01:29:17,543 --> 01:29:21,102 James Lee, come here. Hurry up. 956 01:29:21,913 --> 01:29:24,279 Hurry up! 957 01:29:24,482 --> 01:29:26,712 Come on. 958 01:29:28,086 --> 01:29:30,145 It's Georgia Lorrison... 959 01:29:30,790 --> 01:29:34,282 ...living in the very next bungalow. 960 01:29:35,193 --> 01:29:36,888 Now, what do you know? 961 01:29:38,797 --> 01:29:41,461 That night Rosemary wrote 32 postcards. 962 01:29:41,666 --> 01:29:45,763 Next morning I mailed them, and we went to the studio. 963 01:29:51,610 --> 01:29:55,341 Look here, James Lee. The dining room at Round Oak... 964 01:29:55,547 --> 01:29:58,073 ...just the way we saw it when you wrote it. 965 01:29:58,285 --> 01:30:00,753 Just the way I saw it when I read it. 966 01:30:00,954 --> 01:30:02,921 Look at that chandelier. 967 01:30:03,122 --> 01:30:06,388 -It's Waterford, isn't it? -Yes, it is. 968 01:30:06,592 --> 01:30:10,392 You write in motion-picture terms. You like movies? 969 01:30:10,596 --> 01:30:13,929 -The good ones. -Would you like to write the script? 970 01:30:14,134 --> 01:30:16,328 -No. -Why not? 971 01:30:16,536 --> 01:30:18,560 You look much younger than I thought. 972 01:30:18,772 --> 01:30:21,206 -Must take good care of yourself. -I do. 973 01:30:21,408 --> 01:30:25,742 So do I. I'm here for two weeks only. Get your money's worth out of that. 974 01:30:25,946 --> 01:30:29,575 There's never been such silver, not even in Richmond. 975 01:30:29,783 --> 01:30:32,115 I wouldn't have missed this for anything. 976 01:30:32,319 --> 01:30:36,450 Mr. Shields, James Lee didn't think it proper for me to come along today. 977 01:30:36,656 --> 01:30:41,026 The professor's a man of rigid ideas. We're delighted to have you with us. 978 01:30:41,228 --> 01:30:47,998 See, darling. I knew it was plain sociable for me to come and say hello. 979 01:30:48,201 --> 01:30:51,193 Don't worry, Mr. Shields. I won't be a nuisance. 980 01:30:51,405 --> 01:30:54,773 When James Lee is busy with you, I'll be busy with my own work. 981 01:30:54,976 --> 01:30:58,069 -What kind of work is that? -It's nothing, really. 982 01:30:58,279 --> 01:31:02,978 But I did promise the symposium I'd do a paper on Hollywood. 983 01:31:03,184 --> 01:31:08,178 I realize in two weeks I can't do more than barely scratch the surface. 984 01:31:19,233 --> 01:31:22,396 Get the feel of things, and then we'll get together. 985 01:31:22,603 --> 01:31:26,039 -Shall I phone you? -No, let me phone you. 986 01:31:30,212 --> 01:31:33,180 Thank you, Mr. Shields. lt was wonderful fun. 987 01:31:33,381 --> 01:31:37,580 I like being an author's wife. lt took time to learn the secret: 988 01:31:37,786 --> 01:31:39,844 His work comes first. 989 01:31:40,054 --> 01:31:43,218 -Visit us again. -Thank you. Goodbye. 990 01:31:44,093 --> 01:31:46,118 "His work comes first." 991 01:31:46,327 --> 01:31:49,991 She would buy dark glasses with his first salary check. 992 01:31:50,199 --> 01:31:53,292 No wonder it took him seven years to write a book. 993 01:31:53,502 --> 01:31:56,437 Do you have to have him to write your script? 994 01:31:56,638 --> 01:32:01,041 Do you think you can keep him in Hollywood? 995 01:32:02,711 --> 01:32:07,410 He kept me, all right. Two weeks later I signed with Shields Productions... 996 01:32:07,617 --> 01:32:09,880 ...to write a treatment of The Proud Land. 997 01:32:10,086 --> 01:32:12,316 -So you like my ideas? -Yes. 998 01:32:12,522 --> 01:32:14,956 -All of them? -No. 999 01:32:16,126 --> 01:32:20,289 -Who is that? His picture is all over. -That's my father. 1000 01:32:20,497 --> 01:32:23,329 Angry little man, wasn't he? 1001 01:32:23,533 --> 01:32:28,835 I'm not used to an office. I'm used to a portable and a soft rocker. 1002 01:32:29,038 --> 01:32:31,506 -Superstitious mind? -No. 1003 01:32:31,708 --> 01:32:34,677 Supersensitive rear. 1004 01:32:47,157 --> 01:32:51,288 I had them flown out. I thought it'd make you happy. 1005 01:32:51,494 --> 01:32:55,591 -I gather I failed. -You were pretty sure of yourself. 1006 01:32:55,798 --> 01:32:59,735 -Pretty sure I'd stay. -Yes, I was. 1007 01:32:59,937 --> 01:33:02,997 I know the legend. Jonathan Shields... 1008 01:33:03,206 --> 01:33:06,768 ...the man will do anything to get what he wants. 1009 01:33:06,978 --> 01:33:09,240 Thanks. 1010 01:33:10,046 --> 01:33:13,483 Shields Pictures Incorporated. 1011 01:33:13,684 --> 01:33:17,142 Well, I'm flattered you want me and bitter you got me. 1012 01:33:17,354 --> 01:33:19,720 Where do I start? 1013 01:33:19,925 --> 01:33:22,154 Just read these scripts. See how it's done. 1014 01:33:22,359 --> 01:33:25,921 Rough out a storyline, and then we'll get to work. 1015 01:33:26,130 --> 01:33:28,394 Don't worry. Some great movies... 1016 01:33:28,599 --> 01:33:31,535 ...are made by people who hate each other. 1017 01:33:31,735 --> 01:33:35,899 -Then we should make a great movie. -I usually do. 1018 01:33:36,106 --> 01:33:38,439 What about your last two? 1019 01:33:38,642 --> 01:33:40,634 I liked them. 1020 01:33:47,252 --> 01:33:49,378 I started to work. 1021 01:33:59,999 --> 01:34:00,896 Look! 1022 01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,869 How do you like it? 1023 01:34:11,777 --> 01:34:13,836 I'll be right down. 1024 01:34:19,418 --> 01:34:21,852 I started to work. 1025 01:34:28,729 --> 01:34:30,821 Hello. 1026 01:34:31,030 --> 01:34:33,624 What is it, Rosemary? 1027 01:34:33,834 --> 01:34:36,803 But, dear, I told you I can't. 1028 01:34:37,003 --> 01:34:42,066 I know it's Sunday, but I've only written half a page all week. 1029 01:34:42,275 --> 01:34:45,506 All right, Rosemary. Where is it? 1030 01:34:45,711 --> 01:34:47,646 Yes. 1031 01:34:47,848 --> 01:34:51,112 And? Not so fast. 1032 01:35:14,474 --> 01:35:17,034 Walking out that way. You were rude. 1033 01:35:17,245 --> 01:35:19,735 I don't care how you feel about Shields... 1034 01:35:19,946 --> 01:35:23,405 ...if you are a gentleman, there is no justification for boorishness! 1035 01:35:23,617 --> 01:35:28,146 He asked me how my work was going. What was I supposed to say? Great? 1036 01:35:28,355 --> 01:35:32,052 Who was that overgrown bullfighter you danced with? 1037 01:35:32,259 --> 01:35:34,751 You mean Victor Ribera? Gaucho? 1038 01:35:34,961 --> 01:35:37,954 Why, I only danced with him twice. 1039 01:35:38,166 --> 01:35:43,069 -An hour each time. -You do get nasty when you're jealous. 1040 01:35:43,271 --> 01:35:45,636 Like the time you carried on in St. Daniels... 1041 01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:47,933 ...over that charming young governor's aide. 1042 01:35:48,142 --> 01:35:52,273 -He was too charming. -He meant nothing at all! 1043 01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:55,381 You were even jealous at that Swiss exchange professor... 1044 01:35:55,583 --> 01:35:57,949 ...just because he was polite! 1045 01:35:58,152 --> 01:36:02,589 He was too polite. Rosemary, let's get some sleep. 1046 01:36:02,791 --> 01:36:07,250 James Lee Bartlow, take a good look at yourself in that mirror. 1047 01:36:07,462 --> 01:36:09,726 You've changed since you've come to Hollywood... 1048 01:36:09,931 --> 01:36:14,595 ...and I don't mind telling you, it's no change for the better. 1049 01:36:23,345 --> 01:36:26,143 Have I changed too? 1050 01:36:26,981 --> 01:36:32,215 I dare say I am getting a little too big for my breeches. 1051 01:36:39,395 --> 01:36:41,363 They're pretty breeches. 1052 01:36:41,563 --> 01:36:45,192 James Lee, you have a very naughty mind... 1053 01:36:46,002 --> 01:36:48,629 ...I'm happy to say. 1054 01:37:46,997 --> 01:37:49,124 Get me Gaucho. 1055 01:37:52,036 --> 01:37:53,594 Harry? 1056 01:37:53,804 --> 01:37:56,364 Oh, call Arrowhead. 1057 01:37:56,573 --> 01:38:00,305 Long distance, please. Lake Arrowhead, California. 1058 01:38:05,549 --> 01:38:10,179 I'm going up the lake with James Lee. We'll get this treatment written. 1059 01:38:10,387 --> 01:38:12,321 -When are you leaving? -In an hour. 1060 01:38:12,523 --> 01:38:16,426 -The bank wants to talk to you. -Tell them I said you could do it. 1061 01:38:16,627 --> 01:38:19,494 -They're getting tough. -You're getting too old. 1062 01:38:19,698 --> 01:38:22,292 You got something there. 1063 01:38:22,501 --> 01:38:24,628 Hello, Gaucho? Just a minute. 1064 01:38:24,836 --> 01:38:29,432 -Harry, you take care of it, will you? -All right, I'll see what I can do. 1065 01:38:31,676 --> 01:38:36,114 Gaucho. �Qu� tal? Muy bien. 1066 01:38:36,314 --> 01:38:40,751 How are you booked for social life? Well, get yourself unbooked. 1067 01:38:40,952 --> 01:38:44,820 How would you like to squire a genuine Virginia dame? 1068 01:38:45,023 --> 01:38:48,187 I said"squire." 1069 01:38:50,062 --> 01:38:54,498 Mrs. James Lee Bartlow. Mister is going up the lake with me. 1070 01:38:54,699 --> 01:38:58,863 lKeep her occupied, Gaucho, so she doesn't get in our hair. 1071 01:39:07,013 --> 01:39:10,107 I started to work. 1072 01:39:12,418 --> 01:39:16,981 I worked all day from 7:oo till noon, from 2:oo to 5:oo. 1073 01:39:17,189 --> 01:39:19,714 There were no interruptions. 1074 01:39:22,228 --> 01:39:25,789 In the evenings, we worked together. 1075 01:39:28,701 --> 01:39:31,637 Jonathan, that's my best scene! 1076 01:39:33,973 --> 01:39:37,068 You've cut it down to three lines! 1077 01:39:37,277 --> 01:39:40,769 Look, Jonathan, I don't think you understand. 1078 01:39:40,980 --> 01:39:45,179 The boy's going away, probably to be killed! So when the mother speaks-- 1079 01:39:45,386 --> 01:39:48,218 She doesn't speak. We move the camera in close. 1080 01:39:48,422 --> 01:39:51,984 She opens her mouth, but is too emotional to speak. 1081 01:39:52,192 --> 01:39:54,989 What she feels we let the audience imagine. 1082 01:39:55,195 --> 01:39:59,132 They'll imagine it better than any words you and I could write. 1083 01:39:59,334 --> 01:40:01,324 All right with you? 1084 01:40:03,170 --> 01:40:05,002 Yes, professor. 1085 01:40:05,206 --> 01:40:07,969 Now for that last scene. 1086 01:40:13,647 --> 01:40:15,615 -Proud of yourself? -A little. 1087 01:40:15,816 --> 01:40:18,650 Should be. Not a weak scene in the whole treatment. 1088 01:40:18,852 --> 01:40:23,256 I'm proud of Rosemary too. She didn't interrupt the whole time. 1089 01:40:23,458 --> 01:40:25,825 Pleasant, wasn't it? 1090 01:40:26,027 --> 01:40:30,020 To tell you the truth, I missed her interruptions. 1091 01:40:30,231 --> 01:40:35,533 Even when she's a bother, she does it in a gay, naive, Southern belle way. 1092 01:40:35,736 --> 01:40:39,640 Why didn't you try to put her on paper as a woman in your book? 1093 01:40:39,842 --> 01:40:43,072 -I did try. -Just wouldn't write? 1094 01:40:43,277 --> 01:40:44,575 Funny. 1095 01:40:44,779 --> 01:40:48,009 Maybe you just don't know her well enough. 1096 01:41:10,105 --> 01:41:13,700 Check the radiator too. 1097 01:41:40,704 --> 01:41:43,264 What's her story? Gaucho a friend of his? 1098 01:41:43,472 --> 01:41:46,306 Was she gonna marry Gaucho? 1099 01:41:46,508 --> 01:41:49,308 Were they flying for a Mexican divorce? 1100 01:41:49,511 --> 01:41:52,481 -How long did she love him? -When did he last see her? 1101 01:41:52,682 --> 01:41:55,948 He was a close friend of the Bartlows. They were flying to the lake. 1102 01:41:56,153 --> 01:41:59,451 -His flight plan said Acapulco. -What flight plan? 1103 01:41:59,656 --> 01:42:01,647 Don't you wanna play with the press? 1104 01:42:01,858 --> 01:42:05,693 Gaucho was a friend of the Bartlows. He was flying her to the lake-- 1105 01:42:05,895 --> 01:42:09,855 -Let Mr. Bartlow identify the body. -Just a minute-- 1106 01:42:10,066 --> 01:42:13,332 -Will you shut up! -You stay out of it.... 1107 01:42:42,900 --> 01:42:48,100 I wish-- I wish an awful lot. 1108 01:42:48,306 --> 01:42:51,536 Maybe if I'd been here.... 1109 01:42:52,576 --> 01:42:55,740 You didn't know about them, did you? 1110 01:42:55,947 --> 01:43:00,316 Sorry, Jonathan. Of course, you didn't know. 1111 01:43:01,386 --> 01:43:05,686 Look, Jim, I'm not gonna let you brood about her. 1112 01:43:05,890 --> 01:43:08,860 She's dead, and you're alive. 1113 01:43:10,362 --> 01:43:14,161 You can't do anything about it. Neither can I. 1114 01:43:15,367 --> 01:43:18,428 Let's get to work, you and I. 1115 01:43:25,545 --> 01:43:28,809 Without Jonathan, I don't know what I'd have done those next few months. 1116 01:43:29,014 --> 01:43:31,540 He put me to work and kept me working. 1117 01:43:31,751 --> 01:43:34,184 When the shooting script was finished... 1118 01:43:34,352 --> 01:43:37,584 ...he asked me to stay for production meetings and casting. 1119 01:43:39,158 --> 01:43:42,855 You see Miss Ronley as the star of The Proud Land. 1120 01:43:43,062 --> 01:43:46,656 But it was my impression this was a woman of sex. 1121 01:43:46,866 --> 01:43:49,926 Miss Ronley has the sex appeal of an angleworm. 1122 01:43:50,136 --> 01:43:53,161 -How about that, Jonathan? -About what? 1123 01:43:53,371 --> 01:43:55,602 I like Linda Ronley. 1124 01:43:55,808 --> 01:43:59,039 -I wonder.... -Yes, Jim? 1125 01:43:59,246 --> 01:44:02,612 -It's not my department. -Go ahead. You're among friends. 1126 01:44:02,815 --> 01:44:05,649 While writing the script, I had one girl in mind. 1127 01:44:05,853 --> 01:44:08,878 She lives next to my bungalow. I think she'd be fine. 1128 01:44:09,088 --> 01:44:11,682 Georgia Lorrison. 1129 01:44:12,826 --> 01:44:15,693 lf you'd like me to give her the script, I.... 1130 01:44:15,896 --> 01:44:20,424 You have just broken a sacred taboo. You've mentioned the unmentionable. 1131 01:44:20,633 --> 01:44:23,432 -That's enough. -That's all right, Syd. 1132 01:44:23,636 --> 01:44:27,868 Georgia is the best. The best actress. The best box office. 1133 01:44:28,074 --> 01:44:31,067 Her last three pictures for Fred Amiel grossed to.... Harry? 1134 01:44:31,278 --> 01:44:34,838 $ 7,600,000 domestic. 1135 01:44:35,048 --> 01:44:40,248 We try to get her, we'll be wasting our time. She hates my guts. 1136 01:44:45,293 --> 01:44:50,855 Jim, if you wanna show her the script, there's no way I can stop you. 1137 01:44:52,567 --> 01:44:55,660 What am I supposed to do? Thank you for saying no? 1138 01:44:55,869 --> 01:45:00,034 What are you trying to do? Fight Jonathan Shields' battles for him? 1139 01:45:00,241 --> 01:45:03,869 -It happens to be my book. -It happens to be his picture. 1140 01:45:04,077 --> 01:45:08,639 You're the first one I know to begin by hating him and end up liking him. 1141 01:45:08,850 --> 01:45:12,115 -Do you always work backwards? -Do you still love him? 1142 01:45:15,522 --> 01:45:19,653 -Excuse me. -Fred, do I still love Jonathan? 1143 01:45:19,861 --> 01:45:25,128 -No, you don't get me on that one. -A stupid question for a writer. 1144 01:45:25,333 --> 01:45:27,325 Don't you know about first love? 1145 01:45:27,536 --> 01:45:31,801 You may grow out of it, but you don't get over it. 1146 01:45:34,209 --> 01:45:36,904 I'm sorry, that was stupid of me. 1147 01:45:37,111 --> 01:45:42,947 No, no. I wouldn't want to get over my first love either, quite. 1148 01:45:43,151 --> 01:45:48,112 Well, it's time you two met. Fred Amiel, James Bartlow. 1149 01:45:48,324 --> 01:45:51,521 Guess who we were fighting about. 1150 01:45:51,726 --> 01:45:55,060 Jonathan's more than a man. He's a habit-forming experience. 1151 01:45:55,265 --> 01:45:57,926 lf they bottled him, he'd outsell ginger ale. 1152 01:45:58,132 --> 01:46:00,601 -Ready, Mr. Amiel? -No, thanks, Timmy. 1153 01:46:00,804 --> 01:46:03,364 Georgia let me read your script, it's a beautiful job. 1154 01:46:03,572 --> 01:46:06,132 I'd like to talk about your next one. 1155 01:46:06,342 --> 01:46:09,335 Goodbye, Georgia. Nice to have met you. 1156 01:46:10,846 --> 01:46:14,681 Shooting started on The Proud Land and everything went well... 1157 01:46:14,884 --> 01:46:18,410 ...until the fourth day, then something happened. 1158 01:46:18,621 --> 01:46:20,851 Cut! 1159 01:46:26,196 --> 01:46:29,131 Close-up of the girl. 1160 01:46:29,332 --> 01:46:31,492 About there. Save all-- 1161 01:46:31,701 --> 01:46:36,071 Mr. Von Ellstein! Would you come here, please? 1162 01:46:47,083 --> 01:46:50,747 Am I to understand you consider this scene complete? 1163 01:46:50,955 --> 01:46:53,548 -I do. -I don't. You call that directing? 1164 01:46:53,758 --> 01:46:55,623 I have for 32 years. 1165 01:46:55,825 --> 01:46:59,022 I see values and dimensions you haven't begun to hit! 1166 01:46:59,229 --> 01:47:03,724 Perhaps not the ones I wish to hit. I could make this scene a climax. 1167 01:47:03,934 --> 01:47:08,337 I could make every scene a climax. lf I did, I would be a bad director. 1168 01:47:08,538 --> 01:47:11,030 I like to think of myself as one of the best. 1169 01:47:11,242 --> 01:47:15,372 A picture all climaxes is a necklace without a string, it falls apart. 1170 01:47:15,579 --> 01:47:19,378 You must build to your big moment. Sometimes you must build slowly. 1171 01:47:19,583 --> 01:47:22,984 lf I want a lecture on the aesthetics of motion pictures, I'll ask. 1172 01:47:23,187 --> 01:47:28,148 lt won't be a cover-up for a shallow, inept interpretation of a great scene! 1173 01:47:28,359 --> 01:47:32,490 -To be a director you need imagination. -Whose imagination? 1174 01:47:32,697 --> 01:47:35,164 Yours or mine? 1175 01:47:35,367 --> 01:47:39,861 There's only one answer. You see this picture one way and I another. 1176 01:47:40,071 --> 01:47:42,905 lt could be done your way, but not by me... 1177 01:47:43,107 --> 01:47:47,100 ...and not by any other director who respects himself. 1178 01:47:47,311 --> 01:47:51,943 You know what you must do to have it exactly as you want it? 1179 01:47:53,285 --> 01:47:56,413 You must direct this picture yourself. 1180 01:48:01,226 --> 01:48:04,890 To direct a picture, a man needs humility. 1181 01:48:05,097 --> 01:48:08,294 Do you have humility, Mr. Shields? 1182 01:48:17,677 --> 01:48:20,510 Jonathan the director was a new Jonathan. 1183 01:48:20,713 --> 01:48:22,704 He was patience personified. 1184 01:48:22,914 --> 01:48:26,510 He was tolerant, even-tempered, considerate and indulgent... 1185 01:48:26,719 --> 01:48:29,916 ...to his crew, his cast and his writer. 1186 01:48:55,314 --> 01:48:57,748 Six months after he started shooting... 1187 01:48:57,950 --> 01:49:00,476 ... we saw the picture for the first time. 1188 01:49:00,687 --> 01:49:04,953 -Nice job at cutting, Tom. -Thank you, Mr. Shields. 1189 01:49:05,158 --> 01:49:07,753 -Nice work, Tom. -Thanks. 1190 01:49:07,961 --> 01:49:11,760 -Beautiful production. -Beautifully written, Jim. 1191 01:49:11,965 --> 01:49:17,096 -Beautifully produced. -Chapman's photography was perfect. 1192 01:49:17,303 --> 01:49:20,364 Congratulate Walter on his sets, Lucien on her costumes... 1193 01:49:20,574 --> 01:49:23,008 -...and Boris on his score. -I liked the music. 1194 01:49:23,210 --> 01:49:26,078 Tell the director to have his head examined. 1195 01:49:26,280 --> 01:49:28,407 He should've shot himself, not the picture. 1196 01:49:28,616 --> 01:49:32,677 -It's not as bad as all that-- -I butchered it. 1197 01:49:32,886 --> 01:49:36,323 Von Ellstein should have been here. He would have enjoyed this. 1198 01:49:36,523 --> 01:49:40,550 I have no tension, no timing, no pace, nothing. 1199 01:49:40,762 --> 01:49:43,196 I took a beautiful, sensitive story... 1200 01:49:43,398 --> 01:49:46,594 ...and turned it into a turgid, boring movie. 1201 01:49:46,801 --> 01:49:50,032 lf it were anyone else, I'd never release it. 1202 01:49:50,238 --> 01:49:53,503 -Who's got a cigarette? -Here you are. 1203 01:49:53,708 --> 01:49:58,303 I've made pictures that lost money, but they had something. 1204 01:49:58,513 --> 01:50:01,311 -This is nothing. -You're being drastic. 1205 01:50:01,517 --> 01:50:04,712 All you've got to do is cut the dead wood out-- 1206 01:50:04,919 --> 01:50:06,318 Please. 1207 01:50:06,521 --> 01:50:12,927 -Harry, shelve the picture. -Are you crazy? We can't do that. 1208 01:50:13,127 --> 01:50:16,859 We're in hock up to our necks. We went way over budget. 1209 01:50:17,066 --> 01:50:22,368 -We've got to release it. -There's your penny-pinching mind. 1210 01:50:22,571 --> 01:50:24,766 Shelve it. 1211 01:50:26,008 --> 01:50:29,535 We shelve it, that's the end of Shields Productions. 1212 01:50:29,745 --> 01:50:34,842 Goodbye to 17 years' work. Goodbye to every dime you've got. 1213 01:50:35,051 --> 01:50:38,177 -How about the money in the sock? -There isn't any sock. 1214 01:50:38,387 --> 01:50:41,823 Your last two pictures and this one took care of that. 1215 01:50:44,226 --> 01:50:49,391 And every dime of mine is gone and every dime of Syd's. 1216 01:50:50,433 --> 01:50:52,957 That I didn't know. 1217 01:50:53,168 --> 01:50:56,468 The banks turned us down on money for the last retakes. 1218 01:50:56,672 --> 01:50:59,163 Syd and I.... Oh, well. 1219 01:50:59,375 --> 01:51:03,369 You were shooting, and who could bother you then? 1220 01:51:03,580 --> 01:51:06,707 The hardheaded businessman. 1221 01:51:08,817 --> 01:51:11,844 The hardboiled press agent. 1222 01:51:13,822 --> 01:51:16,850 I won't release a picture that I know is bad. 1223 01:51:17,060 --> 01:51:19,187 But other men do! 1224 01:51:19,396 --> 01:51:23,891 Their pictures don't say "Jonathan Shields presents." 1225 01:51:24,100 --> 01:51:29,300 -Okay, what story shall I break? -That's easy. 1226 01:51:29,506 --> 01:51:32,567 "Jonathan Shields Lays an Egg!" 1227 01:51:43,286 --> 01:51:46,881 -What you gonna do now? -I'm tired, Jim. 1228 01:51:47,090 --> 01:51:51,221 -What are you gonna do now? -You mind changing the subject? 1229 01:51:51,430 --> 01:51:54,693 I just played my big scene in there: The Great Man Fails. 1230 01:51:54,899 --> 01:51:56,833 You want an encore? 1231 01:51:57,034 --> 01:52:01,494 -You sound like Sebastian. -Who? Oh, your new book. 1232 01:52:01,706 --> 01:52:05,665 You told me to never let a leading character feel sorry for himself. 1233 01:52:05,877 --> 01:52:08,037 -Not for long. -I was wrong. 1234 01:52:08,245 --> 01:52:11,942 It's very comforting to feel sorry for yourself. 1235 01:52:12,150 --> 01:52:14,549 -You're coming with me. -What? 1236 01:52:14,752 --> 01:52:19,952 I've taken a cabin at Tahoe to finish my new book. You're coming along. 1237 01:52:21,026 --> 01:52:24,461 -Why? -Why not? 1238 01:52:24,663 --> 01:52:27,861 Besides, I work better when you're around. 1239 01:52:28,065 --> 01:52:30,534 Can you wait a while? 1240 01:52:30,736 --> 01:52:33,796 -How long? -Five minutes. 1241 01:52:34,005 --> 01:52:37,168 lt'll take me that long to pack. 1242 01:52:38,510 --> 01:52:43,209 Sebastian sounds like some character. You'll have trouble casting him. 1243 01:52:43,415 --> 01:52:48,581 -This is a book, not a movie. -You'll sell it to pictures. 1244 01:52:48,787 --> 01:52:52,553 Gaucho could have done that part. He was Sebastian. 1245 01:52:52,758 --> 01:52:57,593 The guy with the world on a string. The big happy baboon. 1246 01:52:57,796 --> 01:53:03,530 I begged him, "Don't take that plane, Gaucho." But no, not him. He-- 1247 01:53:14,247 --> 01:53:17,876 Today is my day for mistakes. 1248 01:53:19,552 --> 01:53:21,349 Jim... 1249 01:53:21,854 --> 01:53:26,257 ...I didn't kill Rosemary. Gaucho didn't kill her. 1250 01:53:26,459 --> 01:53:28,393 She killed herself. 1251 01:53:30,563 --> 01:53:33,465 Whether you like it or not, you're better off. 1252 01:53:33,666 --> 01:53:38,570 She was a fool. She got in your way. She interfered with your work. 1253 01:53:38,771 --> 01:53:41,969 She wasted your time. She wasted you. 1254 01:53:42,176 --> 01:53:45,008 You're better off without her! 1255 01:53:53,187 --> 01:53:57,385 "A sensitive, unforgettable portrait of a present-day Southern belle. 1256 01:53:57,590 --> 01:54:03,656 Gay and foolish, naive, shrewd, and heartbreaking all at once." 1257 01:54:03,865 --> 01:54:07,197 Yes, Jim, Jonathan sure destroyed you. 1258 01:54:07,401 --> 01:54:13,067 You came out of it with nothing. Nothing but a Pulitzer Prize novel... 1259 01:54:13,274 --> 01:54:16,710 ...and the highest salary of any writer in Hollywood. 1260 01:54:16,911 --> 01:54:19,845 Look, folks, you've got to give the devil his due. 1261 01:54:20,047 --> 01:54:23,711 We all owe him something, and you've had years to think it over. 1262 01:54:23,918 --> 01:54:27,115 -What do you owe him, Harry? -Plenty. 1263 01:54:27,321 --> 01:54:31,554 All the times he told me to shut my penny-pinching mouth. 1264 01:54:32,292 --> 01:54:36,992 To Jonathan I was always just an overpaid bookkeeper. 1265 01:54:37,199 --> 01:54:42,101 But without him I probably would still be putting costumes on cat men. 1266 01:54:43,672 --> 01:54:47,505 You know, when they list the 10 best pictures ever made... 1267 01:54:48,343 --> 01:54:51,939 ...there are always two or three of his on the list. 1268 01:54:52,147 --> 01:54:55,172 And I was with him when he made them. 1269 01:54:56,385 --> 01:54:58,079 Excuse me. 1270 01:54:58,287 --> 01:55:01,552 -Yes? -Your call from Paris is ready. 1271 01:55:01,756 --> 01:55:03,486 Hello! 1272 01:55:03,691 --> 01:55:05,989 Hello. Yes, Jonathan. 1273 01:55:06,895 --> 01:55:09,524 I can hear perfectly. 1274 01:55:09,731 --> 01:55:13,691 Yes, they're here, all three of them. 1275 01:55:14,536 --> 01:55:16,869 All right, I'll ask them. 1276 01:55:18,974 --> 01:55:20,941 Jonathan wants to know: 1277 01:55:21,143 --> 01:55:25,011 Will you help him get started again? Will you work with him just this once? 1278 01:55:25,681 --> 01:55:28,206 Will you do this picture with him? 1279 01:55:31,021 --> 01:55:32,921 Georgia? 1280 01:55:37,326 --> 01:55:39,385 Sorry, Jonathan. 1281 01:55:39,596 --> 01:55:41,586 No, I can't. 1282 01:55:41,798 --> 01:55:45,495 I'm sorry, Jonathan. They're gone. 1283 01:55:46,436 --> 01:55:49,734 I'm sure it's a great idea, but, Jonathan... 1284 01:55:49,940 --> 01:55:52,101 ...this costs $4.80 a minute. 1285 01:55:52,309 --> 01:55:57,269 Don't tell me your idea, write me. Jonathan, please.... 1286 01:55:57,480 --> 01:56:00,813 Yeah. Yeah....