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[telephone ringing]
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Stage 5.
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Well, Mr. Amiel is on the camera
boom rehearsin' right now.
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Very nice.
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Say, honey, could you put
that other hand up
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around your throat?
That's good.
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- That's better.
- Telephone, Mr. Amiel.
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Transatlantic, Paris.
Jonathan Shields callin' you.
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- Who?
- Jonathan Shields.
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- Number one!
- Bring the boom back to one.
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I'm sorry, Mr. Amiel just left.
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[telephone ringing]
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Hello? Yes. Yes!
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Who? One moment, please.
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- Miss Georgia!
- Yes, Ida.
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It's Paris, France. It's him!
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I can't hear you.
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[Ida] It's Mr. Jonathan!
Jonathan Shields.
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I still can't hear you.
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[Ida chuckling]
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Miss Lorrison is out.
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No, I don't know.
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Uh-uh, no.
I don't know where.
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No, I don't know who...
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...nor where, nor what.
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Out is out!
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[telephone ringing]
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[keys clacking]
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Hello.
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What?
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Talk a little louder, please.
This is a bad connection.
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Yes, this is James Lee Bartlow.
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Paris?
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Mr. Shields?
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Oh. Is Mr. Shields
paying for this call?
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Put him on.
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Hello, Jonathan?
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Drop dead.
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[sighs]
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[laughing]
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Wonderful.
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[male #1]
Hello, hello, hello.
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- Hi, Harry.
- Harry, how are you?
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- Well, Georgia.
- Harry.
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You know, the five years
since my 60th birthday
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I've been kissed by
more beautiful women
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than in all the years before.
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That's something you youngsters
wouldn't know
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anything about,
isn't it?
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Well, nice to see you.
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That waistline is down
where was years ago.
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[James] I see you're still keeping
the same long hours.
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A little bit of that,
you know, uh, midnight oil.
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Good to see you, Jim.
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You know, you can always
tell a successful author
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by a cashmere jacket.
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[James] Well, I'm trying to develop
a wardrobe like yours, Harry.
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After all, you're known as
the Bull Brown of the pictures.
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Georgia, darling.
Come over and sit down.
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Freddie, take this chair, huh.
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Jim, congratulations on your,
uh, Pulitzer,
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Pulitzer,
whatever they call it, prize.
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Thanks, Harry.
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Caught your picture
the other night, Fred.
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- Great as usual.
- Thank you, Harry.
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And you, my pretty one,
you really made me cry.
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[chuckles]
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Well, then have I
flattered you enough?
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And so here is
why I asked you
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to come here
in the middle of the night.
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Why, uh,
Jonathan called you today.
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Jim he told me
that you told him to drop dead.
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Is that Pulitzer,
Pulitzer language?
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[laughs] James Lee
never wrote a better line.
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Well, here it is.
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After two years Jonathan's
ready to produce a picture.
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He wants you to write it,
you to direct and you to star.
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Now, on the name
Jonathan Shields
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it's impossible
to raise five cents.
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But on Fred Amiel
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Georgia Lorrison,
James Lee Bartlow
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I can raise two million dollars
by tomorrow noon.
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I'm not going to
beg you to say "yes,"
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I've had two years
of begging for Jonathan
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and that's enough.
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I know you'll never
work with him again.
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But he can't seem
to get it through his head.
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Please.
A favor to me, not to him.
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Will you give me your answer
while I get him on the phone?
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Good.
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Get me
the transatlantic operator.
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Tell him we're ready to talk
with Jonathan Shields in Paris
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as soon a she can get him.
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- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
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I know you'll never
work with him again.
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And I don't blame you.
Why should you?
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You've done
enough for him already...
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...and vice versa maybe.
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Fred, you knew him first.
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You must have known him
for what, 15 or 16...
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[Fred]
Eighteen years.
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[Fred] Eighteen years ago
at that funeral.
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That guy standing next to me.
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How was I supposed to know
who he was?
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[male #2] We are met, my friends,
on a solemn occasion.
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This man, Hugo Shields,
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whose memory
we all cherish in our hearts,
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whose loss we mourn so deeply.
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Hugo Shields,
one of the pioneers
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who built our great
motion-picture industry.
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One of the madmen
who almost wrecked it.
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[male #2]
A man of vision.
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An artist, who created
in a new medium.
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A butcher who sold everything
but the pig's whistle.
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Hugo Shields brought
entertainment to millions.
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He will never be forgotten.
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Stay in line and take it easy.
You'll get your dough.
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Take it easy.
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Thank you, Mr. Shields.
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You're Shields?
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You were hired
to give a performance.
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Eleven dollars
to act like a mourner.
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You didn't do your job,
you don't get paid. Next.
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Next!
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[Fred] That afternoon I drove
into the Hollywood Hills.
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I just had to, I guess.
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[doorbell buzzing]
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It's me, Big Mouth.
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Did you come for a fight
or for your 11 bucks?
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The things I said at the funeral
they were childish and cheap.
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I'm sorry.
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- Wait a minute.
- Huh, what is it?
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- Are you in the business?
- Yeah.
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What do you do?
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Um, little bit of everything,
assistant director
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on poverty row,
four-day quickies
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sold a couple of story ideas.
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To eat, I work as an extra.
I do a little stunt work.
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What I aim to be,
is a director.
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What's stopping you?
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Well, I know
I can direct better
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than most of the hacks
that I work for.
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The trouble is when it comes
to selling myself
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you know, telling people
how good I am
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I, uh, I get tongue-tied.
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I'm not that tongue-tied
with you.
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- You are looking for a job?
- Yeah.
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So am I.
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Come on in.
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If my father had died last year,
I'd be a millionaire.
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A year from now,
he'd have put up a new studio
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for me to inherit but
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this was the year,
so I don't have a dime.
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Who paid the crowd
at the funeral?
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That was the last of the cash.
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He lived in a crowd. I couldn't
let him be buried alone.
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Thanks.
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Oh, the, uh, best legal counsel
advised me to change my name.
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Because the town thought
your father was a heel?
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He wasn't a heel.
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He was the heel.
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Ah, we couldn't stand living
in the same town together
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but I liked him a lot.
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He made great pictures.
So will I.
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[chuckles] You haven't got much
to begin with.
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No, he brought me up
to start at the top.
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Say, uh..
How do you start at the bottom?
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Are you, uh,
gonna change your name?
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- Change it?
- Hmm.
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I'm gonna ram the name
of Shields down their throats.
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Where are you living?
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[chuckles] Until they kick me out,
this is my bed and board.
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Come on.
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Oh, by the way,
my name is Fred Amiel.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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[Fred] Eighteen years ago,
living was cheap in this town
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butjobs were sky-high.
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Particularly if your name
was Shields.
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Some days we'd hit
with a quickie
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or a western on poverty row
and eat well.
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Okay, boys. Let's go.
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Grab that one.
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[Fred]
And some nights we played.
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We crashed
only the very best parties.
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[indistinct chatter]
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If the actor counts five between
each word, he is a good actor.
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If he counts ten, he's great!
As for directing?
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Ha! When you film it like that,
you do it in the cutting room.
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Some man is in love,
cut into a cactus.
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The women goes crazy,
fade into a wheel.
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Montage, montage, montage!
But where is your story?
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[male #3] Alright, alright, so I won't
argue with you, but look.
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I'm taking off my agent's hat
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and puttin' on
my friendship hat.
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And as friend to friend,
I tell you that this boy
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can be the biggest explosion
that ever hit this town.
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He could be your next
Victor Ribera.
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♪♪ That moon above ♪♪
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♪♪ Makes me need ♪♪
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♪♪ Someone like you ♪♪
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♪♪ To love ♪♪
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♪♪ Blame your kiss ♪♪
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♪♪ As sweet as a kiss can be ♪♪
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♪♪ And blame all your charms ♪♪
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♪♪ That melt in my arms ♪♪
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♪♪ But don't blame me... ♪♪
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Now I've got a full house and
you can't have four of a kind.
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No, that could never happen.
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Not even
in one of your B pictures!
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[laughs]
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Harry, I think you're bluffin'.
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Put up or shut up.
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Money talks, and I've got money.
I raise you 500.
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Right back at you.
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Five, and five more.
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Call.
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- Four fours?
- Mm-mm.
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Harry, when did you
begin to tell the truth?
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Don't tell me today.
What time today?
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♪♪ And blame all your charms ♪♪
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♪♪ That melt in my arms ♪♪
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♪♪ But don't blame me ♪♪
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You know, that Harry Pebbel's
a great poker player.
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Yeah.
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But my father
could beat him every time
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and I could always
beat my father.
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Now to get in a game like that,
all I need is a...
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- You're crazy!
- No, I mean it.
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All I need
is a few hundred dollars
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for my first stack of chips.
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[Fred] What's a few hundred dollars
to raise
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when four substantial citizens
pool their resources?
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Came the dawn.
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[indistinct chatter]
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- Goodnight, gentlemen.
- Goodnight.
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- Jonathan!
- How much did you win?
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[laughing]
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- Five hundred?
- Seven fifty.
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- A thousand?
- More than that. Six thousand.
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- Jonathan!
- I lost.
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To be exact, I lost $6,351.
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- Who won?
- Harry Pebbel.
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Harry Pebbel.
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[Jonathan] Harry, I admit it. I lost
the money and I owe it to you.
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I wish I could pay you, Harry.
254
00:15:56,581 --> 00:15:58,072
I know it's breaking your heart.
255
00:15:58,166 --> 00:15:59,452
I could give you an IOU.
256
00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:01,249
Yeah, what would I do with it?
257
00:16:01,335 --> 00:16:02,746
You don't run this studio,
Harry,
258
00:16:02,837 --> 00:16:05,500
but you are
an executive producer.
259
00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,627
- B pictures, it's true.
- They make money.
260
00:16:07,717 --> 00:16:10,255
You have four producers
in your unit, why not five?
261
00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:11,960
If you put me on,
say at $300 a week
262
00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:14,011
I could pay you off, slowly,
but surely.
263
00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:17,262
Six thousand three hundred
and fifty one dollars.
264
00:16:17,351 --> 00:16:19,889
- Alright, you got the job.
- I thought so.
265
00:16:21,772 --> 00:16:24,435
Oh, so you're a genius boy, huh?
266
00:16:24,525 --> 00:16:25,891
You think you blackmailed me!
267
00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:27,897
Harry, that's a horrid word.
268
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:32,197
Well, get this. My unit
turns out 18 pictures a year.
269
00:16:32,283 --> 00:16:35,196
I cry for ideas.
If you'd have sweat out a story
270
00:16:35,286 --> 00:16:39,155
for me the way you sweat out
losing that $6,351 dollars
271
00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:40,955
I'd have hired you anyway.
272
00:16:41,042 --> 00:16:42,311
Why didn't you come to me
in the first place?
273
00:16:42,335 --> 00:16:43,576
What are you, proud?
274
00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,786
I tried to see you, Harry.
I couldn't get in.
275
00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,462
Do you know who gave me
my first job?
276
00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,414
- My father.
- Yes, and you're just like him.
277
00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,216
Got to angle everything
the cute way.
278
00:16:51,302 --> 00:16:52,918
Look, I'll pay you off
a hundred a week.
279
00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:54,344
I wouldn't take a dime.
280
00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:57,844
Just bring me a picture
I can shoot, genius boy.
281
00:16:57,934 --> 00:17:00,392
You're alright, Harry.
One day, you'll work for me.
282
00:17:00,478 --> 00:17:02,686
Get me, uh, get me
Joe Clareton in publicity.
283
00:17:02,772 --> 00:17:05,515
And meanwhile, I need an office
with a desk for my assistant.
284
00:17:07,902 --> 00:17:10,110
[instrumental music]
285
00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:12,942
"Shields. Amiel."
286
00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,826
That's a big dream, Jonathan.
287
00:17:17,912 --> 00:17:20,905
If you dream, dream big.
288
00:17:20,998 --> 00:17:22,558
Meanwhile, children,
beginning this week
289
00:17:22,583 --> 00:17:25,667
you'll be drawing a modest check
each and every Thursday.
290
00:17:25,753 --> 00:17:28,587
It's time you two made it legal.
291
00:17:28,673 --> 00:17:31,165
Tell him he's crazy, Kay.
292
00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:34,548
- You're crazy.
- Tell him I'm not.
293
00:17:34,637 --> 00:17:35,844
He's not.
294
00:17:35,930 --> 00:17:38,798
Oh, I just happen
to have a ring with me.
295
00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:41,429
Uh, Syd Murphy knows a friend
who knows a jeweler.
296
00:17:43,771 --> 00:17:45,763
Shall we?
297
00:17:45,856 --> 00:17:47,597
Tell him yes, Kay.
298
00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:53,316
He said to tell me yes.
299
00:17:56,325 --> 00:17:59,238
[instrumental music]
300
00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:08,911
Hey, she says "yes" very nicely.
301
00:18:11,674 --> 00:18:13,235
[Fred] The next few years,
Jonathan Shields
302
00:18:13,259 --> 00:18:15,592
produced a 11 pictures
for Harry Pebbel.
303
00:18:15,678 --> 00:18:16,759
B pictures.
304
00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,889
I directed the third
and five more after that.
305
00:18:20,975 --> 00:18:22,716
We weren't really
picturemakers
306
00:18:22,810 --> 00:18:26,429
we were, uh,
second-hand dealers.
307
00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:28,730
But we learned our trade.
308
00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:30,603
Then, one cloudy day,
Harry Pebbel
309
00:18:30,693 --> 00:18:32,980
assigned us
a little horror called
310
00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:35,062
The Doom of The Cat Men.
311
00:18:36,782 --> 00:18:38,774
This the sort of thing
you had in mind?
312
00:18:38,868 --> 00:18:40,188
Of course,
they need freshening up
313
00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:41,860
they've been hanging
for quite a while.
314
00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:44,162
- I can't get into this thing.
- Don't worry about it.
315
00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,035
If they don't
turn around too much
316
00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,538
a little muslin here
will cover it up fine.
317
00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:50,522
This is a matter of fitting.
We take care of that.
318
00:18:50,546 --> 00:18:53,334
We have a whole department
for that.
319
00:18:53,424 --> 00:18:57,088
This, this may be a problem
unless you get a thinner man.
320
00:18:57,178 --> 00:18:59,295
You see,
this material is imported.
321
00:18:59,388 --> 00:19:02,301
We can't get it anymore. But
don't let that be an obstacle.
322
00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:04,474
Here, the perfect fit.
323
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,222
This will give you
the full effect.
324
00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:09,555
You see, lots of character
and detail. Plenty of fright.
325
00:19:09,649 --> 00:19:12,016
Need a little puffing up,
but it'll be alright.
326
00:19:12,109 --> 00:19:13,754
Of course, you got to
visualize it in the lights,
327
00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:15,610
you got to use your imagination.
328
00:19:15,696 --> 00:19:18,404
Shoulder pads
will straighten it right out.
329
00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:21,404
This will give you the effect.
It'll be good.
330
00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,427
- What if...
- Suppose we...
331
00:19:50,940 --> 00:19:52,556
Look, put five men dressed
332
00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:54,127
like cats on the screen,
what do they look like?
333
00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:55,938
Like five men
dressed like cats.
334
00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:58,065
When an audience pays to see
a picture like this
335
00:19:58,155 --> 00:19:59,521
what do they pay for?
336
00:19:59,615 --> 00:20:01,732
Well, to get the pants
scared off 'em.
337
00:20:01,826 --> 00:20:03,362
And what scares the human race
338
00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:05,785
more than
any other single thing?
339
00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:12,959
- The dark.
- Of course, and why?
340
00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:15,287
Because the dark
has a life of its own.
341
00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:18,089
In the dark,
all sorts of things come alive.
342
00:20:18,175 --> 00:20:21,043
Suppose, suppose we never do
show the cat men.
343
00:20:21,137 --> 00:20:22,531
- Is that what you're thinking?
- Exactly.
344
00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:23,671
No cat men!
345
00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:26,052
Alright.
346
00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:27,942
Now, what'll we put
on the screen that'll make
347
00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:29,930
the backs of their necks crawl?
348
00:20:32,189 --> 00:20:34,772
Two eyes shining in the dark.
349
00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:37,852
A dog frightened,
growling, showing its fangs.
350
00:20:37,945 --> 00:20:41,279
A bird, its neck broken,
feathers torn from its throat.
351
00:20:41,365 --> 00:20:44,699
A little girl screaming,
claw marks down her cheeks.
352
00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:47,698
[screaming]
353
00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:54,368
Ah, cut!
354
00:20:54,462 --> 00:20:56,169
[male #4] Okay, boys, new deal.
Wrap it up!
355
00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:57,621
Come on, get that boom light...
356
00:20:57,715 --> 00:21:01,379
This is my first star!
I want to give you...
357
00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,301
[Fred]
The night of the sneak preview
358
00:21:03,387 --> 00:21:06,221
Harry Pebbel
still hadn't seen the picture.
359
00:21:06,307 --> 00:21:08,594
Jonathan and I
had made sure of that.
360
00:21:08,684 --> 00:21:11,597
[instrumental music]
361
00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:17,107
[indistinct chatter]
362
00:21:40,591 --> 00:21:42,503
[music continues]
363
00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:49,468
[indistinct chatter]
364
00:22:11,121 --> 00:22:13,033
- Hurry, hurry.
- Now, sir.
365
00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:16,787
[music continues]
366
00:22:23,551 --> 00:22:25,668
[audience applauding]
367
00:22:41,402 --> 00:22:43,109
[honking]
368
00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:46,859
It stinks, one.
Fair, eight.
369
00:22:46,949 --> 00:22:49,407
Good, 24. Very good, 47.
370
00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:51,450
See, we've never had
cards like this before.
371
00:22:51,537 --> 00:22:52,778
Give us more like this one.
372
00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:56,081
Excellent, 34.
Outstanding, 17.
373
00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:58,032
Ooh, boy, wait till
I place these around
374
00:22:58,127 --> 00:22:59,868
the executive dining room.
That'll show 'em.
375
00:22:59,962 --> 00:23:01,419
What Harry Pebbel can do.
376
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:03,337
Be at my office at 10:00
in the morning sharp,
377
00:23:03,424 --> 00:23:05,040
I'll give you
your next assignment.
378
00:23:05,134 --> 00:23:07,171
You did alright on this one,
genius boy.
379
00:23:07,261 --> 00:23:10,220
Look, I did better than alright,
I did a great job at producing.
380
00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:11,783
Tell 'em that
in the executive dining.
381
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:13,548
Oh, when you do
remember the name "Shields"
382
00:23:13,642 --> 00:23:15,725
is not spelled P-E-B-B-E-L.
383
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,411
I don't want to give you
too much credit.
384
00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:19,220
Just enough to make you
hungry for more.
385
00:23:27,364 --> 00:23:29,822
[both laughing]
386
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:32,617
See, by the way, my name
is spelled A-M-I-E-L.
387
00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:33,944
Huh?
388
00:23:34,038 --> 00:23:36,530
I was thinking
of taking a small bow myself.
389
00:23:36,624 --> 00:23:39,037
A small bow!
That never helped anybody.
390
00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:41,789
Get this straight, Fred,
we're building the name Shields.
391
00:23:41,879 --> 00:23:43,290
Shields Productions,
that's the name
392
00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:45,167
we're gonna ram down
their throats,
393
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:46,964
and it's big enough
for both of us.
394
00:23:47,051 --> 00:23:48,820
- Yeah, I know, Jonathan.
- Look what we did on this one.
395
00:23:48,844 --> 00:23:50,836
We took a five-cent story,
a ten-cent budget
396
00:23:50,930 --> 00:23:53,889
on a two-cent leading man,
and we put it over.
397
00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:56,136
Yes, sir, we're gettin' to
know our business, son.
398
00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:57,808
- Yes, mother.
- Come on.
399
00:23:57,895 --> 00:23:59,636
Let's go back
and get my car, huh.
400
00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:03,098
You know, Fred,
when I work on a picture
401
00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:04,774
it's like romancing a girl.
402
00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:07,318
You see her, you want her,
you go after her.
403
00:24:07,404 --> 00:24:09,862
The big moment.
Then, the letdown.
404
00:24:09,949 --> 00:24:13,067
Every time, every picture,
the after-picture blues.
405
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,573
Don't worry. Someday, you'll
learn to love 'em and leave 'em.
406
00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:16,995
You think so?
407
00:24:18,499 --> 00:24:19,535
[tires screeching]
408
00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,116
Hey.
409
00:24:21,210 --> 00:24:23,146
Where are you goin'?
Why are you turning off here?
410
00:24:23,170 --> 00:24:25,162
This you got to see.
411
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,088
[instrumental music]
412
00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:40,427
"Crow's Nest."
413
00:24:40,521 --> 00:24:43,059
George Lorrison built this.
414
00:24:44,233 --> 00:24:45,815
This is where he died.
415
00:24:45,901 --> 00:24:48,814
I wouldn't have missed it for
anything. Can we go home now?
416
00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:52,238
- Come on.
- [gate groans]
417
00:24:57,538 --> 00:25:01,122
So this is how
actors used to live, huh.
418
00:25:01,208 --> 00:25:03,120
Cheerful little place,
isn't it?
419
00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:06,749
Now, if we can just find out
where he keeps the boiling oil.
420
00:25:10,718 --> 00:25:12,835
Mm, the rumpus room.
421
00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:20,345
Jonathan.
422
00:25:20,436 --> 00:25:23,850
Jonathan, will you please
tell me what we're doing here?
423
00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,931
Are you scouting a location?
424
00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:29,985
Yeah, sure, that's it, for our
next Harry Pebbel production.
425
00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:33,484
It could be, uh,
The Bat Men Fly Again
426
00:25:33,574 --> 00:25:37,067
or how about Mama Vampire And
Her Three Little Bloodsuckers.
427
00:25:37,161 --> 00:25:38,902
We don't even have to
show the little...
428
00:25:38,996 --> 00:25:40,328
Hold this.
429
00:25:40,414 --> 00:25:43,327
[instrumental music]
430
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,378
Lorrison's idea of my old man.
431
00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:56,632
Lorrison's last three pictures
were for my father.
432
00:25:59,016 --> 00:26:01,554
He gave me my first drink
when I was 13.
433
00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:05,728
My first cigar at 14.
434
00:26:05,814 --> 00:26:08,181
And when I was 15...
435
00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:10,813
...he taught me
the facts of life.
436
00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,027
Ah.
437
00:26:17,117 --> 00:26:19,029
He was a great actor.
438
00:26:20,329 --> 00:26:21,945
And a great man.
439
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:24,782
[female #1]
He was a rat and a drunk.
440
00:26:33,092 --> 00:26:35,425
- Who are you?
- His daughter.
441
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:38,427
I didn't know he had one.
442
00:26:38,514 --> 00:26:41,552
Neither did he,
half the time.
443
00:26:41,642 --> 00:26:45,602
- What are you doing up there?
- Oh, get out.
444
00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:47,644
"A rat and a drunk,"
what kind of a way is that
445
00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:49,017
to talk about your father?
446
00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:50,974
Well, he was my father.
447
00:26:51,068 --> 00:26:53,651
Now, will you
shut up and leave me alone?
448
00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:55,694
Go on, blow.
449
00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:57,693
Somebody ought to tan your rear!
450
00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:02,151
You wanna try it?
451
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:08,290
I changed my mind.
452
00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:10,744
Now, will you get outta here?
453
00:27:10,838 --> 00:27:12,750
Go on, get out!
454
00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:16,632
[woman sobbing]
455
00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:30,601
[sobbing continues]
456
00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:42,067
The next morning,
Jonathan received the news
457
00:27:42,161 --> 00:27:44,904
of our next assignment.
458
00:27:44,997 --> 00:27:46,329
Did you see Harry?
459
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,327
Uh huh.
460
00:27:49,418 --> 00:27:51,159
Well, what's our next picture?
461
00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:57,545
Get a good grip on yourself.
462
00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:01,427
- You ready?
- Uh-huh.
463
00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:04,722
Our next picture will be
The Son of the Cat Men.
464
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:12,851
That settles it.
465
00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:17,151
The time has come.
466
00:28:19,406 --> 00:28:22,740
The Faraway Mountain.
It's a great book.
467
00:28:25,454 --> 00:28:27,571
Three studios tried to lick it
and couldn't.
468
00:28:27,664 --> 00:28:29,200
Well, I can!
469
00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:33,493
Here's my outline,
scene for scene.
470
00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:37,080
Right, you know what
Harry Pebble will say.
471
00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:40,508
Yeah. "Look, I've told you
a hundred times, genius boy.
472
00:28:40,594 --> 00:28:42,614
[both] "I don't want to win awards,
I want to make pictures
473
00:28:42,638 --> 00:28:46,131
that end with a kiss
and black ink on the books."
474
00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:48,842
Jonathan...
Jonathan, this is my baby.
475
00:28:48,936 --> 00:28:50,643
I found it and I licked it.
476
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,123
I've been nursing it along
till I was sure
477
00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:55,015
that we could handle it.
Well, now I'm sure.
478
00:28:55,108 --> 00:28:57,065
Remember what you said
last night?
479
00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:00,190
We've practiced long enough.
It's time we made one for real.
480
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,383
Of course, it should be made
on a million dollar budget
481
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:05,320
and it cries to be shot
on location down in Veracruz.
482
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,322
But you producing
and me directing
483
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:10,905
we can make it on a Harry Pebbel
budget and still do it right.
484
00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:12,268
You know, for a guy
who's tongue-tied
485
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:13,353
when he tries to sell himself...
486
00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:16,461
Oh, I could always talk to you.
487
00:29:16,546 --> 00:29:19,755
You really want to do this one,
don't you, Fred?
488
00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:23,551
I want to direct it so much,
I can taste it.
489
00:29:23,637 --> 00:29:26,300
Alright, let's do it.
490
00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:27,926
Let's do it.
491
00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:35,688
I've told you a 100 times,
I don't want to win awards.
492
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,231
Give me pictures
that end with a kiss
493
00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:38,603
and black ink in the books.
494
00:29:38,694 --> 00:29:40,686
I'll make this picture, Harry,
or I'll quit.
495
00:29:44,074 --> 00:29:46,862
This is my baby.
I found it, and I licked it.
496
00:29:46,952 --> 00:29:49,239
I want to produce it so much
I can taste it!
497
00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:51,070
And I'm handing it to you,
Harry Pebble,
498
00:29:51,164 --> 00:29:52,746
father of
The Son of the Cat Men.
499
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,720
Do I produce The Faraway
Mountain or don't I?
500
00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:01,043
Alright, genius boy.
501
00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:03,045
You've got it coming to you.
502
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:05,468
Make it and hang yourself.
503
00:30:05,554 --> 00:30:07,365
You feel that way about it
why don't you fire me
504
00:30:07,389 --> 00:30:09,130
and get it over with?
505
00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:11,932
Oh, no, I know the talk
around the studio.
506
00:30:12,019 --> 00:30:14,762
They say that I need you...
That you do all the work
507
00:30:14,855 --> 00:30:16,721
and I get all the credit.
508
00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:18,647
You think I don't know anything.
509
00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:20,225
Well I know one thing...
510
00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:23,153
Every studio in town
turned this stinker down.
511
00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:24,900
Go ahead, make it.
512
00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:26,572
It'll lay such a bomb
that you'll never
513
00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:29,116
get another job
in this industry.
514
00:30:29,202 --> 00:30:31,990
Will I let you produce it?
515
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,494
You're on suspension
if you don't.
516
00:30:35,584 --> 00:30:37,496
[Fred] I had thought my
"Faraway Mountain"
517
00:30:37,586 --> 00:30:39,626
outline was perfect. After
three weeks with Jonathan
518
00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:41,625
it was twice as good.
519
00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:44,753
We worked day and night. Kay
kept the coffee hot and handy.
520
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,584
And as Jonathan
shaped our material
521
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:49,466
I saw the birth of what
Hollywood later came to call
522
00:30:49,556 --> 00:30:53,425
"The Shields Touch,
Jonathan's Magic."
523
00:30:54,936 --> 00:30:56,973
Our toughest problem
was a leading man.
524
00:30:57,064 --> 00:31:00,478
On a Harry Pebbel budget, a top
star was out of the question.
525
00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:03,480
So I directed tests,
a dozen tests.
526
00:31:04,988 --> 00:31:06,149
[male #5]
Action.
527
00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:10,025
So you are Theresa.
528
00:31:10,118 --> 00:31:12,096
And I find you just as your
brother told me I would,
529
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,861
alone in the great house
530
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:17,119
silent, proud, and beautiful.
531
00:31:17,209 --> 00:31:20,702
What is it?
Are you afraid of me?
532
00:31:20,796 --> 00:31:22,796
Since I don't wear
a stiff suit and tight collar...
533
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:24,171
Switch over to the next one.
534
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:29,002
[male #5]
Action.
535
00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,047
So you are Theresa.
536
00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:35,633
And I find you just as
your brother told me I would,
537
00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:40,472
alone in the great house,
proud, silent, and beautiful.
538
00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:42,895
Who's the girl?
539
00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:44,879
Douvane promised that
she could make a test with him.
540
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,862
What did she promise?
Who is she?
541
00:31:47,948 --> 00:31:49,940
George Lorrison's daughter.
542
00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:52,366
Oh.
Why didn't you shoot her face?
543
00:31:53,703 --> 00:31:55,615
She was drunk.
544
00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:57,321
[male #5]
Cut.
545
00:31:57,416 --> 00:32:00,159
This is murder.
Syd, let's have that list again.
546
00:32:01,545 --> 00:32:04,037
[indistinct chatter]
547
00:32:04,131 --> 00:32:06,248
You're the director,
pick your poison.
548
00:32:07,843 --> 00:32:10,005
- Jonathan...
- Hmm?
549
00:32:10,095 --> 00:32:12,257
- What about Victor Ribera?
- Oh.
550
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:13,838
- Gaucho?
- Mm. Why not?
551
00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:15,594
- Sure you'd like him.
- Who wouldn't?
552
00:32:15,684 --> 00:32:17,620
- Let's have that list, now.
- Why can't we get Gaucho?
553
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:20,432
Because he's a Latin lover, and
this is the year for Latin Love.
554
00:32:20,522 --> 00:32:21,791
The whole town's
crying to get him.
555
00:32:21,815 --> 00:32:23,022
You wouldn't stand a chance.
556
00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:24,849
How do we know
until we've tried?
557
00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,817
Maybe you could talk him
into it, Jonathan.
558
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:37,445
Syd, what would appeal
to a guy like that?
559
00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:38,825
- Gaucho?
- Yeah.
560
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,783
Well, if I know Gaucho...
561
00:32:41,877 --> 00:32:44,790
[instrumental music]
562
00:33:04,274 --> 00:33:05,606
I'll drive.
563
00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:19,203
♪♪ You smile ♪♪
564
00:33:19,289 --> 00:33:23,499
♪♪ Luring me on ♪♪
565
00:33:23,585 --> 00:33:27,750
♪♪ My heart was gone ♪♪
566
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:32,550
♪♪ You were temptation ♪♪
567
00:33:32,636 --> 00:33:37,051
♪♪ It would be thrilling ♪♪
568
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:41,726
♪♪ If you were willing ♪♪
569
00:33:41,811 --> 00:33:47,933
♪♪ If it can never be ♪♪
570
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:51,519
♪♪ Pity me... ♪♪
571
00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:54,071
[Fred]
Jonathan forgot one thing.
572
00:33:54,157 --> 00:33:55,898
He forgot he couldn't drink.
573
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,323
[whistling]
574
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:10,959
Nice boy.
575
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:13,462
But does he always take on
so much altitude?
576
00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:16,716
Well, he's been working
night and day for three weeks.
577
00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:18,387
Besides which,
he hardly ever drinks.
578
00:34:18,473 --> 00:34:19,805
Mm.
579
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:24,056
- He wants me to make a picture?
- Yeah.
580
00:34:24,145 --> 00:34:26,603
Then why does he go to
all this lovely trouble?
581
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:28,397
I'm a very simple man.
582
00:34:28,483 --> 00:34:31,351
I read, what I like, I act.
583
00:34:31,444 --> 00:34:34,357
What I do not like,
I do not act.
584
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:37,360
Very simple.
585
00:34:54,843 --> 00:34:57,756
[instrumental music]
586
00:35:07,439 --> 00:35:10,273
[Fred] A conference was being held
in Harry Pebbel's office
587
00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:13,396
to discuss production plans
for The Faraway Mountain.
588
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:14,727
The suspense was killing me.
589
00:35:14,821 --> 00:35:15,821
[buzzing]
590
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,196
Don't worry so much.
591
00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:21,526
- Yes, Mr. Pebbel?
- You can go to lunch now.
592
00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:23,486
Thank you.
593
00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:24,682
Why don't you
take a look in there?
594
00:35:24,706 --> 00:35:26,242
I'm sure it doesn't matter.
595
00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:28,144
No, I think I'll stay out here
and be a nervous character.
596
00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:30,285
- Well, good luck.
- Thanks, honey.
597
00:35:32,047 --> 00:35:34,960
[indistinct chatter]
598
00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:39,261
Jonathan...
599
00:35:39,304 --> 00:35:41,045
[laughing]
600
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:43,301
What happened?
Didn't he go for Gaucho?
601
00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:46,134
Go for him?
He had a hemorrhage!
602
00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:47,622
The first time a star
ever said he'd
603
00:35:47,646 --> 00:35:49,638
shine in
a Harry Pebbel Picture...
604
00:35:49,731 --> 00:35:51,571
I'll say this for Harry.
He went to bat for us.
605
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,210
He slugged it out
with the front office!
606
00:35:53,276 --> 00:35:55,484
Fred, The Faraway Mountain
is gonna be done
607
00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:58,153
just the way we want it,
a million-dollar budget.
608
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,107
Location in Veracruz.
Von Ellstein to direct.
609
00:36:01,201 --> 00:36:03,193
Uh, Gaucho.
Wendy for the girl.
610
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:05,369
Lance Chapman
for my cameraman.
611
00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:07,742
- Von Ellstein to direct?
- Well, you're taken care of.
612
00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:09,435
Harry agreed, it-it won't be
a separate panel
613
00:36:09,459 --> 00:36:10,686
but your name
will be on the screen
614
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:11,750
assistant to the producer.
615
00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:13,286
- Thanks.
- Oh, Fred.
616
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:15,100
You know this story
better than anyone else.
617
00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:18,124
It's your baby. Look, I want you
with me on the set all the time.
618
00:36:18,218 --> 00:36:19,834
You don't have to talk
to Von Ellstein.
619
00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:21,781
Any ideas you have,
you tell me and I'll tell him.
620
00:36:21,805 --> 00:36:25,549
Thanks again.
Von Ellstein to direct?
621
00:36:25,642 --> 00:36:27,286
You always said
he was the best in the business.
622
00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:28,346
Sure he is.
623
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:35,441
Fred, I'd rather hurt you now
than kill you off forever.
624
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:38,315
You're just not ready to direct
a million-dollar picture.
625
00:36:38,405 --> 00:36:41,819
But you're ready to produce
a million-dollar picture?
626
00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:44,070
With Von Ellstein, I am.
627
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,823
You're stealing my picture. It
was my idea. I gave it to you.
628
00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:48,996
Without me,
it would have stayed an idea.
629
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:55,628
Alright, Jonathan,
let's put it this way.
630
00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:57,455
You gave me your word.
631
00:37:00,093 --> 00:37:02,756
So I did.
632
00:37:02,846 --> 00:37:05,213
Jonathan, just got the starting
date from the front office
633
00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:07,172
two weeks from Monday
you leave for Veracruz.
634
00:37:07,267 --> 00:37:09,370
Mr. Von Ellstein, I'll get you
a reservation a week early.
635
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:11,306
Right. Mr. Shields,
I'll tell you a secret.
636
00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:12,807
I don't like producers,
637
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:14,854
but for a man
who hands me such a script, eh
638
00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:17,433
for him it'll be a pleasure
to break my rule.
639
00:37:17,527 --> 00:37:20,190
Today, I shall buy a producer
lunch, Mr. Shields, eh?
640
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,816
- Am I included?
- By all means, no.
641
00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:24,865
Mr. Shields, today, I see what
I thought I would never see.
642
00:37:24,951 --> 00:37:28,035
A script prepared by a producer
who thinks like a director.
643
00:37:28,121 --> 00:37:29,828
For 13 years,
I've been making pictures...
644
00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:32,827
- Goodbye, Jonathan.
- Oh, Fred, I...
645
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:36,497
So long, Fred.
646
00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:38,232
And this is the first time
I've found a script
647
00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:39,872
I can direct exactly as it is.
648
00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:42,709
Shot by shot.
Shot by shot.
649
00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:46,713
I always said the boy
was a genius.
650
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,269
[Harry] What are you looking at,
the Oscar he got
651
00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:00,316
for The Faraway Mountain?
652
00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:02,736
Oh, I know what you have
against Jonathan,
653
00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:04,859
and no wonder.
654
00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:07,157
Look what he did to you, Fred.
655
00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:08,734
He brushed you off
his coat-tail
656
00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:11,571
so you had to stand
on your own two feet.
657
00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:13,872
And all you've got
in the world is one wife
658
00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:16,120
six kids, two Academy Awards
659
00:38:16,211 --> 00:38:18,919
and every studio in town
after you.
660
00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:22,294
Why, Jonathan ruined you!
661
00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:25,251
Look what he did to me.
662
00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:27,712
I gave him his chance
to do The Faraway Mountain.
663
00:38:27,806 --> 00:38:31,925
And what does he do, four months
later, his contract's up
664
00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:34,556
and he walks out of the studio.
665
00:38:36,064 --> 00:38:37,976
And I go right with him.
666
00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:43,978
I know how you feel about him,
Georgia.
667
00:38:44,072 --> 00:38:47,736
After all, you're a woman
and an actress.
668
00:38:47,826 --> 00:38:50,318
[Georgia]
The first time I saw Jonathan,
669
00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:53,700
I wasn't a woman,
I wasn't an actress.
670
00:38:53,790 --> 00:38:56,999
The next time I saw him,
five years later,
671
00:38:57,085 --> 00:39:00,624
I wasn't an actress,
I was a nothing.
672
00:39:00,713 --> 00:39:02,358
We're through for today.
If you step outside
673
00:39:02,382 --> 00:39:03,942
we'll sign you off.
Nine O'clock people,
674
00:39:03,967 --> 00:39:05,361
please remain,
we'll need you in the background
675
00:39:05,385 --> 00:39:07,297
for this next close-up.
676
00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:09,925
Following people, on your way
out, please report to Wardrobe.
677
00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:13,443
- Uh, Mr. Amiel?
- Yeah, what is it, Georgia?
678
00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:14,842
I'm sorry to bother you
679
00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:16,455
but I'd like to sign out early
if I could.
680
00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:17,811
They're casting a bit
at Shields.
681
00:39:17,897 --> 00:39:19,388
If I could get there by 3:00...
682
00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:21,394
Uh, go ahead,
you haven't got much time.
683
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,396
- Good luck.
- Thanks, Mr. Amiel.
684
00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:28,238
[Georgia] Gus drove me over.
He waited while I changed.
685
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:32,614
There were few agents in town
with fewer clients than Gus.
686
00:39:32,704 --> 00:39:36,243
He was the kind of agent
who handled only bit players
687
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:39,245
and who never could get into
a major producer's office.
688
00:39:47,093 --> 00:39:48,834
Gus is still my agent.
689
00:39:51,764 --> 00:39:53,364
Alright, girls,
will you come in, please?
690
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,553
Let's line up right across here.
That's right.
691
00:39:55,643 --> 00:39:57,851
You stand here,
you over here.
692
00:39:57,937 --> 00:40:00,304
Honey, will you come down here?
693
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,435
Thank you.
694
00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:07,172
Now, Mr. Shields, these are
the girls for the drugstore bit.
695
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:10,405
- How about the newborn baby?
- Four here at 3:45.
696
00:40:12,994 --> 00:40:16,158
Well, girls, uh, Mr. Shields
Mr. Pebbel, and Mr. McDill.
697
00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:18,159
[female #2]
How do you do?
698
00:40:29,344 --> 00:40:31,488
You're the director. The girl
on the end alright with you?
699
00:40:31,512 --> 00:40:32,673
Georgia?
700
00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:37,304
Yeah, sure.
701
00:40:38,227 --> 00:40:40,093
- You're it.
- Thank you.
702
00:40:40,188 --> 00:40:42,350
Alright, girls,
will you come with me, please?
703
00:40:50,490 --> 00:40:52,903
[Georgia]
My call came two days later.
704
00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:55,575
By then,
I'd memorized my one line.
705
00:40:55,662 --> 00:40:57,494
I'll wait.
706
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:03,868
Read any... good books lately?
707
00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:12,130
- Cut.
- How was it?
708
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:17,847
- Is that alright with you?
- Take it again?
709
00:41:17,934 --> 00:41:20,847
Alright, once again, boys!
Here we go!
710
00:41:20,937 --> 00:41:22,599
How's the makeup?
711
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:26,269
[indistinct whispering]
712
00:41:28,069 --> 00:41:30,152
- Alright. Here we go.
- Try it again.
713
00:41:35,284 --> 00:41:37,321
Alright, roll 'em.
714
00:41:38,997 --> 00:41:41,740
- Speed.
- Action.
715
00:41:41,833 --> 00:41:44,371
[whistling]
716
00:41:48,881 --> 00:41:50,713
I'll wait.
717
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:57,883
Read any good books lately?
718
00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:11,735
- Cut!
- How was it?
719
00:42:11,821 --> 00:42:12,982
Okay.
720
00:42:14,115 --> 00:42:16,732
Print that. Let's have a test.
721
00:42:16,826 --> 00:42:19,694
- Move in for a close-up.
- Alright, new deal, boys.
722
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:22,200
[indistinct chatter]
723
00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:25,161
[laughing]
724
00:42:37,013 --> 00:42:39,175
[Jonathan]
Your door was unlocked.
725
00:43:01,996 --> 00:43:06,286
For a one day bit, you sure
expect a lot of company.
726
00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:08,062
For the kind of company
you're talking about,
727
00:43:08,086 --> 00:43:10,206
I don't have to trot over here
at 4:00 in the morning.
728
00:43:10,254 --> 00:43:12,962
All I have to do
is pick up a phone.
729
00:43:13,049 --> 00:43:15,006
Well, pick one up!
730
00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:20,762
You were under contract
to Al Cope.
731
00:43:23,309 --> 00:43:27,019
- Can you hear me?
- Yes.
732
00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:29,597
You were under contract,
weren't you?
733
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:33,024
[Georgia] Three years ago,
for six months.
734
00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:36,479
Until they found out they had
another cluck on their hands.
735
00:43:36,572 --> 00:43:39,440
Did you ever play
a real part in a picture?
736
00:43:39,534 --> 00:43:41,901
Last year I played the
lead in a little epic
737
00:43:41,994 --> 00:43:43,906
called Jungle Tigress.
738
00:43:43,996 --> 00:43:48,411
I ran it. You played
straight man to a chimpanzee.
739
00:43:48,501 --> 00:43:50,083
I've been trying to find...
740
00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:58,212
I've been tryin' to find
one decent foot of film on you.
741
00:43:58,302 --> 00:44:00,635
- Is there any?
- Yes.
742
00:44:00,721 --> 00:44:02,053
[bed frame clangs]
743
00:44:02,431 --> 00:44:04,889
That one line
I did for you yesterday.
744
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:06,842
That was good.
745
00:44:06,936 --> 00:44:08,848
But it's not enough to go by.
746
00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:14,478
I want you to make
a test for me.
747
00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:30,412
Alright, Mr. Shields.
748
00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:33,710
Isn't this scene supposed
to go something like this?
749
00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:36,630
I'll make a test for you,
and you'll be good to me
750
00:44:36,716 --> 00:44:38,582
and I'll be good to you.
751
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:45,514
Oh, who's kidding who?
It's 4:00 in the morning.
752
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,842
As for the test,
I don't want it.
753
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:50,643
I wouldn't be any good anyway.
754
00:44:50,730 --> 00:44:52,722
Just a waste of good film.
755
00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:59,778
But... you're a nice-looking guy
756
00:44:59,864 --> 00:45:03,778
and you did go
to a lot of trouble.
757
00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:07,361
And it's getting late,
so shall I turn out the light?
758
00:45:14,503 --> 00:45:16,745
You're very generous.
759
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:21,462
Too generous.
760
00:45:21,552 --> 00:45:23,965
You're a Lorrison, alright.
761
00:45:24,847 --> 00:45:26,884
[thud]
762
00:45:41,697 --> 00:45:44,610
[male #6 over recording]
The Queen, my lord, is dead.
763
00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:46,637
[male #7 over recording] She should
have died hereafter.
764
00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:49,950
There would have been a time
for such a word.
765
00:45:51,582 --> 00:45:54,916
Tomorrow and tomorrow
and tomorrow
766
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:58,541
creeps in this petty pace
from day to day
767
00:45:58,631 --> 00:46:01,999
to the last syllable
of recorded time.
768
00:46:03,511 --> 00:46:06,003
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools
769
00:46:06,097 --> 00:46:08,805
the way to dusty death.
770
00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:12,930
Out, out, brief candle.
771
00:46:14,397 --> 00:46:16,855
Life's but a walking shadow.
772
00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:19,433
A poor player
that struts and frets
773
00:46:19,527 --> 00:46:20,813
his hour upon the stage...
774
00:46:20,903 --> 00:46:22,130
Oh, will you turn that off
and get out!
775
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:23,690
I wanna get some sleep.
776
00:46:23,781 --> 00:46:27,741
[male #7 over recording]
It is a tale told by an idiot.
777
00:46:27,827 --> 00:46:30,911
Full of sound and fury,
signifying...
778
00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:32,989
...nothing.
779
00:46:33,082 --> 00:46:35,620
I said "Turn it off!" I don't
wanna hear it! I hate him!
780
00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:36,951
Make up your mind,
you hate him
781
00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:38,313
and you build
this shrine to him.
782
00:46:38,337 --> 00:46:39,828
He died over ten years ago
783
00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:42,414
and you've been holding your own
private wake ever since.
784
00:46:42,508 --> 00:46:44,966
You can't be a star
in a cemetery.
785
00:46:45,052 --> 00:46:47,169
Oh, stop pitching!
786
00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:48,573
Can't you get it through your
head I'm one girl
787
00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:50,589
who doesn't wanna be a star?
788
00:46:50,683 --> 00:46:52,595
Because he was a drunk,
you're a drunk!
789
00:46:52,685 --> 00:46:54,301
'Cause he loved women,
you're a tramp!
790
00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:55,886
But you forget one thing...
791
00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:58,313
He did it with style.
792
00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:02,688
And you...
793
00:47:04,989 --> 00:47:06,446
Put that down.
794
00:47:06,532 --> 00:47:08,569
How many times did you try
to commit suicide?
795
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:10,821
Twice. I told you
to put that pipe down!
796
00:47:12,496 --> 00:47:14,658
Too sacred to touch?
797
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:22,375
Don't waste any sleep over me,
Mr. Shields.
798
00:47:22,465 --> 00:47:24,377
The last time
I tried to commit suicide
799
00:47:24,467 --> 00:47:26,504
was six months ago.
800
00:47:26,594 --> 00:47:29,211
- There won't be any next time.
- Won't there?
801
00:47:30,556 --> 00:47:32,798
No.
802
00:47:32,892 --> 00:47:35,054
People who knew
my father give me...
803
00:47:35,144 --> 00:47:37,978
give me extra work
and a line to say now and then.
804
00:47:39,482 --> 00:47:41,519
I drink what I want...
805
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:43,896
...and see who I want.
806
00:47:43,986 --> 00:47:45,898
Who knows?
807
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:49,732
Someday I may even get married.
808
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:53,444
To a nice upright
assistant assistant.
809
00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:56,575
And make him miserable
for the rest of his life...
810
00:47:56,665 --> 00:47:57,951
...because you're a Lorrison.
811
00:47:58,042 --> 00:48:00,625
Haunted, born to live
by make-believe.
812
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:02,577
Look at you,
you're acting now.
813
00:48:02,671 --> 00:48:04,879
Playing the doomed daughter
of the great man.
814
00:48:04,965 --> 00:48:06,360
[Jonathan] Well, let me tell you
something,
815
00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,046
the acting
isn't good enough.
816
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:10,923
It's a cheap performance
of a bit player, not a star.
817
00:48:11,013 --> 00:48:12,491
And that's all it'll ever be,
until you can
818
00:48:12,515 --> 00:48:14,131
pull yourself
out of this tomb!
819
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:16,217
Until you can see people
as they really are.
820
00:48:16,310 --> 00:48:17,892
Yourself as you really are!
821
00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:22,097
Until you can do this
to your father's picture.
822
00:48:22,191 --> 00:48:24,148
And laugh the way
he would have laughed!
823
00:48:24,235 --> 00:48:26,978
That's not a god talking,
Georgia, that's only a man!
824
00:48:27,071 --> 00:48:28,812
[record scratching]
[clanging]
825
00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:29,987
Out!
826
00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:31,155
[bottle clanging]
827
00:48:31,617 --> 00:48:33,233
You!
828
00:48:33,702 --> 00:48:34,702
[Georgia]
Ugh!
829
00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:37,078
[loud raps on door]
830
00:48:37,164 --> 00:48:41,283
[female #3]
Miss Lorrison! Miss Lorrison!
831
00:48:41,377 --> 00:48:43,835
You better tell her
it's alright.
832
00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:49,500
It's alright, Mrs. Curry.
833
00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:53,261
[crying]
834
00:49:27,173 --> 00:49:29,335
Goodnight, Georgia.
835
00:49:30,926 --> 00:49:33,009
[sobbing]
Goodnight.
836
00:49:41,270 --> 00:49:44,684
[Georgia] It takes two hours
to get ready for a screen test.
837
00:49:44,773 --> 00:49:47,140
Two very early
in the morning hours.
838
00:49:48,611 --> 00:49:51,445
Hello, honey. Here you are.
839
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:53,772
- Let's run the scene again.
- Thanks, Gus.
840
00:49:59,330 --> 00:50:02,619
"I think you understand."
841
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:06,201
You mean you're through with me.
This is the end.
842
00:50:06,295 --> 00:50:08,708
"To put it, bluntly..."
843
00:50:10,174 --> 00:50:12,166
It means that little to you?
844
00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:14,296
"Look, my dear.
We are two...
845
00:50:14,386 --> 00:50:16,753
"Look, my dear.
We are two civilized people.
846
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:19,464
Let us act
like civilized people."
847
00:50:19,558 --> 00:50:21,470
They told me about you.
848
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,847
I didn't believe them.
You hear...
849
00:50:23,938 --> 00:50:26,146
- "But you're everything."
- Oh, yeah.
850
00:50:26,232 --> 00:50:28,690
Uh, uh, but you're everything
they said.
851
00:50:28,776 --> 00:50:31,860
You hear evil. You see evil.
852
00:50:31,946 --> 00:50:35,439
You speak evil. You are evil.
853
00:50:35,533 --> 00:50:36,990
Fine. Fine.
854
00:50:37,076 --> 00:50:38,178
Let's run it again, honey.
Here..
855
00:50:38,202 --> 00:50:40,194
- Okay.
- Alright.
856
00:50:40,829 --> 00:50:41,829
[film reel clicking]
857
00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:43,955
[man on recording]
...to put it bluntly.
858
00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:47,375
[Georgia on recoding]
It means that little to you?
859
00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:50,670
[man on recording] Look, my dear.
We're two civilized people.
860
00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:53,499
Let us act
like civilized people.
861
00:50:53,592 --> 00:50:57,552
[Georgia on recoding] They told me
about you. I didn't believe them.
862
00:50:57,638 --> 00:50:59,800
But you're everything they said.
863
00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:03,804
You hear evil. You see evil.
You speak evil.
864
00:51:06,105 --> 00:51:08,017
You are evil!
865
00:51:11,694 --> 00:51:14,402
[film reel winding down]
866
00:51:16,865 --> 00:51:18,777
[Jonathan]
What do you think?
867
00:51:19,118 --> 00:51:20,118
Well?
868
00:51:20,786 --> 00:51:22,826
[Von Ellstein] My dear Jonathan,
since you've paid me
869
00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:25,621
a hundred thousand dollars
to direct this picture,
870
00:51:25,708 --> 00:51:27,665
quite a lot
of pound sterling,
871
00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:30,414
presumably, you want
my kind of picture.
872
00:51:30,504 --> 00:51:32,040
With this girl,
I tell you, flatly
873
00:51:32,131 --> 00:51:34,464
it will not
be my kind of picture.
874
00:51:34,550 --> 00:51:37,258
- She's impossible.
- Quite.
875
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:40,428
She's wooden, gauche,
artificial.
876
00:51:40,514 --> 00:51:42,255
Completely out
of the question.
877
00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:43,224
Quite.
878
00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:44,225
[clanging]
879
00:51:45,269 --> 00:51:47,431
Syd?
880
00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:50,685
Jonathan, since you hired me,
partly to "yes" you...
881
00:51:50,774 --> 00:51:54,017
- You're fired.
- She stinks.
882
00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:56,023
You're hired.
883
00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:57,320
Harry?
884
00:51:57,406 --> 00:51:59,898
I know we can get her
for nothing.
885
00:51:59,992 --> 00:52:03,531
For nothing you get nothing.
She's nothing.
886
00:52:03,621 --> 00:52:05,533
[mellow music]
887
00:52:05,623 --> 00:52:07,740
[Georgia]
There were few agents in town
888
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,701
with fewer clients than Gus...
889
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:13,707
...but the few he had
he knew well.
890
00:52:20,888 --> 00:52:23,221
[instrumental music]
891
00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:37,936
Well, I told you
not to waste your film.
892
00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:40,568
Gus, check with Harry Pebbel.
He's drawing up the contracts.
893
00:52:43,327 --> 00:52:46,616
- She's in?
- Of course.
894
00:52:46,705 --> 00:52:48,537
You mean you're gonna give
her a part?
895
00:52:49,917 --> 00:52:51,408
The part.
896
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:53,952
[Gus laughing]
897
00:52:54,797 --> 00:52:57,915
[sobbing]
Georgia! Georgia!
898
00:53:00,344 --> 00:53:03,212
Mr. Shields,
you're a very stubborn man.
899
00:53:03,305 --> 00:53:04,716
Very, when I'm right.
900
00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:06,799
And I know I'm right about you.
901
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:08,929
I gave you no help,
the test was atrocious,
902
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:11,136
but bad as it was,
it proved one thing.
903
00:53:11,230 --> 00:53:12,916
When you're on the screen,
no matter who you're with,
904
00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:15,523
what you're doing,
the audience is looking at you.
905
00:53:17,444 --> 00:53:19,936
That's star quality.
906
00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:21,942
Lorrison quality.
907
00:53:22,991 --> 00:53:24,948
Careful, Mr. Shields.
908
00:53:25,035 --> 00:53:27,618
You're looking at me,
but you see my father.
909
00:53:27,705 --> 00:53:30,197
He gave me his name,
but that's all he gave me.
910
00:53:30,290 --> 00:53:32,282
Don't make a mistake.
911
00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:37,082
Georgia...
912
00:53:37,172 --> 00:53:39,255
...no more doomed daughter.
913
00:53:39,341 --> 00:53:42,300
No more whimpering,
no more drinking...
914
00:53:42,386 --> 00:53:45,550
- And no more men?
- By and by.
915
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:48,598
Gus, pull yourself together!
916
00:53:48,684 --> 00:53:51,927
I can't help it, Mr. Shields.
I'm... a very emotional man.
917
00:53:52,020 --> 00:53:54,558
[Gus sobbing]
[instrumental music]
918
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,273
[Georgia] The picture was
to start in six weeks.
919
00:54:01,363 --> 00:54:04,106
And six weeks
seemed like forever.
920
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:07,067
Then, suddenly, with fittings
and hairdressing
921
00:54:07,161 --> 00:54:08,823
and makeup tests...
922
00:54:08,912 --> 00:54:10,869
...five of them were gone.
923
00:54:12,958 --> 00:54:14,790
I don't know what to do.
924
00:54:14,877 --> 00:54:18,245
The waist has to be that tight
and the train has to be long...
925
00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:21,672
Evelyn, will you tell me
what it is that's worrying you?
926
00:54:21,759 --> 00:54:24,217
Would you walk over there,
please?
927
00:54:30,225 --> 00:54:32,683
Now, turn.
928
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,517
Mr. Shields,
I'm afraid Miss Lorrison
929
00:54:36,607 --> 00:54:38,189
can't carry a dress like this.
930
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:41,768
It-it takes an enormous
amount of poise.
931
00:54:41,862 --> 00:54:43,214
And for this type
of the thing, you
932
00:54:43,238 --> 00:54:44,524
have to walk
with the assurance
933
00:54:44,615 --> 00:54:46,026
of a grand duchess or
934
00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:48,199
hold yourself
like Lilly Langtree, but...
935
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:51,528
Miss Lorrison will hold
herself like Miss Lorrison.
936
00:54:51,622 --> 00:54:53,864
Miss Lorrison happens
to be an actress.
937
00:54:55,918 --> 00:54:57,955
Make a wider turn, Georgia.
938
00:55:00,672 --> 00:55:02,789
That's it.
Now, come over here.
939
00:55:05,260 --> 00:55:07,422
You're alright.
Come here.
940
00:55:09,097 --> 00:55:11,635
Now, sit down.
Can you sit down?
941
00:55:11,725 --> 00:55:13,307
- No.
- That's perfect.
942
00:55:13,393 --> 00:55:15,259
Alright, now,
everybody out now, please.
943
00:55:15,354 --> 00:55:17,437
I wanna talk to my star.
944
00:55:22,486 --> 00:55:25,354
You have one week to go.
Nervous?
945
00:55:25,447 --> 00:55:27,154
- A little.
- Tired?
946
00:55:27,241 --> 00:55:29,324
Oh, very.
947
00:55:29,409 --> 00:55:32,026
You work very hard,
you've been a good girl.
948
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,237
How good?
949
00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:36,322
I'm sending you away.
950
00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:39,534
Palm Springs
for the rest of the week.
951
00:55:39,628 --> 00:55:42,712
- Must I?
- Absolutely.
952
00:55:42,798 --> 00:55:44,398
You get on that set
a week from Wednesday
953
00:55:44,466 --> 00:55:46,833
I want you to sleep, relax
954
00:55:46,927 --> 00:55:49,385
and not think about a thing.
955
00:55:49,471 --> 00:55:51,383
Not even you?
956
00:55:52,307 --> 00:55:53,388
[cork pops]
957
00:55:53,517 --> 00:55:56,180
- You said no drinking.
- One drink.
958
00:56:08,156 --> 00:56:10,569
To Georgia, my star.
959
00:56:13,370 --> 00:56:16,408
- You said no men.
- So I did.
960
00:56:16,498 --> 00:56:18,956
[instrumental music]
961
00:56:20,252 --> 00:56:22,164
Mr. Jonathan,
I thought we had agreed.
962
00:56:22,254 --> 00:56:24,962
- You agreed all by yourself.
- Don't put words in my mouth.
963
00:56:25,048 --> 00:56:26,609
I don't know who puts
the words in your mouth
964
00:56:26,633 --> 00:56:28,465
but they sure come flapping out.
965
00:56:28,552 --> 00:56:30,214
My pavilion
for the garden party
966
00:56:30,304 --> 00:56:33,672
it was understood it was to be
three feet off the ground.
967
00:56:33,765 --> 00:56:35,427
It was discussed,
digested and determined.
968
00:56:35,517 --> 00:56:37,099
Look to build that three feet
will cost
969
00:56:37,185 --> 00:56:39,427
with operation charges
and additional shooting time
970
00:56:39,521 --> 00:56:42,889
at least $25,000, more or less,
and with you, more.
971
00:56:42,983 --> 00:56:46,317
I cannot shoot without it.
I will not shoot without it.
972
00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:48,895
I'm building an entire sequence
to that one moment.
973
00:56:48,989 --> 00:56:51,732
- I must have the height.
- So move your camera up!
974
00:56:51,825 --> 00:56:54,784
I will not cheat the shot!
That's not the way I function.
975
00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:56,014
My dear man,
I'm not asking you to change..
976
00:56:56,038 --> 00:56:58,246
[whistling]
Jonathan!
977
00:56:58,332 --> 00:57:00,244
[indistinct chatter]
978
00:57:02,169 --> 00:57:04,877
I've got something to show you.
Come here. I wanna show you.
979
00:57:04,963 --> 00:57:06,329
It's just wonderful.
980
00:57:06,423 --> 00:57:09,257
[indistinct chatter]
981
00:57:10,469 --> 00:57:13,086
Look. My new car.
982
00:57:13,180 --> 00:57:14,949
[Pebbel] I don't care where you
put the camera.
983
00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:18,216
The point I'm making
is to put your camera there.
984
00:57:18,310 --> 00:57:20,768
You know, the boom
costs me $150 a day.
985
00:57:20,854 --> 00:57:22,832
[Von Ellstein] We talked about boom
three weeks ago.
986
00:57:22,856 --> 00:57:25,098
How would you like
to drive it around the block?
987
00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:26,728
I'm busy.
988
00:57:26,818 --> 00:57:29,026
A smoother drive
you will never have.
989
00:57:29,112 --> 00:57:30,523
Gaucho, I'm busy.
990
00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,526
How long would
a quick ride take?
991
00:57:32,616 --> 00:57:34,152
Gaucho, I'm busy.
992
00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:35,949
Ah! You're always busy!
993
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:39,120
Why don't you live
a little, hombre? Adios.
994
00:57:39,206 --> 00:57:41,243
[indistinct chatter]
995
00:57:41,333 --> 00:57:44,076
Well, 25,000 pounds sterling,
I wanna tell you this...
996
00:57:44,169 --> 00:57:45,769
No, it's seven or eight
thousand. pounds.
997
00:57:45,837 --> 00:57:48,796
Seven or eight thousand pounds
and I'm the one who's got to...
998
00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:50,714
I can't be
shooting up their noses!
999
00:57:50,801 --> 00:57:53,293
Nobody's asking you
to shoot up their noses or...
1000
00:57:53,387 --> 00:57:55,470
[whistling]
1001
00:57:55,555 --> 00:57:59,765
- Gentlemen, there seems to be an honest difference of opinion.
- There is.
1002
00:57:59,851 --> 00:58:01,496
It looks as though we have
to make a compromise.
1003
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:02,886
You bet we will.
1004
00:58:02,980 --> 00:58:05,563
The compromise,
gentlemen, is this.
1005
00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:07,436
Harry, shut your
penny-pinching mouth
1006
00:58:07,526 --> 00:58:09,813
and build him his platform!
1007
00:58:14,282 --> 00:58:16,695
[instrumental music]
1008
00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:39,509
[Georgia] The night before
we started shooting
1009
00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:42,091
I came back from Palm Springs.
1010
00:58:42,185 --> 00:58:45,804
I tried to sleep... I couldn't.
1011
00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:49,265
I don't know what drew me
to the empty stage.
1012
00:58:49,359 --> 00:58:51,521
I guess I was scared.
1013
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:56,944
[instrumental music]
1014
00:59:27,272 --> 00:59:31,186
"To my new star, who will make
me very proud of her.
1015
00:59:31,276 --> 00:59:33,188
Jonathan."
1016
00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:46,243
It was cold on the set.
1017
00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:49,622
And suddenly,
my throat was dry.
1018
00:59:49,711 --> 00:59:52,795
So dry I, I knew
I had to have a drink.
1019
00:59:52,881 --> 00:59:55,248
[music continues]
1020
01:00:12,734 --> 01:00:15,442
The papers know all about it,
I asked the boys to lay off.
1021
01:00:15,529 --> 01:00:18,192
But with this one, she'll burn
up every column in the country.
1022
01:00:18,281 --> 01:00:20,147
I wanted to make
a picture with her.
1023
01:00:20,242 --> 01:00:23,076
Make a star out of someone this
town tossed in the ash heap.
1024
01:00:23,161 --> 01:00:24,902
Cross her off, Jonathan.
1025
01:00:24,996 --> 01:00:27,454
Let me contact the agents
and see who's available.
1026
01:00:31,044 --> 01:00:33,457
Alright, Harry, cast it
and get it over with.
1027
01:00:33,547 --> 01:00:35,834
I'll tell Whitfield
to shoot around the part.
1028
01:00:41,555 --> 01:00:43,387
- Sorry I'm late.
- Get out a release.
1029
01:00:43,473 --> 01:00:46,011
We're signing Anne Gavery
for the part tomorrow morning.
1030
01:00:52,399 --> 01:00:54,599
Every time I go to the morgue,
I get the heebie jeebies.
1031
01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:56,267
Forget her.
1032
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:59,024
I've covered everything,
waterfront, jails, hospitals.
1033
01:00:59,114 --> 01:01:01,481
Scraped through
the Main Street booze parlors.
1034
01:01:01,575 --> 01:01:05,319
- I told you to forget her.
- I have my professional pride.
1035
01:01:05,412 --> 01:01:06,994
I thought I knew
every rat-hole in town.
1036
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:08,821
Either she's found a new one
1037
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:11,157
or she's far, far away.
1038
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:14,626
Janitor says
when she goes off on a bat
1039
01:01:14,713 --> 01:01:18,582
she locks her door
and leaves for days at a time.
1040
01:01:18,675 --> 01:01:20,291
Where would I go
for days at a time?
1041
01:01:20,385 --> 01:01:21,876
I tried to put myself
in her place.
1042
01:01:21,970 --> 01:01:23,962
[door slams]
1043
01:01:27,726 --> 01:01:29,638
[rattles doorknob]
1044
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,307
[slamming]
1045
01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:36,398
[thud]
1046
01:01:42,616 --> 01:01:44,653
Hello, Georgia.
1047
01:01:48,747 --> 01:01:51,114
You-you forgot...
1048
01:01:52,584 --> 01:01:55,292
You forgot to tie your tie.
1049
01:01:56,213 --> 01:01:59,126
[instrumental music]
1050
01:02:28,870 --> 01:02:30,782
[music continues]
1051
01:02:45,887 --> 01:02:47,879
[splashing]
1052
01:02:49,975 --> 01:02:51,967
[gasping]
1053
01:03:08,618 --> 01:03:10,359
You're sorry, aren't you?
1054
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:15,184
What do you want me to do,
wash out your mouth with soap
1055
01:03:15,208 --> 01:03:18,042
and send you to bed
without your supper?
1056
01:03:19,629 --> 01:03:21,370
Why did you do it, Georgia?
1057
01:03:23,383 --> 01:03:25,500
Do you know why?
1058
01:03:28,930 --> 01:03:31,388
Why?
1059
01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:32,965
Because I...
1060
01:03:33,059 --> 01:03:35,802
I was afraid I'd
louse things up for you.
1061
01:03:37,605 --> 01:03:39,437
Because I love you.
1062
01:03:41,151 --> 01:03:43,063
I do, you know.
1063
01:03:47,365 --> 01:03:49,982
It's cold sitting on the ground.
1064
01:03:53,496 --> 01:03:55,829
Georgia, come here.
1065
01:04:00,211 --> 01:04:02,077
Sit down.
1066
01:04:19,397 --> 01:04:22,731
Georgia, love is for
the very young.
1067
01:04:24,194 --> 01:04:26,811
"For the very young."
I like that.
1068
01:04:29,491 --> 01:04:31,904
Would you marry me, Jonathan?
1069
01:04:33,036 --> 01:04:35,119
Not even a little bit.
1070
01:04:36,581 --> 01:04:38,664
- That's too bad.
- Why?
1071
01:04:41,252 --> 01:04:43,494
Because I would make
you a good wife.
1072
01:04:44,798 --> 01:04:47,006
Well, right now,
I don't need a wife.
1073
01:04:47,092 --> 01:04:49,004
I need a star.
1074
01:04:51,137 --> 01:04:54,221
It's cold not sittin'
on the ground.
1075
01:04:54,307 --> 01:04:56,640
Alright, let's go near the fire,
shall we?
1076
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:11,860
We're, uh, we're signing
Anne Gavery for the part.
1077
01:05:11,950 --> 01:05:14,488
Oh?
She'll be good.
1078
01:05:14,577 --> 01:05:16,569
I think she will.
1079
01:05:16,663 --> 01:05:19,076
Why, that big ham,
she, she couldn't...
1080
01:05:19,165 --> 01:05:20,451
Uh, well, she...
1081
01:05:20,542 --> 01:05:22,875
- Here.
- [sighs]
1082
01:05:22,961 --> 01:05:24,313
You know, Jonathan,
if we were married
1083
01:05:24,337 --> 01:05:25,748
I wouldn't take up much room.
1084
01:05:25,839 --> 01:05:28,752
Oh, Georgia, hey,
go on put those things on.
1085
01:05:28,842 --> 01:05:30,799
Your clothes
will be dry in a minute.
1086
01:05:56,494 --> 01:05:58,406
[telephone ringing]
1087
01:06:05,170 --> 01:06:06,331
Hello.
1088
01:06:06,421 --> 01:06:07,815
[Harry]
Jonathan, where have you been?
1089
01:06:07,839 --> 01:06:08,858
I've been trying to reach you.
1090
01:06:08,882 --> 01:06:10,498
Oh, Harry. Uh...
1091
01:06:10,592 --> 01:06:13,130
You may have forgotten but you
have a picture in production.
1092
01:06:13,219 --> 01:06:15,302
- I know.
- We have to get a new star.
1093
01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:17,050
- Harry...
- ...Jonathan.
1094
01:06:17,140 --> 01:06:20,429
Will you just listen to me for
one minute and don't interrupt.
1095
01:06:28,485 --> 01:06:30,067
- [phone clicks] - Ha...
- Hello?
1096
01:06:30,153 --> 01:06:33,066
Hello?
Jonathan, are you there?
1097
01:06:33,156 --> 01:06:35,318
Hey! Hello? Hello?
1098
01:06:35,408 --> 01:06:36,649
- Harry?
- Oh, yeah.
1099
01:06:36,743 --> 01:06:39,451
Uh, Harry, forget
about Anne Gavery.
1100
01:06:39,537 --> 01:06:42,245
Jonathan, have you gone crazy?
Are you drunk?
1101
01:06:42,332 --> 01:06:45,166
I said forget about her.
Georgia is right here.
1102
01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:47,459
- Georgia?
- Everything's fine.
1103
01:06:47,545 --> 01:06:49,398
- We're going to use her.
- Oh, no, listen to me.
1104
01:06:49,422 --> 01:06:51,084
I don't know what you've
got in your mind.
1105
01:06:51,174 --> 01:06:52,860
But I'm not going to let
you make a fool of yourself.
1106
01:06:52,884 --> 01:06:54,216
I'll take that chance, Harry.
1107
01:06:54,302 --> 01:06:57,340
- It'll happen again...
- We'll see ab...
1108
01:06:57,430 --> 01:06:59,342
I know. Harry, listen to me.
1109
01:06:59,432 --> 01:07:00,701
And I'm not going
to let that happen.
1110
01:07:00,725 --> 01:07:03,763
Harry, shut up and listen to me!
1111
01:07:03,853 --> 01:07:06,687
These are my instructions.
Georgia's in.
1112
01:07:06,773 --> 01:07:08,810
We'll shoot our
first scene in the morning.
1113
01:07:08,900 --> 01:07:10,983
You call Whitfield
and tell him.
1114
01:07:11,069 --> 01:07:14,153
If I were to go to the bank with
this, they'd laugh in my face.
1115
01:07:14,239 --> 01:07:16,159
- [phone clicks]
- Hello? Jonathan, are you there?
1116
01:07:16,199 --> 01:07:17,406
- Hello?
- Harry.
1117
01:07:17,492 --> 01:07:18,824
Everybody knows
about this girl.
1118
01:07:18,910 --> 01:07:20,471
No studio is going
to touch her with the...
1119
01:07:20,495 --> 01:07:23,738
Harry, shut up and listen to me!
1120
01:07:24,541 --> 01:07:25,702
Don't worry.
1121
01:07:25,792 --> 01:07:28,250
Everything's gonna be alright.
1122
01:07:28,336 --> 01:07:30,419
I know just how
to handle her now.
1123
01:07:30,505 --> 01:07:33,373
You know how to handle her...
1124
01:07:45,186 --> 01:07:47,098
They're, uh...
1125
01:07:47,939 --> 01:07:49,851
They're blue.
1126
01:07:54,279 --> 01:07:56,271
[sighing]
1127
01:07:56,364 --> 01:07:57,775
Blue is my...
1128
01:07:57,865 --> 01:07:59,072
...my lucky...
1129
01:08:08,918 --> 01:08:10,830
...color.
1130
01:08:24,142 --> 01:08:26,885
[Georgia] We were 14 weeks
shooting the picture.
1131
01:08:26,978 --> 01:08:30,346
The most wonderful
14 weeks I'd ever known.
1132
01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:32,352
- Mmm...
- Lady of darkness all the way.
1133
01:08:32,442 --> 01:08:34,082
Change that, change that
line right there.
1134
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:35,521
You see him. Up!
1135
01:08:35,612 --> 01:08:37,649
[instrumental music]
1136
01:08:37,739 --> 01:08:41,198
Aah! I mean, they'll throw
pennies at us. It's ridiculous.
1137
01:08:41,284 --> 01:08:44,448
This is a dramatic moment. The
guy that you love is onstage.
1138
01:08:44,537 --> 01:08:46,807
You suddenly see him, and you
know somebody's gonna kill him.
1139
01:08:46,831 --> 01:08:49,915
Not me. If you take it.
I-if you're gonna joke about...
1140
01:08:50,001 --> 01:08:52,243
Alright, alright, do it.
I mean, if you know...
1141
01:08:52,337 --> 01:08:54,374
No, you don't want to take
the thing seriously.
1142
01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:57,081
Alright, I'll try
once more and that's all.
1143
01:08:58,968 --> 01:09:00,487
That's great.
What's all of this mumbo jumbo?
1144
01:09:00,511 --> 01:09:02,343
It doesn't make any sense.
Look, try it again.
1145
01:09:02,430 --> 01:09:04,199
And make love while you're
lighting the cigarette.
1146
01:09:04,223 --> 01:09:06,931
Make it mean something.
Go ahead. Take it.
1147
01:09:07,018 --> 01:09:08,429
Alright.
1148
01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:10,852
Lighten up. Look up.
1149
01:09:10,938 --> 01:09:13,931
That's it. Now, light it all
the time thinking, thinking.
1150
01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:15,106
That's it.
1151
01:09:15,193 --> 01:09:17,731
Yeah. That's a lot better.
1152
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,857
Yeah, isn't that
much better, huh?
1153
01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:23,532
[Georgia]
Jonathan was a perfectionist.
1154
01:09:23,618 --> 01:09:25,029
When he was in love
with a scene
1155
01:09:25,119 --> 01:09:26,985
money meant nothing to him.
1156
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,323
Fatigue, even less,
his or anyone else's.
1157
01:09:30,416 --> 01:09:33,250
We did it over
and over and over
1158
01:09:33,336 --> 01:09:35,373
till we could hardly stand.
1159
01:09:35,463 --> 01:09:38,080
[instrumental music]
1160
01:09:38,174 --> 01:09:40,086
[church bell dings]
1161
01:09:48,976 --> 01:09:52,094
Alright, cut!
How was that?
1162
01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:54,305
Try it again.
1163
01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:58,689
Jonathan! For heaven's sake!
Fun is fun!
1164
01:09:58,778 --> 01:10:00,381
- Jonathan, you've got...
- Did they get it?
1165
01:10:00,405 --> 01:10:03,864
I don't know.
They're still arguing up there.
1166
01:10:03,950 --> 01:10:05,612
[sighs]
Oh, brother!
1167
01:10:05,702 --> 01:10:07,989
This is amateur night in Dixie!
1168
01:10:08,079 --> 01:10:09,741
Oh, they better make up
their minds soon
1169
01:10:09,831 --> 01:10:10,912
or they're gonna lose Baby.
1170
01:10:10,998 --> 01:10:12,409
How are you, Baby?
1171
01:10:12,500 --> 01:10:14,457
You were going to
get me into pictures.
1172
01:10:14,544 --> 01:10:16,831
It takes a little while, Baby.
1173
01:10:16,921 --> 01:10:18,662
I worked extra
for three years.
1174
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:21,464
- This is good experience.
- This is experience?
1175
01:10:21,551 --> 01:10:22,712
- Um-hmm.
- Ha!
1176
01:10:22,802 --> 01:10:24,338
By the time they get me
a speaking part
1177
01:10:24,429 --> 01:10:26,716
they're going to have to
carry me off and on the set.
1178
01:10:26,806 --> 01:10:28,763
You look awful pretty
when you're mad.
1179
01:10:28,850 --> 01:10:31,137
- Thanks a lot.
- Alright, folks, wrap it up!
1180
01:10:31,227 --> 01:10:33,093
Get extra people outside!
1181
01:10:33,187 --> 01:10:34,849
[indistinct]
1182
01:10:34,939 --> 01:10:37,852
Stage setup, the first thing
in the morning!
1183
01:10:40,903 --> 01:10:42,860
- Goodnight, Miss Lorrison.
- Goodnight, George.
1184
01:10:42,947 --> 01:10:44,747
- Goodnight, John.
- Goodnight, Miss Lorrison.
1185
01:10:46,409 --> 01:10:48,241
I thought that take was good.
1186
01:10:48,327 --> 01:10:51,946
It was pretty good, but I wanna
get a little more out of Gaucho.
1187
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:55,912
- Happy?
- Very.
1188
01:10:56,002 --> 01:10:59,245
- Are you, Jonathan?
- Very.
1189
01:10:59,338 --> 01:11:03,833
- May I buy you dinner tonight?
- And tomorrow night.
1190
01:11:03,926 --> 01:11:06,839
That's the look I want
on that wedding scene.
1191
01:11:06,929 --> 01:11:08,545
Can you give me that?
1192
01:11:08,639 --> 01:11:10,471
I'll try.
1193
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:19,477
Mr. Shields,
we're five over budget.
1194
01:11:19,567 --> 01:11:21,670
Today I need to have to have
your signature on these sheets
1195
01:11:21,694 --> 01:11:24,152
before I can send
out the checks.
1196
01:11:24,238 --> 01:11:27,106
Goodnight, Jimmie.
Hurry up, Baby. Hurry up!
1197
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,613
Be an angel,
bring my car around, will you?
1198
01:11:29,702 --> 01:11:31,238
Si, senor. Si, senor.
1199
01:11:31,329 --> 01:11:33,867
You want me to wash it
for you, too?
1200
01:11:33,956 --> 01:11:35,037
Oh, Georgia.
1201
01:11:36,501 --> 01:11:38,458
You were wonderful
in that scene.
1202
01:11:38,544 --> 01:11:40,786
- Very lovely.
- Thank you.
1203
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:45,375
Every day I watch you grow
more and more an actress.
1204
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:48,214
[no audio]
1205
01:11:51,349 --> 01:11:53,432
To give truth to a performance...
1206
01:11:53,518 --> 01:11:55,430
...there's nothing like love.
1207
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,432
Love is for the very young.
1208
01:11:57,522 --> 01:11:59,434
Ha, love is for the birds!
1209
01:12:04,362 --> 01:12:06,695
- Goodnight, Georgia.
- Goodnight, Gaucho.
1210
01:12:12,495 --> 01:12:14,703
Lila, that wasn't nice!
1211
01:12:16,290 --> 01:12:18,782
I guess it all depends on
who a girl has dinner with
1212
01:12:18,876 --> 01:12:19,876
around here, doesn't it?
1213
01:12:19,961 --> 01:12:21,998
Shh! Baby.
1214
01:12:22,088 --> 01:12:25,377
[scoffs]
She gets to be a star.
1215
01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:27,458
I get to park a convertible.
1216
01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:30,670
[Gaucho] Don't talk like that
about Georgia... or Jonathan.
1217
01:12:30,763 --> 01:12:31,879
He is a great man.
1218
01:12:31,973 --> 01:12:33,259
[scoffing]
Ha ha.
1219
01:12:33,349 --> 01:12:35,762
There are no great men, buster.
1220
01:12:35,852 --> 01:12:37,935
There's only men.
1221
01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:41,813
The last two weeks of the
picture, I was in a dream.
1222
01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:43,686
A bad dream.
1223
01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:48,065
- Alright, Jonathan! Jonathan!
- [buzzing]
1224
01:12:48,155 --> 01:12:49,236
[Jonathan]
Action!
1225
01:12:49,323 --> 01:12:52,236
[all screaming]
1226
01:13:04,463 --> 01:13:05,670
[knock on door]
1227
01:13:05,756 --> 01:13:06,942
[male #8]
They're ready, Miss Lorrison.
1228
01:13:06,966 --> 01:13:09,049
She'll be right there.
1229
01:13:09,135 --> 01:13:10,876
Uh, Ida.
1230
01:13:10,970 --> 01:13:12,632
I don't know what to do.
1231
01:13:12,722 --> 01:13:14,213
I feel sick and frightened.
1232
01:13:14,307 --> 01:13:16,674
You're tired, honey.
You've been tryin' so hard.
1233
01:13:16,767 --> 01:13:18,554
Yeah, but they think
I'm such a fool,
1234
01:13:18,644 --> 01:13:20,055
or temperamental
or something, I...
1235
01:13:20,146 --> 01:13:22,638
It's alright.
It's only a few more days.
1236
01:13:22,732 --> 01:13:26,225
Yeah, but I feel like I'm gonna
scream and I can't help myself.
1237
01:13:26,319 --> 01:13:28,672
- [knocking]
- Hurry, Miss Lorrison. Please, they're all waiting.
1238
01:13:28,696 --> 01:13:30,187
Oh.
1239
01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:34,404
[Georgia]
We were on the last scene.
1240
01:13:34,493 --> 01:13:37,201
We finished a little
before dawn.
1241
01:13:38,372 --> 01:13:40,455
[sobbing]
We're alone now.
1242
01:13:43,085 --> 01:13:45,372
And I can talk to you.
1243
01:13:47,673 --> 01:13:49,960
Now I can tell you what I...
1244
01:13:50,051 --> 01:13:52,714
...what I never
could tell you before.
1245
01:13:54,805 --> 01:13:58,549
You must forgive me, my darling.
1246
01:13:58,643 --> 01:14:01,226
You mustn't mind my crying.
1247
01:14:02,897 --> 01:14:04,980
Now, that it's too late.
1248
01:14:06,484 --> 01:14:08,692
Now, at last, I can tell you.
1249
01:14:10,321 --> 01:14:12,608
[sobbing]
I love you, Gregory.
1250
01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:16,654
I love you. I love you so.
1251
01:14:17,411 --> 01:14:19,573
[Georgia sobbing]
1252
01:14:20,039 --> 01:14:22,952
[instrumental music]
1253
01:14:26,963 --> 01:14:29,250
[all cheering]
1254
01:14:56,575 --> 01:14:59,113
[Georgia] After the opening,
there was a party.
1255
01:14:59,203 --> 01:15:02,037
It was a lovely, happy,
top-of-the-world party.
1256
01:15:02,123 --> 01:15:04,740
It was my party and
everybody was there.
1257
01:15:04,834 --> 01:15:06,826
And everybody made
a fuss over me.
1258
01:15:06,919 --> 01:15:09,832
Everybody... but Jonathan.
1259
01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:24,635
[doorbell buzzing]
1260
01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:28,979
[doorbell buzzing]
1261
01:15:31,902 --> 01:15:33,438
[doorbell buzzing]
1262
01:15:34,238 --> 01:15:37,151
[instrumental music]
1263
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:44,366
[doorbell buzzing]
1264
01:15:46,125 --> 01:15:47,161
[doorbell buzzing]
1265
01:15:50,796 --> 01:15:52,788
[buzzing continues]
1266
01:16:02,558 --> 01:16:04,845
Well, you wouldn't
come to my party
1267
01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:07,052
so, I brought
my party to you.
1268
01:16:07,146 --> 01:16:09,638
Jonathan, it was so wonderful.
1269
01:16:09,732 --> 01:16:13,191
And everything you wanted
for me. Just as you promised.
1270
01:16:13,277 --> 01:16:15,769
They applauded, and cheered,
and they ooh-ed and aah-ed...
1271
01:16:15,863 --> 01:16:18,822
Georgia, go back
and enjoy it.
1272
01:16:21,452 --> 01:16:23,284
But there's no one
to enjoy it with.
1273
01:16:23,579 --> 01:16:24,740
Why, that's silly.
1274
01:16:24,830 --> 01:16:26,742
Everybody in town
is fighting with each other
1275
01:16:26,832 --> 01:16:29,495
to be near the new star.
1276
01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:32,828
You know what I mean, Jonathan.
1277
01:16:32,922 --> 01:16:36,586
Georgia, I have
to be alone tonight.
1278
01:16:36,675 --> 01:16:39,258
After a picture's finished,
something happens to me.
1279
01:16:39,345 --> 01:16:41,257
It's a feeling of letdown
1280
01:16:41,347 --> 01:16:44,385
of... emptiness.
1281
01:16:44,475 --> 01:16:48,890
It's bad. It gets worse.
I can't help it.
1282
01:16:48,979 --> 01:16:53,565
I know. Syd and Harry
have told me about that.
1283
01:16:53,651 --> 01:16:55,371
- Oh, but tonight...
- I'd only depress you.
1284
01:16:55,402 --> 01:16:57,485
I want you to go back, now.
1285
01:16:57,571 --> 01:16:59,563
You've got bows to take.
Take them!
1286
01:16:59,657 --> 01:17:01,819
Darling...
1287
01:17:01,909 --> 01:17:05,744
I was afraid you might be angry
or resent my coming here
1288
01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:08,538
but, but I had to
take that chance.
1289
01:17:08,624 --> 01:17:10,018
Why, right in
the middle of everything
1290
01:17:10,042 --> 01:17:13,285
suddenly, I knew
one thing so clearly.
1291
01:17:13,379 --> 01:17:15,462
The party is where you are.
1292
01:17:15,548 --> 01:17:18,165
Depressed or gay or angry
1293
01:17:18,259 --> 01:17:21,798
or tender or in
any of your moods.
1294
01:17:21,887 --> 01:17:23,799
- I know them all.
- Georgia...
1295
01:17:23,889 --> 01:17:25,221
Oh, let's have our party,
darling.
1296
01:17:25,307 --> 01:17:27,344
We've got
so much to celebrate.
1297
01:17:27,434 --> 01:17:30,222
We'll, we'll ice the champagne.
1298
01:17:30,312 --> 01:17:31,769
We'll light the fire.
1299
01:17:31,856 --> 01:17:33,313
We'll put on
the records and dance
1300
01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:36,608
and... and I'll help you pull
yourself out of this
1301
01:17:36,694 --> 01:17:38,606
the way you helped me.
1302
01:17:38,696 --> 01:17:41,939
Oh, give me that chance,
darling. Please?
1303
01:17:42,032 --> 01:17:44,945
Please don't shut me out.
Please.
1304
01:18:00,467 --> 01:18:03,301
I thought you said you were
gonna get rid of her quick.
1305
01:18:03,387 --> 01:18:05,629
Now, you go back to your party.
1306
01:18:07,433 --> 01:18:08,799
The picture's finished, Georgia.
1307
01:18:08,893 --> 01:18:11,761
You're business, I'm company.
1308
01:18:11,854 --> 01:18:14,187
Shut up!
1309
01:18:14,273 --> 01:18:17,482
Shut up, and get back upstairs!
1310
01:18:21,989 --> 01:18:25,482
Oh, I forgot to tell you,
Georgia.
1311
01:18:25,576 --> 01:18:27,488
I saw the picture.
1312
01:18:28,621 --> 01:18:30,613
I thought you were swell.
1313
01:18:34,210 --> 01:18:35,917
Goodnight, Georgia.
1314
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,002
Stop looking like that.
1315
01:18:45,095 --> 01:18:47,678
Remember, I didn't ask you here.
1316
01:18:47,765 --> 01:18:50,428
You couldn't stay
where you belong, could you?
1317
01:18:50,517 --> 01:18:53,430
You couldn't enjoy what
I made possible for you, no.
1318
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:55,887
You'd rather have this.
1319
01:18:55,981 --> 01:18:58,473
Well, congratulations!
1320
01:18:58,567 --> 01:19:01,310
You've got it
all laid out for you
1321
01:19:01,403 --> 01:19:03,816
so you can wallow
in pity for yourself.
1322
01:19:03,906 --> 01:19:07,195
A betrayed woman, the wounded
doe with all the dribble that
1323
01:19:07,284 --> 01:19:09,196
goes with it, going through
your mind right now.
1324
01:19:09,286 --> 01:19:11,278
"Oh, he doesn't love me at all.
He was lying.
1325
01:19:11,372 --> 01:19:13,455
"All those lovely moments,
those tender words.
1326
01:19:13,540 --> 01:19:15,327
"He's lying.
He's cheap and cruel!
1327
01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:17,329
That low woman Lila!"
1328
01:19:17,419 --> 01:19:19,502
Well, maybe I like Lilas.
1329
01:19:19,588 --> 01:19:21,830
Maybe I like to be cheap
once in a while.
1330
01:19:21,924 --> 01:19:24,166
Maybe everybody does.
1331
01:19:24,260 --> 01:19:27,173
Or don't you remember?
1332
01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,259
Get that look off your face!
1333
01:19:30,349 --> 01:19:31,789
Who gave you the right
to dig into me
1334
01:19:31,850 --> 01:19:35,218
and turn me inside out
and decide what I'm like?
1335
01:19:35,312 --> 01:19:38,225
How do you know how I feel
about you? How deep it goes?
1336
01:19:38,315 --> 01:19:41,103
Maybe I don't want anybody
to own me, you or anybody.
1337
01:19:41,193 --> 01:19:43,276
Get out! Get out!
1338
01:19:43,362 --> 01:19:45,445
Get out!
1339
01:19:45,531 --> 01:19:48,444
[intense music]
1340
01:20:02,756 --> 01:20:05,669
[crying]
1341
01:20:32,494 --> 01:20:34,156
[screaming]
1342
01:20:34,246 --> 01:20:35,612
[tires screeching]
1343
01:20:35,706 --> 01:20:37,242
Aah!
1344
01:20:51,972 --> 01:20:54,134
[sobbing]
1345
01:21:02,024 --> 01:21:06,394
I told you I'd never work for
him again, and I never will.
1346
01:21:06,487 --> 01:21:11,232
I don't blame you, Georgia.
Jonathan certainly ruined you.
1347
01:21:11,325 --> 01:21:14,284
You were a drunk and a tramp
playing bit parts around town
1348
01:21:14,370 --> 01:21:16,612
and he made a star out of you.
1349
01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:19,743
You had an ironclad contract
with Shields Productions.
1350
01:21:19,833 --> 01:21:22,746
Iron, I know,
because I drew it myself.
1351
01:21:22,836 --> 01:21:26,295
Starting at $100 a week,
we owned you body and soul.
1352
01:21:26,382 --> 01:21:28,624
And the next morning you walked
right into this office
1353
01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:30,987
and you stood right here with
that same look you've got on
1354
01:21:31,011 --> 01:21:33,719
your face now, and you threw
the bits of your contract
1355
01:21:33,806 --> 01:21:37,015
into my face. Jonathan laughed
and let you get away with it.
1356
01:21:37,101 --> 01:21:38,888
I wanted to take you to court.
1357
01:21:38,977 --> 01:21:41,811
But he said "no".
So you signed with ANL.
1358
01:21:41,897 --> 01:21:45,265
And made them the millions
that we should have made.
1359
01:21:45,359 --> 01:21:47,646
For the last seven years,
you've been in the top ten
1360
01:21:47,736 --> 01:21:51,525
in every popularity poll
in this country.
1361
01:21:51,615 --> 01:21:55,609
Oh, yes, Jonathan
sure fouled you up.
1362
01:21:55,702 --> 01:22:00,072
Jim... you're pretty happy with
yourself these days, aren't you?
1363
01:22:00,165 --> 01:22:04,660
You and your
Poolutzer, Pulitzer.
1364
01:22:04,753 --> 01:22:07,166
"To James Lee Bartlow,
whose first book"
1365
01:22:07,256 --> 01:22:08,747
so-and-so, so-and-so...
1366
01:22:08,841 --> 01:22:11,834
"graduate of Harvard
and the Sorbonne," uh...
1367
01:22:11,927 --> 01:22:15,420
"in the year 1949, found him
professor of Medieval History
1368
01:22:15,514 --> 01:22:18,473
at one of our leading
Southern Universities."
1369
01:22:19,810 --> 01:22:22,302
[dog barking]
[instrumental music]
1370
01:22:24,731 --> 01:22:26,531
[James] Summer is the
quietest time of the year
1371
01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:29,692
in a college town,
and the loveliest.
1372
01:22:29,778 --> 01:22:32,862
I was outlining what I hoped
would be my second novel.
1373
01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:36,567
My first, on which I'd labored
seven years, was just out.
1374
01:22:36,660 --> 01:22:39,824
Surprisingly, for a scholarly
work about early Virginia
1375
01:22:39,913 --> 01:22:43,497
my book was enjoying
a brisk nationwide sale.
1376
01:22:43,584 --> 01:22:46,668
Possibly because it was
liberally peppered with sex.
1377
01:22:46,753 --> 01:22:48,585
Because, after all,
early Virginia
1378
01:22:48,672 --> 01:22:51,210
was liberally
peppered with sex.
1379
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:53,462
Could that have been why
Hollywood had bought it?
1380
01:22:53,552 --> 01:22:55,168
[instrumental music]
1381
01:22:55,262 --> 01:22:58,096
Why did I stay away
from home that afternoon?
1382
01:22:58,182 --> 01:23:01,425
Because Rosemary, my wife,
was entertaining the symposium.
1383
01:23:01,518 --> 01:23:04,477
A group of factory wives
who met bimonthly to enjoy
1384
01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:08,273
a little culture
and a lot of gossip.
1385
01:23:08,358 --> 01:23:09,894
Rosemary had the floor.
1386
01:23:09,985 --> 01:23:11,567
She was reading
an anthropological paper
1387
01:23:11,653 --> 01:23:13,019
on the island of St. Daniels
1388
01:23:13,113 --> 01:23:15,776
which we visited
the summer before.
1389
01:23:15,866 --> 01:23:19,701
[Rosemary] "The techniques of courtship,
marriage and consummation.
1390
01:23:19,786 --> 01:23:21,994
"These are the concern
of the anthropologist
1391
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,868
"rather than
of the sociologist.
1392
01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:27,200
They are certainly
not for the drawing room."
1393
01:23:27,294 --> 01:23:29,536
[all chuckling]
1394
01:23:32,883 --> 01:23:34,875
"The Longhorns.
1395
01:23:34,968 --> 01:23:36,755
"Dating back to the misty past
1396
01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:39,804
of the first
Spanish explorers..."
1397
01:23:39,890 --> 01:23:41,973
[indistinct]
1398
01:23:42,059 --> 01:23:44,767
[James] Her paper seemed to be
getting a good reception.
1399
01:23:44,853 --> 01:23:47,812
Possibly, because it was
liberally peppered with sex.
1400
01:23:47,898 --> 01:23:51,232
Because, after all,
the Island of St. Daniels
1401
01:23:51,318 --> 01:23:53,310
is liberally
peppered with sex.
1402
01:23:53,403 --> 01:23:56,316
[instrumental music]
1403
01:24:05,165 --> 01:24:07,248
I started to work.
1404
01:24:07,334 --> 01:24:10,247
[typewriter clacking]
1405
01:24:10,337 --> 01:24:13,796
James Lee doesn't mind one bit.
Do you, darling?
1406
01:24:13,882 --> 01:24:15,794
He never minds.
1407
01:24:17,010 --> 01:24:19,172
Autograph, Miss Rosser?
1408
01:24:19,263 --> 01:24:22,677
Dear Miss Rosser,
isn't this just like a man?
1409
01:24:22,766 --> 01:24:24,723
I just fixed his study
with everything
1410
01:24:24,810 --> 01:24:26,642
a successful author could want
1411
01:24:26,728 --> 01:24:29,596
and there he will sit
in a dreary old rocker,
1412
01:24:29,690 --> 01:24:32,774
clickety-clack on that
dilapidated old portable.
1413
01:24:32,859 --> 01:24:35,567
I suppose we'll be losing
you to Hollywood now,
1414
01:24:35,654 --> 01:24:36,861
Professor Bartlow.
1415
01:24:36,947 --> 01:24:39,860
Oh, the James Lee Bartlows
in Hollywood.
1416
01:24:39,950 --> 01:24:42,283
Isn't that a ridiculous idea?
1417
01:24:42,369 --> 01:24:46,283
Besides which, what could
Hollywood possibly offer us?
1418
01:24:46,373 --> 01:24:49,241
Besides which, Hollywood
hasn't, uh, asked us.
1419
01:24:49,334 --> 01:24:51,701
- Oh.
- What did he write?
1420
01:24:56,633 --> 01:25:00,092
Oh, professor!
You-you shouldn't have!
1421
01:25:00,178 --> 01:25:01,419
Ha ha ha.
1422
01:25:02,889 --> 01:25:06,599
Ladies, look what
Mr. Bartlow wrote!
1423
01:25:06,685 --> 01:25:09,803
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind.
1424
01:25:11,565 --> 01:25:13,852
I'm happy to say.
1425
01:25:13,942 --> 01:25:15,878
James Lee, no. There are
ladies out there. I can't.
1426
01:25:15,902 --> 01:25:17,814
No, James Lee...
1427
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,882
[indistinct chatter]
1428
01:25:49,311 --> 01:25:52,600
[James]
I started to work.
1429
01:25:52,689 --> 01:25:55,181
[typewriter clacking]
1430
01:25:57,486 --> 01:26:00,445
Mrs. Bartlow says eat.
It'll do you good.
1431
01:26:00,530 --> 01:26:01,646
Thanks, Milly.
1432
01:26:02,866 --> 01:26:04,858
[James]
I started to work.
1433
01:26:04,951 --> 01:26:06,442
[typewriter clacking]
1434
01:26:06,536 --> 01:26:08,448
[telephone ringing]
1435
01:26:12,751 --> 01:26:14,788
Hello.
1436
01:26:14,878 --> 01:26:17,120
Yes, this is Professor Bartlow.
1437
01:26:18,715 --> 01:26:20,297
Who?
1438
01:26:20,384 --> 01:26:22,296
Where?
1439
01:26:22,386 --> 01:26:24,924
Oh! Oh, yes, put him on.
1440
01:26:29,184 --> 01:26:31,141
Hello, Mr. Shields.
1441
01:26:31,228 --> 01:26:33,015
Fine, thanks.
1442
01:26:33,105 --> 01:26:37,440
I heard on the extension.
Hollywood! Jonathan Shields.
1443
01:26:40,112 --> 01:26:42,525
Sure, I'm glad
you bought the book.
1444
01:26:42,614 --> 01:26:46,949
I hope your movie of it makes
me as happy as your check did.
1445
01:26:48,537 --> 01:26:51,200
Umm, no.
1446
01:26:51,289 --> 01:26:54,828
No, I'm sorry.
I don't see how I can.
1447
01:26:54,918 --> 01:26:57,831
Tell him you're working on your
new novel. Now, go on, tell him.
1448
01:26:57,921 --> 01:27:00,459
I need all summer to
work on my new book.
1449
01:27:03,427 --> 01:27:05,669
No, no, don't tell him
what it's about.
1450
01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:07,628
If you get your hand away.
1451
01:27:07,723 --> 01:27:10,431
I'd rather not discuss it
until it's finished.
1452
01:27:13,103 --> 01:27:16,767
My, just listen
to that man talk!
1453
01:27:17,566 --> 01:27:19,649
All expenses paid?
1454
01:27:19,735 --> 01:27:22,148
You just tell him
you'll think it over.
1455
01:27:22,821 --> 01:27:25,359
No, it's impossible.
I can't come out now.
1456
01:27:28,910 --> 01:27:31,527
Say something
charming for goodbye.
1457
01:27:31,621 --> 01:27:33,157
Goodbye, Mr. Shields.
1458
01:27:34,624 --> 01:27:36,581
James Lee,
that was not charming.
1459
01:27:36,668 --> 01:27:39,251
He has enough charm
for all three of us.
1460
01:27:40,922 --> 01:27:42,709
He surely rubbed you
the wrong way.
1461
01:27:42,799 --> 01:27:44,791
He surely did.
1462
01:27:47,179 --> 01:27:48,420
Darling.
1463
01:27:49,806 --> 01:27:51,513
I don't want you
ever to feel sorry
1464
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:54,308
you didn't say "yes"
to Mr. Shields.
1465
01:27:54,394 --> 01:27:56,886
What if we do spend
the whole hot summer here?
1466
01:27:56,980 --> 01:27:58,687
It doesn't matter.
1467
01:27:58,774 --> 01:28:01,733
Because some day, I just
know we'll get to travel
1468
01:28:01,818 --> 01:28:04,185
and see all those
wonderful places.
1469
01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:07,272
So don't you ever feel
one bit sorry
1470
01:28:07,365 --> 01:28:10,403
you didn't say "yes," James Lee.
1471
01:28:15,791 --> 01:28:19,410
Does a trip to Hollywood mean
that much to you, Rosemary?
1472
01:28:19,503 --> 01:28:20,710
Me?
1473
01:28:20,796 --> 01:28:23,709
[instrumental music]
1474
01:28:29,846 --> 01:28:33,590
[James] After all, it was only
for two weeks, all expenses paid.
1475
01:28:33,683 --> 01:28:35,299
It wasn't as though
Mr. Shields wanted me
1476
01:28:35,393 --> 01:28:37,225
to write a screenplay for him.
1477
01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:42,273
All he wanted was to talk,
to get my ideas on his ideas.
1478
01:28:44,611 --> 01:28:47,103
- Is this everything?
- Yeah, that's all ours.
1479
01:28:47,197 --> 01:28:49,234
Good. Here.
1480
01:28:49,324 --> 01:28:51,782
How about it, Mrs. Bartlow? Is
this bungalow alright with you?
1481
01:28:51,868 --> 01:28:55,236
- It's completely enchanting!
- Yeah, good.
1482
01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:57,743
Oh, and the studio car is yours
as long as you're here.
1483
01:28:57,833 --> 01:28:59,185
- Thank you.
- I've gotta run along now.
1484
01:28:59,209 --> 01:29:00,686
I have to meet a fellow
from the Syndicate.
1485
01:29:00,710 --> 01:29:03,578
He's a nice guy, but he hated
our last two pictures.
1486
01:29:03,672 --> 01:29:06,210
He has sinus. Bye.
1487
01:29:06,299 --> 01:29:08,416
- When do I see the great man?
- Jonathan?
1488
01:29:08,510 --> 01:29:10,422
Oh, drop around the
studio tomorrow morning.
1489
01:29:10,512 --> 01:29:12,595
Not too early, not too late.
1490
01:29:12,681 --> 01:29:14,593
Bye, Mrs. Bartlow.
1491
01:29:19,771 --> 01:29:21,808
James Lee, come here!
1492
01:29:21,898 --> 01:29:23,139
Hurry up!
1493
01:29:24,109 --> 01:29:25,896
Hurry up!
1494
01:29:26,695 --> 01:29:27,981
Come on.
1495
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:32,823
It's Georgia Lorrison!
1496
01:29:32,909 --> 01:29:36,277
Living in the
very next bungalow.
1497
01:29:37,372 --> 01:29:40,331
Now, what do you know?
1498
01:29:40,917 --> 01:29:43,785
[James] That night Rosemary
wrote 32 postcards.
1499
01:29:43,879 --> 01:29:47,043
Next morning, I mailed them
and we went to the studio.
1500
01:29:52,554 --> 01:29:53,886
Oh! What!
1501
01:29:53,972 --> 01:29:55,679
Well, look here, James Lee.
1502
01:29:55,765 --> 01:29:57,757
The dining room at Roanoke.
1503
01:29:57,851 --> 01:30:00,343
Just the way we saw it
when you wrote it.
1504
01:30:00,437 --> 01:30:03,145
Just the way I saw
it when I read it.
1505
01:30:03,231 --> 01:30:05,689
Look at that chandelier.
1506
01:30:05,775 --> 01:30:09,143
- Why, it's Waterford, isn't it?
- Yes, Mrs. Bartlow it is.
1507
01:30:09,237 --> 01:30:12,605
You know, you write in motion
picture terms. You like movies?
1508
01:30:12,699 --> 01:30:14,110
The good ones.
1509
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,283
How would you like to stay on
and write the script?
1510
01:30:16,369 --> 01:30:18,861
- No.
- Why not?
1511
01:30:18,955 --> 01:30:20,912
You look much younger
than I thought you would.
1512
01:30:20,999 --> 01:30:22,615
Must take pretty good care
of yourself.
1513
01:30:22,709 --> 01:30:24,996
- I do.
- Well, so do I.
1514
01:30:25,086 --> 01:30:27,565
I'm here for two weeks only, get
your money's worth out of that.
1515
01:30:27,589 --> 01:30:30,047
James Lee, there's
never been such silver.
1516
01:30:30,133 --> 01:30:31,874
Not even in Richmond.
1517
01:30:31,968 --> 01:30:34,506
I wouldn't have missed
this for anything.
1518
01:30:34,596 --> 01:30:37,009
You know, Mr. Shields,
James Lee didn't think it proper
1519
01:30:37,098 --> 01:30:38,885
for me to come along
this morning.
1520
01:30:38,975 --> 01:30:41,342
Professor's a man
of rigid ideas.
1521
01:30:41,436 --> 01:30:43,974
However, we're delighted to have
you with us, Mrs. Bartlow.
1522
01:30:44,064 --> 01:30:47,478
See, darling? I knew
it was just plain sociable
1523
01:30:47,567 --> 01:30:50,560
for me to come and say "Hello."
1524
01:30:50,654 --> 01:30:51,894
And don't you worry,
Mr. Shields
1525
01:30:51,947 --> 01:30:53,859
I won't be a nuisance.
1526
01:30:53,949 --> 01:30:55,565
When James Lee
is busy with you, well
1527
01:30:55,659 --> 01:30:57,241
I'll be busy
with my own work.
1528
01:30:57,327 --> 01:30:58,846
What kind of work
is that, Mrs. Bartlow?
1529
01:30:58,870 --> 01:31:00,532
Well, it's nothing, really.
1530
01:31:00,622 --> 01:31:02,488
But I did promise the symposium
1531
01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:05,416
I'd do a paper
for them on Hollywood.
1532
01:31:05,502 --> 01:31:08,210
Of course, I realized
that in two weeks I can't
1533
01:31:08,296 --> 01:31:10,504
do more than just barely
scratch the surface.
1534
01:31:10,590 --> 01:31:12,377
[Rosemary laughs]
1535
01:31:21,559 --> 01:31:22,912
Professor, take time
to get the feel of things
1536
01:31:22,936 --> 01:31:24,643
then we'll
get together, huh.
1537
01:31:24,729 --> 01:31:26,891
- Shall I phone you?
- No, no, let me phone you.
1538
01:31:32,445 --> 01:31:35,483
Thank you, Mr. Shields.
It was wonderful fun.
1539
01:31:35,573 --> 01:31:37,690
I like being a successful
author's wife.
1540
01:31:37,784 --> 01:31:39,901
It took me a long time
to learn the secret.
1541
01:31:39,995 --> 01:31:42,237
His work comes first.
1542
01:31:42,330 --> 01:31:46,165
- Visit us again, won't you?
- Thank you. Goodbye.
1543
01:31:46,251 --> 01:31:48,334
"His work comes first."
1544
01:31:48,420 --> 01:31:50,582
Yeah, she's the kind
that buys dark glasses
1545
01:31:50,672 --> 01:31:52,379
with his first salary check.
1546
01:31:52,465 --> 01:31:55,549
No wonder it took him
seven years to write a book.
1547
01:31:55,635 --> 01:31:57,592
Do you have to have him
to write your script?
1548
01:31:57,679 --> 01:31:59,045
Mmm-hmm.
1549
01:31:59,139 --> 01:32:01,927
Do you think you can
keep him in Hollywood?
1550
01:32:02,017 --> 01:32:03,178
Mmm-hmm.
1551
01:32:04,978 --> 01:32:06,469
[James]
He kept me, alright.
1552
01:32:06,563 --> 01:32:08,304
Two weeks later,
I found I'd signed
1553
01:32:08,398 --> 01:32:09,684
with Shields Productions
1554
01:32:09,774 --> 01:32:12,107
to write
a treatment of The Proud Land.
1555
01:32:12,193 --> 01:32:14,526
- So you like my ideas?
- Yes.
1556
01:32:14,612 --> 01:32:15,853
- All of them?
- No.
1557
01:32:18,324 --> 01:32:20,553
Who is that? You have his
picture is all over the studio.
1558
01:32:20,577 --> 01:32:23,741
- That's my father.
- Angry little man, wasn't he?
1559
01:32:25,707 --> 01:32:28,185
I may as well warn you I don't
know how I'll work in an office.
1560
01:32:28,209 --> 01:32:31,043
I'm used to an old portable
and a soft rocker.
1561
01:32:31,129 --> 01:32:33,712
- Superstitious mind?
- No.
1562
01:32:33,798 --> 01:32:35,585
Supersensitive rear.
1563
01:32:49,314 --> 01:32:51,354
I had them flown out.
I thought it'd make you happy.
1564
01:32:53,777 --> 01:32:55,814
I gather I failed.
1565
01:32:55,904 --> 01:32:57,861
Hmmm, you were pretty
sure of yourself.
1566
01:32:57,947 --> 01:33:00,485
- Pretty sure I'd stay.
- Yes, I was.
1567
01:33:01,951 --> 01:33:05,285
I know the legend,
Jonathan Shields,
1568
01:33:05,371 --> 01:33:09,081
the man will do anything
to get what he wants.
1569
01:33:09,167 --> 01:33:12,126
Ohh, thanks.
1570
01:33:12,212 --> 01:33:15,751
Shields Pictures
Incorporated.
1571
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:19,424
Well, I'm flattered you want me
and bitter you got me.
1572
01:33:19,511 --> 01:33:22,094
Where do I start?
1573
01:33:22,180 --> 01:33:24,342
Just read these scripts.
See how it's done.
1574
01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:28,142
Rough out a storyline,
and then we'll get to work.
1575
01:33:28,228 --> 01:33:30,811
And, don't worry, some
of the best movies are made
1576
01:33:30,897 --> 01:33:33,560
by people working together
who hate each other's guts.
1577
01:33:33,650 --> 01:33:36,017
Then we should make
a great movie.
1578
01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:39,320
- I usually do.
- What about your last two?
1579
01:33:40,824 --> 01:33:41,985
I liked them.
1580
01:33:49,499 --> 01:33:50,660
[James]
I started to work.
1581
01:33:52,127 --> 01:33:53,959
[typewriter clacking]
1582
01:33:55,672 --> 01:33:58,085
[car horn honking]
1583
01:34:02,220 --> 01:34:03,381
Look!
1584
01:34:09,811 --> 01:34:11,723
How do you like it?
1585
01:34:13,898 --> 01:34:15,810
I'll be right down.
1586
01:34:21,489 --> 01:34:23,321
[James]
I started to work.
1587
01:34:23,408 --> 01:34:25,320
[telephone ringing]
1588
01:34:30,790 --> 01:34:31,951
Hello.
1589
01:34:33,334 --> 01:34:34,495
What is it, Rosemary?
1590
01:34:36,004 --> 01:34:38,166
But, dear, I told you I can't.
1591
01:34:39,174 --> 01:34:40,401
I know it's Sunday,
but I've only
1592
01:34:40,425 --> 01:34:41,916
written half
a page all week.
1593
01:34:44,470 --> 01:34:46,211
Alright, alright, Rosemary.
Where is it?
1594
01:34:48,099 --> 01:34:49,886
Yes.
1595
01:34:49,976 --> 01:34:52,343
And?
Not so fast.
1596
01:35:16,628 --> 01:35:19,291
Walking out that way.
Well, you were rude.
1597
01:35:19,380 --> 01:35:22,373
I don't care how you feel about
Jonathan Shields, if you are
1598
01:35:22,467 --> 01:35:25,676
a gentleman, there is no
justification for boorishness!
1599
01:35:25,762 --> 01:35:27,628
He asked me
how my work was going.
1600
01:35:27,722 --> 01:35:30,385
What was I supposed
to say? Great?
1601
01:35:30,475 --> 01:35:32,355
Incidentally, who was that
overgrown bullfighter
1602
01:35:32,435 --> 01:35:34,142
you danced
with all night?
1603
01:35:34,229 --> 01:35:36,972
You mean
Victor Ribera? Gaucho?
1604
01:35:37,065 --> 01:35:39,398
Why, I only danced
with him twice.
1605
01:35:40,068 --> 01:35:42,276
An hour each time.
1606
01:35:42,362 --> 01:35:45,275
My, you do get nasty
when you're jealous.
1607
01:35:45,365 --> 01:35:47,732
Like the time you carried
on in St. Daniels
1608
01:35:47,825 --> 01:35:50,067
over that charming
young governor's aide.
1609
01:35:50,161 --> 01:35:51,697
He was too charmin'.
1610
01:35:51,788 --> 01:35:54,405
Why, he meant nothin',
nothin' at all!
1611
01:35:54,499 --> 01:35:57,537
You were even jealous
at that Swiss exchange professor
1612
01:35:57,627 --> 01:35:59,994
just because
he was polite!
1613
01:36:00,088 --> 01:36:02,501
He was too polite.
1614
01:36:02,590 --> 01:36:04,752
Now, Rosemary, let's
get some sleep.
1615
01:36:04,842 --> 01:36:07,585
Oh, James Lee Bartlow,
you take a good look
1616
01:36:07,679 --> 01:36:09,466
at yourself
in that mirror.
1617
01:36:09,555 --> 01:36:11,763
You've changed since
you've come to Hollywood
1618
01:36:11,849 --> 01:36:14,887
and I don't mind tellin' you,
it's no change for the better.
1619
01:36:25,321 --> 01:36:27,233
Have I changed, too?
1620
01:36:29,033 --> 01:36:30,444
I dare say I am getting a...
1621
01:36:30,535 --> 01:36:32,868
...little too big
for my britches.
1622
01:36:41,379 --> 01:36:43,416
They're pretty britches.
1623
01:36:43,506 --> 01:36:45,873
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind...
1624
01:36:48,094 --> 01:36:50,006
...I'm happy to say.
1625
01:37:49,197 --> 01:37:50,358
Get me Gaucho.
1626
01:37:54,202 --> 01:37:55,864
Harry?
1627
01:37:55,953 --> 01:37:58,696
Oh, uh,
call Arrowhead.
1628
01:37:58,790 --> 01:38:01,703
[female #4] Long distance, please.
Lake Arrowhead, California.
1629
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:09,923
Well, Harry I'm going up
the lake with James Lee.
1630
01:38:10,009 --> 01:38:12,592
Just the two of us, we're gonna
get this treatment written.
1631
01:38:12,678 --> 01:38:14,590
- When are you leaving?
- In an hour.
1632
01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:16,467
The bank called,
they want to talk to you.
1633
01:38:16,557 --> 01:38:19,174
Oh, tell them I said
you could talk to them.
1634
01:38:19,268 --> 01:38:21,635
- They're getting tough.
- You're getting too old.
1635
01:38:21,729 --> 01:38:23,569
- [telephone buzzes]
- You got something there.
1636
01:38:24,774 --> 01:38:26,982
Hello, Gaucho?
Oh, just a minute.
1637
01:38:27,068 --> 01:38:29,046
Harry, you take care of it,
will you? You can handle it.
1638
01:38:29,070 --> 01:38:30,561
Alright, I'll see
what I can do.
1639
01:38:33,991 --> 01:38:36,278
Gaucho. Que tal?
1640
01:38:36,369 --> 01:38:38,452
Muy bien.
1641
01:38:38,538 --> 01:38:40,825
Hey, how are you
booked for social life?
1642
01:38:40,915 --> 01:38:42,998
Well, get yourself un-booked.
1643
01:38:43,084 --> 01:38:46,919
How would you like to squire
a genuine Virginia dame?
1644
01:38:47,004 --> 01:38:48,415
I said "squire."
1645
01:38:48,881 --> 01:38:50,588
[laughs]
1646
01:38:52,301 --> 01:38:54,258
Mrs. James Lee Bartlow.
1647
01:38:54,345 --> 01:38:56,837
Yeah, mister is going
up the lake with me.
1648
01:38:56,931 --> 01:38:58,700
Keep her... keep her occupied,
will you, Gaucho
1649
01:38:58,724 --> 01:38:59,924
so she doesn't
get in our hair.
1650
01:39:01,060 --> 01:39:02,972
[alarm clock ringing]
1651
01:39:09,318 --> 01:39:11,230
[James]
I started to work.
1652
01:39:14,615 --> 01:39:17,983
I worked all day from 7:00
till noon, from 2:00 to 5:00.
1653
01:39:19,412 --> 01:39:20,619
There were no interruptions.
1654
01:39:24,584 --> 01:39:25,995
In the evenings,
we worked together.
1655
01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:32,752
Jonathan, that's my best scene!
1656
01:39:36,137 --> 01:39:39,130
You've cut it down
to three lines!
1657
01:39:39,223 --> 01:39:43,092
Look... look, Jonathan
I don't think you understand.
1658
01:39:43,186 --> 01:39:46,350
The boy's going away,
probably to be killed!
1659
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:48,897
- So when the mother speaks...
- She doesn't speak.
1660
01:39:48,983 --> 01:39:50,519
We move the camera
in close on her.
1661
01:39:50,610 --> 01:39:52,317
She opens her mouth
to talk but she can't.
1662
01:39:52,403 --> 01:39:54,269
She's too emotional
to be able to speak.
1663
01:39:54,363 --> 01:39:55,729
And what she's feeling,
we'll leave
1664
01:39:55,823 --> 01:39:57,234
for the audience
to imagine.
1665
01:39:57,325 --> 01:39:58,802
Believe me, Jim,
they'll imagine it better
1666
01:39:58,826 --> 01:40:01,443
than any words
you and I could ever write.
1667
01:40:01,537 --> 01:40:03,153
Alright with you?
1668
01:40:05,166 --> 01:40:07,123
Yes, professor.
1669
01:40:07,210 --> 01:40:08,951
Now for that last scene.
1670
01:40:15,885 --> 01:40:17,922
- Proud of yourself?
- A little.
1671
01:40:18,012 --> 01:40:20,846
Should be, not a weak scene
in the whole treatment.
1672
01:40:20,932 --> 01:40:23,595
I'm proud of Rosemary too,
she didn't interrupt once
1673
01:40:23,684 --> 01:40:25,471
the whole time
we were up there.
1674
01:40:25,561 --> 01:40:26,642
Pleasant, wasn't it?
1675
01:40:26,729 --> 01:40:27,729
[both chuckling]
1676
01:40:28,189 --> 01:40:32,308
I'll tell you the truth,
I-I missed her interruptions.
1677
01:40:32,401 --> 01:40:34,484
Even when she's a bother,
she does it in a gay
1678
01:40:34,570 --> 01:40:37,654
naive, Southern belle kind
of a way that tickles me.
1679
01:40:37,740 --> 01:40:39,593
Say, Jim, how come you
never tried to get her down
1680
01:40:39,617 --> 01:40:41,859
on paper as one
of the women in your book?
1681
01:40:41,953 --> 01:40:44,115
- I did try.
- Just wouldn't write, eh?
1682
01:40:44,205 --> 01:40:46,572
No, funny.
1683
01:40:46,666 --> 01:40:48,578
Maybe you just don't know her
well enough.
1684
01:40:52,630 --> 01:40:53,941
- Good evening.
- Fill her up. Do you mind?
1685
01:40:53,965 --> 01:40:55,126
Yes, sir.
1686
01:41:12,275 --> 01:41:14,044
Mac, you gotta check
the radiator, too, will you?
1687
01:41:14,068 --> 01:41:15,229
Okay.
1688
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:32,872
[glass crashes]
1689
01:41:39,093 --> 01:41:41,005
[siren blaring]
1690
01:41:43,097 --> 01:41:44,884
What's her story?
Was Gaucho a friend of his?
1691
01:41:44,974 --> 01:41:46,743
- Ah that's ridiculous.
- Was she gonna marry Gaucho?
1692
01:41:46,767 --> 01:41:48,850
Were they going
to Mexico to get a divorce?
1693
01:41:48,936 --> 01:41:50,539
How about it, were they flying
for a Mexican divorce?
1694
01:41:50,563 --> 01:41:51,665
I just told you
that's ridiculous.
1695
01:41:51,689 --> 01:41:52,791
How long was she
in love with him?
1696
01:41:52,815 --> 01:41:54,397
When was the last time
he saw her?
1697
01:41:54,483 --> 01:41:56,336
This is it, boys. Gaucho was
a close friend of the Bartlows.
1698
01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,400
He was flying her to the lake
to join the professor.
1699
01:41:58,446 --> 01:42:01,780
- His flight plan said Acapulco.
- What flight plan?
1700
01:42:01,866 --> 01:42:04,011
What's the matter, don't you
wanna play ball with the press?
1701
01:42:04,035 --> 01:42:06,573
I just told you, Gaucho was
a close friend of the Bartlows.
1702
01:42:06,662 --> 01:42:08,348
He was flying her to the lake
to join the professor.
1703
01:42:08,372 --> 01:42:10,852
Alright, let Mr. Bartlow through
to identify the body, come on.
1704
01:42:10,916 --> 01:42:12,908
- Just a minute, Mr. Bartlow.
- Will you shut up!
1705
01:42:13,002 --> 01:42:15,210
[female #5] You stay out of it.
What're you trying to do?
1706
01:42:15,296 --> 01:42:17,208
[siren blaring]
1707
01:42:45,117 --> 01:42:48,326
I wish...
Oh, I wish an awful lot.
1708
01:42:50,539 --> 01:42:51,700
Maybe if I'd been here...
1709
01:42:54,710 --> 01:42:56,451
You didn't know
about them, did you?
1710
01:42:58,255 --> 01:43:01,248
Sorry, Jonathan.
Of course, you didn't know.
1711
01:43:03,594 --> 01:43:06,712
Look, Jim, I'm not gonna
let you brood about her.
1712
01:43:08,224 --> 01:43:09,465
She's dead,
and you're alive.
1713
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:15,228
You can't do anything about it.
Neither can I.
1714
01:43:17,483 --> 01:43:19,224
Let's get to work,
you and I.
1715
01:43:20,653 --> 01:43:22,565
[instrumental music]
1716
01:43:27,702 --> 01:43:29,096
[James] Without Jonathan,
I don't know what
1717
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:31,112
I'd have done
those next few months.
1718
01:43:31,205 --> 01:43:33,868
He put me to work
and kept me working.
1719
01:43:33,958 --> 01:43:36,917
And when the shooting script of
The Proud Land was finished,
1720
01:43:37,002 --> 01:43:38,334
he asked me to stay
with him for
1721
01:43:38,421 --> 01:43:39,912
production meetings
and casting.
1722
01:43:41,632 --> 01:43:43,715
If you see Miss Ronley
as the star of The Proud Land,
1723
01:43:43,801 --> 01:43:45,167
then, that is what you see.
1724
01:43:45,261 --> 01:43:49,005
It was my impression
this was a woman of sex, eh?
1725
01:43:49,098 --> 01:43:52,307
To me, Miss Ronley has
the sex appeal of an angleworm.
1726
01:43:52,393 --> 01:43:55,557
- How about that, Jonathan?
- Hmm, how about what? Oh?
1727
01:43:55,646 --> 01:43:57,888
I like Linda Ronley.
1728
01:43:57,982 --> 01:44:01,350
- I wonder, uh...
- Yes, Jim?
1729
01:44:01,444 --> 01:44:02,796
Though I know
it's not my department.
1730
01:44:02,820 --> 01:44:04,982
No, go ahead,
you're among friends.
1731
01:44:05,072 --> 01:44:08,156
All the time we were writing the
script, I had one girl in mind.
1732
01:44:08,242 --> 01:44:10,470
She lives right next to my
bungalow. I think she'd be fine.
1733
01:44:10,494 --> 01:44:12,110
- Who?
- Georgia Lorrison.
1734
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:18,249
If you'd like me to give
her the script, I-I...
1735
01:44:18,335 --> 01:44:21,169
Uh, professor, you have just
broken a sacred taboo.
1736
01:44:21,255 --> 01:44:22,837
You've mentioned
the unmentionable.
1737
01:44:22,923 --> 01:44:25,757
- That's enough.
- That's alright, Syd.
1738
01:44:25,843 --> 01:44:27,755
Georgia is the best.
1739
01:44:27,845 --> 01:44:30,212
The best actress.
The best box office.
1740
01:44:30,306 --> 01:44:33,390
Her last three pictures for
Fred Amiel grossed to... Harry?
1741
01:44:33,476 --> 01:44:36,594
Seven million,
six hundred thousand, domestic.
1742
01:44:37,438 --> 01:44:39,304
We try to get her,
we'll be wasting our time.
1743
01:44:39,398 --> 01:44:40,605
She hates my guts.
1744
01:44:41,942 --> 01:44:43,274
[door closes]
1745
01:44:47,656 --> 01:44:50,444
Uh, Jim, uh, if you wanna
show her the script
1746
01:44:50,534 --> 01:44:52,025
there's no way
I can stop you.
1747
01:44:54,997 --> 01:44:58,115
What am I supposed to do?
Thank you for saying "no"?
1748
01:44:58,209 --> 01:45:00,041
Well, what are you
trying to do?
1749
01:45:00,127 --> 01:45:02,369
Fight Jonathan Shields'
battles for him?
1750
01:45:02,463 --> 01:45:05,922
- It happens to be my book.
- It happens to be his picture.
1751
01:45:06,008 --> 01:45:08,125
You're the first person
I ever knew who began
1752
01:45:08,219 --> 01:45:11,053
by hating him
and ended up liking him.
1753
01:45:11,138 --> 01:45:13,130
Do you always
do everything backwards?
1754
01:45:13,224 --> 01:45:14,385
Do you still love him?
1755
01:45:16,018 --> 01:45:17,725
[knock at the door]
1756
01:45:17,812 --> 01:45:19,428
- Oh, excuse me.
- Fred.
1757
01:45:19,522 --> 01:45:21,639
Do I still love Jonathan?
1758
01:45:21,732 --> 01:45:24,645
Oh, no, you don't
get me on that one.
1759
01:45:24,735 --> 01:45:27,478
That was a stupid question
for a writer.
1760
01:45:27,571 --> 01:45:29,608
Don't you know
about first love?
1761
01:45:29,698 --> 01:45:32,441
You may grow out of it,
but you don't get over it.
1762
01:45:36,455 --> 01:45:39,198
Oh, I'm sorry,
that was stupid of me.
1763
01:45:39,291 --> 01:45:41,999
No, no. I wouldn't want
to get over
1764
01:45:42,086 --> 01:45:44,794
my first love
either, quite.
1765
01:45:45,631 --> 01:45:48,715
Well, it's time you two met.
Fred Amiel, James Bartlow.
1766
01:45:48,801 --> 01:45:50,383
- How are you?
- Mr. Bartlow?
1767
01:45:50,469 --> 01:45:52,961
Guess who
we were fighting about.
1768
01:45:54,056 --> 01:45:56,218
Jonathan is more than a man.
He's an experience.
1769
01:45:56,308 --> 01:45:57,924
And he's
habit-forming, if they
1770
01:45:58,018 --> 01:46:00,135
bottled him,
he'd outsell ginger ale.
1771
01:46:00,229 --> 01:46:02,767
- Ready, Mr. Amiel.
- Oh, thanks, Timmy.
1772
01:46:02,857 --> 01:46:04,617
Mr. Bartlow, Georgia
let me read your script.
1773
01:46:04,650 --> 01:46:06,670
It's a beautiful job. I'd like
to talk about your next one.
1774
01:46:06,694 --> 01:46:08,481
- When you're ready.
- Thank you.
1775
01:46:08,571 --> 01:46:09,982
- Goodbye, Georgia.
- Goodbye.
1776
01:46:10,072 --> 01:46:11,904
- Nice to have met you.
- Bye.
1777
01:46:12,741 --> 01:46:15,233
[James] Shooting started on
The Proud Land
1778
01:46:15,327 --> 01:46:16,989
and everything went well,
1779
01:46:17,079 --> 01:46:20,948
until the fourth day,
then something happened.
1780
01:46:21,041 --> 01:46:22,202
Cut!
1781
01:46:25,296 --> 01:46:27,208
[indistinct chattering]
1782
01:46:28,299 --> 01:46:31,258
Close-up of the girl, eh.
1783
01:46:31,343 --> 01:46:33,710
About there.
Save all...
1784
01:46:33,804 --> 01:46:36,717
[Jonathan] Mr. Von Ellstein!
Would you come here, please?
1785
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:51,061
Mr. Von Ellstein,
am I to understand
1786
01:46:51,155 --> 01:46:52,817
that you consider
this scene complete?
1787
01:46:52,907 --> 01:46:54,318
- I do.
- Well, I don't.
1788
01:46:54,408 --> 01:46:55,774
You call that directing?
1789
01:46:55,868 --> 01:46:58,030
That is what I've been
calling it for 32 years.
1790
01:46:58,120 --> 01:46:59,486
Oh, there are
values and dimensions
1791
01:46:59,580 --> 01:47:01,367
in that scene you haven't
begun to hit!
1792
01:47:01,457 --> 01:47:04,120
Perhaps they're not the values
and dimensions I wish to hit.
1793
01:47:04,209 --> 01:47:06,041
I could make
this scene a climax.
1794
01:47:06,128 --> 01:47:08,370
I could make every scene
in this picture a climax.
1795
01:47:08,464 --> 01:47:10,501
If I did, I would
be a bad director.
1796
01:47:10,591 --> 01:47:13,208
And I like to think of myself
as one of the best.
1797
01:47:13,302 --> 01:47:15,510
A picture all climaxes
is like a necklace
1798
01:47:15,596 --> 01:47:17,383
without a string,
it falls apart.
1799
01:47:17,473 --> 01:47:19,305
You must build
to your big moments.
1800
01:47:19,391 --> 01:47:21,383
And sometimes you must
build slowly.
1801
01:47:21,477 --> 01:47:23,264
Look, when I want
a lecture on the aesthetics
1802
01:47:23,354 --> 01:47:26,347
of motion pictures, I'll ask for
it, and it won't be on my time.
1803
01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:28,000
It won't be a cover-up
for a shallow and
1804
01:47:28,025 --> 01:47:30,233
inept interpretation
of a great scene!
1805
01:47:30,319 --> 01:47:32,936
To be a director,
you must have imagination.
1806
01:47:33,030 --> 01:47:35,488
Whose imagination, Mr. Shields,
yours or mine?
1807
01:47:37,451 --> 01:47:39,363
There is only
one answer to that.
1808
01:47:39,453 --> 01:47:42,287
You see this picture
one way and I another.
1809
01:47:42,373 --> 01:47:45,036
It will be done your way,
but not by me,
1810
01:47:45,125 --> 01:47:48,209
and not by any other director
who respects himself.
1811
01:47:49,630 --> 01:47:51,166
You know what
you must do, Mr. Shields
1812
01:47:51,256 --> 01:47:53,794
so that you'll have it
exactly as you want it?
1813
01:47:55,260 --> 01:47:57,377
You must direct
this picture yourself.
1814
01:48:03,268 --> 01:48:06,978
To direct a picture,
a man needs humility.
1815
01:48:07,064 --> 01:48:09,147
Do you have humility,
Mr. Shields?
1816
01:48:19,743 --> 01:48:22,577
[James] Jonathan the director
was a new Jonathan.
1817
01:48:22,663 --> 01:48:24,825
He was patience personified.
1818
01:48:24,915 --> 01:48:28,534
He was tolerant, even-tempered,
considerate and indulgent..
1819
01:48:28,627 --> 01:48:31,244
to his crew, his cast
and his writer.
1820
01:48:57,614 --> 01:49:00,027
Six months and four days
after he started shooting
1821
01:49:00,117 --> 01:49:02,780
we saw the picture put
together for the first time.
1822
01:49:02,870 --> 01:49:05,453
- Nice job at cutting, Tom.
- Thank you, Mr. Shields.
1823
01:49:07,624 --> 01:49:10,207
- Nice work, Tom.
- Thanks.
1824
01:49:10,294 --> 01:49:14,038
Beautiful production.
Beautifully written, Jim.
1825
01:49:14,131 --> 01:49:15,872
Beautifully produced.
1826
01:49:15,966 --> 01:49:17,766
Harry, tell Chapman
his photography's perfect.
1827
01:49:17,843 --> 01:49:19,505
Wonderful wasn't it?
1828
01:49:19,595 --> 01:49:22,633
Congratulate Walter on his sets.
Lucien on her costumes.
1829
01:49:22,723 --> 01:49:25,511
- And Boris on his score.
- Yeah, I like the music.
1830
01:49:25,601 --> 01:49:28,218
Tell the director he should
have his head examined.
1831
01:49:28,312 --> 01:49:29,497
He shouldn't have
shot the picture
1832
01:49:29,521 --> 01:49:30,728
he should've
shot himself.
1833
01:49:30,814 --> 01:49:32,601
Jonathan, it's not
as bad as all that...
1834
01:49:32,691 --> 01:49:34,978
I butchered it.
1835
01:49:35,069 --> 01:49:36,856
Von Ellstein should have
been here, today.
1836
01:49:36,945 --> 01:49:38,686
He would have enjoyed this.
1837
01:49:38,781 --> 01:49:40,613
I have no tension, no timing
1838
01:49:40,699 --> 01:49:42,782
no pace, nothing.
1839
01:49:42,868 --> 01:49:45,360
I took a beautiful,
sensitive story
1840
01:49:45,454 --> 01:49:48,913
and turned it
into a turgid, boring movie.
1841
01:49:48,999 --> 01:49:51,332
For anyone else's direction
I'd never release a picture.
1842
01:49:51,418 --> 01:49:53,034
I'd shelve it.
Who's got a cigarette?
1843
01:49:53,128 --> 01:49:54,994
- Anybody got my pack?
- Here you are.
1844
01:49:55,089 --> 01:49:57,502
Thanks, Harry. I've made
pictures that lost money.
1845
01:49:57,591 --> 01:50:01,380
But they had something.
This is nothing.
1846
01:50:01,470 --> 01:50:03,507
Oh, Jonathan, you're
being drastic, I'm sure...
1847
01:50:03,597 --> 01:50:05,930
Look, all you've got to do
is cut the dead wood out...
1848
01:50:06,016 --> 01:50:07,016
[overlapping]
1849
01:50:07,017 --> 01:50:08,599
Please.
1850
01:50:08,685 --> 01:50:12,395
- Harry, shelve the picture.
- Shelve it? - Shelve the picture?
1851
01:50:12,481 --> 01:50:13,597
Are you crazy?
1852
01:50:13,690 --> 01:50:15,397
- We can't do that.
- Why not?
1853
01:50:15,484 --> 01:50:17,726
Look Jonathan, we're in hock
to the bank up to our necks.
1854
01:50:17,820 --> 01:50:20,688
We went way over budget.
We've got to release it.
1855
01:50:20,781 --> 01:50:23,364
Harry, there's your
penny-pinching mind again.
1856
01:50:24,618 --> 01:50:26,530
Shelve it.
1857
01:50:28,122 --> 01:50:31,911
We shelve it, that's the end
of Shields Productions.
1858
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:35,084
Goodbye to 17 years' work.
1859
01:50:35,170 --> 01:50:36,877
Goodbye to every
dime you've got.
1860
01:50:36,964 --> 01:50:38,500
How about the money
in the sock?
1861
01:50:38,590 --> 01:50:40,502
There isn't any sock.
1862
01:50:40,592 --> 01:50:43,801
Your last two pictures
and this one took care of that.
1863
01:50:43,887 --> 01:50:46,300
I know.
1864
01:50:46,390 --> 01:50:48,848
And every dime of mine
is gone and...
1865
01:50:48,934 --> 01:50:52,393
...every dime of Syd's.
1866
01:50:52,479 --> 01:50:55,187
That I didn't know.
1867
01:50:55,274 --> 01:50:58,688
The, uh, banks turned us down
on money for the last retakes.
1868
01:50:58,777 --> 01:51:01,440
Syd and I...
Oh, well.
1869
01:51:01,530 --> 01:51:03,450
You were shooting,
and who could bother you then?
1870
01:51:05,868 --> 01:51:07,860
The hard-headed businessman.
1871
01:51:10,873 --> 01:51:12,785
The hard-boiled press agent.
1872
01:51:15,919 --> 01:51:19,003
I still won't release a picture
of mine that I know is bad.
1873
01:51:19,089 --> 01:51:21,251
But, Jonathan,
other men do!
1874
01:51:21,341 --> 01:51:24,675
Their pictures don't say
"Jonathan Shields presents."
1875
01:51:26,388 --> 01:51:30,132
Okay, what story
shall I break?
1876
01:51:30,225 --> 01:51:33,559
[chuckling] That's easy.
"Jonathan Shields lays an egg!"
1877
01:51:45,490 --> 01:51:49,234
- What're you gonna do now?
- I'm tired, Jim.
1878
01:51:49,328 --> 01:51:53,197
- What are you gonna do now?
- You mind changing the subject?
1879
01:51:53,290 --> 01:51:56,829
I just played my big scene
in there, "The Great Man Fails."
1880
01:51:56,919 --> 01:51:59,127
What do you want, an encore?
1881
01:51:59,213 --> 01:52:01,045
You sound like Sebastian.
1882
01:52:01,131 --> 01:52:03,714
Who? Oh, your new book.
1883
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:06,042
You told me once to never
let a leading character
1884
01:52:06,136 --> 01:52:07,877
feel sorry for himself.
1885
01:52:07,971 --> 01:52:10,179
- Not for long.
- I was wrong.
1886
01:52:10,265 --> 01:52:12,723
It's very comforting
to feel sorry for yourself.
1887
01:52:14,311 --> 01:52:16,849
- You're coming with me.
- What?
1888
01:52:16,939 --> 01:52:19,898
I've taken a cabin up at Tahoe
I'm going to finish my new book
1889
01:52:19,983 --> 01:52:23,101
and you're coming along.
1890
01:52:23,195 --> 01:52:26,814
- Why?
- Why not?
1891
01:52:26,907 --> 01:52:30,025
Besides, I work better
when you're around.
1892
01:52:30,118 --> 01:52:32,861
Can you wait a while?
1893
01:52:32,955 --> 01:52:36,073
- How long?
- Five minutes.
1894
01:52:36,166 --> 01:52:37,907
It'll take me
that long to pack.
1895
01:52:40,963 --> 01:52:42,106
You know,
that Sebastian of yours
1896
01:52:42,130 --> 01:52:43,666
sounds like a great character.
1897
01:52:43,757 --> 01:52:45,498
You'll have trouble
casting him.
1898
01:52:45,592 --> 01:52:48,380
- This is a book, not a movie.
- You'll sell it to pictures.
1899
01:52:48,470 --> 01:52:50,883
And they'll have trouble
casting him.
1900
01:52:50,973 --> 01:52:53,181
Gee, things Gaucho could
have done with that part.
1901
01:52:53,267 --> 01:52:56,931
You know, he was Sebastian. The
guy with the world on a string.
1902
01:52:57,020 --> 01:52:59,854
Ahh, the big
happy baboon.
1903
01:52:59,940 --> 01:53:02,227
I begged him, "Don't take that
plane, Gaucho."
1904
01:53:02,317 --> 01:53:04,309
But no, not him. He...
1905
01:53:16,373 --> 01:53:18,285
Today is my day for mistakes.
1906
01:53:21,670 --> 01:53:23,878
Jim...
1907
01:53:23,964 --> 01:53:26,627
...I didn't kill Rosemary.
1908
01:53:26,717 --> 01:53:29,676
Gaucho didn't kill her.
She killed herself.
1909
01:53:32,723 --> 01:53:35,682
Whether you like it or not,
you're better off.
1910
01:53:35,767 --> 01:53:38,555
She was a fool.
She got in your way.
1911
01:53:38,645 --> 01:53:40,728
She interfered
with your work.
1912
01:53:40,814 --> 01:53:43,522
She wasted your time.
She wasted you.
1913
01:53:44,276 --> 01:53:46,188
You're better off without her!
1914
01:53:55,495 --> 01:53:57,578
"A sensitive,
unforgettable portrait
1915
01:53:57,664 --> 01:53:59,621
"of a present-day
Southern belle.
1916
01:53:59,708 --> 01:54:02,997
"Gay and foolish,
naive, shrewd
1917
01:54:03,086 --> 01:54:05,999
and heartbreaking
all at once."
1918
01:54:06,089 --> 01:54:09,503
Yes, Jim,
Jonathan sure destroyed you.
1919
01:54:09,593 --> 01:54:11,300
You came out
of it with nothing.
1920
01:54:11,386 --> 01:54:15,346
Nothing but
a Pulitzer Prize novel...
1921
01:54:15,432 --> 01:54:17,845
...and the highest salary
of any writer in Hollywood.
1922
01:54:19,144 --> 01:54:22,137
Look, folks, you've got
to give the devil his due.
1923
01:54:22,230 --> 01:54:23,971
We all owe him something,
and you know it.
1924
01:54:24,066 --> 01:54:26,433
And you've had plenty of years
to think it over.
1925
01:54:26,526 --> 01:54:29,519
- What do you owe him, Harry?
- Plenty.
1926
01:54:29,613 --> 01:54:31,320
All the times he told me
1927
01:54:31,406 --> 01:54:34,319
to shut my
penny-pinching mouth.
1928
01:54:34,409 --> 01:54:39,370
To Jonathan I was always
just an overpaid bookkeeper.
1929
01:54:39,456 --> 01:54:41,539
But without him
I probably would still be
1930
01:54:41,625 --> 01:54:44,038
putting costumes on cat men.
1931
01:54:45,879 --> 01:54:47,745
You know, when they list the
1932
01:54:47,839 --> 01:54:50,547
10 best pictures ever made...
1933
01:54:50,634 --> 01:54:52,674
...there are always two or
three of his on the list.
1934
01:54:54,679 --> 01:54:56,119
And I was with him
when he made them.
1935
01:54:57,057 --> 01:54:58,548
[telephone buzzes]
1936
01:54:58,642 --> 01:55:01,055
Excuse me.
Yes?
1937
01:55:01,144 --> 01:55:03,807
- Your call from Paris is ready.
- Oh.
1938
01:55:03,897 --> 01:55:05,854
Hello!
1939
01:55:05,941 --> 01:55:09,184
Hello? Yes, Jonathan.
1940
01:55:09,277 --> 01:55:11,985
No, I can hear perfectly.
1941
01:55:12,072 --> 01:55:15,156
Yes, they're here, uh-huh,
all three of them.
1942
01:55:16,827 --> 01:55:18,238
Alright, I'll ask them.
1943
01:55:21,373 --> 01:55:23,239
Jonathan wants to know,
1944
01:55:23,333 --> 01:55:25,290
will you help him
get started again?
1945
01:55:25,377 --> 01:55:27,915
Will you work with him
just this once?
1946
01:55:28,004 --> 01:55:29,324
Will you do
this picture with him?
1947
01:55:33,385 --> 01:55:34,546
Georgia?
1948
01:55:39,683 --> 01:55:41,766
Sorry, Jonathan.
1949
01:55:41,852 --> 01:55:44,094
No, I can't.
1950
01:55:44,187 --> 01:55:46,850
I'm sorry, Jonathan.
They're gone.
1951
01:55:48,984 --> 01:55:52,102
I-I'm sure it's a great idea,
but, Jonathan...
1952
01:55:52,195 --> 01:55:54,528
Jonathan, this is costing
$4.80 a minute.
1953
01:55:54,614 --> 01:55:58,073
Don't tell me your idea,
write me. Jonathan, please.
1954
01:55:59,703 --> 01:56:03,162
Yeah. Yeah...
Uh-huh.
1955
01:56:09,671 --> 01:56:11,583
[instrumental music]
1956
01:56:37,449 --> 01:56:39,361
[music continues]
1957
01:57:07,270 --> 01:57:09,182
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1958
01:57:38,009 --> 01:57:39,921
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