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Stage 5.
Mr. Amiel is rehearsing right now.
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Very nice.
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Honey, could you put your hand
up by your throat?
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Telephone, Mr. Amiel.
Transatlantic, Paris. Jonathan Shields.
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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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Hello? Yes.
Who? One moment, please.
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Miss Georgia!
It's Paris, France. It's him!
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I can't hear you.
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It's Mr. Jonathan!
Jonathan Shields.
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I still can't hear you.
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Miss Lorrison is out.
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No, I don't know.
No. I don't know where.
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No, I don't know who...
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...nor where, nor what.
Out is out!
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Hello.
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What?
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Talk a little louder, please.
It's 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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Is Mr. Shields paying for this call?
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Put him on.
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Hello, Jonathan?
Drop dead.
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- Hello, hello, hello.
- Harry, how are you?
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- Georgia.
- Harry.
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Since I became 60, more beautiful
women have kissed me than ever before.
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You youngsters wouldn't know
anything about that.
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Nice to see you.
That waistline is back down.
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- Still keeping long hours.
- A little bit of midnight oil.
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You can tell a successful author
by a cashmere jacket.
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I'm trying to get a wardrobe like
yours. You're known for your style.
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Georgia, darling. Come over
and sit down.
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Freddie, take this chair.
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- Congratulations on the Pulitzer Prize.
- Thanks, Harry.
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- Your picture was great as usual, Fred.
- Thank you, Harry.
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And you, my pretty one,
you really made me cry.
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Have I flattered you enough?
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Here's why I asked you here
in the middle of the night.
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Why Jonathan called you today.
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Jimmy told me you told him to drop dead.
Is that Pulitzer language?
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James Lee never wrote a better line!
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Well, here it is. 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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On the name Jonathan Shields,
it's impossible to raise five cents.
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But on Fred Amiel, Georgia Lorrison,
James Lee Bartlow...
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...I can raise $2,000,000
by tomorrow noon.
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I'm not going to beg you after
two years of begging for Jonathan.
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That's enough. I know you'll never
work with him again.
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But he doesn't get that.
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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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We're ready to talk
with Jonathan Shields in Paris.
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- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
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You won't work with him.
I don't blame you.
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Why should you? You've done enough
for him already... and vice versa.
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Fred, you knew him first. You must
have known him for 15 or 16...
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18 years.
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18 years ago at that funeral.
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That guy standing next to me.
How should I know who he was?
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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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A madman who almost wrecked it.
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A man of vision. An artist,
who created in the new medium...
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A butcher who sold all
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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Thank you, Mr. Shields.
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You're Shields?
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You were hired to perform.
$11 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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That afternoon I drove into
the Hollywood Hills. I just had to.
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- It's me, Big Mouth.
- Come for a fight or your 11 bucks?
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The things I said at the funeral
were childish and cheap. I'm sorry.
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- Wait a minute.
- What is it?
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You in the business?
What do you do?
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Bit of everything: assistant director
on Poverty Row, four-day quickies...
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...sold a couple of story ideas. To eat
I work as an extra and do stunts.
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- What I aim to be is a director.
- What's stopping you?
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I can direct better than most
of the hacks I work for.
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When it comes to telling people
how good I am, 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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Next year, he'd have put up
a new studio for me to inherit.
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This year, I don't have a dime.
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- Who paid the crowd at the funeral?
- 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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The 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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We couldn't stand living in the
same town, but I liked him a lot.
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He made great pictures. So will I.
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You haven't got much to begin with.
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No, he brought me up to start at the
top. How do you start at the bottom?
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- Are you gonna change your name?
- Change it?
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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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Until they kick me out,
this is my bed and board.
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Come on.
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By the way, my name is Fred Amiel.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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18 years ago, living was cheap here,
but jobs 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
or a Western on Poverty Row...
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...and eat well.
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Okay, boys. Let's go.
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Grab that one.
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And some nights we played.
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We crashed only the very best parties.
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If the actor counts five between
each word, you think he's good.
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And directing? If you don't film it,
get it in the cutting room.
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Man's in love, cut to a cactus.
She goes crazy, fade into a wheel.
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Montage, montage!
But where is your story?
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All right, so I won't argue with you.
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I'm taking off my agent hat
and putting on my friendship hat.
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This boy can be the biggest ever,
your next Victor Ribera.
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He's got everything: heart, brains
and he's beautiful to look at.
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I don't care what she writes about me.
It's what she wrote about Arturo.
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He hit me and hurt me.
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I'm not always yelling about
a star's right to a private life.
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Fans are entitled to see us
in the flesh sometimes.
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Only last week I was in New York...
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I've got a full house,
and you can't have four of a kind. No.
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Not even in one of your B pictures!
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- Harry, I think you're bluffing.
- 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.
- Five, and five more.
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- Call.
- Four fours.
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When did you begin to tell the truth?
Don't tell me "today." What time today?
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- Harry Pebbel's a great poker player.
- Yeah.
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But my father could always beat him,
and I could always beat my father.
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- To get in a game like that, I need...
- You're crazy!
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All I need is a few hundred dollars
for my first stack of chips.
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What's a few hundred dollars when
four citizens pool their resources?
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Came the dawn...
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- Good night, gentlemen.
- Good night.
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- Jonathan!
- How much did you win?
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- Five hundred?
- A thousand?
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- More than that. Six thousand.
- Jonathan!
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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, I admit it.
I lost the money and I owe you.
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- I wish I could pay.
- It's breaking your heart.
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- I could give you an IOU.
- What would I do with it?
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You don't run this studio,
but you're an executive producer.
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- B pictures...
- They make money.
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You have four producers, why not five?
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At $300 a week I could pay you off,
slowly, but surely.
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$6,351.
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- All right, you got the job.
- I thought so.
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So you're a genius boy.
You think you blackmailed me!
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Harry, that's a horrid word.
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Well, get this.
My unit turns out 18 pictures a year.
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I cry for ideas. If you'd sweat out a
story the way you do $6,351...
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...l'd have hired you anyway.
Why didn't you come to me? Too proud?
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I tried to. I couldn't get in.
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- You know who gave me my first job?
- My father.
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- You angle things the cute way.
- I'll pay you $100 a week.
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I wouldn't take a dime. Just bring me
a picture I can shoot, Genius Boy.
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- One day you'll work for me.
- Get me Joe Clareton in publicity.
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Meanwhile, I need an office
with a desk for my assistant.
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Shields. Amiel.
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- That's a big dream, Jonathan.
- Lf you dream, dream big.
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Meanwhile, you'll be drawing
a modest check each Thursday.
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It's time you two made it legal.
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- Tell him he's crazy, IKay.
- You're crazy.
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- Tell him I'm not.
- He's not.
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I just happen to have a ring with me.
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Syd Murphy knows a friend
who knows a jeweler.
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- Shall we?
- Tell him yes, IKay.
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He said to tell me yes.
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She says yes very nicely.
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The next few years, shields produced
11 B pictures for Harry Pebbel.
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I directed the third
and five more after that.
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We weren't really picturemakers,
we were second-hand dealers.
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But we learnt our trade.
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Then, one cloudy day, Harry Pebbel
assigned us a horror...
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...called The Doom of the Cat Men.
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This the sort of thing you had in mind?
They need freshening up, though.
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- I can't get into this.
- Don't worry.
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If they don't turn around too much,
some muslin will hide it.
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This needs fitting. Our department
will take care of that.
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This may be a problem
unless you get a thinner man.
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This material is imported.
We can't get it anymore.
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But don't let that be an obstacle.
Here, the perfect fit.
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This will give the full effect.
Lots of character and detail.
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Plenty of fright. Needs puffing, but it'll do.
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You gotta visualize it in the lights,
use imagination.
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Shoulder pads will straighten it out.
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This will give you the effect.
It'll be good.
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- What if...?
- Suppose we...
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- Five men dressed like cats look like...
- Five men dressed like cats.
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When an audience pays to see this,
what do they pay for?
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- To get the pants scared off them?
- What scares us more than anything?
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- The dark!
- Of course, and why?
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The dark has a life of its own,
and all sorts of things come alive.
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- Suppose we never show the cat men.
- Exactly.
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No cat men.
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What do we put on the screen that'll
make the backs of their necks crawl?
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Two eyes shining in the dark.
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A dog: frightened, growling,
showing its fangs.
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A bird: its neck broken,
feathers torn from its throat.
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A little girl: screaming,
claw marks down her cheeks.
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Cut!
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Okay, boys, new deal. Wrap it up!
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This is my first star!
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The night of the sneak preview,
Harry Pebbel still hadn't seen it.
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Jonathan and I
had made sure of that.
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Go, go, go!
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- Hurry, hurry.
- Now, sir.
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"It stinks": 1. "Fair": 8.
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"Good": 24. "Very good": 47.
We've never had cards like this.
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- Give us more like this one.
- "Excellent": 34. "Outstanding": 17.
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I'll put these in the executive dining room.
That'll show 'em.
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- What Harry Pebbel can do...
- Be at my office at 10:00 a.m.
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I'll give you your next assignment.
You did all right.
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I did a great job at producing.
Tell that to the executives.
232
00:23:12,469 --> 00:23:16,428
And remember that "Shields"
is not spelled P-E-B-B-E-L.
233
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,634
I don't wanna give you too much credit.
Just enough to keep you hungry.
234
00:23:30,521 --> 00:23:34,184
By the way, my name
is spelled A-M-I-E-L.
235
00:23:34,391 --> 00:23:37,019
I thought of taking a small bow myself.
236
00:23:37,227 --> 00:23:40,788
A small bow never helped anybody.
Get this straight, Fred.
237
00:23:40,998 --> 00:23:43,432
We're building Shields Productions.
238
00:23:43,634 --> 00:23:45,898
What we'll ram it down their throats.
239
00:23:46,103 --> 00:23:48,094
- It's big enough for both of us.
- I know.
240
00:23:48,305 --> 00:23:52,674
A five-cent story, a ten-cent budget
and a two-cent leading man...
241
00:23:52,876 --> 00:23:56,642
...and we put it over.
We're getting to know our business.
242
00:23:56,847 --> 00:24:00,681
- Yes, Mother.
- Let's go back and get my car.
243
00:24:01,885 --> 00:24:05,412
When I work on a picture,
it's like romancing a girl.
244
00:24:05,622 --> 00:24:09,615
You see her, you want her,
you go after her. The big moment.
245
00:24:09,827 --> 00:24:13,661
Then, the letdown. Every time.
The after-picture blues.
246
00:24:13,864 --> 00:24:17,960
Don't worry. Someday you'll learn
to love 'em and leave 'em.
247
00:24:21,805 --> 00:24:25,901
- Why are you turning off here?
- This you got to see.
248
00:24:38,756 --> 00:24:43,989
Crow's Nest.
George Lorrison built this.
249
00:24:44,495 --> 00:24:46,486
This is where he died.
250
00:24:46,697 --> 00:24:51,157
I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Can we go home now?
251
00:24:58,042 --> 00:25:03,708
So this is how actors used to live.
Cheerful little place, isn't it?
252
00:25:03,914 --> 00:25:08,817
Now, if we can just find out
where he keeps the boiling oil...
253
00:25:11,422 --> 00:25:13,947
The rumpus room.
254
00:25:19,029 --> 00:25:24,433
Jonathan, will you please tell me
what we're doing here?
255
00:25:24,635 --> 00:25:26,603
You scouting a location?
256
00:25:26,804 --> 00:25:30,535
Sure, that's it.
For our next Harry Pebbel production.
257
00:25:30,741 --> 00:25:34,006
It could be
The Bat Men Fly Again...
258
00:25:34,211 --> 00:25:37,647
...or Mama Vampire
and the Three Little Bloodsuckers.
259
00:25:37,848 --> 00:25:41,215
- We don't even have to show...
- Hold this.
260
00:25:50,260 --> 00:25:53,787
Lorrison's idea of my old man.
261
00:25:54,798 --> 00:25:58,894
Lorrison's last three pictures
were for my father.
262
00:25:59,803 --> 00:26:03,762
He gave me my first drink
when I was 13.
263
00:26:03,974 --> 00:26:08,274
My first cigar at 14.
And when I was 15...
264
00:26:08,479 --> 00:26:10,970
...he taught me the facts of life.
265
00:26:17,855 --> 00:26:19,914
He was a great actor...
266
00:26:21,024 --> 00:26:25,984
...and a great man.
- He was a rat and a drunk.
267
00:26:33,837 --> 00:26:37,034
- Who are you?
- His daughter.
268
00:26:37,241 --> 00:26:42,042
- I didn't know he had one.
- Neither did he half the time.
269
00:26:42,246 --> 00:26:46,205
- What are you doing up there?
- Get out.
270
00:26:46,416 --> 00:26:49,510
"A rat and a drunk."
What talk about your father!
271
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:54,180
He was my father.
Now, shut up and leave me alone?
272
00:26:54,391 --> 00:26:59,260
- Go on, blow.
- Somebody ought to tan your rear!
273
00:27:01,064 --> 00:27:03,692
Wanna try it?
274
00:27:06,370 --> 00:27:08,930
I changed my mind.
275
00:27:09,139 --> 00:27:11,539
Now, will you get out of here?
276
00:27:11,742 --> 00:27:13,903
Go on, get out!
277
00:27:40,070 --> 00:27:45,531
The next morning, Jonathan
received our next assignment.
278
00:27:45,742 --> 00:27:47,767
Did you see Harry?
279
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,277
Well, what's our next picture?
280
00:27:55,552 --> 00:27:58,112
Get a good grip on yourself.
281
00:27:59,790 --> 00:28:01,985
You ready?
282
00:28:02,192 --> 00:28:05,491
Our next picture will be
The son of the Cat Men.
283
00:28:11,702 --> 00:28:13,966
That settles it.
284
00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:18,774
The time has come.
285
00:28:20,043 --> 00:28:24,537
The Faraway Mountain.
It's a great book.
286
00:28:26,116 --> 00:28:28,175
Three studios tried to lick it and couldn't.
287
00:28:28,385 --> 00:28:30,410
Well, I can!
288
00:28:32,222 --> 00:28:35,248
Here's my outline, scene for scene.
289
00:28:35,826 --> 00:28:38,351
- You know what Harry will say.
- Yeah.
290
00:28:38,562 --> 00:28:42,521
"Look, I've told you
a hundred times, Genius Boy...
291
00:28:42,733 --> 00:28:46,760
...I want pictures that end with
a kiss and ink on the books."
292
00:28:46,970 --> 00:28:51,031
Jonathan, this is my baby.
I found it and I licked it.
293
00:28:51,241 --> 00:28:55,701
I've been nursing it till I was sure
we could handle it. Now I'm sure.
294
00:28:55,912 --> 00:28:57,777
Remember what you said last night?
295
00:28:57,981 --> 00:29:00,916
Enough practice.
It's time we made one for real.
296
00:29:01,118 --> 00:29:05,987
It cries for a million dollar budget
and location in Veracruz...
297
00:29:06,189 --> 00:29:11,388
...but you producing and me directing,
we can do it on a Harry Pebbel budget.
298
00:29:11,595 --> 00:29:16,828
- For a guy who's tongue-tied...
- I could always talk to you.
299
00:29:17,034 --> 00:29:20,231
You really wanna do this one, Fred.
300
00:29:20,437 --> 00:29:23,270
I wanna direct it so much
I can taste it.
301
00:29:24,207 --> 00:29:26,675
All right, let's do it.
302
00:29:26,877 --> 00:29:29,072
Let's do it!
303
00:29:33,216 --> 00:29:36,242
I've said 100 times
I don't wanna win awards.
304
00:29:36,453 --> 00:29:39,013
Give me pictures that end with a kiss
and ink on the books.
305
00:29:39,222 --> 00:29:41,383
I make this picture, or I quit.
306
00:29:44,628 --> 00:29:47,358
This is my baby.
I found it, and I licked it.
307
00:29:47,564 --> 00:29:49,794
I wanna produce it so much I can taste it!
308
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,458
I'm handing it to you,
father of The son of the Cat Men.
309
00:29:55,605 --> 00:29:58,870
Do I produce The Faraway Mountain
or don't I?
310
00:29:59,076 --> 00:30:01,567
All right, Genius Boy.
311
00:30:01,778 --> 00:30:05,236
You've got it coming to you.
Make it and hang yourself.
312
00:30:06,249 --> 00:30:08,877
Why don't you fire me
and get it over with?
313
00:30:10,053 --> 00:30:12,521
I know the talk around the studio.
314
00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:17,251
They say I need you, that you do
the work and I get the credit.
315
00:30:17,461 --> 00:30:20,862
You think I don't know anything.
Well, I know one thing:
316
00:30:21,064 --> 00:30:25,296
Every studio in town turned
this stinker down. Go ahead, make it.
317
00:30:25,502 --> 00:30:29,666
It'll lay such a bomb you'll never get
another job in this industry.
318
00:30:29,873 --> 00:30:34,833
Will I let you produce it?
You're on suspension if you don't!
319
00:30:36,313 --> 00:30:39,111
I thought my Faraway Mountain
outline was perfect.
320
00:30:39,316 --> 00:30:42,046
After three weeks with Jonathan,
it was twice as good.
321
00:30:42,252 --> 00:30:45,415
We worked day and night.
Kay kept the coffee hot and handy.
322
00:30:45,622 --> 00:30:48,887
As Jonathan shaped our material,
I saw what Hollywood...
323
00:30:49,092 --> 00:30:53,791
...later came to call
the "shields touch," Jonathan's magic.
324
00:30:55,532 --> 00:30:57,557
Our toughest problem
was a leading man.
325
00:30:57,768 --> 00:31:00,965
On a Harry Pebbel budget,
a top star was out of the question.
326
00:31:01,171 --> 00:31:04,470
so, I directed tests, a dozen tests.
327
00:31:05,409 --> 00:31:07,172
Action.
328
00:31:08,512 --> 00:31:10,571
so you are Theresa.
329
00:31:10,781 --> 00:31:14,444
I fiind you as your brother told me,
alone in the great house...
330
00:31:14,651 --> 00:31:17,552
...silent, proud and beautiful.
331
00:31:17,754 --> 00:31:20,780
What is it?
Are you afraid of me?
332
00:31:23,326 --> 00:31:25,794
Switch over to the next one.
333
00:31:28,532 --> 00:31:30,295
Action.
334
00:31:32,135 --> 00:31:36,265
so you are Theresa. I fiind you
as your brother told me I would...
335
00:31:36,473 --> 00:31:41,410
...alone in the great house,
proud, silent and beautiful.
336
00:31:42,312 --> 00:31:45,304
- Who's the girl?
- Douvane said she could test with him.
337
00:31:45,515 --> 00:31:48,382
What did she promise?
Who is she?
338
00:31:48,585 --> 00:31:51,520
George Lorrison's daughter.
339
00:31:51,721 --> 00:31:54,155
Why didn't you shoot her face?
340
00:31:54,357 --> 00:31:56,791
She was drunk.
341
00:31:57,928 --> 00:32:01,830
This is murder, Syd.
Let's have that list again.
342
00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:08,168
You're the director, pick your poison.
343
00:32:08,371 --> 00:32:10,430
Jonathan.
344
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,768
- What about Victor Ribera?
- Gaucho?
345
00:32:13,977 --> 00:32:17,037
- Why not?
- Sure you'd like him. Who wouldn't?
346
00:32:17,247 --> 00:32:22,241
- Why can't we get Gaucho?
- The whole town's after Latin lovers.
347
00:32:22,452 --> 00:32:26,855
- You wouldn't stand a chance.
- How do we know till we've tried?
348
00:32:27,858 --> 00:32:31,350
Maybe you could talk him
into it, Jonathan.
349
00:32:34,598 --> 00:32:38,034
Syd, what would appeal
to a guy like that?
350
00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:42,399
Gaucho? Well, if I know Gaucho...
351
00:33:05,095 --> 00:33:07,188
I'll drive.
352
00:33:52,242 --> 00:33:54,472
Jonathan forgot one thing.
353
00:33:54,678 --> 00:33:57,545
He forgot he couldn't drink.
354
00:34:09,125 --> 00:34:14,085
Nice boy. But does he always
take on so much altitude?
355
00:34:14,297 --> 00:34:17,164
He's been working
night and day for three weeks.
356
00:34:17,367 --> 00:34:20,530
Besides which, he hardly ever drinks.
357
00:34:20,737 --> 00:34:24,639
- He wants me to make a picture?
- Yeah.
358
00:34:24,841 --> 00:34:28,902
Why does he go to all this
lovely trouble? I'm a very simple man.
359
00:34:29,112 --> 00:34:33,845
I read. What I like, I act.
What I do not like...
360
00:34:34,050 --> 00:34:37,383
...I do not act. Very simple.
361
00:35:08,051 --> 00:35:10,884
A conference was held
in Pebbel's offiice...
362
00:35:11,087 --> 00:35:13,954
...to discuss production plans
for The Faraway Mountain.
363
00:35:14,157 --> 00:35:17,217
The suspense was killing me.
364
00:35:19,863 --> 00:35:23,230
- Yes, Mr. Pebbel?
- You can go to lunch now.
365
00:35:24,401 --> 00:35:28,735
- Why don't you take a look in there?
- I think I'll stay here and be nervous.
366
00:35:28,938 --> 00:35:31,463
- Good luck.
- Thanks.
367
00:35:38,848 --> 00:35:40,645
Jonathan...
368
00:35:41,751 --> 00:35:46,711
- Didn't he go for Gaucho?
- Go for him? He had a hemorrhage!
369
00:35:46,923 --> 00:35:50,188
First time a star said he'd be
in a Pebbel picture.
370
00:35:50,393 --> 00:35:54,625
Harry went to bat for us. He slugged
it out with the front office!
371
00:35:54,831 --> 00:35:58,631
The Faraway Mountain will be made
with a million-dollar budget.
372
00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:01,360
Location in Veracruz.
Von Ellstein to direct.
373
00:36:01,571 --> 00:36:06,133
Gaucho. Wendy for the girl.
Chapman my cameraman...
374
00:36:06,342 --> 00:36:09,175
- Von Ellstein to direct...
- You're taken care of.
375
00:36:09,379 --> 00:36:12,610
No separate panel, but your name on
the screen: assistant to the producer.
376
00:36:12,816 --> 00:36:17,185
- Thanks.
- You know the story. It's your baby.
377
00:36:17,387 --> 00:36:22,051
I want you on the set. You have
any ideas, I'll tell Von Ellstein.
378
00:36:22,258 --> 00:36:26,092
Thanks, again.
Von Ellstein to direct...
379
00:36:26,296 --> 00:36:28,992
- You said he was the best.
- Sure he is.
380
00:36:31,067 --> 00:36:35,902
Fred, I'd rather hurt you now
than kill you off forever.
381
00:36:36,106 --> 00:36:38,472
You're not ready
to direct a million dollar picture.
382
00:36:38,675 --> 00:36:41,200
But you're ready to produce one.
383
00:36:42,512 --> 00:36:44,503
With Von Ellstein, I am.
384
00:36:44,714 --> 00:36:47,444
You're stealing my picture!
It was my idea!
385
00:36:47,650 --> 00:36:49,709
Without me it was only an idea.
386
00:36:51,888 --> 00:36:56,052
All right, Jonathan.
Let's put it this way.
387
00:36:56,259 --> 00:36:58,955
You gave me your word.
388
00:37:00,730 --> 00:37:03,528
So I did.
389
00:37:03,733 --> 00:37:07,635
I got the starting date.
In two weeks you leave for Veracruz.
390
00:37:07,837 --> 00:37:10,465
Mr. Von Ellstein,
you'll go one week earlier.
391
00:37:10,673 --> 00:37:13,335
Mr. Shields, I don't like producers...
392
00:37:13,543 --> 00:37:15,602
...but for a man with such a script...
393
00:37:15,812 --> 00:37:18,042
...it'll be a pleasure to break my rule.
394
00:37:18,248 --> 00:37:20,876
Today, I shall buy a producer lunch.
395
00:37:21,084 --> 00:37:23,416
- Am I included?
- By all means, no.
396
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:28,751
Today I've seen a script prepared by
a producer who thinks like a director.
397
00:37:28,958 --> 00:37:32,553
- 13 years I've been making pictures...
- Goodbye, Jonathan.
398
00:37:32,762 --> 00:37:34,662
Fred...
399
00:37:35,732 --> 00:37:37,666
So long, Fred.
400
00:37:37,867 --> 00:37:43,066
This is the first time I've found a
script I can direct exactly as it is...
401
00:37:45,141 --> 00:37:47,974
I always said the boy was a genius.
402
00:37:56,986 --> 00:38:00,683
Are you looking at the Oscar he got
for The Faraway Mountain?
403
00:38:00,890 --> 00:38:05,384
I know what you have
against Jonathan, and no wonder.
404
00:38:05,595 --> 00:38:07,654
Look what he did to you, Fred.
405
00:38:07,864 --> 00:38:11,527
He brushed you off his coattail,
so you had to stand alone.
406
00:38:12,335 --> 00:38:16,863
And all you've got in the world is
a wife, six kids, two Academy Awards...
407
00:38:17,073 --> 00:38:19,541
...and every studio in town after you.
408
00:38:19,742 --> 00:38:24,509
Why, Jonathan ruined you!
Look what he did to me.
409
00:38:25,915 --> 00:38:29,908
I gave him his chance to do
The Faraway Mountain.
410
00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:34,055
Four months later, his contract's up,
and he walks out of the studio.
411
00:38:36,759 --> 00:38:39,057
And I go right with him.
412
00:38:40,997 --> 00:38:43,761
I know how you feel about him, Georgia.
413
00:38:44,801 --> 00:38:48,237
After all, you're a woman
and an actress.
414
00:38:48,438 --> 00:38:54,206
The fiirst time I saw Jonathan,
I was not a woman or an actress.
415
00:38:54,410 --> 00:38:57,573
The next time I saw him,
five years later...
416
00:38:57,780 --> 00:39:01,910
...I wasn't an actress.
I was a nothing.
417
00:39:02,118 --> 00:39:07,647
We'll sign you up outside. 9:00 people,
we'll need you in the background.
418
00:39:07,857 --> 00:39:11,918
Following people, on your way out
please report to wardrobe.
419
00:39:12,128 --> 00:39:14,221
- Mr. Amiel?
- What is it, Georgia?
420
00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:16,990
I'd like to sign out early if I could.
421
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,533
They're casting a bit at Shields.
If I could get there by 3...
422
00:39:20,737 --> 00:39:24,002
- Go ahead. Good luck.
- Thanks, Mr. Amiel.
423
00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:28,810
Gus drove me over.
He waited while I changed.
424
00:39:29,012 --> 00:39:33,210
There were few agents in town
with fewer clients than Gus.
425
00:39:33,416 --> 00:39:36,783
He was the kind of agent
who handled only bit players...
426
00:39:36,986 --> 00:39:40,251
...and who never could get into
a major producer's offiice.
427
00:39:47,797 --> 00:39:50,231
Gus is still my agent.
428
00:39:52,402 --> 00:39:56,168
Girls, will you come in, please?
Line up right across here.
429
00:39:56,372 --> 00:40:00,900
You stand here, you over here.
Honey, will you come down here?
430
00:40:01,110 --> 00:40:02,941
Thank you.
431
00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:07,683
They're for the drugstore bit.
432
00:40:07,884 --> 00:40:11,547
- How about the newborn baby?
- Four here at 3:45.
433
00:40:13,623 --> 00:40:16,820
Girls. Mr. Shields,
Mr. Pebbel, Mr. McDill.
434
00:40:17,026 --> 00:40:19,620
How do you do?
435
00:40:29,872 --> 00:40:32,864
You're the director.
Is the girl on the end all right?
436
00:40:36,245 --> 00:40:38,179
Yeah, sure.
437
00:40:38,881 --> 00:40:42,908
- You're it.
- Thank you. Girls, come with me.
438
00:40:51,094 --> 00:40:53,654
My call came two days later.
439
00:40:53,863 --> 00:40:56,423
By then, I'd memorized my one line.
440
00:40:56,632 --> 00:40:58,657
I'll wait.
441
00:41:01,771 --> 00:41:04,865
Read any good books lately?
442
00:41:10,747 --> 00:41:13,113
- Cut.
- How was it?
443
00:41:15,918 --> 00:41:18,944
- Was that all right with you?
- Take it again?
444
00:41:19,155 --> 00:41:23,148
- Once again, boys! Here we go!
- How's the makeup?
445
00:41:28,931 --> 00:41:31,092
Try it again.
446
00:41:35,972 --> 00:41:38,736
All right, roll.
447
00:41:39,742 --> 00:41:41,903
- Speed.
- Action.
448
00:41:49,585 --> 00:41:51,985
I'll wait.
449
00:41:56,325 --> 00:41:59,556
Read any good books lately?
450
00:42:10,873 --> 00:42:13,808
- Cut!
- How was it?
451
00:42:14,777 --> 00:42:17,302
Print that. Let's have a test.
452
00:42:17,647 --> 00:42:17,680
[Skipped item nr. 452]
453
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,342
- Move in for a close-up.
- New deal, boys.
454
00:42:37,667 --> 00:42:40,465
Your door was unlocked.
455
00:43:02,658 --> 00:43:05,991
For a one-day bit,
you sure expect a lot of company.
456
00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:10,998
For that kind of company,
I don't have to trot here at 4:00 a.m.
457
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,864
- All I have to do is pick up a phone.
- Well, pick one up!
458
00:43:19,075 --> 00:43:22,476
You were under contract to Al Cope.
459
00:43:23,946 --> 00:43:26,881
- Can you hear me?
- Yes.
460
00:43:27,850 --> 00:43:33,686
- You were under contract, right?
- Three years ago, for six months.
461
00:43:33,890 --> 00:43:37,121
Until they found
they had another cluck.
462
00:43:37,326 --> 00:43:40,022
Did you ever play
a real part in a picture?
463
00:43:40,229 --> 00:43:44,393
Last year I played lead
in a little epic called Jungle Tigress.
464
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:50,061
I ran it. You played straight man
to a chimpanzee. I've tried to find...
465
00:43:55,711 --> 00:43:58,805
I've been trying to find
one decent foot of film on you.
466
00:43:59,015 --> 00:44:01,347
- Is there any?
- Yes.
467
00:44:03,152 --> 00:44:05,518
That one line I did yesterday.
468
00:44:05,721 --> 00:44:09,953
That was good.
But it's not enough to go by.
469
00:44:12,929 --> 00:44:15,454
I want you to make a test for me.
470
00:44:28,144 --> 00:44:30,942
All right, Mr. Shields.
471
00:44:31,147 --> 00:44:34,310
Isn't this scene supposed
to go something like this?
472
00:44:34,517 --> 00:44:40,080
I'll make a test for you, and you'll
be good to me, and I'll be good to you.
473
00:44:42,391 --> 00:44:46,327
Who's kidding who?
It's 4 in the morning.
474
00:44:46,529 --> 00:44:51,296
The test, I don't want it.
I wouldn't be any good anyway.
475
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:54,196
Just a waste of good film.
476
00:44:57,406 --> 00:45:03,106
But you're a nice-looking guy,
and you did go to a lot of trouble.
477
00:45:04,513 --> 00:45:07,971
And it's getting late,
so shall I turn out the light?
478
00:45:15,124 --> 00:45:18,025
You're very generous.
479
00:45:19,161 --> 00:45:21,254
Too generous.
480
00:45:22,265 --> 00:45:25,166
You're a Lorrison, all right.
481
00:45:42,218 --> 00:45:45,244
The Queen, my lord, is dead.
482
00:45:45,454 --> 00:45:51,086
she should have died hereafter. There
would have been a time for such a word.
483
00:45:52,161 --> 00:45:55,460
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
484
00:45:55,665 --> 00:45:59,192
...creeps in this petty pace
from day to day...
485
00:45:59,402 --> 00:46:03,361
...to the last syllable of recorded time.
486
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:10,076
And all our yesterdays have lighted
fools the way to dusty death.
487
00:46:10,279 --> 00:46:14,215
Out, out, brief candle.
488
00:46:15,017 --> 00:46:17,349
Life's but a walking shadow...
489
00:46:17,553 --> 00:46:21,250
...a poor player that struts and frets
his hour upon the stage...
490
00:46:21,457 --> 00:46:24,290
Turn that off and get out!
I wanna get some sleep.
491
00:46:24,493 --> 00:46:27,690
It is a tale told by an idiot.
492
00:46:28,431 --> 00:46:33,494
Full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
493
00:46:33,703 --> 00:46:36,069
Turn it off! I don't wanna hear it!
I hate him!
494
00:46:36,272 --> 00:46:39,207
Make up your mind. You hate him,
and you build this shrine.
495
00:46:39,408 --> 00:46:42,969
He died 10 years ago, and you've
been holding a wake since.
496
00:46:43,179 --> 00:46:45,170
You can't be a star in a cemetery.
497
00:46:45,381 --> 00:46:50,683
Stop pitching! I'm one girl
who doesn't wanna be a star.
498
00:46:51,287 --> 00:46:54,688
Because he was a drunk, you are!
He loved girls, so you're a tramp!
499
00:46:54,890 --> 00:46:58,417
You forget one thing.
He did it with style.
500
00:47:01,097 --> 00:47:03,031
And you...
501
00:47:06,068 --> 00:47:09,003
- Put that down.
- Suicide, how many times?
502
00:47:09,205 --> 00:47:11,173
Twice. Put that pipe down!
503
00:47:13,142 --> 00:47:16,441
Too sacred to touch?
504
00:47:19,882 --> 00:47:23,045
Don't waste any sleep over me,
Mr. Shields.
505
00:47:23,252 --> 00:47:27,120
The last time I tried to commit suicide
was six months ago.
506
00:47:27,323 --> 00:47:30,121
- There won't be any next time.
- Won't there?
507
00:47:31,127 --> 00:47:33,322
No.
508
00:47:33,529 --> 00:47:39,058
People who knew my father
give me extra work now and then.
509
00:47:40,169 --> 00:47:44,162
I drink what I want and see who I want.
510
00:47:44,373 --> 00:47:46,500
Who knows?
511
00:47:46,709 --> 00:47:50,145
Someday I may even get married...
512
00:47:50,346 --> 00:47:53,679
...to a nice upright assistant assistant.
513
00:47:53,883 --> 00:47:57,114
And make him miserable
for the rest of his life...
514
00:47:57,319 --> 00:48:01,119
...because you're a Lorrison:
haunted, living by make-believe.
515
00:48:01,323 --> 00:48:05,589
You're acting now, playing the doomed
daughter of the great man.
516
00:48:05,795 --> 00:48:08,491
The acting isn't good enough.
517
00:48:08,697 --> 00:48:11,530
The cheap performance
of a bit player, not a star.
518
00:48:11,734 --> 00:48:14,726
That's all, until you pull
yourself from this tomb!
519
00:48:14,937 --> 00:48:18,395
Until you can see people as they are,
yourself as you are!
520
00:48:18,607 --> 00:48:22,407
Until you can do this
to your father's picture...
521
00:48:22,611 --> 00:48:24,579
...and laugh as he would have!
522
00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:28,443
That's not a god talking, Georgia,
that's only a man!
523
00:48:32,254 --> 00:48:34,017
You!
524
00:48:37,793 --> 00:48:40,956
Miss Lorrison! Miss Lorrison!
525
00:48:42,131 --> 00:48:44,929
You better tell her it's all right.
526
00:48:47,670 --> 00:48:50,468
It's all right, Mrs. Curry.
527
00:49:27,610 --> 00:49:29,771
Good night, Georgia.
528
00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:33,514
Good night.
529
00:49:41,824 --> 00:49:45,260
It takes two hours
to get ready for a screen test.
530
00:49:45,461 --> 00:49:48,794
Two very-early-in-the-morning hours.
531
00:49:48,998 --> 00:49:51,899
Hello, honey. Here you are.
532
00:49:52,101 --> 00:49:55,127
- Let's run the scene again.
- Thanks, Gus.
533
00:49:59,942 --> 00:50:03,207
"I think you understand."
534
00:50:03,412 --> 00:50:06,813
You mean you're through with me.
This is the end.
535
00:50:07,016 --> 00:50:12,579
- "To put it that bluntly..."
- It means that little to you?
536
00:50:12,788 --> 00:50:17,384
"Look, my dear.
We are two civilized people.
537
00:50:17,593 --> 00:50:19,925
Let us act like civilized people."
538
00:50:20,129 --> 00:50:24,429
They told me about you.
I didn't believe them. You hear...
539
00:50:24,633 --> 00:50:27,397
- "But you're everything..."
- Oh, yeah.
540
00:50:27,603 --> 00:50:30,663
But you're everything they said.
You hear evil.
541
00:50:30,873 --> 00:50:36,004
You see evil. You speak evil.
You are evil.
542
00:50:36,211 --> 00:50:40,580
- Fine. Let's run it again.
- Okay.
543
00:50:42,318 --> 00:50:44,445
...to put it bluntly.
544
00:50:44,653 --> 00:50:47,884
It means that little to you?
545
00:50:48,090 --> 00:50:51,287
Look, my dear.
We're two civilized people.
546
00:50:51,493 --> 00:50:54,018
Let us act like civilized people.
547
00:50:54,229 --> 00:50:58,131
They told me about you.
I didn't believe them.
548
00:50:58,334 --> 00:51:00,325
But you're everything they said.
549
00:51:00,536 --> 00:51:05,337
You hear evil. You see evil.
You speak evil.
550
00:51:06,609 --> 00:51:09,271
You are evil!
551
00:51:17,553 --> 00:51:19,714
What do you think?
552
00:51:21,490 --> 00:51:26,086
Dear Jonathan, since you've paid me
$100,000 to direct this picture...
553
00:51:26,295 --> 00:51:27,990
...a lot of pound sterling...
554
00:51:28,197 --> 00:51:30,961
...presumably
you want my kind of picture.
555
00:51:31,166 --> 00:51:35,000
With this girl, I tell you,
it won't be my kind of picture.
556
00:51:35,204 --> 00:51:37,570
- She's impossible.
- Quite.
557
00:51:37,773 --> 00:51:41,106
She's wooden, gauche, artificial.
558
00:51:41,310 --> 00:51:44,802
- Completely out of the question.
- Quite.
559
00:51:45,781 --> 00:51:47,806
Syd?
560
00:51:48,017 --> 00:51:51,316
Jonathan, since you hire me
partly to yes you...
561
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,614
- You're fired.
- She stinks.
562
00:51:54,823 --> 00:51:59,988
- You're hired. Harry?
- I know we can get her for nothing.
563
00:52:00,195 --> 00:52:02,959
For nothing you get nothing.
564
00:52:03,165 --> 00:52:05,429
She's nothing.
565
00:52:06,235 --> 00:52:11,229
There were few agents in town
with fewer clients than Gus...
566
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,467
...but the few he had he knew well.
567
00:52:36,165 --> 00:52:38,429
I told you not to waste your film.
568
00:52:38,634 --> 00:52:42,695
Gus, check with Harry Pebbel.
He's drawing up the contracts.
569
00:52:43,806 --> 00:52:47,003
- She's in it?
- Of course.
570
00:52:47,209 --> 00:52:50,337
You mean you're gonna give her a part?
571
00:52:50,546 --> 00:52:52,571
The part.
572
00:52:54,983 --> 00:52:57,213
Georgia!
573
00:53:00,789 --> 00:53:03,553
Mr. Shields,
you're a very stubborn man.
574
00:53:03,759 --> 00:53:07,354
Very, when I'm right.
I know I'm right about you.
575
00:53:07,563 --> 00:53:11,659
I gave you no help. The test was
atrocious, but it proved one thing.
576
00:53:11,867 --> 00:53:16,304
When you're on the screen,
the audience is looking at you.
577
00:53:17,873 --> 00:53:20,467
That's star quality...
578
00:53:20,676 --> 00:53:22,610
...Lorrison quality.
579
00:53:23,612 --> 00:53:28,049
Careful, Mr. Shields. You're looking
at me, but you see my father.
580
00:53:28,250 --> 00:53:30,377
He gave me his name, but that's all.
581
00:53:30,586 --> 00:53:33,612
Don't make a mistake.
582
00:53:35,657 --> 00:53:37,591
Georgia...
583
00:53:37,793 --> 00:53:42,787
...no more doomed daughter, no more
whimpering, no more drinking...
584
00:53:42,998 --> 00:53:46,092
- And no more men?
- By and by.
585
00:53:46,301 --> 00:53:49,065
Gus, pull yourself together!
586
00:53:49,271 --> 00:53:53,867
I can't help it, Mr. Shields.
I'm a very emotional man.
587
00:53:58,781 --> 00:54:04,481
The picture was to start in six weeks.
And six weeks seemed like forever.
588
00:54:04,686 --> 00:54:09,487
Then, suddenly, with fittings,
hairdressing and makeup tests...
589
00:54:09,691 --> 00:54:12,159
...five of them were gone.
590
00:54:13,695 --> 00:54:18,689
I don't know what to do. The waist
has to be tight. The train, long...
591
00:54:18,901 --> 00:54:22,166
Evelyn, will you tell me
what's worrying you?
592
00:54:22,371 --> 00:54:25,306
Would you walk over there, please?
593
00:54:30,813 --> 00:54:32,678
Now, turn.
594
00:54:35,083 --> 00:54:39,315
Mr. Shields, I'm afraid Miss Lorrison
can't carry a dress like this.
595
00:54:39,521 --> 00:54:42,354
It takes an enormous amount of poise.
596
00:54:42,558 --> 00:54:48,519
You have to walk like a grand duchess
or hold yourself like Lilly Langtree.
597
00:54:48,730 --> 00:54:52,063
Miss Lorrison will hold herself
like Miss Lorrison.
598
00:54:52,267 --> 00:54:55,600
Miss Lorrison happens to be
an actress.
599
00:54:56,572 --> 00:54:59,200
Make a wider turn, Georgia.
600
00:55:01,343 --> 00:55:03,777
That's it.
Now, come over here.
601
00:55:05,614 --> 00:55:08,412
You're all right.
Come here.
602
00:55:09,618 --> 00:55:12,280
Sit down. Can you sit down?
603
00:55:12,487 --> 00:55:14,182
- No.
- Perfect.
604
00:55:14,389 --> 00:55:18,416
Everybody out now, please.
I wanna talk to my star.
605
00:55:22,965 --> 00:55:26,696
- One week to go. Nervous?
- A little.
606
00:55:26,902 --> 00:55:29,769
- Tired?
- Very.
607
00:55:29,972 --> 00:55:32,532
You work very hard,
you're a good girl.
608
00:55:32,741 --> 00:55:34,834
How good?
609
00:55:35,043 --> 00:55:39,810
I'm sending you away.
Palm Springs for the rest of the week.
610
00:55:40,015 --> 00:55:42,916
- Must I?
- Absolutely.
611
00:55:43,118 --> 00:55:46,554
Till you're on set next week,
I want you to sleep...
612
00:55:46,755 --> 00:55:49,918
...relax, and not think about a thing.
613
00:55:50,125 --> 00:55:52,821
Not even you?
614
00:55:53,962 --> 00:55:57,864
- You said no drinking.
- One drink.
615
00:56:08,710 --> 00:56:11,474
To Georgia, my star.
616
00:56:13,916 --> 00:56:17,113
- You said no men.
- So I did.
617
00:56:20,989 --> 00:56:23,822
- We'd agreed.
- You agreed all by yourself.
618
00:56:24,026 --> 00:56:28,895
- Don't put words in my mouth.
- Well, they sure come flapping out.
619
00:56:29,097 --> 00:56:35,866
My pavilion for the garden party,
it was to be three feet off the ground.
620
00:56:36,071 --> 00:56:40,405
That three feet will cost,
with charges and extra shooting time...
621
00:56:40,609 --> 00:56:43,578
...$25,000, more or less,
and with you, more.
622
00:56:43,779 --> 00:56:46,805
I can't shoot without it.
I won't shoot without it.
623
00:56:47,015 --> 00:56:50,507
I'm building an entire sequence
to that one moment.
624
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,916
- So move the camera up!
- I will not cheat the shot!
625
00:56:54,122 --> 00:56:57,922
- That's not the way I function.
- I'm not asking you to change...
626
00:56:58,126 --> 00:57:00,117
Jonathan!
627
00:57:03,031 --> 00:57:06,865
I have something to show you.
This is wonderful.
628
00:57:07,069 --> 00:57:10,869
You can't say that.
I have to look after the budget.
629
00:57:11,073 --> 00:57:13,940
Look. My new car.
630
00:57:14,142 --> 00:57:18,806
I don't care where you put the camera.
Put your camera there.
631
00:57:19,014 --> 00:57:23,246
- A boom costs 150 dollars a day.
- We talked about that 3 weeks ago.
632
00:57:23,452 --> 00:57:27,149
- Like to drive it around the block?
- I'm busy.
633
00:57:27,356 --> 00:57:31,122
- As smooth a drive you'll never have.
- Gaucho, I'm busy.
634
00:57:31,326 --> 00:57:34,887
- How long would a quick ride take?
- Gaucho, I'm busy.
635
00:57:35,097 --> 00:57:39,796
You're always busy!
Why don't you live a little? Adios.
636
00:57:41,903 --> 00:57:46,306
- �25,000, I wanna tell you this...
- No, it's �7-8000.
637
00:57:46,508 --> 00:57:49,136
�7-8000. I'm the one who's got to...
638
00:57:49,344 --> 00:57:55,010
- I can't be shooting up their noses!
- Nobody's asking you to shoot up...
639
00:57:56,118 --> 00:58:00,282
Gentlemen, there seems to be
an honest difference of opinion.
640
00:58:00,489 --> 00:58:03,322
- We'll have to make a compromise.
- You bet.
641
00:58:03,525 --> 00:58:06,085
The compromise, gentlemen, is this.
642
00:58:06,294 --> 00:58:11,357
Harry, shut your penny-pinching
mouth and build him his platform!
643
00:58:37,959 --> 00:58:42,487
The night before we started shooting,
I came back from Palm springs.
644
00:58:42,697 --> 00:58:46,155
I tried to sleep. I couldn't.
645
00:58:46,368 --> 00:58:49,804
I don't know what drew me
to the empty stage.
646
00:58:50,005 --> 00:58:52,735
I guess I was scared.
647
00:59:27,976 --> 00:59:33,471
"To my new star, who will make me
very proud of her. Jonathan. "
648
00:59:44,493 --> 00:59:46,893
It was cold on the set.
649
00:59:47,095 --> 00:59:49,996
And suddenly, my throat was dry.
650
00:59:50,198 --> 00:59:54,658
so dry I knew I had to have a drink.
651
01:00:13,421 --> 01:00:16,015
The papers know,
but I asked them to lay off.
652
01:00:16,224 --> 01:00:18,784
She'll burn up every column
in the country.
653
01:00:18,994 --> 01:00:23,829
I wanted to do a picture with her, make
a star of someone this town discarded.
654
01:00:24,032 --> 01:00:29,163
Cross her off. Let me contact
the agents and see who's available.
655
01:00:31,740 --> 01:00:34,072
All right. Cast it and get it over with.
656
01:00:34,276 --> 01:00:37,837
I'll tell Whitfield to shoot around the part.
657
01:00:42,083 --> 01:00:44,142
- Sorry I'm late.
- Get out a release.
658
01:00:44,352 --> 01:00:48,880
We're signing Anne Gavery
for the part tomorrow morning.
659
01:00:53,128 --> 01:00:56,655
- The morgue gives me the jitters.
- Forget her.
660
01:00:56,865 --> 01:00:59,561
I've covered everything:
waterfront, jails, hospitals...
661
01:00:59,768 --> 01:01:02,430
...scraped the Main Street booze parlors.
662
01:01:02,637 --> 01:01:06,038
- I told you to forget her.
- I have professional pride.
663
01:01:06,241 --> 01:01:12,578
I thought I knew every rathole in town.
She's found a new one, or she's left.
664
01:01:13,582 --> 01:01:19,350
Janitor says she sometimes locks
her door and leaves for days at a time.
665
01:01:19,554 --> 01:01:24,218
Where would I go for days at a time?
I try to put myself in her place...
666
01:01:43,111 --> 01:01:46,012
Hello, Georgia.
667
01:01:49,217 --> 01:01:52,118
You forgot...
668
01:01:53,154 --> 01:01:56,954
...you forgot to tie your tie.
669
01:03:09,264 --> 01:03:12,233
You're sorry, aren't you?
670
01:03:13,835 --> 01:03:19,239
Should I wash your mouth with soap
and send you to bed without supper?
671
01:03:20,308 --> 01:03:23,072
Why did you do it, Georgia?
672
01:03:24,012 --> 01:03:26,537
Do you know why?
673
01:03:29,751 --> 01:03:31,912
Why?
674
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:37,217
Because I was afraid
I'd louse things up for you...
675
01:03:38,226 --> 01:03:40,660
...because I love you.
676
01:03:41,763 --> 01:03:44,231
I do, you know.
677
01:03:48,036 --> 01:03:51,233
It's cold sitting on the ground.
678
01:03:54,109 --> 01:03:57,442
Georgia, come here.
679
01:04:00,749 --> 01:04:02,740
Sit down.
680
01:04:20,068 --> 01:04:24,129
Georgia, love is for the very young.
681
01:04:24,939 --> 01:04:28,397
"For the very young." I like that.
682
01:04:30,178 --> 01:04:33,511
Would you marry me, Jonathan?
683
01:04:33,715 --> 01:04:36,309
Not even a little bit.
684
01:04:37,118 --> 01:04:40,212
- That's too bad.
- Why?
685
01:04:41,890 --> 01:04:44,984
Because I'd make you a good wife.
686
01:04:45,193 --> 01:04:49,630
Well, right now I don't need a wife,
I need a star.
687
01:04:51,733 --> 01:04:54,793
It's cold not sitting on the ground.
688
01:04:55,003 --> 01:04:58,404
Let's go in by the fire, shall we?
689
01:05:07,816 --> 01:05:12,344
We're signing Anne Gavery for the part.
690
01:05:12,554 --> 01:05:17,184
- Oh? She'll be good.
- I think she will.
691
01:05:17,392 --> 01:05:21,123
Why, that big ham, she couldn't...
Well, she...
692
01:05:21,329 --> 01:05:23,388
Here.
693
01:05:23,598 --> 01:05:28,092
Jonathan, if we were married,
I wouldn't take up much room.
694
01:05:28,303 --> 01:05:32,034
Put those things on.
Your clothes will be dry soon.
695
01:06:06,174 --> 01:06:09,575
- Hello.
- I've been trying to reach you.
696
01:06:09,777 --> 01:06:13,770
- Oh, Harry...
- You have a picture in production.
697
01:06:13,982 --> 01:06:16,007
- I know.
- We have to get a new star.
698
01:06:16,217 --> 01:06:20,586
- Harry...
- Listen to me, and don't interrupt.
699
01:06:31,833 --> 01:06:34,233
Jonathan, are you there?
700
01:06:34,435 --> 01:06:40,067
- Hello. Hello.
- Harry, forget about Anne Gavery.
701
01:06:40,275 --> 01:06:43,039
Have you gone crazy?
Are you drunk?
702
01:06:43,244 --> 01:06:46,839
I said forget about her.
Georgia is right here.
703
01:06:47,048 --> 01:06:49,243
Everything's fine. We'll use her.
704
01:06:49,450 --> 01:06:52,419
I don't know what you've got
in your mind.
705
01:06:52,620 --> 01:06:56,181
- You'll make a fool of yourself.
- I'll take that chance.
706
01:06:56,391 --> 01:07:01,328
We'll see. I know.
Harry, listen to me...
707
01:07:01,529 --> 01:07:06,125
Harry, shut up, and listen to me!
These are my instructions:
708
01:07:06,334 --> 01:07:09,098
Georgia's in. We'll shoot in the morning.
709
01:07:09,304 --> 01:07:14,435
- You call Whitfield and tell him.
- Lf I go to the bank, they'll laugh.
710
01:07:17,712 --> 01:07:21,307
Everybody knows about this girl.
No studio will touch her...
711
01:07:21,516 --> 01:07:25,145
Harry, shut up and listen to me.
712
01:07:25,353 --> 01:07:28,914
Don't worry.
Everything's gonna be all right.
713
01:07:29,123 --> 01:07:33,184
- I know just how to handle her now.
- You know how to handle her!
714
01:07:46,107 --> 01:07:47,972
They're...
715
01:07:48,776 --> 01:07:50,903
They're blue.
716
01:07:57,318 --> 01:08:00,310
Blue is my, my lucky...
717
01:08:09,797 --> 01:08:11,924
...color.
718
01:08:24,979 --> 01:08:27,675
We were 14 weeks
shooting the picture.
719
01:08:27,882 --> 01:08:31,750
The most wonderful 14 weeks
I'd ever known.
720
01:08:31,953 --> 01:08:34,513
Change that line right there.
721
01:08:34,722 --> 01:08:37,316
...see him. Up!
722
01:08:38,660 --> 01:08:42,027
They'll throw pennies at us.
It's ridiculous.
723
01:08:42,230 --> 01:08:45,324
This is a dramatic moment.
The guy you love is onstage.
724
01:08:45,533 --> 01:08:49,162
You see him, and you know
somebody's gonna kill him.
725
01:08:49,370 --> 01:08:52,134
If you're gonna joke about...
726
01:08:52,340 --> 01:08:57,471
You're not taking this seriously.
I'll try once more, and that's all.
727
01:08:59,781 --> 01:09:02,215
This mumbo jumbo
doesn't make any sense.
728
01:09:02,417 --> 01:09:06,148
Try again. Make love
while you're lighting the cigarette.
729
01:09:06,354 --> 01:09:09,221
Go ahead. Take it.
730
01:09:09,424 --> 01:09:12,621
Light it.
Look up. That's it.
731
01:09:12,827 --> 01:09:16,820
All the time thinking, thinking.
That's it.
732
01:09:17,031 --> 01:09:20,865
That's a lot better.
Wasn't that much better?
733
01:09:22,303 --> 01:09:24,362
Jonathan was a perfectionist.
734
01:09:24,572 --> 01:09:27,837
When he loved a scene,
money meant nothing...
735
01:09:28,042 --> 01:09:31,136
...fatigue even less,
his or anyone else's.
736
01:09:31,345 --> 01:09:36,806
We did it over and over and over
till we could hardly stand.
737
01:09:49,664 --> 01:09:54,692
- All right, cut. How was that?
- Try it again.
738
01:09:54,902 --> 01:09:59,202
Jonathan! For heaven's sake!
Fun is fun!
739
01:10:00,141 --> 01:10:04,510
- Did they get it?
- I don't know. They're still arguing.
740
01:10:04,712 --> 01:10:08,773
Oh, brother!
This is amateur night in Dixie!
741
01:10:08,983 --> 01:10:11,645
They'll make up their minds
or lose Baby.
742
01:10:11,853 --> 01:10:15,084
- Hi, Baby.
- You were gonna get me into pictures.
743
01:10:15,289 --> 01:10:19,453
It takes a little while, Baby.
I worked as an extra for three years.
744
01:10:19,660 --> 01:10:23,391
- This is good experience.
- This is experience?
745
01:10:23,598 --> 01:10:27,466
By the time I get a speaking part,
they'll have to carry me.
746
01:10:27,668 --> 01:10:31,468
- You're pretty when you're mad.
- Thanks a lot.
747
01:10:31,672 --> 01:10:35,733
Wrap it up!
Get these people outside!
748
01:10:35,943 --> 01:10:38,707
Stage setup first thing in the morning!
749
01:10:41,549 --> 01:10:45,679
- Good night, Miss Lorrison.
- Good night, George.
750
01:10:47,155 --> 01:10:49,248
I thought that take was good.
751
01:10:49,457 --> 01:10:53,359
Pretty good,
but I wanna get more out of Gaucho.
752
01:10:54,929 --> 01:10:56,692
- Happy?
- Very.
753
01:10:56,898 --> 01:10:59,867
- Are you, Jonathan?
- Very.
754
01:11:00,067 --> 01:11:04,470
- May I buy you dinner tonight?
- And tomorrow night.
755
01:11:04,672 --> 01:11:09,268
That's the look I want on that wedding
scene. Can you give me that?
756
01:11:09,477 --> 01:11:11,536
I'll try.
757
01:11:18,219 --> 01:11:20,585
Mr. Shields, we're five over budget.
758
01:11:20,788 --> 01:11:24,724
I need you to sign these sheets
before I can send out the checks.
759
01:11:24,926 --> 01:11:27,793
Good night.
Hurry up, Baby.
760
01:11:27,995 --> 01:11:30,293
Be an angel, bring my car around.
761
01:11:30,498 --> 01:11:34,491
si, senor. You want me
to wash it for you too?
762
01:11:34,702 --> 01:11:36,897
Georgia.
763
01:11:37,104 --> 01:11:41,370
- You were wonderful in that scene.
- Thank you.
764
01:11:41,576 --> 01:11:45,979
Every day I watch you grow
more and more an actress.
765
01:11:51,986 --> 01:11:56,514
To give truth to a performance,
there's nothing like love.
766
01:11:56,724 --> 01:12:00,421
- Love is for the very young.
- Love is for the birds!
767
01:12:05,032 --> 01:12:07,830
- Good night, Georgia.
- Good night, Gaucho.
768
01:12:13,274 --> 01:12:16,732
Lila, that wasn't nice!
769
01:12:16,944 --> 01:12:20,505
I guess it depends on
who a girl has dinner with.
770
01:12:20,715 --> 01:12:23,309
Shh, Baby.
771
01:12:23,517 --> 01:12:27,851
She gets to be a star,
I get to park a convertible.
772
01:12:28,055 --> 01:12:32,754
Don't talk like that about Georgia,
or Jonathan. He is a great man.
773
01:12:33,861 --> 01:12:37,763
There are no great men, buster.
There's only men.
774
01:12:39,300 --> 01:12:42,326
The last two weeks of the picture,
I was in a dream...
775
01:12:42,536 --> 01:12:44,902
...a bad dream.
776
01:12:45,673 --> 01:12:48,642
All right, Jonathan!
777
01:12:48,843 --> 01:12:50,834
Action!
778
01:13:06,294 --> 01:13:10,025
- They're ready, Miss Lorrison.
- She'll be right there.
779
01:13:10,231 --> 01:13:14,759
I don't know what to do.
I feel sick and frightened.
780
01:13:14,969 --> 01:13:17,403
You're tired.
You've been trying so hard.
781
01:13:17,605 --> 01:13:20,768
But they think I'm such a fool,
or temperamental...
782
01:13:20,975 --> 01:13:23,307
It's only a few more days.
783
01:13:23,511 --> 01:13:26,810
I feel like I'm gonna scream.
I can't help myself.
784
01:13:27,014 --> 01:13:30,450
Hurry, Miss Lorrison.
Please, they're all waiting.
785
01:13:32,486 --> 01:13:35,011
We were on the last scene.
786
01:13:35,222 --> 01:13:38,658
We fiinished a little before dawn.
787
01:13:39,427 --> 01:13:42,225
We're alone now.
788
01:13:43,698 --> 01:13:46,531
And I can talk to you.
789
01:13:48,336 --> 01:13:53,501
Now I can tell you
what I never could tell you before.
790
01:13:55,443 --> 01:13:59,038
You must forgive me, my darling.
791
01:13:59,246 --> 01:14:02,181
You mustn't mind my crying...
792
01:14:03,551 --> 01:14:06,520
...now that it's too late.
793
01:14:07,188 --> 01:14:10,089
Now, at last, I can tell you.
794
01:14:11,192 --> 01:14:14,127
I love you, Gregory.
795
01:14:14,695 --> 01:14:17,926
I love you. I love you so...
796
01:14:57,371 --> 01:14:59,771
After the opening, there was a party.
797
01:14:59,974 --> 01:15:02,704
It was a lovely top-of-the-world party.
798
01:15:02,910 --> 01:15:05,378
It was my party,
and everybody was there.
799
01:15:05,579 --> 01:15:08,980
And everybody made
a fuss over me. Everybody...
800
01:15:09,183 --> 01:15:11,549
...but Jonathan.
801
01:16:03,304 --> 01:16:07,570
You wouldn't come to my party,
so I brought my party to you.
802
01:16:07,775 --> 01:16:10,209
Jonathan, it was so wonderful.
803
01:16:10,411 --> 01:16:13,778
Everything you wanted for me.
Just as you promised.
804
01:16:13,981 --> 01:16:16,449
They applauded, cheered,
oohed and aahed.
805
01:16:16,650 --> 01:16:20,017
Georgia, go back and enjoy it.
806
01:16:22,056 --> 01:16:24,251
But there's no one to enjoy it with.
807
01:16:24,458 --> 01:16:30,055
Why, that's silly. Everybody in town
is fighting to be near the new star.
808
01:16:30,264 --> 01:16:33,461
You know what I mean, Jonathan.
809
01:16:33,667 --> 01:16:37,159
Georgia, I have to be alone tonight.
810
01:16:37,371 --> 01:16:39,965
After a picture's done,
something happens.
811
01:16:40,174 --> 01:16:45,043
It's a feeling of letdown, of emptiness.
812
01:16:45,246 --> 01:16:49,649
It's bad. It gets worse.
I can't help it.
813
01:16:49,850 --> 01:16:54,878
I know. Syd and Harry have told me
about that. But tonight...
814
01:16:55,089 --> 01:16:58,217
I'd only depress you.
I want you to go back now.
815
01:16:58,425 --> 01:17:02,327
- You've got bows to take. Take them!
- Darling.
816
01:17:02,530 --> 01:17:07,331
I was afraid you might be angry
or resent my coming here...
817
01:17:07,535 --> 01:17:09,503
...but I had to take that chance.
818
01:17:09,703 --> 01:17:14,003
Right in the middle of everything,
suddenly I knew one thing so clearly.
819
01:17:14,208 --> 01:17:19,407
The party is where you are:
depressed or gay or angry...
820
01:17:19,613 --> 01:17:24,482
...or tender or in any of your moods.
I know them all.
821
01:17:24,685 --> 01:17:28,086
Let's have our party.
We've got so much to celebrate.
822
01:17:28,289 --> 01:17:32,521
We'll ice the champagne.
We'll light the fire.
823
01:17:32,726 --> 01:17:34,956
We'll put on the records and dance.
824
01:17:35,162 --> 01:17:39,326
I'll help you pull yourself out of this
the way you helped me.
825
01:17:39,533 --> 01:17:42,627
Give me that chance, darling?
Please?
826
01:17:42,836 --> 01:17:47,068
Please don't shut me out.
Please.
827
01:18:00,721 --> 01:18:03,155
You said you'd get rid of her quick.
828
01:18:03,924 --> 01:18:05,915
Now, go back to your party.
829
01:18:08,128 --> 01:18:12,064
The picture's finished, Georgia.
You're business, I'm company.
830
01:18:12,266 --> 01:18:16,965
Shut up!
Shut up, and get back upstairs!
831
01:18:22,643 --> 01:18:26,272
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Georgia.
832
01:18:26,480 --> 01:18:29,074
I saw the picture.
833
01:18:29,283 --> 01:18:31,751
I thought you were swell.
834
01:18:34,788 --> 01:18:37,222
Good night, Georgia.
835
01:18:43,364 --> 01:18:45,696
Stop looking like that.
836
01:18:45,899 --> 01:18:48,333
Remember, I didn't ask you here.
837
01:18:48,535 --> 01:18:51,003
You couldn't stay where you belong.
838
01:18:51,205 --> 01:18:54,003
You couldn't enjoy
what I made possible for you.
839
01:18:54,208 --> 01:18:56,506
You'd rather have this.
840
01:18:56,710 --> 01:19:01,977
Well, congratulations.
You've got it all laid out for you...
841
01:19:02,182 --> 01:19:04,412
...so you can wallow in self-pity.
842
01:19:04,618 --> 01:19:09,749
A betrayed woman, the wounded doe,
with all the dribble that goes with it.
843
01:19:09,957 --> 01:19:12,016
"He doesn't love me. He was lying.
844
01:19:12,226 --> 01:19:16,026
Lovely moments, tender words.
He's lying. He's cheap and cruel!
845
01:19:16,230 --> 01:19:20,132
That low woman Lila!"
Well, maybe I like Lilas.
846
01:19:20,334 --> 01:19:24,202
Maybe I like to be cheap sometimes.
Maybe everybody does.
847
01:19:24,905 --> 01:19:27,840
Or don't you remember?
848
01:19:28,909 --> 01:19:30,877
Get that look off your face!
849
01:19:31,078 --> 01:19:35,674
Who gave you the right to dig into me
and decide what I'm like?
850
01:19:35,883 --> 01:19:38,647
How do you know
how I feel about you?
851
01:19:38,852 --> 01:19:43,949
Maybe I don't want anybody
to own me, you or anybody. Get out!
852
01:19:44,158 --> 01:19:46,126
Get out!
853
01:21:02,736 --> 01:21:07,036
I told you I'd never work for
him again, and I never will.
854
01:21:07,241 --> 01:21:11,837
I don't blame you, Georgia.
Jonathan certainly ruined you.
855
01:21:12,045 --> 01:21:17,142
You were a drunk and a tramp playing
bit parts, and he made a star of you.
856
01:21:17,351 --> 01:21:20,343
You had an ironclad contract
with Shields Productions.
857
01:21:20,554 --> 01:21:23,148
Iron, I know, because I drew it myself.
858
01:21:23,357 --> 01:21:26,884
Starting at $100 a week,
we owned you body and soul.
859
01:21:27,094 --> 01:21:30,359
The next morning you walked
right into this office.
860
01:21:30,564 --> 01:21:35,365
That same look on your face as now,
and you threw the contract in my face.
861
01:21:35,569 --> 01:21:39,369
Jonathan let you do with it.
I wanted to take you to court.
862
01:21:39,573 --> 01:21:42,371
But he said no.
So you signed with ANL...
863
01:21:42,576 --> 01:21:45,807
...and made them the millions
we should have made.
864
01:21:46,013 --> 01:21:51,315
For the last seven years, you've been
in the top 10 in every popularity poll.
865
01:21:52,152 --> 01:21:55,246
Yes, Jonathan sure fouled you up.
866
01:21:56,323 --> 01:22:00,555
Jim, you're pretty happy
with yourself these days, aren't you?
867
01:22:00,761 --> 01:22:05,130
You and your Poolutzer... Poolitzer.
868
01:22:05,332 --> 01:22:08,665
"To James Lee Bartlow,
whose first book"...so and so...
869
01:22:09,470 --> 01:22:12,405
..."graduate of Harvard
and the Sorbonne"...
870
01:22:12,606 --> 01:22:18,841
"1949, professor of Medieval History
at a leading Southern university."
871
01:22:25,185 --> 01:22:30,145
summer is the quietest time of year
in a college town, and the loveliest.
872
01:22:30,357 --> 01:22:33,383
I was outlining what I hoped
would be my second novel.
873
01:22:33,594 --> 01:22:37,155
My fiirst, on which I'd labored
seven years, was just out.
874
01:22:37,364 --> 01:22:40,527
surprisingly, for a scholarly work
about early Virginia...
875
01:22:40,734 --> 01:22:44,033
...my book was enjoying
a brisk nationwide sale.
876
01:22:44,238 --> 01:22:47,264
Possibly because it was
liberally peppered with sex...
877
01:22:47,474 --> 01:22:51,808
...because, after all, early Virginia
was liberally peppered with sex.
878
01:22:52,012 --> 01:22:54,776
Was that why Hollywood had bought it?
879
01:22:55,916 --> 01:22:58,680
Why did I stay away from home
that afternoon?
880
01:22:58,886 --> 01:23:02,151
Because Rosemary, my wife,
was entertaining the symposium...
881
01:23:02,356 --> 01:23:04,654
...factory wives who met bimonthly...
882
01:23:04,858 --> 01:23:08,259
...to enjoy a little culture
and a lot of gossip.
883
01:23:09,396 --> 01:23:13,765
Rosemary was reading a paper
on the island of st. Daniels...
884
01:23:13,967 --> 01:23:16,401
...which we visited the summer before.
885
01:23:16,603 --> 01:23:20,266
"The techniques of courtship,
marriage and consummation.
886
01:23:20,474 --> 01:23:22,772
These are the concern
of the anthropologist...
887
01:23:22,976 --> 01:23:25,410
...rather than of the sociologist.
888
01:23:25,612 --> 01:23:29,810
They are certainly
not for the drawing room.
889
01:23:33,554 --> 01:23:35,522
The Longhorns:
890
01:23:35,722 --> 01:23:39,954
Dating back to the misty past
of the first Spanish explorers..."
891
01:23:42,763 --> 01:23:45,527
Her paper seemed
to be getting a good reception.
892
01:23:45,732 --> 01:23:48,633
Possibly because it was
liberally peppered with sex...
893
01:23:48,835 --> 01:23:51,895
...because, after all,
the island of st. Daniels...
894
01:23:52,105 --> 01:23:55,040
...is liberally peppered with sex.
895
01:24:06,086 --> 01:24:08,577
I started to work.
896
01:24:11,191 --> 01:24:14,456
James Lee doesn't mind one bit.
Do you, darling?
897
01:24:14,661 --> 01:24:16,925
He never minds.
898
01:24:17,764 --> 01:24:19,891
Autograph, Miss Rosser?
899
01:24:20,100 --> 01:24:23,433
Dear Miss Rosser,
isn't this just like a man?
900
01:24:23,637 --> 01:24:27,368
I fixed his study with everything
an author could want...
901
01:24:27,574 --> 01:24:30,338
...and there he sits
in a dreary old rocker...
902
01:24:30,544 --> 01:24:33,536
...clickety-clack
on that dilapidated old portable.
903
01:24:33,747 --> 01:24:38,116
I suppose we'll be losing you
to Hollywood now, Professor Bartlow.
904
01:24:38,318 --> 01:24:42,948
The James Lee Bartlows in Hollywood,
isn't that a ridiculous idea?
905
01:24:43,156 --> 01:24:47,058
Besides which, what could Hollywood
possibly offer us?
906
01:24:47,260 --> 01:24:50,889
Besides which,
Hollywood hasn't asked us.
907
01:24:51,098 --> 01:24:53,430
What did he write?
908
01:24:57,371 --> 01:25:02,104
Oh, professor! You shouldn't have!
909
01:25:03,710 --> 01:25:06,543
Ladies, look what Mr. Bartlow wrote!
910
01:25:07,447 --> 01:25:11,110
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind...
911
01:25:12,419 --> 01:25:14,614
...l'm happy to say.
912
01:25:14,821 --> 01:25:18,188
James Lee, no.
There are ladies out there. No...
913
01:25:50,190 --> 01:25:53,182
I started to work.
914
01:25:58,265 --> 01:26:01,234
Mrs. Bartlow says eat.
It'll do you good.
915
01:26:01,435 --> 01:26:03,562
Thanks, Milly.
916
01:26:03,770 --> 01:26:06,398
I started to work.
917
01:26:13,780 --> 01:26:15,611
Hello.
918
01:26:15,816 --> 01:26:19,217
Yes, this is Professor Bartlow.
919
01:26:19,419 --> 01:26:21,080
Who?
920
01:26:21,288 --> 01:26:23,085
Where?
921
01:26:23,290 --> 01:26:26,623
Oh. Yes, put him on.
922
01:26:30,063 --> 01:26:33,692
Hello, Mr. Shields.
Fine, thanks.
923
01:26:33,900 --> 01:26:38,701
I heard on the extension.
Hollywood! Jonathan Shields.
924
01:26:41,041 --> 01:26:43,407
Sure I'm glad you bought the book.
925
01:26:43,610 --> 01:26:48,343
I hope your movie of it makes me
as happy as your check did.
926
01:26:50,217 --> 01:26:51,980
No.
927
01:26:52,185 --> 01:26:55,586
No, I'm sorry.
I don't see how I can.
928
01:26:55,789 --> 01:26:58,781
Tell him you're working on
your new novel. Go on.
929
01:26:58,992 --> 01:27:02,655
I need all summer
to work on my new book.
930
01:27:04,331 --> 01:27:08,529
- Don't tell him what it's about.
- Get your hand away.
931
01:27:08,735 --> 01:27:11,898
I'd rather not discuss it
until it's finished.
932
01:27:14,074 --> 01:27:18,204
My, just listen to that man talk!
933
01:27:18,411 --> 01:27:23,644
All expenses paid.
You just tell him you'll think it over.
934
01:27:23,850 --> 01:27:27,752
No, it's impossible.
I can't come out now.
935
01:27:29,790 --> 01:27:32,350
Say something charming
for goodbye.
936
01:27:32,559 --> 01:27:37,360
- Goodbye, Mr. Shields.
- James Lee, that was not charming.
937
01:27:37,564 --> 01:27:40,692
He has enough charm for all three of us.
938
01:27:41,902 --> 01:27:46,396
- He surely rubbed you the wrong way.
- He surely did.
939
01:27:48,141 --> 01:27:50,632
Darling...
940
01:27:50,844 --> 01:27:55,110
...I don't want you to feel sorry
you didn't say yes to Mr. Shields.
941
01:27:55,315 --> 01:27:59,547
What if we do spend the whole
hot summer here? It doesn't matter.
942
01:27:59,753 --> 01:28:05,157
Someday, I know we'll get to travel
and see all those wonderful places.
943
01:28:05,358 --> 01:28:11,126
So don't you ever feel one bit sorry
you didn't say yes, James Lee.
944
01:28:16,703 --> 01:28:20,298
Does a trip to Hollywood
mean that much to you?
945
01:28:20,507 --> 01:28:21,997
Me?!
946
01:28:30,450 --> 01:28:34,216
After all, it was only for two weeks,
all expenses paid.
947
01:28:34,421 --> 01:28:37,822
It's not like Mr. shields
wanted me to write a screenplay.
948
01:28:38,024 --> 01:28:43,189
All he wanted was to talk,
to get my ideas on his ideas.
949
01:28:45,232 --> 01:28:48,599
- Is this everything?
- Yeah, that's all.
950
01:28:50,003 --> 01:28:52,369
Mrs. Bartlow, is this bungalow
all right with you?
951
01:28:52,572 --> 01:28:55,769
- It's completely enchanting!
- Good.
952
01:28:55,976 --> 01:28:58,843
- The studio car is yours for the stay.
- Thank you.
953
01:28:59,045 --> 01:29:01,240
I have to meet a guy from the syndicate.
954
01:29:01,448 --> 01:29:05,578
He's a nice guy,
but he hated our last two pictures.
955
01:29:05,785 --> 01:29:07,946
- Bye.
- When do I see the great man?
956
01:29:08,154 --> 01:29:13,182
Jonathan? Drop around the studio
tomorrow. Not too early, not too late.
957
01:29:13,393 --> 01:29:15,384
Bye, Mrs. Bartlow.
958
01:29:20,433 --> 01:29:23,994
James Lee, come here.
Hurry up.
959
01:29:24,804 --> 01:29:27,170
Hurry up!
960
01:29:27,374 --> 01:29:29,604
Come on.
961
01:29:30,977 --> 01:29:33,036
It's Georgia Lorrison...
962
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:37,172
...living in the very next bungalow.
963
01:29:38,084 --> 01:29:39,779
Now, what do you know?
964
01:29:41,688 --> 01:29:44,350
That night Rosemary
wrote 32 postcards.
965
01:29:44,557 --> 01:29:48,653
Next morning I mailed them,
and we went to the studio.
966
01:29:54,501 --> 01:29:58,232
Look here, James Lee.
The dining room at Round Oak...
967
01:29:58,438 --> 01:30:00,963
...just the way we saw it
when you wrote it.
968
01:30:01,174 --> 01:30:03,642
Just the way I saw it when I read it.
969
01:30:03,843 --> 01:30:05,811
Look at that chandelier.
970
01:30:06,012 --> 01:30:09,277
- It's Waterford, isn't it?
- Yes, it is.
971
01:30:09,482 --> 01:30:13,282
You write in motion-picture terms.
You like movies?
972
01:30:13,486 --> 01:30:16,819
- The good ones.
- Would you like to write the script?
973
01:30:17,023 --> 01:30:19,218
- No.
- Why not?
974
01:30:19,426 --> 01:30:21,451
You look much younger than I thought.
975
01:30:21,661 --> 01:30:24,095
- Must take good care of yourself.
- I do.
976
01:30:24,297 --> 01:30:28,631
So do I. I'm here for two weeks only.
Get your money's worth out of that.
977
01:30:28,835 --> 01:30:32,464
There's never been such silver,
not even in Richmond.
978
01:30:32,672 --> 01:30:35,004
I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
979
01:30:35,208 --> 01:30:39,338
Mr. Shields, James Lee didn't think
it proper for me to come along today.
980
01:30:39,546 --> 01:30:43,915
The professor's a man of rigid ideas.
We're delighted to have you with us.
981
01:30:44,117 --> 01:30:50,886
See, darling. I knew it was plain
sociable for me to come and say hello.
982
01:30:51,091 --> 01:30:54,083
Don't worry, Mr. Shields.
I won't be a nuisance.
983
01:30:54,294 --> 01:30:57,661
When James Lee is busy with you,
I'll be busy with my own work.
984
01:30:57,864 --> 01:31:00,958
- What kind of work is that?
- It's nothing, really.
985
01:31:01,167 --> 01:31:05,866
But I did promise the symposium
I'd do a paper on Hollywood.
986
01:31:06,072 --> 01:31:11,066
I realize in two weeks I can't do more
than barely scratch the surface.
987
01:31:22,122 --> 01:31:25,285
Get the feel of things,
and then we'll get together.
988
01:31:25,492 --> 01:31:28,928
- Shall I phone you?
- No, let me phone you.
989
01:31:33,099 --> 01:31:36,068
Thank you, Mr. Shields.
It was wonderful fun.
990
01:31:36,269 --> 01:31:40,467
I like being an author's wife.
It took time to learn the secret:
991
01:31:40,673 --> 01:31:42,732
His work comes first.
992
01:31:42,942 --> 01:31:46,105
- Visit us again.
- Thank you. Goodbye.
993
01:31:46,980 --> 01:31:49,005
"His work comes first."
994
01:31:49,215 --> 01:31:52,878
She would buy dark glasses
with his first salary check.
995
01:31:53,086 --> 01:31:56,180
No wonder it took him seven years
to write a book.
996
01:31:56,389 --> 01:31:59,324
Do you have to have him
to write your script?
997
01:31:59,526 --> 01:32:03,929
Do you think you can keep him
in Hollywood?
998
01:32:05,598 --> 01:32:10,297
He kept me, all right. Two weeks later
I signed with shields Productions...
999
01:32:10,503 --> 01:32:12,767
...to write a treatment of
The Proud Land.
1000
01:32:12,972 --> 01:32:15,202
- So you like my ideas?
- Yes.
1001
01:32:15,408 --> 01:32:17,842
- All of them?
- No.
1002
01:32:19,012 --> 01:32:23,176
- Who is that? His picture is all over.
- That's my father.
1003
01:32:23,383 --> 01:32:26,216
Angry little man, wasn't he?
1004
01:32:26,419 --> 01:32:31,721
I'm not used to an office. I'm
used to a portable and a soft rocker.
1005
01:32:31,925 --> 01:32:34,393
- Superstitious mind?
- No.
1006
01:32:34,594 --> 01:32:37,563
Supersensitive rear.
1007
01:32:50,043 --> 01:32:54,173
I had them flown out.
I thought it'd make you happy.
1008
01:32:54,380 --> 01:32:58,476
- I gather I failed.
- You were pretty sure of yourself.
1009
01:32:58,685 --> 01:33:02,621
- Pretty sure I'd stay.
- Yes, I was.
1010
01:33:02,822 --> 01:33:05,882
I know the legend. Jonathan Shields...
1011
01:33:06,092 --> 01:33:09,653
...the man will do anything
to get what he wants.
1012
01:33:09,863 --> 01:33:12,127
Thanks.
1013
01:33:12,932 --> 01:33:16,368
Shields Pictures Incorporated.
1014
01:33:16,569 --> 01:33:20,027
Well, I'm flattered you want me
and bitter you got me.
1015
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:22,606
Where do I start?
1016
01:33:22,809 --> 01:33:25,039
Just read these scripts.
See how it's done.
1017
01:33:25,245 --> 01:33:28,806
Rough out a storyline,
and then we'll get to work.
1018
01:33:29,015 --> 01:33:31,279
Don't worry.
Some great movies...
1019
01:33:31,484 --> 01:33:34,419
...are made by people
who hate each other.
1020
01:33:34,621 --> 01:33:38,785
- Then we should make a great movie.
- I usually do.
1021
01:33:38,992 --> 01:33:41,324
What about your last two?
1022
01:33:41,528 --> 01:33:43,519
I liked them.
1023
01:33:50,136 --> 01:33:52,263
I started to work.
1024
01:34:02,882 --> 01:34:03,780
Look!
1025
01:34:10,523 --> 01:34:12,753
How do you like it?
1026
01:34:14,661 --> 01:34:16,720
I'll be right down.
1027
01:34:22,302 --> 01:34:24,736
I started to work.
1028
01:34:31,611 --> 01:34:33,704
Hello.
1029
01:34:33,913 --> 01:34:36,507
What is it, Rosemary?
1030
01:34:36,716 --> 01:34:39,685
But, dear, I told you I can't.
1031
01:34:39,886 --> 01:34:44,949
I know it's Sunday, but I've only
written half a page all week.
1032
01:34:45,158 --> 01:34:48,389
All right, Rosemary.
Where is it?
1033
01:34:48,595 --> 01:34:50,529
Yes.
1034
01:34:50,730 --> 01:34:53,995
And?
Not so fast.
1035
01:35:17,357 --> 01:35:19,917
Walking out that way.
You were rude.
1036
01:35:20,126 --> 01:35:22,617
I don't care how you feel about Shields...
1037
01:35:22,829 --> 01:35:26,287
...if you are a gentleman, there is
no justification for boorishness!
1038
01:35:26,499 --> 01:35:31,027
He asked me how my work was going.
What was I supposed to say? Great?
1039
01:35:31,237 --> 01:35:34,934
Who was that overgrown bullfighter
you danced with?
1040
01:35:35,141 --> 01:35:37,632
You mean Victor Ribera? Gaucho?
1041
01:35:37,844 --> 01:35:40,836
Why, I only danced with him twice.
1042
01:35:41,047 --> 01:35:45,950
- An hour each time.
- You do get nasty when you're jealous.
1043
01:35:46,152 --> 01:35:48,518
Like the time you carried on
in St. Daniels...
1044
01:35:48,721 --> 01:35:50,814
...over that charming
young governor's aide.
1045
01:35:51,024 --> 01:35:55,154
- He was too charming.
- He meant nothing at all!
1046
01:35:55,361 --> 01:35:58,262
You were even jealous
at that Swiss exchange professor...
1047
01:35:58,464 --> 01:36:00,830
...just because he was polite!
1048
01:36:01,034 --> 01:36:05,471
He was too polite.
Rosemary, let's get some sleep.
1049
01:36:05,672 --> 01:36:10,132
James Lee Bartlow, take a good look
at yourself in that mirror.
1050
01:36:10,343 --> 01:36:12,607
You've changed
since you've come to Hollywood...
1051
01:36:12,812 --> 01:36:17,476
...and I don't mind telling you,
it's no change for the better.
1052
01:36:26,225 --> 01:36:29,023
Have I changed too?
1053
01:36:29,862 --> 01:36:35,095
I dare say I am getting
a little too big for my breeches.
1054
01:36:42,275 --> 01:36:44,243
They're pretty breeches.
1055
01:36:44,444 --> 01:36:48,073
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind...
1056
01:36:48,881 --> 01:36:51,509
...l'm happy to say.
1057
01:37:49,876 --> 01:37:52,003
Get me Gaucho.
1058
01:37:54,914 --> 01:37:56,472
Harry?
1059
01:37:56,682 --> 01:37:59,242
Oh, call Arrowhead.
1060
01:37:59,452 --> 01:38:03,183
Long distance, please.
Lake Arrowhead, California.
1061
01:38:08,428 --> 01:38:13,058
I'm going up the lake with James Lee.
We'll get this treatment written.
1062
01:38:13,266 --> 01:38:15,200
- When are you leaving?
- In an hour.
1063
01:38:15,401 --> 01:38:19,303
- The bank wants to talk to you.
- Tell them I said you could do it.
1064
01:38:19,505 --> 01:38:22,372
- They're getting tough.
- You're getting too old.
1065
01:38:22,575 --> 01:38:25,169
You got something there.
1066
01:38:25,378 --> 01:38:27,505
Hello, Gaucho?
Just a minute.
1067
01:38:27,713 --> 01:38:32,309
- Harry, you take care of it, will you?
- All right, I'll see what I can do.
1068
01:38:34,554 --> 01:38:38,991
Gaucho. Que tal?
Muy bien.
1069
01:38:39,192 --> 01:38:43,629
How are you booked for social life?
Well, get yourself unbooked.
1070
01:38:43,830 --> 01:38:47,698
How would you like to squire
a genuine Virginia dame?
1071
01:38:47,900 --> 01:38:51,063
I said "squire."
1072
01:38:52,939 --> 01:38:57,376
Mrs. James Lee Bartlow.
Mister is going up the lake with me.
1073
01:38:57,577 --> 01:39:01,741
IKeep her occupied, Gaucho,
so she doesn't get in our hair.
1074
01:39:09,889 --> 01:39:12,983
I started to work.
1075
01:39:15,294 --> 01:39:19,856
I worked all day from 7:00 till noon,
from 2:00 to 5:00.
1076
01:39:20,066 --> 01:39:22,591
There were no interruptions.
1077
01:39:25,104 --> 01:39:28,665
In the evenings,
we worked together.
1078
01:39:31,577 --> 01:39:34,512
Jonathan, that's my best scene!
1079
01:39:36,849 --> 01:39:39,943
You've cut it down to three lines!
1080
01:39:40,152 --> 01:39:43,644
Look, Jonathan,
I don't think you understand.
1081
01:39:43,856 --> 01:39:48,054
The boy's going away, probably to be
killed! So when the mother speaks...
1082
01:39:48,261 --> 01:39:51,094
She doesn't speak.
We move the camera in close.
1083
01:39:51,297 --> 01:39:54,858
She opens her mouth,
but is too emotional to speak.
1084
01:39:55,067 --> 01:39:57,865
What she feels
we let the audience imagine.
1085
01:39:58,070 --> 01:40:02,006
They'll imagine it better than any
words you and I could write.
1086
01:40:02,208 --> 01:40:04,199
All right with you?
1087
01:40:06,045 --> 01:40:07,876
Yes, professor.
1088
01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:10,844
Now for that last scene.
1089
01:40:16,522 --> 01:40:18,490
- Proud of yourself?
- A little.
1090
01:40:18,691 --> 01:40:21,524
Should be. Not a weak scene
in the whole treatment.
1091
01:40:21,727 --> 01:40:26,130
I'm proud of Rosemary too.
She didn't interrupt the whole time.
1092
01:40:26,332 --> 01:40:28,698
Pleasant, wasn't it?
1093
01:40:28,901 --> 01:40:32,894
To tell you the truth,
I missed her interruptions.
1094
01:40:33,105 --> 01:40:38,407
Even when she's a bother, she does it
in a gay, naive, Southern belle way.
1095
01:40:38,611 --> 01:40:42,513
Why didn't you try to put her
on paper as a woman in your book?
1096
01:40:42,715 --> 01:40:45,946
- I did try.
- Just wouldn't write?
1097
01:40:46,152 --> 01:40:47,449
Funny.
1098
01:40:47,653 --> 01:40:50,884
Maybe you just don't know her
well enough.
1099
01:41:12,979 --> 01:41:16,574
Check the radiator too.
1100
01:41:43,576 --> 01:41:46,136
What's her story?
Gaucho a friend of his?
1101
01:41:46,345 --> 01:41:49,178
Was she gonna marry Gaucho?
1102
01:41:49,382 --> 01:41:52,180
Were they flying
for a Mexican divorce?
1103
01:41:52,385 --> 01:41:55,354
- How long did she love him?
- When did he last see her?
1104
01:41:55,554 --> 01:41:58,819
He was a close friend of the Bartlows.
They were flying to the lake.
1105
01:41:59,025 --> 01:42:02,324
- His flight plan said Acapulco.
- What flight plan?
1106
01:42:02,528 --> 01:42:04,519
Don't you wanna play with the press?
1107
01:42:04,730 --> 01:42:08,564
Gaucho was a friend of the Bartlows.
He was flying her to the lake...
1108
01:42:08,768 --> 01:42:12,727
- Let Mr. Bartlow identify the body.
- Just a minute...
1109
01:42:12,938 --> 01:42:16,203
- Will you shut up!
- You stay out of it...
1110
01:42:45,771 --> 01:42:50,970
I wish... I wish an awful lot.
1111
01:42:51,177 --> 01:42:54,408
Maybe if I'd been here...
1112
01:42:55,448 --> 01:42:58,611
You didn't know about them, did you?
1113
01:42:58,818 --> 01:43:03,187
Sorry, Jonathan.
Of course, you didn't know.
1114
01:43:04,256 --> 01:43:08,556
Look, Jim, I'm not gonna let you
brood about her.
1115
01:43:08,761 --> 01:43:11,730
She's dead, and you're alive.
1116
01:43:13,232 --> 01:43:17,032
You can't do anything about it.
Neither can I.
1117
01:43:18,237 --> 01:43:21,297
Let's get to work, you and I.
1118
01:43:28,414 --> 01:43:31,679
Without Jonathan, I don't know what
I'd have done those next few months.
1119
01:43:31,884 --> 01:43:34,409
He put me to work
and kept me working.
1120
01:43:34,620 --> 01:43:37,054
When the shooting script
was fiinished...
1121
01:43:37,223 --> 01:43:40,454
...he asked me to stay
for production meetings and casting.
1122
01:43:42,027 --> 01:43:45,724
You see Miss Ronley
as the star of The Proud Land.
1123
01:43:45,931 --> 01:43:49,526
But it was my impression
this was a woman of sex.
1124
01:43:49,735 --> 01:43:52,795
Miss Ronley has
the sex appeal of an angleworm.
1125
01:43:53,005 --> 01:43:56,031
- How about that, Jonathan?
- About what?
1126
01:43:56,242 --> 01:43:58,472
I like Linda Ronley.
1127
01:43:58,677 --> 01:44:01,908
- I wonder...
- Yes, Jim?
1128
01:44:02,114 --> 01:44:05,481
- It's not my department.
- Go ahead. You're among friends.
1129
01:44:05,684 --> 01:44:08,517
While writing the script,
I had one girl in mind.
1130
01:44:08,721 --> 01:44:11,747
She lives next to my bungalow.
I think she'd be fine.
1131
01:44:11,957 --> 01:44:14,551
Georgia Lorrison.
1132
01:44:15,694 --> 01:44:18,561
If you'd like me to give
her the script, I...
1133
01:44:18,764 --> 01:44:23,292
You have just broken a sacred taboo.
You've mentioned the unmentionable.
1134
01:44:23,502 --> 01:44:26,300
- That's enough.
- That's all right, Syd.
1135
01:44:26,505 --> 01:44:30,737
Georgia is the best.
The best actress. The best box office.
1136
01:44:30,943 --> 01:44:33,935
Her last three pictures
for Fred Amiel grossed to... Harry?
1137
01:44:34,146 --> 01:44:37,707
$ 7,600,000 domestic.
1138
01:44:37,917 --> 01:44:43,116
We try to get her, we'll be wasting
our time. She hates my guts.
1139
01:44:48,160 --> 01:44:53,723
Jim, if you wanna show her the script,
there's no way I can stop you.
1140
01:44:55,434 --> 01:44:58,528
What am I supposed to do?
Thank you for saying no?
1141
01:44:58,737 --> 01:45:02,901
What are you trying to do? Fight
Jonathan Shields' battles for him?
1142
01:45:03,108 --> 01:45:06,737
- It happens to be my book.
- It happens to be his picture.
1143
01:45:06,946 --> 01:45:11,508
You're the first one I know to begin
by hating him and end up liking him.
1144
01:45:11,717 --> 01:45:14,982
- Do you always work backwards?
- Do you still love him?
1145
01:45:18,390 --> 01:45:22,520
- Excuse me.
- Fred, do I still love Jonathan?
1146
01:45:22,728 --> 01:45:27,995
- No, you don't get me on that one.
- A stupid question for a writer.
1147
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:30,191
Don't you know about first love?
1148
01:45:30,402 --> 01:45:34,668
You may grow out of it,
but you don't get over it.
1149
01:45:37,076 --> 01:45:39,772
I'm sorry, that was stupid of me.
1150
01:45:39,979 --> 01:45:45,815
No, no. I wouldn't want to get over
my first love either, quite.
1151
01:45:46,018 --> 01:45:50,978
Well, it's time you two met.
Fred Amiel, James Bartlow.
1152
01:45:51,190 --> 01:45:54,387
Guess who we were fighting about.
1153
01:45:54,593 --> 01:45:57,926
Jonathan's more than a man.
He's a habit-forming experience.
1154
01:45:58,130 --> 01:46:00,792
If they bottled him, he'd outsell ginger ale.
1155
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:03,468
- Ready, Mr. Amiel?
- No, thanks, Timmy.
1156
01:46:03,669 --> 01:46:06,229
Georgia let me read your script,
it's a beautiful job.
1157
01:46:06,438 --> 01:46:08,998
I'd like to talk about your next one.
1158
01:46:09,208 --> 01:46:12,200
Goodbye, Georgia.
Nice to have met you.
1159
01:46:13,712 --> 01:46:17,546
shooting started on The Proud Land
and everything went well...
1160
01:46:17,750 --> 01:46:21,277
...until the fourth day,
then something happened.
1161
01:46:21,487 --> 01:46:23,717
Cut!
1162
01:46:29,061 --> 01:46:31,996
Close-up of the girl.
1163
01:46:32,197 --> 01:46:34,358
About there.
Save all...
1164
01:46:34,566 --> 01:46:38,935
Mr. Von Ellstein!
Would you come here, please?
1165
01:46:49,949 --> 01:46:53,612
Am I to understand
you consider this scene complete?
1166
01:46:53,819 --> 01:46:56,413
- I do.
- I don't. You call that directing?
1167
01:46:56,622 --> 01:46:58,487
I have for 32 years.
1168
01:46:58,691 --> 01:47:01,888
I see values and dimensions
you haven't begun to hit!
1169
01:47:02,094 --> 01:47:06,588
Perhaps not the ones I wish to hit.
I could make this scene a climax.
1170
01:47:06,799 --> 01:47:11,202
I could make every scene a climax.
If I did, I would be a bad director.
1171
01:47:11,403 --> 01:47:13,894
I like to think of myself
as one of the best.
1172
01:47:14,106 --> 01:47:18,236
A picture all climaxes is a necklace
without a string, it falls apart.
1173
01:47:18,444 --> 01:47:22,244
You must build to your big moment.
Sometimes you must build slowly.
1174
01:47:22,448 --> 01:47:25,849
If I want a lecture on the aesthetics
of motion pictures, I'll ask.
1175
01:47:26,051 --> 01:47:31,011
It won't be a cover-up for a shallow,
inept interpretation of a great scene!
1176
01:47:31,223 --> 01:47:35,353
- To be a director you need imagination.
- Whose imagination?
1177
01:47:35,561 --> 01:47:38,029
Yours or mine?
1178
01:47:38,230 --> 01:47:42,724
There's only one answer. You see
this picture one way and I another.
1179
01:47:42,935 --> 01:47:45,768
It could be done your way,
but not by me...
1180
01:47:45,971 --> 01:47:49,964
...and not by any other director
who respects himself.
1181
01:47:50,175 --> 01:47:54,805
You know what you must do
to have it exactly as you want it?
1182
01:47:56,148 --> 01:47:59,276
You must direct this picture yourself.
1183
01:48:04,089 --> 01:48:07,752
To direct a picture,
a man needs humility.
1184
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:11,157
Do you have humility, Mr. Shields?
1185
01:48:20,539 --> 01:48:23,372
Jonathan the director
was a new Jonathan.
1186
01:48:23,575 --> 01:48:25,566
He was patience personified.
1187
01:48:25,778 --> 01:48:29,373
He was tolerant, even-tempered,
considerate and indulgent...
1188
01:48:29,581 --> 01:48:32,778
...to his crew, his cast and his writer.
1189
01:48:58,177 --> 01:49:00,611
six months after he started shooting...
1190
01:49:00,813 --> 01:49:03,338
...we saw the picture
for the fiirst time.
1191
01:49:03,549 --> 01:49:07,815
- Nice job at cutting, Tom.
- Thank you, Mr. Shields.
1192
01:49:08,020 --> 01:49:10,614
- Nice work, Tom.
- Thanks.
1193
01:49:10,823 --> 01:49:14,623
- Beautiful production.
- Beautifully written, Jim.
1194
01:49:14,827 --> 01:49:19,958
- Beautifully produced.
- Chapman's photography was perfect.
1195
01:49:20,165 --> 01:49:23,225
Congratulate Walter on his sets,
Lucien on her costumes...
1196
01:49:23,435 --> 01:49:25,869
...and Boris on his score.
- I liked the music.
1197
01:49:26,071 --> 01:49:28,938
Tell the director to have
his head examined.
1198
01:49:29,141 --> 01:49:31,268
He should've shot himself,
not the picture.
1199
01:49:31,477 --> 01:49:35,538
- It's not as bad as all that...
- I butchered it.
1200
01:49:35,747 --> 01:49:39,183
Von Ellstein should have been here.
He would have enjoyed this.
1201
01:49:39,384 --> 01:49:43,411
I have no tension, no timing,
no pace, nothing.
1202
01:49:43,622 --> 01:49:46,056
I took a beautiful, sensitive story...
1203
01:49:46,258 --> 01:49:49,455
...and turned it
into a turgid, boring movie.
1204
01:49:49,661 --> 01:49:52,892
If it were anyone else,
I'd never release it.
1205
01:49:53,098 --> 01:49:56,363
- Who's got a cigarette?
- Here you are.
1206
01:49:56,568 --> 01:50:01,164
I've made pictures that lost money,
but they had something.
1207
01:50:01,373 --> 01:50:04,171
- This is nothing.
- You're being drastic.
1208
01:50:04,376 --> 01:50:07,573
All you've got to do is cut
the dead wood out...
1209
01:50:07,779 --> 01:50:09,178
Please.
1210
01:50:09,381 --> 01:50:15,786
- Harry, shelve the picture.
- Are you crazy? We can't do that.
1211
01:50:15,988 --> 01:50:19,719
We're in hock up to our necks.
We went way over budget.
1212
01:50:19,925 --> 01:50:25,227
- We've got to release it.
- There's your penny-pinching mind.
1213
01:50:25,430 --> 01:50:27,625
Shelve it.
1214
01:50:28,867 --> 01:50:32,394
We shelve it,
that's the end of Shields Productions.
1215
01:50:32,604 --> 01:50:37,701
Goodbye to 17 years' work.
Goodbye to every dime you've got.
1216
01:50:37,910 --> 01:50:41,038
- How about the money in the sock?
- There isn't any sock.
1217
01:50:41,246 --> 01:50:44,682
Your last two pictures
and this one took care of that.
1218
01:50:47,085 --> 01:50:52,250
And every dime of mine is gone
and every dime of Syd's.
1219
01:50:53,292 --> 01:50:55,817
That I didn't know.
1220
01:50:56,028 --> 01:50:59,327
The banks turned us down
on money for the last retakes.
1221
01:50:59,531 --> 01:51:02,022
Syd and I... Oh, well.
1222
01:51:02,234 --> 01:51:06,227
You were shooting,
and who could bother you then?
1223
01:51:06,438 --> 01:51:09,566
The hardheaded businessman.
1224
01:51:11,677 --> 01:51:14,703
The hardboiled press agent.
1225
01:51:16,682 --> 01:51:19,708
I won't release a picture
that I know is bad.
1226
01:51:19,918 --> 01:51:22,045
But other men do!
1227
01:51:22,254 --> 01:51:26,748
Their pictures don't say
"Jonathan Shields presents."
1228
01:51:26,959 --> 01:51:32,158
- Okay, what story shall I break?
- That's easy.
1229
01:51:32,364 --> 01:51:35,424
"Jonathan Shields Lays an Egg!"
1230
01:51:46,144 --> 01:51:49,739
- What you gonna do now?
- I'm tired, Jim.
1231
01:51:49,948 --> 01:51:54,078
- What are you gonna do now?
- You mind changing the subject?
1232
01:51:54,286 --> 01:51:57,551
I just played my big scene in there:
The Great Man Fails.
1233
01:51:57,756 --> 01:51:59,690
You want an encore?
1234
01:51:59,891 --> 01:52:04,351
- You sound like Sebastian.
- Who? Oh, your new book.
1235
01:52:04,563 --> 01:52:08,522
You told me to never let a leading
character feel sorry for himself.
1236
01:52:08,734 --> 01:52:10,895
- Not for long.
- I was wrong.
1237
01:52:11,103 --> 01:52:14,800
It's very comforting
to feel sorry for yourself.
1238
01:52:15,007 --> 01:52:17,407
- You're coming with me.
- What?
1239
01:52:17,609 --> 01:52:22,808
I've taken a cabin at Tahoe to finish
my new book. You're coming along.
1240
01:52:23,882 --> 01:52:27,318
- Why?
- Why not?
1241
01:52:27,519 --> 01:52:30,716
Besides, I work better
when you're around.
1242
01:52:30,922 --> 01:52:33,390
Can you wait a while?
1243
01:52:33,592 --> 01:52:36,652
- How long?
- Five minutes.
1244
01:52:36,862 --> 01:52:40,025
It'll take me that long to pack.
1245
01:52:41,366 --> 01:52:46,065
Sebastian sounds like some character.
You'll have trouble casting him.
1246
01:52:46,271 --> 01:52:51,436
- This is a book, not a movie.
- You'll sell it to pictures.
1247
01:52:51,643 --> 01:52:55,409
Gaucho could have done that part.
He was Sebastian.
1248
01:52:55,614 --> 01:53:00,449
The guy with the world on a string.
The big happy baboon.
1249
01:53:00,652 --> 01:53:06,386
I begged him, "Don't take that plane,
Gaucho." But no, not him. He...
1250
01:53:17,102 --> 01:53:20,731
Today is my day for mistakes.
1251
01:53:22,407 --> 01:53:24,204
Jim...
1252
01:53:24,710 --> 01:53:29,113
...I didn't kill Rosemary.
Gaucho didn't kill her.
1253
01:53:29,314 --> 01:53:31,248
She killed herself.
1254
01:53:33,418 --> 01:53:36,319
Whether you like it or not,
you're better off.
1255
01:53:36,521 --> 01:53:41,424
She was a fool. She got in your way.
She interfered with your work.
1256
01:53:41,626 --> 01:53:44,823
She wasted your time.
She wasted you.
1257
01:53:45,030 --> 01:53:47,863
You're better off without her!
1258
01:53:56,041 --> 01:54:00,239
"A sensitive, unforgettable portrait
of a present-day Southern belle.
1259
01:54:00,445 --> 01:54:06,509
Gay and foolish, naive, shrewd,
and heartbreaking all at once."
1260
01:54:06,718 --> 01:54:10,051
Yes, Jim,
Jonathan sure destroyed you.
1261
01:54:10,255 --> 01:54:15,921
You came out of it with nothing.
Nothing but a Pulitzer Prize novel...
1262
01:54:16,128 --> 01:54:19,564
...and the highest salary
of any writer in Hollywood.
1263
01:54:19,765 --> 01:54:22,700
Look, folks,
you've got to give the devil his due.
1264
01:54:22,901 --> 01:54:26,564
We all owe him something,
and you've had years to think it over.
1265
01:54:26,772 --> 01:54:29,969
- What do you owe him, Harry?
- Plenty.
1266
01:54:30,175 --> 01:54:34,407
All the times he told me
to shut my penny-pinching mouth.
1267
01:54:35,147 --> 01:54:39,846
To Jonathan I was always
just an overpaid bookkeeper.
1268
01:54:40,051 --> 01:54:44,954
But without him I probably would still
be putting costumes on cat men.
1269
01:54:46,525 --> 01:54:50,359
You know, when they list
the 10 best pictures ever made...
1270
01:54:51,196 --> 01:54:54,791
...there are always
two or three of his on the list.
1271
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:58,026
And I was with him when he made them.
1272
01:54:59,237 --> 01:55:00,932
Excuse me.
1273
01:55:01,139 --> 01:55:04,404
- Yes?
- Your call from Paris is ready.
1274
01:55:04,609 --> 01:55:06,338
Hello!
1275
01:55:06,545 --> 01:55:08,843
Hello. Yes, Jonathan.
1276
01:55:09,748 --> 01:55:12,376
I can hear perfectly.
1277
01:55:12,584 --> 01:55:16,543
Yes, they're here, all three of them.
1278
01:55:17,389 --> 01:55:19,721
All right, I'll ask them.
1279
01:55:21,827 --> 01:55:23,795
Jonathan wants to know:
1280
01:55:23,995 --> 01:55:27,863
Will you help him get started again?
Will you work with him just this once?
1281
01:55:28,533 --> 01:55:31,058
Will you do this picture with him?
1282
01:55:33,872 --> 01:55:35,772
Georgia?
1283
01:55:40,178 --> 01:55:42,237
Sorry, Jonathan.
1284
01:55:42,447 --> 01:55:44,438
No, I can't.
1285
01:55:44,649 --> 01:55:48,346
I'm sorry, Jonathan.
They're gone.
1286
01:55:49,287 --> 01:55:52,586
I'm sure it's a great idea, but, Jonathan...
1287
01:55:52,791 --> 01:55:54,952
...this costs $4.80 a minute.
1288
01:55:55,160 --> 01:56:00,120
Don't tell me your idea,
write me. Jonathan, please...
1289
01:56:00,332 --> 01:56:03,665
Yeah. Yeah...
1290
01:56:52,784 --> 00:00:00,000
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