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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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...I'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.
- If 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, IKKay.
- 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, IKKay.
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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.
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00:23:12,540 --> 00:23:16,499
And remember that "Shields"
is not spelled P-E-B-B-E-L.
233
00:23:16,711 --> 00:23:21,705
I don't wanna give you too much credit.
Just enough to keep you hungry.
234
00:23:30,592 --> 00:23:34,255
By the way, my name
is spelled A-M-I-E-L.
235
00:23:34,462 --> 00:23:37,090
I thought of taking a small bow myself.
236
00:23:37,299 --> 00:23:40,860
A small bow never helped anybody.
Get this straight, Fred.
237
00:23:41,069 --> 00:23:43,503
We're building Shields Productions.
238
00:23:43,705 --> 00:23:45,969
What we'll ram it down their throats.
239
00:23:46,174 --> 00:23:48,165
- It's big enough for both of us.
- I know.
240
00:23:48,376 --> 00:23:52,745
A five-cent story, a ten-cent budget
and a two-cent leading man...
241
00:23:52,947 --> 00:23:56,713
...and we put it over.
We're getting to know our business.
242
00:23:56,918 --> 00:24:00,752
- Yes, Mother.
- Let's go back and get my car.
243
00:24:01,956 --> 00:24:05,483
When I work on a picture,
it's like romancing a girl.
244
00:24:05,694 --> 00:24:09,687
You see her, you want her,
you go after her. The big moment.
245
00:24:09,898 --> 00:24:13,732
Then, the letdown. Every time.
The after-picture blues.
246
00:24:13,935 --> 00:24:18,031
Don't worry. Someday you'll learn
to love 'em and leave 'em.
247
00:24:21,876 --> 00:24:25,972
- Why are you turning off here?
- This you got to see.
248
00:24:38,827 --> 00:24:44,060
Crow's Nest.
George Lorrison built this.
249
00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:46,557
This is where he died.
250
00:24:46,768 --> 00:24:51,228
I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Can we go home now?
251
00:24:58,113 --> 00:25:03,779
So this is how actors used to live.
Cheerful little place, isn't it?
252
00:25:03,985 --> 00:25:08,888
Now, if we can just find out
where he keeps the boiling oil...
253
00:25:11,493 --> 00:25:14,018
The rumpus room.
254
00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:24,504
Jonathan, will you please tell me
what we're doing here?
255
00:25:24,706 --> 00:25:26,674
You scouting a location?
256
00:25:26,875 --> 00:25:30,606
Sure, that's it.
For our next Harry Pebbel production.
257
00:25:30,812 --> 00:25:34,077
It could be
The Bat Men Fly Again...
258
00:25:34,282 --> 00:25:37,718
...or Mama Vampire
and the Three Little Bloodsuckers.
259
00:25:37,919 --> 00:25:41,286
- We don't even have to show...
- Hold this.
260
00:25:50,331 --> 00:25:53,858
Lorrison's idea of my old man.
261
00:25:54,869 --> 00:25:58,965
Lorrison's last three pictures
were for my father.
262
00:25:59,874 --> 00:26:03,833
He gave me my first drink
when I was 13.
263
00:26:04,045 --> 00:26:08,345
My first cigar at 14.
And when I was 15...
264
00:26:08,550 --> 00:26:11,041
...he taught me the facts of life.
265
00:26:17,926 --> 00:26:19,985
He was a great actor...
266
00:26:21,095 --> 00:26:26,055
...and a great man.
- He was a rat and a drunk.
267
00:26:33,908 --> 00:26:37,105
- Who are you?
- His daughter.
268
00:26:37,312 --> 00:26:42,113
- I didn't know he had one.
- Neither did he half the time.
269
00:26:42,317 --> 00:26:46,276
- What are you doing up there?
- Get out.
270
00:26:46,488 --> 00:26:49,582
"A rat and a drunk."
What talk about your father!
271
00:26:49,791 --> 00:26:54,251
He was my father.
Now, shut up and leave me alone?
272
00:26:54,462 --> 00:26:59,331
- Go on, blow.
- Somebody ought to tan your rear!
273
00:27:01,135 --> 00:27:03,763
Wanna try it?
274
00:27:06,441 --> 00:27:09,001
I changed my mind.
275
00:27:09,210 --> 00:27:11,610
Now, will you get out of here?
276
00:27:11,813 --> 00:27:13,974
Go on, get out!
277
00:27:40,141 --> 00:27:45,602
The next morning, Jonathan
received our next assignment.
278
00:27:45,813 --> 00:27:47,838
Did you see Harry?
279
00:27:50,151 --> 00:27:53,348
Well, what's our next picture?
280
00:27:55,623 --> 00:27:58,183
Get a good grip on yourself.
281
00:27:59,861 --> 00:28:02,056
You ready?
282
00:28:02,263 --> 00:28:05,562
Our next picture will be
The Son of the Cat Men.
283
00:28:11,773 --> 00:28:14,037
That settles it.
284
00:28:16,411 --> 00:28:18,845
The time has come.
285
00:28:20,114 --> 00:28:24,608
The Faraway Mountain.
It's a great book.
286
00:28:26,187 --> 00:28:28,246
Three studios tried to lick it and couldn't.
287
00:28:28,456 --> 00:28:30,481
Well, I can!
288
00:28:32,293 --> 00:28:35,319
Here's my outline, scene for scene.
289
00:28:35,897 --> 00:28:38,422
- You know what Harry will say.
- Yeah.
290
00:28:38,633 --> 00:28:42,592
"Look, I've told you
a hundred times, Genius Boy...
291
00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:46,831
...I want pictures that end with
a kiss and ink on the books."
292
00:28:47,041 --> 00:28:51,102
Jonathan, this is my baby.
I found it and I licked it.
293
00:28:51,312 --> 00:28:55,772
I've been nursing it till I was sure
we could handle it. Now I'm sure.
294
00:28:55,984 --> 00:28:57,849
Remember what you said last night?
295
00:28:58,052 --> 00:29:00,987
Enough practice.
It's time we made one for real.
296
00:29:01,189 --> 00:29:06,058
It cries for a million dollar budget
and location in Veracruz...
297
00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:11,459
...but you producing and me directing,
we can do it on a Harry Pebbel budget.
298
00:29:11,666 --> 00:29:16,899
- For a guy who's tongue-tied...
- I could always talk to you.
299
00:29:17,105 --> 00:29:20,302
You really wanna do this one, Fred.
300
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:23,341
I wanna direct it so much
I can taste it.
301
00:29:24,278 --> 00:29:26,746
All right, let's do it.
302
00:29:26,948 --> 00:29:29,143
Let's do it!
303
00:29:33,287 --> 00:29:36,313
I've said 100 times
I don't wanna win awards.
304
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:39,084
Give me pictures that end with a kiss
and ink on the books.
305
00:29:39,293 --> 00:29:41,454
I make this picture, or I quit.
306
00:29:44,699 --> 00:29:47,429
This is my baby.
I found it, and I licked it.
307
00:29:47,635 --> 00:29:49,865
I wanna produce it so much I can taste it!
308
00:29:50,071 --> 00:29:53,529
I'm handing it to you,
father of The Son of the Cat Men.
309
00:29:55,677 --> 00:29:58,942
Do I produce The Faraway Mountain
or don't I?
310
00:29:59,147 --> 00:30:01,638
All right, Genius Boy.
311
00:30:01,849 --> 00:30:05,307
You've got it coming to you.
Make it and hang yourself.
312
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,948
Why don't you fire me
and get it over with?
313
00:30:10,124 --> 00:30:12,592
I know the talk around the studio.
314
00:30:12,794 --> 00:30:17,322
They say I need you, that you do
the work and I get the credit.
315
00:30:17,532 --> 00:30:20,933
You think I don't know anything.
Well, I know one thing:
316
00:30:21,135 --> 00:30:25,367
Every studio in town turned
this stinker down. Go ahead, make it.
317
00:30:25,573 --> 00:30:29,737
It'll lay such a bomb you'll never get
another job in this industry.
318
00:30:29,944 --> 00:30:34,904
Will I let you produce it?
You're on suspension if you don't!
319
00:30:36,384 --> 00:30:39,182
I thought my Faraway Mountain
outline was perfect.
320
00:30:39,387 --> 00:30:42,117
After three weeks with Jonathan,
it was twice as good.
321
00:30:42,323 --> 00:30:45,486
We worked day and night.
Kay kept the coffee hot and handy.
322
00:30:45,693 --> 00:30:48,958
As Jonathan shaped our material,
I saw what Hollywood...
323
00:30:49,163 --> 00:30:53,862
... later came to call
the "Shields touch," Jonathan's magic.
324
00:30:55,603 --> 00:30:57,628
Our toughest problem
was a leading man.
325
00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:01,036
On a Harry Pebbel budget,
a top star was out of the question.
326
00:31:01,242 --> 00:31:04,541
So, I directed tests, a dozen tests.
327
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,243
Action.
328
00:31:08,583 --> 00:31:10,642
So you are Theresa.
329
00:31:10,852 --> 00:31:14,515
I find you as your brother told me,
alone in the great house...
330
00:31:14,722 --> 00:31:17,623
... silent, proud and beautiful.
331
00:31:17,825 --> 00:31:20,851
What is it?
Are you afraid of me?
332
00:31:23,397 --> 00:31:25,865
Switch over to the next one.
333
00:31:28,603 --> 00:31:30,366
Action.
334
00:31:32,206 --> 00:31:36,336
So you are Theresa. I find you
as your brother told me I would...
335
00:31:36,544 --> 00:31:41,481
... alone in the great house,
proud, silent and beautiful.
336
00:31:42,383 --> 00:31:45,375
- Who's the girl?
- Douvane said she could test with him.
337
00:31:45,586 --> 00:31:48,453
What did she promise?
Who is she?
338
00:31:48,656 --> 00:31:51,591
George Lorrison's daughter.
339
00:31:51,793 --> 00:31:54,227
Why didn't you shoot her face?
340
00:31:54,428 --> 00:31:56,862
She was drunk.
341
00:31:57,999 --> 00:32:01,901
This is murder, Syd.
Let's have that list again.
342
00:32:04,906 --> 00:32:08,239
You're the director, pick your poison.
343
00:32:08,442 --> 00:32:10,501
Jonathan.
344
00:32:10,711 --> 00:32:13,839
- What about Victor Ribera?
- Gaucho?
345
00:32:14,048 --> 00:32:17,108
- Why not?
- Sure you'd like him. Who wouldn't?
346
00:32:17,318 --> 00:32:22,312
- Why can't we get Gaucho?
- The whole town's after Latin lovers.
347
00:32:22,523 --> 00:32:26,926
- You wouldn't stand a chance.
- How do we know till we've tried?
348
00:32:27,929 --> 00:32:31,421
Maybe you could talk him
into it, Jonathan.
349
00:32:34,669 --> 00:32:38,105
Syd, what would appeal
to a guy like that?
350
00:32:38,306 --> 00:32:42,470
Gaucho? Well, if I know Gaucho...
351
00:33:05,166 --> 00:33:07,259
I'll drive.
352
00:33:52,313 --> 00:33:54,543
Jonathan forgot one thing.
353
00:33:54,749 --> 00:33:57,616
He forgot he couldn't drink.
354
00:34:09,196 --> 00:34:14,156
Nice boy. But does he always
take on so much altitude?
355
00:34:14,368 --> 00:34:17,235
He's been working
night and day for three weeks.
356
00:34:17,438 --> 00:34:20,601
Besides which, he hardly ever drinks.
357
00:34:20,808 --> 00:34:24,710
- He wants me to make a picture?
- Yeah.
358
00:34:24,912 --> 00:34:28,973
Why does he go to all this
lovely trouble? I'm a very simple man.
359
00:34:29,183 --> 00:34:33,916
I read. What I like, I act.
What I do not like...
360
00:34:34,121 --> 00:34:37,454
...I do not act. Very simple.
361
00:35:08,122 --> 00:35:10,955
A conference was held
in Pebbel's office...
362
00:35:11,158 --> 00:35:14,025
... to discuss production plans
for The Faraway Mountain.
363
00:35:14,228 --> 00:35:17,288
The suspense was killing me.
364
00:35:19,934 --> 00:35:23,301
- Yes, Mr. Pebbel?
- You can go to lunch now.
365
00:35:24,472 --> 00:35:28,806
- Why don't you take a look in there?
- I think I'll stay here and be nervous.
366
00:35:29,010 --> 00:35:31,535
- Good luck.
- Thanks.
367
00:35:38,919 --> 00:35:40,716
Jonathan...
368
00:35:41,822 --> 00:35:46,782
- Didn't he go for Gaucho?
- Go for him? He had a hemorrhage!
369
00:35:46,994 --> 00:35:50,259
First time a star said he'd be
in a Pebbel picture.
370
00:35:50,464 --> 00:35:54,696
Harry went to bat for us. He slugged
it out with the front office!
371
00:35:54,902 --> 00:35:58,702
The Faraway Mountain will be made
with a million-dollar budget.
372
00:35:58,906 --> 00:36:01,431
Location in Veracruz.
Von Ellstein to direct.
373
00:36:01,642 --> 00:36:06,204
Gaucho. Wendy for the girl.
Chapman my cameraman...
374
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:09,247
- Von Ellstein to direct...
- You're taken care of.
375
00:36:09,450 --> 00:36:12,681
No separate panel, but your name on
the screen: Assistant to the producer.
376
00:36:12,887 --> 00:36:17,256
- Thanks.
- You know the story. It's your baby.
377
00:36:17,458 --> 00:36:22,122
I want you on the set. You have
any ideas, I'll tell Von Ellstein.
378
00:36:22,329 --> 00:36:26,163
Thanks, again.
Von Ellstein to direct...
379
00:36:26,367 --> 00:36:29,063
- You said he was the best.
- Sure he is.
380
00:36:31,138 --> 00:36:35,973
Fred, I'd rather hurt you now
than kill you off forever.
381
00:36:36,177 --> 00:36:38,543
You're not ready
to direct a million dollar picture.
382
00:36:38,746 --> 00:36:41,271
But you're ready to produce one.
383
00:36:42,583 --> 00:36:44,574
With Von Ellstein, I am.
384
00:36:44,785 --> 00:36:47,515
You're stealing my picture!
It was my idea!
385
00:36:47,721 --> 00:36:49,780
Without me it was only an idea.
386
00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:56,123
All right, Jonathan.
Let's put it this way.
387
00:36:56,330 --> 00:36:59,026
You gave me your word.
388
00:37:00,801 --> 00:37:03,599
So I did.
389
00:37:03,804 --> 00:37:07,706
I got the starting date.
In two weeks you leave for Veracruz.
390
00:37:07,908 --> 00:37:10,536
Mr. Von Ellstein,
you'll go one week earlier.
391
00:37:10,744 --> 00:37:13,406
Mr. Shields, I don't like producers...
392
00:37:13,614 --> 00:37:15,673
...but for a man with such a script...
393
00:37:15,883 --> 00:37:18,113
...it'll be a pleasure to break my rule.
394
00:37:18,319 --> 00:37:20,947
Today, I shall buy a producer lunch.
395
00:37:21,155 --> 00:37:23,487
- Am I included?
- By all means, no.
396
00:37:23,691 --> 00:37:28,822
Today I've seen a script prepared by
a producer who thinks like a director.
397
00:37:29,029 --> 00:37:32,624
- 13 years I've been making pictures...
- Goodbye, Jonathan.
398
00:37:32,833 --> 00:37:34,733
Fred...
399
00:37:35,803 --> 00:37:37,737
So long, Fred.
400
00:37:37,938 --> 00:37:43,137
This is the first time I've found a
script I can direct exactly as it is...
401
00:37:45,212 --> 00:37:48,045
I always said the boy was a genius.
402
00:37:57,057 --> 00:38:00,754
Are you looking at the Oscar he got
for The Faraway Mountain?
403
00:38:00,961 --> 00:38:05,455
I know what you have
against Jonathan, and no wonder.
404
00:38:05,666 --> 00:38:07,725
Look what he did to you, Fred.
405
00:38:07,935 --> 00:38:11,598
He brushed you off his coattail,
so you had to stand alone.
406
00:38:12,406 --> 00:38:16,934
And all you've got in the world is
a wife, six kids, two Academy Awards...
407
00:38:17,144 --> 00:38:19,612
...and every studio in town after you.
408
00:38:19,813 --> 00:38:24,580
Why, Jonathan ruined you!
Look what he did to me.
409
00:38:25,986 --> 00:38:29,979
I gave him his chance to do
The Faraway Mountain.
410
00:38:30,191 --> 00:38:34,127
Four months later, his contract's up,
and he walks out of the studio.
411
00:38:36,830 --> 00:38:39,128
And I go right with him.
412
00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:43,832
I know how you feel about him, Georgia.
413
00:38:44,872 --> 00:38:48,308
After all, you're a woman
and an actress.
414
00:38:48,509 --> 00:38:54,277
The first time I saw Jonathan,
I was not a woman or an actress.
415
00:38:54,481 --> 00:38:57,644
The next time I saw him,
five years later...
416
00:38:57,851 --> 00:39:01,981
... I wasn't an actress.
I was a nothing.
417
00:39:02,189 --> 00:39:07,718
We'll sign you up outside. 9:00 people,
we'll need you in the background.
418
00:39:07,928 --> 00:39:11,989
Following people, on your way out
please report to wardrobe.
419
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:14,292
- Mr. Amiel?
- What is it, Georgia?
420
00:39:14,501 --> 00:39:17,061
I'd like to sign out early if I could.
421
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:20,604
They're casting a bit at Shields.
If I could get there by 3...
422
00:39:20,808 --> 00:39:24,073
- Go ahead. Good luck.
- Thanks, Mr. Amiel.
423
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:28,881
Gus drove me over.
He waited while I changed.
424
00:39:29,083 --> 00:39:33,281
There were few agents in town
with fewer clients than Gus.
425
00:39:33,487 --> 00:39:36,854
He was the kind of agent
who handled only bit players...
426
00:39:37,057 --> 00:39:40,322
... and who never could get into
a major producer's office.
427
00:39:47,868 --> 00:39:50,302
Gus is still my agent.
428
00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:56,239
Girls, will you come in, please?
Line up right across here.
429
00:39:56,443 --> 00:40:00,971
You stand here, you over here.
Honey, will you come down here?
430
00:40:01,181 --> 00:40:03,012
Thank you.
431
00:40:05,786 --> 00:40:07,754
They're for the drugstore bit.
432
00:40:07,955 --> 00:40:11,618
- How about the newborn baby?
- Four here at 3:45.
433
00:40:13,694 --> 00:40:16,891
Girls. Mr. Shields,
Mr. Pebbel, Mr. McDill.
434
00:40:17,097 --> 00:40:19,691
How do you do?
435
00:40:29,943 --> 00:40:32,935
You're the director.
Is the girl on the end all right?
436
00:40:36,317 --> 00:40:38,251
Yeah, sure.
437
00:40:38,952 --> 00:40:42,979
- You're it.
- Thank you. Girls, come with me.
438
00:40:51,165 --> 00:40:53,725
My call came two days later.
439
00:40:53,934 --> 00:40:56,494
By then, I'd memorized my one line.
440
00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:58,729
I'll wait.
441
00:41:01,842 --> 00:41:04,936
Read any good books lately?
442
00:41:10,818 --> 00:41:13,184
- Cut.
- How was it?
443
00:41:15,989 --> 00:41:19,015
- Was that all right with you?
- Take it again?
444
00:41:19,226 --> 00:41:23,219
- Once again, boys! Here we go!
- How's the makeup?
445
00:41:29,002 --> 00:41:31,163
Try it again.
446
00:41:36,043 --> 00:41:38,807
All right, roll.
447
00:41:39,813 --> 00:41:41,974
- Speed.
- Action.
448
00:41:49,656 --> 00:41:52,056
I'll wait.
449
00:41:56,397 --> 00:41:59,628
Read any good books lately?
450
00:42:10,944 --> 00:42:13,879
- Cut!
- How was it?
451
00:42:14,848 --> 00:42:17,373
Print that. Let's have a test.
452
00:42:17,751 --> 00:42:20,413
- Move in for a close-up.
- New deal, boys.
453
00:42:37,738 --> 00:42:40,536
Your door was unlocked.
454
00:43:02,729 --> 00:43:06,062
For a one-day bit,
you sure expect a lot of company.
455
00:43:07,201 --> 00:43:11,069
For that kind of company,
I don't have to trot here at 4:00 a.m.
456
00:43:11,271 --> 00:43:15,935
- All I have to do is pick up a phone.
- Well, pick one up!
457
00:43:19,146 --> 00:43:22,547
You were under contract to Al Cope.
458
00:43:24,017 --> 00:43:26,952
- Can you hear me?
- Yes.
459
00:43:27,921 --> 00:43:33,757
- You were under contract, right?
- Three years ago, for six months.
460
00:43:33,961 --> 00:43:37,192
Until they found
they had another cluck.
461
00:43:37,397 --> 00:43:40,093
Did you ever play
a real part in a picture?
462
00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:44,464
Last year I played lead
in a little epic called Jungle Tigress.
463
00:43:44,671 --> 00:43:50,132
I ran it. You played straight man
to a chimpanzee. I've tried to find...
464
00:43:55,782 --> 00:43:58,876
I've been trying to find
one decent foot of film on you.
465
00:43:59,086 --> 00:44:01,418
- Is there any?
- Yes.
466
00:44:03,223 --> 00:44:05,589
That one line I did yesterday.
467
00:44:05,792 --> 00:44:10,024
That was good.
But it's not enough to go by.
468
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,525
I want you to make a test for me.
469
00:44:28,215 --> 00:44:31,013
All right, Mr. Shields.
470
00:44:31,218 --> 00:44:34,381
Isn't this scene supposed
to go something like this?
471
00:44:34,588 --> 00:44:40,151
I'll make a test for you, and you'll
be good to me, and I'll be good to you.
472
00:44:42,462 --> 00:44:46,398
Who's kidding who?
It's 4 in the morning.
473
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:51,367
The test, I don't want it.
I wouldn't be any good anyway.
474
00:44:51,572 --> 00:44:54,268
Just a waste of good film.
475
00:44:57,477 --> 00:45:03,177
But you're a nice-Iooking guy,
and you did go to a lot of trouble.
476
00:45:04,585 --> 00:45:08,043
And it's getting late,
so shall I turn out the light?
477
00:45:15,195 --> 00:45:18,096
You're very generous.
478
00:45:19,232 --> 00:45:21,325
Too generous.
479
00:45:22,336 --> 00:45:25,237
You're a Lorrison, all right.
480
00:45:42,289 --> 00:45:45,315
The Queen, my lord, is dead.
481
00:45:45,525 --> 00:45:51,157
She should have died hereafter. There
would have been a time for such a word.
482
00:45:52,232 --> 00:45:55,531
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
483
00:45:55,736 --> 00:45:59,263
... creeps in this petty pace
from day to day...
484
00:45:59,473 --> 00:46:03,432
... to the last syllable of recorded time.
485
00:46:04,311 --> 00:46:10,147
And all our yesterdays have lighted
fools the way to dusty death.
486
00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:14,286
Out, out, brief candle.
487
00:46:15,088 --> 00:46:17,420
Life's but a walking shadow...
488
00:46:17,624 --> 00:46:21,321
... a poor player that struts and frets
his hour upon the stage...
489
00:46:21,528 --> 00:46:24,361
Turn that off and get out!
I wanna get some sleep.
490
00:46:24,564 --> 00:46:27,761
It is a tale told by an idiot.
491
00:46:28,502 --> 00:46:33,565
Full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
492
00:46:33,774 --> 00:46:36,140
Turn it off! I don't wanna hear it!
I hate him!
493
00:46:36,343 --> 00:46:39,278
Make up your mind. You hate him,
and you build this shrine.
494
00:46:39,479 --> 00:46:43,040
He died 10 years ago, and you've
been holding a wake since.
495
00:46:43,250 --> 00:46:45,241
You can't be a star in a cemetery.
496
00:46:45,452 --> 00:46:50,754
Stop pitching! I'm one girl
who doesn't wanna be a star.
497
00:46:51,358 --> 00:46:54,759
Because he was a drunk, you are!
He loved girls, so you're a tramp!
498
00:46:54,961 --> 00:46:58,488
You forget one thing.
He did it with style.
499
00:47:01,168 --> 00:47:03,102
And you...
500
00:47:06,139 --> 00:47:09,074
- Put that down.
- Suicide, how many times?
501
00:47:09,276 --> 00:47:11,244
Twice. Put that pipe down!
502
00:47:13,213 --> 00:47:16,512
Too sacred to touch?
503
00:47:19,953 --> 00:47:23,116
Don't waste any sleep over me,
Mr. Shields.
504
00:47:23,323 --> 00:47:27,191
The last time I tried to commit suicide
was six months ago.
505
00:47:27,394 --> 00:47:30,192
- There won't be any next time.
- Won't there?
506
00:47:31,198 --> 00:47:33,393
No.
507
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:39,129
People who knew my father
give me extra work now and then.
508
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:44,233
I drink what I want and see who I want.
509
00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:46,571
Who knows?
510
00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:50,216
Someday I may even get married...
511
00:47:50,417 --> 00:47:53,750
...to a nice upright assistant assistant.
512
00:47:53,954 --> 00:47:57,185
And make him miserable
for the rest of his life...
513
00:47:57,390 --> 00:48:01,190
...because you're a Lorrison:
Haunted, living by make-believe.
514
00:48:01,394 --> 00:48:05,660
You're acting now, playing the doomed
daughter of the great man.
515
00:48:05,866 --> 00:48:08,562
The acting isn't good enough.
516
00:48:08,769 --> 00:48:11,602
The cheap performance
of a bit player, not a star.
517
00:48:11,805 --> 00:48:14,797
That's all, until you pull
yourself from this tomb!
518
00:48:15,008 --> 00:48:18,466
Until you can see people as they are,
yourself as you are!
519
00:48:18,678 --> 00:48:22,478
Until you can do this
to your father's picture...
520
00:48:22,682 --> 00:48:24,650
...and laugh as he would have!
521
00:48:24,851 --> 00:48:28,514
That's not a god talking, Georgia,
that's only a man!
522
00:48:32,325 --> 00:48:34,088
You!
523
00:48:37,864 --> 00:48:41,027
Miss Lorrison! Miss Lorrison!
524
00:48:42,202 --> 00:48:45,000
You better tell her it's all right.
525
00:48:47,741 --> 00:48:50,539
It's all right, Mrs. Curry.
526
00:49:27,681 --> 00:49:29,842
Good night, Georgia.
527
00:49:31,651 --> 00:49:33,585
Good night.
528
00:49:41,895 --> 00:49:45,331
It takes two hours
to get ready for a screen test.
529
00:49:45,532 --> 00:49:48,865
Two very-early-in-the-morning hours.
530
00:49:49,069 --> 00:49:51,970
Hello, honey. Here you are.
531
00:49:52,172 --> 00:49:55,198
- Let's run the scene again.
- Thanks, Gus.
532
00:50:00,013 --> 00:50:03,278
"I think you understand."
533
00:50:03,483 --> 00:50:06,884
You mean you're through with me.
This is the end.
534
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:12,650
- "To put it that bluntly..."
- It means that little to you?
535
00:50:12,859 --> 00:50:17,455
"Look, my dear.
We are two civilized people.
536
00:50:17,664 --> 00:50:19,996
Let us act like civilized people."
537
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:24,500
They told me about you.
I didn't believe them. You hear...
538
00:50:24,704 --> 00:50:27,468
- "But you're everything..."
- Oh, yeah.
539
00:50:27,674 --> 00:50:30,734
But you're everything they said.
You hear evil.
540
00:50:30,944 --> 00:50:36,075
You see evil. You speak evil.
You are evil.
541
00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:40,652
- Fine. Let's run it again.
- Okay.
542
00:50:42,389 --> 00:50:44,516
... to put it bluntly.
543
00:50:44,724 --> 00:50:47,955
It means that little to you?
544
00:50:48,161 --> 00:50:51,358
Look, my dear.
We're two civilized people.
545
00:50:51,564 --> 00:50:54,089
Let us act like civilized people.
546
00:50:54,301 --> 00:50:58,203
They told me about you.
I didn't believe them.
547
00:50:58,405 --> 00:51:00,396
But you're everything they said.
548
00:51:00,607 --> 00:51:05,408
You hear evil. You see evil.
You speak evil.
549
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,342
You are evil!
550
00:51:17,624 --> 00:51:19,785
What do you think?
551
00:51:21,561 --> 00:51:26,157
Dear Jonathan, since you've paid me
$100,000 to direct this picture...
552
00:51:26,366 --> 00:51:28,061
...a lot of pound sterling...
553
00:51:28,268 --> 00:51:31,032
...presumably
you want my kind of picture.
554
00:51:31,237 --> 00:51:35,071
With this girl, I tell you,
it won't be my kind of picture.
555
00:51:35,275 --> 00:51:37,641
- She's impossible.
- Quite.
556
00:51:37,844 --> 00:51:41,177
She's wooden, gauche, artificial.
557
00:51:41,381 --> 00:51:44,873
- Completely out of the question.
- Quite.
558
00:51:45,852 --> 00:51:47,877
Syd?
559
00:51:48,088 --> 00:51:51,387
Jonathan, since you hire me
partly to yes you...
560
00:51:51,591 --> 00:51:54,685
- You're fired.
- She stinks.
561
00:51:54,894 --> 00:52:00,059
- You're hired. Harry?
- I know we can get her for nothing.
562
00:52:00,266 --> 00:52:03,030
For nothing you get nothing.
563
00:52:03,236 --> 00:52:05,500
She's nothing.
564
00:52:06,306 --> 00:52:11,300
There were few agents in town
with fewer clients than Gus...
565
00:52:11,511 --> 00:52:15,538
... but the few he had he knew well.
566
00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:38,500
I told you not to waste your film.
567
00:52:38,705 --> 00:52:42,766
Gus, check with Harry Pebbel.
He's drawing up the contracts.
568
00:52:43,877 --> 00:52:47,074
- She's in it?
- Of course.
569
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,408
You mean you're gonna give her a part?
570
00:52:50,617 --> 00:52:52,642
The part.
571
00:52:55,055 --> 00:52:57,285
Georgia!
572
00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:03,624
Mr. Shields,
you're a very stubborn man.
573
00:53:03,830 --> 00:53:07,425
Very, when I'm right.
I know I'm right about you.
574
00:53:07,634 --> 00:53:11,730
I gave you no help. The test was
atrocious, but it proved one thing.
575
00:53:11,938 --> 00:53:16,375
When you're on the screen,
the audience is looking at you.
576
00:53:17,944 --> 00:53:20,538
That's star quality...
577
00:53:20,747 --> 00:53:22,681
...Lorrison quality.
578
00:53:23,683 --> 00:53:28,120
Careful, Mr. Shields. You're looking
at me, but you see my father.
579
00:53:28,321 --> 00:53:30,448
He gave me his name, but that's all.
580
00:53:30,657 --> 00:53:33,683
Don't make a mistake.
581
00:53:35,728 --> 00:53:37,662
Georgia...
582
00:53:37,864 --> 00:53:42,858
...no more doomed daughter, no more
whimpering, no more drinking...
583
00:53:43,069 --> 00:53:46,163
- And no more men?
- By and by.
584
00:53:46,372 --> 00:53:49,136
Gus, pull yourself together!
585
00:53:49,342 --> 00:53:53,938
I can't help it, Mr. Shields.
I'm a very emotional man.
586
00:53:58,852 --> 00:54:04,552
The picture was to start in six weeks.
And six weeks seemed like forever.
587
00:54:04,757 --> 00:54:09,558
Then, suddenly, with fittings,
hairdressing and makeup tests...
588
00:54:09,762 --> 00:54:12,230
... five of them were gone.
589
00:54:13,766 --> 00:54:18,760
I don't know what to do. The waist
has to be tight. The train, long...
590
00:54:18,972 --> 00:54:22,237
Evelyn, will you tell me
what's worrying you?
591
00:54:22,442 --> 00:54:25,377
Would you walk over there, please?
592
00:54:30,884 --> 00:54:32,749
Now, turn.
593
00:54:35,155 --> 00:54:39,387
Mr. Shields, I'm afraid Miss Lorrison
can't carry a dress like this.
594
00:54:39,592 --> 00:54:42,425
It takes an enormous amount of poise.
595
00:54:42,629 --> 00:54:48,590
You have to walk like a grand duchess
or hold yourself like Lilly Langtree.
596
00:54:48,801 --> 00:54:52,134
Miss Lorrison will hold herself
like Miss Lorrison.
597
00:54:52,338 --> 00:54:55,671
Miss Lorrison happens to be
an actress.
598
00:54:56,643 --> 00:54:59,271
Make a wider turn, Georgia.
599
00:55:01,414 --> 00:55:03,848
That's it.
Now, come over here.
600
00:55:05,685 --> 00:55:08,483
You're all right.
Come here.
601
00:55:09,689 --> 00:55:12,351
Sit down. Can you sit down?
602
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:14,254
- No.
- Perfect.
603
00:55:14,460 --> 00:55:18,487
Everybody out now, please.
I wanna talk to my star.
604
00:55:23,036 --> 00:55:26,767
- One week to go. Nervous?
- A little.
605
00:55:26,973 --> 00:55:29,840
- Tired?
- Very.
606
00:55:30,043 --> 00:55:32,603
You work very hard,
you're a good girl.
607
00:55:32,812 --> 00:55:34,905
How good?
608
00:55:35,114 --> 00:55:39,881
I'm sending you away.
Palm Springs for the rest of the week.
609
00:55:40,086 --> 00:55:42,987
- Must I?
- Absolutely.
610
00:55:43,189 --> 00:55:46,625
Till you're on set next week,
I want you to sleep...
611
00:55:46,826 --> 00:55:49,989
...relax, and not think about a thing.
612
00:55:50,196 --> 00:55:52,892
Not even you?
613
00:55:54,033 --> 00:55:57,935
- You said no drinking.
- One drink.
614
00:56:08,781 --> 00:56:11,545
To Georgia, my star.
615
00:56:13,987 --> 00:56:17,184
- You said no men.
- So I did.
616
00:56:21,060 --> 00:56:23,893
- We'd agreed.
- You agreed all by yourself.
617
00:56:24,097 --> 00:56:28,966
- Don't put words in my mouth.
- Well, they sure come flapping out.
618
00:56:29,168 --> 00:56:35,937
My pavilion for the garden party,
it was to be three feet off the ground.
619
00:56:36,142 --> 00:56:40,476
That three feet will cost,
with charges and extra shooting time...
620
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,649
...$25,000, more or less,
and with you, more.
621
00:56:43,850 --> 00:56:46,876
I can't shoot without it.
I won't shoot without it.
622
00:56:47,086 --> 00:56:50,578
I'm building an entire sequence
to that one moment.
623
00:56:50,790 --> 00:56:53,987
- So move the camera up!
- I will not cheat the shot!
624
00:56:54,193 --> 00:56:57,993
- That's not the way I function.
- I'm not asking you to change...
625
00:56:58,197 --> 00:57:00,188
Jonathan!
626
00:57:03,102 --> 00:57:06,936
I have something to show you.
This is wonderful.
627
00:57:07,140 --> 00:57:10,940
You can't say that.
I have to look after the budget.
628
00:57:11,144 --> 00:57:14,011
Look. My new car.
629
00:57:14,213 --> 00:57:18,877
I don't care where you put the camera.
Put your camera there.
630
00:57:19,085 --> 00:57:23,317
- A boom costs 150 dollars a day.
- We talked about that 3 weeks ago.
631
00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:27,220
- Like to drive it around the block?
- I'm busy.
632
00:57:27,427 --> 00:57:31,193
- As smooth a drive you'll never have.
- Gaucho, I'm busy.
633
00:57:31,397 --> 00:57:34,958
- How long would a quick ride take?
- Gaucho, I'm busy.
634
00:57:35,168 --> 00:57:39,867
You're always busy!
Why don't you live a little? Adi�s.
635
00:57:41,974 --> 00:57:46,377
- �25,000, I wanna tell you this...
- No, it's �7-8000.
636
00:57:46,579 --> 00:57:49,207
�7-8000. I'm the one who's got to...
637
00:57:49,415 --> 00:57:55,081
- I can't be shooting up their noses!
- Nobody's asking you to shoot up...
638
00:57:56,189 --> 00:58:00,353
Gentlemen, there seems to be
an honest difference of opinion.
639
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,393
- We'll have to make a compromise.
- You bet.
640
00:58:03,596 --> 00:58:06,156
The compromise, gentlemen, is this.
641
00:58:06,366 --> 00:58:11,429
Harry, shut your penny-pinching
mouth and build him his platform!
642
00:58:38,030 --> 00:58:42,558
The night before we started shooting,
I came back from Palm Springs.
643
00:58:42,769 --> 00:58:46,227
I tried to sleep. I couldn't.
644
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:49,875
I don't know what drew me
to the empty stage.
645
00:58:50,076 --> 00:58:52,806
I guess I was scared.
646
00:59:28,047 --> 00:59:33,542
"To my new star, who will make me
very proud of her. Jonathan. "
647
00:59:44,564 --> 00:59:46,964
It was cold on the set.
648
00:59:47,166 --> 00:59:50,067
And suddenly, my throat was dry.
649
00:59:50,269 --> 00:59:54,729
So dry I knew I had to have a drink.
650
01:00:13,493 --> 01:00:16,087
The papers know,
but I asked them to lay off.
651
01:00:16,295 --> 01:00:18,855
She'll burn up every column
in the country.
652
01:00:19,065 --> 01:00:23,900
I wanted to do a picture with her, make
a star of someone this town discarded.
653
01:00:24,103 --> 01:00:29,234
Cross her off. Let me contact
the agents and see who's available.
654
01:00:31,811 --> 01:00:34,143
All right. Cast it and get it over with.
655
01:00:34,347 --> 01:00:37,908
I'll tell Whitfield to shoot around the part.
656
01:00:42,154 --> 01:00:44,213
- Sorry I'm late.
- Get out a release.
657
01:00:44,423 --> 01:00:48,951
We're signing Anne Gavery
for the part tomorrow morning.
658
01:00:53,199 --> 01:00:56,726
- The morgue gives me the jitters.
- Forget her.
659
01:00:56,936 --> 01:00:59,632
I've covered everything:
Waterfront, jails, hospitals...
660
01:00:59,839 --> 01:01:02,501
...scraped the Main Street booze parlors.
661
01:01:02,708 --> 01:01:06,109
- I told you to forget her.
- I have professional pride.
662
01:01:06,312 --> 01:01:12,649
I thought I knew every rathole in town.
She's found a new one, or she's left.
663
01:01:13,653 --> 01:01:19,421
Janitor says she sometimes locks
her door and leaves for days at a time.
664
01:01:19,625 --> 01:01:24,289
Where would I go for days at a time?
I try to put myself in her place...
665
01:01:43,182 --> 01:01:46,083
Hello, Georgia.
666
01:01:49,288 --> 01:01:52,189
You forgot...
667
01:01:53,225 --> 01:01:57,025
...you forgot to tie your tie.
668
01:03:09,335 --> 01:03:12,304
You're sorry, aren't you?
669
01:03:13,906 --> 01:03:19,310
Should I wash your mouth with soap
and send you to bed without supper?
670
01:03:20,379 --> 01:03:23,143
Why did you do it, Georgia?
671
01:03:24,083 --> 01:03:26,608
Do you know why?
672
01:03:29,822 --> 01:03:31,983
Why?
673
01:03:32,191 --> 01:03:37,288
Because I was afraid
I'd louse things up for you...
674
01:03:38,297 --> 01:03:40,731
...because I love you.
675
01:03:41,834 --> 01:03:44,302
I do, you know.
676
01:03:48,107 --> 01:03:51,304
It's cold sitting on the ground.
677
01:03:54,180 --> 01:03:57,513
Georgia, come here.
678
01:04:00,820 --> 01:04:02,811
Sit down.
679
01:04:20,139 --> 01:04:24,200
Georgia, love is for the very young.
680
01:04:25,010 --> 01:04:28,468
"For the very young." I like that.
681
01:04:30,249 --> 01:04:33,582
Would you marry me, Jonathan?
682
01:04:33,786 --> 01:04:36,380
Not even a little bit.
683
01:04:37,189 --> 01:04:40,283
- That's too bad.
- Why?
684
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:45,055
Because I'd make you a good wife.
685
01:04:45,264 --> 01:04:49,701
Well, right now I don't need a wife,
I need a star.
686
01:04:51,804 --> 01:04:54,864
It's cold not sitting on the ground.
687
01:04:55,074 --> 01:04:58,475
Let's go in by the fire, shall we?
688
01:05:07,887 --> 01:05:12,415
We're signing Anne Gavery for the part.
689
01:05:12,625 --> 01:05:17,255
- Oh? She'll be good.
- I think she will.
690
01:05:17,463 --> 01:05:21,194
Why, that big ham, she couldn't...
Well, she...
691
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:23,459
Here.
692
01:05:23,669 --> 01:05:28,163
Jonathan, if we were married,
I wouldn't take up much room.
693
01:05:28,374 --> 01:05:32,105
Put those things on.
Your clothes will be dry soon.
694
01:06:06,245 --> 01:06:09,646
- Hello.
- I've been trying to reach you.
695
01:06:09,849 --> 01:06:13,842
- Oh, Harry...
- You have a picture in production.
696
01:06:14,053 --> 01:06:16,078
- I know.
- We have to get a new star.
697
01:06:16,288 --> 01:06:20,657
- Harry...
- Listen to me, and don't interrupt.
698
01:06:31,904 --> 01:06:34,304
Jonathan, are you there?
699
01:06:34,506 --> 01:06:40,138
- Hello. Hello.
- Harry, forget about Anne Gavery.
700
01:06:40,346 --> 01:06:43,110
Have you gone crazy?
Are you drunk?
701
01:06:43,315 --> 01:06:46,910
I said forget about her.
Georgia is right here.
702
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:49,314
Everything's fine. We'll use her.
703
01:06:49,521 --> 01:06:52,490
I don't know what you've got
in your mind.
704
01:06:52,691 --> 01:06:56,252
- You'll make a fool of yourself.
- I'll take that chance.
705
01:06:56,462 --> 01:07:01,399
We'll see. I know.
Harry, listen to me...
706
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:06,196
Harry, shut up, and listen to me!
These are my instructions:
707
01:07:06,405 --> 01:07:09,169
Georgia's in. We'll shoot in the morning.
708
01:07:09,375 --> 01:07:14,506
- You call Whitfield and tell him.
- If I go to the bank, they'll laugh.
709
01:07:17,783 --> 01:07:21,378
Everybody knows about this girl.
No studio will touch her...
710
01:07:21,587 --> 01:07:25,216
Harry, shut up and listen to me.
711
01:07:25,424 --> 01:07:28,985
Don't worry.
Everything's gonna be all right.
712
01:07:29,194 --> 01:07:33,255
- I know just how to handle her now.
- You know how to handle her!
713
01:07:46,178 --> 01:07:48,043
They're...
714
01:07:48,847 --> 01:07:50,974
They're blue.
715
01:07:57,389 --> 01:08:00,381
Blue is my, my lucky...
716
01:08:09,868 --> 01:08:11,995
...color.
717
01:08:25,050 --> 01:08:27,746
We were 14 weeks
shooting the picture.
718
01:08:27,953 --> 01:08:31,821
The most wonderful 14 weeks
I'd ever known.
719
01:08:32,024 --> 01:08:34,584
Change that line right there.
720
01:08:34,793 --> 01:08:37,387
...see him. Up!
721
01:08:38,731 --> 01:08:42,098
They'll throw pennies at us.
It's ridiculous.
722
01:08:42,301 --> 01:08:45,395
This is a dramatic moment.
The guy you love is onstage.
723
01:08:45,604 --> 01:08:49,233
You see him, and you know
somebody's gonna kill him.
724
01:08:49,441 --> 01:08:52,205
If you're gonna joke about...
725
01:08:52,411 --> 01:08:57,542
You're not taking this seriously.
I'll try once more, and that's all.
726
01:08:59,852 --> 01:09:02,286
This mumbo jumbo
doesn't make any sense.
727
01:09:02,488 --> 01:09:06,219
Try again. Make love
while you're lighting the cigarette.
728
01:09:06,425 --> 01:09:09,292
Go ahead. Take it.
729
01:09:09,495 --> 01:09:12,692
Light it.
Look up. That's it.
730
01:09:12,898 --> 01:09:16,891
All the time thinking, thinking.
That's it.
731
01:09:17,102 --> 01:09:20,936
That's a lot better.
Wasn't that much better?
732
01:09:22,374 --> 01:09:24,433
Jonathan was a perfectionist.
733
01:09:24,643 --> 01:09:27,908
When he loved a scene,
money meant nothing...
734
01:09:28,113 --> 01:09:31,207
... fatigue even less,
his or anyone else's.
735
01:09:31,417 --> 01:09:36,878
We did it over and over and over
till we could hardly stand.
736
01:09:49,735 --> 01:09:54,763
- All right, cut. How was that?
- Try it again.
737
01:09:54,973 --> 01:09:59,273
Jonathan! For heaven's sake!
Fun is fun!
738
01:10:00,212 --> 01:10:04,581
- Did they get it?
- I don't know. They're still arguing.
739
01:10:04,783 --> 01:10:08,844
Oh, brother!
This is amateur night in Dixie!
740
01:10:09,054 --> 01:10:11,716
They'll make up their minds
or lose Baby.
741
01:10:11,924 --> 01:10:15,155
- Hi, Baby.
- You were gonna get me into pictures.
742
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:19,524
It takes a little while, Baby.
I worked as an extra for three years.
743
01:10:19,731 --> 01:10:23,462
- This is good experience.
- This is experience?
744
01:10:23,669 --> 01:10:27,537
By the time I get a speaking part,
they'll have to carry me.
745
01:10:27,739 --> 01:10:31,539
- You're pretty when you're mad.
- Thanks a lot.
746
01:10:31,743 --> 01:10:35,804
Wrap it up!
Get these people outside!
747
01:10:36,014 --> 01:10:38,778
Stage setup first thing in the morning!
748
01:10:41,620 --> 01:10:45,750
- Good night, Miss Lorrison.
- Good night, George.
749
01:10:47,226 --> 01:10:49,319
I thought that take was good.
750
01:10:49,528 --> 01:10:53,430
Pretty good,
but I wanna get more out of Gaucho.
751
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:56,763
- Happy?
- Very.
752
01:10:56,969 --> 01:10:59,938
- Are you, Jonathan?
- Very.
753
01:11:00,139 --> 01:11:04,542
- May I buy you dinner tonight?
- And tomorrow night.
754
01:11:04,743 --> 01:11:09,339
That's the look I want on that wedding
scene. Can you give me that?
755
01:11:09,548 --> 01:11:11,607
I'll try.
756
01:11:18,290 --> 01:11:20,656
Mr. Shields, we're five over budget.
757
01:11:20,859 --> 01:11:24,795
I need you to sign these sheets
before I can send out the checks.
758
01:11:24,997 --> 01:11:27,864
Good night.
Hurry up, Baby.
759
01:11:28,066 --> 01:11:30,364
Be an angel, bring my car around.
760
01:11:30,569 --> 01:11:34,562
S�, se�or. You want me
to wash it for you too?
761
01:11:34,773 --> 01:11:36,968
Georgia.
762
01:11:37,176 --> 01:11:41,442
- You were wonderful in that scene.
- Thank you.
763
01:11:41,647 --> 01:11:46,050
Every day I watch you grow
more and more an actress.
764
01:11:52,057 --> 01:11:56,585
To give truth to a performance,
there's nothing like love.
765
01:11:56,795 --> 01:12:00,492
- Love is for the very young.
- Love is for the birds!
766
01:12:05,103 --> 01:12:07,901
- Good night, Georgia.
- Good night, Gaucho.
767
01:12:13,345 --> 01:12:16,803
Lila, that wasn't nice!
768
01:12:17,015 --> 01:12:20,576
I guess it depends on
who a girl has dinner with.
769
01:12:20,786 --> 01:12:23,380
Shh, Baby.
770
01:12:23,589 --> 01:12:27,923
She gets to be a star,
I get to park a convertible.
771
01:12:28,126 --> 01:12:32,825
Don't talk like that about Georgia,
or Jonathan. He is a great man.
772
01:12:33,932 --> 01:12:37,834
There are no great men, buster.
There's only men.
773
01:12:39,371 --> 01:12:42,397
The last two weeks of the picture,
I was in a dream...
774
01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:44,974
... a bad dream.
775
01:12:45,744 --> 01:12:48,713
All right, Jonathan!
776
01:12:48,914 --> 01:12:50,905
Action!
777
01:13:06,365 --> 01:13:10,096
- They're ready, Miss Lorrison.
- She'll be right there.
778
01:13:10,302 --> 01:13:14,830
I don't know what to do.
I feel sick and frightened.
779
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,474
You're tired.
You've been trying so hard.
780
01:13:17,676 --> 01:13:20,839
But they think I'm such a fool,
or temperamental...
781
01:13:21,046 --> 01:13:23,378
It's only a few more days.
782
01:13:23,582 --> 01:13:26,881
I feel like I'm gonna scream.
I can't help myself.
783
01:13:27,085 --> 01:13:30,521
Hurry, Miss Lorrison.
Please, they're all waiting.
784
01:13:32,557 --> 01:13:35,082
We were on the last scene.
785
01:13:35,294 --> 01:13:38,730
We finished a little before dawn.
786
01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:42,296
We're alone now.
787
01:13:43,769 --> 01:13:46,602
And I can talk to you.
788
01:13:48,407 --> 01:13:53,572
Now I can tell you
what I never could tell you before.
789
01:13:55,514 --> 01:13:59,109
You must forgive me, my darling.
790
01:13:59,318 --> 01:14:02,253
You mustn't mind my crying...
791
01:14:03,622 --> 01:14:06,591
...now that it's too late.
792
01:14:07,259 --> 01:14:10,160
Now, at last, I can tell you.
793
01:14:11,263 --> 01:14:14,198
I love you, Gregory.
794
01:14:14,766 --> 01:14:17,997
I love you. I love you so...
795
01:14:57,442 --> 01:14:59,842
After the opening, there was a party.
796
01:15:00,045 --> 01:15:02,775
It was a lovely top-of-the-world party.
797
01:15:02,981 --> 01:15:05,449
It was my party,
and everybody was there.
798
01:15:05,650 --> 01:15:09,051
And everybody made
a fuss over me. Everybody...
799
01:15:09,254 --> 01:15:11,620
... but Jonathan.
800
01:16:03,375 --> 01:16:07,641
You wouldn't come to my party,
so I brought my party to you.
801
01:16:07,846 --> 01:16:10,280
Jonathan, it was so wonderful.
802
01:16:10,482 --> 01:16:13,849
Everything you wanted for me.
Just as you promised.
803
01:16:14,052 --> 01:16:16,520
They applauded, cheered,
oohed and aahed.
804
01:16:16,721 --> 01:16:20,088
Georgia, go back and enjoy it.
805
01:16:22,127 --> 01:16:24,322
But there's no one to enjoy it with.
806
01:16:24,529 --> 01:16:30,126
Why, that's silly. Everybody in town
is fighting to be near the new star.
807
01:16:30,335 --> 01:16:33,532
You know what I mean, Jonathan.
808
01:16:33,738 --> 01:16:37,230
Georgia, I have to be alone tonight.
809
01:16:37,442 --> 01:16:40,036
After a picture's done,
something happens.
810
01:16:40,245 --> 01:16:45,114
It's a feeling of letdown, of emptiness.
811
01:16:45,317 --> 01:16:49,720
It's bad. It gets worse.
I can't help it.
812
01:16:49,921 --> 01:16:54,949
I know. Syd and Harry have told me
about that. But tonight...
813
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,288
I'd only depress you.
I want you to go back now.
814
01:16:58,497 --> 01:17:02,399
- You've got bows to take. Take them!
- Darling.
815
01:17:02,601 --> 01:17:07,402
I was afraid you might be angry
or resent my coming here...
816
01:17:07,606 --> 01:17:09,574
...but I had to take that chance.
817
01:17:09,774 --> 01:17:14,074
Right in the middle of everything,
suddenly I knew one thing so clearly.
818
01:17:14,279 --> 01:17:19,478
The party is where you are:
Depressed or gay or angry...
819
01:17:19,684 --> 01:17:24,553
...or tender or in any of your moods.
I know them all.
820
01:17:24,756 --> 01:17:28,157
Let's have our party.
We've got so much to celebrate.
821
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:32,592
We'll ice the champagne.
We'll light the fire.
822
01:17:32,797 --> 01:17:35,027
We'll put on the records and dance.
823
01:17:35,233 --> 01:17:39,397
I'll help you pull yourself out of this
the way you helped me.
824
01:17:39,604 --> 01:17:42,698
Give me that chance, darling?
Please?
825
01:17:42,908 --> 01:17:47,140
Please don't shut me out.
Please.
826
01:18:00,792 --> 01:18:03,226
You said you'd get rid of her quick.
827
01:18:03,995 --> 01:18:05,986
Now, go back to your party.
828
01:18:08,199 --> 01:18:12,135
The picture's finished, Georgia.
You're business, I'm company.
829
01:18:12,337 --> 01:18:17,036
Shut up!
Shut up, and get back upstairs!
830
01:18:22,714 --> 01:18:26,343
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Georgia.
831
01:18:26,551 --> 01:18:29,145
I saw the picture.
832
01:18:29,354 --> 01:18:31,822
I thought you were swell.
833
01:18:34,859 --> 01:18:37,293
Good night, Georgia.
834
01:18:43,435 --> 01:18:45,767
Stop looking like that.
835
01:18:45,971 --> 01:18:48,405
Remember, I didn't ask you here.
836
01:18:48,607 --> 01:18:51,075
You couldn't stay where you belong.
837
01:18:51,276 --> 01:18:54,074
You couldn't enjoy
what I made possible for you.
838
01:18:54,279 --> 01:18:56,577
You'd rather have this.
839
01:18:56,781 --> 01:19:02,048
Well, congratulations.
You've got it all laid out for you...
840
01:19:02,253 --> 01:19:04,483
...so you can wallow in self-pity.
841
01:19:04,689 --> 01:19:09,820
A betrayed woman, the wounded doe,
with all the dribble that goes with it.
842
01:19:10,028 --> 01:19:12,087
"He doesn't love me. He was lying.
843
01:19:12,297 --> 01:19:16,097
Lovely moments, tender words.
He's lying. He's cheap and cruel!
844
01:19:16,301 --> 01:19:20,203
That low woman Lila!"
Well, maybe I like Lilas.
845
01:19:20,405 --> 01:19:24,273
Maybe I like to be cheap sometimes.
Maybe everybody does.
846
01:19:24,976 --> 01:19:27,911
Or don't you remember?
847
01:19:28,980 --> 01:19:30,948
Get that look off your face!
848
01:19:31,149 --> 01:19:35,745
Who gave you the right to dig into me
and decide what I'm like?
849
01:19:35,954 --> 01:19:38,718
How do you know
how I feel about you?
850
01:19:38,923 --> 01:19:44,020
Maybe I don't want anybody
to own me, you or anybody. Get out!
851
01:19:44,229 --> 01:19:46,197
Get out!
852
01:21:02,807 --> 01:21:07,107
I told you I'd never work for
him again, and I never will.
853
01:21:07,312 --> 01:21:11,908
I don't blame you, Georgia.
Jonathan certainly ruined you.
854
01:21:12,117 --> 01:21:17,214
You were a drunk and a tramp playing
bit parts, and he made a star of you.
855
01:21:17,422 --> 01:21:20,414
You had an ironclad contract
with Shields Productions.
856
01:21:20,625 --> 01:21:23,219
Iron, I know, because I drew it myself.
857
01:21:23,428 --> 01:21:26,955
Starting at $100 a week,
we owned you body and soul.
858
01:21:27,165 --> 01:21:30,430
The next morning you walked
right into this office.
859
01:21:30,635 --> 01:21:35,436
That same look on your face as now,
and you threw the contract in my face.
860
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:39,440
Jonathan let you do with it.
I wanted to take you to court.
861
01:21:39,644 --> 01:21:42,442
But he said no.
So you signed with ANL...
862
01:21:42,647 --> 01:21:45,878
...and made them the millions
we should have made.
863
01:21:46,084 --> 01:21:51,386
For the last seven years, you've been
in the top 10 in every popularity poll.
864
01:21:52,223 --> 01:21:55,317
Yes, Jonathan sure fouled you up.
865
01:21:56,394 --> 01:22:00,626
Jim, you're pretty happy
with yourself these days, aren't you?
866
01:22:00,832 --> 01:22:05,201
You and your Poolutzer... Poolitzer.
867
01:22:05,403 --> 01:22:08,736
"To James Lee Bartlow,
whose first book"...so and so...
868
01:22:09,541 --> 01:22:12,476
..."graduate of Harvard
and the Sorbonne"...
869
01:22:12,677 --> 01:22:18,912
"1949, professor of Medieval History
at a leading Southern university."
870
01:22:25,256 --> 01:22:30,216
Summer is the quietest time of year
in a college town, and the loveliest.
871
01:22:30,428 --> 01:22:33,454
I was outlining what I hoped
would be my second novel.
872
01:22:33,665 --> 01:22:37,226
My first, on which I'd labored
seven years, was just out.
873
01:22:37,435 --> 01:22:40,598
Surprisingly, for a scholarly work
about early Virginia...
874
01:22:40,805 --> 01:22:44,104
... my book was enjoying
a brisk nationwide sale.
875
01:22:44,309 --> 01:22:47,335
Possibly because it was
liberally peppered with sex...
876
01:22:47,545 --> 01:22:51,879
... because, after all, early Virginia
was liberally peppered with sex.
877
01:22:52,083 --> 01:22:54,847
Was that why Hollywood had bought it?
878
01:22:55,987 --> 01:22:58,751
Why did I stay away from home
that afternoon?
879
01:22:58,957 --> 01:23:02,222
Because Rosemary, my wife,
was entertaining the symposium...
880
01:23:02,427 --> 01:23:04,725
... factory wives who met bimonthly...
881
01:23:04,929 --> 01:23:08,330
... to enjoy a little culture
and a lot of gossip.
882
01:23:09,467 --> 01:23:13,836
Rosemary was reading a paper
on the island of St. Daniels...
883
01:23:14,038 --> 01:23:16,472
... which we visited the summer before.
884
01:23:16,674 --> 01:23:20,337
"The techniques of courtship,
marriage and consummation.
885
01:23:20,545 --> 01:23:22,843
These are the concern
of the anthropologist...
886
01:23:23,047 --> 01:23:25,481
...rather than of the sociologist.
887
01:23:25,683 --> 01:23:29,881
They are certainly
not for the drawing room.
888
01:23:33,625 --> 01:23:35,593
The Longhorns:
889
01:23:35,793 --> 01:23:40,025
Dating back to the misty past
of the first Spanish explorers..."
890
01:23:42,834 --> 01:23:45,598
Her paper seemed
to be getting a good reception.
891
01:23:45,803 --> 01:23:48,704
Possibly because it was
liberally peppered with sex...
892
01:23:48,907 --> 01:23:51,967
... because, after all,
the island of St. Daniels...
893
01:23:52,176 --> 01:23:55,111
... is liberally peppered with sex.
894
01:24:06,157 --> 01:24:08,648
I started to work.
895
01:24:11,262 --> 01:24:14,527
James Lee doesn't mind one bit.
Do you, darling?
896
01:24:14,732 --> 01:24:16,996
He never minds.
897
01:24:17,835 --> 01:24:19,962
Autograph, Miss Rosser?
898
01:24:20,171 --> 01:24:23,504
Dear Miss Rosser,
isn't this just like a man?
899
01:24:23,708 --> 01:24:27,439
I fixed his study with everything
an author could want...
900
01:24:27,645 --> 01:24:30,409
...and there he sits
in a dreary old rocker...
901
01:24:30,615 --> 01:24:33,607
...clickety-clack
on that dilapidated old portable.
902
01:24:33,818 --> 01:24:38,187
I suppose we'll be losing you
to Hollywood now, Professor Bartlow.
903
01:24:38,389 --> 01:24:43,019
The James Lee Bartlows in Hollywood,
isn't that a ridiculous idea?
904
01:24:43,227 --> 01:24:47,129
Besides which, what could Hollywood
possibly offer us?
905
01:24:47,332 --> 01:24:50,961
Besides which,
Hollywood hasn't asked us.
906
01:24:51,169 --> 01:24:53,501
What did he write?
907
01:24:57,442 --> 01:25:02,175
Oh, professor! You shouldn't have!
908
01:25:03,781 --> 01:25:06,614
Ladies, look what Mr. Bartlow wrote!
909
01:25:07,518 --> 01:25:11,181
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind...
910
01:25:12,490 --> 01:25:14,685
...I'm happy to say.
911
01:25:14,892 --> 01:25:18,259
James Lee, no.
There are ladies out there. No...
912
01:25:50,261 --> 01:25:53,253
I started to work.
913
01:25:58,336 --> 01:26:01,305
Mrs. Bartlow says eat.
It'll do you good.
914
01:26:01,506 --> 01:26:03,633
Thanks, Milly.
915
01:26:03,841 --> 01:26:06,469
I started to work.
916
01:26:13,851 --> 01:26:15,682
Hello.
917
01:26:15,887 --> 01:26:19,288
Yes, this is Professor Bartlow.
918
01:26:19,490 --> 01:26:21,151
Who?
919
01:26:21,359 --> 01:26:23,156
Where?
920
01:26:23,361 --> 01:26:26,694
Oh. Yes, put him on.
921
01:26:30,134 --> 01:26:33,763
Hello, Mr. Shields.
Fine, thanks.
922
01:26:33,971 --> 01:26:38,772
I heard on the extension.
Hollywood! Jonathan Shields.
923
01:26:41,112 --> 01:26:43,478
Sure I'm glad you bought the book.
924
01:26:43,681 --> 01:26:48,414
I hope your movie of it makes me
as happy as your check did.
925
01:26:50,288 --> 01:26:52,051
No.
926
01:26:52,256 --> 01:26:55,657
No, I'm sorry.
I don't see how I can.
927
01:26:55,860 --> 01:26:58,852
Tell him you're working on
your new novel. Go on.
928
01:26:59,063 --> 01:27:02,726
I need all summer
to work on my new book.
929
01:27:04,402 --> 01:27:08,600
- Don't tell him what it's about.
- Get your hand away.
930
01:27:08,806 --> 01:27:11,969
I'd rather not discuss it
until it's finished.
931
01:27:14,145 --> 01:27:18,275
My, just listen to that man talk!
932
01:27:18,483 --> 01:27:23,716
All expenses paid.
You just tell him you'll think it over.
933
01:27:23,921 --> 01:27:27,823
No, it's impossible.
I can't come out now.
934
01:27:29,861 --> 01:27:32,421
Say something charming
for goodbye.
935
01:27:32,630 --> 01:27:37,431
- Goodbye, Mr. Shields.
- James Lee, that was not charming.
936
01:27:37,635 --> 01:27:40,763
He has enough charm for all three of us.
937
01:27:41,973 --> 01:27:46,467
- He surely rubbed you the wrong way.
- He surely did.
938
01:27:48,212 --> 01:27:50,703
Darling...
939
01:27:50,915 --> 01:27:55,181
...I don't want you to feel sorry
you didn't say yes to Mr. Shields.
940
01:27:55,386 --> 01:27:59,618
What if we do spend the whole
hot summer here? It doesn't matter.
941
01:27:59,824 --> 01:28:05,228
Someday, I know we'll get to travel
and see all those wonderful places.
942
01:28:05,429 --> 01:28:11,197
So don't you ever feel one bit sorry
you didn't say yes, James Lee.
943
01:28:16,774 --> 01:28:20,369
Does a trip to Hollywood
mean that much to you?
944
01:28:20,578 --> 01:28:22,068
Me?!
945
01:28:30,521 --> 01:28:34,287
After all, it was only for two weeks,
all expenses paid.
946
01:28:34,492 --> 01:28:37,893
It's not like Mr. Shields
wanted me to write a screenplay.
947
01:28:38,095 --> 01:28:43,260
All he wanted was to talk,
to get my ideas on his ideas.
948
01:28:45,303 --> 01:28:48,670
- Is this everything?
- Yeah, that's all.
949
01:28:50,074 --> 01:28:52,440
Mrs. Bartlow, is this bungalow
all right with you?
950
01:28:52,643 --> 01:28:55,840
- It's completely enchanting!
- Good.
951
01:28:56,047 --> 01:28:58,914
- The studio car is yours for the stay.
- Thank you.
952
01:28:59,116 --> 01:29:01,311
I have to meet a guy from the syndicate.
953
01:29:01,519 --> 01:29:05,649
He's a nice guy,
but he hated our last two pictures.
954
01:29:05,856 --> 01:29:08,017
- Bye.
- When do I see the great man?
955
01:29:08,226 --> 01:29:13,254
Jonathan? Drop around the studio
tomorrow. Not too early, not too late.
956
01:29:13,464 --> 01:29:15,455
Bye, Mrs. Bartlow.
957
01:29:20,504 --> 01:29:24,065
James Lee, come here.
Hurry up.
958
01:29:24,875 --> 01:29:27,241
Hurry up!
959
01:29:27,445 --> 01:29:29,675
Come on.
960
01:29:31,048 --> 01:29:33,107
It's Georgia Lorrison...
961
01:29:33,751 --> 01:29:37,243
...living in the very next bungalow.
962
01:29:38,155 --> 01:29:39,850
Now, what do you know?
963
01:29:41,759 --> 01:29:44,421
That night Rosemary
wrote 32 postcards.
964
01:29:44,629 --> 01:29:48,725
Next morning I mailed them,
and we went to the studio.
965
01:29:54,572 --> 01:29:58,303
Look here, James Lee.
The dining room at Round Oak...
966
01:29:58,509 --> 01:30:01,034
...just the way we saw it
when you wrote it.
967
01:30:01,245 --> 01:30:03,713
Just the way I saw it when I read it.
968
01:30:03,914 --> 01:30:05,882
Look at that chandelier.
969
01:30:06,083 --> 01:30:09,348
- It's Waterford, isn't it?
- Yes, it is.
970
01:30:09,553 --> 01:30:13,353
You write in motion-picture terms.
You like movies?
971
01:30:13,557 --> 01:30:16,890
- The good ones.
- Would you like to write the script?
972
01:30:17,094 --> 01:30:19,289
- No.
- Why not?
973
01:30:19,497 --> 01:30:21,522
You look much younger than I thought.
974
01:30:21,732 --> 01:30:24,166
- Must take good care of yourself.
- I do.
975
01:30:24,368 --> 01:30:28,702
So do I. I'm here for two weeks only.
Get your money's worth out of that.
976
01:30:28,906 --> 01:30:32,535
There's never been such silver,
not even in Richmond.
977
01:30:32,743 --> 01:30:35,075
I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
978
01:30:35,279 --> 01:30:39,409
Mr. Shields, James Lee didn't think
it proper for me to come along today.
979
01:30:39,617 --> 01:30:43,986
The professor's a man of rigid ideas.
We're delighted to have you with us.
980
01:30:44,188 --> 01:30:50,957
See, darling. I knew it was plain
sociable for me to come and say hello.
981
01:30:51,162 --> 01:30:54,154
Don't worry, Mr. Shields.
I won't be a nuisance.
982
01:30:54,365 --> 01:30:57,732
When James Lee is busy with you,
I'll be busy with my own work.
983
01:30:57,935 --> 01:31:01,029
- What kind of work is that?
- It's nothing, really.
984
01:31:01,238 --> 01:31:05,937
But I did promise the symposium
I'd do a paper on Hollywood.
985
01:31:06,143 --> 01:31:11,137
I realize in two weeks I can't do more
than barely scratch the surface.
986
01:31:22,193 --> 01:31:25,356
Get the feel of things,
and then we'll get together.
987
01:31:25,563 --> 01:31:28,999
- Shall I phone you?
- No, let me phone you.
988
01:31:33,170 --> 01:31:36,139
Thank you, Mr. Shields.
It was wonderful fun.
989
01:31:36,340 --> 01:31:40,538
I like being an author's wife.
It took time to learn the secret:
990
01:31:40,745 --> 01:31:42,804
His work comes first.
991
01:31:43,013 --> 01:31:46,176
- Visit us again.
- Thank you. Goodbye.
992
01:31:47,051 --> 01:31:49,076
"His work comes first."
993
01:31:49,286 --> 01:31:52,949
She would buy dark glasses
with his first salary check.
994
01:31:53,157 --> 01:31:56,251
No wonder it took him seven years
to write a book.
995
01:31:56,460 --> 01:31:59,395
Do you have to have him
to write your script?
996
01:31:59,597 --> 01:32:04,000
Do you think you can keep him
in Hollywood?
997
01:32:05,669 --> 01:32:10,368
He kept me, all right. Two weeks later
I signed with Shields Productions...
998
01:32:10,574 --> 01:32:12,838
... to write a treatment of
The Proud Land.
999
01:32:13,043 --> 01:32:15,273
- So you like my ideas?
- Yes.
1000
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:17,913
- All of them?
- No.
1001
01:32:19,083 --> 01:32:23,247
- Who is that? His picture is all over.
- That's my father.
1002
01:32:23,454 --> 01:32:26,287
Angry little man, wasn't he?
1003
01:32:26,490 --> 01:32:31,792
I'm not used to an office. I'm
used to a portable and a soft rocker.
1004
01:32:31,996 --> 01:32:34,464
- Superstitious mind?
- No.
1005
01:32:34,665 --> 01:32:37,634
Supersensitive rear.
1006
01:32:50,114 --> 01:32:54,244
I had them flown out.
I thought it'd make you happy.
1007
01:32:54,452 --> 01:32:58,548
- I gather I failed.
- You were pretty sure of yourself.
1008
01:32:58,756 --> 01:33:02,692
- Pretty sure I'd stay.
- Yes, I was.
1009
01:33:02,893 --> 01:33:05,953
I know the legend. Jonathan Shields...
1010
01:33:06,163 --> 01:33:09,724
...the man will do anything
to get what he wants.
1011
01:33:09,934 --> 01:33:12,198
Thanks.
1012
01:33:13,003 --> 01:33:16,439
Shields Pictures Incorporated.
1013
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:20,098
Well, I'm flattered you want me
and bitter you got me.
1014
01:33:20,311 --> 01:33:22,677
Where do I start?
1015
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:25,110
Just read these scripts.
See how it's done.
1016
01:33:25,316 --> 01:33:28,877
Rough out a storyline,
and then we'll get to work.
1017
01:33:29,086 --> 01:33:31,350
Don't worry.
Some great movies...
1018
01:33:31,555 --> 01:33:34,490
...are made by people
who hate each other.
1019
01:33:34,692 --> 01:33:38,856
- Then we should make a great movie.
- I usually do.
1020
01:33:39,063 --> 01:33:41,395
What about your last two?
1021
01:33:41,599 --> 01:33:43,590
I liked them.
1022
01:33:50,207 --> 01:33:52,334
I started to work.
1023
01:34:02,953 --> 01:34:03,851
Look!
1024
01:34:10,594 --> 01:34:12,824
How do you like it?
1025
01:34:14,732 --> 01:34:16,791
I'll be right down.
1026
01:34:22,373 --> 01:34:24,807
I started to work.
1027
01:34:31,682 --> 01:34:33,775
Hello.
1028
01:34:33,984 --> 01:34:36,578
What is it, Rosemary?
1029
01:34:36,787 --> 01:34:39,756
But, dear, I told you I can't.
1030
01:34:39,957 --> 01:34:45,020
I know it's Sunday, but I've only
written half a page all week.
1031
01:34:45,229 --> 01:34:48,460
All right, Rosemary.
Where is it?
1032
01:34:48,666 --> 01:34:50,600
Yes.
1033
01:34:50,801 --> 01:34:54,066
And?
Not so fast.
1034
01:35:17,428 --> 01:35:19,988
Walking out that way.
You were rude.
1035
01:35:20,197 --> 01:35:22,688
I don't care how you feel about Shields...
1036
01:35:22,900 --> 01:35:26,358
...if you are a gentleman, there is
no justification for boorishness!
1037
01:35:26,570 --> 01:35:31,098
He asked me how my work was going.
What was I supposed to say? Great?
1038
01:35:31,308 --> 01:35:35,005
Who was that overgrown bullfighter
you danced with?
1039
01:35:35,212 --> 01:35:37,703
You mean Victor Ribera? Gaucho?
1040
01:35:37,915 --> 01:35:40,907
Why, I only danced with him twice.
1041
01:35:41,118 --> 01:35:46,021
- An hour each time.
- You do get nasty when you're jealous.
1042
01:35:46,223 --> 01:35:48,589
Like the time you carried on
in St. Daniels...
1043
01:35:48,792 --> 01:35:50,885
...over that charming
young governor's aide.
1044
01:35:51,095 --> 01:35:55,225
- He was too charming.
- He meant nothing at all!
1045
01:35:55,432 --> 01:35:58,333
You were even jealous
at that Swiss exchange professor...
1046
01:35:58,535 --> 01:36:00,901
...just because he was polite!
1047
01:36:01,105 --> 01:36:05,542
He was too polite.
Rosemary, let's get some sleep.
1048
01:36:05,743 --> 01:36:10,203
James Lee Bartlow, take a good look
at yourself in that mirror.
1049
01:36:10,414 --> 01:36:12,678
You've changed
since you've come to Hollywood...
1050
01:36:12,883 --> 01:36:17,547
...and I don't mind telling you,
it's no change for the better.
1051
01:36:26,296 --> 01:36:29,094
Have I changed too?
1052
01:36:29,933 --> 01:36:35,166
I dare say I am getting
a little too big for my breeches.
1053
01:36:42,346 --> 01:36:44,314
They're pretty breeches.
1054
01:36:44,515 --> 01:36:48,144
James Lee, you have
a very naughty mind...
1055
01:36:48,952 --> 01:36:51,580
...I'm happy to say.
1056
01:37:49,947 --> 01:37:52,074
Get me Gaucho.
1057
01:37:54,985 --> 01:37:56,543
Harry?
1058
01:37:56,754 --> 01:37:59,314
Oh, call Arrowhead.
1059
01:37:59,523 --> 01:38:03,254
Long distance, please.
Lake Arrowhead, California.
1060
01:38:08,499 --> 01:38:13,129
I'm going up the lake with James Lee.
We'll get this treatment written.
1061
01:38:13,337 --> 01:38:15,271
- When are you leaving?
- In an hour.
1062
01:38:15,472 --> 01:38:19,374
- The bank wants to talk to you.
- Tell them I said you could do it.
1063
01:38:19,576 --> 01:38:22,443
- They're getting tough.
- You're getting too old.
1064
01:38:22,646 --> 01:38:25,240
You got something there.
1065
01:38:25,449 --> 01:38:27,576
Hello, Gaucho?
Just a minute.
1066
01:38:27,785 --> 01:38:32,381
- Harry, you take care of it, will you?
- All right, I'll see what I can do.
1067
01:38:34,625 --> 01:38:39,062
Gaucho. �Qu� tal?
Muy bien.
1068
01:38:39,263 --> 01:38:43,700
How are you booked for social life?
Well, get yourself unbooked.
1069
01:38:43,901 --> 01:38:47,769
How would you like to squire
a genuine Virginia dame?
1070
01:38:47,971 --> 01:38:51,134
I said "squire."
1071
01:38:53,010 --> 01:38:57,447
Mrs. James Lee Bartlow.
Mister is going up the lake with me.
1072
01:38:57,648 --> 01:39:01,812
IKKeep her occupied, Gaucho,
so she doesn't get in our hair.
1073
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:13,054
I started to work.
1074
01:39:15,365 --> 01:39:19,927
I worked all day from 7:00 till noon,
from 2:00 to 5:00.
1075
01:39:20,137 --> 01:39:22,662
There were no interruptions.
1076
01:39:25,175 --> 01:39:28,736
In the evenings,
we worked together.
1077
01:39:31,648 --> 01:39:34,583
Jonathan, that's my best scene!
1078
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,014
You've cut it down to three lines!
1079
01:39:40,224 --> 01:39:43,716
Look, Jonathan,
I don't think you understand.
1080
01:39:43,927 --> 01:39:48,125
The boy's going away, probably to be
killed! So when the mother speaks...
1081
01:39:48,332 --> 01:39:51,165
She doesn't speak.
We move the camera in close.
1082
01:39:51,368 --> 01:39:54,929
She opens her mouth,
but is too emotional to speak.
1083
01:39:55,138 --> 01:39:57,936
What she feels
we let the audience imagine.
1084
01:39:58,141 --> 01:40:02,077
They'll imagine it better than any
words you and I could write.
1085
01:40:02,279 --> 01:40:04,270
All right with you?
1086
01:40:06,116 --> 01:40:07,947
Yes, professor.
1087
01:40:08,151 --> 01:40:10,915
Now for that last scene.
1088
01:40:16,593 --> 01:40:18,561
- Proud of yourself?
- A little.
1089
01:40:18,762 --> 01:40:21,595
Should be. Not a weak scene
in the whole treatment.
1090
01:40:21,798 --> 01:40:26,201
I'm proud of Rosemary too.
She didn't interrupt the whole time.
1091
01:40:26,403 --> 01:40:28,769
Pleasant, wasn't it?
1092
01:40:28,972 --> 01:40:32,965
To tell you the truth,
I missed her interruptions.
1093
01:40:33,176 --> 01:40:38,478
Even when she's a bother, she does it
in a gay, naive, Southern belle way.
1094
01:40:38,682 --> 01:40:42,584
Why didn't you try to put her
on paper as a woman in your book?
1095
01:40:42,786 --> 01:40:46,017
- I did try.
- Just wouldn't write?
1096
01:40:46,223 --> 01:40:47,520
Funny.
1097
01:40:47,724 --> 01:40:50,955
Maybe you just don't know her
well enough.
1098
01:41:13,050 --> 01:41:16,645
Check the radiator too.
1099
01:41:43,647 --> 01:41:46,207
What's her story?
Gaucho a friend of his?
1100
01:41:46,416 --> 01:41:49,249
Was she gonna marry Gaucho?
1101
01:41:49,453 --> 01:41:52,251
Were they flying
for a Mexican divorce?
1102
01:41:52,456 --> 01:41:55,425
- How long did she love him?
- When did he last see her?
1103
01:41:55,625 --> 01:41:58,890
He was a close friend of the Bartlows.
They were flying to the lake.
1104
01:41:59,096 --> 01:42:02,395
- His flight plan said Acapulco.
- What flight plan?
1105
01:42:02,599 --> 01:42:04,590
Don't you wanna play with the press?
1106
01:42:04,801 --> 01:42:08,635
Gaucho was a friend of the Bartlows.
He was flying her to the lake...
1107
01:42:08,839 --> 01:42:12,798
- Let Mr. Bartlow identify the body.
- Just a minute...
1108
01:42:13,010 --> 01:42:16,275
- Will you shut up!
- You stay out of it...
1109
01:42:45,842 --> 01:42:51,041
I wish... I wish an awful lot.
1110
01:42:51,248 --> 01:42:54,479
Maybe if I'd been here...
1111
01:42:55,519 --> 01:42:58,682
You didn't know about them, did you?
1112
01:42:58,889 --> 01:43:03,258
Sorry, Jonathan.
Of course, you didn't know.
1113
01:43:04,327 --> 01:43:08,627
Look, Jim, I'm not gonna let you
brood about her.
1114
01:43:08,832 --> 01:43:11,801
She's dead, and you're alive.
1115
01:43:13,303 --> 01:43:17,103
You can't do anything about it.
Neither can I.
1116
01:43:18,308 --> 01:43:21,368
Let's get to work, you and I.
1117
01:43:28,485 --> 01:43:31,750
Without Jonathan, I don't know what
I'd have done those next few months.
1118
01:43:31,955 --> 01:43:34,480
He put me to work
and kept me working.
1119
01:43:34,691 --> 01:43:37,125
When the shooting script
was finished...
1120
01:43:37,294 --> 01:43:40,525
... he asked me to stay
for production meetings and casting.
1121
01:43:42,099 --> 01:43:45,796
You see Miss Ronley
as the star of The Proud Land.
1122
01:43:46,002 --> 01:43:49,597
But it was my impression
this was a woman of sex.
1123
01:43:49,806 --> 01:43:52,866
Miss Ronley has
the sex appeal of an angleworm.
1124
01:43:53,076 --> 01:43:56,102
- How about that, Jonathan?
- About what?
1125
01:43:56,313 --> 01:43:58,543
I like Linda Ronley.
1126
01:43:58,748 --> 01:44:01,979
- I wonder...
- Yes, Jim?
1127
01:44:02,185 --> 01:44:05,552
- It's not my department.
- Go ahead. You're among friends.
1128
01:44:05,755 --> 01:44:08,588
While writing the script,
I had one girl in mind.
1129
01:44:08,792 --> 01:44:11,818
She lives next to my bungalow.
I think she'd be fine.
1130
01:44:12,028 --> 01:44:14,622
Georgia Lorrison.
1131
01:44:15,765 --> 01:44:18,632
If you'd like me to give
her the script, I...
1132
01:44:18,835 --> 01:44:23,363
You have just broken a sacred taboo.
You've mentioned the unmentionable.
1133
01:44:23,573 --> 01:44:26,371
- That's enough.
- That's all right, Syd.
1134
01:44:26,576 --> 01:44:30,808
Georgia is the best.
The best actress. The best box office.
1135
01:44:31,014 --> 01:44:34,006
Her last three pictures
for Fred Amiel grossed to... Harry?
1136
01:44:34,217 --> 01:44:37,778
$ 7,600,000 domestic.
1137
01:44:37,988 --> 01:44:43,187
We try to get her, we'll be wasting
our time. She hates my guts.
1138
01:44:48,231 --> 01:44:53,794
Jim, if you wanna show her the script,
there's no way I can stop you.
1139
01:44:55,505 --> 01:44:58,599
What am I supposed to do?
Thank you for saying no?
1140
01:44:58,808 --> 01:45:02,972
What are you trying to do? Fight
Jonathan Shields' battles for him?
1141
01:45:03,180 --> 01:45:06,809
- It happens to be my book.
- It happens to be his picture.
1142
01:45:07,017 --> 01:45:11,579
You're the first one I know to begin
by hating him and end up liking him.
1143
01:45:11,788 --> 01:45:15,053
- Do you always work backwards?
- Do you still love him?
1144
01:45:18,461 --> 01:45:22,591
- Excuse me.
- Fred, do I still love Jonathan?
1145
01:45:22,799 --> 01:45:28,066
- No, you don't get me on that one.
- A stupid question for a writer.
1146
01:45:28,271 --> 01:45:30,262
Don't you know about first love?
1147
01:45:30,473 --> 01:45:34,739
You may grow out of it,
but you don't get over it.
1148
01:45:37,147 --> 01:45:39,843
I'm sorry, that was stupid of me.
1149
01:45:40,050 --> 01:45:45,886
No, no. I wouldn't want to get over
my first love either, quite.
1150
01:45:46,089 --> 01:45:51,049
Well, it's time you two met.
Fred Amiel, James Bartlow.
1151
01:45:51,261 --> 01:45:54,458
Guess who we were fighting about.
1152
01:45:54,664 --> 01:45:57,997
Jonathan's more than a man.
He's a habit-forming experience.
1153
01:45:58,201 --> 01:46:00,863
If they bottled him, he'd outsell ginger ale.
1154
01:46:01,071 --> 01:46:03,539
- Ready, Mr. Amiel?
- No, thanks, Timmy.
1155
01:46:03,740 --> 01:46:06,300
Georgia let me read your script,
it's a beautiful job.
1156
01:46:06,509 --> 01:46:09,069
I'd like to talk about your next one.
1157
01:46:09,279 --> 01:46:12,271
Goodbye, Georgia.
Nice to have met you.
1158
01:46:13,783 --> 01:46:17,617
Shooting started on The Proud Land
and everything went well...
1159
01:46:17,821 --> 01:46:21,348
... until the fourth day,
then something happened.
1160
01:46:21,558 --> 01:46:23,788
Cut!
1161
01:46:29,132 --> 01:46:32,067
Close-up of the girl.
1162
01:46:32,269 --> 01:46:34,430
About there.
Save all...
1163
01:46:34,638 --> 01:46:39,007
Mr. Von Ellstein!
Would you come here, please?
1164
01:46:50,020 --> 01:46:53,683
Am I to understand
you consider this scene complete?
1165
01:46:53,890 --> 01:46:56,484
- I do.
- I don't. You call that directing?
1166
01:46:56,693 --> 01:46:58,558
I have for 32 years.
1167
01:46:58,762 --> 01:47:01,959
I see values and dimensions
you haven't begun to hit!
1168
01:47:02,165 --> 01:47:06,659
Perhaps not the ones I wish to hit.
I could make this scene a climax.
1169
01:47:06,870 --> 01:47:11,273
I could make every scene a climax.
If I did, I would be a bad director.
1170
01:47:11,474 --> 01:47:13,965
I like to think of myself
as one of the best.
1171
01:47:14,177 --> 01:47:18,307
A picture all climaxes is a necklace
without a string, it falls apart.
1172
01:47:18,515 --> 01:47:22,315
You must build to your big moment.
Sometimes you must build slowly.
1173
01:47:22,519 --> 01:47:25,920
If I want a lecture on the aesthetics
of motion pictures, I'll ask.
1174
01:47:26,122 --> 01:47:31,082
It won't be a cover-up for a shallow,
inept interpretation of a great scene!
1175
01:47:31,294 --> 01:47:35,424
- To be a director you need imagination.
- Whose imagination?
1176
01:47:35,632 --> 01:47:38,100
Yours or mine?
1177
01:47:38,301 --> 01:47:42,795
There's only one answer. You see
this picture one way and I another.
1178
01:47:43,006 --> 01:47:45,839
It could be done your way,
but not by me...
1179
01:47:46,042 --> 01:47:50,035
...and not by any other director
who respects himself.
1180
01:47:50,246 --> 01:47:54,876
You know what you must do
to have it exactly as you want it?
1181
01:47:56,219 --> 01:47:59,347
You must direct this picture yourself.
1182
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:07,823
To direct a picture,
a man needs humility.
1183
01:48:08,031 --> 01:48:11,228
Do you have humility, Mr. Shields?
1184
01:48:20,610 --> 01:48:23,443
Jonathan the director
was a new Jonathan.
1185
01:48:23,646 --> 01:48:25,637
He was patience personified.
1186
01:48:25,849 --> 01:48:29,444
He was tolerant, even-tempered,
considerate and indulgent...
1187
01:48:29,652 --> 01:48:32,849
... to his crew, his cast and his writer.
1188
01:48:58,248 --> 01:49:00,682
Six months after he started shooting...
1189
01:49:00,884 --> 01:49:03,409
... we saw the picture
for the first time.
1190
01:49:03,620 --> 01:49:07,886
- Nice job at cutting, Tom.
- Thank you, Mr. Shields.
1191
01:49:08,091 --> 01:49:10,685
- Nice work, Tom.
- Thanks.
1192
01:49:10,894 --> 01:49:14,694
- Beautiful production.
- Beautifully written, Jim.
1193
01:49:14,898 --> 01:49:20,029
- Beautifully produced.
- Chapman's photography was perfect.
1194
01:49:20,236 --> 01:49:23,296
Congratulate Walter on his sets,
Lucien on her costumes...
1195
01:49:23,506 --> 01:49:25,940
...and Boris on his score.
- I liked the music.
1196
01:49:26,142 --> 01:49:29,009
Tell the director to have
his head examined.
1197
01:49:29,212 --> 01:49:31,339
He should've shot himself,
not the picture.
1198
01:49:31,548 --> 01:49:35,609
- It's not as bad as all that...
- I butchered it.
1199
01:49:35,819 --> 01:49:39,255
Von Ellstein should have been here.
He would have enjoyed this.
1200
01:49:39,456 --> 01:49:43,483
I have no tension, no timing,
no pace, nothing.
1201
01:49:43,693 --> 01:49:46,127
I took a beautiful, sensitive story...
1202
01:49:46,329 --> 01:49:49,526
...and turned it
into a turgid, boring movie.
1203
01:49:49,732 --> 01:49:52,963
If it were anyone else,
I'd never release it.
1204
01:49:53,169 --> 01:49:56,434
- Who's got a cigarette?
- Here you are.
1205
01:49:56,639 --> 01:50:01,235
I've made pictures that lost money,
but they had something.
1206
01:50:01,444 --> 01:50:04,242
- This is nothing.
- You're being drastic.
1207
01:50:04,447 --> 01:50:07,644
All you've got to do is cut
the dead wood out...
1208
01:50:07,851 --> 01:50:09,250
Please.
1209
01:50:09,452 --> 01:50:15,857
- Harry, shelve the picture.
- Are you crazy? We can't do that.
1210
01:50:16,059 --> 01:50:19,790
We're in hock up to our necks.
We went way over budget.
1211
01:50:19,996 --> 01:50:25,298
- We've got to release it.
- There's your penny-pinching mind.
1212
01:50:25,502 --> 01:50:27,697
Shelve it.
1213
01:50:28,938 --> 01:50:32,465
We shelve it,
that's the end of Shields Productions.
1214
01:50:32,675 --> 01:50:37,772
Goodbye to 17 years' work.
Goodbye to every dime you've got.
1215
01:50:37,981 --> 01:50:41,109
- How about the money in the sock?
- There isn't any sock.
1216
01:50:41,317 --> 01:50:44,753
Your last two pictures
and this one took care of that.
1217
01:50:47,156 --> 01:50:52,321
And every dime of mine is gone
and every dime of Syd's.
1218
01:50:53,363 --> 01:50:55,888
That I didn't know.
1219
01:50:56,099 --> 01:50:59,398
The banks turned us down
on money for the last retakes.
1220
01:50:59,602 --> 01:51:02,093
Syd and I... Oh, well.
1221
01:51:02,305 --> 01:51:06,298
You were shooting,
and who could bother you then?
1222
01:51:06,509 --> 01:51:09,637
The hardheaded businessman.
1223
01:51:11,748 --> 01:51:14,774
The hardboiled press agent.
1224
01:51:16,753 --> 01:51:19,779
I won't release a picture
that I know is bad.
1225
01:51:19,989 --> 01:51:22,116
But other men do!
1226
01:51:22,325 --> 01:51:26,819
Their pictures don't say
"Jonathan Shields presents."
1227
01:51:27,030 --> 01:51:32,229
- Okay, what story shall I break?
- That's easy.
1228
01:51:32,435 --> 01:51:35,495
"Jonathan Shields Lays an Egg!"
1229
01:51:46,215 --> 01:51:49,810
- What you gonna do now?
- I'm tired, Jim.
1230
01:51:50,019 --> 01:51:54,149
- What are you gonna do now?
- You mind changing the subject?
1231
01:51:54,357 --> 01:51:57,622
I just played my big scene in there:
The Great Man Fails.
1232
01:51:57,827 --> 01:51:59,761
You want an encore?
1233
01:51:59,963 --> 01:52:04,423
- You sound like Sebastian.
- Who? Oh, your new book.
1234
01:52:04,634 --> 01:52:08,593
You told me to never let a leading
character feel sorry for himself.
1235
01:52:08,805 --> 01:52:10,966
- Not for long.
- I was wrong.
1236
01:52:11,174 --> 01:52:14,871
It's very comforting
to feel sorry for yourself.
1237
01:52:15,078 --> 01:52:17,478
- You're coming with me.
- What?
1238
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:22,879
I've taken a cabin at Tahoe to finish
my new book. You're coming along.
1239
01:52:23,953 --> 01:52:27,389
- Why?
- Why not?
1240
01:52:27,590 --> 01:52:30,787
Besides, I work better
when you're around.
1241
01:52:30,994 --> 01:52:33,462
Can you wait a while?
1242
01:52:33,663 --> 01:52:36,723
- How long?
- Five minutes.
1243
01:52:36,933 --> 01:52:40,096
It'll take me that long to pack.
1244
01:52:41,437 --> 01:52:46,136
Sebastian sounds like some character.
You'll have trouble casting him.
1245
01:52:46,342 --> 01:52:51,507
- This is a book, not a movie.
- You'll sell it to pictures.
1246
01:52:51,714 --> 01:52:55,480
Gaucho could have done that part.
He was Sebastian.
1247
01:52:55,685 --> 01:53:00,520
The guy with the world on a string.
The big happy baboon.
1248
01:53:00,723 --> 01:53:06,457
I begged him, "Don't take that plane,
Gaucho." But no, not him. He...
1249
01:53:17,173 --> 01:53:20,802
Today is my day for mistakes.
1250
01:53:22,478 --> 01:53:24,275
Jim...
1251
01:53:24,781 --> 01:53:29,184
...I didn't kill Rosemary.
Gaucho didn't kill her.
1252
01:53:29,385 --> 01:53:31,319
She killed herself.
1253
01:53:33,489 --> 01:53:36,390
Whether you like it or not,
you're better off.
1254
01:53:36,592 --> 01:53:41,495
She was a fool. She got in your way.
She interfered with your work.
1255
01:53:41,698 --> 01:53:44,895
She wasted your time.
She wasted you.
1256
01:53:45,101 --> 01:53:47,934
You're better off without her!
1257
01:53:56,112 --> 01:54:00,310
"A sensitive, unforgettable portrait
of a present-day Southern belle.
1258
01:54:00,516 --> 01:54:06,580
Gay and foolish, naive, shrewd,
and heartbreaking all at once."
1259
01:54:06,789 --> 01:54:10,122
Yes, Jim,
Jonathan sure destroyed you.
1260
01:54:10,326 --> 01:54:15,992
You came out of it with nothing.
Nothing but a Pulitzer Prize novel...
1261
01:54:16,199 --> 01:54:19,635
...and the highest salary
of any writer in Hollywood.
1262
01:54:19,836 --> 01:54:22,771
Look, folks,
you've got to give the devil his due.
1263
01:54:22,972 --> 01:54:26,635
We all owe him something,
and you've had years to think it over.
1264
01:54:26,843 --> 01:54:30,040
- What do you owe him, Harry?
- Plenty.
1265
01:54:30,246 --> 01:54:34,478
All the times he told me
to shut my penny-pinching mouth.
1266
01:54:35,218 --> 01:54:39,917
To Jonathan I was always
just an overpaid bookkeeper.
1267
01:54:40,123 --> 01:54:45,026
But without him I probably would still
be putting costumes on cat men.
1268
01:54:46,596 --> 01:54:50,430
You know, when they list
the 10 best pictures ever made...
1269
01:54:51,267 --> 01:54:54,862
...there are always
two or three of his on the list.
1270
01:54:55,071 --> 01:54:58,097
And I was with him when he made them.
1271
01:54:59,308 --> 01:55:01,003
Excuse me.
1272
01:55:01,210 --> 01:55:04,475
- Yes?
- Your call from Paris is ready.
1273
01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:06,409
Hello!
1274
01:55:06,616 --> 01:55:08,914
Hello. Yes, Jonathan.
1275
01:55:09,819 --> 01:55:12,447
I can hear perfectly.
1276
01:55:12,655 --> 01:55:16,614
Yes, they're here, all three of them.
1277
01:55:17,460 --> 01:55:19,792
All right, I'll ask them.
1278
01:55:21,898 --> 01:55:23,866
Jonathan wants to know:
1279
01:55:24,066 --> 01:55:27,934
Will you help him get started again?
Will you work with him just this once?
1280
01:55:28,604 --> 01:55:31,129
Will you do this picture with him?
1281
01:55:33,943 --> 01:55:35,843
Georgia?
1282
01:55:40,249 --> 01:55:42,308
Sorry, Jonathan.
1283
01:55:42,518 --> 01:55:44,509
No, I can't.
1284
01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:48,417
I'm sorry, Jonathan.
They're gone.
1285
01:55:49,358 --> 01:55:52,657
I'm sure it's a great idea, but, Jonathan...
1286
01:55:52,862 --> 01:55:55,023
...this costs $4.80 a minute.
1287
01:55:55,231 --> 01:56:00,191
Don't tell me your idea,
write me. Jonathan, please...
1288
01:56:00,403 --> 01:56:03,736
Yeah. Yeah...