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