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[siren wailing in distance]
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[flashbulb snaps]
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[officer] Turn to your left.
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-Listen--
-To your right.
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Stop talking.
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Face forward.
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Castello. You made bail.
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[Jack] What the fuck, Ernie?
I was in there all night.
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[Ernie] Well, I had to make
a couple of phone calls
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and hand-deliver $200
to the police superintendent.
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I'm an actor, Ernie. I'm a serious actor.
I can't have a record.
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[Ernie] Yeah, you can.
Ever heard of Frank Sinatra?
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Look, I've been arrested a bunch of times.
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Vice squads, they're just part of the gig.
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The hypocrisy of it all
is what this town is built on.
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The movies hawk an image
of wholesome American virtue, right?
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The folks making those movies...
rotten to the core.
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What am I gonna tell my wife?
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[engine starts]
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[big band music playing]
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[bell dings]
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[big band music playing on radio]
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[Ernie] Hey, Jack.
Avis needs her tank filled again.
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-Right now?
-This afternoon.
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Avis has never been a quick lay.
I like that about her.
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She's old-fashioned and romantic.
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Sometimes she likes to be wined and dined,
even if she's paying.
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Today's Bugsy Siegel's estate sale
in Beverly Hills.
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Might even be the house he got shot in.
That'd be kind of neat.
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You'll need a suit.
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Uh, Ernie, I can't stay out all night.
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Look, my wife is gonna kill me,
and I got that screen test, I got...
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Ernie! Fuck.
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[Avis] Vera.
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Stanley.
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Hello.
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Thank you so much.
Do I hear seventeen-five?
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Seventeen-five?
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-Seventeen-five right here for this...
-Tell me I look pretty today, Jack.
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[Jack] You do.
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You always look beautiful.
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You always smell rich.
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[Avis chuckles]
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Maybe later you'll take me dancing.
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[Jack] Uh, yeah, maybe.
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Sold right here for $17,500.
Thank you, sir.
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Up next? Lot number 102,
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a soup tureen in sterling silver
from Mr. Siegel's collection.
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Now we will start the bidding for this
item at $500. Who will give me 500?
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Two thousand!
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Two thousand dollars to the lady.
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Thank you so much, at $2,000.
Do I hear $2,100?
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That's my soup tureen.
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Bugsy borrowed it and never gave it back.
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[Jack] Listen, about the dancing,
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I got a screen test in the morning,
so I really can't stay out all night.
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This casting assistant's really
going out on a limb for me.
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I've never had a screen test before.
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Where is it?
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Uh, Ace Studios.
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[auctioneer continues]
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My husband is Ace Studios.
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-[chuckles]
-[laughing]
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He's in Paris,
wooing Gene Tierney back to Hollywood.
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Home in the morning.
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So...
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tonight you take care of mama.
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Tomorrow she takes care of you.
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Twenty-four.
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Three thousand to the lady in the back!
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Three thousand's going once.
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Three thousand is going twice!
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Sold for $3,000
to the lucky lady in lavender.
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Congratulations.
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[Avis moaning]
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Yes!
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Yes!
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[moaning]
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[knocking on door]
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[woman] Who is it?
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It's Raymond Ainsley.
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I thought you were coming on Tuesday.
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It is Tuesday, Miss Wong.
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Should I come back some other time?
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Please forgive my appearance.
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Can I get you a Scotch?
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[Raymond] Um...
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No, thanks.
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So, Mr. Ainsley,
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what brings you to see the great ghost?
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Well, I sent you a script
that I wrote a few weeks back.
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-I'm not sure if you had the--
-Yes.
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Angel of Shanghai, I quite liked it.
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That's... that's wonderful!
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I have to say, Miss Wong, that I've
admired you for many, many years.
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I think what happened with
The Good Earth was just awful.
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-Were you in the war?
-Yes, I was. Navy.
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But I've been studying filmmaking
ever since I got home.
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You see,
I didn't like the way Asian people
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were treated during the war
in this country.
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Vilified to boost morale, and...
being half-Asian myself,
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I resented that,
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but I want to be making motion pictures
that put us in a different light.
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You're Asian?
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Half-Filipino, yes.
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Wow.
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Asian lead. Half-Asian director.
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Who do you think
would go see this picture?
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A good story is a good story, Miss Wong.
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My word! You're naive.
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They don't want a leading lady
who looks like me.
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That's the only thing
the audience cares about.
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You need proof?
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My entire career...
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oversexed, opium-addled courtesans,
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dangerously exotic,
Far Eastern temptresses.
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That's what they wanted to see
from someone who looks like me.
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You have a good script,
and you're probably quite talented...
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but you'd do well if you asked yourself
the million-dollar question.
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Who is ever going to make this movie?
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Ace Pictures.
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I sent the script to Dick Samuels and
his assistant called me and wants to meet.
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Hey there, beautiful lady.
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What are you doing?
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Just saying hi before my big meeting.
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What are you so afraid of? You're one
of Ace Pictures' newest contract players.
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Please. They're paying me $25 a week
to take acting classes,
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and they are not going to like
seeing a white man kissing me.
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Well, you may feel like an outsider,
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but when these folks look at you,
they don't see one.
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[women laughing]
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Who's holding court over there?
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[sighs] My competition.
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[laughter echoing]
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Christ. I gotta go.
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Good luck.
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So why do you think you're here,
Mr. Ainsley?
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I presume you saw my film reel
and read my script.
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You wouldn't be here if I hadn't.
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Well, guess who I got to play the lead.
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Anna May Wong.
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She'd be a tough sell to Mr. Amberg.
We hear she's a bit of a drinker.
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Well, the industry did that to her,
but make no mistake, she is still a star.
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We could resurrect her career,
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get her the Oscar she should have gotten
for The Good Earth.
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Are you familiar with the story?
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Familiar?
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Kid, I was there.
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Irving Thalberg produced that picture.
I was his number two.
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[sighs]
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You don't have to make me look Asian.
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I already am Asian.
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Best screen test I'd ever seen.
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Anna May was the only
Asian movie star in town,
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and here, finally,
was a role she could shine in.
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It was her big moment.
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Ready when you are, Mr. Franklin.
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She took it.
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Head and shoulders above
every other girl we tested.
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The Good Earth, Anna May Wong,
screen test, take one.
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[director] Okay,
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you're holding the body
of your newborn child
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and you hear the men in the other room
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and you enter...
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and action.
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"Twelve pieces for all my land.
I paid a hundred times that much.
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Thieves. Thieves.
And well you know I must sell."
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No.
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Not the land.
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We will not sell the land.
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We'll keep it.
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We'll go south...
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and when we return,
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we'll still have the land.
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"I've brought these men here.
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You must sell."
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Is it your land?
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Did you buy it bit by bit?
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The land is our life,
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and it's better to go south or die walking
than to give it to you for nothing.
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And they exit.
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Your husband Wong walks over to you.
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"How could you walk anywhere
with a child?"
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[sobbing softly]
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The child is dead.
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[director] "Dead?
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But I heard him crying."
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The child is dead.
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I was the one who had to tell her
we were giving the role to Luise.
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[man] And the Academy Award goes to...
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Luise Rainer for The Good Earth!
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This is Luise Rainer's second Oscar
in as many years,
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the first actress to achieve such a feat.
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Wow. What a night for Miss Rainer.
She looks over the moon!
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Thank you so much.
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I'd like to dedicate this Oscar to the
late Irving Thalberg, whose dedication...
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[Raymond]
That's the saddest story I've ever heard.
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What's so sad about it?
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Picture was a hit. Thalberg was right.
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You can't open a picture
with a Chinese lead or a colored one.
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-A number of theaters won't run it.
-But you said she deserved the part.
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Yes, but the hard fact is
had she gotten it,
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picture's not a hit.
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How do you know that?
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Excuse me?
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Well, you never made the movie, so...
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how do you know it's not a hit?
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I gotta say, Mr. Samuels,
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sometimes I think folks in this town don't
really understand the power they have.
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Movies don't just show us
how the world is,
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they show us how the world can be,
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and if we change the way
that movies are made,
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you take a chance
and you make a different kind of story,
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I think you can change the world.
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Here are some scripts that I'm, um...
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that Mr. Amberg is excited about.
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Read them.
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If you find something you like,
come back and let's talk.
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Okay.
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Uh...
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All of them?
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All of them.
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[bell ringing]
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[sighs]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[man]
Let's have the actors on their marks.
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[man 2] Jack Castello screen test.
Take one.
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If you don't mind, Mr. Alexander,
I'd prefer to be left alone.
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Why? So you can sit out here
and feel sorry for yourself?
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I should think you'd be happy
your sister married him
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and took him off your hands.
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Clay was pretending to love me.
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There's nothing left.
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Oh, stop that sniveling
before you drown yourself.
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Your sister's the one to feel sorry for,
but now you've got a wonderful excuse
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to bog down in a lot of self-pity!
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MacIvor was smarter than I thought he was.
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I don't blame him in the least.
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-Take me into the house.
-You bet I'll take you in.
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You can stay flat on your back
till the world falls down!
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Well, that was just about the worst
screen test I've ever seen.
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He just yelled at her the whole time.
The poor girl was terrified.
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He's raw,
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but he sure as hell's got the right look.
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The camera loves him.
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The camera might love him more
if he actually turned towards it.
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I don't know, Dick.
I've got a feeling about this one.
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The boy is handsome. He's young.
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This one has got "it." That thing.
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Star power. Whatever you want to call it.
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I don't always see it and neither do you.
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I am telling you, I see it in him.
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00:14:21,735 --> 00:14:27,241
All I see is a kid who can't act his way
out of a very loosely-cinched paper bag.
254
00:14:27,324 --> 00:14:31,787
Oh, Richard! Let me remind you
of our old MGM days.
255
00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,331
-Oh, here we go.
-William Powell.
256
00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:36,876
-You said he couldn't act.
-I still say that.
257
00:14:36,959 --> 00:14:39,295
Oh, Dick. What can I tell you?
258
00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:42,590
I found Lana Turner.
259
00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:45,050
I found Judy Garland.
260
00:14:45,134 --> 00:14:47,803
I found Vivien Leigh. I win.
261
00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:49,805
[light chuckling]
262
00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:54,351
What can I say?
263
00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:58,022
I've just got a feeling about this kid.
264
00:14:58,105 --> 00:14:59,773
You got to give me this one.
265
00:15:03,694 --> 00:15:04,945
All right. All right, fine.
266
00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:07,990
I know when I'm beat.
267
00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:11,076
Prove me wrong.
268
00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:15,247
Show me he's a star,
I will consider him your personal project.
269
00:15:15,873 --> 00:15:18,208
We'll put him under contract,
see how he does.
270
00:15:18,459 --> 00:15:19,877
Thank you, Richard, darling!
271
00:15:24,214 --> 00:15:26,216
[big band music swells]
272
00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:35,351
Jack Castello.
273
00:15:36,727 --> 00:15:38,062
I'm Ellen Kincaid.
274
00:15:38,145 --> 00:15:40,564
Ms. Kincaid, I'm so sorry.
I know I'm not supposed to be here.
275
00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:43,192
I just wanted to see the place,
so I got a cup of coffee.
276
00:15:43,275 --> 00:15:45,986
We watched your screen test,
and it was terrible,
277
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:51,533
but I like your look, and with some
training, you might have something.
278
00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:55,913
So, Ace would like to put you on contract,
$25 a week.
279
00:15:56,330 --> 00:15:58,040
You're kidding me. Thank you!
280
00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:01,001
Thank you, Ms. Kinkaid.
I won't disappoint you.
281
00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:04,546
You still might, Mr. Castello.
Only time will tell.
282
00:16:07,007 --> 00:16:12,054
[all] I have a duty, Mr. Wainwright,
to God and country.
283
00:16:12,137 --> 00:16:15,224
It's not I have a "doody."
284
00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:18,519
It's duty. Liquid "u."
285
00:16:18,936 --> 00:16:21,230
And the article "a" is pronounced "ah."
286
00:16:21,897 --> 00:16:24,775
I have a duty, Mr. Wainwright.
287
00:16:25,526 --> 00:16:30,864
[all] I have a duty, Mr. Wainwright,
to God and country.
288
00:16:30,948 --> 00:16:32,408
Not coun-try.
289
00:16:32,574 --> 00:16:33,659
Country.
290
00:16:34,243 --> 00:16:35,744
I have a duty, Mr. Wainwright...
291
00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:37,913
[all] To God and country.
292
00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:41,583
Claire, where does
the mid-Atlantic accent come from?
293
00:16:42,084 --> 00:16:43,377
The middle of the Atlantic.
294
00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:45,504
And who lives
in the middle of the Atlantic?
295
00:16:45,587 --> 00:16:47,464
-No one.
-Very good, Camille.
296
00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,968
Mid-Atlantic is a made-up accent.
297
00:16:51,051 --> 00:16:53,554
No one actually speaks this way naturally,
298
00:16:53,637 --> 00:16:59,143
but it takes on some British inflections
that add some refinement
299
00:16:59,226 --> 00:17:03,939
to the otherwise flat
and grating American dialect.
300
00:17:04,023 --> 00:17:09,445
You ladies would do very well to speak
in this dialect at all times.
301
00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:11,989
Do you concur, Camille?
302
00:17:12,072 --> 00:17:13,949
Concur, I do, Ms. Kincaid.
303
00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:16,118
[Camille chuckles]
304
00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:21,206
-[whispering indistinctly]
-Oh, very well.
305
00:17:21,331 --> 00:17:23,250
Camille, will you come with me?
306
00:17:24,752 --> 00:17:26,462
I will be back presently.
307
00:17:27,337 --> 00:17:30,132
They're putting her in a picture.
I knew it.
308
00:17:30,632 --> 00:17:32,092
That girl's a movie star.
309
00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:34,845
She's the prettiest girl in here.
I've said it all along.
310
00:17:35,262 --> 00:17:38,807
She's not the prettiest, Betsy.
Not by a long shot.
311
00:17:38,932 --> 00:17:41,185
[chuckling]
312
00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,356
Is this for the swashbuckling picture
on Stage 12?
313
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,192
No, no, no.
You're not right for that film.
314
00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:50,194
Today, you'll be playing opposite
Jeanne Crandall.
315
00:17:50,277 --> 00:17:51,111
[Camille] Oh!
316
00:17:51,528 --> 00:17:53,947
I don't care what my husband told you.
317
00:17:54,823 --> 00:17:56,450
I care what he told me.
318
00:17:58,994 --> 00:18:02,039
I will inherit all of his assets
319
00:18:02,664 --> 00:18:07,169
and control of his business interests
will be my responsibility.
320
00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:09,797
Coffee, Ms. Delilah?
321
00:18:10,798 --> 00:18:11,673
Yes.
322
00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:13,967
I'll take it in my chambers.
323
00:18:18,555 --> 00:18:19,389
[director] Cut!
324
00:18:19,473 --> 00:18:20,849
[bell rings]
325
00:18:21,016 --> 00:18:22,101
Let's do a pick-up.
326
00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:24,019
[indistinct chatter]
327
00:18:27,064 --> 00:18:28,524
I just wanna do one more.
328
00:18:31,068 --> 00:18:33,112
Can we do the line a little more funny?
329
00:18:33,821 --> 00:18:34,780
Is it a joke?
330
00:18:34,863 --> 00:18:37,991
Just think, what would Hattie McDaniel do?
331
00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:41,161
-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.
332
00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,997
Back to one. Everybody take your places.
333
00:18:44,081 --> 00:18:46,500
[man]
Mr. Cooper's Widow, scene 63, pickup.
334
00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:49,795
Jeanne,
just pick it up from your last line.
335
00:18:50,170 --> 00:18:51,171
[Jeanne] Yes, sir.
336
00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:53,132
[director] Action.
337
00:18:54,091 --> 00:18:56,176
[Jeanne]
I don't care what my husband said to you.
338
00:18:57,469 --> 00:18:59,388
I care what he said to me.
339
00:18:59,888 --> 00:19:02,266
I will inherit all of his assets
340
00:19:02,724 --> 00:19:07,688
and control of his business interests
will be my responsibility.
341
00:19:08,522 --> 00:19:09,648
Coffee, Ms. Delilah?
342
00:19:10,649 --> 00:19:11,483
Yes.
343
00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:13,402
I'll take it in my chambers.
344
00:19:21,577 --> 00:19:23,203
Cut. Check the gate.
345
00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:26,248
-Moving on.
-[man] Moving on to scene nine!
346
00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:28,167
[bell rings]
347
00:19:29,626 --> 00:19:30,961
Very good, dear.
348
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,047
Nice adjustment.
349
00:19:42,055 --> 00:19:44,558
["You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
playing]
350
00:19:44,641 --> 00:19:45,767
[Camille] Raymond?
351
00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:46,935
Hi, I'm in here.
352
00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,190
How was the shoot?
353
00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:53,275
Not much of a part. A servant.
354
00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:58,071
It was humiliating, actually,
but Jeanne Crandall was complimentary.
355
00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:01,074
-Huh.
-So, I officially got my foot in the door.
356
00:20:01,575 --> 00:20:02,701
How was the meeting?
357
00:20:02,784 --> 00:20:05,954
They gave me 25 scripts to read,
and only one of them's any good.
358
00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:08,749
It's called Peg.
It's about, uh, Peg Entwistle,
359
00:20:08,832 --> 00:20:11,460
the girl who killed herself
jumping off the Hollywood sign.
360
00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:13,545
Well, what about Anna May Wong?
361
00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:16,089
Well, if I can make Peg into a hit,
362
00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:18,425
maybe they'll let me do
Angel of Shanghai next.
363
00:20:18,508 --> 00:20:21,386
You know how it is.
The way to be successful...
364
00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:24,097
-[Camille] ...is to have a success.
-That's right.
365
00:20:24,181 --> 00:20:25,224
[cork pops]
366
00:20:25,724 --> 00:20:28,810
["You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
continues]
367
00:20:30,395 --> 00:20:33,732
♪ Sang a lullabye... ♪
368
00:20:33,815 --> 00:20:36,401
-What are you doing?
-Getting ready to celebrate.
369
00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:38,278
That's what I'm doing.
370
00:20:39,947 --> 00:20:41,657
This was quite a big day.
371
00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:46,370
You are about to direct
a major motion picture...
372
00:20:46,453 --> 00:20:47,496
Mm-hmm.
373
00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,249
...and I just had my first role on camera.
374
00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:51,250
You did.
375
00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:55,337
♪ Burning above ♪
376
00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:58,715
♪ You'd be so nice... ♪
377
00:20:58,799 --> 00:20:59,758
Okay.
378
00:20:59,841 --> 00:21:02,719
♪ You'd be paradise... ♪
379
00:21:02,803 --> 00:21:03,720
All right.
380
00:21:03,804 --> 00:21:06,473
♪ To come home to... ♪
381
00:21:06,556 --> 00:21:07,599
You are...
382
00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:08,642
♪ And love ♪
383
00:21:08,725 --> 00:21:10,519
...so sexy.
384
00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:16,483
♪ Under stars chilled by the winter ♪
385
00:21:16,566 --> 00:21:17,859
[Raymond sighs]
386
00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:20,821
Let me get that for you.
387
00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:25,742
Oh, my God.
388
00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:29,663
Okay. Get over here.
389
00:21:29,746 --> 00:21:32,040
♪You'd be paradise ♪
390
00:21:32,124 --> 00:21:38,046
♪ To come home to... ♪
391
00:21:39,881 --> 00:21:43,093
I don't think I could love you any more
than I do right this second.
392
00:21:47,097 --> 00:21:49,433
[both breathing heavily]
393
00:21:49,516 --> 00:21:50,684
[woman moaning]
394
00:21:52,644 --> 00:21:54,438
[breathing heavily]
395
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,316
[moaning]
396
00:22:08,201 --> 00:22:10,620
[water runs, then shuts off]
397
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,964
[exhales]
398
00:22:21,548 --> 00:22:22,841
[sighs] Hi, baby.
399
00:22:23,925 --> 00:22:25,761
I'm sorry that went so long.
400
00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:28,388
We shot till dawn.
401
00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:29,723
So...
402
00:22:31,141 --> 00:22:32,267
Did you get any sleep?
403
00:22:36,146 --> 00:22:37,689
What... what are you doing?
404
00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:42,652
Being pregnant's
got me real hot and bothered.
405
00:22:42,903 --> 00:22:45,739
[chuckling] Oh. Listen, baby, uh...
406
00:22:46,323 --> 00:22:48,867
I'm so tired, it was such a long night.
407
00:22:49,451 --> 00:22:51,286
-But listen--
-Oh! I can smell her!
408
00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,246
Twice this week you've been out all night.
409
00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:56,375
What is she, rich? Because you reek
like Amarone, Jack. Get out!
410
00:22:56,458 --> 00:22:57,542
-Hang on, calm--
-Get out!
411
00:22:57,626 --> 00:22:58,919
-Calm down, it's--
-[grunts]
412
00:22:59,002 --> 00:23:00,003
Are you all right?
413
00:23:00,462 --> 00:23:01,713
-What's the matter?
-[muttering]
414
00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:02,756
[Jack] Sweetheart?
415
00:23:03,632 --> 00:23:04,633
Sweetheart, what is it?
416
00:23:05,008 --> 00:23:06,426
Ow. Oh.
417
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:09,763
Doc, what the hell's going on?
418
00:23:09,846 --> 00:23:12,391
-I'm going to lose the babies.
-Just try to relax, ma'am.
419
00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:13,975
Waiting room's down the hall.
420
00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:25,779
-Mr. Castello.
-Yes.
421
00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:29,199
-How is she? Are the babies okay?
-They're fine,
422
00:23:29,491 --> 00:23:30,367
for the moment.
423
00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:32,702
[sighs] Mr. Castello,
424
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:35,956
as a father of three myself,
I'm going to ask:
425
00:23:37,332 --> 00:23:39,668
do you want your twins
to survive to full term?
426
00:23:40,502 --> 00:23:42,337
What kind of a question is that?
Of course I do.
427
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:47,092
Then your job for the rest of
this pregnancy is to keep your wife calm.
428
00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:48,969
Okay.
429
00:23:49,052 --> 00:23:51,346
If you're fucking around, stop it.
430
00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:53,807
Keep it in your pants.
431
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:55,934
Women always find out.
432
00:24:04,067 --> 00:24:06,069
[ambient jazz playing]
433
00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:13,660
[Raymond] At this point,
she's a drinker, you know?
434
00:24:13,743 --> 00:24:15,537
-[Archie] Yeah.
-It's her big weakness.
435
00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:18,748
So Hollywood has completely destroyed her,
it has tarnished her shine.
436
00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:20,041
So that scene in the, um,
437
00:24:20,125 --> 00:24:22,043
-the casting director's office, right?
-Yeah.
438
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:23,962
So we start the shot
439
00:24:24,045 --> 00:24:25,839
and we pull back...
440
00:24:26,506 --> 00:24:31,261
to reveal Peg sitting there,
trying to hold it together.
441
00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:35,932
'Cause that's our context now.
The drinking. Her drinking.
442
00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:39,603
She's no longer
the woman she was when we met her.
443
00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:41,521
Wow.
444
00:24:43,523 --> 00:24:45,150
What can I say? I'm sold.
445
00:24:47,068 --> 00:24:48,236
Can I ask you something?
446
00:24:48,778 --> 00:24:49,613
Yeah.
447
00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:54,409
How does a black man end up
writing a picture
448
00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,578
about a white girl
who jumps off the Hollywood sign?
449
00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:01,208
When I think of Peg Entwistle,
I see myself.
450
00:25:02,125 --> 00:25:03,960
I understand her rage.
451
00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:07,672
Talented as the next gal,
but never appreciated.
452
00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:09,591
Never accepted.
453
00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:14,429
Time ticked by while she watched
her whole life,
454
00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:17,307
everything she ever wanted
slowly dripped away.
455
00:25:17,390 --> 00:25:18,642
That crushes me.
456
00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:22,187
So writing her story,
I feel like I'm telling her,
457
00:25:22,270 --> 00:25:26,399
"Peg, somebody's finally gonna
break you into this business.
458
00:25:27,776 --> 00:25:28,735
You and me both."
459
00:25:29,152 --> 00:25:30,946
Well, I'll tell you something, Archie,
460
00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:34,115
I'm gonna change the way
they make movies in this town.
461
00:25:35,158 --> 00:25:38,745
I'm gonna make sure that people like us
aren't on the outside looking in anymore.
462
00:25:39,454 --> 00:25:41,122
What do you mean, "people like us"?
463
00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:42,541
Folks who aren't white.
464
00:25:42,624 --> 00:25:44,292
-You ain't white?
-Asian.
465
00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:45,210
No.
466
00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:46,962
Half.
467
00:25:47,462 --> 00:25:48,672
-You're shitting me.
-No.
468
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:52,676
My whole life I feel like I've been living
in a really convincing costume.
469
00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:54,553
[scoffs] Yeah.
470
00:25:56,596 --> 00:25:57,764
But you could pass.
471
00:25:58,431 --> 00:25:59,891
That ain't like being black.
472
00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,852
-You sound like my girlfriend.
-Hold up.
473
00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:05,981
You're dating a sister?
474
00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:09,693
Wow.
475
00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:11,820
It's gotta be tough, though.
476
00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:15,115
-Can you go out together?
-Some places they don't mind.
477
00:26:15,198 --> 00:26:16,283
The world's changing.
478
00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:17,909
Maybe.
479
00:26:18,368 --> 00:26:19,911
But it ain't changing fast.
480
00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:22,539
So, Dick Samuels.
481
00:26:23,623 --> 00:26:24,541
You think he knows?
482
00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:28,253
Knows what?
483
00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:30,463
That I'm black.
484
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,426
-He doesn't already know?
-I never met anybody in person.
485
00:26:35,468 --> 00:26:36,928
I mailed him my script,
486
00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:40,056
he called me on the telephone,
and I told him,
487
00:26:40,140 --> 00:26:43,310
"Golly, Mr. Samuels, I'm just
over the moon you like my script."
488
00:26:43,393 --> 00:26:46,938
-[laughing] You did not do that.
-I said, "Golly, Mr. Samuels." I did.
489
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:49,399
Well...
490
00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:53,111
[clears throat]
I hate to break it to you, buster, but...
491
00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,615
I'm pretty sure
he's gonna find out pretty soon.
492
00:26:56,698 --> 00:26:57,574
[both laughing]
493
00:26:57,657 --> 00:26:58,533
[Archie] Yes.
494
00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:01,369
You do that voice or not, he's gonna know.
495
00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:06,333
I'm glad I'm doing this with you, Raymond.
496
00:27:07,042 --> 00:27:08,877
I think you and I want the same thing.
497
00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:13,214
See, I wanna take the story of Hollywood
and give it a rewrite.
498
00:27:14,674 --> 00:27:17,969
So, maybe someday soon,
when you ain't a half-Asian director,
499
00:27:18,053 --> 00:27:19,471
who feels he has to hide it.
500
00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:21,973
You'll just be a director.
501
00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:27,228
I won't be a black writer writing about
some white lady.
502
00:27:28,104 --> 00:27:29,731
I'll just be a writer.
503
00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:34,152
Wouldn't that be something?
504
00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:39,157
To Peg.
505
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:44,037
To Peg.
506
00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:47,749
["Let's Misbehave" playing]
507
00:27:49,376 --> 00:27:51,086
[bell dings]
508
00:27:55,965 --> 00:27:57,926
♪ Let's misbehave... ♪
509
00:27:58,718 --> 00:28:00,136
Looky, looky, looky.
510
00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:02,722
Came back for more, huh?
511
00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:06,226
Can't stop thinking about you.
512
00:28:08,228 --> 00:28:09,521
[both chuckling]
513
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:16,319
♪ Let's misbehave ♪
514
00:28:16,444 --> 00:28:18,446
[both breathing heavily]
515
00:28:18,947 --> 00:28:20,699
-That was nice.
-Yeah.
516
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:22,742
I'm glad you liked it.
517
00:28:23,618 --> 00:28:25,036
-I did too.
-Yeah.
518
00:28:25,328 --> 00:28:26,162
Yeah.
519
00:28:34,587 --> 00:28:36,548
-[both chuckle]
-Can I ask you something?
520
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:38,925
Why haven't you asked me to pay you yet?
521
00:28:39,426 --> 00:28:40,719
You don't pay me. You pay Ernie.
522
00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:43,722
Okay, well,
why hasn't Ernie told me to pay him?
523
00:28:44,431 --> 00:28:46,141
Because I haven't asked him to.
524
00:28:46,850 --> 00:28:48,184
Well, why is that?
525
00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:49,978
You like being with me, don't you?
526
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,355
Yeah, I suppose I do.
527
00:28:53,773 --> 00:28:54,899
So what are we then?
528
00:28:55,859 --> 00:28:57,652
-Boyfriends?
-[Archie laughs]
529
00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:01,072
You're somebody I tricked twice
and didn't charge.
530
00:29:02,198 --> 00:29:03,116
Boyfriend.
531
00:29:03,616 --> 00:29:06,619
Can folks like you and me
even have a boyfriend?
532
00:29:07,078 --> 00:29:08,997
-I don't know. I'd hope so.
-Yeah?
533
00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:11,082
Well, I haven't seen it.
534
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:14,544
A boyfriend's somebody you take out
on the town,
535
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,463
show him off on your arm.
536
00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:18,882
You and I can't do that.
537
00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:22,010
In a molly house, maybe, sure,
538
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,763
a couple queens clucking to each other,
hanging off the bar. Whee!
539
00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:26,473
But are they boyfriends?
540
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:28,099
I wouldn't call it that.
541
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:30,518
Boyfriend.
542
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,061
That just ain't our destiny.
543
00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:34,564
-Yeah, but wouldn't it be nice?
-Would it?
544
00:29:35,231 --> 00:29:36,566
What's so nice about it?
545
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,360
I don't know. Growing old with somebody.
546
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,905
Not just someone to depend on
if you don't make it in this town,
547
00:29:41,988 --> 00:29:43,865
but even when you do,
someone to share it with.
548
00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:46,075
This place can get real lonely, Archie.
549
00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:48,077
I know. I wrote a whole script about it.
550
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:49,954
That's what Peg's about,
551
00:29:50,747 --> 00:29:54,250
and how being surrounded by people
somehow makes the loneliness worse.
552
00:29:54,334 --> 00:29:55,251
That's what I'm saying.
553
00:29:55,335 --> 00:29:58,505
Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody to
fall back on when it's all said and done?
554
00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:00,465
Someone to look back on it with.
555
00:30:01,966 --> 00:30:02,801
Maybe.
556
00:30:04,385 --> 00:30:06,763
But we oughta be thinking
about making it first.
557
00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:09,849
Yeah, well, in that case, what are you--
What are you, in a hurry?
558
00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,476
I don't make much
spending time with you.
559
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:12,560
Hold on a sec.
560
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:14,938
I got-- I got an audition tomorrow.
561
00:30:15,021 --> 00:30:17,065
It's just one line,
and I don't think I got it yet.
562
00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:18,775
Can I-- can I run it with you?
563
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:20,151
Just...
564
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:21,319
[Archie sighs]
565
00:30:21,444 --> 00:30:24,239
Yeah, so, Andrea McCloud,
that's Barbara Stanwyck,
566
00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,324
she's trying to get in the club,
but I'm the bouncer
567
00:30:26,407 --> 00:30:28,284
and Joe's told me specifically
not to let her in.
568
00:30:28,368 --> 00:30:30,203
[Archie] Okay. Let me see.
569
00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:38,586
I'm here to see Joe.
The name's Andrea McCloud.
570
00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:42,090
No dice, lady.
Mr. Cotton ain't takin' no visitors!
571
00:30:42,173 --> 00:30:43,383
Ooh. Okay.
572
00:30:45,134 --> 00:30:48,137
Maybe just throw it away
a little bit more, you know?
573
00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,347
-Throw it away.
-Yeah.
574
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:50,640
Like, you're not angry.
575
00:30:50,932 --> 00:30:52,892
It's your job, throwing people out.
576
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:55,812
So, try it more relaxed, you know,
like you're saying,
577
00:30:56,271 --> 00:30:58,231
"Kick rocks, toots.
578
00:30:58,773 --> 00:31:01,860
I know Mr. Cotton,
and he don't like no dames like you."
579
00:31:02,485 --> 00:31:04,404
[chuckles] That's better!
I should do it like that.
580
00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,030
No, no, that's your subtext.
581
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:07,949
That's what you're thinking
but not saying.
582
00:31:09,117 --> 00:31:11,369
Okay? So think that, relax.
583
00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:12,495
[clears throat]
584
00:31:14,914 --> 00:31:17,667
I'm here to see Joe.
The name's Andrea McCloud.
585
00:31:18,167 --> 00:31:20,587
No dice, lady.
Mr. Cotton ain't taking no visitors.
586
00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:22,547
That's good.
587
00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:23,840
-That felt good!
-Yeah.
588
00:31:23,923 --> 00:31:25,300
-Yeah!
-That was good. Much better.
589
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:26,926
-Can we do it again?
-Wanna do it again?
590
00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:28,553
-Yeah. One more.
-All right, again.
591
00:31:28,636 --> 00:31:29,721
-[laughing] Okay.
-One more.
592
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,181
[Archie] All right, you relaxed?
593
00:31:32,265 --> 00:31:33,641
-[Roy] Yeah.
-[Archie] Okay.
594
00:31:34,017 --> 00:31:36,394
I'm here to see Joe.
The name's Andrea McCloud.
595
00:31:36,477 --> 00:31:38,521
[Roy] No dice, lady.
Mr. Cotton ain't taking no visitors.
596
00:31:38,605 --> 00:31:39,772
[Archie chuckling] You're so good.
597
00:31:39,856 --> 00:31:41,482
-[Roy] Yeah?
-[Archie] Again. Again.
598
00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:44,485
I'm here to see Joe.
The name's Andrea McCloud.
599
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:46,613
[Roy] No dice, lady.
Mr. Cotton ain't taking no visitors.
600
00:31:46,696 --> 00:31:48,656
[indistinct chatter]
601
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,833
Mrs. Ryman? I'm sorry to bother you.
602
00:31:58,917 --> 00:31:59,918
I'm Camille Washington,
603
00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:01,544
-one of your contract players.
-Mm-hmm?
604
00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:05,590
I know that Alfred Zeisler is casting
a new crime drama, Parole, Inc.,
605
00:32:05,673 --> 00:32:07,592
and there's a role for someone
my age in it.
606
00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:10,261
I was wondering
if I might be considered for it.
607
00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:11,888
No.
608
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:13,556
That's a white role, honey.
609
00:32:18,978 --> 00:32:20,563
[Raymond] The music's still playing.
610
00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:22,649
We're a crane shot,
we're looking down now,
611
00:32:22,732 --> 00:32:24,859
and as they roll the body away,
we push in.
612
00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:28,988
The little rag doll's just lying there
on the hillside in the dirt,
613
00:32:29,656 --> 00:32:32,533
and we tilt up
to the view from the Hollywood sign,
614
00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:34,953
the city stretching
as far as the eye can see.
615
00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:37,497
The music, it surges...
616
00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:39,832
the end.
617
00:32:45,129 --> 00:32:46,297
So, how does it feel?
618
00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:48,341
What do you mean?
619
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,344
You just got your first picture green-lit,
Raymond.
620
00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:53,096
Congratulations.
621
00:32:53,846 --> 00:32:55,098
Oh, oh, oh...
622
00:32:55,181 --> 00:32:56,808
[chuckling] Mr. Samuels.
623
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,143
Well, you're not gonna be sorry, sir.
624
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:04,148
You don't know that, and neither do I,
but... let's roll the dice.
625
00:33:04,232 --> 00:33:05,483
Can I just, uh...
626
00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:08,403
Let's say Peg is a hit,
627
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:11,489
do you think that Angel of Shanghai
could be my next picture?
628
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,575
Come on, Raymond.
I just changed your life.
629
00:33:15,868 --> 00:33:17,120
Don't spoil it.
630
00:33:17,745 --> 00:33:18,830
Cheers, kid.
631
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:23,626
Jack Castello?
632
00:33:24,919 --> 00:33:25,837
Claire Wood.
633
00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,882
A little birdie told me
you just got offered a contract.
634
00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:31,926
Yeah, how did--? Uh...
635
00:33:32,218 --> 00:33:34,053
Still can't quite believe it myself.
636
00:33:34,137 --> 00:33:37,098
My screen test was terrible.
I gotta take classes and everything.
637
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:39,475
Well, this is Hollywood, Jack Castello.
638
00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:42,145
If you want something,
you have to declare it.
639
00:33:42,228 --> 00:33:43,896
And it'll fall right in your lap.
640
00:33:44,522 --> 00:33:47,066
Don't say, "I gotta take classes."
641
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:49,986
You say, "Yes, Claire Wood.
642
00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:54,407
I'm going to be a star."
643
00:33:58,036 --> 00:33:59,871
I'm going to be a star, Claire Wood.
644
00:33:59,954 --> 00:34:01,497
[chuckles softly]
645
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:02,957
That's more like it.
646
00:34:06,627 --> 00:34:07,670
You know,
647
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:10,590
they're about to green-light
a picture about Peg Entwistle,
648
00:34:10,673 --> 00:34:12,967
the nutcase who jumped off
the Hollywood sign.
649
00:34:13,342 --> 00:34:16,137
I'm perfect for it,
and I'm going to get an audition.
650
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:19,307
They're casting her love interest,
just so you know.
651
00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:39,619
[phone rings]
652
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:44,165
Yes, sir.
653
00:34:49,128 --> 00:34:50,213
Mr. Fitzgerald?
654
00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:01,682
Roy Fitzgerald, this is Henry Willson.
655
00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:06,604
Don't sit.
656
00:35:22,703 --> 00:35:23,538
[door locks]
657
00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:28,209
Where are you from, Roy?
658
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:30,837
Winnetka, a small town in Illinois.
659
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:34,257
You have any acting experience?
660
00:35:34,924 --> 00:35:35,758
No.
661
00:35:38,344 --> 00:35:39,720
Do you know something?
662
00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:44,600
In all my years as an agent,
you're the first one to ever admit that.
663
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:45,726
[chuckles softly]
664
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,354
Now sit.
665
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:56,279
Today is your lucky day, Roy Fitzgerald.
I just decided...
666
00:35:57,738 --> 00:35:58,573
to sign you.
667
00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:03,244
[stammers] How is that possible?
You haven't seen any of my work.
668
00:36:03,619 --> 00:36:06,080
What work?
You just said you haven't done anything.
669
00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:08,166
You read for Anne Rogers last week.
670
00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:10,251
She's casting the Barbara Stanwyck picture
at MGM.
671
00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:12,837
Yeah, well, I wasn't sure it had gone
all that well--
672
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,422
It didn't. She said you were terrible.
673
00:36:16,299 --> 00:36:17,717
You know what my talent is?
674
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:22,805
I know in the first 30 seconds if
somebody's got what it takes to be a star,
675
00:36:22,889 --> 00:36:23,931
and you,
676
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:27,268
believe it or not, you got it.
677
00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:29,937
You got picture potential.
678
00:36:30,396 --> 00:36:34,358
You're a big fella, but you're vulnerable,
so men won't find you threatening,
679
00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:37,445
and women and sissy boys will fantasize
about you fucking 'em.
680
00:36:38,279 --> 00:36:41,115
You're wholesome, you don't perspire.
No pimples.
681
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:42,742
I mean, you smell like milk...
682
00:36:45,578 --> 00:36:47,914
and you got secrets churning
beneath the surface.
683
00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:49,874
That's good.
684
00:36:50,499 --> 00:36:51,959
Everything else we gotta work on.
685
00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:54,712
We're gonna beef you up,
and I don't mean eating hot dogs all day.
686
00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,757
I'm talking about calisthenics.
Charles Atlas kind of stuff.
687
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,927
You gotta tan every day.
Quit picking at your fingernails.
688
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:03,471
We'll get you drama lessons,
we'll fix your posture,
689
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:05,306
and then that voice of yours...
690
00:37:05,806 --> 00:37:06,891
That's tinny.
691
00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:10,436
So next time you get a cold,
I want you to drive up into the mountains
692
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:12,480
and holler like a banshee.
693
00:37:12,563 --> 00:37:14,023
That'll break your vocal cords,
694
00:37:14,106 --> 00:37:16,651
and when they heal,
you'll have a nice, low baritone.
695
00:37:16,734 --> 00:37:18,736
I should... maybe write this all down.
696
00:37:18,819 --> 00:37:20,279
Then there's the name.
697
00:37:20,821 --> 00:37:23,241
Roy Fitzgerald, that ain't gonna work.
698
00:37:24,575 --> 00:37:25,785
[Henry sighs]
699
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:27,536
Something like...
700
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:32,667
Rock.
701
00:37:39,006 --> 00:37:40,091
Rock Hudson.
702
00:37:41,884 --> 00:37:43,552
-Rock Hudson?
-Yeah.
703
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,098
Rock Hudson's a movie star.
704
00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:50,768
-Strong like the Rock of Gibraltar.
-Ooh, uh--
705
00:37:50,851 --> 00:37:54,021
You don't like what you're hearing?
You can get the fuck out of my office.
706
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:57,441
Farm boys don't just roll into Hollywood
and stumble into pictures.
707
00:37:57,525 --> 00:37:59,568
They need somebody
to show 'em the ropes,
708
00:37:59,652 --> 00:38:01,612
to give them a real life character
709
00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:04,365
that's every bit as scripted as any role
you'll ever play on screen.
710
00:38:04,448 --> 00:38:05,866
I won't just be your agent.
711
00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:08,160
I'll be your godfather.
712
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:11,831
I tell you what to do.
You do it and pay me ten percent.
713
00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:14,709
If that sounds agreeable to you,
714
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:17,086
you can just sign this contract
right here.
715
00:38:22,675 --> 00:38:24,468
Uh, okay, I like the sound of that.
716
00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:27,138
Yeah, I thought you might,
but before we do that...
717
00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:31,809
there is just one thing
that we gotta get outta the way.
718
00:38:37,189 --> 00:38:38,649
[Henry sighs]
719
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:42,611
I need to suck your cock.
720
00:38:45,781 --> 00:38:46,949
Ex-- excuse me?
721
00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:49,285
It's my thing.
722
00:38:49,827 --> 00:38:50,786
I got to do it.
723
00:38:51,912 --> 00:38:52,955
Uh...
724
00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:55,958
Look, Mr. Willson...
725
00:38:56,042 --> 00:38:59,545
Don't sit there and pretend
to be all offended, sissy boy.
726
00:38:59,628 --> 00:39:01,589
You're a fruitcake, just like me.
727
00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:03,674
Saw it the moment you swished through
those doors.
728
00:39:03,758 --> 00:39:06,177
You can't hide it yet,
but I'll teach you how.
729
00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,889
You won't be a homosexual
once I'm through with you.
730
00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:11,432
So, in return,
731
00:39:12,224 --> 00:39:13,559
you're gonna drop your drawers
732
00:39:13,642 --> 00:39:16,687
and let me suck you dry
until your eyes cross, got it?
733
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:22,526
I'm not going to ask again.
734
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,365
[dramatic music playing]
735
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,034
[breathing deeply]
736
00:39:41,837 --> 00:39:44,131
Mr. Ainsley, do come in.
737
00:39:47,927 --> 00:39:48,928
I spoke to my agent.
738
00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:51,847
He still thinks I'm delusional
because no one at the studio
739
00:39:51,931 --> 00:39:54,308
seems to know anything
about Angel of Shanghai.
740
00:39:57,436 --> 00:39:59,021
They're not making the picture.
741
00:40:01,524 --> 00:40:03,818
I'm obliged to direct another film first,
742
00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:05,945
but if it's a hit, then--
743
00:40:06,028 --> 00:40:07,696
The movie's not getting made.
744
00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:10,991
N-- not right now. Not yet, but...
745
00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:13,661
I'm going to insist.
746
00:40:13,744 --> 00:40:14,578
No.
747
00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:17,498
I'm telling you.
748
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:19,959
The movie's not getting made.
749
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:22,294
Not ever.
750
00:40:23,921 --> 00:40:27,216
This town will never give that
to someone like me.
751
00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:30,928
Someone who can't pass.
752
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,349
I'm going to change that.
753
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,227
Good luck with your movie.
754
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,088
[door closes]
755
00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:14,054
[Archie] In your wildest dreams,
756
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:17,558
did you ever think you'd have
your own parking spot on the studio lot?
757
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:19,810
[Raymond] I don't know
what it says about me, but, uh,
758
00:41:19,894 --> 00:41:21,145
actually, yes, I did.
759
00:41:27,276 --> 00:41:28,319
Archie?
760
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:30,821
-[chuckles]
-What the heck are you doing here?
761
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:31,780
Jack...
762
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,241
They're making my picture!
763
00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,452
You gotta be shitting me,
that's incredible!
764
00:41:36,535 --> 00:41:38,412
Yeah, this is Raymond Ainsley.
He's the director.
765
00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:39,455
Raymond, Jack Castello.
766
00:41:39,538 --> 00:41:41,457
Mr. Ainsley,
it's a real pleasure to meet you.
767
00:41:41,957 --> 00:41:44,502
-I just got put on a contract.
-Lying son of a bitch.
768
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:46,754
No fooling,
I can hardly believe it myself.
769
00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:49,548
-So what's this picture?
-It's called Peg.
770
00:41:49,965 --> 00:41:50,799
Peg.
771
00:41:51,926 --> 00:41:52,760
Peg.
772
00:41:53,761 --> 00:41:55,471
Wow. Oh, wow.
773
00:41:55,930 --> 00:41:58,140
Listen, I don't know
if I'm supposed to do this, fellas,
774
00:41:58,224 --> 00:41:59,558
but could I walk you to lunch?
775
00:41:59,642 --> 00:42:01,352
I hear there's the part
of a love interest.
776
00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:03,562
Folks are telling me
I would be perfect for it.
777
00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:05,814
-Yeah, sure. Why not?
-Well, okay. Terrific!
778
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:08,609
-Well, after you, Mr. Ainsley.
-Thanks kindly, Mr. Castello.
779
00:42:08,692 --> 00:42:10,694
Archie, it's so great to see you.
780
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:12,321
Wow! The three of us together, huh?
781
00:42:12,404 --> 00:42:14,323
[Raymond]
So how do you fellas know each other?
782
00:42:14,406 --> 00:42:16,534
[Archie] Jack pumps gas with me
down at the station.
783
00:42:16,617 --> 00:42:18,285
He got me hired, as a matter of fact.
784
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:20,913
You don't say. I can't imagine you'll be
pumping gas much longer.
785
00:42:20,996 --> 00:42:22,540
I don't know,
turned out to be a good gig.
786
00:42:22,623 --> 00:42:24,500
-Isn't that right, Archie?
-Best job I ever had.
787
00:42:24,583 --> 00:42:26,669
-[Jack] I beg your pardon.
-Why, hello, Jack Castello.
788
00:42:26,752 --> 00:42:28,546
Let me introduce you to Avis Amberg.
789
00:42:29,004 --> 00:42:31,215
Mrs. Amberg's husband runs Ace Pictures.
790
00:42:31,757 --> 00:42:33,092
How do you do, Mrs. Amberg?
791
00:42:33,175 --> 00:42:36,303
May I introduce Raymond Ainsley?
He's directing Peg.
792
00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:38,097
Very nice to meet you.
793
00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,016
I've got some great casting ideas,
whenever you want to hear them.
794
00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:43,602
I can't wait.
This is our screenwriter, Archie Coleman.
795
00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:45,062
Pleasure to meet you both.
796
00:42:45,896 --> 00:42:46,855
You're colored.
797
00:42:48,482 --> 00:42:49,358
I love it.
798
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:52,987
You be good, Jack.
799
00:43:04,748 --> 00:43:05,833
Well, boys...
800
00:43:07,293 --> 00:43:08,127
lunch is on me.
801
00:43:08,877 --> 00:43:11,380
[chuckling, chattering indistinctly]
802
00:43:24,727 --> 00:43:27,313
[big band music playing]