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Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.

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It's about 5:00 in the morning.

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That's the homicide squad,

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complete with detectives
and newspapermen.

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A murder has been reported from
one of those great big houses

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in the 10,000 block.

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You'll read about it
in the late editions, I'm sure.

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You'll get it over your radio
and see it on television.

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Because an old-time star is involved.
One of the biggest.

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But before you hear it all distorted
and blown out of proportion,

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before those Hollywood columnists
get their hands on it,

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maybe you'd like to hear the facts.
The whole truth.

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If so, you've come to the right party.

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You see, the body of a young man was
found floating in the pool of her mansion

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with two shots in his back
and one in his stomach.

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Nobody important, really.

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Just a movie writer
with a couple of B pictures to his credit.

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The poor dope.
He always wanted a pool.

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Well, in the end, he got himself a pool,

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only the price
turned out to be a little high.

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Let's go back about six months
and find the day when it all started.

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I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and lvar.

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Things were tough at the moment.

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I hadn't worked in a studio
for a long time.

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So I sat there, grinding out
original stories, two a week.

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Only I seemed to have lost my touch.

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Maybe they weren't original enough.

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Maybe they were too original.

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All I know is, they didn't sell.

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Yeah?

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- Joseph C. Gillis?
- That's right.

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We've come for the car.

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What car?

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1946 Plymouth convertible,
California license 40R-116.

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Where are the keys?

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Why should I give you the keys?

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Because the company's
played ball with you long enough,

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because you're three payments behind
and because we got a court order.

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Now, come on. The keys.

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Or do you want us to jack it up
and haul it away?

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- Relax, fans. The car isn't here.
- Oh, is that so?

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I loaned it to a friend of mine.
He took it down to Palm Springs.

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Had to get away for his health,
I suppose.

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If you don't believe me,
look in the garage.

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Sure, sure, we believe you.
Only now we want you to believe us.

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That car better be back here by noon
tomorrow or there's gonna be fireworks.

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You say the cutest things.

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Well, I needed about $290,

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and I needed it real quick,
or I'd lose my car.

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It wasn't in Palm Springs,
and it wasn't in the garage.

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I was way ahead
of the finance company.

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I knew they'd be coming around,
and I wasn't taking any chances.

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So I kept it across the street

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in a parking lot
behind Rudy's Shoeshine Parlor.

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Rudy never asked any questions
about your finances.

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He'd just look at your heels
and know the score.

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I had an original story
kicking around Paramount.

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My agent told me
it was dead as a doornail.

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But I knew a big shot over there
who'd always liked me.

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And the time had come to take
a little advantage of it.

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His name was Sheldrake.

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He was a smart producer,
with a set of ulcers to prove it.

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All right, Gillis, you've got five minutes.
What's your story about?

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It's about a baseball player,
a rookie shortstop that's batting.347.

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Poor kid was
once mixed up in a holdup.

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But he's trying to go straight.

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Except there are a bunch of gamblers
that won't let him.

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So they tell the poor kid he's got to
throw the World Series or else, huh?

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More or less, except for the end.

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I've got a gimmick that's real good.

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Uh-huh. You got a title?

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Bases Loaded.
There's a 40-page outline.

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Call Readers' Department. Find out
what they have on Bases Loaded.

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They're pretty hot about it
over at Twentieth,

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except I think Zanuck's all wet.

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Can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?

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You've got the best man for it
right here on this lot. Alan Ladd.

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Be a good change of pace for Ladd.

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And there's another thing.
It's pretty simple to shoot.

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Lots of outdoor stuff.

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I bet you could make the whole thing
for under a million.

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Excuse me.

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And there's a great little part
for Bill Demarest,

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one of the trainers, an old-time player

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who got beaned,
goes out of his head sometimes.

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- Hello, Mr. Sheldrake.
- Hello.

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On that Bases Loaded,
I covered it with a two-page synopsis.

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- Thank you.
- But I wouldn't bother.

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- What's wrong with it?
- It's from hunger.

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Nothing for Ladd?

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It's just a rehash of something
that wasn't very good to begin with.

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I'm sure you'll be glad to meet Mr. Gillis.
He wrote it.

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This is Miss Kramer.

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The name is Schaefer. Betty Schaefer.

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Right now I wish I could crawl
in a hole and pull it in after me.

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And if I could be of any help...

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Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I
just didn't think it was any good.

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I found it flat and trite.

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Exactly what kind of material
do you recommend?

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James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

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I just think that pictures
should say a little something.

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Oh, one of the message kids.
Just a story won't do.

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You'd have turned down
Gone with the Wind.

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No, that was me. I said,
"Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"

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Perhaps the reason I hated
Bases Loaded is that I knew your name.

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I'd always heard
that you had some talent.

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That was last year.
This year I'm trying to earn a living.

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So you take plot 27-A,
make it glossy, make it slick...

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Those are dirty words.

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You sound like
a bunch of New York critics.

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- That'll be all, Miss Kramer... Schaefer.
- Goodbye, Mr. Gillis.

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Next time I'll write you
The Naked and the Dead.

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Well, it seems like Zanuck
has got himself a baseball picture.

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Mr. Sheldrake, I don't want you to think

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I thought this was going to win
any Academy Award.

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Of course, we're always
looking for a Betty Hutton.

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- Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?
- Frankly, no.

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Now wait a minute. If we made it a girls'
softball team, put in a few numbers.

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Might make a cute musical. It Happened
in the Bullpen: Story of a Woman.

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Are you trying to be funny?
Because I'm all out of laughs.

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- I'm over a barrel. I need a job.
- I haven't got a thing.

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Any kind of an assignment.
Additional dialog.

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There's nothing. Honest.

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Look, Mr. Sheldrake.

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Could you let me have 300 bucks
yourself, as a personal loan?

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Could I? Gillis.

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Last year somebody talked me
into buying a ranch in the Valley.

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So I borrowed the money from
the bank to pay for the ranch.

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This year I had to mortgage the ranch
so I could keep up my life insurance,

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so I could borrow on my insurance...

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After that I drove down to headquarters.

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That's the way a lot of us
think about Schwab's drugstore.

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Kind of a combination office,
kaffeeklatsch and waiting room.

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Waiting. Waiting for the gravy train.

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I got myself 10 nickels and started
sending out a general SOS.

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Couldn't get hold of my agent, naturally.

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So then I called a pal of mine,
Artie Green,

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an awful nice guy, an assistant director.

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He could let me have 20.
But 20 wouldn't do.

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Then I talked to
a couple of yes-men at Metro.

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To me they said no.

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Finally I located that agent of mine.
The big faker.

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Was he out digging up a job
for poor Joe Gillis?

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No. He was hard at work in Bel-Air,
making with the golf sticks.

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So you need $300.
Of course I could give you $300.

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- Only I'm not going to.
- No?

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Gillis, get this through your head.
I'm not just your agent. It's not the 10%.

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- I'm your friend.
- You are?

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Don't you know
the finest things in the world

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have been written
on an empty stomach?

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Once a talent like yours gets into that
Mocambo-Romanoff rut, you're through.

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Forget Romanoffs.
It's the car I'm talking about!

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If I lose my car,
it's like having my legs cut off.

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Greatest thing that could happen to you.

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Now you'll have to sit behind
the typewriter. Now you'll have to write.

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What do you think I've been doing?
I need $300.

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Sweetheart, maybe what you need
is another agent.

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As I drove back towards town,
I took inventory of my prospects.

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They now added up to exactly zero.

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Apparently I just didn't have
what it takes.

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And the time had come to wrap up the
whole Hollywood deal and go home.

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Maybe if I hocked all my junk

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there'd be enough
for a bus ticket back to Ohio.

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Back to that $35-a-week job
behind the copy desk

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at the Dayton Evening Post,
if it was still open.

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Back to the smirking delight
of the whole office.

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"All right, you wise guys. Why don't you
go out and take a crack at Hollywood?

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"Maybe you think
that you could make..."

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I had landed myself
in the driveway of some big mansion

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that looked run-down and deserted.

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At the end of the drive
was a lovely sight indeed,

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a great big empty garage,
just standing there, going to waste.

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If ever there was a place to stash away
a limping car with a hot license number.

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There was another occupant
in that garage,

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an enormous, foreign-built automobile.

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It must have burned up
ten gallons to a mile.

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It had a 1932 license.

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I figured that's when the owners
had moved out.

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And I also figured I couldn't
go back to my apartment

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now that those bloodhounds
were onto me.

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The idea was to get to Artie Green's
and stay there

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until I could make that bus for Ohio.

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Once back in Dayton, I'd drop the
credit boys a picture postcard,

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telling them where to pick up the jalopy.

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It was a great big white elephant
of a place.

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The kind crazy movie people
built in the crazy '20s.

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A neglected house
gets an unhappy look.

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This one had it in spades.

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It was like that old woman
in Great Expectations,

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that Miss Havisham in her rotting
wedding dress and her torn veil,

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taking it out on the world
because she'd been given the go-by.

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You there! Why are you so late?

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Why have you kept me waiting so long?

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In here.

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I just put my car in the garage.
I had a blowout. I thought maybe...

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Go on in.

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Look, maybe I'd better take my car
and get it off...

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Wipe your feet.

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Go on.

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You're not properly dressed
for the occasion.

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- What's the occasion?
- Have him come up, Max.

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Up the stairs.

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Suppose you listen to me
for just a minute.

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- Madame is waiting.
- For me?

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Okay.

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If you need any help
with the coffin, call me.

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This way.

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In here.

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I put him on my massage table
in front of the fire.

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He always liked fires
and poking at them with a stick.

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I've made up my mind
we'll bury him in the garden.

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Any city laws against that?

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- I wouldn't know.
- I don't care anyway.

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I want the coffin to be white,
and I want it specially lined with satin.

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White or deep pink.

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Maybe red. Bright, flaming red.
Let's make it gay.

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How much will it be?

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I warn you, don't give me a fancy price
just because I'm rich!

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Lady, you got the wrong man. I had
some trouble with my car. A flat tire.

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I pulled into your garage
until I could get a spare.

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- I thought this was an empty house.
- It is not. Get out.

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I'm sorry.
And I'm sorry you lost your friend.

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And I don't think red is the right color.

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Wait a minute. Haven't I seen you
before? I know your face.

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- Get out. Or shall I call my servant?
- You're Norma Desmond!

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You used to be in silent pictures.
You used to be big!

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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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I knew there was something
wrong with them.

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They're dead. They're finished.

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There was a time in this business

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when they had the eyes
of the whole wide world.

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But that wasn't good enough for them.
Oh, no!

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They had to have the ears
of the world, too.

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So they opened their big mouths
and out came talk, talk, talk.

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That's where
the popcorn business comes in.

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You buy yourself a bag
and plug up your ears.

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Look at them in the front offices,
the masterminds!

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They took the idols and smashed them.

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The Fairbankses, the Gilberts,
the Valentinos!

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And who have we got now?
Some nobodies!

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Don't blame me.
I'm not an executive, just a writer.

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You are.
Writing words, words, more words!

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Well, you've made a rope of words
and strangled this business!

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But there's a microphone right there
to catch the last gurgles,

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and Technicolor to photograph
the red, swollen tongue!

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- You'll wake up the monkey.
- Get out! Max!

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Next time I'll bring
my autograph album along.

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Or maybe a hunk of cement,
and ask for your footprint.

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- It's okay. Okay, I'm going.
- Just a minute, you.

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- You're a writer, you said.
- Why?

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Are you or aren't you?

00:17:59.828 --> 00:18:01.789
That's what it says on my Guild card.

00:18:01.872 --> 00:18:05.542
And you have written pictures,
haven't you?

00:18:05.626 --> 00:18:08.504
Sure have. Want a list of my credits?

00:18:08.587 --> 00:18:11.507
I want to ask you something.
Come in here.

00:18:11.590 --> 00:18:14.343
Last one I wrote was about Okies
in the Dust Bowl.

00:18:14.426 --> 00:18:16.470
You'd never know it, because
when it reached the screen,

00:18:16.553 --> 00:18:19.306
the whole thing played
on a torpedo boat.

00:18:28.190 --> 00:18:29.608
Intimate, isn't it?

00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:36.281
The wind gets in that blasted pipe
organ. I ought to have it taken out.

00:18:36.365 --> 00:18:38.700
Or teach it a better tune.

00:18:38.826 --> 00:18:41.036
Young man, tell me something.

00:18:41.161 --> 00:18:45.040
How long is a movie script these days?
I mean, how many pages?

00:18:45.165 --> 00:18:47.709
Depends on what it is,
a Donald Duck or a Joan of Arc.

00:18:47.835 --> 00:18:53.090
This is to be a very important picture.
I've written it myself. Took me years.

00:18:53.173 --> 00:18:55.342
Looks like enough
for six important pictures.

00:18:55.425 --> 00:18:58.720
It's a story of Salome.
I think I'll have DeMille direct it.

00:18:58.846 --> 00:19:01.223
DeMille?

00:19:01.306 --> 00:19:04.893
- We made a lot of pictures together.
- And you'll play Salome.

00:19:06.603 --> 00:19:08.438
Who else?

00:19:08.522 --> 00:19:10.983
Only asking. I didn't know
you were planning a comeback.

00:19:11.066 --> 00:19:14.027
I hate that word! It's a return!

00:19:14.111 --> 00:19:15.737
A return to the millions of people

00:19:15.863 --> 00:19:18.740
who have never forgiven me
for deserting the screen.

00:19:18.866 --> 00:19:24.454
- Fair enough.
- Salome. What a woman. What a part!

00:19:24.538 --> 00:19:26.874
The princess in love with a holy man.

00:19:26.957 --> 00:19:29.042
She dances
the dance of the seven veils.

00:19:29.126 --> 00:19:33.005
He rejects her, so she demands
his head on a golden tray.

00:19:33.088 --> 00:19:37.217
Kissing his cold, dead lips.

00:19:37.301 --> 00:19:40.929
- They'll love it in Pomona.
- They'll love it every place.

00:19:41.054 --> 00:19:43.640
Read it. Read the scene
just before she has him killed.

00:19:43.724 --> 00:19:46.101
Never let another writer read
your material. He may steal it.

00:19:46.226 --> 00:19:49.688
I'm not afraid. Read it.
Max, bring something to drink.

00:19:51.231 --> 00:19:54.818
- Sit down. Is there enough light?
- I've got 20-20 vision.

00:19:56.278 --> 00:19:57.905
I said sit down.

00:20:02.117 --> 00:20:04.953
Well, I had no pressing engagement,

00:20:05.078 --> 00:20:08.081
except with those boys
from the finance office.

00:20:08.165 --> 00:20:11.293
And she'd mentioned
something to drink. Why not?

00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:18.342
Sometimes it's interesting to see
just how bad, bad writing can be.

00:20:18.425 --> 00:20:21.345
This promised to go the limit.

00:20:21.428 --> 00:20:23.305
I wondered what a handwriting expert

00:20:23.388 --> 00:20:26.225
would make of that
childish scrawl of hers.

00:20:28.602 --> 00:20:32.314
Max wheeled in some champagne
and some caviar.

00:20:32.397 --> 00:20:37.861
Later I found out that Max was the only
other person in that grim Sunset castle.

00:20:37.945 --> 00:20:41.406
And I found out
a few other things about him.

00:20:41.490 --> 00:20:45.494
As for her, she sat
coiled up like a watch spring,

00:20:45.577 --> 00:20:48.497
her cigarette clamped
in a curious holder.

00:20:48.580 --> 00:20:51.833
I could sense her eyes on me
from behind those dark glasses,

00:20:51.959 --> 00:20:54.878
defying me not to like what I read.

00:20:54.962 --> 00:20:59.174
Or maybe begging me
in her own proud way to like it.

00:20:59.299 --> 00:21:01.260
It meant so much to her.

00:21:08.141 --> 00:21:13.647
It sure was a cozy setup,
that bundle of raw nerves and Max

00:21:13.730 --> 00:21:15.899
and a dead monkey upstairs.

00:21:15.983 --> 00:21:19.611
And the wind wheezing through
that organ once in a while.

00:21:27.202 --> 00:21:33.000
Later on, just for comedy relief,
the real guy arrived with the baby coffin.

00:21:34.751 --> 00:21:38.422
It was all done with great dignity.

00:21:38.505 --> 00:21:41.717
He must have been
a very important chimp.

00:21:41.800 --> 00:21:44.594
The great-grandson
of King Kong, maybe.

00:21:48.223 --> 00:21:50.559
It got to be 11:00.

00:21:50.642 --> 00:21:53.103
I was feeling a little sick at my stomach,

00:21:53.186 --> 00:21:57.399
what with that sweet champagne
and that tripe I'd been reading,

00:21:57.482 --> 00:22:01.945
that silly hodgepodge
of melodramatic plots.

00:22:02.029 --> 00:22:07.326
However, by then, I'd started
concocting a little plot of my own.

00:22:08.618 --> 00:22:11.246
Well?

00:22:11.371 --> 00:22:14.166
- This is fascinating.
- Of course it is.

00:22:16.835 --> 00:22:18.962
Maybe it's a little long and maybe
there's some repetitions,

00:22:19.046 --> 00:22:21.923
but you're not a professional writer.

00:22:22.049 --> 00:22:27.262
- I wrote that with my heart.
- Sure you did.

00:22:27.387 --> 00:22:29.514
That's what makes it great.

00:22:31.058 --> 00:22:35.062
What it needs is
maybe a little more dialog.

00:22:35.145 --> 00:22:37.814
What for?
I can say anything I want with my eyes.

00:22:37.898 --> 00:22:40.275
Well, it certainly could use
a pair of shears and a blue pencil.

00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:42.778
I will not have it butchered.

00:22:42.861 --> 00:22:46.740
Of course not,
but it ought to be organized.

00:22:46.823 --> 00:22:49.076
Just an editing job.
You can find somebody.

00:22:49.159 --> 00:22:53.121
Who?
I'd have to have somebody I could trust.

00:22:53.246 --> 00:22:56.041
When were you born?
I mean, what sign of the zodiac?

00:22:56.124 --> 00:22:59.294
- I don't know.
- What month?

00:22:59.419 --> 00:23:01.296
December 21.

00:23:01.421 --> 00:23:05.842
Sagittarius. I like Sagittarians.
You can trust them.

00:23:05.926 --> 00:23:09.096
- Thank you.
- I want you to do this work.

00:23:09.179 --> 00:23:11.264
Me?

00:23:11.348 --> 00:23:15.227
I'm busy. I just finished a script,
and I'm due on another assignment.

00:23:15.310 --> 00:23:18.105
I don't care.

00:23:18.188 --> 00:23:22.526
You know, I'm pretty expensive.
I get 500 a week.

00:23:22.609 --> 00:23:27.155
I wouldn't worry about money.
I'll make it worth your while.

00:23:27.280 --> 00:23:29.491
Maybe I'd better take the rest
of the script home and read it.

00:23:29.574 --> 00:23:33.078
Oh, no! I couldn't let it out of my house.
You'll have to finish it here.

00:23:33.161 --> 00:23:35.330
Well, it's getting kind of late.

00:23:36.581 --> 00:23:39.793
- Are you married, Mr...
- Name is Gillis. Single.

00:23:39.876 --> 00:23:43.338
- Where do you live?
- Hollywood. Alto Nido Apartments.

00:23:43.463 --> 00:23:45.382
There's something wrong
with your car, you said.

00:23:45.465 --> 00:23:47.592
There sure is.

00:23:47.676 --> 00:23:51.346
- Why shouldn't you stay here?
- Look, I'll come back early tomorrow.

00:23:51.471 --> 00:23:55.016
Nonsense.
There's a room over the garage.

00:23:55.142 --> 00:23:57.602
Max will take you there. Max!

00:24:02.482 --> 00:24:06.736
I felt kind of pleased
with the way I'd handled the situation.

00:24:06.820 --> 00:24:10.157
I dropped the hook
and she snapped at it.

00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:15.412
Now my car would be safe down below
while I did a patch-up job on the script.

00:24:15.495 --> 00:24:18.331
And there should be
plenty of money in it.

00:24:23.336 --> 00:24:26.381
This room hasn't
been used for a long time.

00:24:26.506 --> 00:24:29.968
It'll never make House Beautiful,
but I guess it's okay for one night.

00:24:30.051 --> 00:24:31.970
I made your bed this afternoon.

00:24:32.053 --> 00:24:36.475
Thanks. How did you know I was
gonna stay this afternoon?

00:24:36.558 --> 00:24:40.937
The bathroom's over there. I put in
some towels, soap and a toothbrush.

00:24:45.025 --> 00:24:49.362
Say, she's quite a character,
that Norma Desmond.

00:24:49.446 --> 00:24:53.492
She was the greatest of them all.
You wouldn't know. You're too young.

00:24:53.575 --> 00:24:57.120
In one week she received
17,000 fan letters.

00:24:57.204 --> 00:25:00.790
Men bribed her hairdresser
to get a lock of her hair.

00:25:00.874 --> 00:25:03.293
There was a maharajah
who came all the way from India

00:25:03.376 --> 00:25:07.672
to beg one of her silk stockings.
Later he strangled himself with it.

00:25:09.674 --> 00:25:13.220
Well, I sure turned in
to an interesting driveway.

00:25:13.303 --> 00:25:16.097
You did, sir. Good night, sir.

00:25:22.229 --> 00:25:26.149
I pegged him as slightly cuckoo, too.

00:25:26.233 --> 00:25:28.944
A stroke, maybe.

00:25:29.027 --> 00:25:32.489
Come to think of it, the whole
place seemed to have been stricken

00:25:32.572 --> 00:25:38.161
with a kind of creeping paralysis,
out of beat with the rest of the world,

00:25:38.245 --> 00:25:41.498
crumbling apart in slow motion.

00:25:41.581 --> 00:25:46.670
There was a tennis court,
or rather the ghost of a tennis court,

00:25:46.753 --> 00:25:49.422
with faded markings and a sagging net.

00:25:54.261 --> 00:25:58.848
And, of course, she had a pool.
Who didn't then?

00:25:58.932 --> 00:26:04.479
Mabel Normand and John Gilbert must
have swum in it 10,000 midnights ago.

00:26:04.604 --> 00:26:08.483
And Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque.

00:26:08.608 --> 00:26:11.653
It was empty now. Or was it?

00:26:18.702 --> 00:26:21.413
There was something else
going on below.

00:26:22.455 --> 00:26:28.295
The last rites for that hairy old chimp,
performed with the utmost seriousness.

00:26:29.629 --> 00:26:32.507
As if she were
laying to rest an only child.

00:26:34.467 --> 00:26:37.095
Was her life really as empty as that?

00:26:46.896 --> 00:26:51.985
It was all very queer.
But queerer things were yet to come.

00:27:00.493 --> 00:27:03.496
That night I had a mixed-up dream.

00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:06.249
In it, there was an organ grinder.

00:27:06.333 --> 00:27:10.337
I couldn't see his face,
but the organ was all draped in black,

00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:14.215
and a chimp was dancing for pennies.

00:27:14.341 --> 00:27:18.720
When I opened my eyes,
the music was still there.

00:27:18.803 --> 00:27:20.263
Where was I?

00:27:22.515 --> 00:27:26.019
Oh, yes.
In that empty room over her garage.

00:27:27.687 --> 00:27:32.150
Only it wasn't empty anymore.
I'd had a visitor.

00:27:33.568 --> 00:27:35.236
Somebody had brought in
all my belongings.

00:27:35.362 --> 00:27:37.989
My books, my typewriter, my clothes.

00:27:40.033 --> 00:27:41.743
What was going on?

00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:05.809
Hey, you! Max, whatever your name is,
what are my things doing here?

00:28:05.892 --> 00:28:10.230
I'm talking to you! My clothes
and things are up in the room!

00:28:10.313 --> 00:28:16.319
- Naturally. I brought them myself.
- Is that so?

00:28:16.403 --> 00:28:19.406
Why, what's the matter?
Is there anything missing?

00:28:19.489 --> 00:28:21.157
Who said you could?
Who asked you to?

00:28:21.241 --> 00:28:25.662
I did. I don't know why
you should be so upset.

00:28:25.745 --> 00:28:27.455
Stop that playing, Max.

00:28:27.580 --> 00:28:31.042
It seemed like a good idea
if we are to work together.

00:28:32.502 --> 00:28:34.587
Look, I'm supposed to fix up your script.

00:28:34.671 --> 00:28:36.631
There's nothing in the deal
about my staying here!

00:28:36.756 --> 00:28:37.966
You'll like it here.

00:28:38.049 --> 00:28:40.009
Thanks for the invitation.
I've got my own apartment.

00:28:40.093 --> 00:28:42.679
You can't work in an apartment
where you owe three months' rent.

00:28:42.762 --> 00:28:46.725
- I'll take care of that.
- It's all taken care of, it's all paid for.

00:28:49.185 --> 00:28:52.063
Okay, we'll deduct it from my salary.

00:28:52.147 --> 00:28:56.317
Now, now, don't let's be small about
such matters. We won't keep books.

00:28:56.443 --> 00:29:01.322
- Max, unpack Mr. Gillis' things.
- It is done, Madame.

00:29:01.448 --> 00:29:03.825
Well, pack them up again!
I didn't say I was staying!

00:29:03.908 --> 00:29:07.954
Suppose you make up your mind.
Do you want this job or don't you?

00:29:11.207 --> 00:29:13.001
Yes, I wanted the job.

00:29:13.084 --> 00:29:16.713
I wanted the dough, and I wanted
to get out of there as quickly as I could.

00:29:17.088 --> 00:29:21.426
I thought if I really got going,
I could finish it up in a couple of weeks.

00:29:21.509 --> 00:29:23.803
But it wasn't so simple
getting some coherence

00:29:23.887 --> 00:29:26.890
into those wild hallucinations of hers.

00:29:26.973 --> 00:29:30.727
And what made it even tougher was
that she was around all the time,

00:29:30.810 --> 00:29:35.857
hovering over me, afraid I'd do injury
to that precious brainchild of hers.

00:29:42.572 --> 00:29:46.493
- What's that?
- Just a scene I threw out.

00:29:46.576 --> 00:29:47.952
Which scene?

00:29:48.036 --> 00:29:49.537
The one where you go
to the slave market.

00:29:49.662 --> 00:29:51.164
It's better to cut directly
to John the Baptist...

00:29:51.247 --> 00:29:53.792
Cut away from me?

00:29:53.875 --> 00:29:56.628
Honestly, it's a little too much of you.
They don't want you in every scene.

00:29:56.711 --> 00:29:59.964
They don't? Then why do they still
write me fan letters every day?

00:30:00.048 --> 00:30:01.549
Why do they beg me
for my photographs?

00:30:01.674 --> 00:30:06.805
Why? Because they want to see me.
Me! Norma Desmond.

00:30:06.888 --> 00:30:09.641
- Put it back.
- Okay.

00:30:20.318 --> 00:30:21.653
That's it.

00:30:21.778 --> 00:30:25.657
She was still sleepwalking along
the giddy heights of a lost career.

00:30:25.782 --> 00:30:28.827
Plain crazy when it came to that
one subject, her celluloid self,

00:30:28.868 --> 00:30:31.246
It wasn't all work, of course.

00:30:31.329 --> 00:30:34.999
Two or three times a week, Max would
haul up that enormous oil painting

00:30:35.083 --> 00:30:39.003
that had been presented to her by
some Nevada Chamber of Commerce

00:30:39.087 --> 00:30:43.049
and we'd see a movie,
right in her living room.

00:30:43.132 --> 00:30:46.678
So much nicer than going out,
she'd say.

00:30:46.761 --> 00:30:51.182
The plain fact was she was afraid
of that world outside.

00:30:51.266 --> 00:30:54.352
Afraid it would remind her
that time had passed.

00:30:56.354 --> 00:31:01.067
They were silent movies, and Max
would run the projection machine,

00:31:01.150 --> 00:31:03.236
which was just as well.

00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:05.113
It kept him from
giving us an accompaniment

00:31:05.196 --> 00:31:07.156
on that wheezing organ.

00:31:09.450 --> 00:31:11.578
She'd sit very close to me

00:31:11.703 --> 00:31:14.998
and she smelled of tuberoses,
which is not my favorite perfume,

00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:20.461
They were always her pictures.
That's all she wanted to see.

00:31:47.030 --> 00:31:52.160
Still wonderful, isn't it? And no dialog.

00:31:52.285 --> 00:31:54.871
We didn't need dialog. We had faces.

00:31:56.497 --> 00:31:59.626
There just aren't any faces
like that anymore.

00:31:59.709 --> 00:32:01.920
Maybe one, Garbo.

00:32:03.796 --> 00:32:07.759
Oh, those idiot producers.
Those imbeciles.

00:32:07.842 --> 00:32:10.929
Haven't they got any eyes? Have they
forgotten what a star looks like?

00:32:11.012 --> 00:32:14.307
I'll show them.
I'll be up there again, so help me!

00:32:24.567 --> 00:32:26.903
- Spade.
- Pass.

00:32:28.321 --> 00:32:30.198
- Three no-trump.
- Pass.

00:32:31.741 --> 00:32:33.034
Pass.

00:32:33.117 --> 00:32:35.870
Empty the ashtray, will you, Joe, dear?

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:56.766
There are some men outside,

00:32:56.849 --> 00:32:58.184
- they asked for you.
- I'm not here.

00:32:58.267 --> 00:33:00.186
- That's what I told them.
- Good.

00:33:00.269 --> 00:33:04.691
But they found your car in the garage,
and they're going to tow it away.

00:33:04.774 --> 00:33:08.111
Where's the ashtray?
Joe, can't we have the ashtray?

00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:17.495
I want to talk to you for a minute.

00:33:17.578 --> 00:33:19.914
Not now, my dear.
I'm playing three no-trump.

00:33:19.998 --> 00:33:21.666
They've come for my car.

00:33:21.749 --> 00:33:25.086
Please. Now I've forgotten
how many spades are out.

00:33:25.169 --> 00:33:28.673
- Look, I need some money right now.
- Can't you wait until I'm dummy?

00:33:28.756 --> 00:33:31.509
- No.
- Please.

00:34:06.252 --> 00:34:10.757
- Now what is it? Where's the fire?
- I've lost my car.

00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.717
And I thought it was
a matter of life and death.

00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.636
It is, to me.
That's why I came to this house.

00:34:15.720 --> 00:34:18.056
That's why I took this job ghostwriting.

00:34:18.181 --> 00:34:21.851
Now you're being silly.
We don't need two cars. We have a car.

00:34:21.934 --> 00:34:25.229
Not one of those cheap new things
made of chromium and spit.

00:34:25.354 --> 00:34:29.442
An Isotta-Fraschini. Have you
ever heard of Isotta-Fraschini?

00:34:29.525 --> 00:34:32.987
All handmade. Cost me $28,000.

00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.078
So Max got that old bus
down off its blocks and polished it up.

00:34:41.204 --> 00:34:43.998
She'd take me for rides
in the hills above Sunset.

00:34:45.541 --> 00:34:48.544
The whole thing was upholstered
in leopard skin

00:34:48.628 --> 00:34:52.632
and had one of those car phones,
all gold-plated.

00:34:54.801 --> 00:34:58.304
- That's a dreadful shirt you're wearing.
- What's wrong with it?

00:34:58.387 --> 00:35:00.098
Nothing, if you work in the filling station.

00:35:00.223 --> 00:35:04.685
And I'm getting rather bored with that
sport jacket and the same baggy pants.

00:35:06.562 --> 00:35:11.275
Max, what's a good men's shop in town?
The very best? Well, go there.

00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:14.529
I don't need any clothes, and I certainly
don't want you buying them for me.

00:35:14.612 --> 00:35:19.242
Why begrudge me a little fun?
I just want you to look nice.

00:35:19.325 --> 00:35:21.202
And must you chew gum?

00:35:28.042 --> 00:35:31.420
Now there's nothing like
blue flannel for a man.

00:35:31.504 --> 00:35:33.506
Now this one,
single-breasted, of course.

00:35:33.589 --> 00:35:37.135
Now we need a topcoat. Let me see
what you have in camel's hair.

00:35:37.426 --> 00:35:40.179
- How about some evening clothes?
- I don't need a tuxedo.

00:35:40.263 --> 00:35:42.974
Of course you do. A tuxedo and tails,
and if you aren't careful,

00:35:43.057 --> 00:35:45.143
you'll get a cutaway.

00:35:45.268 --> 00:35:46.644
Tails! That's ridiculous.

00:35:46.727 --> 00:35:49.021
You need them for parties.
You need them for New Year's Eve.

00:35:49.105 --> 00:35:52.400
- Where are your evening clothes?
- This way, Madame.

00:35:55.945 --> 00:35:58.781
Here are some camel's hair,
but I'd like you just to feel this.

00:35:58.865 --> 00:36:01.325
It's vicuna.
Of course, it's a little more expensive.

00:36:01.450 --> 00:36:03.452
The camel's hair will do.

00:36:05.621 --> 00:36:09.750
Well, as long as the lady's paying for it,
why not take the vicuna?

00:36:20.178 --> 00:36:23.598
The last week in December,
the rains came.

00:36:23.681 --> 00:36:26.309
A great big package of rain,

00:36:26.392 --> 00:36:30.521
oversized, like everything else
in California.

00:36:30.646 --> 00:36:34.567
It came right through the old roof
of my room above the garage.

00:36:36.319 --> 00:36:39.363
She had Max move me
to the main house.

00:36:39.488 --> 00:36:42.033
I didn't much like the idea.

00:36:42.116 --> 00:36:46.037
The only time I could have to myself
was in that room.

00:36:46.120 --> 00:36:49.832
But it was better than sleeping
in a raincoat and galoshes.

00:37:26.994 --> 00:37:31.249
- Whose room was this?
- It was the room of the husband.

00:37:31.374 --> 00:37:35.503
Of the husbands, I should say.
Madame has been married three times.

00:37:41.384 --> 00:37:44.220
I guess that's the one
you can see Catalina from.

00:37:44.303 --> 00:37:46.305
Only this isn't the day.

00:37:59.652 --> 00:38:03.030
Say, what's this with the door?
There isn't any lock.

00:38:04.031 --> 00:38:07.159
There are no locks anywhere
in this house, sir.

00:38:12.873 --> 00:38:16.335
How come? There must be a reason.

00:38:16.419 --> 00:38:19.130
- The doctor suggested it.
- What doctor?

00:38:19.213 --> 00:38:24.510
Madame's doctor.
Madame has moments of melancholy.

00:38:24.593 --> 00:38:28.389
There have been
some attempts at suicide.

00:38:28.472 --> 00:38:32.393
We have to be very careful.
No sleeping pills, no razor blades.

00:38:32.476 --> 00:38:36.272
We shut off the gas
in Madame's bedroom.

00:38:36.355 --> 00:38:38.399
Why? Her career?

00:38:38.482 --> 00:38:40.443
She got enough out of it.
She's not forgotten.

00:38:40.526 --> 00:38:42.194
She still gets those fan letters.

00:38:42.278 --> 00:38:45.239
I wouldn't look too closely
at the postmarks.

00:38:48.326 --> 00:38:51.829
You send them. Is that it, Max?

00:38:51.912 --> 00:38:54.707
I had better press
your evening clothes, sir.

00:38:54.790 --> 00:38:58.294
Mr. Gillis has not forgotten
Madame's New Year's party?

00:38:59.462 --> 00:39:03.841
No, no, I haven't.
I suppose all the waxworks are coming.

00:39:03.924 --> 00:39:07.261
I wouldn't know, sir.
Madame made the arrangements.

00:39:27.323 --> 00:39:31.118
It was at her New Year's party that
I found out how she felt about me.

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:35.873
Maybe I'd been an idiot
not to have sensed it was coming.

00:39:35.956 --> 00:39:37.500
That sad, embarrassing revelation.

00:40:21.085 --> 00:40:25.089
I didn't know where I was going.
I just had to get out of there.

00:40:25.881 --> 00:40:30.219
I had to be with people my own age.
I had to hear somebody laugh again.

00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:35.266
I thought of Artie Green.

00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:37.435
There was bound to be
a New Year's shindig going on

00:40:37.518 --> 00:40:40.020
in his apartment down on Las Palmas.

00:40:40.104 --> 00:40:43.858
Writers without a job,
composers without a publisher,

00:40:43.941 --> 00:40:48.320
actresses so young they still believe
the guys in the casting offices.

00:40:48.404 --> 00:40:53.367
A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot
just so long as they had a yuk to share.

00:40:54.285 --> 00:40:56.829
Now, if I got you correctly,
there was a short stretch of my fiction

00:40:56.912 --> 00:40:58.664
which you found worthy of notice.

00:40:58.747 --> 00:41:00.040
The flashback scene in the courtroom

00:41:00.166 --> 00:41:01.834
when she tells about
being a schoolteacher.

00:41:01.917 --> 00:41:03.669
I had a teacher like that once.

00:41:03.752 --> 00:41:07.047
Maybe that's why it's good.
It's true. It's moving.

00:41:07.173 --> 00:41:09.967
- Now why don't you use that character...
- Who wants true? Who wants moving?

00:41:10.050 --> 00:41:12.595
Drop that attitude!
Here's something really worthwhile.

00:41:12.678 --> 00:41:14.930
Want me to start right away?
Maybe there's some paper around.

00:41:15.014 --> 00:41:17.933
- I'm serious. I've got a few ideas.
- And I've got a few ideas of my own.

00:41:18.726 --> 00:41:21.479
I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis. I cannot talk now.

00:41:21.562 --> 00:41:24.064
Yes you can.
I want you to get my old suitcase

00:41:24.190 --> 00:41:26.567
and put in all my old clothes,
the ones I came with.

00:41:26.650 --> 00:41:28.819
And my typewriter.
I'll have somebody pick them up.

00:41:28.903 --> 00:41:32.907
I have no time to do anything now.
The doctor is here.

00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:36.285
What doctor? What's going on?

00:41:36.368 --> 00:41:39.663
Madame got the razor from your room
and she cut her wrists.

00:41:40.831 --> 00:41:43.667
What? Max! Max!

00:41:59.725 --> 00:42:01.101
Happy New Year!

00:42:06.232 --> 00:42:09.276
- How is she?
- She's up in her room.

00:42:09.401 --> 00:42:12.029
Be careful. Don't race upstairs.

00:42:12.112 --> 00:42:14.532
The musicians mustn't know
what happened.

00:42:58.784 --> 00:43:00.160
Go away.

00:43:10.379 --> 00:43:12.715
What kind of a silly thing
was that to do?

00:43:12.798 --> 00:43:16.218
To fall in love with you,
that was the idiotic thing.

00:43:18.053 --> 00:43:21.181
It sure would have made
attractive headlines.

00:43:21.265 --> 00:43:24.685
"Great Star Kills Herself
for Unknown Writer."

00:43:24.810 --> 00:43:27.438
Great stars have great pride.

00:43:33.485 --> 00:43:37.239
Go away. Go to that girl of yours.

00:43:42.244 --> 00:43:45.080
Look, I was making that up

00:43:45.164 --> 00:43:48.292
because I thought the whole thing
was a mistake.

00:43:49.293 --> 00:43:53.255
I didn't want to hurt you.
You've been good to me.

00:43:53.339 --> 00:43:57.217
You're the only person in this
stinking town that has been good to me.

00:43:57.301 --> 00:44:00.804
Why don't you just
say thank you and go? Go, go!

00:44:00.888 --> 00:44:04.475
Not until you promise to act
like a sensible human being.

00:44:05.684 --> 00:44:08.270
I'll do it again. I'll do it again.

00:44:10.939 --> 00:44:12.608
I'll do it again.

00:44:45.557 --> 00:44:46.642
Hello?

00:44:46.725 --> 00:44:50.312
Is this Crestview 5-1733?

00:44:50.396 --> 00:44:51.730
I'm sorry to bother you again,

00:44:51.814 --> 00:44:55.150
but I've confirmed the number.
I must speak to Mr. Gillis.

00:44:55.275 --> 00:44:58.404
- He's not here.
- Well, where can I reach him?

00:44:58.529 --> 00:45:00.280
Maybe somebody else in the house
could tell me...

00:45:00.364 --> 00:45:03.534
Nobody here can
give you any information.

00:45:03.617 --> 00:45:06.203
And you will please not call again!

00:45:08.580 --> 00:45:09.623
Max!

00:45:12.459 --> 00:45:14.670
Who was it, Max? What is it?

00:45:17.047 --> 00:45:21.260
Nothing, Madame.
Somebody inquiring about a stray dog.

00:45:22.344 --> 00:45:26.056
Our number must be very similar
to the number of the pound.

00:45:26.974 --> 00:45:29.643
Wait a minute.
I want you to get out the car.

00:45:29.727 --> 00:45:31.311
You're to take the script
over to Paramount

00:45:31.395 --> 00:45:34.148
and deliver it to Mr. DeMille in person.

00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:36.108
Very good, Madame.

00:45:41.321 --> 00:45:42.948
You really going to send
that script to DeMille?

00:45:43.031 --> 00:45:46.618
Yes, I am. This is the day.
Here's the chart from my astrologer.

00:45:46.702 --> 00:45:48.370
She read DeMille's horoscope.
She read mine.

00:45:48.454 --> 00:45:51.039
- Did she read the script?
- DeMille is Leo. I'm Scorpio.

00:45:51.165 --> 00:45:53.500
Mars has been transiting
Jupiter for weeks.

00:45:53.584 --> 00:45:57.212
Today is the day
of the greatest conjunction.

00:45:57.504 --> 00:45:58.630
A few evenings later,
we were going to the house

00:45:58.881 --> 00:46:01.925
of one of the waxworks
for some bridge.

00:46:02.050 --> 00:46:04.261
She'd taught me
how to play bridge by then,

00:46:04.386 --> 00:46:07.347
just as she'd taught me
some fancy tango steps

00:46:07.806 --> 00:46:10.434
and what wine to drink with what fish.

00:46:13.061 --> 00:46:16.607
That idiot!
He forgot to fill my cigarette case.

00:46:16.690 --> 00:46:18.317
Here, have one of mine.

00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:20.694
They're dreadful. They make me cough.

00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:27.451
Pull up at the drugstore, will you, Max?
I'll get you some.

00:46:27.534 --> 00:46:29.369
You're a darling.

00:46:51.183 --> 00:46:55.312
Give me a package of those
Turkish cigarettes. Abdullas.

00:46:57.272 --> 00:47:01.026
Stick 'em up, Gillis!
Stick 'em up or I'll let you have it!

00:47:02.486 --> 00:47:04.363
Hi, Artie. Good evening, Miss Schaefer.

00:47:04.446 --> 00:47:06.240
You don't know
how glad I am to see you!

00:47:06.323 --> 00:47:08.617
Walking out on the mob.
What's the big idea?

00:47:08.700 --> 00:47:09.993
Oh, I'm sorry about New Year's.

00:47:10.118 --> 00:47:12.621
Would you believe me if I told you
I stayed with a sick friend?

00:47:12.704 --> 00:47:16.166
Someone in the formal set, no doubt,
with a 10-karat kidney stone.

00:47:16.291 --> 00:47:19.545
Oh, stop it, Artie, will you?
Where've you been keeping yourself?

00:47:19.628 --> 00:47:22.214
I've got
the most wonderful news for you.

00:47:22.297 --> 00:47:24.883
I haven't been keeping myself at all.
Not lately.

00:47:24.967 --> 00:47:27.594
I called your agent.
I called the Screen Writers' Guild.

00:47:27.678 --> 00:47:30.180
Finally, your old apartment gave me
some Crestview number.

00:47:30.305 --> 00:47:32.391
There was always somebody
with an accent growling at me.

00:47:32.474 --> 00:47:34.226
You were not there.
You were not to be spoken to.

00:47:34.309 --> 00:47:36.353
They never even heard of you.

00:47:36.478 --> 00:47:39.273
Is that so? What's the wonderful news?

00:47:39.356 --> 00:47:41.483
Sheldrake likes the angle
about the teacher.

00:47:41.567 --> 00:47:43.193
- What teacher?
- Dark Windows.

00:47:43.318 --> 00:47:44.778
I got him all hopped up about it.

00:47:44.862 --> 00:47:46.405
He thinks it could be
made into something.

00:47:46.488 --> 00:47:49.283
- Okay. Where's the cash?
- Where's the story?

00:47:49.366 --> 00:47:51.076
I bluffed it out with a few notions
of my own.

00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:53.328
It's really just a springboard.
It needs work.

00:47:53.412 --> 00:47:54.496
I was afraid of that.

00:47:54.580 --> 00:47:57.708
I've got twenty pages of notes and I've
got a pretty good character for the man.

00:47:57.791 --> 00:47:59.293
Could you write in
plenty of background action

00:47:59.376 --> 00:48:00.878
so they'll need an extra
assistant director, huh?

00:48:00.961 --> 00:48:02.671
Oh, Artie, shut up!

00:48:03.005 --> 00:48:04.840
Now, if we could sit down for two weeks
to get a story...

00:48:04.923 --> 00:48:07.676
I'm sorry, Miss Schaefer,
I've given up writing on spec.

00:48:07.759 --> 00:48:09.344
But I tell you this is half sold.

00:48:09.428 --> 00:48:11.722
As a matter of fact,
I've given up writing altogether.

00:48:11.805 --> 00:48:14.308
Mr. Gillis, if you please.

00:48:14.975 --> 00:48:16.810
I'll be right there.

00:48:17.686 --> 00:48:19.479
The accent! I get it!

00:48:19.563 --> 00:48:21.315
This guy's in the pay
of a foreign government.

00:48:21.398 --> 00:48:23.317
Check those studs. Get those cufflinks.

00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.528
I've got to run along. Thanks anyway
for your interest in my career.

00:48:26.612 --> 00:48:31.033
It's not your career, it's mine!
I'd kind of hoped to get in on this deal.

00:48:31.116 --> 00:48:34.244
I don't want to be a reader all my life.
I want to write.

00:48:34.369 --> 00:48:37.289
- I'm sorry if I crossed you up.
- You sure have!

00:48:37.748 --> 00:48:38.999
So long.

00:48:50.218 --> 00:48:52.471
What on earth, darling?
It took you hours.

00:48:52.554 --> 00:48:54.473
Oh, I ran into some people I know.

00:48:54.556 --> 00:48:57.809
- Where are my cigarettes?
- Where are your...

00:48:59.645 --> 00:49:01.647
Norma, you're smoking too much.

00:49:08.528 --> 00:49:12.240
She was so like all us writers
when we first hit Hollywood,

00:49:12.366 --> 00:49:14.201
itching with ambition,

00:49:14.284 --> 00:49:19.456
planning to get your names up there.
"Screenplay by, Original Story by."

00:49:22.876 --> 00:49:26.672
Audiences don't know somebody
sits down and writes a picture.

00:49:27.047 --> 00:49:30.258
They think the actors make it up
as they go along.

00:49:30.717 --> 00:49:32.260
Open your eyes.

00:50:06.878 --> 00:50:10.632
- Madame is wanted on the telephone.
- You know better than to interrupt me.

00:50:10.757 --> 00:50:12.718
- Paramount is calling.
- Who?

00:50:12.801 --> 00:50:14.511
Paramount Studios.

00:50:15.762 --> 00:50:19.725
Now! Now, do you believe me?
I told you DeMille would jump at it.

00:50:19.808 --> 00:50:21.977
It is not Mr. DeMille in person.

00:50:22.060 --> 00:50:24.146
It is someone
by the name of Gordon Cole.

00:50:24.229 --> 00:50:27.107
- He says it's very important.
- Certainly it's important.

00:50:27.190 --> 00:50:29.568
It's important enough
for DeMille to call me personally.

00:50:29.651 --> 00:50:32.279
The very idea of having
some assistant call me!

00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:35.240
- Say I'm busy and hang up!
- Very good, Madame.

00:50:42.080 --> 00:50:43.790
How do you like that?

00:50:43.874 --> 00:50:47.878
We've made 12 pictures together,
his greatest successes!

00:50:47.961 --> 00:50:51.214
- Maybe he's busy, maybe he's shooting.
- I know that trick!

00:50:51.339 --> 00:50:54.885
He's trying to belittle me.
He's trying to get my price down.

00:50:54.968 --> 00:50:58.472
I've waited 20 years for this call.

00:50:58.555 --> 00:51:01.641
Now DeMille can wait
until I'm good and ready.

00:51:04.436 --> 00:51:07.856
About three days later
she was good and ready.

00:51:07.939 --> 00:51:09.733
Incredible as it may seem,

00:51:09.816 --> 00:51:13.612
there'd been some more of those
urgent calls from Paramount.

00:51:13.945 --> 00:51:18.200
So, she put on about a half a pound
of makeup, fixed it up with a veil

00:51:18.825 --> 00:51:21.620
and set forth to see DeMille in person.

00:51:23.997 --> 00:51:28.668
Madame will pardon me, the shadow
over the left eye is not quite balanced.

00:51:30.045 --> 00:51:31.630
Thank you, Max.

00:51:46.478 --> 00:51:48.396
Hold that noise!

00:51:49.731 --> 00:51:50.857
Hey!

00:51:51.399 --> 00:51:53.693
To see Mr. DeMille. Open the gate!

00:51:53.777 --> 00:51:56.279
Mr. DeMille is shooting.
You got an appointment?

00:51:56.404 --> 00:51:59.950
No appointment necessary!
I'm bringing Norma Desmond.

00:52:00.283 --> 00:52:01.618
Norma who?

00:52:02.035 --> 00:52:04.788
Norma Desmond!

00:52:04.871 --> 00:52:08.041
- Jonesy! Hey, Jonesy!
- Yeah?

00:52:08.875 --> 00:52:11.211
Why, if it isn't Miss Desmond.

00:52:12.254 --> 00:52:15.507
- How have you been, Miss Desmond?
- Open the gate!

00:52:15.590 --> 00:52:17.884
Sure, Miss Desmond. Come on, Mac.

00:52:17.968 --> 00:52:19.886
They can't drive on the lot
without a pass.

00:52:19.970 --> 00:52:22.180
Miss Desmond can. Come on.

00:52:32.524 --> 00:52:35.152
- Where's Mr. DeMille shooting?
- Stage 18, Miss Desmond.

00:52:35.277 --> 00:52:38.655
Thank you, Jonesy,
and teach your friend some manners.

00:52:38.738 --> 00:52:40.657
Tell him without me,
he wouldn't have any job,

00:52:40.740 --> 00:52:42.742
because without me, there
wouldn't be any Paramount Studio.

00:52:42.826 --> 00:52:45.579
- You're right, Miss Desmond.
- Go on, Max.

00:52:54.546 --> 00:52:56.131
Stage 18.

00:52:56.965 --> 00:52:59.676
Oh, I guess, get...
Notify Henry Wilcoxon.

00:52:59.759 --> 00:53:03.138
Just clear them out, will you?
Spread the thing out so I can see it.

00:53:06.099 --> 00:53:07.517
Keep it quiet a little bit,
will you, back there?

00:53:07.642 --> 00:53:10.520
Norma Desmond's coming in
to see Mr. DeMille.

00:53:10.645 --> 00:53:15.275
Can you hit that with a light, somebody,
so I can get a look at that 'scape?

00:53:15.358 --> 00:53:17.402
Back up a little bit here, girlie, back up.

00:53:17.485 --> 00:53:20.030
Soldier, get out of the way.
You fell over the back there.

00:53:20.113 --> 00:53:22.365
Norma Desmond's coming in
to see Mr. DeMille.

00:53:22.490 --> 00:53:24.284
Norma Desmond?

00:53:25.744 --> 00:53:26.745
Wait a minute.

00:53:26.828 --> 00:53:28.622
- Harry Wilcoxon!
- Yes?

00:53:28.705 --> 00:53:31.374
Draw your sword
and raise that drape with it.

00:53:31.499 --> 00:53:33.543
Samson's lying unconscious over here.

00:53:33.668 --> 00:53:36.755
Norma Desmond is coming in
to see you, Mr. DeMille.

00:53:37.505 --> 00:53:40.508
- Norma Desmond?
- She must be a million years old.

00:53:41.218 --> 00:53:44.888
I hate to think where that puts me.
I could be her father.

00:53:44.971 --> 00:53:46.056
Very sorry, Mr. DeMille.

00:53:46.139 --> 00:53:49.184
It must be about
that awful script of hers.

00:53:50.352 --> 00:53:52.729
What can I tell her? What can I say?

00:53:52.812 --> 00:53:54.898
I can tell her you're all tied up
in the projection room.

00:53:54.981 --> 00:53:57.234
I can give her the brush.

00:53:57.359 --> 00:54:00.737
Thirty million fans have given her
the brush. Isn't that enough?

00:54:00.820 --> 00:54:03.114
- I didn't mean to...
- No, of course you didn't.

00:54:03.198 --> 00:54:07.494
You didn't know Norma Desmond
as a lovely little girl of 17

00:54:07.577 --> 00:54:10.121
with more courage and wit and heart

00:54:10.205 --> 00:54:12.415
than ever came together
in one youngster.

00:54:12.540 --> 00:54:14.668
I understand she was a terror
to work with.

00:54:14.751 --> 00:54:16.920
Only toward the end.

00:54:17.003 --> 00:54:20.173
You know, a dozen press agents
working overtime

00:54:20.799 --> 00:54:24.511
can do terrible things
to the human spirit.

00:54:25.637 --> 00:54:27.305
Hold everything.

00:54:37.941 --> 00:54:39.150
Norma, I...

00:54:39.234 --> 00:54:43.113
- I must apologize for not calling you.
- You'd better. I'm very angry.

00:54:43.238 --> 00:54:45.448
Well, as you can see, I'm terribly busy.

00:54:45.532 --> 00:54:48.743
That's no excuse.
You read the script, of course?

00:54:49.411 --> 00:54:50.453
Yes, I did.

00:54:50.537 --> 00:54:52.122
Then you could have
picked up the telephone yourself,

00:54:52.247 --> 00:54:54.249
instead of leaving it
to one of your assistants.

00:54:54.332 --> 00:54:57.460
- What assistant?
- Now don't play innocent.

00:54:57.544 --> 00:55:01.756
- Somebody named Gordon Cole.
- Gordon Cole?

00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:04.467
And if you hadn't been pretty darned
interested in that script,

00:55:04.551 --> 00:55:07.304
he wouldn't have tried to get me
on the telephone 10 times.

00:55:07.429 --> 00:55:09.180
Gordon Cole!

00:55:10.348 --> 00:55:12.559
Norma, I'm in the middle of a rehearsal.

00:55:12.642 --> 00:55:15.020
Now, why don't you just sit
up here in my chair

00:55:15.103 --> 00:55:17.147
and make yourself comfortable?

00:55:17.230 --> 00:55:20.191
- Thank you.
- That's a girl. There.

00:55:20.275 --> 00:55:22.360
I won't be a moment.

00:55:22.444 --> 00:55:25.280
Bring me a telephone
and get me Gordon Cole.

00:55:25.447 --> 00:55:26.573
Right.

00:55:41.504 --> 00:55:43.506
Hey, Miss Desmond!

00:55:45.467 --> 00:55:50.305
Miss Desmond! It's me! It's Hog-Eye.

00:55:50.972 --> 00:55:52.932
Hello, Hog-Eye!

00:55:55.226 --> 00:55:57.645
Let's get a good look at you!

00:56:00.690 --> 00:56:04.903
- Look, there's Norma Desmond!
- Norma Desmond!

00:56:05.987 --> 00:56:08.448
- Norma Desmond.
- Why, I thought she was dead!

00:56:08.531 --> 00:56:10.200
How nice to see you.

00:56:10.325 --> 00:56:12.702
Welcome home, Miss Desmond.
You remember me, don't you?

00:56:12.786 --> 00:56:14.621
- Miss Desmond!
- Hello!

00:56:15.914 --> 00:56:18.124
Mr. Wilcoxon,
have you met Miss Desmond?

00:56:18.208 --> 00:56:19.876
It's a great pleasure.

00:56:19.959 --> 00:56:22.420
Oh, Gordon. This is C.B. DeMille.

00:56:22.504 --> 00:56:24.547
Have you been calling
Norma Desmond?

00:56:24.631 --> 00:56:26.091
Yes, Mr. DeMille.

00:56:26.174 --> 00:56:28.885
It's that car of hers,
an old Isotta-Fraschini.

00:56:28.968 --> 00:56:30.845
Her chauffeur drove it in
on the lot the other day.

00:56:30.929 --> 00:56:32.889
It looks just right for the Crosby picture.

00:56:32.972 --> 00:56:35.475
We want to rent it
for a couple of weeks.

00:56:35.558 --> 00:56:36.976
Oh, I see.

00:56:38.520 --> 00:56:41.648
Well, thank you very much. Thank you.

00:56:56.913 --> 00:57:00.667
Hog-Eye, turn that light
back where it belongs.

00:57:15.557 --> 00:57:16.599
Well, I...

00:57:17.142 --> 00:57:18.935
I got hold of Gordon Cole.

00:57:19.018 --> 00:57:21.646
Did you see them?
Did you see how they came?

00:57:23.106 --> 00:57:26.651
some crazy things happen
in this business, Norma.

00:57:26.985 --> 00:57:30.029
I hope you haven't lost
your sense of humor.

00:57:30.905 --> 00:57:33.491
- What's the matter, dear?
- Nothing.

00:57:33.741 --> 00:57:37.829
I just didn't realize what it would be like
to come back to the old studio.

00:57:37.912 --> 00:57:40.373
I had no idea how much I'd missed it.

00:57:40.457 --> 00:57:41.749
We've missed you, too, dear.

00:57:41.833 --> 00:57:45.086
We'll be working again, won't we,
Chief? We'll make our greatest picture!

00:57:45.170 --> 00:57:48.882
- That's what I want to talk to you about.
- It's a good script, isn't it?

00:57:48.965 --> 00:57:52.385
Well, it's...
It has some good things in it, yes, but,

00:57:53.094 --> 00:57:54.971
it would be a very expensive picture.

00:57:55.054 --> 00:57:58.766
Oh, I don't care about the money.
I just want to work again.

00:57:58.892 --> 00:58:01.686
You don't know what it means
to know that you want me.

00:58:01.769 --> 00:58:04.731
Nothing would please me more,
Norma, if...

00:58:04.898 --> 00:58:06.774
- lf it were possible.
- And remember, darling,

00:58:06.858 --> 00:58:10.653
I don't work before 10:00 in the morning,
and never after 4:30 in the afternoon.

00:58:10.737 --> 00:58:12.655
We're ready for the shot, Mr. DeMille.

00:58:12.739 --> 00:58:17.035
All right. Norma, why don't you just
sit here and watch?

00:58:17.744 --> 00:58:20.830
You know,
pictures have changed quite a bit.

00:58:21.623 --> 00:58:23.666
All right, let's go!

00:58:24.042 --> 00:58:25.543
Hit 'em all!

00:58:27.670 --> 00:58:29.005
Roll 'em!

00:58:30.381 --> 00:58:31.591
Speed!

00:58:39.807 --> 00:58:42.685
You see those offices there, Mr. Gillis?

00:58:44.354 --> 00:58:47.774
They used to be Madame's
dressing room. The whole row.

00:58:48.775 --> 00:58:50.652
That didn't leave much
for Wallace Reid.

00:58:50.735 --> 00:58:53.363
Oh, he had a great big bungalow
on wheels.

00:58:54.405 --> 00:58:56.324
I had the upstairs.

00:58:56.407 --> 00:58:59.369
You see where it says
"Readers' Department"?

00:58:59.911 --> 00:59:03.623
I remember my walls were covered
with black patent leather.

00:59:12.590 --> 00:59:14.926
I'll be with you in a minute.

00:59:27.272 --> 00:59:29.691
Hey, here's that funny car
Gordon Cole was talking about.

00:59:29.774 --> 00:59:32.026
- Yeah.
- Do you mind if we look it over?

00:59:32.110 --> 00:59:34.112
What's so funny about it?

00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:42.662
Just so you don't think
I'm a complete swine,

00:59:42.745 --> 00:59:46.082
if there's anything in Dark Windows
you can use, take it. It's all yours.

00:59:46.165 --> 00:59:49.210
Well, for heaven's sakes!
Come on in, have a chair.

00:59:49.294 --> 00:59:52.088
I mean it. It's no good to me, anyway.
Help yourself.

00:59:52.171 --> 00:59:53.339
Now, why should you do that?

00:59:53.423 --> 00:59:56.092
If you get 100,000 for it,
you buy me a box of chocolate creams.

00:59:56.175 --> 00:59:57.885
If you get an Oscar, I get the left foot.

00:59:57.969 --> 00:59:59.887
You know,
I'd take you up on that in a minute.

00:59:59.971 --> 01:00:02.265
I'm just not good enough
to do it all by myself.

01:00:02.390 --> 01:00:04.058
What about all those ideas you had?

01:00:04.142 --> 01:00:06.519
Well, see if they make sense.

01:00:06.603 --> 01:00:09.522
To begin with, I think you should throw
out all that psychological mess,

01:00:09.606 --> 01:00:13.401
- exploring a killer's sick mind.
- Psychopaths sell like hotcakes.

01:00:13.484 --> 01:00:16.946
This is a story about teachers,
their threadbare lives, their struggle!

01:00:17.030 --> 01:00:20.199
Now, I see her teaching day classes
while he teaches night school.

01:00:20.283 --> 01:00:22.201
Now, the first time they meet...

01:00:22.285 --> 01:00:24.662
Look, if you don't mind,
I haven't time to listen to the whole plot.

01:00:24.746 --> 01:00:27.123
- I'll make it short.
- I'm sorry. It's your baby now.

01:00:27.206 --> 01:00:30.084
Couldn't we work in the evenings?
6:00 in the morning?

01:00:30.168 --> 01:00:33.796
This next month I'm completely
at your disposal. Artie's out of town.

01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:37.008
- What's Artie got to do with it?
- We're engaged.

01:00:37.467 --> 01:00:41.179
Oh. Oh, well, good for you.
You couldn't find a nicer guy.

01:00:41.262 --> 01:00:45.516
That's what I think. They're on location
in Arizona, making a Western.

01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:47.644
I'm free every evening
and every weekend.

01:00:47.769 --> 01:00:50.980
We could work at your place,
if you want.

01:00:51.064 --> 01:00:53.274
Look, Betty, it can't be done. It's out!

01:00:53.358 --> 01:00:55.485
Now, stop being chicken-hearted
and write that story!

01:00:55.610 --> 01:00:58.613
- Honest to goodness, I hate you!
- And don't make it too dreary.

01:00:58.696 --> 01:00:59.989
How about this for a situation?

01:01:00.073 --> 01:01:02.116
She teaches daytimes,
he teaches at night. Right?

01:01:02.200 --> 01:01:03.493
- Right.
- They don't even know each other,

01:01:03.618 --> 01:01:05.745
but they share the same room.
It's cheaper that way.

01:01:05.828 --> 01:01:10.166
As a matter of fact, they sleep
in the same bed. In shifts, of course.

01:01:11.250 --> 01:01:14.087
Are you kidding?
Because I think it's good.

01:01:14.504 --> 01:01:15.838
- So do I.
- Well, come on back.

01:01:15.922 --> 01:01:18.508
- Let me show you where it fits in.
- So long.

01:01:18.633 --> 01:01:20.426
Oh, you...

01:01:26.557 --> 01:01:28.601
- What's the matter, Max?
- I just found out the reason

01:01:28.685 --> 01:01:31.270
for all those telephone calls
from Paramount.

01:01:31.813 --> 01:01:35.692
It's not Madame they want.
It's her car they want to rent.

01:01:35.900 --> 01:01:37.151
What?

01:01:46.577 --> 01:01:51.124
Get Gordon Cole.
Tell him to forget about her car.

01:01:51.207 --> 01:01:54.127
Tell him he can get
another old car someplace.

01:01:54.210 --> 01:01:57.046
I'll buy him five old cars, if necessary.

01:02:04.178 --> 01:02:05.430
After that,

01:02:05.555 --> 01:02:09.600
an army of beauty experts invaded
her house on Sunset Boulevard.

01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:12.186
She went through
a merciless series of treatments.

01:02:12.186 --> 01:02:16.023
Like an athlete training for the Olympic
Games, she counted every calorie.

01:02:16.149 --> 01:02:18.484
Went to bed every night at 9:00.

01:02:18.568 --> 01:02:21.738
She was absolutely determined
to be ready,

01:02:22.155 --> 01:02:25.074
ready for those cameras
that would never turn.

01:02:42.550 --> 01:02:45.052
- Joe, darling, are you there?
- Yes, Norma.

01:02:45.136 --> 01:02:48.264
Don't turn around!
Keep your eyes on the book.

01:02:50.683 --> 01:02:52.852
I just came to say good night.

01:02:53.728 --> 01:02:54.729
I don't want you to see me.

01:02:54.854 --> 01:02:57.774
- I'm not very attractive.
- Good night.

01:02:57.857 --> 01:02:59.859
You know, I've lost half a pound
since Tuesday.

01:02:59.942 --> 01:03:01.444
- Good!
- I was a little worried

01:03:01.527 --> 01:03:03.070
about the line of my throat.

01:03:03.154 --> 01:03:05.656
- This woman has done wonders with it.
- Good.

01:03:07.533 --> 01:03:11.329
- You'd better get to bed yourself.
- I think I'll read a little longer.

01:03:13.164 --> 01:03:16.125
You went out last night, didn't you, Joe?

01:03:16.209 --> 01:03:18.753
- Why do you say that?
- I just happen to know it.

01:03:18.878 --> 01:03:20.421
I had a nightmare
and I screamed for you.

01:03:20.546 --> 01:03:23.424
You weren't here. Where were you?

01:03:23.549 --> 01:03:26.803
- I went for a walk.
- No, you didn't. You took the car.

01:03:28.387 --> 01:03:30.932
All right, I drove to the beach.

01:03:31.015 --> 01:03:33.601
Norma, you don't want me to feel
that I'm locked up in this house?

01:03:33.726 --> 01:03:37.772
Of course not, Joe.
It's just that I don't want to be left alone.

01:03:37.897 --> 01:03:42.235
Not while I'm under this terrible strain.
My nerves are being torn to shreds.

01:03:42.318 --> 01:03:46.697
All I ask is for you to be a little patient
and a little kind.

01:03:48.491 --> 01:03:50.284
- Norma, I haven't done anything.
- Of course you haven't.

01:04:01.462 --> 01:04:05.258
Yes, I was playing hooky
every evening alone in there.

01:04:06.759 --> 01:04:08.469
It made me think of when I was 12

01:04:08.553 --> 01:04:12.348
and used to sneak out on the folks
to see a gangster picture.

01:04:12.765 --> 01:04:17.395
This time, it wasn't to see a picture.
It was to try and write one.

01:04:18.145 --> 01:04:20.189
That story of mine
Betty Schaefer had dug up

01:04:20.314 --> 01:04:23.943
kept going through my head
like a dozen locomotives.

01:04:24.694 --> 01:04:27.613
So, we started working on it,
the two of us,

01:04:27.738 --> 01:04:32.660
nights when the studio was deserted,
up in her little cubbyhole of an office.

01:04:49.343 --> 01:04:51.679
I got the funniest letter from Artie.

01:04:51.762 --> 01:04:54.724
It's rained every day since
they got to Arizona.

01:04:54.807 --> 01:04:58.519
They rewrote the whole picture for rain
and shot half of it.

01:04:59.353 --> 01:05:02.565
Now, the sun is out.
Nobody knows when they'll get back.

01:05:02.648 --> 01:05:04.233
- Good.
- What's good about it?

01:05:04.358 --> 01:05:06.736
I miss him something fierce.

01:05:06.819 --> 01:05:08.571
I mean this is good dialog
along in here.

01:05:08.654 --> 01:05:10.364
- It'll play.
- It will?

01:05:10.448 --> 01:05:14.410
Sure. Especially with lots of music
underneath, drowning it out.

01:05:14.869 --> 01:05:17.914
- Don't you sometimes hate yourself?
- Constantly.

01:05:19.415 --> 01:05:23.753
No, in all seriousness, this is really
good. It's fun writing with you.

01:05:24.962 --> 01:05:26.672
Oh, thanks.

01:05:40.394 --> 01:05:41.854
Who's Norma?

01:05:43.689 --> 01:05:45.191
Who's who?

01:05:45.274 --> 01:05:48.569
Oh, I'm sorry. I don't usually read
private cigarette cases.

01:05:48.653 --> 01:05:51.530
Oh, that. It's from a friend of mine,

01:05:52.990 --> 01:05:56.619
a middle-aged lady,
very foolish and very generous.

01:05:56.702 --> 01:05:58.955
I'll say. This is solid gold.

01:05:59.038 --> 01:06:01.540
I gave her some advice
on an idiotic script.

01:06:01.624 --> 01:06:03.709
Oh, the old, familiar story.

01:06:03.793 --> 01:06:06.379
You help a timid little soul
cross a crowded street.

01:06:06.462 --> 01:06:10.716
She turns out to be a multi-millionaire
and leaves you all her money.

01:06:11.133 --> 01:06:14.512
That's the trouble with you readers.
You know all the plots.

01:06:14.595 --> 01:06:17.848
Now, suppose you proofread
page 10 while the water boils.

01:06:17.932 --> 01:06:19.892
- Okay?
- Okay.

01:06:43.624 --> 01:06:46.669
Sometimes, when we got stuck,

01:06:46.752 --> 01:06:49.588
we'd make a little tour
of the drowsing lot,

01:06:49.922 --> 01:06:51.882
not talking much,

01:06:51.966 --> 01:06:55.594
just wandering down alleys
between the sound stages

01:06:55.678 --> 01:06:59.598
or through the sets they were getting
ready for the next day's shooting.

01:06:59.974 --> 01:07:01.726
As a matter of fact,

01:07:01.809 --> 01:07:05.521
it was on one of those walks
when she first told me about her nose.

01:07:05.646 --> 01:07:07.398
Look at this street.

01:07:07.481 --> 01:07:11.861
All cardboard, all hollow, all phony,
all done with mirrors.

01:07:12.319 --> 01:07:15.823
You know, I like it better
than any street in the world.

01:07:16.490 --> 01:07:19.702
Maybe because I used to play here
when I was a kid.

01:07:20.661 --> 01:07:22.955
What were you, a child actress?

01:07:23.372 --> 01:07:27.835
No, I was born just two blocks from this
studio. Right on Lemon Grove Avenue.

01:07:27.918 --> 01:07:30.337
My father was head electrician here
till he died.

01:07:30.421 --> 01:07:33.424
- Mother still works in Wardrobe.
- Second generation, huh?

01:07:33.507 --> 01:07:36.218
Third. Grandma did stunt work
for Pearl White.

01:07:36.343 --> 01:07:37.928
I come from a picture family.

01:07:38.262 --> 01:07:40.765
Naturally, they expected me
to become a great star.

01:07:40.848 --> 01:07:45.061
So I had 10 years of dramatic lessons,
diction, dancing.

01:07:45.144 --> 01:07:49.023
Then the studio made a test.
Well, they didn't like my nose.

01:07:49.356 --> 01:07:52.902
It slanted this way a little.
So, I went to a doctor and had it fixed.

01:07:52.985 --> 01:07:55.654
They made more tests
and they were crazy about my nose,

01:07:55.738 --> 01:07:58.574
only they didn't like my acting.

01:08:01.243 --> 01:08:02.661
- Nice job.
- It should be.

01:08:02.745 --> 01:08:05.081
It cost me $300.

01:08:05.539 --> 01:08:07.917
- That's the saddest thing I ever heard.
- Oh, not at all.

01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:10.377
It taught me a little sense.
I got a job in the mailroom,

01:08:10.461 --> 01:08:12.671
worked up to the Stenographic.
Now I'm a reader.

01:08:12.755 --> 01:08:13.756
Come clean, Betty.

01:08:13.839 --> 01:08:17.009
At night you weep for those lost
close-ups, those gala openings.

01:08:17.551 --> 01:08:19.261
The first time you see me
coming any closer,

01:08:19.345 --> 01:08:23.265
I want you to take off a shoe
and clunk me on the head with it.

01:08:24.183 --> 01:08:28.104
Now back to the typewriters,
by way of Washington Square.

01:09:14.608 --> 01:09:16.986
What is it, Max?

01:09:17.069 --> 01:09:19.446
Want to wash the car,

01:09:19.530 --> 01:09:22.658
or are you doing a little spying
in your off hours?

01:09:22.783 --> 01:09:26.078
You must be very careful
as you cross the patio.

01:09:26.162 --> 01:09:27.663
Madame may be watching.

01:09:27.788 --> 01:09:29.999
How about going up the kitchen stairs
and undressing in the dark?

01:09:30.082 --> 01:09:32.001
Will that do it?

01:09:32.084 --> 01:09:35.171
I am not inquiring where Mr. Gillis goes
every night.

01:09:35.254 --> 01:09:38.257
Why don't you? I'm writing a script.

01:09:38.632 --> 01:09:41.010
And I'm going to finish it,
no matter what.

01:09:41.093 --> 01:09:44.305
It is just that I am greatly worried
about Madame.

01:09:45.639 --> 01:09:47.099
Sure you are.

01:09:47.641 --> 01:09:51.729
And we're not helping her any,
feeding her lies and more lies.

01:09:52.104 --> 01:09:56.108
Getting herself ready for a picture.
What happens when she finds out?

01:09:56.442 --> 01:10:00.279
She never will. That is my job,

01:10:00.654 --> 01:10:03.699
and it has been for a long time.

01:10:03.824 --> 01:10:08.037
You must understand,
I discovered her when she was 16.

01:10:08.454 --> 01:10:13.250
I made her a star,
and I cannot let her be destroyed.

01:10:14.168 --> 01:10:19.298
- You made her a star.
- Yes, I directed all her early films.

01:10:20.382 --> 01:10:24.553
There were three young directors
who showed promise in those days.

01:10:24.762 --> 01:10:30.351
D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille
and Max von Mayerling.

01:10:32.269 --> 01:10:34.521
And she's turned you into a servant.

01:10:34.605 --> 01:10:38.984
It was I who asked to come back,
humiliating as it may seem.

01:10:39.068 --> 01:10:41.946
I could have continued my career,

01:10:42.029 --> 01:10:46.825
only I found everything unendurable
after she had left me.

01:10:47.326 --> 01:10:48.619
You see,

01:10:50.037 --> 01:10:52.164
I was her first husband.

01:11:23.487 --> 01:11:25.239
What's the matter?

01:11:28.117 --> 01:11:31.537
Betty, wake up!
Why are you staring at me like that?

01:11:33.414 --> 01:11:35.249
Oh, was I? I'm sorry.

01:11:36.625 --> 01:11:40.129
What's wrong with you tonight?
What is it?

01:11:41.005 --> 01:11:43.716
Oh, something came up.
I don't want to talk about it.

01:11:43.799 --> 01:11:45.175
Why not?

01:11:52.599 --> 01:11:54.101
I just don't.

01:12:02.609 --> 01:12:04.320
What've you heard?

01:12:05.070 --> 01:12:08.574
Come on, let's have it. Is it about me?

01:12:22.838 --> 01:12:27.134
Betty, there's no use running out on it.
Let's face it, whatever it is.

01:12:28.177 --> 01:12:33.807
- I got a telegram from Artie.
- From Artie? What's wrong?

01:12:34.683 --> 01:12:37.186
He wants me to come on to Arizona.

01:12:37.853 --> 01:12:41.398
He says it only costs $2
to get married there.

01:12:42.733 --> 01:12:45.277
It would kind of save us a honeymoon.

01:12:45.736 --> 01:12:49.365
Well, why don't you?
We can finish the script by Thursday.

01:12:51.658 --> 01:12:54.995
Stop crying, will you? You're getting
married. That's what you wanted.

01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:56.830
I don't want it now.

01:12:58.374 --> 01:13:02.920
- Why not? Don't you love Artie?
- Of course I love him. I always will.

01:13:05.339 --> 01:13:09.009
I'm not in love with him anymore,
that's all.

01:13:10.594 --> 01:13:14.640
- What happened?
- You did.

01:13:19.895 --> 01:13:23.023
It wasn't until I got back to that
peculiar prison of mine

01:13:23.107 --> 01:13:25.484
that I started facing the facts.

01:13:27.569 --> 01:13:32.324
There it was, Betty Schaefer's future
right in the palm of my hand.

01:13:33.450 --> 01:13:37.746
Betty Schaefer engaged to Artie Green,
as nice a guy as ever lived.

01:13:38.872 --> 01:13:42.334
And she was in love with me. Me!

01:13:55.264 --> 01:13:59.601
She was a fool not to sense that there
was something phony in my setup.

01:13:59.685 --> 01:14:02.771
And I was a heel not to have told her.

01:14:02.855 --> 01:14:07.234
But you just can't say those things
to somebody you're crazy about.

01:14:08.193 --> 01:14:11.655
Maybe I'd never have to.
Maybe I could get away with it,

01:14:11.738 --> 01:14:13.365
get away from Norma.

01:14:13.449 --> 01:14:17.244
Maybe I could wipe the whole
nasty mess right out of my life.

01:14:26.128 --> 01:14:29.840
Hello. Is this Gladstone 9281?

01:14:29.923 --> 01:14:34.094
May I speak to Miss Betty Schaefer?
She must be home by now.

01:14:34.636 --> 01:14:38.932
Hey, Betty! Here's that weird-sounding
woman again.

01:14:40.100 --> 01:14:42.436
Well, what is this, anyway?

01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:45.606
This is Betty Schaefer.

01:14:45.689 --> 01:14:49.818
You must forgive me for calling you
so late, but I really feel it's my duty.

01:14:50.152 --> 01:14:53.614
It's about Mr. Gillis.
You do know Mr. Gillis?

01:14:55.240 --> 01:14:58.285
Exactly how much
do you know about him?

01:14:59.369 --> 01:15:01.538
Do you know where he lives?

01:15:02.122 --> 01:15:05.626
Do you know how he lives?
Do you know what he lives on?

01:15:06.793 --> 01:15:10.964
Who are you? What do you want?
What business is it of yours, anyway?

01:15:11.173 --> 01:15:14.885
Miss Schaefer,
I'm trying to do you a favor.

01:15:15.385 --> 01:15:19.056
I'm trying to spare you
a great deal of misery.

01:15:19.139 --> 01:15:23.644
Of course you may be too young to even
suspect there are men of his sort.

01:15:24.144 --> 01:15:27.940
I don't know what he's told you,
but he does not live with relatives,

01:15:28.190 --> 01:15:31.652
nor with friends
in the usual sense of the word.

01:15:31.652 --> 01:15:31.777
nor with friends
in the usual sense of the word.

01:15:32.736 --> 01:15:35.781
Well, ask him. Ask him again.

01:15:40.911 --> 01:15:44.164
That's right, Betty, ask me again.
This is Joe.

01:15:44.790 --> 01:15:48.835
Joe? Where are you?
What is this all about?

01:15:50.921 --> 01:15:54.591
Or better yet, why don't you come out
and see for yourself?

01:15:54.716 --> 01:15:59.096
The address is
10,086 Sunset Boulevard.

01:16:14.152 --> 01:16:18.031
Don't hate me, Joe!
I did it because I need you.

01:16:18.115 --> 01:16:20.993
I need you
as I've never needed you before.

01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:31.086
Don't just stand there hating me!
Shout at me!

01:16:31.169 --> 01:16:36.967
Strike me! But don't hate me.
Say you don't hate me, Joe!

01:16:50.230 --> 01:16:54.192
Here's 10,079, Connie.
It must be over there.

01:17:04.077 --> 01:17:06.747
Betty, let me come along with you.
Please!

01:17:06.830 --> 01:17:08.749
No, I'll be all right.

01:17:21.803 --> 01:17:24.514
It's all right, Max. I'll take it.

01:17:24.890 --> 01:17:27.768
- Hello, Betty.
- I don't know why I'm so scared, Joe.

01:17:27.851 --> 01:17:30.228
- Is it something awful?
- Come on in.

01:17:36.902 --> 01:17:40.197
Ever been in one of these
old Hollywood palazzos?

01:17:40.280 --> 01:17:44.076
That's from when they were making
18,000 a week and no taxes.

01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:48.497
Careful of these tiles, they're slippery.
Valentino used to dance here.

01:17:48.789 --> 01:17:51.041
- This is where you live?
- You bet.

01:17:52.668 --> 01:17:54.711
- Whose house is it?
- Hers.

01:17:56.046 --> 01:17:57.547
- Whose?
- Just look around.

01:17:57.631 --> 01:17:59.299
There's a lot of her spread about.

01:17:59.383 --> 01:18:02.177
If you don't remember the face,
you must have heard the name.

01:18:02.260 --> 01:18:03.887
Norma Desmond.

01:18:05.180 --> 01:18:06.598
That was Norma Desmond
on the phone?

01:18:06.682 --> 01:18:09.101
Would you like something to drink?
There's always champagne on ice,

01:18:09.184 --> 01:18:11.937
- plenty of caviar.
- Why did she call me?

01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:13.814
Jealous.

01:18:15.107 --> 01:18:16.692
Did you ever see so much junk?

01:18:16.817 --> 01:18:19.403
She had the ceiling
brought from Portugal.

01:18:19.486 --> 01:18:21.279
And look at this.

01:18:23.949 --> 01:18:25.909
Her own movie theater.

01:18:26.326 --> 01:18:30.080
I didn't come here to see a house!
What about Norma Desmond?

01:18:31.707 --> 01:18:35.961
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
This is an enormous place.

01:18:36.670 --> 01:18:41.007
Eight master bedrooms.
A sunken tub in every bathroom.

01:18:41.508 --> 01:18:44.177
There's a bowling alley in the cellar.

01:18:46.722 --> 01:18:49.891
It's lonely here,
so she got herself a companion.

01:18:51.268 --> 01:18:55.230
A very simple setup.
An older woman who is well-to-do.

01:18:57.190 --> 01:19:00.944
A younger man
who's not doing too well.

01:19:01.027 --> 01:19:03.655
- Can you figure it out yourself?
- No.

01:19:04.197 --> 01:19:09.327
- All right. I'll give you a few more clues.
- No! I haven't heard any of this.

01:19:10.120 --> 01:19:14.458
I never got those telephone calls
and I've never been in this house!

01:19:14.541 --> 01:19:17.836
Now, get your things together
and let's get out of here.

01:19:18.795 --> 01:19:23.341
All my things? All my 18 suits,
all my custom-made shoes

01:19:23.467 --> 01:19:25.218
and the six dozen shirts
and the cuff links

01:19:25.302 --> 01:19:28.680
and the platinum key chains
and the cigarette cases?

01:19:29.431 --> 01:19:30.891
Come on, Joe.

01:19:32.058 --> 01:19:36.062
Come on where? Back to a one-room
apartment I can't pay for?

01:19:36.563 --> 01:19:39.733
Back to a story that may sell
and very possibly will not?

01:19:39.816 --> 01:19:41.693
If you love me, Joe.

01:19:42.736 --> 01:19:46.198
Look, sweetie, be practical.
I've got a good deal here.

01:19:46.364 --> 01:19:50.035
A long-term contract with no options.
I like it that way.

01:19:51.578 --> 01:19:55.165
Maybe it's not very admirable.

01:19:56.249 --> 01:19:59.628
Well, you and Artie can be admirable.

01:20:02.798 --> 01:20:05.509
I can't look at you anymore, Joe.

01:20:09.387 --> 01:20:13.225
How about looking for the exit?
This way, Betty.

01:20:29.157 --> 01:20:33.870
Good luck to you, Betty. You can finish
that script on the way to Arizona.

01:20:36.081 --> 01:20:37.332
When you and Artie get back,

01:20:37.415 --> 01:20:40.627
if the two of you
ever feel like taking a swim,

01:20:41.795 --> 01:20:43.338
here's the pool.

01:21:25.672 --> 01:21:29.092
May I come in, Joe? I've stopped crying.

01:21:29.467 --> 01:21:33.179
I'm all right again.
Joe, tell me you're not cross.

01:21:33.388 --> 01:21:36.266
Tell me everything is just as it was, Joe.

01:21:38.935 --> 01:21:40.979
What are you doing, Joe?

01:21:46.943 --> 01:21:49.487
- What are you doing?
- I'm packing.

01:21:52.991 --> 01:21:55.619
- You're leaving me!
- Yes, I am, Norma.

01:21:56.703 --> 01:21:59.414
No, you're not! Max! Max!

01:22:00.540 --> 01:22:02.918
Thanks for letting me
wear the handsome wardrobe.

01:22:03.001 --> 01:22:06.046
And thanks for the use
of all the trinkets.

01:22:08.715 --> 01:22:10.091
The rest of the jewelry
is in the top drawer.

01:22:10.175 --> 01:22:13.094
- It's yours, Joe. I gave it to you.
- And I'd take it in a second,

01:22:13.178 --> 01:22:16.890
only it's a little too dressy for sitting
behind a copy desk in Dayton, Ohio.

01:22:16.973 --> 01:22:19.309
These are nothing!
You can have anything you want.

01:22:19.392 --> 01:22:23.396
What is it you want? Money?

01:22:24.564 --> 01:22:28.818
Norma, you'd be throwing it away.
I don't qualify for the job, not anymore.

01:22:28.902 --> 01:22:34.032
You can't go! Max! Max!
I can't face life without you.

01:22:36.576 --> 01:22:38.870
And you know I'm not afraid to die!

01:22:38.954 --> 01:22:40.705
That's between you and yourself.

01:22:40.789 --> 01:22:44.626
You think I made that up about the gun,
don't you? All right.

01:22:53.760 --> 01:22:56.513
See, you didn't believe me!

01:22:56.596 --> 01:22:58.306
Now, I suppose
you don't think I have the courage!

01:22:58.390 --> 01:23:00.141
Oh, sure,
if it would make a good scene.

01:23:00.225 --> 01:23:01.351
You don't care, do you?

01:23:01.434 --> 01:23:03.478
Well, hundreds of thousands
of people will care.

01:23:03.603 --> 01:23:06.189
Oh, wake up, Norma. You'd be killing
yourself to an empty house.

01:23:06.272 --> 01:23:07.983
The audience left 20 years ago.
Now, face it!

01:23:08.066 --> 01:23:11.152
- That's a lie! They still want me.
- No, they don't!

01:23:11.987 --> 01:23:13.405
What about the studio?
What about DeMille?

01:23:13.488 --> 01:23:17.742
He was trying to spare your feelings.
The studio only wanted to rent your car.

01:23:17.867 --> 01:23:20.453
- Wanted what?
- DeMille didn't have the heart to tell you.

01:23:20.537 --> 01:23:22.330
None of us has had the heart.

01:23:22.414 --> 01:23:26.376
That's a lie! They want me.
I get letters every day.

01:23:28.169 --> 01:23:31.423
You tell her, Max.
Come on, do her that favor!

01:23:31.506 --> 01:23:33.258
Tell her
there isn't going to be any picture!

01:23:33.341 --> 01:23:36.136
There aren't any fan letters
except the ones you write!

01:23:36.219 --> 01:23:39.639
That isn't true! Max!

01:23:39.723 --> 01:23:42.475
Madame is the greatest star of them all.

01:23:43.685 --> 01:23:46.771
I will take Mr. Gillis' bags to the car.

01:23:53.069 --> 01:23:56.448
You heard him. I'm a star!

01:23:57.449 --> 01:24:00.326
Norma, you're a woman of 50.
Now, grow up!

01:24:00.410 --> 01:24:05.123
There's nothing tragic about being 50,
not unless you try to be 25.

01:24:05.206 --> 01:24:07.625
I'm the greatest star of them all.

01:24:14.007 --> 01:24:15.592
Goodbye, Norma.

01:24:18.011 --> 01:24:22.348
No one ever leaves a star.
That's what makes one a star.

01:24:25.018 --> 01:24:33.568
Joe!

01:25:07.644 --> 01:25:11.231
Stars are ageless, aren't they?

01:25:18.822 --> 01:25:23.827
Well, this is where you came in.
Back at that pool again,

01:25:24.828 --> 01:25:27.455
the one I always wanted.

01:25:27.539 --> 01:25:31.417
It's dawn now, and they must have
photographed me a thousand times.

01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.922
Then they got a couple of pruning hooks
from the garden and fished me out,

01:25:36.005 --> 01:25:37.590
ever so gently.

01:25:38.508 --> 01:25:41.886
Funny how gentle people get with you
once you're dead.

01:25:43.638 --> 01:25:46.850
They beached me
like a harpooned baby whale

01:25:46.933 --> 01:25:50.937
and started to check the damage,
just for the record.

01:25:53.481 --> 01:25:55.817
By this time,
the whole joint was jumping.

01:25:55.900 --> 01:25:58.653
Cops, reporters, neighbors, passersby,

01:25:58.945 --> 01:26:00.947
as much whoop-de-doo
as we get in Los Angeles

01:26:01.030 --> 01:26:02.866
when they open a supermarket.

01:26:02.949 --> 01:26:05.702
Even the newsreel guys came
roaring in.

01:26:05.785 --> 01:26:09.080
Here was an item
everybody could have some fun with.

01:26:10.248 --> 01:26:12.292
The heartless so-and-sos!

01:26:13.793 --> 01:26:15.879
What would they do to Norma?

01:26:15.962 --> 01:26:20.800
Even if she got away with it in court,
crime of passion, temporary insanity,

01:26:21.676 --> 01:26:24.429
those headlines would kill her.

01:26:24.512 --> 01:26:27.473
"Forgotten Star a Slayer."

01:26:27.557 --> 01:26:31.686
"Aging Actress,
Yesterday's Glamour Queen."

01:26:42.697 --> 01:26:46.951
Coroner's office?
I want to speak to the Coroner.

01:26:48.077 --> 01:26:50.455
- Who's on this phone?
- I am!

01:26:50.538 --> 01:26:53.291
Now get off! This is more important.

01:26:53.374 --> 01:26:55.501
Times City Desk?
Hedda Hopper speaking.

01:26:55.585 --> 01:26:57.962
I'm talking from the bedroom
of Norma Desmond.

01:26:58.046 --> 01:27:01.925
Don't bother with a re-write, man.
Take it direct. Ready?

01:27:02.008 --> 01:27:03.927
"As day breaks over the murder house,

01:27:04.010 --> 01:27:06.387
"Norma Desmond,
famous star of yesteryear,

01:27:06.471 --> 01:27:09.432
"is in a state of complete mental shock.

01:27:09.557 --> 01:27:11.100
"A curtain of silence seems
to have fallen around her..."

01:27:11.184 --> 01:27:12.727
You don't deny having killed this man,
Miss Desmond?

01:27:12.810 --> 01:27:14.062
"...she sits in the silken boudoir
of her house..."

01:27:14.145 --> 01:27:15.355
Just answer me that!

01:27:15.438 --> 01:27:17.273
Was it a sudden quarrel?

01:27:17.398 --> 01:27:20.276
Had you ever had any trouble
between you before?

01:27:20.401 --> 01:27:23.529
If it was a quarrel,
how come this gun was right there?

01:27:23.613 --> 01:27:26.866
This guy, where did you meet him
for the first time?

01:27:26.950 --> 01:27:28.785
Where did he come from? Who is he?

01:27:28.868 --> 01:27:32.956
Did you hate him? Had you ever thought
of doing something like this before?

01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:36.125
Was theft involved? Did you catch him
trying to steal something?

01:27:36.209 --> 01:27:38.002
Or find he had stolen something?

01:27:38.086 --> 01:27:39.837
The newsreel men are here
with the cameras.

01:27:39.921 --> 01:27:43.925
Tell them to go fly a kite!
This is no time for cameras.

01:27:44.008 --> 01:27:47.553
Now, Miss Desmond, is there anything
you want to tell us?

01:27:49.180 --> 01:27:50.473
Cameras?

01:27:53.309 --> 01:27:54.978
What is it, Max?

01:27:59.440 --> 01:28:02.193
- The cameras have arrived.
- They have?

01:28:03.278 --> 01:28:06.197
Tell Mr. DeMille
I'll be on the set at once.

01:28:06.614 --> 01:28:08.157
What is this?

01:28:12.620 --> 01:28:15.498
Well, it's one way to get her downstairs.

01:28:16.833 --> 01:28:21.587
Let's have the car right outside. Okay.

01:28:23.339 --> 01:28:26.676
- Everything will be ready, Madame.
- Thank you, Max.

01:28:27.635 --> 01:28:31.514
You'll pardon me, gentlemen,
but I must get ready for my scene.

01:28:33.474 --> 01:28:34.892
- What's happening up there?
- Any statement?

01:28:34.976 --> 01:28:37.812
- Why did she do it?
- Is there a confession?

01:28:38.396 --> 01:28:41.274
- Everything set up, gentlemen?
- Just about.

01:28:41.399 --> 01:28:43.609
- Lights ready?
- All set.

01:28:49.490 --> 01:28:50.491
Okay, fellas.

01:28:55.204 --> 01:28:57.290
Quiet, everybody!

01:29:00.043 --> 01:29:01.294
Lights!

01:29:06.049 --> 01:29:08.217
Are you ready, Norma?

01:29:10.053 --> 01:29:14.015
What is the scene? Where am I?

01:29:17.143 --> 01:29:20.563
This is the staircase of the palace!

01:29:22.065 --> 01:29:24.859
Oh, yes, yes...

01:29:25.693 --> 01:29:28.654
Down below, they're waiting
for the princess.

01:29:31.532 --> 01:29:33.076
I'm ready.

01:29:33.910 --> 01:29:37.705
All right. Cameras! Action!

01:29:41.167 --> 01:29:44.879
So they were turning after all,
those cameras.

01:29:46.714 --> 01:29:51.928
Life, which can be strangely merciful,
had taken pity on Norma Desmond.

01:29:53.471 --> 01:29:58.726
The dream she had clung to
so desperately had enfolded her.

01:30:27.296 --> 01:30:30.425
I can't go on with the scene.
I'm too happy!

01:30:31.968 --> 01:30:35.805
Mr. DeMille, would you mind
if I say a few words? Thank you.

01:30:36.806 --> 01:30:39.642
I just want to tell you all how happy
I am to be back in the studio,

01:30:39.725 --> 01:30:42.019
making a picture again!

01:30:42.145 --> 01:30:45.481
You don't know
how much I've missed all of you.

01:30:45.565 --> 01:30:48.234
And I promise you,
I'll never desert you again!

01:30:48.317 --> 01:30:52.655
Because after Salome, we'll make
another picture and another picture!

01:30:52.989 --> 01:30:56.659
You see, this is my life!
It always will be!

01:30:57.326 --> 01:31:01.956
There's nothing else.
Just us and the cameras

01:31:03.082 --> 01:31:07.753
and those wonderful people
out there in the dark.

01:31:09.213 --> 01:31:12.425
All right, Mr. DeMille,
I'm ready for my close-up.