Original subtitles

To hopeful hundreds there is a golden spot on the map called... HOLLYWOOD

Colonel Pepper had motored all the way from

Georgia to prove that his daughter, Peggy, was a great actress

It must be Hollywood

I like this place, Peggy... if it ain't Georgia

That's John Gilbert!

I'm General Marmaduke Oldfish Pepper, of Georgia

You ain't gonna blame me for that, are you?

I'd like to see the president of your company

What about, General?

I'm going to let him put my daughter in the movies

Casting office... Mr. Oldfish

I want to introduce my daughter, Miss Peggy Pepper

Have you any photographs?

Got one a little more recent?

The idea is, can you act?

She will now present the various moods. The first will be meditation

Passion

Anger

Sorrow

Joy

Very funny. Fill out this card

There is many a slip between the casting office card and a menu card...

Especially when one's capital has dwindled to forty cents

I'm Colonel Pepper of Georgia, Miss At first I thought you were Gloria Swanson

You big beezark! I gotta notion to knock yer block off!

What an uncouth saint he is!

Billy Boone... a custard pie artist from the slapstick "lots"

Note: Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity. a custard pie, or a flat container of foam, used for throwing in someone's face in slapstick comedy.

As a southern colonel your make-up is very Indiana

Father, who is this coarse person?

One has to come to Hollywood to meet such common people

Aw, boloney... and you're slicing it too thick!

Say, are you punks trying to crash into the movies?

My daughter, suh, is considering a few offers

My acting is the talk of Savannah

Savannah: She is blond or brunet, tall, humor athletic, smart with some dumb moments

My acting is the scandal of Hollywood

Crashing the movies is no cinch... but I think I can help you

What'll you have for dessert?

They've got the swellest cocoanut cake today

Isn't he wonderful!

The comet studio, where serious comedians went through

The daily grind of "getting laughs"

Where's the dame you were going to bring out?

She'll be here, all right... you couldn't keep her away

Gee, Dad... won't they be thrilled back home

When they see me as a great dramatic actress?

Stage 4, Lot 5... turn to your right as you enter the left wing and keep going

Are you Mr. Comet?

If you don't say yes I'll kill myself

I'm Miss Pepper, the new actress

Remember, Baby... you're not painting a bungalow

You gotta fall harder... and funnier

Can she act?

Go on, Baby... show him what they're talking about in Savannah

Ah, my brave toreador! In all Spain none is more skillful with the bull

You have reduced me to beggary, kidnapped my husband, and murdered

my aged mother... but beware! Don't go too far!

That's darn good hokum

I shall always give my public the best that's in me

When I call just come in and show mild surprise, like this...

Remember, the one law of pictures is, don't anticipate!

Now we'll rehearse it

Is that all I do?

Until the jolt. Then just take it natural... don't anticipate!

Don't get camera-shy, Baby, and you're a cinch

I didn't think they made 'em that green!

Baby, you did that like a real trouper

I came here to do drama. Why didn't you tell me it was this?

But, Baby, all the stars have had to take it on the chin...

Swanson, Daniels, Lloyd... all of them

Come on, Baby... you're gone this far... it'll be easy from now on

She did that so nifty we'll take it again... in a close up

Success in this game means work. show 'em that you've got the stuff

Just think of that first big thrill you'll get When you see yourself in a theatre

I've backed you to win, Baby... show 'em I'm right

You're great on water stuff... I'm gonna get you in a lot of it

Go ahead. I'll take it on the chin

The preview... that trying ordeal when a new picture is tried out before Mr. and Mrs. Audience

Don't anticipate!

What's the matter, Baby? Don't you know you're a wow?

That girl's got real personability. I'll have Billy Boone bring her over tomorrow

I can't keep it from you any longer... I'm the director

Come on. Let's get out front and hear what they have to say

John Gilbert in King Vidor's Production Bardelys the Magnificent

What do you want to see a punk drama for? Come on

That's the kind of acting I'm gonna do some day. That's real art!

Don't be sil. Make 'em laugh and you make 'em happy

I tell you, Mr. Chaplin... that girl is a find

Will you please sign my album?

I'm crazy about signatures

Who is that little guy?

Charlie Chaplin

That guy is casting director for High Arts Studio

Bring me a nice big piece of custard pie

Why, I'd be afraid I'd throw it at someone

The thrill that seldom comes... a call to the High Arts Studio

Lew Cody and Elinor Glyn

She writes a lot of those IT stories

Note: "It" refers to the concept that was popularized by Eleanor Glynn and a movie with the same name was made from it. It (1927)

I like Mr. Cody... he has such an open face

Maybe Mr. Morton will only see you... and not me

I won't sign up unless he takes you, too

You want Miss Pepper also, don't you?

I want Miss Pepper only

I won't sign up unless he takes you, too, Billy

Oh, that's all right. I can take it on the chin

Nothing for you now, Billy. Maybe next year

A contract from the "big studio" and the thought of leaving her old friends

brought to Peggy mingled emotions of gladness and sadness

Goodbye, Jim...

I'll always think kindly of you for giving me a chance

I hate to see you go, Peggy... but I knew I'd make something of you

I'm all through, Billy

You mean you're just beginning

It's going to be hard... working without you, Billy

But we'll see a lot of each other, won't we?

Yes, but it won't be the same

It's all in the game, Baby

I guess it's the crossroads... your path leads one way and mine another

Then I won't go!

You're going to be a big success, Baby...

And I'm going to watch every step of your career

At the High Arts Studio preliminary tests

Were being made for Peggy's first drama

That's Marion Davies

Mr. Telfair, I want you to meet Miss Pepper, your new leading lady

I understand you're quite popular also

You're at the Countess DeFray's reception

You look over there and see the man you hate...

Then you look over there and see the man you love

The man you love

The man you hate

It is six months later you have just received a letter that your lover is dying

I know there's nothing written on it, but read it anyway

Your lover is dying... suffer

Give me tears

Tears... please!

Would you please ask them to play "Hearts and Flowers"?

Louder... and sadder!

Tears... tears... please, Miss Pepper, If you have any respect for me, give me tears!

That's no way to let a lover die!

Imagine your poor old father starving to death

You don't know my father

Can't you do something to bring tears?

Imagine forty thousand starving Armenians...

Now that we've got her going... no film in the camera

Imagine you're very much in love with someone...

you're at the crossroads of your lives...

Just once more... a big yelp!

That's what I call good commercial crying

Stop crying!

Stop it, I say... we've got a big laughing scene to do!

Everybody go to lunch

Now that you have graduated from cheap comedy, you must forget it...

You must acquire a new personality... a superior manner... new friends...

I will be glad to introduce you to the elite of Hollywood...

Confidentially, I am Andre d'Bergerac, le Comte d'Avignon...

And so plain Peggy Pepper acquired the manner of the "elite"...

And became known as Patricia Pepoire...

My paper is SO anxious to have a true story of your past...

When I first came on a movie lot I thought a pie was...

Miss Pepoire is fatigued. With her permission I will speak for her

First, allow me to inform you that Miss Pepoire is a direct descendant of General Robert E. Lee

This is going to make a splendid story

Being a lady of quality, she chose the cinema as a medium of self-expression

She has the temperament of Nazimova, the appeal of Garbo,

The sweetness of Pickford, and the lure of Pola Negri!

Hold it! Hold it! Don't move!

My being in the picture will help get it in the big magazines

While Billy struggled on in the same old way

INTIMATE VISITS with Patricia Pepoire

Patricia With Her New Rolls and with her famous Wolf Hounds

Let's have Peggy come over and have chow with us...

Peggy's too busy these days... I seldom get a chance to see her

I'll bet if I ask her she'll come

Miss Pepoire won't be able to see you tonight She has important business to 'tend to

We haven't seen each other for so long...

I was wondering if you'd come over and have dinner... like we used to?

I'm sorry, but I have another engagement

You're not going out with your leading man, are you?

It's all part of my work... won't you please try to understand?

Sure I understand. I'll see you some other time, eh?

No one realized Patricia Pepoire's importance more than Peggy Pepper

I'm terribly, terribly sorry if I kept you waiting

Waiting is such sweet sorrow where you are concerned, dear lady

Today we're going to do the kidnapping and rescue stuff

Is it necessary that it be done so roughly?

...one thrust of his sword, and he takes you in his arms

Ten thousand dollars or your life!

Another troupe on "location"

Now we'll take it once more

Better beat it... Miss Pepoire's nerves ain't right today

Miss Pepoire, will you please freshen your make-up?

...we're still making 'em, but the old troupe sure misses you

Baby... it's a kick to see you doing so good

Why, Peggy... surely success hasn't gone to the old bean!

Of course not! Don't be absurd

I knew you were only clowning. Same old Peggy... anything for a laugh

I wish you would please refrain from using slang

Oh, for crying out loud!

Patricia, they are ready for the next scene

Andre, this is Billy Boone... I used to know him in the old days

Why, Andy used to serve me spaghetti down at Tony's

Tony Award: The most important theater award given to the winner for excellence and competition in Broadway theater

How can you be so insulting!

Gee, Baby, I'll bet you miss the laughs we used to have!

I never miss lowness, cheapness and vulgarity

...but I suppose you'll always be the same... a cheap clown

Would that I had the right to protect you... always

Come on, Billy... forget the sob squad and jump off that rock

Studio lunch... at the stars' table

The boss wants you to come up to his office right away

I'm having my luncheon

She's eatin'

He says you'll have lots of time for lunch after he gets through talkin' to you

Pardon me, Doug... just another one of those boring conferences

Read these... Miss "Patricia Pepoire"

New Orleans: Cancel Patricia Pepoire features audience tried of her

Detroit: Cancel booking Patricia Pepoire in "The Love Hour"

Our audiences do not like her work lately

Philadelphia: Cancel Patricia Pepoire pictures not what she used to be

What's it to me if a few theatres don't know art

Sit down... Bernhardt!

Bernhardt: French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time

Peggy Pepper, when I first signed you, you were human... regular... full of ambition...

You're not on the level with the public that made you...

And from now on I want to see the real Peggy Pepper on the screen

I'll give you one last chance to change... and I want your answer now

If you'll pardon me, Mr. Morton, I shall finish my luncheon

These producers are so disturbing... to one's equilibrium

They don't appreciate what a great artist you are

You are so understanding!

Screen Romance: Wedding of Patricia Pepoire and Andre d'Bergerac, le Comte d'Avignon, to be solemnized today

The wedding promises to be one of the most outstanding social events of the season

And will be attended by many screen notables

Just think, Patricia, you'll be a real countess

It must be wonderful to be in love!

Sorry, but I can't admit you unless you have an invitation

I must see her right away

You tell her I've got to see her... and I don't mean maybe

Pardon my depravity... but that terrible comedian person is downstairs

You don't realize what you're doing

I do know what I'm doing, and I won't have you interfering in my affairs

You've ruined your career... just when you were becoming so successful

...and now you're going to marry a man you don't care a rap for...

just for a phoney title

I'm not pleading for myself... it's for your own happiness

Think a minute... remember the old days

I don't want to remember the old days

I'm going to bring you to your senses... now!

Don't worry... everything's quite all right

You were right! I'm all you said I was... just a clumsy fool!

Look at yourself! Look at me! We're only fakes... just clowns!

He was the only real person... and now I've lost him!

But, Patricia... our wedding?

There will be no wedding!

Don't talk to me!... Don't touch me!... You... you... pie-face!!!

Peggy's trip "down to earth" had brought a clearer view of things worth while

Peggy, I hope you were right in recommending this new leading man...

But can he really act?

He's marvelous, Mr. Vidor... and we work together so well

Don't tell him I'm in the picture. Just start the scene... I want to surprise him

Mr. Vidor, I want to thank you for giving me this chance

It's up to you, Billy... and don't let it enlarge your hatband

You boys have been separated from your outfit... And make for this village...

The camera's going... you can't quit now

Take them on the chin... it's all in the game

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