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Louise, take a memo. To Kay Brown:
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Gone over and carefully thought
about Gone with the Wind.
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It's a fine story
and I can understand your feelings about it.
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If I had under contract
the woman ideally suited for the role“.
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...l'd be more inclined to buy
than I am today.
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But to spend that kind of money
in the hopes of finding such a star.“
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...and in the further hope that
the book would have a tremendous sale...
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...is, I feel, unwarranted.
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And I'm not prepared
to make that kind of a gamble...
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...so I'm sorry to say, no,
in the face of your enthusiasm.
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But keep punching.
You're the best story editor I ever had.
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Love and kisses.
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- What's the matter?
- Did I say anything?
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The book is gonna be published
next month.
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Why don't we wait
until we see what the sales are like?
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That might be too late, of course.
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- What are you doing'?
- Thinking.
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What about?
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Memo to Kay Brown.
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I want you to know that I've thought
further about Gone with the Wind.
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And the more I think about it, the more
I think it will make a great color picture.
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Especially if you could sell
the very colorful male role to Gary Cooper.
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I Still think that it's high.
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Sixty-five thousand dollars
is an outrageous price.
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But...
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...if you can close for $50,000, do it.
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Even that is extending
ourselves considerably. . .
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._.in view of the fact that there is
no certainty we can cast it properly.
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For the girl, Scarlett might be someone
like Miriam Hopkins or Tallulah Bankhead,
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What would you think about Gary Cooper
for Gone with the Wind?
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Objectively, not personally.
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What woman could be objective
about Gary Cooper?
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What about Ronnie Colman?
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Oh, he takes forever
to make up his mind.
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Well, you're not all that pressed
for time yet.
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The book only came out last month.
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Well, as a matter of fact,
I've already talked to him.
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And he's interested.
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But, if I had my choice,
I think I'd take Gary Cooper.
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Oh. incidentally, Jack Warner called me.
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He's offered me Errol Flynn
and Bette Davis.
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But she refuses to do it with Flynn.
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Good for her.
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- The one who got away.
- Yeah.
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Tom, what am I beating
around the bush for?
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There's only one Rhett Butler,
and I know it.
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- And your father-in-law knows it too.
- Yeah.
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- What do you think?
-l'm a lawyer. What do you think?
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What do I think, huh?
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Well, son-in-law or no sun-in-law...
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...L.B. Mayer is not gonna loan me
Clark Gable.
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As Eve said to Adam,
“It never hurts to ask.“
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And as Adam said to Eve,
“You don't know my father-in-law.
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And I! hurts IO ask."
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I want him. L.B.
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I got him. David.
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Yeah. Don't make it hard for me, please.
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You know, I turned that book down.
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Yeah. I know. I think you made a mistake.
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Well, one mistake in a lifetime.
I can afford it.
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- How's Irene?
- Oh, fine, wonderful' Couldn't be better.
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She was having a little stomach trouble?
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No, that was months ago. She's fine.
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How about Gable?
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David...
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...there are problems.
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Well, give me a hint.
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Never in the history of MGM
have we ever loaned out Clark Gable.
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- What?
- L.B., that's not true'
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You loaned him out
for It Happened One Night.
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All right. I was hoping you forgot.
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Seemed like a good excuse.
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L.B., this is a serious matter.
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Serious for you, not for me.
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It could be serious for you.
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I mean, it's the future.
You've always looked to the future.
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That's why you're a legend
in the industry, LB.
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David, don't soft sell me.
Puts me off my lunch.
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Right this way, Mr. Selznick.
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This can't be a friendly meeting.
So who's telling what to who?
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Do either of you need a brilliant agent?
I'd be glad to be of service.
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- Say goodbye, Myron.
- How are you, L.B.?
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Fine, Myron, fine. How's yourself?
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Wondering what you
and my brother are cooking up here.
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- May we join you?
-say gwdbye, Myron.
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Thanks, anyway. Some other time.
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I'd introduce her,
but I didn't catch her name.
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Myron, you do so know my name.
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Sorry for the interruption, L.B.
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Oh, forget it,
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Brothers.
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I know all about it.
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The competition could kill you.
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A producer should never have an agent
for a brother.
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Bad for business.
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Think of it. I own Gable.
Myron is his agent.
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This could develop
into a family situation.
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Except business and personal,
David, don't mix.
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L.B., I'm not asking for Gable as a gift.
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I'm willing to make it worth your while.
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Give me a for instance.
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For instance...
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...how would you like to distribute
Gone with the Wind?
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That could be interesting,
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Except, you already have a distribution deal
with United Artists.
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I owe them one more picture.
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After that,
I will produce Gone with the Wind.
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You know, when my brother married
Mayer's daughter“.
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...!he joke around town was,
“The son-in-law also rises."
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I don't get it.
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Well, we can": have everything.
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Who do you want
for your little Scarface O'Hara?
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Scarface?
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L.B., Goldwyn couldn't have done better.
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Only with him, it wouldn't be a joke.
He'll get the credit for it, anyway'
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No, he won't.
I'll see to it that you do, L.B. You will.
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You'll give Sam the credit.
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It's better publicity.
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So who are you thinking fur Scarlett?
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I haven't made any decision.
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But before I do...
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4..l'm gonna launch the greatest
talent search in the history of our industry.
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I'm gonna scour our country
from border to border, from coast to coast.
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I'm gonna go into factories,
schools, farms, colleges'
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I know my Scarlett's out there somewhere.
And I'm gonna find her.
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David, who do you think I am,
Hedda Hopper'?
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It's a great publicity stunt. isn't it?
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Come on, tell me,
who were you really thinking?
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Well, my mind's wide open.
You know every star in town wants it.
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Chaplin's been on to me
about Paulette Goddard. you know.
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Tell me something.
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Are they really married,
or is Charlie just fooling around again?
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Who knows and who cares?
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But I'm not gonna leave
a stone unturned.
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Some stones
you should leave alone, David.
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You start turning them over,
you never know what's gonna crawl out.
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L.B.?
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I know. Gable.
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I'll be thinking,
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Close the door, David.
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Oh, Chaflie, I want it.
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I know you do, my sweet.
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Be patient.
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I want it so much.
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I'm doing my best.
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Oh. I never knew it could be like this.
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Like what?
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That I could have such a terrific shot...
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...at the greatest role there's ever been
for a woman.
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I mean, Selznick has to listen to you.
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Tell me exactly what he said.
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I told you, Paulette.
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Oh. I know. but tell me again.
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That he will never forge! you
in Modern Times.
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That you would be
a superb Scarlett O'Hara.
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Do you think I should believe him?
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In this life...
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...one believes
until one is given cause to stop believing.
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And then. one ceases to believe.
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I know you could get it for me, darling.
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Does he owe you anything?
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Selznick.
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The entire movie industry
owes a debt to Chaplin'
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Does he owe you any favors?
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No.
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Well, that doesn't matter,
because he just can't ignore you.
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Certainly not.
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As long as you keep after him about it.
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Charlie?
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Are you gonna be doing that
for much longer?
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Oh. Charlie, I really want it.
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Memo to Hedda Hopper.
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I want you to be the first to have this...
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...for your delight
and for that of your vast readership'
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Sam Goldwyn called me this morning
and asked-...
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“Who have you got for Scarface O'Hara?“
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Do you think Goldwyn ever said all those
funny things he was supposed to have said?
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Hedda continues on the subject.
You'll be interested to hear.
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“Seriously, folks. a little birdie tells me...
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...!hat the dynamic David has his heart set
on no one but Joan Crawford...
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...to take what will certainly be
the female role of the movie decade.
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And when David O. Selznick
sets his heart on something...
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...well, enough said.“
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-ls it true?
-lt's the first I heard of it.
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Oh. Richard, do you think it's true'?
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I saw David the other night at Ciro's.
He didn't say a word.
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I presume you'd like the part,
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I'd kill for it.
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Well, let's hope it won't came to that.
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It's good publicity though.
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Telephone, Miss Crawford.
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Yes?
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Darling.
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Well, of course, it's true.
Would Hedda lie?
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No, I couldn't tell you.
David swore me to secrecy.
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Oh, we only settled the deal
the other night at Cirds'
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No, I haven't finished it yet.
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Golly, it's a long book.
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What's the budget look like at this point?
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Well, it's only guesswork
until I get that first script.
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But I figure, about a million five.
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Oh, boy.
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Well, it's gonna be 14 reels, Tom.
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Two-and-a-half hours,
that is a long picture.
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Well, it's along book, Tom.
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A very long book.
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Xes'?
- Miss Crawford's on the line.
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Thank you.
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Tom, why don't we make
two movies out of it?
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And run them on consecutive nights?
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I don't know if your contract
would allow for that'
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But, Tom, you're my lawyer, find out.
Check it out.
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It's not a bad idea.
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Joan.
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How are you? As if I didn't know.
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David, is it true?
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Let me tell you...
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...!he only Scarlett O'Hara I know
is Joan Crawford.
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When can we talk?
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Well, I'm kind of busy.
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How about lunch tomorrow
or the next day'?
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Let me put you onto my girl.
I'm really up to my neck, dear.
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And what a lovely neck it is.
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Jeannie, dear.
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Hold on.
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- Yes, sir?
- Lunch with Miss Crawford.
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Next week sometime. Thank you.
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Where did Hopper get the Crawford item,
David?
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I can't imagine.
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Margaret Sullavan,
You think she would test for it?
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Yes?
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Mr. Chaplin's on the line.
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Charlie Chaplin.
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Charlie.
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How are you, Charlie?
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Just calm down, Charlie. Come on.
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You're not gonna believe
everything you read.
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You gotta be slipping.
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Please.
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Of course.
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Of course.
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Well, tell Paulette what I told you.
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Well, then. tell her again.
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The subject matter worries me.
The Civil War.
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You could get killed.
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In my opinion,
The Birth of a Nation told...
247
00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:41,382
"everything everybody ever wanted
to know about the Civil War'
248
00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:43,117
And that was too much.
249
00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:46,024
So Red the Rose.
Paramount took a terrific beating on that.
250
00:14:46,185 --> 00:14:48,028
And that was only last year.
251
00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:49,859
Civil War.
252
00:14:50,022 --> 00:14:52,024
You could get killed.
253
00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:54,970
What did you pay for this book?
254
00:14:55,128 --> 00:14:56,664
Fifty-thousand dollars.
255
00:14:56,863 --> 00:15:00,106
That's what I heard,
only I thought it was a joke.
256
00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,573
It's worth every penny of it, you know.
257
00:15:02,702 --> 00:15:03,772
L.B., about Gable--
258
00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:06,143
There never was a book that was written
worth 50,000.
259
00:15:06,305 --> 00:15:08,148
Do you know what I paid
for The Wizard of Oz?
260
00:15:08,307 --> 00:15:09,877
Peanuts.
261
00:15:10,143 --> 00:15:13,249
And it's gonna have music. Can'! miss.
262
00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:16,321
Only there's a song in here
that's gotta got I hate it.
263
00:15:16,516 --> 00:15:19,156
Something about "on the rainbow,“ Out.
264
00:15:19,318 --> 00:15:21,059
I like happy songs.
265
00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:22,790
But this picture can't miss.
266
00:15:22,955 --> 00:15:24,992
It's gonna make the little girl a star.
267
00:15:25,158 --> 00:15:27,331
Remember where you heard it.
268
00:15:28,227 --> 00:15:30,434
The Wizard of Oz, huh?
269
00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:34,976
And I think I've got casting problems?
270
00:15:35,134 --> 00:15:36,442
What's my problem?
271
00:15:36,602 --> 00:15:39,640
Where the hell are you gonna get
all those midgets, huh'?
272
00:15:50,183 --> 00:15:51,821
I haven't finished it yet.
273
00:15:51,984 --> 00:15:54,464
That damn book's longer
than Mutiny on the Bounty.
274
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:57,191
I never did finish that
before we started shooting.
275
00:15:57,356 --> 00:16:00,394
When are they gonna have a script?
Script I can read in a few days or a week'
276
00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,201
Not for a long while yet.
Clark. try to finish the book.
277
00:16:10,002 --> 00:16:12,209
With Cukor directing,
it's bound to be a woman's picture.
278
00:16:12,371 --> 00:16:15,215
- Not with you in it, bozo'
- I don't wanna be in it, Myron.
279
00:16:15,374 --> 00:16:16,546
Will you stop saying that'?
280
00:16:16,676 --> 00:16:19,213
No, I mean it, Myron.
I don't want the responsibility.
281
00:16:19,378 --> 00:16:20,948
The way things are going
with that book“.
282
00:16:21,113 --> 00:16:24,026
Mnobody who plays that part
is gonna satisfy the publids expectations.
283
00:16:24,183 --> 00:16:25,321
It scares me.
284
00:16:25,485 --> 00:16:27,328
I'm just gonna tell L.B. I refuse to do it.
285
00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:30,696
Clark, will you let me do the talking
for the time being, okay?
286
00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:37,870
By the way, who's the woman?
287
00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:39,031
Nobody yet.
288
00:16:39,232 --> 00:16:40,404
I'd like to know.
289
00:16:40,566 --> 00:16:42,045
All in good time.
290
00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:46,345
If this thing keeps honing up the way it is,
I'll have David right where I want him.
291
00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:48,144
I'll get you approval on your Scarlett.
292
00:16:48,307 --> 00:16:50,048
I'll get you absolutely anything you want.
293
00:16:50,243 --> 00:16:51,517
What about Carole?
294
00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:53,350
You already have Carole.
295
00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:55,789
Seriously, though, wouldn't she be great'?
296
00:16:55,948 --> 00:16:58,690
Carole Lombard as Scarlett O'Hara.
297
00:17:04,690 --> 00:17:06,636
Fish again.
298
00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,270
I was looking forward to duck.
299
00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:13,706
Can't you guys ever hi! anything
with all that blasting away you do'?
300
00:17:13,833 --> 00:17:15,540
I tell you, Myron, she's got it all.
301
00:17:15,701 --> 00:17:18,648
The looks, the sex, the wickedness.
302
00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:20,750
And the vitality, that's the main thing.
303
00:17:20,907 --> 00:17:23,387
I mean, just compare her
to some of the ones we've heard about.
304
00:17:23,543 --> 00:17:26,649
Shearer, Bankhead, Hepburn.
Well, they're too old.
305
00:17:26,812 --> 00:17:29,088
I was really looking forward to duck.
306
00:17:29,248 --> 00:17:30,386
Forget what you hear.
307
00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:33,030
Don't you know what that
glandular brother of mine is doing?
308
00:17:33,185 --> 00:17:34,926
He's building the bloody thing
into a cause'
309
00:17:35,087 --> 00:17:36,725
Getting everybody emotionally involved.
310
00:17:36,856 --> 00:17:39,632
Just sit tight and let me go in there
and make the deal of a lifetime.
311
00:17:39,759 --> 00:17:42,831
That's what someone said to Napoleon
just before the Battle of Waterloo.
312
00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:45,266
But did he listen?
313
00:17:45,398 --> 00:17:47,571
But you can see it, can't you, Myron?
314
00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,111
Gable and Lombard
in Gone with the Wind.
315
00:17:51,370 --> 00:17:52,474
Note the billing.
316
00:17:52,672 --> 00:17:54,049
Oh, no offense. honey.
317
00:17:54,774 --> 00:17:57,311
- I thought you didn't even wanna do this.
- Just in case.
318
00:17:57,476 --> 00:17:59,888
What would be even better is if
you two would come out“.
319
00:18:00,046 --> 00:18:01,957
...and declare your great passion
to the world'
320
00:18:02,114 --> 00:18:03,752
You can't buy that kind of publicity.
321
00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:06,692
As of now, we're just good friends.
322
00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:11,028
That is, unless we can work something out
on the billing.
323
00:18:12,858 --> 00:18:14,496
No, we can't do that, Myron.
324
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:15,695
I'm not even divorced yet.
325
00:18:15,861 --> 00:18:17,397
Anyway. here's the strategy.
326
00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:19,874
You tell L.B. you don't want to do the pan.
You hate it.
327
00:18:20,032 --> 00:18:23,411
- Tell him you couldn't get through the book.
- He can't'
328
00:18:23,903 --> 00:18:26,247
Okay, I'll tell him the truth.
I don't wanna do the part.
329
00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:30,080
But he won't know you're telling him
the truth. You see, he'll think you're lying.
330
00:18:32,411 --> 00:18:33,890
Why?
331
00:18:34,413 --> 00:18:35,619
First time through on a deal...
332
00:18:35,781 --> 00:18:39,160
...Mayer always automatically assumes
everybody is lying. It gives him an edge.
333
00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:42,994
You're gonna really try
and out-con Mayer?
334
00:18:43,923 --> 00:18:46,335
You be careful. sweetheart.
335
00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:51,431
You don't have to put your feet in the fire
just to get them warm.
336
00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:01,444
“It has an emotive sheer readability
surpassed by nothing in American fiction.“
337
00:19:01,574 --> 00:19:04,919
I don't believe it. "Profoundly stirring.
Well, it looks like a great American novel.
338
00:19:05,111 --> 00:19:08,285
Story's told with such sincerity and passion.
Woven of stuff of history,
339
00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:09,653
Endlessly interesting.
340
00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:12,921
Scarlett is a memorable figure
in American fiction.
341
00:19:13,085 --> 00:19:15,565
The three best novels I've read this year,
Gone with the Wind.”
342
00:19:15,721 --> 00:19:16,927
A little touch of humor there.
343
00:19:17,089 --> 00:19:19,501
Can you imagine
that book is selling 45,000 copies a week?
344
00:19:19,659 --> 00:19:21,764
Forty-five thousand.
345
00:19:21,927 --> 00:19:23,964
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
I almost didn't buy it.
346
00:19:24,130 --> 00:19:25,734
Memo to Margaret Mitchell.
347
00:19:27,733 --> 00:19:30,942
L,B., what do you think Gable's worth,
3-, 400.000 dollars?
348
00:19:31,103 --> 00:19:33,606
Do you have any idea
what the distribution rights are gonna be...
349
00:19:33,773 --> 00:19:36,151
-...on Gone with the Wind?
- Haven't the slightest idea.
350
00:19:36,308 --> 00:19:39,846
It could be worth a great deal of money
and a lot of prestige, L.B.
351
00:19:40,046 --> 00:19:41,684
It's gonna be
the greatest movie ever made.
352
00:19:41,847 --> 00:19:43,417
It sure could be the longest.
353
00:19:43,582 --> 00:19:45,255
That's a heck of a long book
you got there.
354
00:19:45,418 --> 00:19:48,058
How long did it take you
to read a book like that?
355
00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:50,894
I'm reading it now'
I read the synopsis first.
356
00:19:51,057 --> 00:19:56,234
You paid $50,000 for a book
that you didn't even read yet?
357
00:19:56,395 --> 00:19:59,706
When was the last time you read a book?
Or even read a synopsis, huh. LBJ?
358
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:01,970
Who reads?
I have somebody tell me the story.
359
00:20:02,134 --> 00:20:04,512
But for $50,000,
I would read the whole book.
360
00:20:04,637 --> 00:20:06,810
And then I would turn it down.
361
00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:09,816
The word around is L.B.'s really got you
breathing hard for Clark'
362
00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:14,352
I get 10,000 letters a week demanding
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler'
363
00:20:14,513 --> 00:20:17,460
It's become a public crusade, David.
364
00:20:17,817 --> 00:20:19,455
It hasn't become. I made it.
365
00:20:19,618 --> 00:20:22,258
That's what I meant, of course.
366
00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:24,623
Now stop teasing me.
367
00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:27,999
We're halfway through our drinks
and you haven't said a word, you rat.
368
00:20:28,194 --> 00:20:30,538
Is it gonna be me'?
Have you really decided?
369
00:20:32,264 --> 00:20:34,210
What are you thinking?
370
00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:35,568
Chemistry.
371
00:20:36,035 --> 00:20:39,209
- What?
-l'm thinking chemistry.
372
00:20:39,371 --> 00:20:42,011
That indefinable combination
of qualities“.
373
00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:44,279
...that make a pair
of screen lovers electrifying...
374
00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:46,480
...the instant
that their eyes meet on-screen.
375
00:20:46,645 --> 00:20:50,058
It's like a bolt of lightning
hitting the audience right between the eyes.
376
00:20:50,216 --> 00:20:52,753
I know. I know what you mean.
And don't Gable and I have it?
377
00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:55,865
In Possessed, in Forsaking All Others.
Was that ever chemistry?
378
00:20:56,021 --> 00:20:57,967
Ben Hecht says
the way to test chemistry...
379
00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:01,503
...is to ask yourself would you like
to really see them doing it or not.
380
00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,469
Doing what'?
381
00:21:09,468 --> 00:21:11,311
Well, it works, you know.
382
00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:16,144
All you have to do is just close your eyes
and imagine them in the action.
383
00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:18,680
Who?
384
00:21:18,878 --> 00:21:20,789
Oh. anybody.
385
00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,892
Who are you seeing?
386
00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:25,220
You and Gable.
387
00:21:25,351 --> 00:21:27,058
How is it'?
388
00:21:27,253 --> 00:21:28,960
Not bad.
389
00:21:29,321 --> 00:21:32,268
Your celebrated imagination
must be having an off day.
390
00:21:32,424 --> 00:21:35,962
- Not bad doesn't begin to do it justice.
- No?
391
00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:40,967
Well, of course Clark would know
better than I, wouldn't he?
392
00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:45,072
I haven't had his good fortune
in that respect.
393
00:21:47,439 --> 00:21:48,611
Y EL.
394
00:21:51,911 --> 00:21:55,825
Okay, I have to admit
Goddard's got the looks and the fire.
395
00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:58,188
But the acting. Oh, David.
396
00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:01,126
I don't even think George
could pull her through.
397
00:22:01,287 --> 00:22:04,734
- He's very enthusiastic about her, Cukor.
- That's because of the challenge.
398
00:22:04,924 --> 00:22:06,904
He loves the challenge
of getting a performance“.
399
00:22:07,026 --> 00:22:09,097
...out of somebody no one expects.
400
00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:10,934
And Bette.
401
00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:13,474
Well, how can you even consider her?
402
00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:15,111
What about Jezebel?
403
00:22:15,301 --> 00:22:18,111
How can you cast her as Scarlett
after she's done that?
404
00:22:18,304 --> 00:22:20,580
Well, I wasn't too happy over that.
405
00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:24,209
Warner rushing into production
with that story about the South.
406
00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:26,413
Trying to capitalize
on Gone with the Wind.
407
00:22:26,579 --> 00:22:30,391
Besides, if you're talking chemistry,
Gable and Davis?
408
00:22:30,549 --> 00:22:32,495
Doesn't work.
409
00:22:33,052 --> 00:22:35,760
If Clark had his way,
it'd be Gable and Lombard. You know that.
410
00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:37,957
But he won't have his way.
411
00:22:38,123 --> 00:22:41,127
He'll have yours, won't he?
412
00:22:41,794 --> 00:22:44,331
She's still jealous about you and Clark.
You know that.
413
00:22:44,496 --> 00:22:47,238
That was over ages ago.
414
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,974
Would she be burned up
if you got that part?
415
00:22:51,136 --> 00:22:53,446
If? Did I hear you say if?
416
00:22:53,606 --> 00:22:55,176
Did I say that?
417
00:22:55,341 --> 00:22:57,685
Don't say if, darling. Say when.
418
00:22:57,810 --> 00:22:59,881
No. No.
419
00:23:00,045 --> 00:23:02,525
No. Yes.
420
00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,423
Yes' No.
421
00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:08,893
Do I know her?
422
00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:11,358
Yes, I do.
423
00:23:11,523 --> 00:23:12,729
No.
424
00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,166
No.
425
00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:15,703
- Yes.
- Oh, come on.
426
00:23:15,828 --> 00:23:18,274
- This is a hell of a lot of screen tests.
- No, yes.
427
00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:21,268
Action.
428
00:23:21,433 --> 00:23:23,003
I tell you I love you.
429
00:23:23,168 --> 00:23:25,375
And I know you must care about me.
430
00:23:25,537 --> 00:23:27,016
Ashley, do you care?
431
00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:30,381
Scarlett, can't we go away
and forget we've ever said these things?
432
00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:32,283
No, I can't.
433
00:23:32,444 --> 00:23:34,287
Don't you want to marry me?
434
00:23:34,446 --> 00:23:37,120
I'm going to marry Melanie.
435
00:23:38,450 --> 00:23:41,829
I tell you I love you
and I know you must care about me'
436
00:23:42,221 --> 00:23:44,132
Ashley.
437
00:23:44,990 --> 00:23:46,025
Ashley...
438
00:23:46,458 --> 00:23:47,835
...do you care?
439
00:23:48,027 --> 00:23:50,837
Scarlett, can't we go away
and forget we've ever said these things?
440
00:23:51,030 --> 00:23:53,476
No, I can't. Don't you wanna marry me?
441
00:23:53,666 --> 00:23:55,942
I'm going to marry Melanie.
442
00:23:57,736 --> 00:24:00,876
Scarlett, can't we go away
and forget we've ever said these things?
443
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,314
No.
444
00:24:02,474 --> 00:24:03,680
L can't.
445
00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:05,321
Don't you want to marry me?
446
00:24:05,477 --> 00:24:08,048
I'm going to marry Melanie.
447
00:24:21,694 --> 00:24:23,696
What's the problem, David?
448
00:24:23,862 --> 00:24:26,069
We got trouble, George.
449
00:24:26,231 --> 00:24:28,507
You didn't get the film rights
to Gone with the Wind?
450
00:24:28,667 --> 00:24:31,511
I've got serious trouble, George.
451
00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:35,709
I just got a report back from the Hayes
office and they've forbidden us to say:
452
00:24:35,874 --> 00:24:39,720
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.“
453
00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:41,515
No damn.
454
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,253
One damn in a 4-hour movie
and they're not gonna let us use it.
455
00:24:45,451 --> 00:24:48,193
They've come up
with an alternative, though.
456
00:24:48,354 --> 00:24:50,197
I can imagine.
457
00:24:50,556 --> 00:24:53,264
“Frankly, my dear, I just don't care,“
458
00:24:53,425 --> 00:24:55,462
That's what I imagined.
459
00:24:56,362 --> 00:24:58,933
I'm not gonna let them getaway with it.
460
00:24:59,732 --> 00:25:01,473
I'm gonna fight them.
461
00:25:03,302 --> 00:25:04,906
The day I start giving approvals...
462
00:25:05,104 --> 00:25:08,381
...any kind of approvals to producers,
directors, actors, anybody...
463
00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:11,020
...is the day I'm gonna quit this business
and go to Majorca...
464
00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:13,486
...and write that novel
that I should be writing now.
465
00:25:13,645 --> 00:25:16,558
- Majorca. What's Majorca like, anyway?
- Don't get so hot, David.
466
00:25:16,715 --> 00:25:19,457
Clark wants to know
who his leading lady is, that's all.
467
00:25:19,585 --> 00:25:20,825
What do you mean is? Might be.
468
00:25:20,953 --> 00:25:22,125
I don't even have Clark yet.
469
00:25:22,287 --> 00:25:25,131
And even if L.B. does let you have him,
he might say no.
470
00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:27,930
Well, if he might say no, I don't want him.
And why would he say no?
471
00:25:28,127 --> 00:25:30,038
What's all this stuff, "if he says no“?
472
00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:33,039
He can't say no.
If he says no, he goes on suspension'
473
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:34,871
That's if I say yes.
474
00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:37,480
And he can't go on suspension.
475
00:25:37,603 --> 00:25:40,982
His divorce from Ria really cost him
a great deal of money.
476
00:25:41,140 --> 00:25:44,121
That's all gossip.
Financially, he's solid as a rock.
477
00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:47,684
There's no actor alive
who's financially secure.
478
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,052
That's your fault.
479
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:51,854
Someday, they're gonna make you pay
for all these years of bondage'
480
00:25:51,984 --> 00:25:53,622
I hope I'm around to help them do it.
481
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,366
The inmates taking over the asylum, LB.
482
00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:02,270
David, Clark would have to know
who his co-star would be'
483
00:26:03,228 --> 00:26:05,071
Okay. He does, huh?
484
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:08,143
When and if the time comes, I'll tell him.
You can be sure.
485
00:26:08,267 --> 00:26:11,339
I'm not gonna keep it a secret
until the picture's over.
486
00:26:11,503 --> 00:26:15,076
But right now,
it's nobody's business but my own.
487
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,981
Even Cukor doesn't know.
488
00:26:17,142 --> 00:26:18,985
Do you know, David?
489
00:26:19,445 --> 00:26:20,446
Yeah. I know, Myron.
490
00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:24,185
Then how come you're making all these
tests? Ten, 12 tests a day is what I hear.
491
00:26:24,349 --> 00:26:27,523
- Because I want to.
- No stone unturned.
492
00:26:27,653 --> 00:26:30,463
I would test this beautiful young lady,
if she were an actress'
493
00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:33,627
You're not an actress, young lady?
494
00:26:34,526 --> 00:26:37,097
Well, I'd son of like to be an actress,
Mr. Mayer.
495
00:26:37,563 --> 00:26:38,633
But I'm only a secretary.
496
00:26:38,831 --> 00:26:40,674
Isobel's at Metro.
497
00:26:40,833 --> 00:26:42,540
Is that a fact'?
498
00:26:42,668 --> 00:26:44,807
My own company?
499
00:26:45,104 --> 00:26:46,674
She don't look familiar.
500
00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:50,742
As far as Mr. Clark Gable is concerned,
my dear brother.“
501
00:26:50,943 --> 00:26:54,015
...there are a lot of actors in this town
that can play that part brilliantly.
502
00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:56,659
- Like who?
- Bill Powell made a beautiful test.
503
00:26:56,849 --> 00:26:57,953
Flynn would be perfect.
504
00:26:58,584 --> 00:27:01,292
Paramount wants to give me Cooper.
- The public wants Gable.
505
00:27:01,487 --> 00:27:02,659
- How do you know?
- They told me.
506
00:27:02,855 --> 00:27:04,766
How did they tell you?
Call you on the phone?
507
00:27:04,923 --> 00:27:08,496
There is only one Red Butler
and his name is Clark Gable.
508
00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:09,968
If I decide he should do it.
509
00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:13,235
I mean, if L.B. and I decide
if he should do it.
510
00:27:13,665 --> 00:27:16,236
It's Rhett Butler, not Red, you ignoramus.
511
00:27:16,401 --> 00:27:18,881
Well, I haven't read the book.
I mean I haven't Rhett the book.
512
00:27:23,041 --> 00:27:25,885
You know, L.B.,
you might as well hear it from me...
513
00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:28,149
...because you're gonna hear it
soon enough.
514
00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:31,622
Chaplin has offered me.“
515
00:27:31,783 --> 00:27:35,959
...a very attractive distributing deal
at United Artists.
516
00:27:36,088 --> 00:27:37,328
For Goddard?
517
00:27:37,523 --> 00:27:39,469
Is that who it is? Paulette?
518
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:42,469
Look, David, I'm her agent too.
Sooner or later, I'll have to know'
519
00:27:42,628 --> 00:27:43,732
Later, okay'? Later.
520
00:27:43,896 --> 00:27:47,173
What's-fl
What's Charlie doing these days'?
521
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:50,108
He's gonna make a picture about Hitler.
522
00:27:51,436 --> 00:27:52,608
Adolf Hitler?
523
00:27:52,738 --> 00:27:55,082
No, L.B.
His illegitimate half-brother, Hans Hitler.
524
00:27:55,274 --> 00:27:57,276
He's a dress designer in Vienna.
525
00:27:57,442 --> 00:28:00,252
- Some jokes are not so funny, Myron.
- L.B., it's the truth.
526
00:28:00,379 --> 00:28:02,916
Chaplin's gonna make a movie
about Hitler. It's--
527
00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:04,185
It's a comedy.
528
00:28:04,349 --> 00:28:06,022
Already, I'm not laughing.
529
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:08,754
I wouldn't be too sure.
530
00:28:08,921 --> 00:28:12,300
Look, Chaplin's a genius.
That's all there is to it.
531
00:28:12,457 --> 00:28:13,731
Not even a citizen.
532
00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:15,565
Let me ask you, David.
533
00:28:15,727 --> 00:28:18,469
Whoever your Scarlett is,
does she know'?
534
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:20,305
She does not know.
535
00:28:20,465 --> 00:28:22,467
A big star? Will there be billing problems?
536
00:28:22,634 --> 00:28:26,844
There will be no billing problems,
so stop probing, Myron, okay?
537
00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:30,111
L,B., I'm gonna run this show
my own way.
538
00:28:30,309 --> 00:28:31,845
My own way, so here it is.
539
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:33,683
As to the role of Scarlett O'Hara...
540
00:28:33,845 --> 00:28:38,316
...in the David O. Selznick production
of Gone with the Wind...
541
00:28:38,483 --> 00:28:43,057
...the chosen actress will be announced
at the appropriate time and not before.
542
00:28:43,222 --> 00:28:45,327
And as to the role of Rhett Butler...
543
00:28:46,592 --> 00:28:49,334
...l have offered it to Mr' Clark Gable'
544
00:28:49,494 --> 00:28:52,964
And if he accepts,
the picture will be distributed...
545
00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:55,975
...by the company that has him
presently under contract.
546
00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:00,806
I thank you, L.B. Mayer.
547
00:29:04,343 --> 00:29:05,879
David.
548
00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:11,158
There's only one man in the world
who really knows you, and that's me.
549
00:29:11,350 --> 00:29:16,459
And you're as full of it as a Christmas
turkey on a Bowery soup kitchen.
550
00:29:16,622 --> 00:29:18,101
Come on.
551
00:29:20,959 --> 00:29:22,700
You son of a gun.
552
00:29:28,634 --> 00:29:29,908
Easy going-
553
00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:31,843
Tell me, miss.
554
00:29:33,105 --> 00:29:36,484
Whose secretary are you'?
555
00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:51,829
It's Miss Bankhead.
556
00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:54,402
- How are you, Miss Bankhead?
- Couldn't be better, darling.
557
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:56,561
Of course. I could use a prayer or two.
558
00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:58,571
Light a candle wouldn't hurt.
559
00:29:58,764 --> 00:30:02,837
And a bit of divine intervention
would be divine'
560
00:30:05,237 --> 00:30:06,682
She's testing for Scarlett.
561
00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:09,148
I don't see it.
Tallulah's a great broad'
562
00:30:09,308 --> 00:30:12,118
I worked with her once at RKO,
but I don't see her for this.
563
00:30:12,244 --> 00:30:14,383
I think it's in the bag for Jean Arthur.
564
00:30:14,513 --> 00:30:16,686
Now, I ain't aiming for you
to go to Mr. John Wilkes'--
565
00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:19,590
That's too tight. honey. Thank you.
566
00:30:19,951 --> 00:30:22,329
I ain't aiming for you
to go to Mr. John Wilkes'...
567
00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:24,262
...and eat like a field...
568
00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:29,965
Miss Bankhead.
569
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:32,441
It looks exactly like gin.
570
00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:34,133
Swear it isn't gin.
571
00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:35,336
It's water, honest.
572
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,502
Last night should have never happened,
573
00:30:37,636 --> 00:30:39,172
Thank you.
574
00:30:40,806 --> 00:30:42,444
My angel.
575
00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:45,349
George, darling.
576
00:30:45,811 --> 00:30:50,089
Now remember,
have a wonderful, wonderful time.
577
00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:51,921
Thank you, darling.
578
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,832
May we have the set cleared, please?
579
00:30:57,989 --> 00:31:00,299
Quiet on the set everybody, please.
This will be a take.
580
00:31:00,459 --> 00:31:02,564
Okay, let's light them up.
581
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,551
All right.
582
00:31:17,909 --> 00:31:19,286
Action.
583
00:31:20,178 --> 00:31:22,488
Just hold on and suck in.
584
00:31:23,482 --> 00:31:25,655
And you can take that tray of food
back to the kitchen.
585
00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:28,127
- Because I'm not gonna eat a single bite.
- Oh. yes, you is.
586
00:31:28,286 --> 00:31:30,493
- You're gonna eat every mouthful.
- Oh, no, I'm not.
587
00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:32,931
You can get that dress ready.
We're late as it is.
588
00:31:33,125 --> 00:31:35,298
What my lamb gonna wear?
589
00:31:36,094 --> 00:31:37,402
I'm gonna wear that.
590
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:41,339
Oh, no, you ain't. You ain't gonna show
your bosom before 3:00.
591
00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:44,507
-I'm gonna speak to your mother about you.
- You speak to Mama.“
592
00:31:44,669 --> 00:31:46,876
...and I won't eat a bite on this tray.
593
00:31:47,038 --> 00:31:48,984
Well, keep the shawl
around your shoulders.
594
00:31:49,141 --> 00:31:51,246
Because S ain't aiming for you
to get all freckled.
595
00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:54,880
Not after all that buttermilk I done put on
you all winter long bleaching them freckles.
596
00:31:55,046 --> 00:31:58,858
Fm gonna have a good time today and
I'm gonna do my eating at the barbecue.
597
00:31:58,984 --> 00:32:01,260
And I ain't aiming for you
to go to Mr. John Wilkes'...
598
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:03,593
Wand eat like a field hand
and gobble like a hog.
599
00:32:03,722 --> 00:32:08,967
Fiddle-dee-dee, Mammy, Mr. Ashley Wilkes
likes a girl that's got a healthy appetite.
600
00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:15,267
George, you think Hepburn
would test for it?
601
00:32:15,434 --> 00:32:17,141
- No.
- But would you ask her, George'?
602
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:19,977
Oh, would you?
Did you speak to Norma Shearer?
603
00:32:22,174 --> 00:32:24,916
This is Louella Parsons in Hollywood.
604
00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:27,078
My first exclusive.
605
00:32:27,245 --> 00:32:29,725
Never mind what you've heard,
are hearing...
606
00:32:29,915 --> 00:32:33,453
...or may be hearing
in the next few days, weeks or months.
607
00:32:33,618 --> 00:32:35,723
Because, my dear and good friends...
608
00:32:35,921 --> 00:32:38,401
...it looks like the writing is on the wall.
609
00:32:38,557 --> 00:32:41,629
“Or should I say the marquee.
610
00:32:41,827 --> 00:32:46,105
And the writing is, yes, I have to say it.
611
00:32:46,264 --> 00:32:49,473
Tallulah Bankhead is Scarlett O'Hara.
612
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:52,740
George Cukor, her friend,
is directing the picture'
613
00:32:52,904 --> 00:32:55,851
Jock Whitney, another friend,
is backing it'
614
00:32:56,007 --> 00:32:59,113
Her father,
Congressman William Brockman Bankhead...
615
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:01,587
...speaker of the House
of Representatives...
616
00:33:01,746 --> 00:33:07,128
...is exerting all of his considerable
influence in Washington, D.C...
617
00:33:07,285 --> 00:33:10,425
...in order to ensure the part
for his beloved daughter.
618
00:33:10,589 --> 00:33:13,331
So I'm afraid she'll get it.“
619
00:33:13,492 --> 00:33:16,496
My next exclusive.
620
00:33:35,881 --> 00:33:37,622
No.
621
00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:41,155
No, no, no.
622
00:33:48,727 --> 00:33:50,001
It's Bankhead.
623
00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:51,799
Tallulah Bankhead.
624
00:33:52,631 --> 00:33:54,372
Oh, Charlie.
625
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:56,535
Parsons says so.
626
00:33:56,701 --> 00:34:00,239
- Signed, sealed and delivered.
- Get the hell out of here. I'm working.
627
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:03,182
- But she says this--
- I'm working.
628
00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:18,462
Memo to Tallulah Bankhead.
629
00:34:18,623 --> 00:34:20,933
The tests are very promising indeed.
630
00:34:21,092 --> 00:34:23,732
But frankly, if I had to give you
an answer now, it would be no.
631
00:34:23,929 --> 00:34:25,738
I should like to continue looking around...
632
00:34:25,864 --> 00:34:28,208
...and then a little later on,
consider the advisability...
633
00:34:28,366 --> 00:34:30,107
...of making some more tests with you.
634
00:34:30,302 --> 00:34:33,283
S know if you get (he chance to act,
you should bum up the screen.
635
00:34:33,405 --> 00:34:34,509
You louse.
636
00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:36,778
You four-eyed, no-good lying louse.
637
00:34:36,942 --> 00:34:38,512
- Hi, sweets.
- Bankhead?
638
00:34:38,677 --> 00:34:40,657
That lard-butted piece of cornpone.
639
00:34:40,779 --> 00:34:42,224
Her over me'? Me?
640
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:44,291
Who are you gonna believe?
Louella Parsons or me'?
641
00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:46,123
- She got it from you, didn't she?
- She did.
642
00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:48,025
Well, isn't it true?
643
00:34:48,153 --> 00:34:51,600
Well, if it was true, would I be here
or would I be in Acapulco, huh?
644
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:53,429
Well, what happens when she finds out?
645
00:34:53,592 --> 00:34:54,969
Well, the usual. You know.
646
00:34:55,126 --> 00:34:56,605
It just didn't pan out.
647
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:59,674
Artistic differences.
Circumstances beyond our control.
648
00:34:59,798 --> 00:35:01,334
You wretch.
649
00:35:01,499 --> 00:35:03,877
If you lied to Louella Parsons,
why wouldn't you lie to me?
650
00:35:04,069 --> 00:35:07,073
Artistic differences,
circumstances beyond your control.
651
00:35:07,238 --> 00:35:10,549
Because you will never be
circumstances beyond my control.
652
00:35:10,709 --> 00:35:12,780
Is that a dare?
653
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:16,790
I sow the wind and I reap the whirlwind.
654
00:35:16,982 --> 00:35:19,155
You should've been a writer.
655
00:35:23,888 --> 00:35:25,890
Did he put you up to this, George'?
656
00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:27,899
On bended knee.
657
00:35:28,093 --> 00:35:29,572
Do you want me to test?
658
00:35:29,728 --> 00:35:31,264
Don't be absurd. darling.
659
00:35:31,429 --> 00:35:32,703
He's got some nerve.
660
00:35:32,831 --> 00:35:35,539
Is Bette Davis testing?
ls Crawford testing?
661
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:37,577
You bet they aren't.
662
00:35:37,736 --> 00:35:41,479
Well, I don't know how really serious he is
about Crawford.
663
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,450
That ain't the way I heard it, bub.
664
00:35:44,743 --> 00:35:46,814
Oh. I meant for the picture.
665
00:35:46,945 --> 00:35:50,392
Good
Because thafd sure be some farce.
666
00:35:52,450 --> 00:35:53,758
Bankhead tested.
667
00:35:53,918 --> 00:35:56,125
For what? Aunt Pittypat?
668
00:35:56,287 --> 00:35:59,097
No, but that's not a bad idea.
669
00:35:59,224 --> 00:36:01,397
He's got some nerve.
670
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:03,197
Me, testing.
671
00:36:03,361 --> 00:36:05,671
Well, George,
you can just tell him for me...
672
00:36:08,199 --> 00:36:11,237
I'll paraphrase.
673
00:36:11,403 --> 00:36:13,679
Would you really put me on suspension
ifl refuse, LB'?
674
00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:15,579
I would, Clark.
675
00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:19,517
It would break my heart, believe me.
But I would.
676
00:36:20,045 --> 00:36:21,786
You remember It Happened One Night?
677
00:36:21,946 --> 00:36:24,153
I loaned you out to Columbia for that,
didn't I?
678
00:36:24,315 --> 00:36:27,524
You hated the script'
You didn't wanna work with Colbert.
679
00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:29,165
And what did you get'?
680
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,166
An Oscar. What else?
681
00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:39,808
Single-handed, you practically destroy
an entire industry.
682
00:36:39,964 --> 00:36:42,137
You forgot about
the undershirt business?
683
00:36:42,267 --> 00:36:45,077
You took off your shin in the scene,
no undershirt.
684
00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:46,237
And what happened?
685
00:36:46,438 --> 00:36:49,351
Almost every man in the country
stops buying undershirts'
686
00:36:49,507 --> 00:36:52,784
Practically an entire industry
down the drain'
687
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:56,090
Do you know what that is'?
688
00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:57,351
That's power.
689
00:36:57,515 --> 00:36:59,620
You got it. Appreciate it.
690
00:37:00,652 --> 00:37:02,461
Cheer up.
691
00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:05,260
This will be the greatest role
of your career.
692
00:37:06,558 --> 00:37:10,096
L,B., I'm gonna fall flat on my face.
693
00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:12,572
Please.
694
00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:14,176
Not on your face.
695
00:37:17,435 --> 00:37:19,210
Goodbye, Mr. Gable.
696
00:37:19,370 --> 00:37:22,442
Honey, you said a mouthful,
697
00:37:24,109 --> 00:37:26,055
- Yes, sir?
- Send in Myron 's friend.
698
00:37:26,211 --> 00:37:27,918
Yes, sir.
699
00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:31,020
You can go in now.
700
00:37:39,224 --> 00:37:40,464
You wanted to see me, sir?
701
00:37:40,592 --> 00:37:42,663
Come in. Come in.
702
00:37:45,330 --> 00:37:47,037
Take a seat.
703
00:37:49,134 --> 00:37:50,875
So...
704
00:37:52,137 --> 00:37:54,879
...you wanna be an actress.
705
00:38:07,051 --> 00:38:09,053
I hope there's not too much mint
in these juleps'
706
00:38:09,254 --> 00:38:11,325
I want the press to be very happy.
Thank you.
707
00:38:11,489 --> 00:38:12,593
Perhaps you can help me.
708
00:38:12,724 --> 00:38:15,261
I don't usually cover
these Hollywood press things.
709
00:38:15,426 --> 00:38:17,235
They took me off a trial to be here.
710
00:38:17,362 --> 00:38:18,864
Let me tell you. This is not--
711
00:38:18,997 --> 00:38:21,910
This is incredible. I have never seen
such hubbub over a motion picture.
712
00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:25,343
- This is just--
-ls this a press party, Myron?
713
00:38:25,503 --> 00:38:27,505
This is a David 0. Selznick press party.
714
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:30,085
No one else would have the nerve.
715
00:38:30,341 --> 00:38:32,343
Now I've gotta tell you...
716
00:38:33,878 --> 00:38:35,824
“Scarlett is out. You're not right for it.
717
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:37,755
I can get you a test for Suellen.
718
00:38:37,916 --> 00:38:41,090
- Who's she'?
- I thought you read the book'
719
00:38:41,286 --> 00:38:42,458
I skipped a lot.
720
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,657
EnlbYing the party, y'all?
721
00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:48,100
I hear a rumor that the Ku Klux Klan
is gonna raid the joint.
722
00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:50,205
You know why you're here, Myron.
723
00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:53,103
We had to have one carpetbagger.
724
00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:55,576
Is he important?
725
00:38:55,733 --> 00:38:57,735
Russell Birdwell,
my brother's press agent.
726
00:38:57,902 --> 00:38:59,848
He put this together. He's a genius.
727
00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:01,278
I hate geniuses.
728
00:39:08,313 --> 00:39:12,125
I'll tell you something, David.
Birdwell did a marvelous job here.
729
00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:19,225
Louise and I were just talking.
What about Ruth Gordon for the part of...?
730
00:39:27,065 --> 00:39:29,045
- Now.
- Now?
731
00:39:29,167 --> 00:39:31,044
- The magic moment.
- Are you sure?
732
00:39:31,402 --> 00:39:32,881
The pump is primed, trust me.
733
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:35,347
Who's that tall guy next to Mr. Mayer?
734
00:39:35,506 --> 00:39:37,042
Sidney Howard. Famous playwright.
735
00:39:37,242 --> 00:39:38,448
Pulitzer prizes.
736
00:39:38,610 --> 00:39:40,180
He's writing the screenplay.
737
00:39:40,345 --> 00:39:42,951
Nothing but the best
for David O. Selznick.
738
00:39:44,782 --> 00:39:47,092
May I have your attention. please?
739
00:39:47,252 --> 00:39:49,425
May I have your attention? Thank you.
740
00:39:50,455 --> 00:39:54,062
In the words of
the old Confederate proverb:
741
00:39:54,259 --> 00:39:57,263
“After food, love."
742
00:39:57,428 --> 00:40:01,433
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. David O. Selznick.
743
00:40:12,443 --> 00:40:14,650
Look at this.
He hasn't even made the picture yet.
744
00:40:14,812 --> 00:40:17,452
He's just telling them
he's gonna make it.
745
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:26,929
The son-in-law is risen.
746
00:40:33,031 --> 00:40:34,374
Thank you. Please sit down.
747
00:40:36,567 --> 00:40:41,380
My friends,
an ancient sage once observed.“
748
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:45,747
...that the journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
749
00:40:46,477 --> 00:40:50,857
My vast army of co-workers
will embark with me...
750
00:40:51,049 --> 00:40:53,962
...on what will be
the single most important work“.
751
00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:57,327
...of our individual
and collective careers“.
752
00:40:57,755 --> 00:41:02,067
...!o make Gone with the Wind
the greatest motion picture of all time.
753
00:41:06,864 --> 00:41:10,141
And it is my honor and privilege
to present to you...
754
00:41:10,335 --> 00:41:13,339
...a man who has done so much,
he needs no introduction.
755
00:41:13,805 --> 00:41:16,513
A legend in his own time.
756
00:41:18,343 --> 00:41:20,152
L.B, Mayer.
757
00:41:27,251 --> 00:41:29,527
Why aren't we standing up for him'?
758
00:41:29,721 --> 00:41:31,632
Because Birdwell
didn't arrange it that way.
759
00:41:31,789 --> 00:41:34,827
Ladies and gentlemen,
many people have the impression.“
760
00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:39,169
...!hat we, we movie people,
are fierce competitors.
761
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:45,210
Let me tell you,
I myself have been in this business“.
762
00:41:45,370 --> 00:41:47,748
...for over 30 years.
763
00:41:47,905 --> 00:41:49,748
And I can tell you...
764
00:41:49,907 --> 00:41:55,118
...that I have been shown every kindness,
every cooperation.
765
00:41:55,279 --> 00:41:58,749
People, many people, have helped me.
766
00:41:59,917 --> 00:42:03,387
And sometimes, I'm glad to say...
767
00:42:03,554 --> 00:42:09,027
...on occasion,
I have been able to help others.
768
00:42:09,827 --> 00:42:12,671
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
is proud to announce...
769
00:42:12,830 --> 00:42:16,300
...that we will be
the distributing organization...
770
00:42:16,501 --> 00:42:20,506
...for David O. Selznick's production
of Gone with the Wind.
771
00:42:21,939 --> 00:42:26,888
And we are also proud and happy
to announce.“
772
00:42:27,512 --> 00:42:31,517
...that for the part of Rhett Butler...
773
00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:35,160
...Mr. David Selznick has chosen...
774
00:42:35,319 --> 00:42:39,859
...our great star, Mr. Clark Gable.
775
00:43:12,990 --> 00:43:15,095
All I wanna know is...
776
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,933
-...who's gonna be my Scarlett?
- Tallulah Bankhead.
777
00:43:20,364 --> 00:43:22,935
- Joan Crawford.
- Bette Davis.
778
00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:24,375
Bette Davis.
779
00:43:24,535 --> 00:43:25,946
Bette Davis?
780
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:27,310
Yes, yes, yes.
781
00:43:27,472 --> 00:43:28,542
Joan Bennett.
782
00:43:28,673 --> 00:43:30,016
Miriam Hopkins.
783
00:43:30,208 --> 00:43:31,915
They're all under consideration.
784
00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:33,420
Each and every one of them.
785
00:43:33,578 --> 00:43:34,921
Miriam Hopkins, George?
786
00:43:35,046 --> 00:43:36,116
Over my dead body.
787
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,750
You know, I'm personally thrilled
by the passion and emotion...
788
00:43:39,951 --> 00:43:42,488
“generated by Clark's question.
789
00:43:44,856 --> 00:43:47,928
And today,
I would like to make this promise...
790
00:43:48,059 --> 00:43:51,233
...no, this pledge
to the American people...
791
00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:54,774
...that no effort,
no expense will be spared.“
792
00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:58,880
...so that we may achieve
the perfect answer...
793
00:43:59,036 --> 00:44:00,879
...the real Scarlett O'Hara.
794
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:09,254
I would like to direct your attention,
please, to the map on my left.
795
00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:27,371
We propose to divide our great country
into three sections.
796
00:44:27,532 --> 00:44:29,273
- The South.
- Red.
797
00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:32,546
The Northeast.
798
00:44:33,371 --> 00:44:35,282
And the West.
799
00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:42,720
This Birdwell,
you can't buy this kind of talent.
800
00:44:42,914 --> 00:44:44,086
This is dedication.
801
00:44:44,248 --> 00:44:47,559
- We are sending talent-scouting teams...
- Can't buy it'
802
00:44:47,718 --> 00:44:50,028
...into each of those sectors.
803
00:44:50,188 --> 00:44:53,192
They will interview
and make preliminary tests...
804
00:44:53,357 --> 00:44:54,927
...of every qualified candidate.
805
00:44:55,092 --> 00:44:58,471
And I tell you this,
that the door is wide open.“
806
00:44:58,663 --> 00:45:02,270
...!o any American girl
who truly believes.“
807
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,279
...!hat she's the one to play
Scarlett O'Hara'
808
00:45:11,943 --> 00:45:12,944
You can": buy it.
809
00:45:13,110 --> 00:45:16,648
I would like to announce
on behalf of Selznick International...
810
00:45:17,148 --> 00:45:18,422
...that we are about to launch--
811
00:45:18,583 --> 00:45:19,755
All right.
812
00:45:25,590 --> 00:45:27,160
You been talking long enough!
813
00:45:27,325 --> 00:45:30,772
It's time for these folks to hear
how things is really gonna be.
814
00:45:30,962 --> 00:45:34,705
Y'all are gonna be sticking
right there in that red part.
815
00:45:34,865 --> 00:45:39,245
That is the only place
you're gonna find Scarlett O'Hara.
816
00:45:39,704 --> 00:45:42,344
If you think you're going to insult
the glorious South...
817
00:45:42,506 --> 00:45:44,986
...boy, you got yourself
another thing coming.
818
00:45:45,710 --> 00:45:47,451
Is this par! on the level?
819
00:45:47,612 --> 00:45:50,525
Of course not.
They're from Central Casting.
820
00:45:50,681 --> 00:45:52,627
You mean, they're actors?
821
00:45:52,783 --> 00:45:55,889
- After a fashion.
- You can't find Scarlett O'Hara up in there.
822
00:45:56,053 --> 00:45:58,431
You all try to pass off anybody...
823
00:45:58,623 --> 00:46:03,368
...for the true daughter of the South,
we're going to blow your movie...
824
00:46:03,527 --> 00:46:06,440
...out of every moving-picture house
in the land.
825
00:46:06,564 --> 00:46:08,635
This has been warning number one.
826
00:46:08,799 --> 00:46:10,210
There will be more.
827
00:46:17,541 --> 00:46:19,714
You want an extra copy. George?
I already have one.
828
00:46:19,844 --> 00:46:21,653
Oh. but these are very special, Clark.
829
00:46:21,812 --> 00:46:23,382
Gift copies, they're signed.
830
00:46:23,547 --> 00:46:24,753
BY Whq?
831
00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:26,758
Margaret Mitchell.
832
00:46:27,752 --> 00:46:29,390
The author.
833
00:46:36,827 --> 00:46:38,829
Smile.
834
00:46:44,602 --> 00:46:47,139
God, I love this business.
835
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:35,789
Oh. yes. Mr. Cukor?
836
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,093
No, he's Mr. Cukor.
837
00:47:40,091 --> 00:47:41,365
- Mr. Cukor?
- Yes'
838
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:44,472
Are you hopeful of finding
your Scarlett O'Hara in Atlanta?
839
00:47:44,628 --> 00:47:45,732
Yeah. we are very hopeful,
840
00:47:45,896 --> 00:47:48,274
How many young ladies do you expect
to be interviewing?
841
00:47:48,432 --> 00:47:49,467
As many as are interested.
842
00:47:49,633 --> 00:47:53,080
Is there really a chance
for an unknown to land this part'?
843
00:47:53,204 --> 00:47:54,649
Or is this just a publicity gimmick?
844
00:47:54,839 --> 00:47:56,841
- Bite your tongue.
- I have no comment.
845
00:47:58,275 --> 00:47:59,652
Ma'am, would you please stand back?
846
00:47:59,810 --> 00:48:04,225
Max, can we think of something
a trace more orderly during our stay here?
847
00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:06,020
Relax, George, that was all Birdwell.
848
00:48:06,183 --> 00:48:09,289
Look, I know David wants us
to be legitimate. Not a three-ring circus.
849
00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:11,194
Just keep the juices flowing.
850
00:48:11,322 --> 00:48:14,098
The juices are flowing fine
without the circus.
851
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:15,499
All right, no circus.
852
00:48:15,659 --> 00:48:17,297
Mr. Cukor.
853
00:48:17,495 --> 00:48:20,476
Oh, Mr. Cukor, Mr. Cukor,
we are a delegation of three“.
854
00:48:20,598 --> 00:48:24,410
...representing the Alabama Women United
for Tallulah Bankhead...
855
00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:27,708
...lntemational Star
of Stage, Screen and Radio.“
856
00:48:27,872 --> 00:48:33,982
...!o bring you the heartfelt hopes
of no less than 1750...
857
00:48:34,145 --> 00:48:38,992
...of Alabama's most important
and influential top people...
858
00:48:39,150 --> 00:48:42,893
...petitioning you to award the part
of Scarlett O'Hara...
859
00:48:43,053 --> 00:48:44,964
...to Miss Tallulah Bankhead.
860
00:48:45,122 --> 00:48:49,264
Not merely on the basis of our pride
in this true daughter of Alabama...
861
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:55,343
...but also on her fitness for the role
exemplified by her natural Southern accent.
862
00:48:55,499 --> 00:48:57,638
Well, I'm overwhelmed.
863
00:48:59,236 --> 00:49:00,806
It looks like a memo from David Selznick.
864
00:49:00,971 --> 00:49:05,181
I just cannot thank you enough.
I really can't.
865
00:49:09,079 --> 00:49:10,820
Nice smile.
866
00:49:10,981 --> 00:49:13,291
Hold that, gentlemen, please.
867
00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:15,830
Now. you gotta do it for me.
868
00:49:15,986 --> 00:49:17,090
No, I don't.
869
00:49:17,288 --> 00:49:19,268
Not even for me'?
870
00:49:19,390 --> 00:49:21,199
Greater love hath no woman.
871
00:49:21,358 --> 00:49:22,462
But there are limits.
872
00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:25,004
Oh, come on, honey,
you'd make a great Scarlett.
873
00:49:25,196 --> 00:49:28,837
No, I wouldn't. You're just prejudiced.
You're blind with love...
874
00:49:28,999 --> 00:49:31,001
...and you're helpless
under my magic spell.
875
00:49:31,202 --> 00:49:32,840
I love the way you talk.
876
00:49:33,003 --> 00:49:35,574
I know. I know.
877
00:49:36,307 --> 00:49:38,753
Oh. I've gotta like the people that I play.
878
00:49:38,943 --> 00:49:40,854
I don't even like Scarlett.
879
00:49:41,011 --> 00:49:43,287
She's a pain in the butt.
880
00:49:43,414 --> 00:49:45,223
She makes my teeth hurt.
881
00:49:45,382 --> 00:49:48,955
Besides, you talk like all I have to do
is snap my fingers, and the parfs mine.
882
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:50,564
Well, that ain't the way it is, pal.
883
00:49:50,688 --> 00:49:53,601
Well, if I put the pressure on David,
and he puts the pressure on L.B.r.
884
00:49:53,757 --> 00:49:56,237
...L.B. just may loan you out.
He may force you to do it.
885
00:49:56,393 --> 00:49:58,498
Well, then I'll go on suspension.
886
00:49:58,662 --> 00:49:59,936
I'll retire.
887
00:50:00,064 --> 00:50:02,203
We'll get married, and we'll have babies.
888
00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:03,676
We'll buy a new house.
889
00:50:03,801 --> 00:50:06,509
We'll call it the House of Two Gables.
890
00:50:06,670 --> 00:50:08,581
After you play Scarlett, then we'll do it.
891
00:50:08,706 --> 00:50:11,687
Oh, come on, honey,
just think about it some more.
892
00:50:12,409 --> 00:50:14,320
I'll think about it tomorrow.
893
00:50:14,445 --> 00:50:18,359
Well, you see, you've already got
some of the dialogue memorized.
894
00:50:47,278 --> 00:50:48,985
Things seem to be slightly calmer here.
895
00:50:49,113 --> 00:50:50,820
Oh. yeah?
896
00:50:51,181 --> 00:50:52,660
I haven't noticed.
897
00:50:52,816 --> 00:50:56,025
I've started to judge it now
by the number of fainters we get.
898
00:50:56,186 --> 00:50:58,826
We only had three girls pass out today.
899
00:50:58,989 --> 00:51:00,468
In Syracuse. there were seven.
900
00:51:00,658 --> 00:51:02,296
I thought this was Syracuse.
901
00:51:02,459 --> 00:51:05,269
No, we left Syracuse on Thursday.
902
00:51:05,396 --> 00:51:06,670
This is Buffalo.
903
00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:09,208
Today is Monday.
904
00:51:09,567 --> 00:51:11,046
Which month?
905
00:51:11,201 --> 00:51:13,112
There was that fistfight this morning.
906
00:51:13,304 --> 00:51:15,580
The attack of hysteria.
907
00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:17,844
Oh. I called the hospital by the way.
908
00:51:18,008 --> 00:51:19,112
She's okay.
909
00:51:19,944 --> 00:51:22,151
Apparently, there's a history
of emotional unrest there.
910
00:51:22,313 --> 00:51:23,849
Oh, I hate women brawlers.
911
00:51:27,117 --> 00:51:28,755
Max?
912
00:51:28,886 --> 00:51:30,229
What is this?
913
00:51:30,387 --> 00:51:32,594
I've been wondering about that myself.
914
00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:33,894
But you ordered it.
915
00:51:34,058 --> 00:51:35,696
Don't you remember?
916
00:51:35,859 --> 00:51:38,430
I must be getting very tired, George.
917
00:51:39,029 --> 00:51:41,134
It does not want to be digested.
918
00:51:41,298 --> 00:51:43,505
I can't remember
the last decent meal we had.
919
00:51:43,968 --> 00:51:46,539
It was either Oklahoma or Philadelphia.
920
00:51:46,704 --> 00:51:48,513
No, we haven't been to Philadelphia yet.
921
00:51:48,672 --> 00:51:52,245
- Are you sure'?
- I would remember Philadelphia.
922
00:51:54,411 --> 00:51:57,255
Say, is this the hysteria?
923
00:51:57,414 --> 00:51:59,052
No, that's the one who was in the brawl.
924
00:51:59,516 --> 00:52:04,363
Well, now, you see,
there's a bit of the brawler in Scarlett.
925
00:52:04,521 --> 00:52:06,933
Let's see her tomorrow.
926
00:52:07,091 --> 00:52:08,627
Oh, my...
927
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:11,534
I'm gonna be-- I'm gonna be sick.
928
00:52:12,096 --> 00:52:14,940
George. I think it might be lamb.
929
00:52:15,432 --> 00:52:17,912
Are you sure
that this is for Mr. Selznick?
930
00:52:18,102 --> 00:52:19,103
What is it'?
931
00:52:19,269 --> 00:52:21,374
We don't know nothing
about the contents...
932
00:52:21,538 --> 00:52:25,281
...but it's gotta be signed for
by Mr. Selznick personally.
933
00:52:25,476 --> 00:52:27,854
Those are the instructions.
934
00:52:31,448 --> 00:52:33,758
What the devil is this?
935
00:52:35,019 --> 00:52:38,831
Mr. Selznick. I'm your Scarlett.
936
00:53:26,870 --> 00:53:29,714
Five callbacks out of 18 interviews.
937
00:53:29,873 --> 00:53:31,443
I call that slim pickings.
938
00:53:31,608 --> 00:53:33,349
Selznick people
must have been through here...
939
00:53:33,544 --> 00:53:35,615
...with a fine-tooth comb.
940
00:53:35,913 --> 00:53:37,893
Compared to Cleveland.
941
00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:42,189
Cleveland was sensational, wasn't it'?
942
00:53:42,352 --> 00:53:43,660
Sensational.
943
00:53:43,821 --> 00:53:47,166
But you got a different type here,
don't forget. Reno.
944
00:53:47,291 --> 00:53:49,635
You have to expect to get a lo! of them
who know the score.
945
00:53:49,793 --> 00:53:53,570
Oh, right. Right. I had two today
who tipped to the deal almost right off.
946
00:53:53,731 --> 00:53:55,836
First one walked
the minute she wised up.
947
00:53:55,999 --> 00:53:59,469
But the second one stayed.
948
00:53:59,636 --> 00:54:00,671
Yeah.
949
00:54:00,838 --> 00:54:03,478
I trust she's auditioning tomorrow.
950
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:05,916
Oh. it won't be necessary.
951
00:54:09,646 --> 00:54:12,820
This is the best con we ever ran.
952
00:54:12,950 --> 00:54:15,863
And it beats the Colorado Silver Mine stocks
by a mile'
953
00:54:16,220 --> 00:54:18,700
Check and double-check.
954
00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:24,505
What do you say, when we finish up here,
we go up around Idaho way'?
955
00:54:25,129 --> 00:54:28,133
Some place like Boise maybe, you think?
956
00:54:30,868 --> 00:54:32,506
I think.
957
00:54:35,606 --> 00:54:37,483
Paulette Goddard test.
958
00:54:37,608 --> 00:54:40,521
Ready. Action.
959
00:54:40,677 --> 00:54:43,055
What is it? A secret to tell me'?
960
00:54:43,213 --> 00:54:45,853
Yes, a secret.
961
00:54:45,983 --> 00:54:47,621
I love you.
962
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:51,232
Isn't it enough that you've collected
every other man's heart here today?
963
00:54:51,355 --> 00:54:53,494
Do you want to make it unanimous?
964
00:54:53,624 --> 00:54:56,104
Well, you've always had my heart,
you know'
965
00:54:56,260 --> 00:54:57,330
You cut your teeth on it.
966
00:54:57,494 --> 00:54:58,598
Oh, Ashley.
967
00:54:58,729 --> 00:55:00,868
Ashley. tell me, you must.
968
00:55:00,998 --> 00:55:02,978
Oh, don't tease me now.
969
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:04,636
Have I your heart? Oh, my dear--
970
00:55:04,802 --> 00:55:07,510
You must not say these things, Scarlett.
You mustn't'
971
00:55:07,638 --> 00:55:08,708
You don't mean them.
972
00:55:08,872 --> 00:55:11,751
You'll hate yourself for saying them,
and you'll hate me for hearing them.
973
00:55:11,909 --> 00:55:13,718
I couldn't ever hate you.
974
00:55:13,911 --> 00:55:17,620
I tell you I love you, and I know
you must care about me, because...
975
00:55:18,715 --> 00:55:22,458
Oh. Ashley, do you care?
976
00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:24,530
You do, don't you'?
977
00:55:24,655 --> 00:55:27,932
Scarlett, can't we go away
and forget we ever said these things?
978
00:55:28,091 --> 00:55:29,661
NO. ND. I can't.
979
00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:31,568
What do you mean?
980
00:55:31,728 --> 00:55:34,004
Oh. don't you want to marry me?
981
00:55:34,198 --> 00:55:36,906
I'm going to marry Melanie.
982
00:55:37,734 --> 00:55:39,941
No. No. you can't.
983
00:55:40,103 --> 00:55:41,480
Not if you care about me.
984
00:55:41,638 --> 00:55:44,312
Why must you make me say
these things to hurt you?
985
00:55:44,474 --> 00:55:45,748
Memo to Mr. Adams.
986
00:55:45,909 --> 00:55:47,547
I have looked at the Goddard test...
987
00:55:47,678 --> 00:55:50,215
...and I must say
that I am more and more impressed.
988
00:55:50,380 --> 00:55:53,293
So much so that I think
she is strongly in the running as Scadett.
989
00:55:53,417 --> 00:55:56,660
However, the point concerning
Chaplin's rights to her...
990
00:55:56,787 --> 00:55:58,767
...should be straightened out
immediately.
991
00:55:58,922 --> 00:56:01,562
It might be wise
if you can make clear to Myron...
992
00:56:01,692 --> 00:56:05,765
“that unless this point is straightened out,
she is not going to play Scafiett.
993
00:56:05,963 --> 00:56:08,239
So he wants you to sign
a five-year contract.
994
00:56:08,398 --> 00:56:09,706
Will it get me Scarlett?
995
00:56:09,867 --> 00:56:11,676
It'll get you closer.
996
00:56:11,802 --> 00:56:12,872
Closer is better.
997
00:56:13,036 --> 00:56:16,040
Paulette, are you sure you don't have
any kind of a contract with Charlie?
998
00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:17,617
Something I don't know about?
999
00:56:17,774 --> 00:56:21,244
Listen, I told you, Myron,
it's just sort of a verbal contract.
1000
00:56:21,411 --> 00:56:25,826
Well, Sam Goldwyn says a verbal contract
isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
1001
00:56:27,885 --> 00:56:29,796
What about this Bergman girl?
1002
00:56:29,987 --> 00:56:31,728
Well, I'm giving her real consideration.
1003
00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:35,336
- For Scarlett? Who is she?
- No, for Intermezzo.
1004
00:56:35,459 --> 00:56:37,962
- Who is she'?
- Some Swedish broad.
1005
00:56:38,095 --> 00:56:39,165
Ingrid Bergman.
1006
00:56:39,329 --> 00:56:41,468
Kay Brown says she's out of this world.
1007
00:56:41,632 --> 00:56:43,373
Has she got an agent?
1008
00:56:43,533 --> 00:56:45,376
I hope so, Myron. I hope so.
1009
00:56:45,535 --> 00:56:46,536
You see, you're a witness,
1010
00:56:46,737 --> 00:56:49,343
My brother begrudges me
my bread and butter.
1011
00:56:54,077 --> 00:56:56,023
Gosh, I thought I was nervous
about the interview.
1012
00:56:56,179 --> 00:56:58,216
I'm 10 times as nervous
about the audition.
1013
00:56:58,382 --> 00:56:59,759
Well, this young lady here...
1014
00:56:59,917 --> 00:57:03,126
...was as nervous as a ca! on a hot tin roof
for her audition this morning.
1015
00:57:03,287 --> 00:57:06,359
And do you know where she's gonna be
this coming Saturday morning?
1016
00:57:06,490 --> 00:57:09,869
- Where?
- On a train bound for Hollywood, U.S.A...
1017
00:57:10,027 --> 00:57:13,634
...where, next week, she will receive
a full-fledged screen test“.
1018
00:57:13,764 --> 00:57:15,675
...for the role of Scarlett O'Hara...
1019
00:57:15,832 --> 00:57:18,574
...in the David O. Selznick production
of Gone with the Wind.
1020
00:57:18,769 --> 00:57:20,578
Oh, gee, lucky her.
1021
00:57:21,104 --> 00:57:23,584
Now, have you considered
the financial arrangements.“
1022
00:57:23,774 --> 00:57:26,482
.-.we discussed yesterday
and do you find them satisfactory?
1023
00:57:26,677 --> 00:57:30,318
Your transportation to Los Angeles,
processing fees, et cetera?
1024
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,687
Oh. yes, it's perfectly satisfactory.
1025
00:57:32,849 --> 00:57:34,055
Do you want the money now?
1026
00:57:35,218 --> 00:57:37,129
All in good time, dear.
1027
00:57:37,321 --> 00:57:41,064
Now, why don't you step
behind this screen here...
1028
00:57:41,224 --> 00:57:44,433
...and get into your little costume.
1029
00:57:44,594 --> 00:57:47,871
Oh. I'm gonna wear a costume?
1030
00:57:49,066 --> 00:57:51,512
Assuming all goes well in here today...
1031
00:57:52,035 --> 00:57:55,244
...and my hunch tells me
it's going to go very well indeed...
1032
00:57:55,405 --> 00:57:59,080
...would you have any objection to having
your hair dyed for the actual screen test?
1033
00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:00,346
'G
1034
00:58:00,510 --> 00:58:03,719
I think I'm gonna need a little help
with this thing.
1035
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,257
Allow me.
1036
00:58:05,449 --> 00:58:08,623
“All right, just hold on and suck in.“
1037
00:58:08,819 --> 00:58:12,266
“You can take all that back to the kitchen.
I won't eat a bite?
1038
00:58:12,422 --> 00:58:13,924
“Oh, yes, ma'am, you is.
1039
00:58:14,091 --> 00:58:16,901
You is going to eat
every mouthful of this."
1040
00:58:17,060 --> 00:58:18,562
"No, I'm not."
1041
00:58:18,729 --> 00:58:20,834
What's my lamb gonna wear'?
1042
00:58:20,998 --> 00:58:22,170
That.
1043
00:58:22,366 --> 00:58:23,367
No, you ain't.
1044
00:58:23,533 --> 00:58:26,275
You can't show your bosom before 3:00.
1045
00:58:26,436 --> 00:58:28,848
I'm gonna speak to your ma about you.
1046
00:58:29,006 --> 00:58:34,649
If you say one word to Mother,
I won't eat a bite'
1047
00:58:35,379 --> 00:58:40,556
Fiddle-dee-dee. Ashley Wilkes told me he
liked to see a girl with a healthy appetite.
1048
00:58:40,717 --> 00:58:41,923
Cut.
1049
00:58:42,085 --> 00:58:44,656
If this were a screen test, I'd say print it.
1050
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:47,734
- That was wonderful. Wonderful.
Really?
1051
00:58:47,858 --> 00:58:49,735
Oh. really? I was so nervous.
1052
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:51,100
I'm gonna be honest with you.
1053
00:58:51,228 --> 00:58:52,935
For talent and potential...
1054
00:58:53,130 --> 00:58:56,134
...l would rank you in the top two,
maybe three percent“.
1055
00:58:56,299 --> 00:58:58,870
...of all the many,
many girls nationwide...
1056
00:58:59,036 --> 00:59:02,506
...who aspire to this golden opponunity
in the motion-picture industry.
1057
00:59:02,672 --> 00:59:03,673
Really?
1058
00:59:03,874 --> 00:59:05,945
That was sensational, Betty.
1059
00:59:06,109 --> 00:59:08,988
From where I'm standing,
I'd say you've got a really good shot at this.
1060
00:59:09,146 --> 00:59:12,753
Listen, why don't we just stop
this horsing around right now, okay'?
1061
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:14,362
I beg your pardon.
1062
00:59:14,518 --> 00:59:18,432
Look, fella,
you don't really think that I think...
1063
00:59:18,588 --> 00:59:22,764
...!hat anybody is gonna give me
the role of Scarlett O'Hara, do you?
1064
00:59:22,893 --> 00:59:27,535
Look, all I wanna know
is what's the deal?
1065
00:59:28,131 --> 00:59:31,544
Can you really make me
some connections in Hollywood?
1066
00:59:31,701 --> 00:59:35,012
Just to try for something.
Bit part, anything.
1067
00:59:35,172 --> 00:59:37,982
I can get you all the bits you want.
1068
00:59:38,175 --> 00:59:41,713
Laurie, your mother
is gonna be very proud of you.
1069
00:59:41,912 --> 00:59:43,391
I know.
1070
00:59:43,547 --> 00:59:45,083
I'm very proud of you.
1071
00:59:45,248 --> 00:59:46,625
Thank you.
1072
00:59:46,783 --> 00:59:48,888
You deserve a kiss.
1073
00:59:51,988 --> 00:59:53,661
Just tell me something.
1074
00:59:53,824 --> 00:59:56,805
Do you guys really gel many girls
who fall for this con?
1075
00:59:56,927 --> 00:59:59,999
Honey, you'd be amazed.
1076
01:00:01,264 --> 01:00:05,735
What a pleasure it will be
for me to see your star rise...
1077
01:00:05,936 --> 01:00:08,940
...and rise in the Hollywood firmament.
1078
01:00:09,106 --> 01:00:14,681
In the years to come,
if I am remembered at all, and I will be...
1079
01:00:14,845 --> 01:00:19,191
...it will be as the man
who discovered Laurie Lee.
1080
01:00:19,916 --> 01:00:22,863
What a perfect marquee name.
1081
01:00:23,019 --> 01:00:25,863
Laurie Lee.
1082
01:00:27,224 --> 01:00:29,295
It really sings.
1083
01:00:29,493 --> 01:00:31,598
I'm $0 happy-
1084
01:00:31,761 --> 01:00:34,071
I want you to be happy.
1085
01:00:34,598 --> 01:00:37,135
I wanna make you happy,
1086
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:39,940
I wanna make you a star.
1087
01:00:40,070 --> 01:00:43,313
Daddy said I'd never amount to anything.
1088
01:00:46,977 --> 01:00:50,322
I submitted my photo, not me.
1089
01:00:54,518 --> 01:00:56,429
Are you getting worried yet?
1090
01:00:56,586 --> 01:00:58,065
I wouldn't say worried.
1091
01:00:58,221 --> 01:01:02,363
I get twinges of anxiety every now and then
when I look at a calendar.
1092
01:01:02,526 --> 01:01:05,166
Frankly, I can't think
of anyone left to test, David.
1093
01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:09,071
Well, we'll just gonna have
to test somebody, George, somebody.
1094
01:01:09,232 --> 01:01:14,807
I saw a very attractive carhop at a drive-in
in Sunset Boulevard the other night.
1095
01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:18,713
Three weeks from now,
that's not gonna be so funny.
1096
01:01:19,442 --> 01:01:20,978
If you don't make up your mind soon.“
1097
01:01:21,111 --> 01:01:24,558
...Gone with the Wind could win an Oscar
for the Best Picture of 1988.
1098
01:01:24,714 --> 01:01:28,025
Or the booby prize for the best movie
that was never made.
1099
01:01:28,185 --> 01:01:30,358
I wouldn't go that far.
1100
01:01:31,821 --> 01:01:33,664
George...
1101
01:01:35,625 --> 01:01:38,037
...do you ever think about failure?
1102
01:01:38,995 --> 01:01:40,030
You're joking.
1103
01:01:40,197 --> 01:01:43,041
I don't mean that 3:00 in the morning
butterflies in the stomach...
1104
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:44,474
...kind of failure, you know.
1105
01:01:44,668 --> 01:01:48,411
Where you think about yesterday
and you figure, go back tomorrow and fix it'
1106
01:01:48,572 --> 01:01:52,418
I'm considering failure,
total complete failure.
1107
01:01:52,576 --> 01:01:54,578
Do you ever think about that'?
1108
01:01:55,845 --> 01:01:57,324
No.
1109
01:01:57,847 --> 01:01:59,383
I do.
1110
01:02:00,684 --> 01:02:01,958
Doesn't seem justified.
1111
01:02:02,118 --> 01:02:03,756
Why?
1112
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,662
Because I've got such
a red-hot successful career. huh?
1113
01:02:06,790 --> 01:02:09,293
Well, that's what I had in mind.
1114
01:02:10,694 --> 01:02:15,234
My old man was one of the great men
in the early days in this business, you know.
1115
01:02:15,398 --> 01:02:18,345
He was one of (he pioneers.
1116
01:02:18,501 --> 01:02:20,606
And you know what happened to him.
1117
01:02:21,605 --> 01:02:23,607
He was ruined.
1118
01:02:23,773 --> 01:02:25,514
Ruined.
1119
01:02:26,943 --> 01:02:28,889
Adolph Zukor...
1120
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:32,526
...maneuvered him into such a corner
that he got wiped out...
1121
01:02:32,682 --> 01:02:37,097
...and all of his pals in this industry,
my father's pals...
1122
01:02:37,721 --> 01:02:39,530
...they all turned their backs on him.
1123
01:02:41,458 --> 01:02:44,905
We were living in a 17-room apartment
in New York City on Park Avenue.
1124
01:02:45,061 --> 01:02:48,804
We had everything.
Everything. Cars, servants.
1125
01:02:51,101 --> 01:02:54,105
Myron and I woke up one morning...
1126
01:02:54,804 --> 01:02:59,344
...and found we were living
in a four-room railroad flat.
1127
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:03,717
My mother was scrubbing
the kitchen floor.
1128
01:03:04,848 --> 01:03:06,657
I'll never forget that.
1129
01:03:06,816 --> 01:03:13,028
Oh, they can write books about Thalberg,
and Mayer and Adolph Zukor“.
1130
01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:17,202
...but no one's ever gonna remember
my father, Lewis J. Selznick.
1131
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:20,668
And I don't care how big you get,
you know'
1132
01:03:20,830 --> 01:03:22,832
There's always somebody
bigger than that...
1133
01:03:22,999 --> 01:03:25,570
...who can always take it away from you.
1134
01:03:26,770 --> 01:03:30,377
And I know that and I think about that.
1135
01:03:32,475 --> 01:03:33,510
Sometimes.
1136
01:03:43,953 --> 01:03:46,433
You did what with who?
1137
01:03:46,589 --> 01:03:49,126
A five-year contract with Selznick.
1138
01:03:49,259 --> 01:03:50,897
Without consulting me'?
1139
01:03:51,061 --> 01:03:53,803
If I had consulted you,
you would've said no.
1140
01:03:53,963 --> 01:03:56,443
This is unspeakable. How could you?
1141
01:03:56,599 --> 01:04:00,046
- We have a contract.
- Oh, Charlie, we have no contract.
1142
01:04:00,170 --> 01:04:02,616
An emotional contract.
1143
01:04:02,772 --> 01:04:04,877
A contract of the heart.
1144
01:04:05,041 --> 01:04:06,349
Oh, Charlie.
1145
01:04:06,509 --> 01:04:09,615
Even I'm not gonna fall for that bull,
1146
01:04:09,779 --> 01:04:12,089
How could he do this to me?
1147
01:04:12,248 --> 01:04:16,253
Selznick, of all people.
1148
01:04:16,453 --> 01:04:18,797
Don't you want me to play Scarlett?
1149
01:04:18,922 --> 01:04:21,368
Do you think this will gel you Scarlett?
1150
01:04:21,524 --> 01:04:26,303
This will get you five years of bondage
to David O' Selznick, you twit.
1151
01:04:26,463 --> 01:04:28,841
I would've gotten you Scarlett,
1152
01:04:28,998 --> 01:04:31,535
I've been waiting, Charlie,
and I've been waiting.“
1153
01:04:31,668 --> 01:04:33,306
...and you didn't get it.
1154
01:04:33,470 --> 01:04:35,848
You didn't even get me the test.
1155
01:04:36,005 --> 01:04:38,007
Myron got me my lest.
1156
01:04:38,174 --> 01:04:39,209
Brothers.
1157
01:04:39,376 --> 01:04:44,018
An agent to the producer
working hand in glove to destroy me'
1158
01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:48,856
The agents and producers always destroy
the great artists of this world.
1159
01:04:49,018 --> 01:04:52,397
“Good evening, Mr. and Miss North and
South American, let's go to press.
1160
01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:54,034
Flash, this is Walter Winchell...
1161
01:04:54,190 --> 01:04:56,670
...bringing you the latest
on the great Scarlett O'Hara Wars...
1162
01:04:56,826 --> 01:04:59,306
...from sunny Southern California
where the coconuts bloom.
1163
01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:01,476
And I do mean coconuts.
1164
01:05:01,598 --> 01:05:04,704
Could it be true that after all
the hoopla and heavy breathing...
1165
01:05:04,868 --> 01:05:08,782
...David 0. Selznick is about to ink
none other than Paulette Goddard?
1166
01:05:08,938 --> 01:05:12,681
Hard to believe David hasn't heard,
because it's no secret around Tinseltown.“
1167
01:05:12,876 --> 01:05:16,790
...that Paulette is presently domiciled
in what is rumored to be“.
1168
01:05:16,946 --> 01:05:20,257
...very unwedded bliss
with none other than Charlie Chaplin...
1169
01:05:20,417 --> 01:05:24,797
...one of Joe Stalin's favorite funnymen
on and off the screen.
1170
01:05:24,954 --> 01:05:26,695
Open letter to David O. Selznick:
1171
01:05:26,856 --> 01:05:31,066
“Dear David, will the pages
of Paulette's contract be colored pink?
1172
01:05:31,227 --> 01:05:36,700
Scarlett O'Hara. Oh, Paulette.
Oh, David. Oh, boy."
1173
01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:38,607
Well, are they married or are they not?
1174
01:05:38,802 --> 01:05:40,440
She claims they are.
1175
01:05:40,603 --> 01:05:43,447
- Married last year in Singapore.
Singapore, huh'?
1176
01:05:43,606 --> 01:05:45,552
Well, some cruise they were on.
1177
01:05:45,708 --> 01:05:47,881
Married by the ship's captain
in a harbor at Singapore.
1178
01:05:48,011 --> 01:05:50,992
Perfect. Then all we have to do
is come up with a marriage license, right'?
1179
01:05:53,650 --> 01:05:55,721
I think we could beat
that political thing...
1180
01:05:55,919 --> 01:05:58,900
...if we could come up
with a marriage license.
1181
01:05:59,022 --> 01:06:01,298
That's what all those letters
are screaming about.
1182
01:06:01,458 --> 01:06:04,667
The fact that they're living together
and they're not married.
1183
01:06:04,828 --> 01:06:06,774
Politics, you know, bother people...
1184
01:06:06,930 --> 01:06:12,107
...but sex really makes them nervous.
1185
01:06:12,902 --> 01:06:14,904
Xes'?
- Miss Crawford's on the line.
1186
01:06:15,038 --> 01:06:17,678
Well, tell her
I'll have to call her back later'
1187
01:06:18,041 --> 01:06:19,645
You told me that yesterday, honey...
1188
01:06:19,843 --> 01:06:22,687
...and the day before
and the day before that.
1189
01:06:24,581 --> 01:06:27,653
Maybe we could fake one.
A marriage license.
1190
01:06:27,851 --> 01:06:31,389
Didn't Metro do that with Gable a few
years ago when he was living with Ria...
1191
01:06:31,554 --> 01:06:35,400
...and the public was screaming
for the vice squad. huh?
1192
01:06:35,592 --> 01:06:38,072
I think they predated it by two years.
1193
01:06:38,228 --> 01:06:42,404
In that case, of course, they got married,
much to Gable's present regret.
1194
01:06:42,565 --> 01:06:44,602
Mes'?
- Mr. Cukofs here.
1195
01:06:44,767 --> 01:06:46,405
Send him in.
1196
01:06:47,237 --> 01:06:51,208
Hey, what do you say
we fake a marriage license?
1197
01:06:51,341 --> 01:06:52,979
I'm a lawyer, David. I say no.
1198
01:06:53,142 --> 01:06:56,783
Five thousand crooked attorneys
in this town and I gotta end up with you.
1199
01:06:56,980 --> 01:06:59,961
George. Here.
1200
01:07:00,583 --> 01:07:03,257
Sidney's first-draft screenplay.
1201
01:07:03,419 --> 01:07:06,696
Looks like he's been faithful to the book.
1202
01:07:06,823 --> 01:07:10,600
Four hundred and seventeen pages.
Gonna run seven hours on the screen.
1203
01:07:10,727 --> 01:07:14,174
Well, you could always provide
a boxed lunch and a pillow with each ticket'
1204
01:07:14,364 --> 01:07:16,366
Of course, that wouldn't solve
the restroom problem.
1205
01:07:16,533 --> 01:07:20,538
Louise. We've got to find out
whether they're married or not.
1206
01:07:20,703 --> 01:07:23,081
If I cast her as Scarlet!
and they're not married“.
1207
01:07:23,239 --> 01:07:24,843
...why, the public is gonna crucify us.
1208
01:07:25,008 --> 01:07:27,079
I know, David, I know.
1209
01:07:27,243 --> 01:07:29,120
- Louise.
- Yes?
1210
01:07:29,279 --> 01:07:31,555
A memo to Sidney Howard.
1211
01:07:34,183 --> 01:07:35,821
Whafd you think
of the Lana Turner test'?
1212
01:07:42,458 --> 01:07:45,928
And Gable called me yesterday
urging us to cast Carole.
1213
01:07:46,095 --> 01:07:49,099
Well, I don't think she's right for the pan.
What did you say?
1214
01:07:49,265 --> 01:07:52,678
Well, I told him
I'm so personally enchanted by Carole...
1215
01:07:52,835 --> 01:07:54,405
...l would love so to work with her...
1216
01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:57,950
...that I might unconsciously shift
the emphasis of the picture to Scarlett.
1217
01:07:58,107 --> 01:08:00,747
That's just what he's afraid of,
that it will be a woman's picture.
1218
01:08:00,944 --> 01:08:01,945
I know.
1219
01:08:02,111 --> 01:08:05,217
I think that's the last
we'll hear from him about Carole.
1220
01:08:12,655 --> 01:08:15,795
- Miss Ball is here.
-ls she one of the contract players?
1221
01:08:15,959 --> 01:08:17,029
Send her in.
1222
01:08:17,427 --> 01:08:20,237
- You can go in now.
- Thank you.
1223
01:08:26,235 --> 01:08:27,612
Hello.
1224
01:08:27,770 --> 01:08:30,182
-I'm David Selznick.
- Yes, sir. I know, sir.
1225
01:08:30,340 --> 01:08:31,444
- And you're Miss Ball?
- Yes'
1226
01:08:31,608 --> 01:08:33,884
- Please, sit down.
- Thank you.
1227
01:08:34,077 --> 01:08:37,547
And so you think you could
possibly be my Scarlett, eh?
1228
01:08:37,714 --> 01:08:39,716
- Lucille, is it?
- Yes, sir.
1229
01:08:40,450 --> 01:08:42,430
Lucille Ball.
1230
01:08:45,888 --> 01:08:47,890
It burns me up, you know?
1231
01:08:48,057 --> 01:08:50,537
When will the people in this country
stop getting outraged.“
1232
01:08:50,727 --> 01:08:54,106
...by who sleeps with who,
who lives with who, who has whose baby?
1233
01:08:54,263 --> 01:08:56,334
Never. David, this is America.
1234
01:08:56,466 --> 01:08:57,809
Yeah, right.
1235
01:08:57,934 --> 01:09:02,178
Well, maybe I can still use Goddard
even if I don't use her as Scarlett
1236
01:09:02,338 --> 01:09:06,115
You know, so far, Warners
won't loan me de Havilland for Melanie.
1237
01:09:06,275 --> 01:09:08,846
But from what I understand,
Jack Warner's crazy about Goddard'
1238
01:09:09,012 --> 01:09:12,391
So maybe, just maybe,
I'll be able to trade her for de Havilland.
1239
01:09:12,548 --> 01:09:17,361
Sure, as long as you got them
under contract, they never go to waste'
1240
01:09:17,487 --> 01:09:19,489
LB.
1241
01:09:19,922 --> 01:09:21,094
I hope you're not smiling.
1242
01:09:21,224 --> 01:09:23,295
And if you are,
it's because you don't know the date.
1243
01:09:23,493 --> 01:09:25,666
I'm taking a five-minute break
from despair.
1244
01:09:25,828 --> 01:09:28,672
I had my five-minute break
from despair yesterday.
1245
01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:30,139
I'll wait till you finish yours.
1246
01:09:30,299 --> 01:09:31,676
Yeah. Come here, sit down.
1247
01:09:31,834 --> 01:09:33,780
I wanna show you something.
You know what that is?
1248
01:09:33,936 --> 01:09:35,938
No, I'm out of guesses too, David.
1249
01:09:36,105 --> 01:09:38,745
That's a page from the original manuscript
of Gone with the Wind.
1250
01:09:38,875 --> 01:09:40,218
- Oh, the novel.
- The novel, right.
1251
01:09:40,410 --> 01:09:43,880
Look, with corrections by Margaret Mitchell
herself and signed by Margaret Mitchell.
1252
01:09:44,047 --> 01:09:45,958
- Do you see that?
- Yeah'
1253
01:09:46,115 --> 01:09:49,062
See, David, that's what's so fabulous
about you as a producer too.
1254
01:09:49,218 --> 01:09:51,164
I mean, even after all these years at it...
1255
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,267
...you still have that marvelous
capacity to be thrilled.
1256
01:09:54,424 --> 01:09:56,802
- George.
- Well, I'm impressed' That impresses me'
1257
01:09:56,959 --> 01:09:58,404
You know what I'm after now'?
1258
01:09:58,528 --> 01:10:01,065
A page from the manuscript
by Daphne Du Maurier.
1259
01:10:01,230 --> 01:10:02,971
- Rebecca. Wonderful book.
- Oh. yeah?
1260
01:10:03,166 --> 01:10:05,646
I bought it, to make a movie of it.
Hitchcock's gonna direct it'
1261
01:10:05,802 --> 01:10:07,543
That's a good idea,
It needs an Englishman.
1262
01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:09,615
I'll have to make
a lot of tests of girls again.
1263
01:10:09,772 --> 01:10:12,184
I don't wanna hear
about tests of girls, David.
1264
01:10:12,341 --> 01:10:14,719
Just hold on and suck in.
1265
01:10:14,877 --> 01:10:16,788
You can take all that back to the kitchen.
1266
01:10:16,913 --> 01:10:18,984
I won't eat a bite.
1267
01:10:19,415 --> 01:10:21,656
All right, hold it. Hold it right there.
1268
01:10:22,251 --> 01:10:23,457
Don't shoot. I'm holding it.
1269
01:10:23,619 --> 01:10:24,996
I'm only trying out for the movies.
1270
01:10:25,154 --> 01:10:27,293
I'm only trying out for the movies.
1271
01:10:28,624 --> 01:10:31,628
I've been waiting for the opportune moment
to give you some bad news, Dave'
1272
01:10:31,828 --> 01:10:32,898
I don't wanna hear about it.
1273
01:10:33,096 --> 01:10:35,007
That's the conclusion I've reached,
so here it is.
1274
01:10:35,198 --> 01:10:36,836
I don't wanna hear about it.
1275
01:10:36,999 --> 01:10:38,307
I did the arithmetic for you.
1276
01:10:38,468 --> 01:10:40,744
You gotta put Gable to work
the second week of February...
1277
01:10:40,903 --> 01:10:44,214
...so he'll be ready to start his next picture,
that gives him to you for 20 weeks.
1278
01:10:44,373 --> 01:10:47,047
- I need him for at least 22 weeks.
- I know, but I did the arithmetic.
1279
01:10:47,210 --> 01:10:48,655
And that's how it comes out.
1280
01:10:48,845 --> 01:10:50,017
You can't fight arithmetic.
1281
01:10:50,213 --> 01:10:52,284
L.B. Mayer breaks my legs
giving me Gable“.
1282
01:10:52,482 --> 01:10:55,224
...and now you want me to start
two weeks before I'm ready.
1283
01:10:55,384 --> 01:10:57,295
And you don't even have a Scarlett yet.
1284
01:10:57,453 --> 01:10:59,660
- Will you shut up?
- My heart goes out to you, David.
1285
01:11:00,556 --> 01:11:02,695
Scarlett, Scarlett,
wherefore art thou, Scarlett?
1286
01:11:02,859 --> 01:11:04,497
What face through yon
window breaks?
1287
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:07,504
She's out there somewhere, Dave.
You always said so.
1288
01:11:07,663 --> 01:11:09,404
I hate to admit it, but I have to admit it.
1289
01:11:09,565 --> 01:11:11,044
I have to admit that I'm suffering...
1290
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:14,204
...from a certain amount
of mental confusion at this point.
1291
01:11:14,337 --> 01:11:17,682
Seems to me that I've got
a bad case of Scarlett on the brain.
1292
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:19,581
Scarlett fever.
1293
01:11:19,709 --> 01:11:22,155
All I do is dream about Scarletts.
1294
01:11:22,311 --> 01:11:23,312
Thousands of them...
1295
01:11:23,513 --> 01:11:27,586
...coming around the corner,
from behind trees.
1296
01:11:27,717 --> 01:11:31,358
First, it's Bette Davis, then it's Crawford,
then it turns into Lombard.
1297
01:11:31,521 --> 01:11:33,899
I had a nightmare. A nightmare.
1298
01:11:34,056 --> 01:11:35,501
Scarlett was walking toward me.
1299
01:11:35,625 --> 01:11:38,629
She looked beautiful.
But she had no face.
1300
01:11:38,795 --> 01:11:40,103
Where her face was, it was blank.
1301
01:11:40,263 --> 01:11:41,970
Just like in those posters.
Remember those?
1302
01:11:42,098 --> 01:11:43,168
I remember, brilliant idea.
1303
01:11:43,332 --> 01:11:44,811
- Birdwell'?
- Mine.
1304
01:11:44,967 --> 01:11:46,275
Brilliant idea, anyway.
1305
01:11:46,435 --> 01:11:48,005
Now it comes back to haunt me.
1306
01:11:49,272 --> 01:11:52,378
If only you could get them all together,
all the Scarletts...
1307
01:11:52,542 --> 01:11:55,546
...and line them up, side-by-side.“
1308
01:11:55,711 --> 01:11:57,918
...and look at them altogether,
all at once.
1309
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,755
A lineup,
sort of like the cops have for suspects.
1310
01:12:02,885 --> 01:12:05,195
There'd be thousands of girls.
Thousands.
1311
01:12:05,354 --> 01:12:09,097
I spent over $100,000
on this talent search.
1312
01:12:09,292 --> 01:12:11,101
Did you know that?
1313
01:12:14,564 --> 01:12:19,274
Ninety-three separate screen tests“.
1314
01:12:19,402 --> 01:12:21,746
...and not a Scarlett in the bunch.
1315
01:12:21,938 --> 01:12:23,576
Thousands and thousands of girls.
1316
01:12:23,739 --> 01:12:26,481
You'd have to narrow it down a little.
1317
01:12:27,944 --> 01:12:31,391
- Like in a lineup.
- Little lineup.
1318
01:12:37,153 --> 01:12:40,862
Yeah. like in a lineup.
1319
01:12:41,023 --> 01:12:42,058
Suspects.
1320
01:12:42,225 --> 01:12:44,034
Myron...
1321
01:12:46,696 --> 01:12:47,766
...we're gonna have a party.
1322
01:12:47,964 --> 01:12:49,966
- A party? I hate parties.
- A party.
1323
01:12:50,132 --> 01:12:51,338
Oh. you're gonna love this one.
1324
01:12:51,500 --> 01:12:54,242
Myron, this party, you're gonna love.
1325
01:13:15,458 --> 01:13:18,735
- Joan, you look wonderful.
- Hello, darling.
1326
01:13:18,895 --> 01:13:21,341
Hello, Terry. Have a drink.
1327
01:13:42,351 --> 01:13:44,831
Oh, that cheap, rotten,
conniving son of a--
1328
01:13:44,987 --> 01:13:47,934
What? What is it, honey?
1329
01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:49,933
Scarletts.
1330
01:13:51,494 --> 01:13:52,564
They're all Scarletts.
1331
01:13:52,728 --> 01:13:55,368
We're up to our butts in Scarletts here.
1332
01:13:55,498 --> 01:13:57,569
Paulette Goddard.
1333
01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:00,036
Joan Bennett.
1334
01:14:00,670 --> 01:14:04,379
Jean Arthur. Miriam Hopkins.
1335
01:14:04,507 --> 01:14:06,748
Margaret Sullavan,
1336
01:14:08,577 --> 01:14:10,215
Crawford .
1337
01:14:11,314 --> 01:14:14,852
- Bankhead-
- Lord, when will it ever stop?
1338
01:14:15,017 --> 01:14:17,395
What do we do'?
Pretend we don't notice?
1339
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:19,693
Let's pretend we don't notice, okay?
1340
01:14:19,855 --> 01:14:22,802
Apparently,
that's what everyone else is doing.
1341
01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:25,701
I just don't know how long
it's going to last.
1342
01:14:25,861 --> 01:14:27,863
Hi, my darling.
I'm so glad you could come.
1343
01:14:28,030 --> 01:14:29,065
So was I.
1344
01:14:29,231 --> 01:14:31,268
- Clark. You're looking fit, just fine.
- David'
1345
01:14:31,434 --> 01:14:33,243
- Swell. Couldn't be better.
- Wonderful'
1346
01:14:33,402 --> 01:14:35,279
Lose five or 10 pounds
before the picture starts.
1347
01:14:35,438 --> 01:14:37,509
Come on in, join the party, won't you?
1348
01:14:42,445 --> 01:14:43,549
Enough is enough.
1349
01:14:43,713 --> 01:14:46,717
She's taking unfair advantage.
She could've at least left Gable at home.
1350
01:14:46,882 --> 01:14:49,988
They do go well together though,
don't they?
1351
01:14:50,152 --> 01:14:51,995
Shut up.
1352
01:14:57,526 --> 01:14:59,563
To me, Clark Gable is Rhett Butler.
1353
01:14:59,729 --> 01:15:02,471
Well, I think this will help
get his career off the ground, you know.
1354
01:15:02,631 --> 01:15:03,632
So says I, a bachelor.
1355
01:15:03,833 --> 01:15:06,939
A bachelor, mate, is a man
who doesn't make the same mistake once'
1356
01:15:08,204 --> 01:15:11,185
Oh. Charlie, look. I can't stand it.
1357
01:15:11,374 --> 01:15:14,014
Remember, you're under contract to him.
You'll stand it'
1358
01:15:14,176 --> 01:15:15,382
Let this be a lesson to you.
1359
01:15:15,544 --> 01:15:17,114
I wanna go home.
1360
01:15:17,279 --> 01:15:19,486
Say goodbye to Scarlett as you leave.
1361
01:15:19,648 --> 01:15:20,820
You're mean.
1362
01:15:20,950 --> 01:15:23,123
Jean, my dear.
1363
01:15:23,285 --> 01:15:25,561
I don't believe you've met Paulette.
1364
01:15:25,755 --> 01:15:26,927
Jean Arthur, Paulette Goddard.
1365
01:15:27,123 --> 01:15:28,659
- Hi, hon.
- Hi.
1366
01:15:28,858 --> 01:15:30,496
I've been a fan of yours for ages.
1367
01:15:30,659 --> 01:15:33,401
Hope I can say the same
about you someday.
1368
01:15:33,562 --> 01:15:35,599
- And Miriam Hopkins.
- Hi there.
1369
01:15:35,765 --> 01:15:38,769
Thought you gave a charming performance
in Modern Times.
1370
01:15:38,934 --> 01:15:41,107
I owe it all to Charlie.
1371
01:15:41,237 --> 01:15:43,410
So I've heard.
1372
01:15:46,942 --> 01:15:51,584
- George, for Pete's sake, please be careful.
- Of what?
1373
01:15:51,781 --> 01:15:54,694
There's gonna be a lot of feminine wiles
thrown at you tonight.
1374
01:15:54,884 --> 01:15:57,592
I thought the feminine wiles
were your responsibility?
1375
01:15:57,787 --> 01:16:01,758
After the producer, the most important man
in the production is you.
1376
01:16:01,891 --> 01:16:02,961
I never thought of that.
1377
01:16:03,125 --> 01:16:05,071
You better start thinking about it
and be careful.
1378
01:16:05,227 --> 01:16:07,138
There's gonna be an awful lot
of wiles left over'
1379
01:16:07,997 --> 01:16:11,001
- Not the least hint of favoritism.
- No favoritism.
1380
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:15,181
Again, please.
1381
01:16:20,643 --> 01:16:23,385
We're looking at at least six
Oscar-winning performances here tonight.
1382
01:16:23,546 --> 01:16:24,616
With several nominees.
1383
01:16:24,780 --> 01:16:26,623
And they're handling it admirably,
aren't they?
1384
01:16:26,816 --> 01:16:29,353
I haven't heard the words
Gone with the Wind so much as whispered.
1385
01:16:29,552 --> 01:16:31,896
Talk about restraint'
Even Tallulah hasn't batted an eye.
1386
01:16:32,021 --> 01:16:34,627
- Is she drinking a lot'?
- Both hands.
1387
01:16:34,790 --> 01:16:38,203
She's gonna be batting a lot more
than an eye before the night's over, boys.
1388
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:39,839
Incidentally, where's Irene?
1389
01:16:39,995 --> 01:16:41,736
She retired early with a headache.
1390
01:16:41,897 --> 01:16:43,035
To Palm Springs.
1391
01:16:43,199 --> 01:16:46,043
Yeah, she doesn't share
our sense of adventure.
1392
01:16:46,202 --> 01:16:48,648
- Or dedication.
- Or fun.
1393
01:16:48,804 --> 01:16:51,410
What she doesn't share
is your willingness...
1394
01:16:51,574 --> 01:16:55,317
...to walk into a cage full of tigers
with one hunk of meat.
1395
01:16:55,478 --> 01:16:59,119
Darling, have you worked
since My Man Godfrey?
1396
01:16:59,281 --> 01:17:01,283
Gee, Miriam. hardly at all.
1397
01:17:01,417 --> 01:17:03,488
That's what I thought.
1398
01:17:04,386 --> 01:17:05,865
This is giving me the willies.
1399
01:17:06,021 --> 01:17:08,194
I haven't seen so many phony smiles
since the losers.“
1400
01:17:08,324 --> 01:17:10,600
mat the last Academy Awards.
1401
01:17:10,759 --> 01:17:12,238
Why don't you all just walk out?
1402
01:17:12,394 --> 01:17:14,840
Listen to the man
with the signed contract.
1403
01:17:14,964 --> 01:17:16,409
I'd give it to you if I could.
1404
01:17:16,599 --> 01:17:19,239
- The part?
- My contract.
1405
01:17:19,401 --> 01:17:21,142
Is that story on the level, dear?
1406
01:17:21,303 --> 01:17:22,873
You really don't wanna do it?
1407
01:17:23,038 --> 01:17:25,245
I thought it was just one
of David's publicity gimmicks.
1408
01:17:25,407 --> 01:17:29,412
The king is reluctant in the face
of nationwide demand, all thatjunk.
1409
01:17:29,578 --> 01:17:33,151
The king is reluctant.
The king is scared spitless.
1410
01:17:33,315 --> 01:17:37,457
You know what you need'?
You need a Scarlett you can count on'
1411
01:17:37,620 --> 01:17:42,899
Ronnie Colman, Errol Flynn, Cooper,
they're all Rhett Butlers.
1412
01:17:43,058 --> 01:17:44,696
Why me?
1413
01:17:45,161 --> 01:17:48,165
Margaret Mitchell wanted Basil Rathbone
to do the part, did you know that?
1414
01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:53,006
Writers should never be involved
in the casting process.
1415
01:17:57,973 --> 01:17:59,816
Hey. pal.
1416
01:18:06,549 --> 01:18:08,256
Thank you.
1417
01:18:16,025 --> 01:18:19,006
I'm terribly sorry, darling'
I don't think I caught your name.
1418
01:18:19,128 --> 01:18:23,577
- Michael.
- Michael. What a sweet name.
1419
01:18:23,732 --> 01:18:26,941
Michael, I'm afraid
I'm becoming extremely tense.
1420
01:18:27,102 --> 01:18:28,410
Are you? I'm sorry.
1421
01:18:28,571 --> 01:18:32,747
Perhaps you could render me
some assistance.
1422
01:18:33,676 --> 01:18:35,212
How'!?
1423
01:18:36,145 --> 01:18:39,957
Oh. you sweet old-fashioned boy, you.
1424
01:18:47,423 --> 01:18:50,336
George, it's wonderful to see you.
You look marvelous.
1425
01:18:50,492 --> 01:18:53,439
My darling, you took the words
right out of my mouth.
1426
01:18:53,596 --> 01:18:55,337
Take them back.
They sound better in yours'
1427
01:18:55,497 --> 01:18:58,068
Joan. you look marvelous.
1428
01:18:58,234 --> 01:19:00,544
You see'? Much better.
1429
01:19:00,703 --> 01:19:03,081
Darling, you know
I never beat around the bush.
1430
01:19:03,239 --> 01:19:06,516
Certainly not with someone that I adore
and trust the way I adore and trust you...
1431
01:19:06,675 --> 01:19:08,951
...so I'm going to lay this
right on the line'
1432
01:19:09,511 --> 01:19:10,888
Lay what on the line?
1433
01:19:11,714 --> 01:19:15,787
If you want me to lest for it,
I'll test for it.
1434
01:19:15,985 --> 01:19:18,522
- For what?
- George, don't be cruel.
1435
01:19:19,321 --> 01:19:24,202
Oh, well, you know,
if that were solely my responsibility, then--
1436
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,636
I mean, need I say more?
1437
01:19:26,795 --> 01:19:28,365
A little.
1438
01:19:29,632 --> 01:19:35,173
I don't feel that Joan Crawford
should test for anything'
1439
01:19:35,704 --> 01:19:37,741
Which reminds me...
1440
01:19:37,906 --> 01:19:41,115
...when I finish Gone with the Wind,
I've been offered another picture.
1441
01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:42,551
It's called The Women.
1442
01:19:42,745 --> 01:19:45,919
And there is a part in it
that you will adore.
1443
01:19:46,115 --> 01:19:47,856
I mean, it was written for you.
1444
01:19:48,017 --> 01:19:49,928
Really? The Woman?
1445
01:19:50,119 --> 01:19:51,996
Ne, The Women.
1446
01:19:52,121 --> 01:19:54,032
Oh, more than one?
1447
01:20:25,154 --> 01:20:28,328
You realize, of course,
who's very conspicuously not here.
1448
01:20:28,490 --> 01:20:29,764
Sure, Hepburn.
1449
01:20:29,892 --> 01:20:31,496
Well, maybe she's late, Joan,
1450
01:20:31,627 --> 01:20:33,072
Maybe she's out of the running.
1451
01:20:33,228 --> 01:20:35,230
Maybe she's already got it.
1452
01:20:35,431 --> 01:20:38,537
Don't say that, Maggie. Please.
1453
01:20:43,872 --> 01:20:46,614
Did you see Modem Times, George?
1454
01:20:46,775 --> 01:20:49,278
Brilliant. And you were exquisite.
1455
01:20:49,445 --> 01:20:54,451
Oh, George, I'd rather hear that from you
than anyone else in this town.
1456
01:20:54,616 --> 01:20:56,892
Well, except Charlie, of course.
1457
01:20:57,353 --> 01:20:59,629
Not even Charlie.
1458
01:20:59,788 --> 01:21:01,734
Oh. well, I am very flattered.
1459
01:21:01,890 --> 01:21:04,370
Oh. I mean it. I really do.
1460
01:21:04,827 --> 01:21:09,173
Why, I'd give just about anything
to work with you, George.
1461
01:21:10,632 --> 01:21:12,111
Funny that you would say that...
1462
01:21:12,267 --> 01:21:16,215
...because I've been offered a new script
right after Gone with the Wind.
1463
01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:17,851
Really?
1464
01:21:18,006 --> 01:21:19,314
What's it called?
1465
01:21:19,475 --> 01:21:20,954
It's called The Women.
1466
01:21:21,110 --> 01:21:26,184
Well, if there are no men,
where is the love interest?
1467
01:21:26,315 --> 01:21:32,027
George, are you sure there's not
something funny about this picture'?
1468
01:21:32,221 --> 01:21:33,666
Funny?
1469
01:21:33,856 --> 01:21:35,665
You know what I mean.
1470
01:21:36,225 --> 01:21:38,136
Good heavens, no.
1471
01:21:38,293 --> 01:21:41,570
Well, you know, I just could never work
in a picture like that.
1472
01:21:42,331 --> 01:21:45,403
Good heavens. No.
1473
01:21:47,503 --> 01:21:49,107
No men at all, George'?
1474
01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:50,308
Exactly.
1475
01:21:50,472 --> 01:21:53,885
And this part
was just written for you, Tallu.
1476
01:21:54,710 --> 01:21:56,986
No men at all?
1477
01:22:11,627 --> 01:22:13,903
Well, hello, Carole. old girl.
1478
01:22:14,062 --> 01:22:16,008
Hi, Tallu.
1479
01:22:16,498 --> 01:22:19,172
This is an absolutely stinking idea,
isn't it?
1480
01:22:19,334 --> 01:22:21,905
- Stinking.
-l'm not amused.
1481
01:22:22,070 --> 01:22:23,344
Neither am I.
1482
01:22:23,505 --> 01:22:25,178
Tell me honestly.
1483
01:22:25,340 --> 01:22:28,446
Darling, do you think you stand a chance
of playing Scarlett O'Hara'?
1484
01:22:28,610 --> 01:22:31,352
- Not a ghost.
- Neither do l.
1485
01:22:31,513 --> 01:22:35,893
Fiddledeedee. I say it with
a breaking heart and a cheerful voice.
1486
01:22:36,018 --> 01:22:38,658
Well, maybe you don'! have
approval technically. Clark...
1487
01:22:38,821 --> 01:22:42,928
...but Selznick sure isn't going
to cast anyone you don't like, right?
1488
01:22:43,091 --> 01:22:45,731
Did you happen to see
my test by any chance?
1489
01:22:45,928 --> 01:22:49,375
Well, I didn't, honey. No. I heard
about it, though. I heard it was just great.
1490
01:22:49,565 --> 01:22:51,101
DR! you see Modem Times?
1491
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:53,541
No. But it's on the top of my list to see.
1492
01:22:53,669 --> 01:22:57,310
Well, Charlie would be very happy
to screen it for you.
1493
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,112
Why are we putting up
with this nonsense?
1494
01:23:01,310 --> 01:23:02,846
I don't know. Why are we?
1495
01:23:03,011 --> 01:23:06,754
Why in the pluperfect hell
don't we just up and leave?
1496
01:23:06,915 --> 01:23:08,553
Well, I don't know. Why don't we'?
1497
01:23:08,684 --> 01:23:11,324
- No.
- No?
1498
01:23:12,387 --> 01:23:15,664
It isn't enough to just up and leave.
1499
01:23:16,124 --> 01:23:17,933
It isn't?
1500
01:23:18,126 --> 01:23:21,232
Not nearly enough, darling. Not nearly.
1501
01:23:37,312 --> 01:23:39,349
See what her reputation is?
1502
01:23:39,515 --> 01:23:41,085
You're invited but--
1503
01:23:41,250 --> 01:23:43,526
I can't stand it.
1504
01:23:43,685 --> 01:23:45,528
Why not?
1505
01:23:48,991 --> 01:23:51,801
Ladies and gentlemen.
1506
01:23:52,427 --> 01:23:55,431
May I have your attention. please?
1507
01:23:56,265 --> 01:23:58,245
My friend Carole...
1508
01:23:58,367 --> 01:24:00,813
...Miss Lombard...
1509
01:24:02,704 --> 01:24:04,741
Wand I would like
to take this opportunity...
1510
01:24:04,907 --> 01:24:08,821
...!o thank our most distinguished host,
our dear David.“
1511
01:24:09,011 --> 01:24:12,823
...for including us in this honorable...
1512
01:24:12,981 --> 01:24:15,723
...and most gracious society.
1513
01:24:15,851 --> 01:24:19,025
- Right, Carole?
- Too true, Tallu.
1514
01:24:19,187 --> 01:24:23,101
It's been an experience
unlike any other that we've ever had.
1515
01:24:23,292 --> 01:24:26,205
And I think that we speak
for others here tonight...
1516
01:24:26,361 --> 01:24:30,275
...when we say that this evening
was one that we'll never forget.
1517
01:24:30,399 --> 01:24:32,845
- Right, Tallu?
- Right, Carole'
1518
01:24:33,001 --> 01:24:39,043
And we thought
that David shouldn't forget it either.
1519
01:24:39,207 --> 01:24:41,949
- Right, Tallu?
- Right, Carole'
1520
01:24:46,682 --> 01:24:49,754
- Frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn.
- We don't give a damn.
1521
01:24:52,754 --> 01:24:53,789
Carole.
1522
01:24:53,956 --> 01:24:56,061
Gee, David, I-- Carole.
1523
01:24:56,224 --> 01:24:57,703
David, she must be-
1524
01:24:57,859 --> 01:24:59,429
Carole.
1525
01:25:17,879 --> 01:25:21,725
You do not need a quick answer
on this so...
1526
01:25:24,252 --> 01:25:26,823
'..l should like to continue looking around.
1527
01:25:28,090 --> 01:25:29,194
Memo to Walter Plunketl.
1528
01:25:29,358 --> 01:25:32,999
No, we do not yet have a leading lady
and yes. we are running out of time.
1529
01:25:33,161 --> 01:25:35,641
I can only suggest
that you make all the Scarlett costumes...
1530
01:25:35,797 --> 01:25:39,176
...in small, medium and large,
1531
01:25:42,904 --> 01:25:46,818
Tell her the deal looks like it's all set so
she doesn't have to sell the polo ponies'
1532
01:25:47,009 --> 01:25:49,011
Only kidding.
When you're done with that...
1533
01:25:49,177 --> 01:25:52,351
...see if you can track down
a picture called Fire Over England.
1534
01:25:52,481 --> 01:25:54,552
There's a print of it floating
around town somewhere.
1535
01:25:54,750 --> 01:25:57,458
Try not to let anyone know
that I'm the one who wants it.
1536
01:25:57,586 --> 01:26:00,226
- May I ask why?
- Yes.
1537
01:26:00,389 --> 01:26:01,493
Why?
1538
01:26:01,657 --> 01:26:04,831
Well, there's an actor in it who I hear
my brother is hot for for Rebecca.
1539
01:26:05,027 --> 01:26:07,405
This actor is said not to have
any American representation.
1540
01:26:07,562 --> 01:26:12,511
I would be happy to represent them
in negotiations with David O. Selznick.
1541
01:26:12,668 --> 01:26:15,205
Also find out if this actor
has made any other picture.
1542
01:26:15,404 --> 01:26:17,042
If so, I wanna see them.
1543
01:26:17,205 --> 01:26:18,684
His name is Olivier.
1544
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,616
O-L-l-V-l-E-R'
1545
01:26:21,777 --> 01:26:23,381
Laurence Olivier.
1546
01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:27,255
December 10th, we burn Atlanta.
1547
01:26:27,416 --> 01:26:29,760
- Scarlett or no Scarlett?
- Scarlett or no Scarlett'
1548
01:26:29,885 --> 01:26:33,628
But we're gonna be using doubles
for the Atlanta burning so not to worry'
1549
01:26:33,789 --> 01:26:35,234
What do you think of these sketches?
1550
01:26:35,424 --> 01:26:38,962
I start shooting with the real Scarlett
in little over a month, David.
1551
01:26:39,127 --> 01:26:40,162
That's to worry.
1552
01:26:40,328 --> 01:26:41,864
- David, about Atlanta--
- Yes.
1553
01:26:42,064 --> 01:26:45,170
- Have you seen Bill's designs?
- I have' They're gorgeous,
1554
01:26:45,333 --> 01:26:47,779
David, we can't build the Atlanta set
in time enough“.
1555
01:26:47,903 --> 01:26:49,348
...to burn it down on December 10th.
1556
01:26:49,538 --> 01:26:50,710
I thought we were using models.
1557
01:26:50,872 --> 01:26:52,408
Well, I wanted to use models.
1558
01:26:52,541 --> 01:26:56,148
I mentioned it to Bill but he said
he'd shoot me if we did, so, Bill, no models.
1559
01:26:56,278 --> 01:26:58,622
Now, we got all those sets
standing on the back lot, right'?
1560
01:26:58,814 --> 01:27:01,727
We're gonna have to tear them down
to build Tara and all those exteriors.
1561
01:27:01,883 --> 01:27:02,884
What are those sets?
1562
01:27:03,085 --> 01:27:06,191
The Last of the Mohicans, King Kong,
Garden of Allah, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
1563
01:27:06,354 --> 01:27:09,096
- Put them all together. What do you got?
- Atlanta for burning.
1564
01:27:09,725 --> 01:27:12,001
David, have you thought any more
about Margaret Sullavan?
1565
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:14,265
I've made a decision, incidentally.
1566
01:27:14,996 --> 01:27:16,669
You decided?
1567
01:27:18,033 --> 01:27:20,570
I knew from the beginning
that if we got down to the wire.“
1568
01:27:20,736 --> 01:27:23,046
Wand we didn't have
the Scarlett of our dreams“.
1569
01:27:23,205 --> 01:27:26,652
...l'd have to go with the best one available
at the time, so here it is.
1570
01:27:26,808 --> 01:27:28,287
It can't go out to this office.
1571
01:27:30,746 --> 01:27:33,317
Scarlett will be Hepburn."
1572
01:27:35,951 --> 01:27:41,560
...Goddard, Jean Arthur 0r Joan Bennett.
1573
01:27:43,125 --> 01:27:48,598
Well, to decide not to decide
is also a decision.
1574
01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:49,868
David O. Selznick?
1575
01:27:53,468 --> 01:27:54,674
- David O. Selznick?
- That's me'
1576
01:27:54,836 --> 01:27:56,679
- David O. Selznick?
- Yeah, what is it?
1577
01:27:56,838 --> 01:27:59,978
David O. Selznick,
I have here a warrant for your arrest...
1578
01:28:02,310 --> 01:28:06,690
...on charges of grand larceny,
fraud, violation of the Mann Act--
1579
01:28:06,848 --> 01:28:07,883
The Mann Act?
1580
01:28:08,049 --> 01:28:10,962
The transportation of female persons
across a state line“.
1581
01:28:11,153 --> 01:28:12,689
...for lewd and illicit purpose--
1582
01:28:12,854 --> 01:28:14,595
I know what it is.
1583
01:28:14,723 --> 01:28:15,793
It's a mistake.
1584
01:28:15,957 --> 01:28:18,437
You got the wrong Selznick,
You probably want my brother Myron.
1585
01:28:18,627 --> 01:28:19,628
Give him his number.
1586
01:28:22,531 --> 01:28:23,805
All right, all right.
1587
01:28:23,965 --> 01:28:27,174
Now, just let me try to understand this.
1588
01:28:27,335 --> 01:28:28,973
Now. Mr. Adams.
1589
01:28:29,104 --> 01:28:32,278
You contend that your client
has no association.“
1590
01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:34,716
...with these gentlemen whatsoever?
1591
01:28:34,876 --> 01:28:36,753
None whatsoever, Your Honor.
I never saw these--
1592
01:28:36,912 --> 01:28:39,290
David, please.
None whatsoever, Your Honor.
1593
01:28:39,447 --> 01:28:41,654
Neither professional nor personal.
None whatsoever.
1594
01:28:41,817 --> 01:28:44,127
They said they work
for Mr. David O. Selznick.
1595
01:28:44,286 --> 01:28:46,823
- They said they'd get us screen tests.
- If we were nice to them.
1596
01:28:46,988 --> 01:28:47,989
And we were.
1597
01:28:48,190 --> 01:28:53,367
I was nice to Mr. Fuller once in Sacramento
and twice right here in Hollywood.
1598
01:28:53,995 --> 01:28:57,909
Me too, with Mr. Page
for three solid weeks in Burbank.
1599
01:28:59,100 --> 01:29:02,673
Am I to understand that the credentials
identifying Mr. Page and Mr. Fuller.“
1600
01:29:02,838 --> 01:29:05,546
was representatives
of Selznick International Pictures...
1601
01:29:05,674 --> 01:29:08,484
...that these credentials
are entirely bogus and fraudulent?
1602
01:29:08,643 --> 01:29:11,590
Bogus and fraudulent,
Your Honor, entirely.
1603
01:29:11,746 --> 01:29:14,920
I want to speak privately with counsel.
1604
01:29:15,050 --> 01:29:17,030
Would you excuse us, please?
1605
01:29:19,387 --> 01:29:21,389
Yes, of course.
1606
01:29:26,962 --> 01:29:28,669
Well...
1607
01:29:31,132 --> 01:29:32,702
I want to test them both.
1608
01:29:32,868 --> 01:29:34,347
- For Scarlett?
- For anything.
1609
01:29:34,502 --> 01:29:36,778
It'll be great publicity,
1610
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:40,982
ls that your final word on it, Clark?
1611
01:29:42,510 --> 01:29:43,818
Okay, I'll pass it along to David.
1612
01:29:43,979 --> 01:29:46,789
I think you'll be hearing from them
about it, though.
1613
01:29:47,716 --> 01:29:48,990
Right.
1614
01:29:49,150 --> 01:29:50,629
Bye-bye.
1615
01:29:51,686 --> 01:29:54,360
Gable categorically refuses
to have any kind of Southern accent.
1616
01:29:54,522 --> 01:29:57,901
Can you imagine Rhett Butler
without a Southern accent?
1617
01:29:58,593 --> 01:30:00,800
Or maybe he'll get away with it.
1618
01:30:00,962 --> 01:30:02,635
Shall I have them run the film now?
1619
01:30:02,797 --> 01:30:04,208
What am I seeing?
1620
01:30:04,366 --> 01:30:06,175
Fire Over England.
1621
01:30:06,334 --> 01:30:07,642
Why?
1622
01:30:07,802 --> 01:30:10,282
- You wanted to see Olivier.
Right. right.
1623
01:30:10,438 --> 01:30:13,817
It's academic now.
David's already signed him for Rebecca.
1624
01:30:14,075 --> 01:30:17,750
I'll look anyway. I haven't seen
a movie in two days. I need a fix.
1625
01:30:18,747 --> 01:30:20,283
Okay. you can go now.
1626
01:30:22,817 --> 01:30:24,455
F love her.
1627
01:30:24,653 --> 01:30:27,361
Bu! I will not ask any girl's leave
to do what I must.
1628
01:30:27,489 --> 01:30:29,230
- Not if I order it'?
- Michael.
1629
01:30:29,391 --> 01:30:33,032
Michael, speak to me out of your own heart,
not because she bids you. Must you go'?
1630
01:30:33,194 --> 01:30:36,835
If you are killed, Michael,
there will be so many years without you.
1631
01:30:36,998 --> 01:30:38,500
I shall grow old.
1632
01:30:38,667 --> 01:30:41,045
Fifty years without you, Michael,
think of it.
1633
01:30:41,202 --> 01:30:46,049
Fifty springs, summers» winters.
Must you go?
1634
01:30:46,207 --> 01:30:49,120
Get me the overseas operator.
I wanna call London.
1635
01:30:49,244 --> 01:30:51,155
Olivier'?
1636
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,250
No, not Olivier.
1637
01:30:53,415 --> 01:30:56,589
Then you'll go with my free leave.
1638
01:30:56,785 --> 01:30:58,526
Lord Burieigh will order your journey.
1639
01:30:58,954 --> 01:31:01,867
Start rehearsal with Goddard tomorrow
and shoot the test on Thursday.
1640
01:31:02,023 --> 01:31:03,058
- Okay?
- Fine.
1641
01:31:03,224 --> 01:31:05,067
- When are we testing Jean Arthur?
- Tuesday.
1642
01:31:05,226 --> 01:31:06,227
All right, fine.
1643
01:31:06,428 --> 01:31:09,966
Soon Fitzgerald
starts the new screenplay tomorrow.
1644
01:31:10,165 --> 01:31:11,906
You think he's gonna have
any more success...
1645
01:31:12,067 --> 01:31:13,671
...than the other five writers you had?
1646
01:31:13,802 --> 01:31:15,281
- Six.
- Six.
1647
01:31:15,437 --> 01:31:19,180
The ideal script won't have
one word of screenwriters dialogue.
1648
01:31:19,341 --> 01:31:21,685
It would be 100-percent
pure Margaret Mitchell.
1649
01:31:21,810 --> 01:31:24,450
You can't improve on success.
1650
01:31:49,104 --> 01:31:52,108
They said they was delivering
this automobile for Miss Crawford.
1651
01:31:52,273 --> 01:31:54,810
And I said there was
probably some mistake.
1652
01:31:54,943 --> 01:31:58,117
You already got three automobiles.
1653
01:32:03,118 --> 01:32:07,032
Joan. Please accept this small token
of my esteem, my devotion and my regrets.
1654
01:32:07,188 --> 01:32:08,189
Love, David.
1655
01:32:08,390 --> 01:32:12,133
P. S. I have a wonderful new script.
I'd like you to read it.
1656
01:32:22,771 --> 01:32:25,513
David. Scarlett.
1657
01:32:25,740 --> 01:32:27,515
I'd say it's between Goddard
and Jean Arthur.
1658
01:32:27,675 --> 01:32:29,313
Wouldn't you say?
1659
01:32:29,511 --> 01:32:31,422
That's where we are.
1660
01:32:31,579 --> 01:32:34,059
I'll tell you the truth, George.
1661
01:32:34,416 --> 01:32:38,057
Not finding the right girl to play Scarlett.“
1662
01:32:38,953 --> 01:32:42,162
...is really the greatest failure
in my entire career.
1663
01:32:44,526 --> 01:32:45,766
Memo to Kay Brown.
1664
01:32:45,894 --> 01:32:49,706
Dear Kay, would you care to inquire
from Tallulah Bankhead...
1665
01:32:49,898 --> 01:32:52,435
._.whether she'd like
to play Belle Walling?
1666
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,978
S think she would do wonders
with this bit...
1667
01:32:55,170 --> 01:32:57,878
Wand would be a perfect illicit mate
for Rhett Butler.
1668
01:32:58,006 --> 01:33:01,544
However.
since it is an extremely small part...
1669
01:33:01,709 --> 01:33:03,780
. .. don 't mention my name
in connection with the idea.
1670
01:33:03,912 --> 01:33:08,657
Simply say that it's an idea of yours
and you haven'! yet taken it up with me.
1671
01:33:08,817 --> 01:33:10,819
Do I hear you muttering obscenities?
1672
01:33:10,985 --> 01:33:14,091
By the way.
wait till you get a load of Gable in costume.
1673
01:33:14,255 --> 01:33:15,734
MI knock your socks off.
1674
01:33:15,924 --> 01:33:18,302
He is Rhett Butler.
1675
01:33:24,632 --> 01:33:25,906
Tonight's the night.
1676
01:33:26,034 --> 01:33:28,014
Still no Scaflett.
1677
01:34:00,401 --> 01:34:03,041
Okay, shine that light over here, please.
1678
01:34:04,139 --> 01:34:07,245
And on action, the doubles for Scarlett--
1679
01:34:07,408 --> 01:34:10,150
- David. David.
- The flames will start coming--
1680
01:34:10,311 --> 01:34:12,689
- It's getting late.
- All right, let's get started, forget it.
1681
01:34:12,881 --> 01:34:14,360
- You haven't seen Myron, have you?
- No.
1682
01:34:14,516 --> 01:34:15,620
The hell with it.
1683
01:34:15,783 --> 01:34:17,592
I can't believe it. Typical.
1684
01:34:17,719 --> 01:34:20,427
One of the most important shots
ever to be done in motion pictures...
1685
01:34:20,622 --> 01:34:21,999
...and my brother's late.
1686
01:34:22,157 --> 01:34:23,261
Forget it.
1687
01:34:23,424 --> 01:34:25,995
David, this is gonna be wonderful.
Just terrific'
1688
01:34:26,161 --> 01:34:29,005
- Good evening, everybody.
- Surely this is the capstone of your career.
1689
01:34:29,164 --> 01:34:30,973
Well, I hope so.
1690
01:34:31,166 --> 01:34:32,804
Okay. everybody.
1691
01:34:33,001 --> 01:34:35,709
Okay, Bill, whenever you're ready.
Please, let's go.
1692
01:34:35,904 --> 01:34:38,384
- Okay, boys, light them up.
- Light the torches'
1693
01:34:38,540 --> 01:34:40,019
- Okay.
- Be careful with that.
1694
01:34:40,175 --> 01:34:42,348
Don't rush. Don't rush it.
1695
01:34:42,544 --> 01:34:45,184
Everybody, together now in the fire.
All right, let's give a nice--
1696
01:34:45,346 --> 01:34:47,826
- Okay, let's go.
- All right. Walk, walk, walk.
1697
01:34:50,451 --> 01:34:54,661
- All ready there with the effects? Good.
- Let's get it by the steeple.
1698
01:34:54,822 --> 01:34:57,735
- Okay, back away- Get out of there.
- It's up, it's up, it's up.
1699
01:34:59,561 --> 01:35:01,268
- Camera's rolling.
- You got the camera set?
1700
01:35:01,396 --> 01:35:03,103
- Yeah.
- Let's make one'
1701
01:35:03,264 --> 01:35:04,743
- Clear.
1702
01:35:07,101 --> 01:35:09,775
- Speed .
- Action.
1703
01:35:16,110 --> 01:35:18,112
Okay. Wasn't bad.
We'll have to do it again, though.
1704
01:35:18,313 --> 01:35:20,850
Set up again, re-set.
Somebody get his hat, please'
1705
01:35:21,049 --> 01:35:22,790
Put it over here. would you'?
1706
01:35:22,951 --> 01:35:24,862
Okay, how was that on the camera?
1707
01:35:25,053 --> 01:35:28,967
- Bring the wagon back to its mark.
- You get that all right'?
1708
01:35:31,326 --> 01:35:34,796
People, can we just cooperate here?
We're gonna be here all night.
1709
01:35:37,031 --> 01:35:39,875
Please move those cables.
They're in the shot.
1710
01:35:41,069 --> 01:35:42,707
All right.
1711
01:35:46,307 --> 01:35:47,980
It's on the fire. Thank you.
1712
01:35:48,142 --> 01:35:50,247
Better late than never.
1713
01:35:50,411 --> 01:35:52,152
Look who showed up.
1714
01:35:52,313 --> 01:35:53,621
- An unavoidable delay.
- Oh. really?
1715
01:35:53,781 --> 01:35:56,523
You got plenty of fire, though.
Oh, it really looks spectacular. Dave.
1716
01:35:56,884 --> 01:35:59,091
- There's someone I want you to meet.
- I haven't got time.
1717
01:35:59,254 --> 01:36:02,724
It'll only take a minute. A minute
you'll remember for the rest of your life.
1718
01:36:03,191 --> 01:36:04,727
Come on.
1719
01:36:07,996 --> 01:36:12,001
David, I want you to meet
Scarlett O'Hara'
1720
01:36:12,333 --> 01:36:13,971
- Take off your hat.
- Myron'
1721
01:36:21,175 --> 01:36:24,645
How do you do?
My name is Vivien Leigh.
1722
01:36:36,924 --> 01:36:39,564
And she's not even my client.
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