:07:00
Oh, one of the message kids.
Just a story won't do.
:07:03
You'd have turned down
Gone With the Wind.
:07:05
No, that was me. I said, "Who wants
to see a Civil War picture?"
:07:10
Perhaps I hated it because
I'd always heard you had talent.
:07:15
That was last year. This year
I'm trying to earn a living.
:07:18
So you take plot 27-A,
make it glossy, make it slick--
:07:21
Those are dirty words.
You sound like New York critics.
:07:25
- That's all, Miss Kramer-- Schaefer.
- Good-bye, Mr. Gillis.
:07:29
Next time I'll write you
The Naked and the Dead.
:07:32
Well, it seems like Zanuck
has got himself a baseball picture.
:07:38
I don't want you to think I thought
this would win any Academy Award.
:07:41
Of course, we're always
looking for a Betty Hutton.
:07:44
- Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?
- Frankly, no.
:07:48
Wait. If we made it a girls'
softball team, put in a few numbers.
:07:53
Might make a cute musical. It Happened
in the Bullpen: Story of a Woman.
:07:59
Are you trying to be funny?
Because I'm all out of laughs.
:08:01
I'm over a barrel.
I need a job.
:08:03
- I haven't got a thing.
- Anything. Additional dialogue.
:08:07
There's nothing. Honest.
:08:12
Look, Mr. Sheldrake.
:08:14
Could you let me have 300 bucks
yourself, as a personal loan?
:08:17
Could I? Gillis.
:08:22
Last year somebody talked me
into buying a ranch in the Valley.
:08:25
So I borrowed the money from the
bank in order to pay for the ranch.
:08:28
This year I mortgaged the ranch so
I could keep up my life insurance...
:08:31
so I could borrow on my insurance--
:08:36
After that
I drove down to headquarters.
:08:39
That's the way a lot of us
think about Schwab's drugstore.
:08:43
Kind of a combination office,
kaffee klatch and waiting room.
:08:47
Waiting.
:08:49
Waiting for the gravy train.
:08:53
I got myself ten nickels and started
sending out a general SOS.
:08:58
Couldn't get hold of my agent,
naturally.