:24:03
I felt kind of pleased with the way
I'd handled the situation.
:24:07
I dropped the hook,
and she snapped at it.
:24:11
My car would be safe below while
I did a patch-up job on the script.
:24:16
And there should be
plenty of money in it.
:24:24
This room hasn't been used
for a long time.
:24:27
It'll never make House Beautiful,
but I guess it's okay for one night.
:24:31
I made your bed this afternoon.
:24:33
Thanks. How did you know I was
gonna stay this afternoon?
:24:37
The bathroom's over there. I put in
some towels, soap and a toothbrush.
:24:46
Say, she's quite a character,
that Norma Desmond.
:24:50
She was the greatest of them all.
You wouldn't know. You're too young.
:24:54
In one week she received
1 7,000 fan letters.
:24:58
Men bribed her hairdresser
to get a lock of her hair.
:25:02
There was a maharaja
who came all the way from India...
:25:04
to beg one of her silk stockings.
:25:07
Later he strangled himself
with it.
:25:10
Well, I sure turned in
to an interesting driveway.
:25:14
You did, sir.
:25:16
Good night, sir.
:25:23
I pegged him
as slightly cuckoo too.
:25:27
A stroke, maybe.
:25:30
Come to think of it, the whole
place seemed to be stricken...
:25:33
with a kind of creeping paralysis...
:25:36
out of beat with
the rest of the world...
:25:39
crumbling apart in slow motion.
:25:42
There was a tennis court-- or rather
the ghost of a tennis court...
:25:47
with faded markings
and a sagging net.
:25:55
And of course she had a pool.
:25:58
Who didn't then?
:25:59
Mabel Normand and John Gilbert must
have swum in it 1 0, 000 midnights ago.