1:21:21
Sometimes,
when we got stuck...
1:21:24
we'd make a little tour
of the drowsing lot.
1:21:27
Not talking much...
1:21:29
just wandering down alleys
between the soundstages...
1:21:33
or through the sets they were getting
ready for the next day's shooting.
1:21:37
As a matter of fact...
1:21:39
it was on one of those walks when
she first told me about her nose.
1:21:43
Look at this street.
1:21:45
All cardboard, all hollow,
all phony, all done with mirrors.
1:21:50
You know, I like it better
than any street in the world.
1:21:54
Maybe because I used to play here
when I was a kid.
1:21:58
What were you,
a child actress?
1:22:00
No, I was born just two blocks
from this studio...
1:22:03
right on Lemon Grove Avenue.
1:22:05
My father was head electrician here
till he died.
1:22:08
- Mother still works in wardrobe.
- Second generation, huh?
1:22:11
Third. Grandma did stunt work
for Pearl White.
1:22:14
I come from a picture family.
1:22:16
Naturally they expected me
to become a great star...
1:22:18
so I had ten years of dramatic
lessons, diction, dancing.
1:22:23
Then the studio made a test.
Well, they didn't like my nose.
1:22:27
Slanted this way a little.
1:22:29
So I had it fixed.
1:22:30
They made more tests,
and they were crazy about my nose.
1:22:33
Only they didn't like my acting.
1:22:39
- Nice job.
- It should be.
1:22:40
It cost me $300.
1:22:43
That's the saddest thing
I ever heard.
1:22:44
Not at all.
It taught me a little sense.
1:22:47
I got a job in the mail room,
and now I'm a reader.
1:22:50
Come clean, Betty.
1:22:52
At night you weep for those lost
close-ups, those gala openings.
1:22:55
Not once. What's wrong with being
on the other side of the cameras?
1:22:59
It's really more fun.