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There's a scene in which Norma's
friends appear, to play cards.
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Joe Gillis calls them the "Waxworks"
because they, too, are has-beens.
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H B Warner, Buster Keaton,
Anna Q Nilsson.
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Big, big stars of the Silent Era
and by 1950 they were forgotten.
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That is magical, when you see
these familiar faces from the past.
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There they are, playing cards.
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H B Warner had played Christ
in DeMille's "King of Kings".
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Everybody said that jinxed his career.
What role can you play after Jesus?
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There was a contest sometime,
I think, in the '70s.
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The contest asked the question,
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what was one of the most romantic
scenes in a movie you've seen?
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And that little balcony scene,
with Bill and myself, won it.
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We shot it at night and
Billy invited Ardis Holden.
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She was Brenda Marshall
but her name was Ardis.
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That was Mrs Holden.
I'd never met her.
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I was going to embrace her husband
in a long, passionate love scene.
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I was terrified and Billy said,
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"Look, after the embrace,
do not come apart until I say cut."
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"It's going to seem a long time,
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because what I want to do
is a long dissolve."
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"This is for the purpose of the camera
and what I have in mind in my cutting."
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"It's going to seem a long time,
but just continue to embrace."
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He pulls me into his arms
and we kiss.
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And we kiss. And kiss.
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And hold on. It seems like an eternity.