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:07:02
Those are dirty words.
You sound like New York critics.

:07:04
"Roman Holiday" was a challenge
for a number of reasons.

:07:06
- That'll be all Miss Kramer... Schaefer.
- Goodbye, Mr Gillis.

:07:07
The studio had not been able to cast
the leading role of the Princess.

:07:10
Next time, I'll write you
"The Naked and the Dead".

:07:12
And so finally she was told that Audrey
Hepburn was going to play the part.

:07:13
Well, seems like Zanuck
has got himself a baseball picture.

:07:16
She was given her measurements,
:07:18
Don't think I thought
this would win an Academy Award.

:07:19
and was shown the test films
that Paramount made of Hepburn.

:07:22
We're looking for a Betty Hutton.
Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?

:07:23
Based upon those, she made a number
of different versions of each change.

:07:26
- Frankly, no.
- Wait a minute.

:07:29
If we made it a girls' softball team,
put in a few numbers,

:07:30
She gave her scarves for her neck,
to cover up her prominent collarbone.

:07:33
might be a musical: "It Happened in
the Bullpen: The Story of a Woman".

:07:35
She was doing this to hide
what she perceived as Hepburn's faults.

:07:38
Are you trying to be funny, because
I'm out of laughs. I need a job.

:07:40
Edith was very good at camouflage.
:07:43
- I haven't got a thing.
- Any assignment, additional dialogue.

:07:43
Can I have a silk nightgown
with rosebuds on it?

:07:46
Nothing, honest.
:07:50
I'm afraid you'll have to rough it tonight...
in these.

:07:51
Mr Sheldrake, could you let me have
300 bucks as a personal loan?

:07:54
Pyjamas!
:07:56
Sorry honey,
but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

:07:56
Could I? Gillis...
:07:58
One of the films featuring Edith's designs
:08:01
Last year, somebody talked me
into buying a ranch,

:08:01
was the perennial holiday classic
"White Christmas".

:08:04
so I borrowed the money.
:08:05
Star Rosemary Clooney recalls
the black velvet gown Edith created.

:08:06
This year, I had to mortgage the
ranch to keep up my life insurance...

:08:10
Everybody talks about the great dress
and the diamond pin on my butt!

:08:15
There was a pin that Edith had said,
:08:15
After that,
I drove down to headquarters.

:08:18
That's how a lot of us
think about Schwab's drugstore.

:08:18
"We've gotta have something that just
kind of breaks up that black velvet."

:08:21
Kind of a combination office,
Kaffeeklatsch and waiting room.

:08:23
And so that was what she did.
She had a rare sense of humour.

:08:25
Waiting... Waiting for the gravy train.
:08:27
Edith didn't like to dress women, she
loved dressing men, Danny Kaye...

:08:30
I got myself ten nickels and started
sending out a general SOS.

:08:31
For instance, "The Best Things
Happen While You Dance".

:08:35
I couldn't get hold of my agent,
naturally.

:08:35
That scene where he was dressed
in grey, he had a grey-blue suit on.

:08:38
So I called a pal of mine,
Artie Green.

:08:40
But the socks and the shoes
were exactly the same colour,

:08:41
An awful nice guy,
an assistant director.

:08:44
He could let me have twenty,
but twenty wouldn't do.

:08:45
so the extension, dancing, it was never
broken because of a change of colour.

:08:49
Then I talked to a couple of yes-men
at Metro. To me, they said no.

:08:51
It was just...
They worked together beautifully.

:08:54
Finally, I located that agent of mine.
The big faker!

:08:55
Edith found it to be a formidable task
designing the clothes for Gloria Swanson

:08:59
Was he out digging up
a job for poor Joe Gillis?

:08:59
in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard".

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