:12:00
This was great for Paramount as it was
a wonderful way of publicising the films.
:12:01
It must've burned up
ten gallons to a mile.
:12:04
It had a 1932 licence. I figured that's
when the owners had moved out.
:12:05
She was probably one of the best
public relations ladies in the business.
:12:11
I couldn't go back to my apartment
now those bloodhounds were on to me.
:12:11
She knew how to talk her way.
:12:14
And she know how to talk to the
actresses,
:12:16
The idea was to stay at Artie Green's
until I could make that bus for Ohio.
:12:18
how to talk to the producer,
how to talk to the director.
:12:21
Once in Dayton,
I'd drop the credit boys a postcard
:12:23
Sometimes, even if she didn't know
exactly what she was doing,
:12:25
telling them
where to pick up the jalopy.
:12:27
she presented herself like she was on
top of the whole thing. She was good.
:12:30
It was a great big
white elephant of a place.
:12:33
Edith was very smart about budgets.
:12:33
The kind crazy movie people
built in the crazy twenties.
:12:35
If the producer
was trying to save money,
:12:37
A neglected house
gets an unhappy look.
:12:38
she'd find ways of re-using costumes
from an earlier film.
:12:41
This one had it in spades.
:12:41
Or use the same pattern
to make two different dresses,
:12:43
It was like that old woman
in "Great Expectations",
:12:45
just changing the collar and the cuffs.
:12:47
that Miss Havisham in her rotting
wedding dress and her torn veil,
:12:48
She wasn't the greatest designer
in Hollywood,
:12:51
but she was one of the smartest.
:12:51
taking it out on the world
because she'd been given the go-by.
:12:53
We remember Edith Head,
20 years after her passing,
:12:56
for a number of reasons.
:12:58
Perhaps the most obvious is that
she was famous for being famous.
:13:01
You there, why are you so late?
:13:03
That should not obscure the fact
that she was very talented.
:13:05
Why have you kept me
waiting so long?
:13:07
She made a real contribution
to the pictures she worked on.
:13:10
Important directors and stars, who could
have had anybody, asked for Edith.
:13:15
And the clothes,
like some of the films, are timeless.
:13:17
In here.
:13:19
They will last forever,
as long as film lasts in this world.
:13:26
I just put my car in the garage.
I had a blowout. I thought...
:13:29
- Go on in.
- Maybe I'd better take my car...
:13:32
Wipe your feet.
:13:37
Go on.
:13:43
You're not properly
dressed for the occasion.
:13:46
- What's the occasion?
- Have him come up, Max.
:13:50
- Up the stairs.
- Listen for a minute...
:13:53
- Madame is waiting.
- For me?
:13:58
OK.