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Sometimes when we got stuck,
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we'd make a little tour
of the drowsing lot.
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Not talking much, just wandering
down alleys between the stages,
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or through the sets they were getting
ready for the next day's shooting.
1:18:16
In fact, it was on one of those walks
when she told me about her nose.
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Look at this street.
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All cardboard, all hollow,
all phoney, all done with mirrors.
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I like it better
than any street in the world.
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Maybe because
I used to play here when I was a kid.
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Were you a child actress?
1:18:38
No, I was born two blocks from
the studio, Lemon Grove Avenue.
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My father was head electrician here.
Mother still works in wardrobe.
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- Second generation, huh?
- Third.
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Grandma did stunt work for Pearl
White. I'm from a picture family.
1:18:52
They expected me to become a star.
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So I had ten years of dramatic
lessons, diction, dancing.
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Then the studio made a test.
They didn't like my nose.
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Slanted this way a little.
So I had it fixed.
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Then they loved my nose,
only they didn't like my acting.
1:19:14
- Nice job.
- It should be, it cost $300.
1:19:18
- That's sad.
- Not at all.
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It taught me sense. I worked up
from the mail room to being reader.
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Come clean. At night you weep
for the lost close-ups, those galas.
1:19:30
Not once. What's wrong with being
the other side of the cameras?
1:19:34
- It's really more fun.
- Three cheers for Betty Schaefer.
1:19:38
- I will now kiss that nose of yours.
- If you please.
1:19:45
May I say that you smell real special?
1:19:48
- Must be my new shampoo.
- That's no shampoo.
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It's more like freshly laundered
linen handkerchiefs,
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like a brand-new automobile.