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I think the key scenes of the film are
when Norma returns to Paramount
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after her absence and is treated like
the royalty she believes she is.
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People who work there believe she is,
but she's forgotten by everyone else.
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It's a beautiful sequence. It's poignant,
but funny at the same time.
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Laughing at her but feeling for her
is quite a mix of emotions to get.
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Wilder gets it.
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DeMille and Wilder weren't friendly
but DeMille did agree to do it.
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I heard movies
at the Lux Radio Theater
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with DeMille announcing
with his mellifluous voice.
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Hearing him in "Sunset Boulevard"
was like a childhood memory.
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He had a wonderful voice and an air.
:16:53
He walked into the commissary
and people noticed!
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There was a thing,
a cachet that was part of him.
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He loved doing "Sunset Boulevard".
:17:04
He loved playing himself,
and wasn't he wonderful?
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I thought he was fabulous.
:17:10
There were rumours that DeMille
could be tough on set. He could.
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I saw him all the time with his riding
crop, not that he ever got on a horse,
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and his boots.
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In the scene where he plays himself
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and Gloria is coming to the studio
for a meeting with him,
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and he was doing
"Samson and Delilah" on Stage 18,
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it's interesting because in the scene
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DeMille used all of his own staff.
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I'll tell you a funny story.
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DeMille, I laugh saying it,
considered me for Delilah
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in "Samson and Delilah" and,
thank God, he made the right choice.
:17:54
He put Hedy Lamarr in it.
I couldn't have played Delilah!
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The virginal college girl, here.
For heaven's sake! It was ridiculous!