:45:02
He needed companionship, but it was...
:45:05
very hard for him to ask for it...
:45:08
unless he had a motive...
:45:11
Iike "I'm going to take Elizabeth Taylor
away from Rock Hudson."
:45:14
Then he was driven...
:45:16
to talk and be social with her and so forth.
:45:20
Having finished shooting, Jimmy decided...
:45:23
that he wanted to take the car
up to Saugus and race it.
:45:27
Dad said the last conversation
he had with Jimmy was:
:45:30
"I know you're going up there.
Are you going to put the car on a truck...
:45:34
"and truck it up,
and then drive it to the track?"
:45:36
Jimmy said,
"Yeah, that's what I'm going to do."
:45:39
George Stevens, Jr. was in the Air Force.
:45:44
He was flying all around the country.
:45:47
I remember,
we used to be a bit concerned about this.
:45:53
We weren't really concerned
about Jimmy at the moment...
:45:56
although we were before the film started...
:45:58
because he was always racing cars,
racing motorcycles.
:46:03
He was banned by Warner Brothers...
:46:05
from getting in a car or on a motorcycle...
:46:08
while he was doing this film.
:46:10
So the minute the film was over....
:46:12
He finished two, three weeks ahead
of everybody else.
:46:18
He told us he was taking his fast car
and going across the country.
:46:24
So we were all...
:46:27
in the theater watching the day's rushes...
:46:31
the dailies...
:46:33
and suddenly, the lights went up.
:46:35
George Stevens was on the phone...
:46:38
and I'll never forget the look on his face.
:46:41
He turned absolutely white,
as if all the blood drained out of him.
:46:47
There was electricity in the room.
:46:49
You just knew
something dreadful had happened.
:46:52
Of course, my first thought was
that it was George Stevens, Jr...
:46:56
because of all the airplanes
he had to get into.