:10:00
- I'm glad you think so.
- Think we can get her?
:10:03
- I sent the script
to her agent, Sidney Loomis.
- You did?
:10:07
- Did I do wrong? Did I do wrong?
- No, no.
:10:11
- Did I do wrong not checking
with you first?
- Not at all.
:10:13
- If so, I stand corrected. I mean that.
- No, really.
:10:16
- Helen Sinclair... really.
- Get it out.
:10:20
- She's great.
- Well, all we can do
is hope for the best.
:10:24
You must be joking!
:10:27
You want me to play some frumpy
housewife who gets dumped for a flapper?
:10:32
Don't you remember who I am?
Don't you know who you represent?
:10:36
- I'm Helen Sinclair!
- Definitely! You are
definitely Helen Sinclair.
:10:40
I look at you and I say Helen Sinclair!
But who better to play that role?
:10:45
- Under whose direction? Some novice!
- He's the author.
:10:48
- Of two flops.
- Julian says it was the directors
that messed up those projects.
:10:51
Julian Marx! I do plays put on
by Belasco or Sam Harris.
:10:57
Not some Yiddish pants salesman
turned producer.
:11:01
My ex-husband used to say,
"lf you're gonna go down,
go down with the best of them."
:11:05
- Which ex-husband?
- Oh, I don't know which ex-husband.
The one with the moustache.
:11:09
Listen to me. Authors are very often
the best directors of their own works.
:11:12
She's dowdy! Sid, the ingenue
has all the hot lines.
:11:15
Even the female psychiatrist
is a better role.
:11:18
But the role of Sylvia Poston
is the lead.
:11:21
Sylvia Poston.
Even the name reeks of Orbach's!
:11:26
I do Electra!
I do Lady Macbeth!
:11:30
I do plays by Noel and Phil Barry
or at least Max Anderson.
:11:35
Helen, listen to me. This is
a major part in a serious play.
:11:40
And let's face it, Helen. You have
not been in a hit in a long time.
:11:43
- In a long, long, long time.
- I'm still a star!
:11:49
I never play
frumps or virgins.
:11:52
You're a star because you're great,
and you are a great star.
:11:54
- But let me tell you somethin'.
- [ Bell Rings ]
:11:56
In the last couple of years...
:11:58
you're better known as an adulteress and
a drunk-- I say this in all due respect.