:58:01
- Thanks for the interest in my career.
- It's not yours, it's mine.
:58:05
I'd hoped to get in on this deal.
:58:07
I don't want to be a reader.
I want to write.
:58:11
- I'm sorry if I crossed you up.
- You sure have.
:58:14
So long.
:58:26
- It took you hours.
- I ran into some people I know.
:58:30
- Where are my cigarettes?
- Where are your...?
:58:35
Norma, you're smoking too much.
:58:40
Whenever she suspected
I was getting bored,
:58:43
she'd put on a live show for me.
:58:45
The Norma Desmond Follies.
:58:48
Her first number was always
the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty.
:59:00
I can still see myself in the line:
Marie Prevost, Mabel Normand.
:59:05
Mabel was always
stepping on my feet.
:59:07
What's the matter?
Why are you so glum?
:59:11
Nothing's the matter. I'm having
a great time. Show me some more.
:59:15
All right. Give me this. I need it for
a moustache. Now, close your eyes.
:59:27
Something was the matter all right.
:59:30
I was thinking about that girl
of Artie's, that Miss Schaefer.
:59:35
She was like all writers
when we first hit Hollywood,
:59:39
itching with ambition,
planning to get your names up there:
:59:43
"Screenplay by", "Original story by".
:59:49
Audiences don't know somebody
sits down and writes a picture.
:59:53
They think the actors
make it up as they go.
:59:56
Open your eyes.