Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Haven't been since we got here.
You could always produce.
- Or shall I call you Herman? - No. Please, call me Mank.
It's the best thing I've ever written.
went to convent school.
Why do you put up with me, Schnutz?
What's wrong?
So what do we do?
- Yes? Hello? - They're getting him.
Mank.
You know what we call those people?
Imagine a mad scientist,
Quite handsome.
Nobody could ever tell you what to do.
It's not the work. That's everything we hoped it would be.
- Wouldn't you think? - Uh, the road, Tommy.
you'd be that keenly interested in the honoring of words.
I was only 16 when I was cast in Stop! Look! Listen!
Hold still.
That bush in the front yard,
Goodbye.
- Ooh, tails! That's it! - God damn it!
I would. Do you sing?
What's a concentration camp?
Yep. Yes, I know the clock…
What's so funny?
And whatever you decide,
Assisted by his faithful Sancho,
Seventy-six pages.
Perfect place to dry out.
What do you think?
"There are meters of accent and meters of tone,
Well, I'm voting for Frank Merriam because I wanna keep our way of life.
No!
will not allow his films to be shown in the Fatherland.
What I wanna know is what you think of it.
I am asking everyone in the MGM family to take a painful step.
- At what? - Changing my mind.
Not really.
you'd be ashamed of yourself.
- I am. - Who would you vote for?
The story is so scattered, I'm afraid one will need a road map.
"Junior writers only paid $750 a week."
Do ît, you fucking junk de aler! I'II stiII bè the better mañ!
Well, we see a different kind of Paramount picture.
she said, "Kick a little higher."
And tonight, we're celebrating our great friend's birthday
Remind me never again to work with a washed-up alcoholic!
Speaking of socialists, how about Upton Sinclair's book?
Either you demonstrate you can handle this,
You do that.
Where were we?
It's for you.
- And I intend to protect it. - Poor old woman.
You want I should make a picture about a prostitute?
Mr. Mankiewicz, please don't ask us to help you in this sad deception.
can't get unanimous support from his own studio?
Yet you can't convince starving voters that a turncoat socialist
Anybody seen anything good lately?
My boy, there are three work rules at this studio.
Now, along comes nemesis.
Hmm. A weeping priest?
and this little home may not be much, but it's all I have left.
A form of creative vivisection.
I don't know. I'm so worried.
- From the original Latin. - Don't patronize me.
People think MGM stands for Mig Glack Menis it actually stands for mildo gor mou
It is not for us to say why he was taken from us so unexpectedly.
- Isn't bribery a crime? - That's what Sinclair said.
- Sara said you wanted this number. - Just to hear your voice.
I don't know who thought of it, but it keeps a lot of us off the streets.
- Hello. - Mank, it's Shelly.
And that, my friends, is a sin and an error.
Well, there's clean, and there's clean.
I hate to tell you, anyone who can rub three words together
Let me take off these clothes.
Well, well.
…um, uh, discarded pages scattered at his feet.
I thought you'd wanna know there's a rumor in town
- Marion might be interested. - Well, you're gonna have to hurry.
Come on.
God bless William Randolph Hearst.
This time, banjo-eyed son of a bitch, let it hit the floor.
Nicht wahr?
he's naturally overwhelmed by the enormous world around him.
George is fine, kid.
Ideals that any dirt-poor,
I'd tell him you said that, only he'd think you were brownnosing.
And he left his impeccable taste, his incredible attention to detail,
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
- Who's hiring? - MGM.
I'm on my way.
We want W.C. Fields.
"It's what God might've built had he had the money."
Since when don't Paramount use writers by the truckload?
- Hello. - Mank?
- Any rest? - Haven't seen a sunrise yet.
But now, there are things about us together…
Knock it off!
Here, here, and here.
It's Herman Mankiewicz. Where is he?
Maybe the informed of California were late leaving work.
Uh, caring for clan Mankiewicz.
who has forgotten all she ever learned about the Battle of Hastings?
Guilty.
"Truth has nothing to fear from error where reason is left free to combat it."
I am as your servant Moses, though I won't work half as cheap.
Got a taxi from Morro Bay.
- What a great night. Great result. - I'll drink to that.
That oughta count for something.