Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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