Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

When my own mother heard he was one of the richest men in America,
Maybe once.
private ownership in California won't amount to a hill o' beans.
- Herman! - Charlie!
Please. It's upsetting enough Marion had to endure the man in newsreel.
You piss that away between hopeless bets.
Herman J. Mankiewicz…
And I remember you, Miss Davies.
I thought you said this was about something, this was different.
Orson.
is "le roi" in French and means "the king."
- Eve. - Eve. Sorry.
Certainly not FDR. Am I right, Rex?
Ah.
By reputation only.
and Mary Pickford a virgin at 40.
- Next time, I'll go with you. - Of course.
He… He wouldn't come.
We'll do the praying and the fighting.
Uh, he takes what he gets. The great Charles MacArthur.
Come on.
- Who was that again? - Just a writer.
Do it, you fucking junk dealer! I'll still be the better man!
Not very well at all.
He's just cut a month.
Well, I read the script.
the rain turns to sleet,
Please, sit.
But nobody expects Shakespeare.
The most miserable bastard on God's green earth.
You have another visitor.
You ask me what my acceptance speech might have been.
Don't forget to vote.
Marion, please, you're not in convent school anymore.
Listen. I hate to, you know…
which is to say, in the absence of Orson Welles.
Joe.
- To support devices. - Support devices.
Jobs will be here…
That's the real magic of the movies, and don't let anybody tell you different.
a crusading socialist as California's political savior.
Those things just pop out of my mouth,
those lovely highland beauties to the kitchen.
And not only that,
Here.
Somebody was bitching about Mervyn LeRoy running over budget on Wizard of Oz.
I can't tell you how much it means. I'm touched you'd come.
Look at what we did. We can't un-ring this bell.
Helps spread the blame around.
Destroying in the process not one man… but two.
Well, I'm delighted to hear it.
and the other half won't work with me.
Will you talk?
Well, that's great news.
Oh.
What happened? The goddamn Depression happened.
a newspaperman?
So this isn't an offer. It's a subtle ultimatum.
I read your little script.
Sure, Mank, anything.
please be mindful of those who care about you most.
To Mank-town. Or is it Mank-ville?
- I'll never tell. - There's a point to this, dear?
that this country has stood for in the past 150 years.
because true love on the big screens,
Herm, can I use that?
Don't believe everything you hear at Schwab's.
Pops, this is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank.
You're the most observant man I know.
"A comedienne in that role is to laugh."
Remember when you used to take the train
You don't much like Mayer.
Come, now, he wasn't your only admirer.
Never forget that.
And, uh, careful.
People think PDP stands for PewDiePie.
I see you more as Dulcinea.
Rita Alexander, Herman Mankiewicz.
Between pictures.
Me?
vainly attempting to sway, as he once did,
Saved by the proverbial bell.
$750 a week? That's half what you make, Herman.
But I beg you, don't kick Pops when he's down.
You wanted to see me?
We're making the best of it.
Maybe a little bit left?
Nobody'd be on it election night.
the Screen Writers Guild needs an apostrophe?
- You look like you. Fine. - What should I be expecting?
Charlie Lederer and I went to a great deal of trouble to engineer this sad deception.
Well, what can I tell you, Mank? Marion Douras…
- You wrote for one of his papers? - Oh, no, praise God.
The final, incomplete, count for tonight is…
Irving's bought 'em both, you know, because of Pops.
What do you mean?
But there are no problems that can't be solved together.
No, Shelly.
- You wrote that? - No. A fella named Cervantes.
plus $10,000.
Only half of 'em were actors.
She slips on brocade shoes that curl at the toe,
While MGM has the most contracts with stars in their history.
I don't know.
You may have heard MGM has more stars than there are in the heavens.
Hello, Tokyo?
- Manky... - You okay?
It was fascinating. Those people adore him.
your family, your cronies, liquor.
Well, we need complete rejuvenation of our system,
to ask simply for what I want, and expect that I may have to elucidate my position.
We give him ideals.
She fits him with a red velvet vest adorned with pearl buttons
Do you prefer Sidney or SJ?
come West to join our merry band.
None of it sings. None of it. Not a note.
Herman, "And?"
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
Do not believe this.
till the movies say it is.
you get a swooning moving-picture fan
Where he takes it, that's his job.