Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

"Ivory, her hands, and her whiteness, snow."
Jack, get me some Cuban cigars.
Happy birthday!
Hello?
Many stars have, and now they twinkle elsewhere.
What's our valiant laddie have to say for the cause...
Really? And why was that?
- Communists? - Anarchists?
And I'm sorry I ever cared.
I never would've thought it possible.
in writing, on the back of the purchase check.
But I am writing an opera.
And let me let you in on a little secret.
He wants to see me right away. Wouldn't tell me why.
Well, since you like working nights, Rita here runs on London time.
As soon as FDR reopens the banks, you'll get back every penny.
You don't think anyone old enough to vote is gonna buy this shit?
I've never been fired.
Heads, you bastard!
Enough about Nazis.
- Of course it is. - I think it's time we talked.
No, not at all. Everything's going absolutely according…
We gave him our solemn word we would deliver.
Well, I haven't seen you since Shelly Metcalf's.
Yeah. Mr. Monkeywitz could use some coffee.
I need a status report. Boys, come on in.
No notes.
Uh… Ed?
They let me go just as I achieved perfect equilibrium.
loud and long enough, they're apt to believe it."
but it's too radical for the boys in the back.
except when it comes to selling his last name
The Germans are a thoughtful, considerate people.
and every time I do decide to dance, every time…
- You're a junior writer, Joe. - So?
a letter from the gallant "leftenant"?
Narrator, "There, last month,
Maybe I didn't always, back when he was my social security.
Rolling!
Please tell me you got the gun.
Oh, my God. Of course I remember you, C.C.
I am very happy to accept this award
- No, no. What's "nerts"? - Nerts is Brooklynese for "nuts."
And how's Marie Antoinette coming together?
Is he with you?
Isn't that right, Louis?
Frankly, I think what I said upset you.
Thalberg said this was your idea.
Do tell.
And don't mind Joe.
Freda, you mustn't let him intimidate you.
Stop crying for your just deserts, or they're liable to give them to you.
♪ Happy birthday, dear Louis ♪
she studied nutrition back in the old country.
Why are you acting like some dumb ward heeler?
No one should have to hear me sing. Isn't that right, Sara?
All this talk is so much pissing in the wind.
Never stood a chance.
in the manner in which the screenplay was written,
Then we'll all be working for 75 bucks a week.
Or who it's meant to be.
But every full moon, the monster awakens and raises unholy hell with the villagers.
- Am not. - Are too.
- Checking in. How are you getting around? - Gingerly.
Yes. Yes, he's right here.
Given your current health, I wonder if you're up to it.
to buy us both, Schnutz.
I think what you mean,
I mean, how do you hope to be done in 14… 13 days?
That surprises you?
Ah.
to a competitor in the middle of the night.
and started burning books.
I should've insisted she take some time.
- I didn't know Herman had a brother. - Neither does anyone else.
- Long night? - A short one. Plagued by spirits.
- "Banjo-eyed." - Son of a bitch?
Looks like you found work, C.C.
Now, let's hope it makes more sense than the last.
As is Mr. Houseman.
Orson, please…
But.
As a moving picture, it's more than good.
I can't tell you what this means to him, Louis.
…the good Republican,
You obviously don't know my aunt. If you're not doing anything, come along.
But every morning, a sweet elderly woman dresses him in a fine suit of clothes.
Alone in his unfinished, already decaying pleasure palace,
I've saved the best for last.
- Whoever had that idea? - It's not good?
The dreaded yet foreseeable "but."
A collection of fragments that leap around in time,
First positions!
- Thank you, W.R. - Good to see you, Irving.
- Speed. - Speed! Action!
M-A-N-K-I-E-W-I-C, and outta nowhere, a Z.
I hope we won't need your sympathy, Mr. Mankiewicz.
It's got that raw newsreel feel, hasn't it?
Dad when I’m around Hang on to me
- What? - He had a whole box.
Accepting for both is the president of RKO Radio Pictures,
Why, that man's a socialist.
You're barely trying.
Close the door.
There. God's punishing you.
- Who? - Herman Mankiewicz.
News travels fast.
No dice, for now, but they're on their uppers. Whether they...
This is all Pops's idea. He wants me ready to take on the talkies.
What's this, a racing form?
I mean, you know all kinds of things.
that no one could possibly…
Ha! Come now, Mank. Upton Sinclair as Thomas Jefferson?
I've gotta run. Kiss the offspring.
Mank! Are you okay?
In the beginning, we couldn't agree on an approach.
Every moment of my life is treacherous.
to see how long it would take a falling leaf to hit the ground.
What's German for blabbermouth?
- Good people, the man is an author. - As was Thomas Jefferson.
Tell me something, Mank. The truth.
The ladies will scandalize the neighborhood
Mayer's buyout was rejected.
"America's unemployed will invade the Golden State."
It must be hard to be on the receiving end of that.
- "We"? - I don't think he's going to take it well.
He'd like to speak with Mr. Houseman.
Well, as they say in the Bronx, "Make yourself to home," Mr. Mankiewicz.