Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

They don't know each other but share a room. It's cheaper.
Slanted this way a little. So I had it fixed.
How about looking for the exit? This way, Betty.
When did he say it, Norma?
As day breaks over the murder house, Norma Desmond,
"Great star kills herself for unknown writer."
- Hello, Joe. - Tom.
My agent said it was dead, but I knew a bigshot who liked me.
It got to be eleven, and I felt a little sick at my stomach,
This time, it wasn't to see a picture, it was to try and write one.
They call me the Elsa Maxwell of the assistant directors.
I had an original story kicking around Paramount.
Cameras? What is it, Max?
- Why not stay here? - I'll come back early tomorrow.
maybe you'd like to hear the facts, the whole truth.
Or maybe some cement and ask for your footprint.
It can't be done. Stop being chicken-hearted and write that story.
- Well? - This is fascinating.
I knew there was something wrong with them.
went to bed every night at nine.
- Some men outside ask for you. - I'm not here.
Don't hate me, Joe. I did it because I need you.
- Go on in. - Maybe I'd better take my car...
Pardon me, gentlemen, but I must get ready for my scene.
Max, champagne.
There are no locks anywhere in this house, sir.
Madame got the razor from your room and cut her wrists.
She was absolutely determined to be ready,
out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.
- Tails, that's ridiculous! - For parties and New Year's Eve.
The heartless so-and-sos. What would they do to Norma?
They're dead, they're finished.
OK.
Kind of a combination office, Kaffeeklatsch and waiting room.
The perfect setting for a silent movie queen. Poor devil.
Last one was about Okies in the Dust Bowl.
You see those offices there, Mr Gillis?
those headlines would kill her.
It's a rehash of something not very good.
He says it only costs two dollars to get married there.
What you're trying to say is you don't want me to love you. Say it.
My father was head electrician here. Mother still works in wardrobe.
Why? Her career? She got enough out of it. She's not forgotten.
Why have you kept me waiting so long?
We have to be very careful. No sleeping pills, no razor blades.
An awful nice guy, an assistant director.
It would save us a honeymoon.
Smart girl. Nothing like being 22.
- Just a scene I threw out. - Which scene?
Joe!
Important enough for Mr DeMille to call me personally.
Look at them in the front offices, the masterminds!
Norma Desmond's coming in to see you, Mr DeMille.
Her first number was always the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty.
or maybe begging me in her own proud way to like it.
How come this gun was right there?
- Is that so? - I loaned it to a friend.
only I found everything unendurable after she'd left me.
What's wrong with you tonight?
- Or do you want us to haul it away? - The car isn't here.
It'll never make "House Beautiful", but it's OK for one night.
hallo Tigri
I want to talk to you. Not now, I'm playing three no trump.
- We're ready, Mr DeMille. - All right.
Come clean. At night you weep for the lost close-ups, those galas.
Ask him. Ask him again.
Be careful as you cross the patio. Madame may be watching.
- You can see I'm terribly busy. - That's no excuse.
So Max got that old bus off its blocks and polished it up.
Sorry about New Year's. Would you believe I stayed with a sick friend?
I'd hoped to get in on this deal.
OK.
I'm all right again. Tell me you're not cross.
Look, there's Norma Desmond.
It meant so much to her.
It was all done with great dignity.
- I'll take care of that. - It's all taken care of, all paid for.
I cannot let her be destroyed.
I don't care.