Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Here's 10079, Connie. It must be over there.
Six in the morning? This month I'm completely at your disposal.
Thanks for the handsome wardrobe and for the use of all the trinkets.
More Norma Desmonds and still more Norma Desmonds.
What's with the door? There's no lock.
Valentino said, "There's nothing like tile for a tango." Come on.
There was something else going on: the last rites for that hairy old chimp,
There's nothing like blue flannel for a man.
Give me a package of those Turkish cigarettes... Abdullas.
the whole thing played on a torpedo boat.
- I don't know. - What month?
Even the newsreel guys came roaring in.
Hog-eye, turn that light back where it belongs.
What right? You want me to tell you?
You could've called me yourself, instead of leaving it to an assistant.
In the end, he got himself a pool, only the price turned out a little high.
OK.
You've got a flashback there...
- What about DeMille? - He was sparing your feelings.
- Don't bend back like that. - It's that thing, it tickles.
An enormous foreign-built automobile.
Max!
Bring me a telephone and get me Gordon Cole.
I called your agent, the Screenwriters' Guild.
Judas H Priest, who'd you borrow that from? Adolphe Menjou?
- Check those studs and cufflinks. - I must go.
What do you think I've been doing? I need $300.
Two packages of cough drops dissolved in warm grape juice...
Mr Gillis has not forgotten Madame's New Year's party?
Next time, I'll write you "The Naked and the Dead".
Sure would've made attractive headlines.
I thought of them as her waxworks.
- It's your baby. - Couldn't we work evenings?
- We're engaged. - Good for you.
Who was it, Max? What is it?
You owe three months' rent.
It was all very queer, but queerer things were yet to come.
All right. Cameras. Action!
Mabel was always stepping on my feet.
I could sense her watching me through those dark glasses,
Look, I was making that up,
Her own movie theatre.
You know why? Because I've never been as happy in my life.
I pegged him as slightly cuckoo, too.
- I wouldn't know. - I don't care, anyway.
May I speak to Miss Betty Schaefer? She must be home by now.
What a part. The princess in love with a holy man.
- Now, what is it? Where's the fire? - I've lost my car.
- I mean this good dialogue will play. - It will?
Apparently, I just didn't have what it takes.
I want to work again. You don't know what it means knowing you want me.
Stop crying. You're getting married. That's what you wanted.
How about going up the kitchen stairs and undressing in the dark?
Maybe if I hocked all my junk, there'd be enough for a ticket back to Ohio,
I don't know what he's said, but he does not live with relatives,
Max, what's the very best man's shop in town?
She'd taught me bridge by then, just as she'd taught me fancy tango steps,
- Hello, Mr Gillis. - Hello.
No, you're not. Max! Max!
It was at her New Year's party that I found out how she felt about me.
I drove to the beach. You don't want me to feel I'm locked up here?
You send them. Is that it, Max?
I want to ask you something. Come in here.
- You read the script, of course? - Yes.
What? Max! Max!
They expected me to become a star.
Me:
the cufflinks, the platinum key-chains and the cigarette cases?
The other players would be actor friends,
He rejects her, so she demands his head on a golden tray.
It was a great big white elephant of a place.
Then they got a couple of pruning hooks and fished me out
Of course not. I just don't want to be left alone.
- But it needs a little more dialogue. - What for?
- You think this is funny. - A little.
Someone in the formal set, with a ten-carat kidney stone?
Where you been keeping that gorgeous face? I almost reported you missing.
Who? Some car hop or dress extra?
That's it. She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career.
invaded her house on Sunset Boulevard.
- DeMille? - We made a lot of pictures together.
You don't yell at a sleepwalker. He may fall and break his neck.
Maybe they weren't original enough, maybe they were too original.
No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"