Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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