Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

We have a great deal in common, it seems to me.
Hello?
Did she tell you about the theater and what it meant?
Stop thinking of yourself as one of the hundred neediest cases.
...I'd just as soon it was me.
And then, one night, Margo Channing came to play in Remembrance...
- Don't be dense. The party. - I ain't dense. He's been here for 20 minutes.
...this would happen between two adult people.
All this hysteria because of an impulsive excited kid...
Mm-hm!
Thank you, Eve. I'd like a martini, very dry.
- Carefully hidden, no doubt. - Don't get carried away.
My heart is here in the theater...
Honeychild had a point. Lloyd, honey, be a playwright with guts.
...have made this, the happiest night of my life, possible.
How I walk, talk, think, act, sleep!
Well, say something. Anything!
- Play it again. - But that was the fourth straight time.
- Where's Miss Caswell? Oh, hello, Eve. - Hello, Miss Channing.
...is their complete lack of resemblance to normal human beings.
A revolutionary approach to the theater.
- Why not? - Because I don't want to.
Claudia, come here.
Max has gone to a lot of trouble. This is going to be an elaborate party and it's for you.
And it was a night to remember, that night.
- You sat and talked until it was light? - We sat and talked, Addison.
- How about you, Max? - How about me what?
Arrives here for an audition when everyone knows I will be here...
She's just outside the door.
Tomorrow morning, you will have won your beachhead on the shores of immortality.
Not here and now with my hair down.
You disapprove of me when I'm like this, don't you?
What a day! What a heavenly day!
Coincidence.
You'd be a man of leisure, Maxie.
Lloyd. I never have any.
- But if I may make a suggestion... - Please do.
You were about to tell me about Eve.
...assure the public that actors and actresses are just plain folks...
...by the bar-room, Benzedrine standards of this megalomaniac society, I won't have it!
The so-called art of acting is not one for which I have a particularly high regard.
- Well, what happened? - Nothing much. She apologized.
Max is paying for it. He and Lloyd had a terrific row, but Lloyd insisted.
I trust the setting was properly romantic.
So you've pointed out so often!
We're never deeply angry. We just get mad the way you do.
Listen, Junior, and learn.
- Have you really seen every performance? - Yes.
That's me. An old kazoo with some sparklers.
What is there for me to say?
That's my job. See you at teatime.
He never went home.
Groom, may I have a wedding present?
Oh, now, Bill. You know how much I do, but over a phone...
Then it comes up again and everything's fine.
You know nothing about feelings, natural or unnatural.
I am a critic and commentator.
- How much time have we got? - Roughly ten minutes.
Now, really. That's kids' stuff.
- How's the new one coming? - The play? Oh, all right, I guess.
I am essential to the theater.
I'm sure you underestimate yourself. You always do.
Couldn't go on with the play or anything else until I promised to marry him.
Poor little flower. Dropped her petals and folded her tent.
I'm not even enough for a paragraph.
Well, I don't want to play Cora.
It may not be your theater, but it's theater for somebody, somewhere.
to belong to us.
Miss Channing, I can't tell you how glad I am that you arrived so late.
I'm sure you must have things to do in the bathroom, Birdie, dear.
Who is it? What's it all about?
- One would think only death could keep her... - Addison...
- I love you. - I'll check with Eve.
...without wit, with all my heart.
I'm sure that's flattering. There's nothing wrong with it.
- I thought you'd forgotten about me. - Not at all.
I don't suppose there's a drink left?
Somebody's got to be very witty about a toast.
If I'd known... Some other time. Looking like this!
I didn't know Eve was your understudy until this afternoon.
Well, if I didn't come to see the play, I wouldn't have anywhere else to go.
...but it's important that I speak with you."
As if my mind was outside of my body and couldn't control what I did or said.
Spoken like an author.
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Work done the hard way - by sweat, application and craftsmanship.
It seems a lifetime ago.
Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
- Easy now. - Relax, kid, it's just me and my big mouth.
From me, from Lloyd, from Eve, Bill, Max and so on.
One has a great many wealthy friends who will risk a tax-deductible loss.
I've listened backstage to people applaud.
If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery...
In this case, as trustworthy as the world almanac!
Like you was a play, or a book, or a set of blueprints.
...become firmly rooted about my ears, is lifted to Miss Harrington."
Somebody's got to be very witty about a toast.
I have no other world, no other life.
Don't you think it's about time it became important?
Dear AI ...
...as far as it affected Eve, that is.
I can get a fresh one... Karen, you're a Gibson girl.
You're not funny. Actors would cost less! How about the food?
They're gonna play it offstage.
- Where did you get all that information? - Eve.
But I let it go. Screaming and calling names is one thing...
- What is it? - Miss Channing's affairs are in good shape...
See ya.
Come in, Eve.
I had to help out.
- There are other plays. - Not with you in them. Not by Mr. Richards.
It's a new Margo, but she's just as late as the old one.
...snatching critics out of bars, steam rooms and museums or wherever they hole up.
Full of those Bill Sampson touches.
So much better theater, too.
That's all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.