Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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