Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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