The stars are ageless, aren't they?
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Betty Schaefer: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite.Joe Gillis: Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say a little something.Joe Gillis: Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind.Sheldrake: No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"
You don't yell at a sleepwalker - he may fall and break his neck. That's it: she was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career.
And there's a great little part for Bill Demarest. One of the trainers. Old time player who got beaned. Goes out of his head sometimes.