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Did she read the script?
DeMille is Leo. I'm Scorpio. Mars has been transmitting Jupiter for weeks. Today is the day of greatest conjuction. Now turn around. Let me dry you.
I hope you realize, Norma, that scripts don't sell on astrologers' charts.
I'm not just selling the script. I'm selling me. DeMille always said I was his greatest star.
When did he say it, Norma?
So he said it quite a few years ago. So what? I never looked better in my life. Do you know why? Because I've never been as happy in my life.
Have one of mine.
They're awful. They make me cough.
Pull up at the drugstore, will you, Max. I'll get you some.
You're a darling.
What on earth, darling? It took you hours.
I ran into some people I knew.
Where are my cigarettes?
Where are your...?
I can still see myself in the line: Bebe Daniels, Marie Prevost, Mabel Normand ... Mabel was always stepping on my feet ...What's the matter with you, darling? Why are you so glum?
Nothing is the matter. I'm having a great time. Show me some more.
All right. Give me this. I need it for a moustache. Now close your eyes.
How do you like that? We've made twelve pictures together. His greatest successes.
Maybe deMille is shooting.
I know that trick! He wants to belittle me. He's trying to get my price down. I've waited twenty years for this call. Now Mr. deMille can wait till I'm good and ready.
Don't you want to come along, darling?
I don't think so. It's your script. It's your show. Good luck.
Thank you, darling.
How did it go?
It couldn't have gone better. It's practically set. Of course, he has to finish this picture first, but mine will be his next.
He must be quite a guy.
He'a a shrewd old fox. He can smell box office. Only I'm going to outfox him a litt1e. This isn't going to be C. B. deMille's Salome. It's going to be Norma Desmond's Salome, a Norma Desmond Production, starring Norma Desmond...Home, Max.
Don't turn around. Keep your eyes on the book.
Yes, Norma.
I just came to say good night. I don't want you to see me I'm not very attractive.
Good night.
I've lost half a pound since Tuesday.
Good.
I was a little worried about the line of my throat. This woman has done wonders with it.
Good.
You'd better get to bed yourself.
I think I'll read a little.
You went out last night, didn't you, Joe?
Why do you say that?
I just happen to know it. I had a nightmare and I screamed for you. You weren't here. Where were you?
I went for a walk.
No you didn't. You took the car.
All right, I drove to the beach. Norma, you don't want me to feel I'm locked up in this house?
Of course not, Joe. It's just that I don't want to be left alone. Not now, while I'm under this terrible strain. My nerves are being torn apart. All I ask is for you to be a little patient and a little kind.
I haven't done anything, Norma.
Of course you haven't. I wouldn't let you.
What are you doing, Joe? What are you doing? You're not leaving me?
Yes, I am, Norma.
No, you're not. Max! Max!
Max is a good idea. He can help with my luggage. Thanks for letting me wear the handsome wardrobe. And thanks for the use of all the trinkets.
The rest of the jewelry is in the top drawer.
It's yours, Joe. I gave it to you.
And I'd take it in a second, Norma only it's a little too dressy for sitting behind the copy desk in Dayton, Ohio.
These are nothing. You can have anything you want if you'll only stay. What is it you want money?
Norma, you'd be throwing it away. I don't qualify for the job, not any more.
You can't do this! Max! Max! ... I can't face life without you, and I'm not afraid to die, you know.
That's between you and yourself, Norma.
You think I made that up about the gun...
See, you didn't believe me!.. Now I suppose you don't think I have the courage!
Oh. sure if it would make a good scene.
You don't care. do you? But hundreds of thousands of people will carel
Wake up, Norma. You'd be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago. Now face it.
That's a lie! They still want me!
No, they don't.
What about the studio? What about De Mille?
He was trying to spare your feelings. The studio wanted to rent your car.
Wanted what?
De Mille didn't have the heart to tell you. None of us has had the heart.
That's a lie! They want me, they want me! I get letters every day!
You tell her, Max. Come on, do her that favor. Tell her there isn't going to be any picture there aren't any fan letters, except the ones you write yourself.
That isn't true! Max?
You heard him. I'm a star!
Norma, grow up. You're a woman of fifty. There's nothing tragic about being fifty not unless you try to be twentyfive.
I'm the greatest star of them all.
Goodbye. Norma.
No one leaves a star. That makes one a star.
What's the matter, Norma?
Nothing. I just didn't realize what it would be like to come back to the old studio. I had no idea how I'd missed it.
We've missed you too, dear.
We'll be working again, won't we, Chief? We'll make our greatest picture.
That's what I want to talk to you about.
It's a good script, isn't it?
It's got a lot of good things. Of course, it would be an expensive picture...
I don't care about the money. I just want to work again. You don't know what it means to know that you want me.
Nothing would thrill me more if it were possible.
But remember, darling I don't work before ten in the morning, and never after 4:30 in the afternoon.
Hello, young fellow.
Hello, Mr. deMille.
Last time I saw you was someplace very gay. I remember waving to you. I was dancing on a table.
Lots of people were. Lindbergh had just landed in Paris. Come on in.
Norma, I want to apologize for not calling you.
You'd better. I'm very angry.
I'm pretty busy, as you can see...
That's no excuse. You read the script, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
Then you could have picked up the phone yourself instead of leaving it to one of your assistants.
What assistant?
Don't play innocent. Somebody named Gordon Cole.
Gordon Cole?
And if you hadn't been pretty darned interested in that script, he wouldn't have tried to get me on the phone ten times.