1:05:01
I couldn't have gone on.
1:05:03
What a pity.
All that fire and music being turned off.
1:05:07
- What fire and music?
- You wouldn't understand.
1:05:10
How was Miss Caswell?
1:05:12
Back to the Copacabana.
1:05:14
But Eve, Margo. Let me tell you about Eve.
1:05:16
I was dreadful, Miss Channing. I have no right
to be anyone's understudy, much less yours.
1:05:22
I'm sure you underestimate yourself.
You always do.
1:05:25
You were about to tell me about Eve.
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- You'd have been proud of her.
- I'm sure.
1:05:29
- She was a revelation.
- To you too?
1:05:31
- What do you mean by that?
- It must have been a revelation
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to have a 24-year-old character
played by a 24-year-old actress.
1:05:38
- That's beside the point.
- It is the point.
1:05:41
It must have seemed so new and fresh to you,
1:05:43
so exciting, to have your lines
read just as you wrote them.
1:05:46
- Addison.
- So full of meaning, fire and music.
1:05:51
You've talked to that
venomous fishwife DeWitt.
1:05:54
In this case, as trustworthy
as the world almanac.
1:05:57
You knew when you came in
that Eve was your understudy.
1:06:00
Playing that childish game of cat and mouse.
1:06:02
Not mouse. Never mouse. If anything, rat.
1:06:05
Your genius for making a bar-room brawl
out of a perfectly innocent misunderstanding.
1:06:10
Perfectly innocent?
Men have been hanged for less.
1:06:13
I'm lied to, attacked behind my back,
1:06:15
accused of reading your play
as if it were the holy gospel.
1:06:18
I never said it was.
1:06:20
You listen as if someone else had written
your play. Whom do you have in mind?
1:06:24
Arthur Miller? Sherwood?
Beaumont and Fletcher?
1:06:27
- May I say a word?
- No!
1:06:31
You think Miller or Sherwood would stand
for the nonsense I take from you?
1:06:35
Stick to Beaumont and Fletcher.
They've been dead for 300 years!
1:06:40
All playwrights should be dead for 300 years!
1:06:44
That would solve none of their problems
because actresses never die!
1:06:52
The stars never die and never change.
1:06:56
You may change this star any time you want
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for a new and fresh and exciting one,
fully equipped with fire and music.