:06:00
You've got the best man for it
right here on this lot. Alan Ladd.
:06:03
Be a good change of pace for Ladd.
Another thing, it's simple to shoot.
:06:07
Lots of outdoor stuff. You could
make it all for under a million.
:06:12
- Excuse me.
- A great part for Bill Demarest--
:06:14
a trainer, an old-time player who
got beamed, goes out of his head.
:06:18
Hello, Mr. Sheldrake.
:06:20
On that Bases Loaded, I covered it
with a two-page synopsis.
:06:23
- Thank you.
- But I wouldn't bother.
:06:25
- What's wrong with it?
- It's from hunger.
:06:27
Nothing for Ladd?
:06:29
It's just a rehash of something
that wasn't very good to begin with.
:06:32
I'm sure you'll be glad to meet
Mr. Gillis. He wrote it.
:06:35
This is Miss Kramer.
:06:38
The name is Schaefer.
Betty Schaefer.
:06:42
Right now I wish I could crawl
in a hole and pull it in after me.
:06:45
If I could be of any help--
:06:47
Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I
just didn't think it was any good.
:06:51
I found it flat and trite.
:06:53
Exactly what kind of material do you
recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?
:06:57
I just think that pictures
should say a little something.
:07:00
Oh, one of the message kids.
Just a story won't do.
:07:03
You'd have turned down
Gone With the Wind.
:07:05
No, that was me. I said, "Who wants
to see a Civil War picture?"
:07:10
Perhaps I hated it because
I'd always heard you had talent.
:07:15
That was last year. This year
I'm trying to earn a living.
:07:18
So you take plot 27-A,
make it glossy, make it slick--
:07:21
Those are dirty words.
You sound like New York critics.
:07:25
- That's all, Miss Kramer-- Schaefer.
- Good-bye, Mr. Gillis.
:07:29
Next time I'll write you
The Naked and the Dead.
:07:32
Well, it seems like Zanuck
has got himself a baseball picture.
:07:38
I don't want you to think I thought
this would win any Academy Award.
:07:41
Of course, we're always
looking for a Betty Hutton.
:07:44
- Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?
- Frankly, no.
:07:48
Wait. If we made it a girls'
softball team, put in a few numbers.
:07:53
Might make a cute musical. It Happened
in the Bullpen: Story of a Woman.
:07:59
Are you trying to be funny?
Because I'm all out of laughs.