1:45:00
I am! Now get off.
This is more important.
1:45:04
Times city desk?
Hedda Hopper speaking.
1:45:07
I'm talking from the bedroom
of Norma Desmond.
1:45:09
Don't bother with a rewrite.
Take it direct.
1:45:12
Ready?
1:45:13
As day breaks
over the murder house...
1:45:15
Norma Desmond,
famous star of yesteryear...
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is in a state
of complete mental shock.
1:45:21
A curtain of silence
seems to have fallen around her.
1:45:23
She sits in the silken boudoir
of her house on Sunset Boulevard--
1:45:26
Was it a sudden quarrel? Did you ever
have any trouble between you before?
1:45:31
If it was a quarrel,
how come this gun was right there?
1:45:35
This guy-- Where did you meet him
for the first time?
1:45:38
Where did he come from?
Who is he?
1:45:40
Did you hate him?
1:45:41
Had you ever thought of
doing something like this before?
1:45:44
Was theft involved?
1:45:46
Did you catch him stealing,
or find he had stolen something?
1:45:49
Newsreel men are here
with the cameras.
1:45:51
Tell them to go fly a kite.
This is no time for cameras.
1:45:55
Now, Miss Desmond, is there
anything you want to tell us?
1:46:00
Cameras?
1:46:04
What is it, Max?
1:46:10
The cameras have arrived.
1:46:12
They have?
1:46:14
Tell Mr. DeMille
I'll be on the set at once.
1:46:18
What is this?
1:46:23
Well, it's one way
to get her downstairs.
1:46:28
Let's have the car right outside.
1:46:31
Okay.
1:46:34
Everything will be ready, Madame.
1:46:36
Thank you, Max.
1:46:39
You'll pardon me, gentlemen...
1:46:40
but I must get ready
for my scene.
1:46:44
- What's happening up there?
- Why did she do it?
1:46:47
Is there a confession?
1:46:49
- Everything set up, gentlemen?
- Just about.
1:46:52
- Lights ready?
- All set.