:10:00
Maybe one. Garbo.
:10:01
They now added up to exactly zero.
:10:03
Apparently,
I just didn't have what it takes.
:10:04
Those idiot producers... those imbeciles!
:10:07
The time had come to wrap up
the Hollywood deal and go home.
:10:08
Haven't they got any eyes? Have they
forgotten what a star looks like?
:10:11
Maybe if I hocked all my junk, there'd
be enough for a ticket back to Ohio,
:10:12
I'll show them.
I'll be up there again, so help me!
:10:15
Edith's dress around the studio
was always very conservative.
:10:15
to that $35-a-week job at the copy
desk of the "Dayton Evening Post",
:10:19
Some of the other lady designers would
wear fabulously glamorous clothes.
:10:20
if it was still open, back
to the smirking delight of the office.
:10:25
Edith was brilliant
about packaging herself,
:10:25
All right, why don't you
take a crack at Hollywood?
:10:29
Maybe you think you could...
:10:29
and realised early on
that she was not a glamour girl.
:10:32
Uh-oh!
:10:33
So she had that well-dressed
school-marm look.
:10:36
No matter when you see
pictures of Edith, she's maintained it.
:10:40
You always know exactly who it is.
:10:42
She generally wore black and white
or beige and brown.
:10:46
Once in a while she might wear red.
:10:49
She always wore white gloves
when she was at Paramount.
:10:52
And she generally wore dark glasses.
:10:55
This wasn't unusual
in the '30s and '40s,
:10:58
when most movies
were in black and white.
:11:01
Designers, cameramen, art directors,
would look at a set through a blue glass,
:11:06
to see how it would photograph
in black and white.
:11:09
But Edith had another reason.
She wanted to be inscrutable.
:11:14
If she wore her really dark blue glasses
in a meeting, no one could see her eyes,
:11:19
so they couldn't tell
what she was thinking.
:11:21
Not only a talented designer,
:11:23
Edith also knew the value
of becoming a household name,
:11:27
I'd landed in the driveway
of some big mansion
:11:28
and appeared often on radio and TV.
:11:30
After she got used to appearing
on the radio, thanks to Art Linkletter,
:11:30
that looked rundown and deserted.
:11:33
At the end of the drive
was a lovely sight.
:11:35
Edith started appearing on other shows,
even shows like "Burns and Allen".
:11:36
A great big empty garage,
just standing there going to waste.
:11:40
And she played the part of Edith Head.
:11:41
If ever there was a place to stash
a car with a hot licence number.
:11:42
She worked hard at having the public
know who she was, and they still know.
:11:47
It had to do with who she really was,
:11:49
but to some extent
it was an invention as well.
:11:52
So when she got to be so famous,
:11:55
There was another
occupant in that garage.
:11:55
the more publicity she got,
the more the press wanted to talk to her.
:11:58
An enormous
foreign-built automobile.