:12:01
We all had chairs with our names
and he'd look until he found his.
:12:05
I'd bounce around and sit on
anybody's chair. He would sit on his.
:12:11
He would inch it closer and closer
to the camera,
:12:15
because he was so fascinated
with what Billy was up to.
:12:20
"Queen Kelly" caused bitterness
between von Stroheim and Swanson.
:12:25
By 1950, they had patched things up
and there was no rancour on the set.
:12:31
They respected each other
and had worked with each other enough,
:12:35
they saw the best in each other.
:12:38
Understand, I discovered her when
she was sixteen. I made her a star.
:12:45
I cannot let her be destroyed.
:12:48
Von Stroheim ending up
a ruined film director,
:12:52
acting as the star's butler,
:12:55
actually was, in some sense,
an accurate depiction of him then.
:13:00
Hello, Mr Sheldrake. "Bases Loaded",
I covered it with a two-page synopsis.
:13:05
- Thanks.
- But I wouldn't bother.
:13:08
- What's wrong?
- It's from hunger.
:13:10
Nothing for Ladd?
:13:12
It's a rehash of something
not very good.
:13:15
You'll be glad to meet Mr Gillis,
he wrote it. This is Miss Kramer.
:13:21
The name's Schaefer,
Betty Schaefer.
:13:24
Nancy Olson,
a contract actress again, was put in.
:13:27
In the original screenplay, they hadn't
cast her and called her "a fresh face".
:13:33
I went back to school
:13:36
and got a call saying Mr Wilder
was doing a film, "Sunset Boulevard".
:13:41
There was a role called
Betty Schaefer.
:13:46
They wanted me to play it.
:13:48
As we said in Wisconsin,
:13:51
I knew I had fallen
into a tub of butter,
:13:55
because Billy Wilder
was already legendary at that time.