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He loved doing "Sunset Boulevard".
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He loved playing himself,
and wasn't he wonderful?
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I thought he was fabulous.
:17:10
There were rumours that DeMille
could be tough on set. He could.
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I saw him all the time with his riding
crop, not that he ever got on a horse,
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and his boots.
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In the scene where he plays himself
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and Gloria is coming to the studio
for a meeting with him,
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and he was doing
"Samson and Delilah" on Stage 18,
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it's interesting because in the scene
:17:38
DeMille used all of his own staff.
:17:41
I'll tell you a funny story.
:17:44
DeMille, I laugh saying it,
considered me for Delilah
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in "Samson and Delilah" and,
thank God, he made the right choice.
:17:54
He put Hedy Lamarr in it.
I couldn't have played Delilah!
:17:59
The virginal college girl, here.
For heaven's sake! It was ridiculous!
:18:05
There's a scene in which Norma's
friends appear, to play cards.
:18:10
Joe Gillis calls them the "Waxworks"
because they, too, are has-beens.
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H B Warner, Buster Keaton,
Anna Q Nilsson.
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Big, big stars of the Silent Era
and by 1950 they were forgotten.
:18:25
That is magical, when you see
these familiar faces from the past.
:18:32
There they are, playing cards.
:18:34
H B Warner had played Christ
in DeMille's "King of Kings".
:18:39
Everybody said that jinxed his career.
What role can you play after Jesus?
:18:45
There was a contest sometime,
I think, in the '70s.
:18:50
The contest asked the question,
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what was one of the most romantic
scenes in a movie you've seen?
:18:58
And that little balcony scene,
with Bill and myself, won it.