:15:00
I've never been so afraid.
My knees were shaking.
:15:02
Was I on key? I couldn't hear.
:15:04
- You were on pitch all the way.
- It's a wonder.
:15:06
It's a wonder to me
that Mr. Norman Maine is still in pictures.
:15:10
It is indeed.
:15:14
In fact I ask it myself every morning
when I'm shaving.
:15:18
I say, "Mirror, mirror on the wall...
:15:21
"...who is the greatest star of them all?"
:15:24
Do you know what the mirror answers?
:15:27
Norman Maine?
:15:31
Absolutely correct, Miss...
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Blodgett. Esther Blodgett.
:15:36
You must've been born with that name.
You couldn't have made it up.
:15:40
- I was born with it.
- Excuse me.
:15:43
You wouldn't make up a name like that,
would you?
:15:46
That's a brand new lipstick.
:15:48
To mark the occasion when...
:15:54
...Esther Blodgett...
:16:00
...saved Norman Maine...
:16:05
...from making even more a fool
of himself than usual.
:16:09
I thank you. My studio thanks you.
All the legions and codes...
:16:13
...that watch over our industry
will be equally pleased, I'm sure.
:16:16
Would you take supper with me?
:16:18
And all the people with you, too.
:16:21
I'm afraid we can't, Mr. Maine.
You see, we're working at the Grove.
:16:24
This is Danny McGuire, our pianist.
:16:26
Bring your piano along, Mr. McGuire.
:16:28
Nobody can object to a good, clean,
living American piano.
:16:32
But I insist on your taking supper with me.
:16:34
Come on.
:16:37
Don't you try to stop me, Mr. McGuire.
I know myself extremely well.
:16:42
I'm just near the fighting stage
at the moment.
:16:47
If I don't get my way, I'll begin to break up
people and things at this moment.
:16:51
You understand, don't you?
:16:53
Yes, I understand.
:16:55
Why don't we have supper sometime later?
:16:57
Maybe tomorrow or the next night.
I'll tell you what I'll do.