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I am ready, Mr Dawes.
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You forgot your shoes.
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No. I did not forget them.
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What happened next, if you go to movies,
:33:44
or if you've ever sat under a dryer
or in a waiting room,
:33:48
is history.
:33:50
Movie history. The facts and figures
and fantasy of Maria's success.
:33:56
There are some, though, you wouldn't
have found in the textbooks.
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You've seen it and
read it a thousand times.
:34:07
It's one of the most tiresome
clichés of storytelling.
:34:11
It really happens once
or twice in a generation.
:34:14
But that first test of Maria Vargas
lit up all the lights in show business.
:34:20
I had taken it upon myself to invite the
highest movie brass I could find in Rome.
:34:26
Mr Black of America, Monsieur Blue
of France, and Mr Brown of England.
:34:31
The difference between European and
American movie magnates is astonishing.
:34:35
There is absolutely none.
:34:37
Kirk, my dear fellow, I know
just what you have in mind.
:34:40
I couldn't agree more.
A British production...
:34:42
- I've got the perfect story...
- You're not the type to fool around with...
:34:46
:34:49
Now just a minute. In the first place,
:34:51
this young lady is under exclusive
contract to Mr Kirk Edwards, of course.
:34:55
He cannot discuss her future availability
at this time.
:34:58
Secondly, this was a private showing of a
private test which belongs to Mr Edwards.