:16:02
Since when does a producer
have to love an actor?
:16:05
I can't go to battle unless
everybody is rooting for me.
:16:10
- Cook thinks you're a drinker.
- Not on a show.
:16:13
Not according to Maxwell.
You worked for him in '46.
:16:17
After a couple of months,
he had to replace you.
:16:22
While I was playing in that show,
our son died.
:16:26
What about this show? I need an actor
who can stay sober and learn lines.
:16:31
Are you that actor or not?
Make up your mind.
:16:34
Give me time. Cook wasn't
the only reason I left the theatre.
:16:39
I wouldn't take a part like this
without talking it over with Georgie.
:16:45
- I'll be back in ten minutes.
- He's afraid of the responsibility.
:16:50
But the gamble's all on my side!
:16:53
It's not a question of being afraid
of the responsibility.
:16:57
The part's the whole show.
You said so yourself.
:17:01
You're opening in Boston the 28th.
:17:04
I don't think I could learn
the lines. You need Walter Huston.
:17:09
It's bad enough to go to Hollywood
to cast. You suggest I go to heaven?
:17:14
- You can do it, Frank.
- Why are you so sure?
:17:18
When I was a hat-check boy,
you, Lunt and Jolson were my heroes.
:17:23
- I know everything you've done.
- You exaggerate to make your point.
:17:28
- Are you for him or against him?
- I'm his wife.
:17:31
I want honesty from both of you.
Flattery is cheap.
:17:35
How about a little costly truth?
:17:39
I'm not blind to Frank's condition.
This room tells me what he is.
:17:45
I'm not one of those nice people
who buys you a drink and that's it.
:17:50
I won't leave you on a limb. We'll
work together and worry together.
:17:55
But if you do me dirt, just once,
no pity, not a drop of pity.