:20:04
It wasn't that he minded aging.
:20:06
He didn't feel...
:20:08
that he accomplished
what he wanted to accomplish.
:20:12
He felt that he sort oflet those scenes
down in which he was an older man.
:20:18
As a matter of fact...
:20:19
in the scene where we see him drunk
and destroyed in the ballroom...
:20:26
he was very unhappy with that scene...
:20:28
and asked George if he could shoot it
over and over and over again.
:20:33
My uncle, Chill Wills, and I
were standing at a partially opened door...
:20:39
and watching this.
:20:41
This was a big thing for Luz to see.
:20:44
It's kind of the demise of her hero.
:20:47
Jimmy, in the rushes,
came up to George Stevens...
:20:52
and said, "I wish that you would cut me
out of that scene as much as possible...
:20:57
"because everything that there is to say
is on Carroll Baker's face."
:21:02
And that was a lovely thing to say.
:21:04
He did appreciate other actors,
other artists.
:21:07
In the beginning, I was naturally
very interested in Jimmy as an actor...
:21:13
and as a person. I'd never met him.
:21:15
He stayed very much to himself...
:21:18
and was very distant.
:21:22
I thought,
"Okay, I will respect that and his privacy. "
:21:26
So I stayed very distant.
:21:29
But he was the only one, because
everybody else were like teddy bears.
:21:34
I love teddy bears.
:21:36
It took a while for us
to finally kind of share thoughts.
:21:40
But he didn't allow that.
:21:42
If I would just say even, "Good morning,"
he'd say, "Hi"...
:21:45
and sort of roll his eyes and so on...
:21:48
but nothing in the way of communication.
:21:52
So finally, I was taking pictures,
as I usually do, of everybody...
:21:56
and having a wonderful time.
:21:59
Finally he came up to me one day,
and he said: