:47:00
George took a couple of deep breaths.
:47:02
There was not a sound
in the projection room.
:47:09
After a while, he said...
:47:11
in a very level voice:
:47:14
"Jimmy Dean has just died
in an automobile accident. "
:47:18
That's all he said.
We all sat there, stunned.
:47:22
Nobody cried, nobody shouted.
:47:26
I don't think we were able to move.
Nobody was able to move.
:47:30
I can't remember how the evening ended.
:47:32
I know for certain we didn't watch
any more rushes.
:47:35
We all sat there for a long time...
:47:38
and then we silently filed out of the room.
:47:44
When Jimmy Dean died, we got word.
:47:48
We were all in the projection room
watching dailies.
:47:53
Somebody came running in,
and said, "Jimmy just got killed. "
:47:58
And George left.
:48:04
I followed him.
:48:07
We walked through the sound stages,
through the Warner Brothers lot.
:48:14
I lost him. I couldn't find him.
I don't know where he went.
:48:18
Why.
:48:21
Where he was going...
:48:23
except to guess that he just wanted
to be by himself.
:48:27
It was really weird that morning,
because there was a great...
:48:31
stillness. There was usually
much activity when we first got to work.
:48:35
You know how it is.
:48:38
There wasn't that morning.
There was a strange stillness.
:48:44
Everybody remarked about it.
It wasn't just me.
:48:47
I said, "What is with us today?"
:48:50
Everybody seemed like they were
preoccupied. It was so quiet on the set.
:48:54
I said, "They're not even
going to have to blow the whistle...
:48:58
"for us to settle down and be quiet."