:44:05
Charlie, I've been so rotten to you!
:44:07
I don't know if you can forgive me.
:44:10
I forced you to leave Butte, Montana.
:44:14
I made you accept
a hundred and fifty per week.
:44:17
I stuffed directing down
your throat, too.
:44:21
Tell me how Uncle Mack can
make it up to you!
:44:26
I want to run my own show.
I want control.
:44:32
Dream on, kid. I know this business.
You're not that big.
:44:38
First time I've seen you miss.
:44:43
But, Charlie, Mack Sennett
was the king of comedy.
:44:47
He gave you your start. How could
you walk out and leave him?
:44:52
The reasons are clearly intellectual.
Money.
:44:57
So you joined up with
Bronco Billy Anderson...
:45:00
...a puffed-up cowboy star?
:45:03
Not the high point of my career.
:45:06
But I wanted my own studio.
:45:08
I was putting money aside
to build one.
:45:13
Excuse me.
:45:14
Do you always eat alone?
:45:17
Only when I'm trying to meet someone.
:45:20
Actually, I'm waiting for my girlfriend.
:45:24
I'm a motion picture director.
:45:27
I'm forming a new company
with Bronco Billy over there.
:45:31
And you need a new leading lady.
:45:34
Lucky me.
:45:36
You must be an actress, miss...
:45:38
Purviance. Sorry. Just a secretary.
:45:43
I'm auditioning actresses
who aren't actresses.
:45:47
Well, if you need an untalented
actress who isn't an actress...
:45:52
...you couldn't do better than me.
Worse than me.