The Bad and the Beautiful

Shields: The best legal counsel advised me to change my name. Amiel: Because the town thought your father was a heel? Shields: He wasn't a heel. He was the heel. Yeah, we couldn't stand living in the same town together but I liked him a lot. He made great pictures. So will I. Amiel: You haven't much to begin with. Shields: No, he brought me up to start at the top. How do you start at the bottom? Amiel: Are you, uh, gonna change your name? Shields: Change it? I'm gonna ram the name of Shields down their throats.

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Shields: If you put me on, say at $300 a week, I could pay you off slowly but surely, $6,351 dollars. Pebbel: You think you blackmailed me...Well, get this, my unit turns out 18 pictures a year. I cry for ideas. If you'd have sweat out a story for me the way you sweat out losing that $6,351 dollars, I'd have hired you anyway. Why didn't you come to me in the first place? What are you, proud? Shields: I tried to see you, Harry. I couldn't get in. Pebbel: Do you know who gave me my first job? Shields: My father. Pebbel: Yes, and you're just like him, got to angle everything the cute way. Shields: Look, I'll pay you off a hundred a week. Pebbel: I wouldn't take a dime. Just bring me a picture I can shoot, genius boy. Shields: You're all right, Harry. One day, you'll work for me.

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Shields: When I work on a picture, it's like romancing a girl. You see her, you want her, you go after her. The big moment. Then, the let-down, every time, every picture, the after-picture blues. Amiel: Don't worry. Some day, you'll learn to love 'em and leave 'em. Shields: You think so?

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Georgia: I'm one girl who doesn't want to be a star. Shields: Make up your mind. You hate him and you build this shrine to him. He died over ten years ago and you've been holding your own private wake ever since. You can't be a star in a cemetery... Because he was a drunk, you're a drunk. Because he loved women, you're a tramp. But you forget one thing. He did it with style. Georgia: Don't waste any sleep over me, Mr. Shields. The last time I tried to commit suicide was six months ago. There won't be any next time...People who knew my father give me extra work and a line to say now and then. I drink what I want, sleep where I want. Who knows? Some day, I may even get married to a nice, upright assistant assistant. Shields: And make him miserable for the rest of his life because you're a Lorrison, haunted, born to live by make-believe. Look at you. You're acting now, playing the doomed daughter of the great man. Well, let me tell you something. The acting isn't good enough. It's a cheap

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Shields: Georgia, love is for the very young. Georgia: For the very young. I like that. Would you marry me, Jonathan? Shields: Not even a little bit. Georgia: That's too bad. Shields: Why? Georgia: Because I'd make you a good wife. Shields: Well, right now, I don't need a wife. I need a star.

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Lila: [about Georgia] She gets to be a star. I get to park the convertible. Gaucho: Don't talk like that about Georgia - or Jonathan. He's a great man. Lila: Ha, ha. There are no great men, buster. There's only men.

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