00:01Hi, Anna.
00:03Your mother said I'd find you here.
00:09What's your reading?
00:16Did your mother mention the movie I'm making?
00:21Yeah.
00:22I'm gonna need a leading lady.
00:26Will you be my star?
00:27No, thank you.
00:28Why not?
00:30Not exactly the actress type.
00:33Anna,
00:34I think you'll make the audience fall in love with you.
00:37It's impossible.
00:39I can't make faces and cry in front of people.
00:42Many actors can make dramatic poses,
00:44but very few can evoke true emotion.
00:49Do you really think that I can?
00:51I do.
00:52I'll have to ask my mom.
00:54I already did.
00:58Okay, I'll do it.
01:03And let's ask that boy from the dance.
01:05Which one?
01:06The one who looks like a young Cary Grant.
01:09Dale?
01:10Yes.
01:10No, he's busy.
01:11He works at the soda fountain and he plays basketball.
01:14Let's let him decide that.
01:17Welcome to Duars.
01:19What can I get you to today?
01:21Uh...
01:22Oh dear.
01:23Um...
01:24The deer.
01:25They're impressive.
01:27Well, that one's a ram.
01:30Right you are.
01:31From the Black Hills.
01:33Maybe Rankin Ridge?
01:34I think so.
01:36Are you from around here?
01:37Not anymore.
01:39I'm Rose.
01:40Rose Miller.
01:41Dale, truth be told, Anna and I have dropped in because we have something to ask you.
01:46We'll be making a movie in the next few days and we're looking for actors.
01:50What do you say?
01:51To what?
01:52To be in the film.
01:53Uh, no.
01:54No thank you.
01:55Why not?
01:56Actors memorize lines.
01:57I can't do that.
01:58My movie's a musical.
01:59There's not any lines.
02:00I can't sing.
02:01It's a silent musical.
02:03You don't even have a microphone.
02:04You don't even have to sing or say anything really.
02:07No sound.
02:07No sound.
02:08I wouldn't know what to do.
02:10Do you play any sports?
02:11He plays basketball.
02:13Captain.
02:13Two years.
02:14Who tells you what to do in the game?
02:16Coach Phillips.
02:17I will be your coach.
02:19I'll tell you where to stand, where to move, and how to do everything.
02:23Doesn't that sound like fun?
02:25Yes ma'am.
02:27Call me Rose.
02:29We will stop by tomorrow to fit you for your costume.
02:33And shooting begins as soon as the film comes in from Chicago.
02:36Yes ma'am.
02:37I mean, Rose.
02:40Oh, holy cow.
02:42Look at this.
02:43It's your Theta-Bara period.
02:46Tell me what you were thinking.
02:49Jeepers.
02:49Look who's talking.
02:52Daddy gave you endless grief for that hairdo.
02:54Good boy.
02:55Now see, you could do no wrong, but let me step out of an apron and he about blew a
02:59gasket.
03:00That's putting it mildly.
03:02Okay, what do you think about?
03:04Uh, 1987.
03:06No.
03:07It's 39.
03:09Well, I already have it in ink.
03:10Well, scratch it out.
03:11Well, a few years difference won't matter.
03:13It will matter.
03:14When you look back, it's gonna matter.
03:20Oh.
03:21That's the one I was looking for.
03:24I look like Myrna Loy in...
03:27Finman?
03:27Finman, 1934.
03:29That was my favorite.
03:31I thought you liked the musicals best.
03:35Yeah.
03:37Hmm.
03:37Until you discovered boys and then you'd be gone from the intermission to the closing credits.
03:42Oh.
03:43You're exaggerating.
03:44Oh, mama.
03:45The line at the concession stand.
03:47It was just so long.
03:51Good night you even missed me.
03:53Eyes were glued to the screen.
03:56That was our time together.
04:06I'm gonna hang a sheet in that corner.
04:08Pretty soon we will have our own little matinee.
04:18Oh, the tremendous cat broadcasts.
04:20The dead from Simmon's mugs right to the door.
04:24And it's gone.
04:30Hi there.
04:33Jeepers.
04:34I'm Rose Miller.
04:36Nice to meet you.
04:37Ah, Pearl's daughter.
04:38Macy said you'd be coming around.
04:41Yeah, back in town.
04:43Temporarily.
04:44From Chicago and planning to make a film.
04:48A movie.
04:50Huh.
04:51I think your land here is perfect.
04:57I'd be hugely grateful to you if you'd consider letting me use it as a location.
05:01That's where you make a film.
05:03Using a location is a very modern idea, actually.
05:07And the script.
05:08I'll be writing the script.
05:10That's the film's, the movie's story.
05:15Will it be narrative or expressionist?
05:18Excuse me?
05:23Sure.
05:24You can use whatever you want.
05:26I'll actually be around to help out.
05:32It arrived this morning.
05:35No.
05:35I need to test it.
05:37See if it works.
05:40How are we supposed to work together if we can't communicate?
05:58You think of everything.
06:00Mm-hmm.
06:04Great.
06:07Leah.
06:09Stepplin.
06:19Your name is James.
06:22I'm so...
06:23Sorry.
06:25I didn't...
06:26No.
06:32Rose.
06:53What do you know about machines?
06:57I built bombers during the war.
07:08I'm an executive secretary.
07:17Do you like it?
07:21A very important job.
07:32What?
07:48I feel...
07:50...like an idiot.
07:57I've spent years trying to impress people who think I'm the bear here, and you just want me to be
08:05quiet and go away.
08:22People think your skills are less for no good reason. That's why I work for myself.
08:56I'm the bear here.
09:45I'm the bear here.
09:51And also a camera specialist.
10:04Will you be my camera man?
10:14Yes.
10:20You have eyes, don't you?
10:23You can see.
10:26Just fine.
10:41Okay, but I want to see the edge of the flat. The edge of the flat.
10:49What? What? Just...
10:58Okay, this is for my mother. She loves fantasy.
11:13Just... just do what I say. This is going to work. Just do this. Okay. You two. Get to the
11:21edge and then come in when I start you.
11:25Florence! I brought a rhubarb cake for you to take to Pearl. Are you expecting Pearl to come watch soon?
11:32Oh, I don't believe so. Nay, so much to do at the house. Her arthritis problem improving then.
11:39Oh, you know Pearl. No complaints. Mm-hmm. Well, if that's the way she wants to play it.
11:47Well, this was wonderful of you. Pearl will be pleased. Thank you.
11:50Mm-hmm. What's that on her head? It's a headdress. We're channeling a dance from the Ziegfeld Girls.
12:10Bend a fold here. Tighten up over there. All right.
12:20Try shake your hand.
12:24Get me some chicken wire and pliers. I'll go get some.
12:33Jane, I'm going to need an assistant. Would you be willing to take good notes and do what I say?
12:37Yes, ma'am. We'll get along just fine. All right, everybody. Let's rehearse. Places.
12:44Places. Much louder. Places!
12:46Good. Come with me.
13:01Macy. And go. Left. Good. Right. Left. And right. And turn and swoop.
13:13No. Notoh.
13:16I will say the word.
13:16It's the word. That's good.
13:17It's the word. I don't know.
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