Hail, Caesar! Page #3
Eddie Mannix strides across the great studio backlot where
technicians mill and actors dressed in the wardrobe of
different ages and genres lounge. His secretary Natalie
follows at his elbow, struggling to keep up as she consults a
notepad:
NATALIE:
——and Gloria DeLamour has been
checked into Our Lady of Perpetual
Rest to dry out. You have a 10:00
A.M. with Monsignor O’Reilly at the
Wallace Beery Conference Room. He’s
bringing Lester Silkwood from the
Legion of Catholic Decency and
we’ve also invited Patriarch
Vlassos for the Eastern view.
8.
EDDIE:
They’ve read the script?
NATALIE:
Roger.
EDDIE:
Let’s also invite a rabbi, and a
Protestant padre of some sort so we
can get everybody’s two cents.
NATALIE:
Check.
EDDIE:
How’s production on “Tucumcari!”?
NATALIE:
Principal is on schedule but second
unit has been idle in Gallup, New
Mexico for four days. Heavy rain.
EDDIE:
Forecast?
NATALIE:
Not good.
EDDIE:
Hnn. Send an insert truck and have
‘em shoot driving plates for “Came
the Rain.”
NATALIE:
Check.
EDDIE:
“Jonah's Daughter” still behind?
NATALIE:
Yes, director says the problem is
DeeAnna and she’s getting worse.
EDDIE:
I know what it is, I’ll drop in on
her after my ten o’clock.
(pulls back his sleeve to
look at his watch)
All right, let’s call New York.
INT. EDDIE’S OFFICE - DAY
Eddie is on the phone.
9.
VOICE:
Nick Schenk’s office.
EDDIE:
Hi, Dorothy, Eddie Mannix. The old
man in?
VOICE:
Hi, Mr. Mannix, I’ll check.
Eddie raises his voice:
EDDIE:
Natalie, I want the box office on
“The Debonaires” and on “Blessed
Event.” Can you also——
Hastily into the phone:
EDDIE (CONT’D)
——Yes, good morning Mr. Schenk...
Very well, thank you. Proceeding...
Proceeding... “Merrily We Dance”
starts shooting today. Beardley
Auberon gave us a draft that’s
extremely classy. Joan Van Vechten
is playing Dierdre, but we need a
male lead and we need him now...
No, Jack Hogarth is drying out at
Cedars... Metro won’t lend us Gable
unless we give them the Comiskey
Twins... Of course not, I agree...
Swell idea but he’s waiting out a
divorce in Reno... Whuh——Hobie
Doyle?! Do you really think so?
After all he’s——he’s a dust actor!
The man barely knows how to...
talk!... Yes, of course, Mr.
Schenk, I agree, but I don’t know
if Hobie Doyle, if he has the uh
the uh the uh poise in a dinner
jacket... Yes, we do need someone
pronto... No I don’t. That’s very
true. Let me talk to Laurence
Laurentz, the director. It could
work. Hobie is a very promising
idea.
EXT. WESTERN LANDSCAPE
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