Sunset Boulevard Page #6

SHELDRAKE:

No, that was me. I said, Who

wants to see a Civil War picture?

BETTY:

Perhaps the reason I hated Bases

Loaded is that I knew your name.

I'd always heard you had some

talent.

GILLIS:

That was last year. This year

I'm trying to earn a living.

BETTY:

So you take Plot 27-A, make it

glossy, make it slick --

SHELDRAKE:

Carefull Those are dirty words!

You sound like a bunch of New

York critics. Thank you, Miss

Schaefer.

BETTY:

Goodbye, Mr. Gillis.

GILLIS:

Goodbye. Next time I'll write

The Naked and the Dead.

Betty leaves.

SHELDRAKE:

Well, seems like Zanuck's got

himself a baseball picture.

GILLIS:

Mr. Sheldrake, I don't want you

to think I thought this was going

to win any Academy Award.

SHELDRAKE:

(His mind free-wheeling)

Of course, we're always looking

for a Betty Hutton. Do you see

it as a Betty Hutton?

GILLIS:

Frankly, no.

SHELDRAKE:

(Amusing himself)

Now wait a minute. If we made

it a girls' softball team, put

in a few numbers. Might make a

cute musical:
It Happened in

the Bull Pen -- the story of a

Woman.

GILLIS:

You trying to be funny? -- because

I'm all out of laughs. I'm over a

barrel and I need a job.

SHELDRAKE:

Sure, Gillis. If something should

come along -

GILLIS:

Along is no good. I need it now.

SHELDRAKE:

Haven't got a thing.

GILLIS:

Any kind of assignment. Additional

Dialogue.

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