![]() ![]() ![]() He invites her to supper, but she must leave with pianist Danny McGuire for another job at the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove. As he bows and exits, the audience cheers, believing the star's appearance was planned.Īfterward, backstage, Esther is preparing to depart, when Norman takes her lipstick and draws a heart on the wall with their initials inside to mark the time she "saved" him from disgracing himself. Onstage, the Glenn Williams Orchestra is performing, and when the band's vocalist, Esther Blodgett, sees Norman coming, she links arms and struts with him, incorporating him into the act, thus preventing him from disrupting their performance. However, Norman soon guesses Libby's ruse, knocks Libby into a mirror, smashing it to pieces, then heads toward the stage, pushing through performers awaiting their cue. Using the pretense of publicity photographs and interviews, Libby lures Norman into the pressroom. ![]() To save his studio from embarrassment, Oliver Niles, the studio head, tells his publicity director, Matt Libby, to keep Norman away from the stage. In Los Angeles, at a benefit show for the Motion Picture Relief Fund at the Shrine Auditorium, prominent but fading movie star Norman Maine arrives drunk and out of control. ![]()
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