5 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:36:44 in the radio play.
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- '42 Street', 'The Gold Diggers', 'The King Of Burlesque' and lots of others, including an original musical 'Ladies Of London', which you'll be seeing soon.
- And here he is, the man who's name you'll see on the screen before the picture starts.
- One of Hollywood's greatest picture writers: James Seymour!
- Thanks, I've been a movie writer for ten years, that's the first kind word anybody's ever said to me!
- Listen, the average person thinks that a movie writer is a fella who sits by himself at a typewriter, hammers out a lot of dialogue and hands it in.
- Would you like to correct that impression?
- I certainly would.
- Nobody works alone and by himself to make a picture! It's a matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician, actors and the writer.
- Some of the best story ideas come out of the conferences.
- How many writers would you say there are on an average picture?
- Plenty!
- Believe it or not, I've seen pictures where there were more writers than actors.
- If all the people who've contributed to the story got screen credit, it would look like a page from the telephone directory!
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