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Charles Lederer: Sorry. Somebody told me Mankiewicz was in here.
Joe Mankiewicz: He is. I'm the promising brother, Joe.
Charles Lederer: I didn't know Herman had a brother.
Joe Mankiewicz: Neither does anyone else. Let me guess. "There are millions to be made, and your only competition is idiots," stop.
Charles Lederer: How did you know?
Joe Mankiewicz: I hate to tell you, anyone who can rub three words together and make a sentence gets one.
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Title Card: In 1940, at the tender age of 24, Orson Wells was lured to Hollywood by a struggling RKO Pictures with a contract befitting his formidable storytelling talents. He was given absolute creative autonomy, would suffer no oversight, and could make any movie, about any subject, with any collaborator he wished...
Anne Beyer
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