The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

Fredric March: Richard Hardell

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Quotes 

• Rupert Borka : No, no, no. That is terrible. Get up.

  Richard Hardell : Well, what's the matter?

  Rupert Borka : Matter? Well you cannot act. That is all. You do not feel it; you do not think it. Bah!

  Richard Hardell : Want me to try again?

  Rupert Borka : What for? I told you all week that you cannot act. Then I thought maybe if we came here and rehearsed here alone tonight... but it is useless. Why that dummy has more feeling than you.

  Richard Hardell : Ohhh

  [throws dummy out of chair and onto floor] 

  Richard Hardell : Now look here, Borka. Why don't you play ball? You agreed to give this part to the winner of that newspaper contest. Now didn't you?

  Rupert Borka : Yes.

  Richard Hardell : Yes.

  Rupert Borka : Like a fool!

  Richard Hardell : Oh, well you just say that because the winner was me and you've always thought I was just a rich man to hang around moving picture people.

  Rupert Borka : And you are!

  Richard Hardell : No, I'm not either. I've always really wanted to act. And if you weren't the director, old boy I'd be making good right now.

  Rupert Borka : You are crazy. You cannot act and you will never learn to act.