The first day of shooting

20th Century Fox did all these marvelous films in Technicolor. And one day, one of the smart accountants said, you know, we're wasting valuable lab space because Technicolor has three negatives. And he said, let's just dump the negatives and print them all on Eastman stock. And they said, great idea. So they printed it all on Eastman stock.

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That's 69 Rue Pigalle. Okay. The money didn't come in at the last minute. Well, listen to this. Possum says, that's an address in Paris where I used to live. He said, it's a murder story like Rue Morgue. So I cast the picture, and I built the sets. Beautiful sets. It's the same place we shot Orgy. So the day before we started shooting, my art director tells me, boss, the checks are bouncing. The checks are no good.

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Cubby forgot our second anniversary. Terror, terror. So we went to dinner that evening, and he was making all kinds of toast, to the bonds, to the this, to the that. And I finally said, do you know what today is? And he said, yes, first day of summer. It was June 21st. I said, I'd like to make a toast. And I said, happy anniversary.

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Tim Lucas

And remember, we were alerted to this as viewers when this storage room was first introduced to us in depth, in matters of which Mortimer has had a distinct advantage since the very first shot in the film. It's all right here. Go ahead.

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