Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1: starring Vincent Price and Joan Leslie. Vincent Price cataloged as Mr. Cooper Fielding, Joan Leslie as Ada Jordan.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
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Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
LS New York City skyline. Various scenes of NYC with CU of woman superimposed over picture. MCU young woman, Ada Jordan, standing outside door reading "Fenner Employment Agency", she checks herself over before entering. MS inside employment office as interviewing woman offers a multitude of excuses as to why she is late, the older woman seated at her desk doesn't buy the nonsense, the women go on to talk about dream job ideals & the reality of taking what you can get.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
CU glamorous photo of woman on her employment ID card. MS/MCU inside employment office as Copper Fielding meets with his potential hire Ada Jordan, it's agreed that she will be his secretary.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
MS/MCU Cooper & Ada conversing in coffee shop, talking about the new office and such, he stands from the table as we hear from off-screen "Mr. Fielding, Mr. Cooper Fielding, paging Mr. Cooper Fielding..." Great shot of V.Price as Fielding looking around the room w/ shifty eyes. MS as Mr.Fielding is given a telegram, he sits down to read it. CU Western Union telegram, it's blank. The plot of deceit thicken as Fielding goes on & on about his dying Great Aunt living alone in an old house in the south, he must return home at once to be with her, sorry Ada I won't be needing your secretarial services after all... Ada argues that she still wants the job, she could go with him, she has no family no friends in New York...it will work out.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
TLS passenger train moving toward camera, then an image of Ada is superimposed as her VO dialog talks about leaving. TLS passenger train moving away from camera. MS Ada Jordan standing at small rail station as passenger train pulls away. MS Mr. Cooper Fielding & Ada Jordan at train station, the porter greets them.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
LS southern mansion with pillars. MS inside mansion as Mr. Cooper Fielding & Ada Jordan are greeted at the door by female African American servant named Rachel, Rachel exits giving Fielding a private moment to explain the peculiarities of his Great Aunt Martha as well as the story of his missing & insane sister Bernice.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
MS Mr. Cooper Fielding & Ada Jordan as they step out on patio to say hello to the elderly Aunt Martha, she is confined to a wheelchair & confuses Ada for her missing niece Bernice, Ada plays along but you can tell she is becoming suspicious. Is Aunt Martha off her rocker? Has her boss Mr. Fielding been lying?
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
MS Mr. Cooper Fielding & Ada Jordan standing in parlor dressed in formal attire, Ada voices her growing concern about his suspicious family & false pretenses to which she was hired, Fielding claims that he has been truthful & that it's Great Aunt Martha who is delusional.
Hollywood Half Hour - Dream Job - PT1
MS Ada Jordan dressed in formal attire standing in parlor as Aunt Martha comes in using her wheelchair, as the conversation progresses Ada has more concerns about Mr. Fielding. The women are joined by Fielding & two elderly gentlemen in tuxedos, they too are under the belief that Ada is the long lost sister of Mr. Fielding, they think she is Bernice, zoom to CU of cocktail tray.