Alexandra del Lago doesn't remember Chance Wayne -- the man she wakes up in a hotel suite with. She's on the run from her fading Hollywood film career, and she wants to forget as much as she can. Chance, meanwhile, never made it as an actor, and he's under enormous financial pressure -- he has decided to tape record his interactions with "the Princess", presumably to blackmail her. (Because of a copyright restriction, I had to cut the first 40 seconds of this scene, which shows Chance setting up the recorder while Ms. del Lage sleeps. This missing 40 seconds, unfortunately, helps set the pace for this scene. I also cut the scene before it is over-- perhaps I'll post the second half. ) This scene also features Rip Torn and Ed Berley.. Based upon the stage play by Tennessee Williams, directed by Richard Brooks, 1962.

Dwight Macdonald, Esquire, 1962: "....Whenever [Geraldine Page] is on, one concentrates on her exclusively. She has all the attributes of a great actress--style, presence, wit, timing, emotional mobility, and beauty, or what is the important thing, the ability to give that effect to the audience.... Her triumph is all the greater because the Princess is an excessively unreal role. Miss Page is able to express the grandiose phoniness of the aging star and at the same time to let us glimpse the frightened person underneath... [H]ere is an actress capable of meeting the highest demands in her art."

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