"Hello, Mr. Meyer." Hardy went over to greet him.
Louis Mayer saw Hardy and extended his hand with a smile. "Hardy, I remember your name. I called Siegel a few days ago and he mentioned you to me on the phone. He said you are a very good assistant. If Noah has anything, you can always come to me."
"Thank you, Mr. Meyer, for your care." Hardy thanked.
"Don't be polite. There are many people here tonight. You can go and get to know them." Louis Mayer lowered his voice and said with a smile, "There are many beautiful women. Young people like you should get in touch with them more."
They stood up straight and both burst into laughter.
Several people in Noah's Cinema watched Hardy and Louis Mayer talking and laughing from a distance, and they all felt different emotions in their hearts.
As expected of Chairman Siegel's assistant, he even had access to big shots like Louis B. Mayer. At most, they only had access to some executives of big film companies, and when they saw Louis B. Mayer, they would just say hello, Mr. Mayer.
Just then Shirley Temple came over.
Meyer saw the girl and said to Hardy with a smile, "You should know our precious girl Shirley Temple, right?"
At this time, Shirley Temple had grown into a big girl and lost her childish cuteness. Hardy knew that Shirley Temple would retire from the film industry in a few years because people were unwilling to accept a grown-up baby girl.
"Shirley, let me introduce you. This is Jon Hardy, the assistant to the chairman of Noah Films. By the way, he is also a film investor. Maybe you will have a chance to cooperate with each other in the future." Louis Mayer said.
Shirley Temple was cheerful, looked at Hardy, gave him a gentle hug, and said, "Hello, Mr. Hardy."
"Ms. Deng Bo, I am your fan." Hardy said.
His wish of coming here this time was fulfilled by getting a hug from Shirley Temple.
The two sides chatted for a few words, and Hardy politely said goodbye and left.
At eight o'clock in the evening,
Louis Mayer stepped forward.
Starring Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton, and Shirley Temple stood behind him.
Louis Mayer loudly announced that the new movie "I Want to See You" is about to start shooting and thanked everyone for attending the reception.
The audience congratulated the film on its success.
Elizabeth Taylor looked at the people on the stage. She could no longer maintain the fake smile on her face, and her big blue-purple eyes were filled with resentment.
But there is no other way.
After filming "Girls and Horses", she became quite famous, but compared with Shirley Temple, she was still far behind.
Everyone here is famous.
The heroine of this film, Ginger Rogers, is a mature beauty who won the Oscar for Best Actress three years ago; Shirley Dunham is the most famous child star in Hollywood.
The stars in the crowd are even more dazzling.
Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Louise Jeanne, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly…
These people have either won an Oscar or been nominated. It can be said that everyone who can come here has a certain fame.
In the eyes of MGM executives, Elizabeth Taylor is now just a relatively unknown newcomer, and many people do not even think highly of her.
Some say her acting skills are average, that although she is young she lacks the innocence of a child, and that she can't make films for children or adults.
After she finished filming "Marvel", MGM never arranged any roles for her again. In the end, she was even loaned to Fox to play a minor supporting role in the production of Jane Eyre.
MGM gave her a contract for $100 a week and loaned her to Fox for $150 a week, just tossing her aside for $50 a week.
Taylor felt very aggrieved.
After Louis Mayer finished his speech, the reception entered the networking stage, with people who knew each other gathering together to chat and people who were not familiar with each other greeting each other and getting to know each other.
Taylor's mother, Sarah, was also an actress before, but she didn't have much success. After Taylor was born, she tried her best to cultivate him, which allowed Taylor to participate in performances at a young age.
Sarah took Taylor's hand and went to greet and chat with famous directors and actors, hoping to expand her daughter's network and get opportunities in the future.
Taylor was disgusted by this.
But she had to force herself to accompany her mother to social events.
After a round,
Taylor felt very tired. She said to her mother, "Mom, I'm a little hungry. I didn't eat anything at night."
"We can eat it later. Now is a rare opportunity." Sarah whispered.
"But you forgot that the senior management said I was too young. If I were older and taller, it would be easier to find roles," Taylor retorted.
The last time an MGM executive saw Taylor during casting, he did say something like this, saying that she is neither big nor small now and there are few suitable roles for her.
She has neither the cuteness of a child nor the charm of a woman.
Sarah nodded. "Then go eat something. I'll go talk to someone. Come back to me after you finish eating. I'll take you to meet some more people."
"Okay." Taylor replied helplessly.
Sarah left, and Taylor came to the dining table, put two pieces of cake and a piece of pudding on the plate, thought for a moment, took another egg pie, and finally got a glass of orange juice.
However, when she was halfway through receiving the drink, she looked around and found that no one was paying attention to her, so she quickly picked up a glass of wine from the champagne tower and poured it into her own juice.
Taylor smiled.
It looks like a little fox who stole a delicious roast chicken.
This was the only smile from the bottom of her heart that night.
There were too many people in the hall, so Taylor carried the plate to the backyard. Meyer's estate was very large, and although there were many guests, they could hardly be seen when they dispersed.
Taylor found a bench, sat on it and put the plate on her legs. Just as she was about to eat, she suddenly discovered something.
God,
I forgot to take a fork.
Even a spoon will do.
Do I have to go back and get it?
But she was completely repulsed by the noisy environment in the hall.
never mind,
Eat it with your hands.
She was already hungry.
I picked up the egg pie and ate it in three or two bites. Hmm, it felt so comfortable. I carefully picked up the cake and soon both pieces were gone.
Drinking champagne and orange juice in big gulps.
This is a cocktail.
Taylor was very happy with the drink he prepared.
Her mother told her not to drink, but children of her age were very curious and rebellious, and she always used small tricks to express her resistance.
There was also a piece of pudding on the plate.
How can I eat the pudding if I can’t lift it?
Taylor thought about it.
Finally, I just lay down on the plate.
But when she looked up, she found a tall figure standing in front of her. Taylor was shocked. Moreover, the way she looked now, lying on the plate to eat, did not look like a lady at all. If this got out, her image would be ruined.
She discovered that
The man in front of him was smiling at him.
What kind of smile is this?
Was he funny? He must be laughing at the way he was eating pudding while lying on his stomach.
However,
The man in front of me seems a little familiar.
"It's you!"
Taylor finally remembered that the man in front of her was the man who eavesdropped on her conversation with her mother when she got off the bus.
"Hello, we meet again." Hardy said with a smile.
"Meeting you was not a pleasant experience."
Taylor pouted, looking silly.
"Really? I think it's not bad." Hardy joked. It was really interesting to see Taylor make a fool of himself twice when they met.
As he said this, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it over.
Taylor's big eyes were filled with surprise.
"You've got a lot of pudding on your lips," said Hardy.
Taylor was shocked.
He quickly took the handkerchief and wiped his mouth.
"You don't seem to like it in there?" Hardy said, looking at the girl.
Taylor relaxed a little at this moment, perhaps due to the effect of alcohol. She pursed her lips and said, "The people in there are all big stars, and I am just a nobody. My mom would pull me over to say hello to them, and some would say with a smile, 'Oh, you are the girl who filmed with the dog, you are the girl who filmed with the horse.'"
Taylor's two most famous movies now, one is called "Lassie" and the other is called "Pony Mare", both of which were filmed with animals.
Hearing the girl's self-mockery, Hardy burst out laughing.
He found that Elizabeth Taylor was still just a girl, simple and beautiful, spiritual and naive.
"It's good to be remembered. Many people in Hollywood don't even have the chance to be remembered. So what kind of role do you like?" Hardy asked.
The girl thought about it.
"I want to play a role that has personality and characteristics."
Just finished saying this,
The girl's mood suddenly dropped.
"Forget about unique roles. I don't even have ordinary roles now. Even the supporting roles are those outside the top five or six."
After saying this, she lowered her chin and rested it on her holy peak which was beginning to take shape.
Hardy thought for a moment and said to the girl, "I have an interesting story here. I would like to make it into a movie someday. Do you want to hear it?"
Taylor looked up at Hardy.
"What story?"
There was a street lamp behind Hardy. Taylor raised her head and the light shone on her face. It was a flawless face, especially her eyes. Hardy could see countless emotions in these eyes.
Hardy slowly tells the story:
"The story takes place in the slums of New York. There is a professional killer named Leon. He is calm, mysterious and passionate when he kills. Leon lives in an apartment in the slums. He leads a simple life every day, eating, sleeping and carefully wiping his beloved potted plants."
"There was a family of five living in another apartment. The father was a spy for the police, the mother was a prostitute, the eldest daughter was 19 years old, the second daughter was 14 years old, and the youngest brother was 6 years old. The policeman his father worked for was secretly selling drugs. One day, the father embezzled a bag of drugs from the policeman, and the policeman went crazy and killed their whole family."
"But one girl escaped, a 14-year-old girl named Matilda. She went to the street to buy food and when she came back, the door of their apartment was open. She saw blood and bodies in the house."
"The policeman also found her. Matilda was terrified and went straight to the room where the killer lived and rang the doorbell. At the door, she begged the person inside to open the door so that she would not have to die..."
Hardy told Elizabeth Taylor the story of the movie 'Léon'.
At first Taylor thought it was nothing.
But when she heard that Matilda was in danger, she was immediately attracted and became nervous about the girl's fate.
A pair of big blue-purple eyes blinked at Hardy.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Leon finally open the door and let Matilda in, and Matilda was temporarily out of danger.
When she heard the killer uncle teaching the girl how to masturbate, she smiled for the first time.
When Hardy talked about how Matilda, a 14-year-old girl, and Leon, a 40-year-old uncle, grew closer and closer due to their similarly lonely souls longing for warmth, and eventually created a subtle spark, Taylor swallowed unconsciously.
When she heard that the bad police had called a large number of police officers to besiege Leon, she became nervous again.
Finally, when Hardy talked about how Leon let the girl go first in order to save her, and then he pulled the grenade on his body and died together with the evil policeman, sadness flashed in her big eyes.
"What do you think of this story?" Hardy asked, looking at Taylor.
Taylor's thick eyelashes trembled a few times, and she said with a deep tone: "This is the most special story I have ever heard. I have never imagined that there is such a love, but it exists so naturally that I think it will definitely appear."
The girl wanted to say something, but at this moment she heard a woman's call from a distance.
"Elizabeth, where are you?"
It was Taylor's mother, Sarah.
The girl stood up in surprise and tried to go over, but she suddenly stopped, looked at Hardy and asked, "We've been talking for so long, but I still don't know your name."
"Joan Hardy."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hardy, tonight and to hear such a wonderful story. I hope to meet you again in the future," said the girl.
Hadi smiled.
"Have you ever heard of a proverb that says if two people meet three times in one day, it means they are destined to be together. Maybe we will meet soon."
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