The Cat's Meow (2001)

Actors

• Richard Böhringer (actor)
• Frank Dawkins (actor)
• Cary Elwes (actor)
• Edward Herrmann (actor)
• Yuki Iwamoto (actor)
• Eddie Izzard (actor)
• Soweto Kinch (actor)
• James Laurenson (actor)
• Robert Mitchell (actor)
• Steven Peros (actor)
• Stavros Serafetinis (actor)
• Victor Slezak (actor)
• John C. Vennema (actor)
• Ronan Vibert (actor)
• Hendrik Arnst (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Taglines:

"The Whisper Told Most Often..."
A Triangle... A Murder... A Secret... Don't Tell.
Some secrets won't stay buried.

Quotes:

Charlie Chaplin: Did you really believe I would stay away?::Marion Davies: No, but you should really believe I didn't want you here.

Thomas Ince: Can I be frank with you?::W. R. Hearst: You can be whoever you like. [laughs at his own joke]

Marion Davies: Nothing can happen this weekend.::Charlie Chaplin: So what are you doing next weekend?

Thomas Ince: Anyhow, failure is a character builder, right Charlie?::Charlie Chaplin: I don't know, Tom. You tell me.

Charlie Chaplin: If you were starving and you had no food, would you eat your shoe?::Marion Davies: What?::Charlie Chaplin: Your shoe. Would you eat it?::Marion Davies: Um, of course I would.::Charlie Chaplin: You would?::Marion Davies: I'd have to boil it first.::Charlie Chaplin: *That's* funny.

Thomas Ince: You're a civilized man.::W. R. Hearst: Oh, and why does that surprise you, Tom?::Thomas Ince: Because you have the power to act uncivilized.

[first lines]::Man in crowd: Stop pushing! Stop pushing!::[unintelligible yells from crowd]::Man in crowd: Please, calm down!::Elinor Glyn: [voiceover] In November of 1924, during a weekend yacht party bound for San Diego, a mysterious death occurred within the Hollywood community. However there was no coverage in the press, no police action, and of the fourteen passengers on board only one was ever questioned by authorities. Little evidence exists now or existed at the time to support any version of those weekend events. History has been written in whispers. This is the whisper told most often. The yacht, you see, belonged to William Randolph Hearst.::[pause]::Elinor Glyn: Only in a place like this do reporters and autograph hounds have absolutely no scruples about stampeding mourners at a funeral. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth.::[pause, Hawaiian guitars play "Aloha Oe"]::Elinor Glyn: After we all leave, the man in the box will disappear. Just his ashes will remain. After all, it's fire that can hurt you, not ashes.

Elinor Glyn: [in the car leaving the dock in San Diego] I am not here. [pause] Like others with tiny bullets hidden in their skulls, Thomas Ince held on unconcious for 2 days before dying in his own bed. There was plenty of misinformation in the days following his death, much of it coming from the Hearst press machine. Which inexplicably reported that Ince was stricken unconcious while visiting Hearst at his upstate ranch. Three weeks later the San Diego district attourney conducted an obligatory investigation, and was quote:"Satisfied that the death of Thomas H. Ince was caused by heart failure as a result of acute indigestion." He did not examine the body because Ince had been cremated immediately, and accept for Dr. Goodman, no member of the boating party was ever questioned, including Hearst. The San Diego D.A. decided that the Los Angeles office continue the investigation, they politely declined. [Charlie goes to Marion]

[last lines]::Elinor Glyn: [voiceover] To this day no two accounts of that weekend cruise are the same, including who, in fact, who was on the boat. There are no logs, you see, no records or photographs of any kind. And not a single person who was there wrote or spoke about that weekend, that is until significantly after the old man's death, and even then, only in riddles. Soon after Tom's death, Margaret Livingston's salary inexplicably jumped from three hundred to one thousand dollars a week. Eventually she retired to manage her husband, Paul Whiteman, the band leader who popularized the Charleston. Lolly got her lifetime contract, and for the next thirty years became the most powerful and feared gossip columnist in America. Three days after Tom's funeral Charlie married Lita Grey in Mexico. It lasted two years. He did however re-cast her role in "The Gold Rush" and re-shoot all of her scenes. Despite costing a small fortune the picture was a smashing success. It took three more years for W.R. let Marion do a full-fledged comedy. As Charlie predicted, she triumphed. She retired in 1937, but stayed by Hearst's side until his death at the age of 88. [pause] I've had a recurring dream recently. I am back on the Oneida, having a glorious time. [pans to everyone dancing on the deck of the Oneida to the Charleston] But I'm watching how ridiculous everyone else looks, and I wonder why they don't realize it. Then I see that in fact, I too look like a fool. Yet it's so much fun that none of us can stop. If we stopped, we'd have nothing. [out of voiceover, as Elinor on the deck] Come on everybody!

W. R. Hearst: You ever eaten a seagull, Tom?::Thomas Ince: No...::W. R. Hearst: God, they taste awful. Just like eating a crow.

Glyn, Elinor Filmography

• Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself - Author of 'It'
• Hollywood
  1980, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Knowing Men
  1930, role: producer
• The Price of Things
  1930, role: director
• Knowing Men
  1930, role: director
• The Price of Things
  1930, role: producer
• The Price of Things
  1930, role: writer
• Such Men Are Dangerous
  1930, role: writer
• Knowing Men
  1930, role: writer
• Knowing Men
  1930, role: writer
• What Is 'It'
  1929, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Man and the Moment
  1929, role: writer
• Red Hair
  1928, role: writer
• Three Weekends
  1928, role: writer
• Show People
  1928, role: actress , character name: Herself - at High Art Studios
• Mad Hour
  1928, role: writer
• It
  1927, role: actress
• It
  1927, role: producer
• Ritzy
  1927, role: writer
• It
  1927, role: writer
• Love's Blindness
  1926, role: writer
• Screen Snapshots
  1926, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Soul Mates
  1925, role: writer
• Man and Maid
  1925, role: writer
• Man and Maid
  1925, role: writer
• 1925 Studio Tour
  1925, role: actress , character name: Herself - a Story Writer
• The Only Thing
  1925, role: writer
• The Only Thing
  1925, role: writer
• Three Weeks
  1924, role: writer
• Three Weeks
  1924, role: writer
• How to Educate a Wife
  1924, role: writer
• His Hour
  1924, role: writer
• His Hour
  1924, role: miscellaneous crew
• His Hour
  1924, role: writer
• Six Days
  1923, role: writer
• The World's a Stage
  1922, role: writer
• Beyond the Rocks
  1922, role: writer
• The World's a Stage
  1922, role: actress , character name: Herself, in Prologue
• The Great Moment
  1921, role: writer
• The Affairs of Anatol
  1921, role: actress , character name: Bridge Player
• The Career of Katherine Bush
  1919, role: writer
• The Reason Why
  1918, role: writer
• The Man and the Moment
  1918, role: writer
• Érdekházasság
  1918, role: writer
• Három hét
  1917, role: writer
• One Day
  1916, role: writer
• One Day
  1916, role: writer
• Three Weeks
  1914, role: writer

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