Oliver Niles’ bedroom


Certainly not how I would expect a studio head’s bedroom to look. Very basic. No headboard, nothing on the walls. Paperwork or scripts or something piled everywhere. I would think that he’d have an office for that.

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Studio heads aren’t always the producer or writer types focused so deeply on their projects or the craft itself. I’d imagine they take a lot of meetings, network, work public relations and administrate. Set the tone in a conference room environment. I doubt he takes his work home with him, except during a crisis.

Those at the top often have the luxury to be lazy as long as they project the right image when needed. Probably favors simplicity at home and avoids clutter.

I actually have no idea what scene you are talking about. I do know Oliver Niles is the Charles Pickford character—ally to Maine and Vicki Lester.

Strange thing to focus on in a movie with deep melodrama and epic musical numbers.

Shame about all the lost footage, huh? Do you have the version with the still-shot sequences and voice-over audio dialogue?

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It may be a strange thing to focus on but every time I watch ASIB I can’t help but notice it 🙂

I do have the still/audio version. It’s a shame that so much of the movie was cut.

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Footage was lost in a studio fire, I believe. Reconstructed in 1980 or so, with stills.

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