Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe makes her star of latest play, Fact2: Lily break off their professional and personal relationship, Fact3: Oscar talks her promising to be more trusting, Fact4: Oliver has found somebody to finance Oscar 's project, Fact5: film ends with first rehearsal domineering Lily
Output (English): Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe John Barrymore takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka Carole Lombard and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two longsuffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb Walter Connolly and the consistently tipsy Owen OMalley Roscoe Karns. Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protegee into the actress Lily Garland, and both she and the play are resounding successes. Over the next three years, their partnership spawns three more smash hits, and Lily is recognized as a transcendent talent. Then Lily tries to break off their professional and personal relationship, fed up with Oscars overpossesiveness and control of every aspect of her life. Oscar talks her out of it, promising to be more trusting and less controlling in the future. Instead, he secretly hires a private detective agency run by McGonigle to watch her every move, even to the point of tapping her telephone. When she finds out, it is the last straw; she leaves for Hollywood and soon becomes a big movie star. Without Lily, Oscar produces flop after flop. After one such disappointment, to avoid being imprisoned for his debts, he is forced to disguise himself to board the luxurious Twentieth Century Limited train travelling from Chicago to New York Citys Grand Central Terminal. By chance, Lily Garland boards the train at a later stop with her boyfriend George Smith Ralph Forbes. After prevaricating, Oscar sees a chance to restore his fortunes and salvage his relationship with Lily. Oscar schemes to get her to sign a contract with him. However, Lily wants nothing more to do with him. She is on her way to see Oscars rival and former employee, Max Jacobs Charles Lane actor, to star in his play. However, Oscar manages to get George to break up with her. Knowing that Lily offers him one last chance at professional success he tells her of his wish for her to play Mary Magdalene in his new play; sensual, heartless, but beautiful – running the gamut from the gutter, to glory – can you see her Lily? – the little wanton ending up in tears at the foot of the cross. Im going to have Judas strangle himself with her hair. Then Oliver thinks he has found somebody to finance Oscars project, fellow passenger Mathew J. Clark Etienne Girardot, not realizing that Clark is a harmless escapee from a mental asylum. When Oscar is slightly wounded in a scuffle with Clark, he pretends to be dying and gets a distraught Lily to sign his contract. The film ends with their first rehearsal, where Oscar reverts to his usual self, domineering a desperate Lily.