A far happier event during the production of Chained involved Joan and Clark. For all his efforts to separate them, Mayer now behaved with astonishing perversity, insisting that they be reunited romantically on-screen. In this picture, the two friends shared several unusually long dialogue scenes, set in a ship’s swimming pool and at lunch. The script they received for these sequences consisted of inconsequential remarks intended to be mere filler but disguised as exchanges—and after the two actors had seen their lines, they agreed to take matters into their own hands. When the scenes were
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