Intoxicated Orson Welles Tries to Sell Wine

After that many takes, who wouldn't be happy to sloshed?

Professionalism. Actors (usually non-stars) generally have it. Perhaps it was more pervasive back then?

I can't tell you how annoying it was every time Heratio Sans and Jimmy Fallon were in an SNL skit together, because it was all stone-faced teleprompter reading and giggling throughout the scene.

Similar scenarios are bothersome.

Even in the blooper real, it sucks. The bloopers where people break character and say something funny, or run into something, or practically anything else, can be entertaining. But them taking 10 shots because someone can't stop giggling is just boring.

How did those other actors not crack up listening to him ramble on?

I'd love to know what those actors at the table with him thought. I figured they would have been thrilled, at first, about getting to work with Welles. Then after 49 takes of trying to look interested at a wine bottle, that dude probably wanted to smack him with it.

The 70's now suck just a little bit less. "Dad, I thought they didn't let drunk people make commercials?"