He calls his home (many thousands of miles away) on a Bell Picturephone and speaks to his daughter Squirt (director Kubrick""s daughter Vivian).Then, Maine is able to cajole the reluctant studio head Oliver Niles (Charles Bickford) to listen to Vicki sing and she gets her big break.In order to raise money to help support the orphans and provide for heir education, she makes the desperate transaction.It was notoriously snubbed for a Best Picture Academy Award nomination, and some credit its omission with forcing the Academy to expand the number of nominees to 10 in 2009.