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♪ Somewhere the sun is shining ♪

♪ so, honey, don't you cry ♪

♪ we'll find our silver lining ♪

♪ the clouds will soon roll by ♪

♪ I hear a Robin singing ♪

♪ upon a treetop high ♪

♪ to you and me he's singing ♪

♪ the clouds will soon roll by ♪

♪ each little tear and sorrow ♪

♪ only brings you closer to me ♪

♪ just wait until tomorrow ♪

♪ what a happy day that will be ♪

♪ down lovers Lane together ♪

♪ we'll wander, you and I ♪

♪ good-bye to stormy weather ♪

♪ the clouds will soon roll by ♪

Joan.

Joanie, sugar.

Come on, Joan. Sugar.

Wake up, baby.

No, Arthur, don't.

Oh, baby. Come on, sugar.

No. It's too early, Arthur.

Oh, joanie, wake up.

Oh, Arthur, there isn't time.

There's always time for this, Joan.

No. Stop it. Arthur, no. Don't.

I said no!

Why not? Why not, Joan?

You said you wanted to get away early.

That's what you said.

You never want to, do you?

Never.

Fix the coffee, will you, darling?

Goddamn coffee.

Arthur.

Listen, Joan, don't you understand?

I'm going to be away from home

for 4 days and nights.

There's no need to swear, is there?

That's not much of a cuss.

I don't think it's very nice, Arthur,

especially in your own home.

You don't give me a chance.

You've got to give me a chance.

I don't know what you mean, Arthur.

♪ If I should wake ♪

♪ and find your arms around me ♪

♪ I know I'll never have to dream again ♪

♪ if I should wake and feel your lips ♪

♪ surrender to mine ♪

♪ I'd just be wasting time in dreaming ♪

♪ in all my dreams, it seems that you are near, dear ♪

♪ but when I wake, you always disappear ♪

♪ if I should wake to hear you say ♪

♪ you'll always remain... ♪

I wouldn't go all that way

without breakfast, Arthur.

You must eat, sweetie.

I like feeling empty.

Now, you know you don't.

What funny things you say

in one of your moods.

I'm empty, Joan.

Nothing inside me. Nothing at all.

Oh, what, Arthur? Not even a song?

Not a teeny-weeny little tune?

I keep them songs in my bag,

not in my heart.

And in your head.

You know that fella at the bank yesterday?

He said he didn't reckon there was a fella in all Chicago

who knew more about songs that sell than me.

Did he say that?

He said, "borrow what you like.

A fella like you is no risk, no risk at all."

Is that true, Arthur?

And I said, "I don't want it.

"My wife's got some cash,

and she'll support me."

We need that money, Arthur,

for our old age.

No.

We need it now, Joan.

Honey, I'm a good salesman.

I can pick the right songs.

Jesus Christ almighty.

Don't blaspheme, Arthur.

Corn to the left of you, corn to the right,

and the storekeepers are dumb and windy

as my old granny's asshole.

Arthur.

Well, your hick storekeeper cusses a lot, believe me.

My daddy didn't, not ever.

Yeah, but your daddy used to sing

in the church choir.

He was more a Christian than a storekeeper.

He might overcharge you,

but he said his prayers.

Honey... he would want you

to use that money he left you.

Money he worked hard for all his life

to save for a rainy day?

It's raining, pouring.

Oh, cheer up, Arthur.

You won't sell anything without a smile.

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, Arthur!

Make me happy, Joan.

It would really be nice, huh?

Down here on the floor.

Arthur!

Joan, look. I want to show you something, Joan.

Stop! Arthur!

Birds do it. Bees do it.

Little birdies in the trees do it.

Well... it was just a thought.

A very peculiar thought, Arthur.

Don't you ever listen to the words

in the songs, in these songs?

That's not real life.

Real life?

You tell me what real life is.

It's a bowl of dog biscuits.

There's nothing wrong with that...

If you're a dog.

That's what you want. You want a goddamn poodle.

Not a man. Not a real man!

Don't be silly, Arthur.

Well, I'll tell you this...

This is one old dog

who ain't coming back to the kennel.

What do you mean, Arthur?

3 guesses.

Arthur?

$1,000.

What on earth do you want

with $1,000, Mr., uh, Parker?

I want more capital for my business.

Selling sheet music?

Yeah, songs... on commission.

I got a bad territory, see...

East central Illinois.

God help me.

I want to muscle in on Indianapolis as well.

You get me?

Yes. Well, with all such large sums of money,

the question of adequate collateral cannot be evaded.

Pardon?

Well, you see here, your wife has

a deposit account at this branch.

That's hers.

That is something quite separate.

Her dad willed her that.

Yes, but if that could be put up as collateral...

Don't you god damn well understand?

Really, Mr. Parker,

that sort of language won't help one little bit.

What will help, then? You tell me.

Well, that's what I've been trying to tell you.

Without dragging in my wife's cash.

Which represents the only chance of your getting

a loan of the size of which you are proposing.

What about this, then?

This is what you sell things with, brother.

It's what's up here that matters.

I know the kind of songs that sell.

I got an instinct for it,

and I get 30% of every song sheet

I push to the retailer... nearly.

Well... nearly 30% of 10 cents.

What's the use?

What's the good of setting up

your own business in america today?

The times are hard.

The depression is still with us.

And why?

Because of dry rot, that's why.

It was salesmanship that made this country great,

and it will be salesmanship

that will keep us great.

Dry rot. That's what's doing the damage... dry rot.

That's the stuff you've got between your ears, pal.

Good day, Parker.

Sam browne and the Carlyle cousins: ♪ do wah do wah ♪

♪ do wah do wah do wah do walla do ♪

♪ yes, yes, my baby said yes, yes ♪

♪ I'm glad she said yes, yes ♪

♪ instead of no, no ♪

♪ next sunday ♪

♪ I didn't say Monday ♪

♪ it's got to be sunday ♪

♪ we're ready to go ♪

♪ so ta-ta, we're gonna go gaga ♪

♪ my baby loves gaga ♪

♪ she told me so ♪

♪ yes, yes ♪

♪ my baby said yes, yes ♪

♪ I'm glad she said yes, yes ♪

♪ instead of no, no ♪

♪ Yes, yes ♪

♪ my baby said yes, yes ♪

♪ I'm glad she said yes, yes ♪

♪ instead of no, no ♪

♪ yes, yes ♪

♪ my baby said yes, yes ♪

♪ I'm glad she said yes, yes ♪

♪ instead of no, no ♪

♪ instead of no... ♪

Hey, what did you yell?

M-M-Me?

I d-d-didn't holler nothing, sir.

Anything. I didn't holler anything.

No. N-N-Nor me, sir.

Come on. Get in.

Bring your case.

Oh, thank you.

No extra charge.

Thanks a m-m-million.

Too fast for you, buddy?

N-N-Nice, this...

Vehicle.

Not bad.

I wish...

Wish what?

I w-w-wish I had one.

Hey, what's in that case?

P-P-Piano.

Oh, right, I should have known. A piano.

P-P-Piano a-a-accordion.

Yeah? You can play it?

It's my living.

Oh, no. I think I know

what I can and can't sell in my own store, Mr. Parker.

You sure do, Mr. Barrett.

I wouldn't try to tell you what you could sell...

And if there is a demand for desert moon...

Prairie moon. Prairie moon, sir.

This is a great, great song, sir.

Well, if...

I can just call the wholesaler, right?

And wait a week or more?

Whereas if you take a dozen now, sir,

you'll be ready when they come in out of that door

asking for the sheet music...

One moment, please.

Can I help you, ma'am?

I wonder... you see, I'm looking for part songs

for a children's choir.

Yes, I believe I have one back here.

♪ Did you ever see a dream walkin'? ♪

♪ Well, I did ♪

♪ did you ever hear a dream talkin'? ♪

♪ Well, I did ♪

♪ did you ever have a dream thrill you ♪

♪ with "will you be mine?" ♪

♪ oh, it's so grand ♪

♪ and it's too, too divine ♪

♪ did you ever see a dream dancin'? ♪

♪ Well, I did ♪

♪ did you ever see a dream romancin'? ♪

♪ Well, I did ♪

♪ did you ever see heaven right in your arms? ♪

♪ Saying, "I love you, I do"? ♪

♪ Well, the dream that was walkin' ♪

♪ and the dream that was talkin' ♪

♪ and the heaven in my arms was you ♪

♪ Did you ever see heaven right in your arms? ♪

♪ Saying, "I love you, I do?" ♪

♪ well, the dream that was walkin' ♪

♪ and the dream that was talkin' ♪

♪ and the heaven in my arms was you ♪

Ah, it's not here, I'm afraid,

but I'm sure I can get it for you, Mrs...

Miss. Miss everson.

I want it for the children in my class.

Could you give me an address, please?

Miss Eileen everson,

care of Lincoln junior school.

Very good, miss everson.

I'll see what I can do.

Have a nice day.

You know what she needs, don't you?

Just sign for what you have ordered.

Don't talk about a lady like that.

♪ Rock of ages, cleft for me ♪

♪ let me hide myself in thee ♪

Thank you. Thank you very, very much, folks.

Thank you. Thank you, folks.

Thank you very, very much. Thank you, folks.

Thank you very, very much.

It was very nice.

P-P-Pardon, lady?

It was nice.

A nice hymn.

Oh, s-s-shall I p-p-play you another one?

The old rugged c-c-cross?

No, thank you very much.

I'll play the old rugged cross.

No.

♪ On a hill ♪

Hello, father.

Come on, Eileen.

Yes, father.

Let's go, boy.

♪ ...an old rugged cross ♪

♪ the emblem of suffering and shame ♪

Shut up, you fool.

How long is it since you ate?

I eat here and... there.

Now and then's more like it.

Ain't you hungry, mister?

Oh, I'm hungry, all right.

Didn't...

D-D-Didn't you like it?

When you think about things...

Before you go to sleep at night...

When your head is still...

No, I don't want it.

You can have it.

And good luck to you, buddy.

♪ A long time ago ♪

♪ a million years b.C. ♪

♪ The best things in life were absolutely free ♪

♪ but no one appreciated ♪

♪ a sky that was always blue ♪

♪ and no one congratulated ♪

♪ a moon that was always new ♪

♪ so it was planned ♪

♪ that they would vanish now and then ♪

♪ and you must pay ♪

♪ before you get them back again ♪

♪ that's what storms were made for ♪

♪ and you shouldn't be afraid, for... ♪

♪ Every time it rains, it rains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven ♪

♪ don't you know each cloud contains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven? ♪

♪ You'll find your fortune falling ♪

♪ all over town ♪

♪ be sure that your umbrella ♪

♪ is upside down ♪

♪ trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers ♪

♪ if you want the things you love ♪

♪ you must have showers ♪

♪ so, when you hear it thunder ♪

♪ don't run under a tree ♪

♪ there'll be pennies from heaven ♪

♪ for you and me ♪

♪ So, when you hear it thunder ♪

♪ don't run under a tree ♪

♪ there'll be pennies from heaven ♪

♪ for you and me ♪

Where do you sleep tonight, buddy?

Did you hear what I said?

Alley.

What?

Where I was playing...

There... was an alley.

There was a girl... wasn't there?

Gave you some money

just before we came in here.

Yeah.

She was beautiful...

The way she held her head,

the way she walked.

It's funny how one look can...

What are you grinning at?

She... gave me a dime.

Is that all you got?

Didn't nobody else put nothing in the hat?

No.

You can't live on a dime.

You're doing worse than me.

Here. Here's a quarter.

Go on, take it, rockefeller.

Feel rich.

God bless you.

Bless you.

Cut it out!

What are you, a goddamn pansy?

I'm sorry, mister.

Sleep on the sidewalk, for all I care.

Mister...

Don't be scared.

Who are you?

What are you doing?

Eileen.

What do you want?

How do you know my name?

Eileen...

Go away. Leave me alone.

Oh, don't. Oh, please, please.

I've seen you...

In the music store.

There's a song...

Like in the song.

What?

They tell the truth.

Songs do.

Stay where you are, please.

I overheard you say you were a teacher,

and I asked some of the kids

where you lived.

Why?

I've been looking for you.

All my life, I've been looking

for you, miss everson.

I don't understand.

You've been in my head, Eileen,

and in my heart...

In my soul.

I want to talk to you.

Please, let me talk with you.

Eileen.

Who's that?

My brother.

I got to talk to you.

Eileen, come here.

I don't even know who you are.

Arthur.

I'm Arthur...

And I love you.

We're never going to get out of this depression.

The hours I've put in, door to door,

for nothing, peanuts,

selling what is, in fact,

a very good set of brushes.

It's the goddamn territory, ain't it?

They just slam the door in your face.

Yeah, it's the territory.

There's no doubt about it.

We'd all be smarter bumming the roads.

What do you say, Arthur?

Hard times, ain't it, Arthur?

I'm sorry. What did you say?

I don't suppose you're doing too well either, huh, Arthur?

Not doing very well?

Hey, wake up, old buddy.

Oh. Oh, I'm doing very well.

Very, very well, indeedy.

You heading for the cuckoo house,

are you, Arthur?

Me? No chance.

I'll tell you guys something.

Everybody who ever lived

in the entire history of these here United States

would want to be me if they knew what I felt like inside.

What's wrong, Arthur?

That's the trouble with you guys.

You walk around with dirt and ash in your eyeballs.

Hey. Hey.

You just can't begin to see

what a fantastic world it is we live in.

Come on, get your goddamn chins up off the floor.

It's beautiful. It is.

Shining. The whole place is shining.

Can't you see it?

Don't you feel it?

Sounds like a crate of eggs to me.

Sliced baloney, more like it.

Yeah, it would to you, ed, wouldn't it?

What do you mean?

Because you don't know

the young lady in question, do you?

Aha! Aha!

It's impossible to explain.

Not the sort of thing

you can put into words.

Oh, yes, it is.

The boswell sisters ♪ it isn't the paddle ♪

♪ it's not the canoe ♪

♪ it isn't the river ♪

♪ or skies that are blue ♪

♪ it isn't the love dreams that bring joy to you ♪

♪ it's a girl, oh ♪

♪ it's a girl in the brooklet ♪

♪ that you always wander to ♪

♪ it isn't the mountain, flowers, or the morning dew ♪

♪ it isn't the love nest that brings love to you ♪

♪ it's a girl that makes you happy ♪

♪ and it's a girl that makes you blue ♪

♪ you opened up and ♪

♪ what a lonely world it would be without them ♪

♪ it isn't the songbirds or songs that they sing ♪

♪ it isn't the sunshine that makes you like spring ♪

♪ so what is this magic that makes all us sing? ♪

♪ It's a girl ♪

♪ oh, it's a girl ♪

Yeah! Yeah!

Did you get your hand up her skirt, Arthur?

You lay her in the backseat?

Has she got big tits?

Son of a bitch!

Hey! Easy! Hey! He was kidding!

Everything I've ever dreamed of,

hoped for, or longed for...

Everything deep inside me...

Here in my heart...

She's everything.

And so the handsome prince

stepped out from the trees

and looked up at the tiny window

at the top of the tall, tall tower that had no door.

"Rapunzel, rapunzel," he called,

"let down your hair."

And thinking it was the old witch,

rapunzel let down her hair,

long, shining, golden hair,

all the way down, down, down to the ground,

and...

And then...

The prince climbed up.

Just as he had seen the old witch do,

but when he came to the window,

rapunzel stepped back in fear.

Oh, my, she was scared.

She had never seen a man before.

Oh, yes, some of you boys can laugh,

but his face was so nice,

and his eyes were so kind...

And his voice was so gentle...

Quiet!

♪ Love is good for anything that ails you ♪

♪ baby, there is nothing love can't do ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪

♪ how's about a sweet romance or 2? ♪

♪ A kiss will pep you up ♪

♪ a little hug will step you up ♪

♪ if dreams have kept you up ♪

♪ you don't need pills, you need thrills ♪

♪ love's a precious thing that never fails you ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪

Yeah!

♪ Love is good for anything ♪

♪ baby, I said anything ♪

♪ Love is good for anything that ails you ♪

Oh, no. It's Mr. Warner.

Never have I heard such a commotion.

Where on earth do you think you are,

a fairground?

Come here, boy.

Put out your hands.

Mr. Warner.

One word...

One sound, that's all.

One further sound from any one of you...

And...

And tonight I want you to study your spelling

because you missed that word. Spell "blue."

B-l-u-e.

All right, now you study. Have a good afternoon.

Bye.

Hello.

Hello.

I hope you don't mind,

but I had to see you again, miss everson.

I don't mind.

I thought maybe a little drive?

I could take you home.

That would be very nice.

Your carriage awaits, madam.

I haven't offended you, I hope.

I'm not very at ease with people.

Men, I mean.

That's all right, honey.

I got enough moxie for both of us.

Whoo-hoo!

You won't tell lies, will you...

Arthur?

Not if I can help it.

And you're not married, are you?

Do I look like a married man?

I even got a hole in my sock.

Sometimes...

What's the matter?

Sometimes I feel as though

I'm suffocating in this house.

I don't feel I can stick it out much longer.

I know what you mean.

Oh, they're good, my family, really.

They're good. It's just that...

Since my mother died,

things aren't the same anymore,

and we're all very different

from each other.

It's hard to believe that fella's your brother.

Really? In what way?

Well, there's something delicate about you, Eileen.

I mean, it's not...

It's...

I don't know how to say it.

It's something hesitating.

Not in that way.

It's more like... I don't know.

It's not any one thing.

It's everything all together...

Especially when you look sideways.

Do I look sideways?

Oh, no. I mean, not exactly sideways.

No, I mean...

You ain't got a squint or anything like that.

I mean, you don't see 2 of me,

but I wouldn't mind seeing 2 of you.

My wife says...

Arthur.

God rest her soul.

Arthur.

That's why I hate motorcycles.

You mean...

Oh, god. When I think about it...

It was 3 years ago last... Tuesday.

The senseless waste!

Her broken young body.

Arthur. Don't cry, Arthur.

Don't. Don't, Arthur. Don't.

She was looking in a butcher shop's window.

She knew how I liked lamb chops,

and then...

This motorcycle out of control.

Arthur.

Eileen.

Oh, Eileen.

No, Arthur.

Oh, Eileen, this is the first time

I've felt anything since that day.

No. I'm scared.

I've never... Arthur, I never...

Uh!

Oh...

Oh, Eileen, take the pain away.

Oh, please. Oh.

Take the pain away, Eileen, please.

Please.

Oh, I'll try. I'll try.

I'll try, Arthur.

I'll try.

Arthur. Oh...

Poor Arthur. Poor Arthur.

Arthur?

No. It's Dracula.

Oh, thank god you've come back.

You trying to be funny?

I thought you'd gone forever.

I have. I've gone.

What do I get here in that bed of nails?

I'll try again, Arthur. I'll try harder.

I've even... I've even put lipstick on.

What do you mean?

You always put lipstick on.

No, I mean, I...

I put it on my...

What? On your...

On your nipple, joanie?

Have you?

You said you wanted me to.

How'd you know I was coming back tonight?

I've been putting in on every night, Arthur,

hoping, praying that you'd come back to me.

Let me see.

Show me, angel.

Oh, I see. Still the same after all.

No, Arthur. No, not the same.

But...

I'm shy.

Jesus Christ. I'm your husband, Joan.

You was listening...

All the time.

Oh... well, jeepers, joanie.

What lovely... lovely little rosebuds.

Are they...

Are they as nice as hers?

What do you mean?

It's just something... I felt it, Arthur.

Well, you're wrong.

Arthur.

Wrong. Wrong.

May almighty god strike me dead on this spot.

But you have wanted to?

Wanting to is not the same as doing it.

Tell me why you want to, Arthur.

You know, I heard a true story the other day.

In a band, a dance band they were,

this man and this woman singer, they...

Arthur.

Well, they gave the elevator operator

a $20 bill to stop the elevator between floors

and turn his back.

Why?

So they could make love in the elevator.

Well, then they're animals, Arthur,

and you know they are.

Are they, Joan?

Are they?

It's disgusting.

I wish...

You wish what, Arthur?

♪ No more company to feed ♪

I wish...

♪ No more papers left to read ♪

♪ so, what's to do about? ♪

♪ Let's put out the lights and go to bed ♪

I wish I could play the saxophone.

What, Arthur?

Shh.

♪ Leave those dishes in the sink ♪

♪ what's to do about it? ♪

What are you doing, Arthur?

I was pretending.

But what?

And why?

That I got my own dance band.

Go and wash it off, will you?

What?

The lipstick.

No, I won't wash it off.

See, Joan? A little capital and a little affection...

That's all a guy needs. That's all america needs...

Some capital and some caring.

My own store selling records.

That's where the money is today.

But it'll be risky, Arthur.

Wouldn't it make more sense...

You won't let me down, will you?

You said. You promised.

Oh, no. I've agreed.

You can use daddy's money.

It's amazing what a bit of lipstick

will do in the right place, eh, joanie?

Yes.

You won't regret it, honey.

I won't walk out on you again, honest.

I love you, Joan.

I really do love you, doll.

♪ Be sure it's true ♪

♪ when you say, "I love you" ♪

♪ it's a sin ♪

♪ to tell a lie ♪

♪ millions of hearts ♪

♪ have been broken ♪

♪ just because these words were spoken ♪

♪ I love you, yes, I do ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ if you break my heart ♪

♪ I'll die ♪

♪ so be sure it's true ♪

♪ when you say, "I love you" ♪

What did you say?

Nothing, Arthur.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Bye, miss everson. I'll see you on Monday.

Steady there.

Sorry, sir. I...

Look where you're going, boy.

Sir.

That one.

I haven't looked at it...

I mean, looked at it

for almost 30 years,

when I taught this class.

January, snowing; February, rain;

march, with winds a-blowing;

April, sun again...

May, a world of flowers;

June, with dancing leaves;

July, long, lazy hours...

Dr. Bartholomen is on the school board, isn't he?

He's told you about my condition, hasn't he?

He asked me to contemplate

the picture of miss everson the teacher

and her illegitimate baby.

He has?

I am not, I hope, a blasphemous man, Eileen,

but I often think the picture of Eve

we are given in Genesis

is not altogether a fair one.

Indeed, when I look about...

And even into my own heart,

I think it is much, much more likely

it was Adam who offered the fruit to Eve.

Yes.

Please, do you think I could stay

until the end of the month?

Please don't be offended.

No, don't do that.

It's a very hard world out there.

You'll need more than you think.

Now, please, please, be sensible.

Take it.

Mr. Warner.

I'll always remember this.

Good afternoon, my dear.

Oh, Arthur.

Where are you?

Come on, come on. Where are they all?

♪ Love is good for anything that ails you ♪

♪ how's about a cheap romance or 2? ♪

♪ A kiss will pep you up ♪

♪ a little hug will step you up ♪

♪ if dreams have kept you up ♪

♪ you don't need pills, you need thrills ♪

♪ love's a precious thing that never fails you ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪

What am I doing?

What am I doing?

Good afternoon, miss.

Who's there?

No, you don't know me. I...

Is anything the matter?

Nothing's the matter. What do you want?

My car's just down the road there.

See it?

I just stopped for a rest.

You can't see,

can you?

Not really.

No.

Isn't it dangerous...

Walking like this?

I mean, this ground is...

No. I come here every day.

I know my way.

Oh, you live near, do you, miss?

The house over there behind the bridge.

Do you need someone to walk with you, miss?

That's very kind...

It's no bother.

I'm driving from Chicago to galena,

and I could do with a stretch of the legs.

It would be a privilege.

No, thank you. Good-bye.

I'll never forget this.

Not ever.

I think you're the most beautiful young lady

I've ever seen.

Please excuse me saying that.

I couldn't help it.

Take care.

Take good care of yourself.

Well, I haven't been able

to get down this way. Business, you know.

Why not, Arthur?

Don't let's talk like this, Eileen.

What way shall we talk, then, Arthur?

I don't want to talk at all.

What do you want to do, Arthur?

Kiss you.

Is that all?

To tell you the truth, I haven't stopped...

Yes, the truth, the truth.

Please tell me the truth.

Are you married, Arthur?

What do you want to go and ask me that for?

Do you think you could make us a cup of...

Oh, don't you do that, or you'll set me off.

What have you got to cry about, Arthur?

I don't know,

but it feels like everything.

I'm going to have a baby.

How do you know?

I mean, is that definite?

Quite definite.

What are you going to do?

There's nothing very much I can do.

What are you going to do?

Me?

What the hell am I going to do?

You can write down your address.

What?

Don't worry. I won't mess you up.

I've lost my job,

and I've got to leave home.

Oh, god.

Oh, Christ.

And if I really do need help...

Arthur, won't you?

I'll do what I can, Eileen.

I believed you, Arthur.

Silly me.

I believed myself.

Yes, I know you did.

You mean, you understand?

My god, I think you really do.

I wanted you, you see.

Did you?

Oh, yes.

You still do, don't you?

You still do.

I still do.

I never in all my life.

I've never heard a woman talk like that,

just like that.

It's not decent, is it?

It's... it's marvelous.

But...

But what? But what, Eileen?

But you went away.

Yeah.

So...

That's that, then, isn't it?

Say we was married, me and you.

If pigs had wings.

No, no, no, just say we was.

Well?

There's a story. Mind if I smoke?

No.

Want one?

No.

In a band, this man and this woman singer, they...

Arthur, what has this got to do with being married?

Just a minute, a minute.

At the hotel where they were playing, see,

they gave the elevator operator a $20 bill

to stop the elevator between floors...

And turn his back.

Do people do things like that?

Like what, Eileen?

Well... make love in an elevator.

Oh, you mean, like kissing, do you?

Oh, is that all?

Oh, Eileen! Eileen! That's a good girl!

You knew what I was talking about.

Would you ever do that?

What they did?

Between which floors, Arthur?

♪ If it's naughty ♪

♪ to Rouge your lips ♪

♪ shake your shoulders and shake your hips ♪

♪ let a lady confess, I want to be bad ♪

♪ boop boop be doop ♪

♪ and if it's naughty to dance for men ♪

♪ sleep each morning till after ten ♪

♪ then the answer is yes, I want to be bad ♪

♪ this thing of being a good little goodie ♪

♪ is all very well ♪

♪ what can you do when you're loaded ♪

♪ with plenty of he-e-ealth and vigor? ♪

♪ When you're learning what lips are for ♪

♪ and it's naughty to ask for more ♪

♪ let a lady confess, I want to be bad ♪

♪ Let a lady confess, I want to be bad ♪

♪ la da da da da da da, bad ♪

W-W-What are you doing?

Who's there?

It's only me... lady.

Are you hungry?

Do you want some f-food? Here.

You can have it.

Leave me alone.

Here. You can... you can...

I was... I was...

Leave me alone!

Has anybody notified the relatives?

Should we get the ambulance, lieutenant?

No comment, boys. No comment.

We got to go to press in half an hour.

Is there a suspect, sir?

What was her name, lieutenant?

You say nobody saw the crime?

What was the cause of death?

Come on, lieutenant, give us an answer.

Over here with the cameras, boys.

Illinois 937568.

937568.

Hey, lieutenant.

♪ Somewhere the sun is shining ♪

♪ so, honey, don't you cry ♪

♪ we'll find our silver lining ♪

♪ the clouds will soon roll by ♪

♪ I hear a Robin... ♪

Aah!

♪ Upon a treetop high ♪

Jesus Christ!

♪ The clouds will soon roll by ♪

♪ each little tear and sorrow ♪

♪ only brings you closer to me ♪

♪ just wait until tomorrow... ♪

Arthur, what is it? What's happened?

I've seen a message.

What are you talking about?

Where have you been?

I got to change.

I got to be good.

Arthur.

Put your arms around me, Joan.

Oh, god, please put your arms around me.

♪ The clouds will soon roll by ♪

Excuse me.

Yes?

How much is a glass of lemonade?

It's been so long since I sold one,

I don't know, uh...

For you, 2 cents.

Yes. I'll have a glass of lemonade...

Please.

You sure you came

to the right place, sweetie?

Have a drop of gin in that, honey.

Pardon?

That's a very nice drink for a lady...

Gin and lemonade.

Leave her alone, Tom.

I'm only offering to pay for it, ain't I?

The one's on the house, honey.

Just drink it down

and go home like a good little girl.

Uh! It tastes like poison.

Then don't have another.

Some girls it doesn't suit.

Never know what you like till you try it.

That's true.

What do you want to do to me?

You must be kidding.

Then can you lend me $5.00?

Lend you? You are kidding.

No. I'll give it to you back.

We'll think about it.

There's no hurry, right?

No.

Caught a little short?

Sort of.

Yes.

That's nothing to be ashamed of, baby,

not nowadays.

What's your name?

Lulu.

That's a very nice name.

I don't like it very much.

It makes me sound cheap.

Nah. Nobody would ever say that... Lulu.

Come here. Come here.

Now, look at that big, fat whore over there.

That's what I call cheap.

Who are you looking at?

You ok?

I feel a little sick.

Here, take a chair.

How much you had to eat today?

Nothing.

A girl looks like you shouldn't go hungry.

You know, you're very nice-looking, Lulu.

Thank you.

♪ You could have a great career ♪

♪ and you should ♪

Yes, you should.

♪ Only one thing stops you, dear, you're too good ♪

Too damn good.

♪ If you want a future, darling ♪

♪ why don't you get a past? ♪

♪ 'Cause that fated moment's coming at last ♪

♪ we're all alone ♪

♪ no chaperone can get our number ♪

♪ the world's in slumber, let's misbehave ♪

♪ there's something wild about you, child ♪

♪ that's so contagious ♪

♪ let's be outrageous ♪

♪ let's misbehave ♪

♪ when Adam won Eve's hand ♪

♪ he wouldn't stand for teasin' ♪

♪ he didn't care about those apples out of season ♪

♪ they say the spring

♪ means just one thing to little lovebirds ♪

♪ we're not above birds ♪

♪ let's misbehave ♪

♪ Let's misbehave ♪

♪ Let's misbehave ♪

♪ if you'd be just so sweet and only meet your fate, dear ♪

♪ 'twould be the great event of 1928, dear ♪

♪ wah ♪

Ok!

Yeah!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Yeah!

Whoa!

What did you come in this place for?

Did you think some guy's going to give you

a fin just like that, for nothing?

No.

Nowadays?

That's almost a week's pay for some girls.

Yes.

I mean, you got to give something back

in return, don't you?

Yes.

I mean... yes!

I know how you feel.

Do you?

I can imagine.

I'm not such a bad guy

when you come right down to it.

Are you married?

Yes, I thought you were.

Been around, haven't you?

I've had dozens.

So, what's all the fuss about?

It's no fuss...

Baby.

Yeah. Get me another.

You're not a tease, are you?

Uh...

A tease?

'Cause I'll cut your face.

I'd like another drink.

Hmm?

Please?

Certainly, darling.

Same again?

Yes, please.

Oh, Arthur. Oh...

Joan.

Joan?

Nobody's buying, Joan. Nobody.

I made a mistake.

I lost all...

♪ Bum bum bum bum ♪

♪ bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ♪

♪ bum bum bum bum bum ♪

♪ wah ♪

♪ people are queer, they're always crowin' ♪

♪ scrambling and rushing about ♪

♪ why don't they stop someday ♪

♪ bum ba bum ba bum ♪

♪ address themselves this way? ♪

♪ Wa da da da da ♪

♪ why are we here? Where are we going? ♪

♪ It's time that we found out ♪

♪ bum ba bum ba bum ♪

♪ we're not here to stay ♪

♪ we're on a short holiday ♪

♪ bum ba bum ba bum ba bum ♪

♪ life is just a bowl of cherries ♪

♪ don't make it serious, life's too mysterious ♪

♪ you work, you save, you worry so ♪

♪ but you can't take your dough when you go, go, go ♪

♪ so keep repeating, it's the berries ♪

♪ the strongest oak must fall ♪

♪ must fall ♪

♪ the best things in life to you are just loaned ♪

♪ so tell me, how can you ever lose what you never owned? ♪

♪ Life is just a bowl of cherries ♪

♪ so live and laugh at it all ♪

♪ wah ♪

♪ laugh at it all ♪

Hi, sweetie.

Want a nice time, honey?

No. I like feeling miserable.

Just around the corner, honey.

Show you a real good time.

Come on, baby.

All right. Ok.

Eileen, my god,

what are you doing here?

Arthur. Oh, Arthur,

you are such a bastard.

Put yourself in my shoes, Eileen.

Oh, I have,

and I know I can't rely on you, Arthur,

not for anything.

That's right. Blame it all on me.

Oh, Arthur...

I know, I know.

I can hear myself say things sometimes.

God, I'm a washout.

What about the baby?

What's happened?

It's been gotten rid of.

This guy... paid to get rid of it.

He bought me clothes,

and now he says I owe him $200,

and if I don't get it...

God, why is it so hard?

Why can't the world...

Because that's the way it is.

But I want to live in a world

where the songs come true.

There must be someplace

where them songs are for real.

Happy days are here again.

Is that it, Arthur?

Where the hell is this place?

It's right here.

Phonograph records.

Hundreds and hundreds.

Any dance tune you can name.

Any good dance tune.

I'll tell you...

Dance tunes don't help, Arthur.

What am I going to do?

Can't you go back home?

No.

I was already dead there.

This way feels like dying,

but I can see everything,

feel everything.

Do you understand?

Did you...

Did you like doing it...

For money?

It wasn't as bad

as I thought it was going to be.

Oh, my god, you're something.

We're the same sort, you and me.

We got to stick together.

But I can't rely on you, Arthur.

Listen to me.

I am. I am, very carefully.

I'll tell you, I'm choking to death.

I should have hung onto you,

no matter what.

I wanted my own record store.

Ha ha ha!

I know. I know.

It's enough to make a goddamn cat laugh.

Arthur, you'll never be satisfied,

not somebody like you.

Don't say that.

You're like the children in my class.

But you're still sweet on me, ain't you?

You still want me...

Huh, Eileen?

Tell the truth.

Yes, I do.

And I'll go anywhere with you

or do anything with you.

I've burned all my Bridges, Arthur.

I'm not going home.

I'm not going to walk the street either,

and I'll be damned if I'm going to go hungry.

Lulu I am. Lulu I stay.

So, what are we going to do?

The trouble is, I'm hard up.

I can always pick up some money.

Now I know how.

I haven't even got my car anymore.

We'll get another one one day.

What?

Just go?

Just go and leave everything?

Just like that?

Just like that.

All right.

Ha ha ha!

Then let's get out of here, shall we?

Yeah!

Oh!

Wait. Hang on a minute.

What are you doing?

Yabba dabba honeymoon!

Me and my shadow!

Dancing with my shadow!

Aah! What are you doing?!

Sunny side of the street!

What are you doing?!

Ooh! Oh! Aah!

Dancing with tears in my eyes!

Pennies from heaven!

Wait! Not that one!

No! Not that one!

Yes! Ha ha ha!

What's that?

Don't...

Ha ha ha!

He's dead, isn't he? Murdered.

Nothing like that, Mrs. Parker.

Please, listen to me.

Your husband left his store

at close of business,

went to a bar in the neighborhood.

Now, he was later seen by a reliable witness

to return to his store.

Was somebody with him?

He was with a young lady.

Well, when I say lady...

Go on.

We've been piecing things together, Mrs. Parker,

and I'm sorry, but this woman was a prostitute.

You mean, she went there to...

Yes, ma'am.

He was like that?

He...

How do you mean?

I mean, was he disturbed

in any way about anything?

Was he odd, restless... nuts?

Has Arthur done something else?

Is that why you took his shoe?

Please, think.

Was he acting strange in any way?

He made me...

Wear... lipstick.

So?

No. Uh...

On the...

On the...

Points of my bosom.

Oh, well... well, that's, uh...

And...

Huh?

He asked me if I would...

No, no, no, Mrs. Parker.

Please, please, go on.

If I would stop wearing a certain... garment,

a certain... item of underwear.

Was this an upper...

Or a lower garment?

A, um... lower.

What?

Lower.

Oh.

Mrs. Parker...

About 6 weeks ago... can you think back?

Your husband traveled back to Chicago

along Illinois route one.

He...

Oh, that must have been the night...

Oh... I remember it now.

He said, "I got to change. I got to be good."

He's got to be good, huh?

The hell.

Cut his thing off.

I want them to cut his thing off and Bury it.

I'm sick of being poor.

Hey, I'll find something soon.

Maybe tomorrow, huh?

Yeah.

Maybe.

Jesus Christ, Eileen.

You're beginning to sound like my wife.

I'm not surprised. Poor woman.

What is it about women?

Do your mothers teach it to you or what?

I hardly ever knew my mother, poor soul.

She worked her fingers to the bone,

and for what?

Life with a stove and a washtub and...

Oh, what's the use?

She was dead at 45.

We only got one life, Arthur.

And I was content with mine.

I didn't even think about it,

just accepted it,

but you changed all that.

You killed off my old life.

That's right, blame me.

No, no.

I'm glad you did.

When you made love to me...

I saw things differently.

I had to get away.

I had to see something else...

Something more.

I want nice things, Arthur.

And you'll have them, honey.

But I don't want to wait.

There isn't time.

Don't say that.

No, there isn't.

I know there isn't.

Don't ask me how. I just know.

What's happening?

Where are you going?

Are the seams on my stockings straight?

You got terrific legs, baby.

Let's hope so.

Hey. What are you going to do?

Get some dough.

Eileen!

Look, will you listen to me?

There's enough to get an indictment.

His shoe fits the print made at the scene.

His fingerprints are on

the cigarette pack found at the scene.

He said he had seen a message that night,

and he's on the run with this, this...

This tramp.

I'd like that baby one day.

I'd like to have that baby, and then...

And then what?

I don't know.

No, come on.

What were you going to say?

I don't know, except...

Hey, you're not going to cry, are you?

Listen, there's got to be something

on the other side of the rainbow.

There always is.

♪ There may be trauma ahead ♪

♪ but while there's moonlight

♪ and music ♪

♪ and love and romance ♪

♪ let's face the music and dance ♪

♪ before the fiddlers have fled ♪

♪ before they ask us to pay the bill ♪

♪ and while we still have the chance ♪

♪ let's face the music and dance ♪

♪ soon, we'll be without the moon ♪

♪ humming a different tune ♪

♪ and then ♪

♪ there may be teardrops to shed ♪

♪ so while there's moonlight and music ♪

♪ and love and romance ♪

♪ let's face the music and dance ♪

♪ dance ♪

♪ let's face the music and dance ♪

Always the same.

What is?

Come out of the movies,

the goddamn world has changed.

Goddamn rain.

Forget it.

♪ We'll be singing in the rain ♪

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I'll take a paper, boy.

You don't think I did it?

No. You couldn't.

What am I going to do?

Go to the police?

Are you crazy?!

You're innocent.

They'll hang me.

I know what to do.

I'm going to get out of here.

Where to?

I'll think of something.

God, a cat!

God damn! It was a cat!

It was a black cat!

God damn. It was a black cat.

I didn't see it.

Maybe it was a rat.

I'm scared, Eileen.

See you, big boy.

I always knew something terrible

was going to happen to me.

All my life, I've been waiting.

Eileen.

Are you running out on me?!

Well, it's no fun, is it? No laughs?

But don't you love me?

That question...

What about it?

What would you like me to say?

Do you, Eileen?

Not when you are so scared.

You mean, you'll stick by me

if I just keep smiling,

even with the rope around my neck?

We've only got one life, Arthur.

We both know we made a mess of ours.

It doesn't seem to matter much

how it ends, does it?

Doesn't it?

No.

I'll love you.

Yes.

I'll want you.

I want you now.

What? Here?

It's the only way I can keep going.

Besides, we ain't never done it in a car, have we?

We must be crazy.

Ha ha ha! Put me down!

Come on!

Come on!

"Bargain," he said. "Best car on the lot," he said.

I tell you, Eileen,

salesmen got no goddamn morals!

You have any idea where we are?

We're in the middle of nothing,

just where I always wanted to be.

We'll just have to stay here...

Just stay here till they find us.

Goddamn car! Ow!

Ha!

Kick it again, Arthur.

It didn't hear you.

♪ I get no kick from champagne ♪

Get him! Halt!

Arthur, don't!

Halt!

Aah!

One move and you're dead!

I didn't do it!

I swear to god I didn't do it!

I'm innocent!

Innocent! I wouldn't hurt a fly!

Arthur Parker, do you have anything to say?

A long time ago...

A million years b.C...

The best things in life was absolutely free.

No one appreciated a sky that was always blue.

And no one congratulated a moon that was always new.

So it was planned that they would vanish now and then.

And you must pay before you get them back again.

And that's what storms are made for.

And you shouldn't be afraid...

For...

♪ Every time it rains, it rains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven ♪

♪ don't you know each cloud contains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven? ♪

♪ You'll find your fortune falling ♪

♪ all over town ♪

♪ be sure that your umbrella ♪

♪ is upside down ♪

♪ trade them for a package of ♪

♪ sunshine and flowers ♪

♪ if you want the things you love ♪

♪ you must have showers ♪

♪ so when you hear it thunder ♪

♪ don't run under a tree ♪

♪ there'll be pennies from heaven ♪

♪ for you ♪

♪ and me ♪

Eileen! Eileen! Wait!

Eileen! Wait!

Eileen!

Arthur.

Arthur, what are you doing here?

Whoever said you could stop a dream?

We couldn't have gone through all that

without a happy ending.

Songs ain't like that, are they?

No.

No, they're not.

♪ That's the story of ♪

♪ that's the glory of love ♪

♪ you got to laugh a little, cry a little ♪

♪ before the clouds roll by a little ♪

♪ that's the story of ♪

♪ that's the glory of love ♪

♪ as long as there's the 2 of us ♪

♪ we've got the world and all its charms ♪

♪ and when the world is through with us ♪

♪ we've got each other's arms ♪

♪ you've got to live a little, lose a little ♪

♪ and though you'll have the blues a little ♪

♪ that's the story of, that's the glory of ♪

♪ that's the story of, that's the glory of ♪

I'm Arthur...

And I love you.

♪ Every time it rains, it rains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven ♪

♪ don't you know each cloud contains ♪

♪ pennies from heaven? ♪

♪ You'll find your fortune falling ♪

♪ all over town ♪

♪ be sure that your umbrella ♪

♪ is upside down ♪

♪ trade them for a package of ♪

♪ sunshine and flowers ♪

♪ if you want the things you love ♪

♪ you must have showers ♪

♪ so when you hear it thunder ♪

♪ don't run under a tree ♪

♪ there'll be pennies from heaven ♪

♪ for you ♪

♪ and ♪

♪ me ♪

♪ Love is good for anything that ails you ♪

♪ baby, there is nothing love can't do ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪

♪ how's about a sweet romance or 2? ♪

♪ A kiss will pep you up ♪

♪ a little hug will step you up ♪

♪ if dreams have kept you up ♪

♪ you don't need pills, you need thrills ♪

♪ love's a precious thing that never fails you ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪

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♪ Love's a precious thing that never fails you ♪

♪ love is good for anything that ails you ♪