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- Girls, girls, girls. Yes?
- Mr. Sage?

Where do you find
all these beautiful girls?

You follow Mr. Ziegfeld
sometime.

I tried that once,
but he lost me.

- Huh. I know.
- I almost forgot. Mr. Zieg...

He's been trying to get me on
the phone all morning.

What is it about a telephone
that makes you wanna answer it?

- Good morning, Mr. Sage.
- Good morning, Mr. Sage.

0h, Mr. Sage, Mr. Ziegfeld's
been calling you all morning.

What have I ever done
to Alexander Graham bell?

I tell you, I don't mind
telegrams. They don't ring.

Take off your hat, honey
and smile winningly.

I don't mind him calling me up
during the day.

- That's what he underpays me for.
- Be here tomorrow at 11:00.

And gets me up at 2 o'clock
in the morning

out of a sound sleep.
I tell you I... I get insomnia.

Take off your hat,
smile winningly.

- How do you do, miss Sawyer?
- How do?

Take off your hat
and smile winningly.

Yes, sir. Heh.

- Just my hat?
- Yes, just your hat.

You think you're picking them.

I tell you the boss is on
one of the greatest voyages

of discovery since the days of
americus vespucci.

He found one on a staten island
ferry, one on the Bronx express.

Two in an all-night laundry.

Fine. Be here tomorrow at 11:00.

Oh, well, eh...
Don't you want to see my legs?

That's not our department,
honey.

- Did you call me honey?
- Oh, he calls everybody honey.

Now you're doing it too!
I've been warned.

Look, kid, the follies are life,
and life is a cafeteria.

You look at all the pretty
dishes and you pick out

what you want, but you've got to
pay for it

when you get to
the end of the counter.

Yes. There are signs up
all over the place,

"not responsible for valuables."

Get it, honey?

Yes. Yes, I do.

Are you sure you know
what we're driving at?

- Yes.
- It's kind of subtle.

Yes. Oh, yes.

Keep on saying that
and see where it gets you.

It's for you, Mr. Sage.

Where are you?
Yes, Mr. Ziegfeld.

Oh, yes.
Second floor, first elevator.

So he looks me over, and when he
gets to my feet, he says:

"You'll do, my dear
and I like my ankles slim too."

- Yeah, and how'd you come back?
- Hard.

I said, “yeah, and how do you
like your heels, mister?"

0h, gee, that's terrific.

Yeah.
He said he was Florenz Ziegfeld.

- Ha.
- What a nerve!

When you're quite ready, miss.

- Surprised to see me, red?
- Gosh, what if it was Ziegfeld?

- Stationery?
- Two on the aisle.

I mean, two aisles over.

If this happens,
it's the biggest thing

second floor.
Coats, furs, Paris gowns.

Second? Oh, thank you.

- Gil, stop. Listen...
- Okay, okay.

Baby, I'm practically a success.

The boss says to me today,
he says:

- "I've been watching..."
- Why shouldn't he pick me out?

You know, anyways, he says,
"I've been watching you."

"And you're slated for a job
that's twice as good as the

one you workin' at now.“ And I
said, "what do you mean twice?"

He says, "next week, you go from

the two and a half ton trucks
to the five ton trucks.“

- oh, that's great, Gil.
- And then he says...

Listen, a man came in here
a little while ago...

And said he was
Florenz Ziegfeld.

Well, I... I thought
he was just being fresh,

so I was fresh right back.

Well, now, honey, what would
Florenz Ziegfeld

be doing in an elevator?

Maybe going up and down in this
cage got you dizzy, huh?

If a girl gets into the
Ziegfeld follies, she's made.

0h, Gil, I'm... I'm sorry.

I think it's swell
about the truck.

Yeah, yeah.

Wouldn't you think I'd get used
to going down in this elevator?

But when you kiss me... whoo!

No kidding? You feel like you're
going down in an elevator?

How do you feel when I kiss you?

Ah, feel like I'm going up
in an elevator.

- What's the matter, stuck?
- Yeah, and we like it.

Miss Regan, come with me,
please. Take the car.

This gentleman
wants to speak to you.

Hey, that wasn't
her fault back there.

You're a very lucky girl,
my dear.

What's your full name,
miss Regan?

Too full for Mr. Ziegfeld,
but he can change it.

Mr. Sage: Where do you live?

Ah, brace yourself, pal.
Brooklyn.

I suppose Mr. Ziegfeld
can change that too, huh?

- Yes, to butterfield, pal.
- Oh, now, wait!

You will be at
Mr. Ziegfeld's office

tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.

Nod once if you've heard me.

Very lucky girl, my dear.

Hey... hey, what's the matter?

Well, tomorrow morning
at 11 o'clock...

Hey! Order me three of these
in different colors.

They don't come in
different colors.

You think the leopard's gonna
change its spots for you?

You look alright, red.

Don't sound so good.

Thank you.

Miss Gallagher of
ed Gallagher and company?

Mr. Ziegfeld will try to see
your act tonight.

- Oh, he'll try.
- Hmm.

You'd think he had to fight his
way into the theater.

I guess it'll take a miracle
to make him catch our act.

Well, this is the place they
dish those miracles out, honey.

They ran a fresh one up for me.

Mind if I touch you?

Maybe those miracles
are catching, like measles. Heh.

- Oh, miss Gallagher?
- What?

Mr. Ziegfeld wants to know
where you're playing tonight.

Oh, the...

J' there's a man named Miller
who is sleeping in our town I

j' he's a perfect clown
they say I

j' always says such funny things,
you'll never find a frown j“

j' down in our town today j"

j' one day I was feeling blue
and couldn't stand the gaff j“

j' life was just an empty dream I

j' but Joe Miller told a joke
and I began to laugh I

j' for miles around
they heard me scream j'

j' laugh
I thought I'd split my sides I

j' when Joe Miller told a joke j'

j' laugh
I laughed until I cried j'

j' he's a perfect bloomer
what a sense of humor! I

j' my uncle has a wooden leg
it is one of the best I

j' my uncle has no wooden leg
but he has a cedar chest j“

j' oh laugh!
I thought I'd split my sides I

j' when Joe Miller told a joke j'

J' nero played his fiddle
while Rome was burning bright j'

I he played there'll be a hot
time in the old town tonight I

I oh laugh I

I I thought I'd split my sides I

I when Joe Miller told a joke I

I I call my dog garlic
because he has no friends I

I I call my dog telephone,
he's busy at both ends I

I oh laugh I

I I thought I split my sides I

I when Joe Miller told a joke I

I I screamed with laughter
when Joe Miller told a joke I

I I have hysterics I

I when Joe Miller told a joke ii

Well, I'll give that
Ziegfeld bird

just five minutes to get here.

If he doesn't show,
he's lost me.

Oh, pop, give him
a few minutes longer.

Not a second.
Now, when he gets here,

that's our cue to be
hard to get.

Right now,
I feel awful easy to get.

You got everything your mother
had, and she was big time

after I ironed out the kinks
in her technique.

Gosh, I hope he liked our act.

I'm getting so tired of tank
towns and the trained seals.

- Huh? Oh.
- For you and me both.

Not that I haven't known some
very charming seals, but...

- It's him! That's him.
- He just got in under the wire.

Won't you come in?

In the flesh, my good man.

As big as life
and twice as natural.

I'm noble sage,
Mr. Ziegfeld's strong right arm.

Oh, come on in, come on in.

Here, have a chair.

Thanks. I've got one.

Mr. Ziegfeld saw
your performance tonight.

Did he like it?
Did he say he liked it? Did he...

- How is Ziggy?
- You know Mr. Ziegfeld?

Ah, no.
He never had the pleasure. Heh.

You're very lucky girl.

Mr. Ziegfeld would like to see
you in his office tomorrow.

- How about 11 o'clock?
- Right.

That's the
new Amsterdam theatre.

- Right.
- 42nd street.

- Right. And say...
- Pop!

Tell Ziggy he's getting
the best act in vaudeville.

And who should know
better than me?

Oh, Mr. Gallagher Mr. Ziegfeld
isn't interested in the act...

- Right.
- No, wrong.

I won't be there at 11 o'clock,
Mr. Sage, or ever.

I couldn't.
Not without my father.

Why, without him,
I'm nothing at all.

If Mr. Ziegfeld
can't understand that...

Susie: I couldn't respect him.

No. Tell him thanks very much,
but...

- But, I can't accept.
- Susie.

I said, right.
I mean right, Mr. Sage.

And tell Ziggy he's getting a
break he don't deserve.

I'll be right behind her
showing her how

every step of the way.

Oh, pop.

Don't worry, baby.
You'll be alright.

You cut it in half
and both ends wiggle.

Male #1: Chin up,
shoulders relaxed...

And don't forget to smile.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Hey, hey, hey!
Come up out of that hole, baby.

- You're not a showgirl.
- I'm sorry.

Jerry: Good thing you outgrew
those knock-knees.

Susan, I hate to admit it,
but this is my kid brother.

Jerry, this is Susan Gallagher.

- Hello.
- Hiya, susie.

- Pony-size, huh?
- Hmm-hmm.

Ma made you some lunch. Says
you gotta keep up your strength.

Yeah, you'll need it to fight
off those stage door johnnies.

What do you know about
stage door johnnies?

Well, I was born in a theatrical
trunk, but the lid wasn't shut.

I think my pop
left it open on purpose.

He says it's what you don't know
that can hurt you.

Now, what could you learn
out of a book?

- Hiya, John.
- Hello, honey.

He's one of the stars
of the show.

He's got the most
beautiful voice.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

Jerry: She looks
better all wrapped up

than the rest of them do
unwrapped.

Man: Auditions.
All ready for the auditions.

Don't be so nervous, darling.

All the conductor
can say is yes or no.

But he can also say,
"who let you in here?"

Musical director is ready
to hear you, Mr. Kolter.

- Yes, sir.
- No, Franz.

The job isn't
good enough for you.

I ask you,
can such an artist as you

play second fiddle
in a Ziegfeld orchestra?

- Yes.
- Yes.

No. It's a disgrace to your
violin to make jazz music.

- Where is your violin?
- Well, uh...

The pawnbroker is holding it
for... for ransom.

You see, it was a question of
food or music.

Franz was too hungry to play,
and...

I was too hungry to listen.

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wear this for luck, darling.

How can the heart be so full
when the stomach is so empty?

- What are you waiting for?
- I'm sorry, girls, I'm busy...

- Oh, sage, come here.
- Oh, oh.

You want credit for a great
discovery?

- Mr. Ziegfeld, see-
- wait a minute.

What is the matter?
What's the matter?

Mr. Zieg...

Well!
Well, what are you doing here?

Why, I'm... I'm just waiting...

You're waiting?
You mean Mr. Ziegfeld's waiting!

- Oh, but I can't...
- Well, well, well!

- Darling.
- Sandra, where did you go?

I was so worried,
I didn't even realize

Mischa was lending me
a dollar for dinner.

- I didn't get the job.
- I'm glad you didn't.

Mischa was right. The job
wasn't good enough for you.

So the conductor thought.
Oh, he was very kind.

He said I belong in
carnegie hall.

I play well, he said.
I play too well.

I am a classicist, he said.

That's just like
being dead and buried,

but with your feet sticking out.

Oh, but we're not dead yet.
Look!

But, Sandra,
where did you get this money?

An advance. I have a job.

I'm going to be a showgirl
in the follies.

It is a little silly.

You just put on some beads
or something

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And people pay money
to look at you.

- How did all this happen?
- Well...

I was standing there,
listening to you play, and...

Oh, darling, you played
beautifully.

- When a funny little man...
- Huh.

The one I saw didn't look
so funny or so little.

Oh, not that one.
You see, there were two.

They were both funny.
But the funniest one

pushed me through a door
and there I was...

In a room filled with flowers
and... and deep carpet and...

Um, and...

And then I heard a voice
from behind the flowers saying:

"Figure, okay. Face, okay.

Smile, okay.
Seventy-five a week." Next.

- What's next?
- Well...

Franz, ou're ridiculous. Y

but, darling,
you're not a failure.

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Well, what is it you want
me to do, give up the job?

I know it's a rather
foolish way to earn money.

Do you really imagine
I would stand by...

While you showed yourself
to other men?

Why, Franz...

- You're jealous.
- Jealous?

Don't you think I see the men

who turn to look at you when you
pass them on the street?

Do you think I'm jealous
of them? No.

That's not fear.
That's distrust of me.

If I weren't always beside you,

sooner or later, they wouldn't
pass you by anymore.

They would stop.
They would talk to you.

They would go your way.

They could stop and talk to me,

they could even go my way...

But, darling,
it still would be my way.

Pretty soon,
it will be their way.

So we never really had the thing
I thought we had...

If you have that, you don't mind
about the other things.

You don't even know
you haven't got them.

All of a sudden,
I realize we haven't got them.

Alright! Take the job!
Be a showgirl!

Sandra: But, Franz...

It's one or the other, Sandra.

Oh, Jenny, I... I can't even
put on my lipstick.

Relax, honey. They won't be
looking at your mouth.

- Well!
- I'm sorry.

I've just been peeking at the
audience and...

The women look like Christmas
trees, and...

The men look like penguins.

Well, why should
you be worried, baby?

- You're an old performer.
- Yeah.

But at the Harlem opera house,
I had four chances a day

to make them like me.
Here, it's once and out.

Oh, there's nothing to it.
It's just walking down stairs

like you never had to
climb them again.

Take lots of time walking down,

and you'll gather
plenty of moss.

You'll have it looking
like an ice pack.

- Having trouble, flatbush?
- Only above the neck.

Listen, kids!

I've got something important
to say to you.

Now, except for a couple of
hardened veterans,

you're all new to the big time.

In a few minutes, you're going
on in your first number.

Do you know what that means?

John: It means
you're Ziegfeld girls.

It means you're going to have
all the opportunities

of a lifetime crowded
into a couple of hours.

Some of you are gonna wind up
with your names

some of you are gonna wind up
with a husband and kids.

And some of you
are gonna wind up...

Well, not so good.

Now, I know
what I'm talking about

because I've seen
all three happen.

But, whatever it is,
don't blame it on the follies

because it would've happened
even if you were still

it just might have
taken a little longer.

And it comes
straight from Mr. Ziegfeld:

"The follies is life in one
stiffjolt,

life running instead of
walking...

Life speeded up
to a mile a minute."

"But if you've got
the right stuff

the pace won't bother you."

"And if you haven't,
you'll come a cropper."

"It's strictly up to you."

The dream number.
Places for the dream number.

Alright, girls!

I until that lucky day I

I I discovered you I

I you stepped out I

I to be what you seem I

I could there be
eyes like yours I

I could there be lips
like yours I

I could there be
smiles like yours I

I honest and truly? I

I you stepped out I

I I want to take you away I

I away from the crowd I

I and have you I

I all to myself I

I alone and apart I

I safe in my heart I

I safe in my heart I

I I'll have you all to myself I

I alone and apart I

I safe in my heart I

I safe in my heart I

I of yours I

I you stepped out of a dream I

I to be what you seem I

I could there be
eyes like yours I

I could there be
lips like yours I

I could there be
smiles like yours I

I honest and truly? I

I you stepped out of a cloud I

I I want to take you away I

I away from the crowd I

I and have you I

I all to myself I

I alone and apart I

I safe in my heart I

I you I I oooh I

I stepped out of a cloud I
I ooh I

I I want to take you away I

I away from the crowd I I oooh I

I and have you all to myself I
I ooh I

I alone and apart I I ooh I

I safe in my heart I

I safe in my heart I

Iofl

I you if

Oh, so you like paprika too,
eh, Geoffrey?

Want to meet the young lady,
as it were?

Well, my little brood, we're up
to your hips in a terrific hit.

Oh, susie, run out and rescue
the actors from your old man,

will you? He's trying to explain
to our leading comics

how they should have put over
their stuff.

Well, if they listen to pop,
they're in.

- Hello.
- Oh, hello.

We're stepping out, gorgeous
and high!

- Really? Did pop say so? Oh.
- Well, he's going along.

- Name your poison, babe.
- How about an ice-cream soda?

- Alright, alright, cut me down.
- Oh, don't be silly. Come on.

Well, girls, the boss is
throwing a big coming-out party

tonight for one and all.

- I know we can count on you.
- Oh, yes.

Will you be there, lovely?

Frank is waiting for you.

And when that canary holds out
his hand,

- how about you, flatbush?
- No, no.

My boyfriend's waiting outside,
with a two and half ton truck.

Well, maybe even a five ton job,
if I'm lucky.

You've got the right angle,
honey. You marry for love.

- I did.
- All five times.

And you still have another arm.

Yeah, and I wish
I was an octopus.

Slip me that handcuff, will you,
honey? The big one.

For you, flatbush.

A patron of the arts, my dear,

and a guy with more potatoes
than they grow in Idaho.

Good hunting, kid. Only...

Don't shoot until you see the
whites of the eyes

Here's one, pa,
and about time. Listen.

"Another new glorified girl
who made an impression

was Sheila hale. This one they
say used to run an elevator."

"Confidentially, boys,
she gave me a lift."

Sheila hale. How can I brag

to the boys when they all know
my name is Regan?

Well, maybe we could
change our name to hale.

She's up. Sheila's up.

I fed her some grapefruit juice.

Gee, ma, you should have seen
her come down them steps.

Well! I hope I didn't raise my
boy to be a Ziegfeld girl.

And you should have heard the
tune they played.

Special for her.
Here it is. Listen.

I'm as proud of you as I am
of me uniform, Sheila.

Well, pa, you can put it away
in mothballs.

From now on,
we're gonna have lots of...

- Potatoes.
- Would they be Irish potatoes?

Sure. Only kind I'd eat
if I could eat any.

Mr. Ziegfeld's put me on a diet.

Well, that's fine
if it's for building you up.

It's for tearing me down. He
says if I don't watch my figure,

Sheila, look at me
being an actress!

Would you walk me to the corner,
Mrs. Bernhardt?

Well, now young lady,
you're gonna put away

some bacon and eggs. And you can
tell that Mr. Ziegfeld

Look, showgirls should be seen
and not heard.

Oh, you'll pull in your ears
when you read my notices.

Yeah, I pulled them in
when I heard you singing.

Look, look, red. Look at this.

Gil, you've got it.
You got your truck.

Yeah.
Five tons if she's an ounce.

- Did you get the raise?
- No.

No, but I got twice as much
responsibility there.

Twice as much weight to carry
around for the same paycheck.

Well, now, look, red, we got
things to talk about.

Gil, don't I look
different this morning?

You never look
any different to me.

A diamond don't have to be
in no Tiffany setting

I mean those guys that hang
around down by the stage door.

The ones with the moneybags
under their eyes.

I saw them looking at you
last night.

How, Gil? How did they look?

Well, in such a way as to give
me an awful good excuse

to punch them in the jaw. Here.

Yeah, here's a little item
you dropped.

That's "I like you very much."

"Call me sometime.
Geoffrey collis."

Hey, where does he get off,
asking you to call him?

A gent never forces
himself on a lady.

- Oh..
- Oh, Gil.

What are you so sore about?

You took me home last night,
didn't you?

Listen, red,
I've got something to suggest.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

I seen it coming
from a long way off.

You want me to quit,
for instance.

Yeah, for instance, I do.

Yeah, and for instance, I won't.

Not even if we get married?

Oh, Gil, I'm in it now.

You sound like a bottle of milk
that just got certified.

Oh, Gil, don't spoil things.

I just gotta see it through,
don't I?

What will I tell our grandkids
if I don't?

Yeah, dames is just like
traffic.

Sometimes you gotta stop,
sometimes you gotta go.

Yeah, but a smart driver
don't beat the lights.

So you know your own strength.

You ain't exactly anemic
yourself, you know.

And if! Have to push one of
them fancy limousines

out of the way with my truck,
I can do that too.

I whispering while you cuddle
near me I

I whispering so no one
can hear me I

I each little whisper
seems to cheer me I

I I know it's true
there's no one dear but you I

I you're whispering
why you'll never leave me I

I whispering why
you'll never grieve me I

I whisper and say that
you believe me ii

- hi, beautiful.
- Hello, flatbush.

- Hello.
- Hello, merton.

- Good evening, Mr. Collis.
- You certainly look wonderful.

You don't look so bad yourself.

- Shall we dance to our table?
- Love to.

See you later.

- Good evening.
- Hello.

How are you, Sandra?

- Hello, Sandra. How are you?
- Fine, thank you.

I'm beginning to think
I'm quite a guy.

All those wolves
with envy in their eyes.

Who do you pick to go out with?

- That's because you're so safe.
- Me, safe?

Certainly. We're both married,
and we both know it.

I don't feel like
such a good risk.

Oh, I wish my husband
could know you.

He was so afraid I'd meet
nothing but wolves.

I'm only wolf
on my father's side.

- How about it, Sheila? Hungry?
- I could eat a horse.

Only I suppose
the darn things are fattening.

How many calories in a horse?

Enough for a day at least,
monsieur.

Perhaps madame
would like some delicious

rognons de veau grille.

Or perhaps foie gras au porto?

See anything about me that makes
you think

Think I better order by ear.

Bring me a stack of wheat.

Crepes suzette for the lady.

A stack of wheats for the lady!

They serve them
sort of folded up here, Sheila.

- Which? The ladies?
- Geoffrey: No. The hotcakes.

Okay. Fold up some for me.

Maybe with a French accent,
they're not fattening.

You know, I like you.

You're kind of a novelty to me.

- Oh, no, I have a lot left.
- Why don't you drink it up?

I figure it's always
more fun to be conscious

when you have a good time.

Oh! And you and Gil have
good times together, huh?

Hmm-hmm.
When we're not battling.

You know, a place like this

takes all the fight
right out of me.

And after 20 years of developing
a good left hook.

What are you going to do
with the rest of your life?

Live it. What else
is there to do with it?

Oh, don't tell me
you're the one woman

who doesn't think
she has talent?

Oh, I have talent, alright.

- Being good company.
- Which should be rewarded.

Looks good enough
to eat with a spoon.

Well, try it on.

Oh, it... it'll fit.

Come on.
Let's make sure, shall we?

- Are you making a pass at me?
- There.

Very forward.

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I I'm always chasing rainbows I

I my schemes are just like
all my dreams... ii

oh, it's time to wake up.
Now, look, honey.

You want to see your name out
there in 6-foot lights, right?

Well, then you've got to give
until it hurts, right?

But don't you have to think
of the people's eardrums, pop?

It's about time for me and you

to do a little arithmetic,
I guess.

Now, how old are you?

Seventeen, but when we travel
by train

you try to shade it a little.

Yes, I know. How long have you
been in show business?

Hmm, taking time off for school,
about ten years.

- Huh. How old am I?
- Forty-two.

It's okay.
There's nobody's listening.

- So, how old am I?
- Fifty-five.

Huh. How long have I
been in show business?

- Fifty-five years.
- Right!

So when I ask you to peddle a
song, peddle it. Like this:

I my schemes well my schemes
are just like all my dreams I

I ending ending in the sky I

I up there in the sky ii

.\

I some fellows look
and find the sunshine I

now they're making
up their minds.

I but I always look
and find the rain I

.\

I some fellows make a winning
sometimes I

I but I never even
make a gain ii

you see?
I got them right in my pocket.

You see what I mean, honey?

But isn't that just a little bit
too much, pop?

- Huh?
- No. Huh? Okay. Alright.

Well, we'll try it again,
and I'll give all I've got.

I some fellows look
and find the sunshine I

I well I always look
and find the rain I

I and then there's some fellows
make a winning sometimes I

I but I never even make a gain I

- hello, Sandra.
- Hello, Jerry.

Listen to the kid sling her
larynx around.

I I'm always chasing rainbows I

I yes sir I'm waiting to find I

- hey!
- Good!

Susie, you're good!

Oh, thanks.
Gosh, I got a public, huh?

Pop: If you'd only seen her sell
it, then you'd really buy it!

- I'm in a buying mood. Hello.
- Hello, sis.

Listen, I just discovered
susie can sing.

You gotta get her to Ziggy.
You can do it.

You can do anything.

Oh. Well, I don't know about
anything, but I'll do my best.

Say, where did you people
ever find this joint?

It's cheap
and it's near our work.

Say, Sandra, help me pick out
an apartment, will you?

You know me. I'd probably wind
up with something pretty awful.

- Too many ruffles or...
- You're worried about ruffles.

Come on, you two kids,
and I'll buy you a soda.

- Yeah.
- Dutch treat.

- Too many ruffles on a soda.
- Well, we'll be right back.

Well, Geoffrey says that I ought
to be near my work too.

I only met Gil once...

Well, what's so smart
about what you're doing?

I'm not trying to be smart.

With every guy in town sitting
up on his hind legs and barking

you pick out one that sings
for his supper.

Oh, honey, I'm sorry.
I'm always popping off.

I only meant you're not going to
get anywhere with that tenor.

Why do you think
he keeps a wife around?

Oh, it's just that I don't want
him to put anything over on you.

It's easy to handle a man...

If you're not too much
in love with him.

Oh, love.
There's that silly word again.

Gee, Sandra,
why can't the men you want

Mr. Collis told me to
pick you up here.

Oh, alright. Thank you.

"Made a world's record
standing broad jump

I wonder if she landed
on her feet.

That kind of a gal always does.

Hey, they keep printing that
stuff, and a guy's double life

won't be his own anymore.

- Take it down, buck.
- What for?

I thought you liked it.
This one anyway.

Take it down,
or I'll take you down.

Hey! Why sock a guy who's only
playing around with a picture?

Alright, anybody else
got an eye for pictures?

- Wait a minute!
- Wait. He started it.

Come on! Break it up here!
What's the matter with you?!

Screwiest way of getting
yourself waked up I ever saw.

By a fancy smell.

Not if you've been used to the
7:20 garbage wagon.

- What's new?
- Nothing much.

Except your folks is coming home
from yellowstone park next week.

But they didn't like the
geezers.

- Hmm?
- Geysers.

Say, how do you know?

Been working that ouija board
of yours again?

No. You got a telegram
from your ma this morning.

And you read it?

Say, why didn't your brother
go along with your folks?

Oh, I don't know.
Jerry's got ideas of his own.

And I don't pry into them.

Well, that trip must have
cost you a wad of money.

Well, what's money for?
Whose money was it?

Yours, honey.

- Hey! Deliveries in the rear.
- I'm not delivering.

Walk into a door
some place else without knocking?

.X

Going-away present from a pal.

- Well...
- Nice place you've got here.

Yeah, some people might like it.

Got the address from Jerry.

Took you long enough to use it.

I thought maybe
I might not have to.

How is Jerry?

Jerry's fine.

Those music lessons sure are
taking your place with him.

I guess Jerry and me
is just two of a kind.

- The dumb kind.
- Agh.

Gil: Well, I got something here
to prove it.

I wasn't sure about exactly
how old you are.

I put down
"over the age of consent."

Guess you are, alright.

- Are you making a crack?
- If the shoe fits, put it on.

Well, I'm getting tired
of playing cinderella.

People who wear glass slippers
shouldn't walk on rocks.

Suppose I was to tell you
I've developed a blind spot?

Suppose I'm not
seeing any of this?

We're in coney island that first
night we met, you remember?

A pretty good moon,
and you let me kiss you...

Okay, three.

And then I tell you
you'll do for me.

And you tell me I'll do for you.

But this isn't coney island,
Gil.

Now is it coney island, red?

Gil, come here.

I want to show you something.

I want to show you
why it's park Avenue.

Why it's different from any
place I've ever been.

Did you ever go to a party
when you were a kid

and have them run out of
ice cream and cake

before they got to you?

Well, that's the way I've felt
all my life, until now.

Why, I don't even have to have
the heels fixed anymore.

And here.
Look at all these dresses.

I mean, frocks.

They get dirty,
I throw them away.

Remember how I saved
and scrimped

for that genuine wolf collar.

And then it smelled like
a dog when it got wet?

Now I can walk on fur,
if I want to.

But not on me, baby!

I'm no rug. I don't come wrapped
up in no mink coat either.

- Annie, did he go?
- Fast, and I hope far.

If that guy's a gent, I'll never
get a seat in the subway.

Do I look like
anything's the matter?

Yeah, he'd like
to think I was sunk.

Well, you better come
to the surface.

Mr. Geoff's coming
over pretty soon.

Mr. Geoff likes you full of zip.

- Why does it get so messed up?
- Life don't. People does.

Now, you know
I don't like that stuff.

Tastes like cough syrup.

Old four oaks is
good for what ails you.

You got two guys
and only one address.

Hi, there, Gil.

Oh, hello, Nick. What are you
doing so far away from Brooklyn?

- Have a drink. Waiter.
- I had a drink.

- Have another.
- Had another.

Okay. Then sit down
and straighten your halo.

Alright.
Give me a shot of bourbon.

I've been wanting to get next
to a good, pure truck driver.

- Bounced?
- Yeah.

Yeah, I got this
when I hit the ceiling.

I got a truck that ain't
been unwrapped yet.

- I got a fleet of trucks.
- Yeah. Heard all about them.

- Those loads pay off.
- Yeah.

You got a tender belly?

If I can take this, what can
a bullet do to my belly?

What do you get
for wheeling a truck?

- Twenty-five.
- A day?

.X

How would you like to collect
450 frogskins a week?

What, for wheeling a truck?

Of course,
if I'm boring you, I'll...

No, no, no.

No, if my mouth was wide open,
it wasn't

because I was yawning,
no, sit down, Nick.

I got a special
use for some big dough.

Man: Alright, break it up.
Ten minutes rest.

And remember, just because we're
taking the show on the road

you can't start letting down.

You either gotta get
me a mink coat

or put steam heat in my
apartment.

Oh, boy, I wish I was going
where that trunk's going!

That's a cinch, honey.
Just get to be a Ziegfeld girl.

- Hello, susie.
- Hello, ai.

- What are you doing here?
- Hello, ed.

I heard you were
coming over here

and I got a little
proposition for ya.

We're due right now
for an audition.

This is Susan's big chance.

Then we're going to palm beach...

Listen, ed, I got song and dance

a routine,
that's money in the mattress.

Of course I gotta have a classy
guy to do it with

so we can get the bookings.

- Now who did I think of?
- Me, naturally.

- Sure.
- How about Mabel?

- She don't wear well.
- That's it!

Take the best years
of a girl's life!

Oh, shut up, Mabel.
Us men is talking business.

So, ed, I thought maybe
if you were getting

I don't know, ai,
I've been working

my fingers to the bone,
grooming Susan.

Pop, maybe we'd better
go with al. Huh?

And I don't think
he'll wait very long.

- Oh, I can't sing! I can't.
- Nonsense!

.\

Come on,
or I'll close an eye for you!

Oh, no!

Here's the kid that's gonna
knock you right in the eye!

I'll try and keep
my feet under me.

He's like a cat that way.

Come on, honey.
Louder and bigger does it!

Great performer, my kid.
Makes me proud.

Like looking in a mirror.

Come on, honey.
Hook them right in the gills!

I I'm always chasing I

I my schemes
why all of my schemes I

I are just like all my dreams I

I ending ending in the sky I

I up there in the sky I

I and let me tell you
some fellas look and find... I

don't you know they quit beating
a song to death ten years ago?

- Oh, another intellectual, eh?
- Won't do, honey, won't do.

You don't slug an audience
from the front nowadays.

You kind of sneak up
on it from behind.

Say, you're not gonna
count this kid out

with only one strike
on her, are you?

- You know that song, boys.
- Surely.

Well, give her a little help,
will you?

Just-just a little slower,
please.

I I'm always chasing I

I watching clouds I

I drifting by I

I my schemes I

I are just like all I

I my dreams I

I ending I

I in the sky I

I but I always look I

I some fellows make a winning I

I I never even make a gain I

I I'm always chasing I

I waiting to find I

I in vain ii

I found something worth
listening to for a change!

- You found?
- Who's found?

Great stuff, kid.
After you hoed the corn.

Thank you.

- Pop!
- Susie, that was wonderful!

Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Pop, wait for me!

Better take your woolens.
It's awful cold in Detroit.

Don't worry, honey, ai and me
will frame up an act

hot enough to fry an egg on.

Gee, this is the first time
we've ever been

remember when I was
going to school?

You wouldn't take
bookings out of town.

Even when you could get them.

Nobody could ever separate us,
could they?

You wouldn't be trying to soften
me up, would you, honey?

Give me that armor plate.

Don't you know
it's awfully cold in Detroit?

Take me with you, pop!
Take me with you!

I don't want this job anyway.

Oh, I... I don't mean that.

I do want the job.

But I hope I didn't make
you feel bad today.

Mr. Slayton liked
the way I sang.

Slayton!
He's just a Johnny-newcomer.

There's nothing solid
about his technique.

He's a flash in the pan.
He's all wrong.

- Then you're not mad at me?
- Mad?

How could I be mad at anybody
for doing

what I would have done myself?

- Oh, pop!
- I'm not mad. I'm proud.

You stood there
and made them like it, honey.

- So long.
- Do you have to go?

Yeah, just like you had to do
what you did today.

And don't forget,
we're a couple of troupers.

And I ain't worried about
leaving you here alone, susie

because you're no ordinary kid.

- You know why that is?
- I do know, pop. I do.

You're... you're
no ordinary father.

By the time you get back
from Florida,

pop will be home,
and you'll be laughing.

And you're a cinch for a
specialty in the next follies.

- Do you think so?
- Why, sure.

Hey, susie, you...

You suppose you could kind
of keep an eye on Sheila

while you're down in Florida?

She needs someone
like you around.

Don't worry, Jerry.

Every time I think
of you, I'll...

That means I'll be looking
after her a lot.

Seems the lady's having trouble
with the language again.

I give lessons, you know.

Funny. They taught me
to finish it this way.

You probably
drove your teachers crazy.

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Sandra, you've
gotta make up my mind.

You've gotta tell me
whether I'm sitting, standing

must I worry
about your mind too?

I have enough
trouble with my own.

I'm glad to hear that.

Sometimes, I think
I'll never learn to spell.

I believe you will.

You're a pretty smart girl.

If not knowing what you want
is being smart

Frank: I'm having a little
trouble

A smart girl never puts
anything in writing.

- Susie: Sheila?
- I'm in here, susie.

Hello. Do you mind if I park
in here for a minute?

The girls took over my room
for a feed. Thanks.

Another one of those
pep talks from pop?

Says, "last week, we broke

that means they probably
established

and a coat of shellac for Mabel.

You know, when pop sounds
cheerful,

he's going to prove
he's a success

if he has to starve
to death doing it.

Gosh, if I could just hurry
and make good myself...

Hm. To pop, ai, Mabel and susie.

Oh, I can't stand
to fret about you too.

Oh, I apologize

to your, to your orchids.

Look, sheha,
you've got to keep your head

if you want to get anyplace.

My head's the one thing
I have kept.

It's gotten me everything
I've wanted.

So now, if you'll pardon me,
I'll launch myself.

Oh, that's Geoff.
Let him in, will you, susie?

- Hello, Mr. Collis.
- Oh, susie.

This is Annie's night out.
I'm pinch-hitting for her.

- Here. Let me take that.
- Oh, thanks.

Sheila's...
She'll be ready in a minute.

- Well, how are you, susie?
- Oh, fine. Fine.

Can I get you a drink
or something?

.X

Oh. Here, let me.

- There.
- Thanks.

Why don't you sit over here.
It's much more comfortable.

- No, this is alright.
- No, this is more comfortable.

You'll like this chair better.
Here, sit over here.

- You comfortable?
- Oh, fine, thanks.

- Sheila's a swell girl.
- Oh, I know.

She's got a heart of gold.

She's awfully
good to her mother.

She takes care of her whole
family, you know.

Of course, she's,
she's not so good

at taking care of herself.

I don't know, I mean,

I... I always felt
that she kind of needed

someone around
to take care of her.

I... I don't mean just to buy
her pretty things.

I mean to really
take care of her.

Uh, you know, I've been
thinking to myself,

Mr. Collis, you're a nice man.

You're an awfully nice man,

probably one
of the nicest men I've ever met.

- It's very rare, isn't it?
- What? Nice men?

Oh, no, I mean, I mean
for such a nice man

to meet such a nice girl

like you and Sheila, I mean.

Oh, oh, I see.

It's made me very happy too.

Oh, here.

It will be awfully sad,
won't it?

I mean, when... when
two such nice people

like... like you and Sheila

just sort of drift apart

That's life, susie.

Yeah, but it doesn't have to be.

There's a way to stop people
from drifting apart.

What, have they discovered
something new?

Well, no, it's not exactly new.

People have been doing it
for quite some time.

Getting married, I mean.

What's so funny about that?

Pop says there's nothing
funny about marriage.

Just ask the man who owns one.

You're a very sweet
child, susie.

You'll make a wonderful
father-in-law.

As a matter of fact,
I've examined

I find them
to be perfectly honorable.

What do you mean,
"strangely enough"?

I mean, strangely enough,
I see her true value too.

I'll be a very lucky man
if she accepts me.

You mean you're proposing?
Marriage?

What do you think
about asking her tonight?

To... tonight?

Oh, I can't think.

Do you mind if I say

I don't think I'll mind
anything you say, susie.

Oh, gee.

Give me room. Come on, dice!

There she goes. Come on.

Who's the little tomato
with the rebel yell?

Come on, dice.

She's coming out,
and it's a six.

- Right, there we go.
- Whoa, nine.

Luck be a lady.
Try it once more?

- No more.
- Next lucky shooter.

Get them down, lady.

I hope I'm as
lucky as you are, lady.

How about going downstairs
and trying

oh, no, not me.

Uh, I don't feel
like gambling tonight.

Here, Geoff. You go down and
double it for me.

Ooh! When did they put in this
flight of stairs?

Try holding
on to the banister, darling.

Oh, now, Geoff.

Sheila, I got something
to ask you tonight

so don't drink any more,
will you?

- Alright, I won't.
- Promise?

- Cross my heart.
- Thanks.

- Waiter.
- Yes, madame?

Well, well, and how are you?

All of a sudden,
I got a headache.

Yeah. I seen you with him
at the crap table.

You're the greatest female
crapshooter I ever saw.

Now that you know just who I am,
who are you?

As if you didn't know.

- Done what?
- Grabbed the title.

Well, what do you know?

I seen you when you done it.

How do you know I did?

Because I spotted you in the
second row at the fight.

Had your headache
with you that night too.

I hope he ain't chronic.

- What will we drink, huh?
- Never touch it.

Except when I'm on the job.

Soon as I saw you,
I said to myself,

"there's a hot-looking
little number."

Well, don't let it
throw you, champ.

I'm 20 degrees
cooler than you think.

Oh, one of them refrigerator
dames, huh?

That's right. You're not the guy
to defrost me either.

Sorry if that's hitting
below the belt,

but that's how you got to be
champ, isn't it?

Chin up, you glorified girl.

The stairs are your specialty.

And don't forget to smile.

Man: Okay, ai.
See you next week.

I want you to tell the skipper
as soon as he gets to Nassau.

Well, you, you wouldn't pass up
an old pal, would you?

Boys, Sheila hale.
The Ziegfeld follies.

- How do you do?
- Hiya.

- Man: Howdy.
- Hello.

The guy with the cigar
is Nick capalini.

- See you at the boat, Gil.
- Okay, Nick, in a minute.

- Gil - I said, a minute.

Isn't that capalini
the gangster?

Well, Nick likes
"bootlegger" better.

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- Is that what you are?
- Sensitive? No.

So is every business
that pays off big.

Have you seen the folks, Gil?
How are they?

They're okay, they fixed
up the house

till it's the eyesore
of Brooklyn.

They buy a new piece of
furniture.

And Jerry. How's Jerry?

Jerry's fine.

Last time I saw him,
he asked me how's about you

wanted to know what I thought
of long engagements.

You look swell, Gil.
In the money.

Oh, I look swell, huh?

Me in palm beach,
in a 100-buck suit,

and Sheila hale
says I look swell.

And it don't mean a thing.

Make out like it
isn't palm beach.

It's coney island, remember?

.X

It's coney, and there's
a pretty good moon.

And I let you kiss me.

Only this time,
I won't even slap you once.

So you want
a little of both, huh?

Well, I could give you the fur
coats on my own now,

I thought I would, but I don't.

So you've got over me, huh?

Well, I'll believe you
when you kiss me goodbye.

Wouldn't be that it's kind of
tough to do, would it?

Don't you know
when you've been turned down?

Yes, Geoffrey?

What do you think I did
with your winnings?

- Oh, you're sweet, Geoffrey.
- Is that the word for it?

- But you look tired.
- Maybe I'm getting old.

Old wines are best, they say.

That is,
them that drinks it say so.

- Only I wouldn't know, would I?
- No, you wouldn't know.

.\

I get a bang out of you,
and you get a bang out of me.

Geoffrey, you said you had
something

to tell me tonight,
something important.

I thought it was important,
but it isn't really.

You know what I'd like,
on account

of me keeping my promise
tonight?

A nice, long drink.

Okay, break it up, break it up.
That's enough.

And remember, we've got
an opening tonight

so be back here on time
and all in one piece.

Tonight's the night, baby,
your night.

But don't start worrying
about it now.

Oh, I wish pop was here.

I wish my pop was here.

I wish my doctor was here.

Oh, I sound like
a crow with adenoids.

Sandra, do girls'
voices change too?

Only for the better, baby.

I hope you're right.

Mrs. Frank: Well, the town
criers were right for once.

You knew frank had a wife,
didn't you?

Of course. How do you do? I'm...

And you're Sandra,

the current town topic,

the glamour gal of the year.

You make me sound very silly.

Sour grapes, my dear.

See, that's how
they used to bill me.

Doesn't Ziggy
ever change this setup?

I came down a stairway just like
this the year I won my z.

But I'm not here for old home
week, am I?

Aren't you? Then why?

Maybe to say,
"bless you, my children."

You know, I always wanted to
play a big scene

sitting on one of these things.

What makes you think this is
going to be a big scene?

For one thing, I hear you're
going to marry my husband.

- You hear? From whom?
- From him.

He's crazy about you,
and I can see his point.

I'll make my sad story short,
if not sweet.

Frank and I have been
married for ten years.

Count them, ten.

I kicked my own career out
of the window

and I don't regret it.

He's always played around a
little, and I've known it.

It wasn't fun knowing it
but I got by

because he always came home.

But it looks like he's not
coming home this time.

I know why he wouldn't want to.

You love him very much,
don't you?

Probably not the way you do.

I love the way he thinks
I like his singing

when I really don't, you know.

Do you ever listen to his
speaking voice?

He can do more to me
with that than a caruso.

I love the way he blames me
when he's got a cold

he never knows why.

And the funny way
his hair curls up

off his neck
when he needs a haircut.

When the coffee's
not just right.

When you're just about to cry.

And all the crazy little things

that you think
you'll change in him

butthatreahy make him yours.

You're not talking about frank.

No, I'm not.

About the same thing, don't we?

Maybe I'm the one to say,

"bless you, my children."

We're the same kind of idiot,
I guess.

I won't pretend I'm not glad.

- Pawnbroker wept to see it go.
- Oh, Mischa.

Alright,
I'll do what you told me to,

I'll give the violin
back to Franz

and I'll tell him that's your
way of saying goodbye.

No, Mischa, no.
That's all wrong.

Why, are you crazy?

I have been,
but I'm not anymore.

Mischa, did something ever
happen to you

that all of a sudden,
made everything clear?

You knew what
you wanted all at once.

Like, like a hit on the head?

I've been divorced for years.

- What?
- I'm so sorry.

- Why?
- About your uncle.

- What uncle?
- The one in Philadelphia.

I have no uncle, and he does not
live in Philadelphia.

- Poor Mischa.
- What?

Unless, of course,
you have a very good

violinist to take your place

while you're in Philadelphia
for the funeral.

Sandra,
what are you driving for?

You are crazy.

I tell you, you are crazy.

I've got an uncle.

Hey, grandpa, did you get sheha?

- No, she wasn't there.
- Well, she's not here.

Get out and find her,
look in every speakeasy

and when I get hold of her,
I'll... I'll...

Oh, but kick her
where it won't show, will you?

With that costume she wears,
it's impossible.

You have five minutes, miss.

Yeah, I'll have three left over.

Well? A gentleman gets up
when a lady comes into a room.

Oh, this is a room, alright
but I'm too busy

to argue the rest of it.

Where do you get off
not wanting to see me?

A dumb truck driver in the clink
on account of bootlegging.

You've got the nerve to make me
practically break in to see you.

In the old days, when you got
sore, it used to bother me.

Look, Gil, I'm only trying
to help you get out.

Yeah, and then when you used to
go soft, that bothered me more.

Oh, will you stop
rolling those things?

They tell me I gotta learn
a trade where I'm going.

Take the rap for those crooks
you call your friends.

Every racket's got its own
kind of payoff.

Look, why don't you get smart.

You can get out of this.
You can get a new trial.

You know you can do things
in this town

if you know the right people.

Yeah, yeah.

Only I don't. Do you?

I haven't seen
Geoffrey collis for months.

I hear the guy
walked out on you.

Don't you honestly care
about me anymore?

Yeah, sure.

Only now I can roll a cigarette
while I tell you about it.

Could you believe that
I still care about you?

Yeah, why not?

And I can still roll
a cigarette.

You know, it's a funny thing.

What's happened to you always
happens to people

that try and be
two places at once.

And they wind up
not being anyplace.

Geoff would help us.
He's a good guy.

Hey, bud, take me back
to my cell, will you?

Guy can't live very long

- Hey, what's going on in here?
- Where can a lady get a drink?

Well, there's a little joint
around the corner.

Theater's been calling you all
afternoon.

Wants to know why
the so and so you

wasn't there for dress
rehearsals.

Oh, I can walk down
a flight of steps tonight

without rehearsing all
afternoon, I guess.

Pour me a drink, will you,
Annie?

You're up, you're down.

Don't you know I'm never down?
I'm always up.

Oh, I forgot.
Your kid brother's in there.

Been hanging around
about an hour.

- Jerry?
- Yeah.

What are you doing
east of Broadway?

Kind of wanted to see you.

I gotta talk to you, Sheila.
It's important.

What's the matter?
Smash up your new car?

.\

Well,
how about the music lessons?

I quit them. I got a job.

Not on a truck, by any chance?

.X

I got a job in a pool hall.

Look, Sheila, I'm getting too
old to let a woman

put up for cars and music
lessons for me.

Is your old age the only reason?

Gosh, Sheila, I don't believe
a word of what they're saying.

Oh, them cats that hang over
the fences in every back yard.

Well, that's who.
Now let's have the what.

Things I wouldn't repeat
in front of a lady.

- Things about me?
- Yeah.

And it's sure got me on the jump
keeping it from the folks too.

So you don't believe it...

He don't know
nothing about this, I tell ya.

I know you got a nice place here

and that you never cared
for it much in Brooklyn.

But if you could just come
home to live, maybe...

I might stop those cats
from meowing?

About the car
and music lessons, huh?

We don't want anything
except just having you around.

And I'm supposed
to believe that!

You've taken things from me
for months and months

the whole lot of you!

It was just the same then
as it is now only more so.

Now all at once I gotta go home
to cover up for the neighbors!

You're trying
to yell me down, Sheila.

The louder you yell, the less
you got to yell about.

People aren't talking any more
now than they were then.

If I was good enough
to support you then,

I'm bad enough to stop
supporting you now.

If you ask me,
I think Gil's the one

that's really got something
to yell about.

Let dad take care of you,
like he used to,

working his heart out.

Have the rent collector
on your neck

and Betty growing up
to run an elevator.

You were alright
till you stopped running one.

You do it your way.

Only let me alone!

Let me do it my way.

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You think of everything,
don't you?

Show opens in a couple of hours.
You better get some rest.

What for? I'm full of pep.

I'm always full of pep.

How many fur coats have I got?

Well, counting
that new ermine, six.

Yeah, and how many of these

service stripes have
we collected?

Adding Mr. Geoff's
signing-off present

and deducting that one we pawned

think of it.
I'm a very lucky girl.

Six fur coats,
seven diamond bracelets,

an apartment on park Avenue...

Honey, what are you trying
to do to yourself?

Don't you know?

I'm counting my blessings,
Annie.

It's too bad about Mischa's
uncle, isn't it?

Yes. It's too bad
about most people.

Well, little patsy's picture's
out of the lobby,

and little patsy's
out of the show.

And this is the first time
in five years

I haven't been the June bride.

Ah, but don't fret, Jenny.
Patsy's okay.

You know, I think I'll settle
down and adopt a baby

a boy about 21.

There's nothing wrong
with patsy a good marriage

man: Places
for the Trinidad number.

Hey, where do you
think you're going?

Slayton told you to stay off.
You're plastered.

Sure I am. And a beautiful pink.

Listen, flatbush, you're leading
with your chin.

Yeah? Who are you to talk?

The best horrible example
you'll ever see.

Yeah, I know I look funny
on a soapbox

but you're so darn much
like I used to be.

- I hate to see you...
- Oh...

Listen, honey, being
a Ziegfeld girl is swell

but at most, it's only a few
years out of a lifetime.

And what are
you gonna have after that?

I'd give my right arm,
yeah, and everything on it

for a guy with an ice-cream
wagon, if he really loved me.

And you've got
a guy with a truck.

Oh. Come on back, honey.

I with magic and charm I

I high up in the blue I

I sky above you I

I come where
the scented breeze I

I caresses you with I

I a lovely melody I

I while my heart is whispering I

I I love you I

Iahl

iahl

I with magic and charm I

I high up in the blue I

I sky above you I

I come where
the scented breeze I

I caresses you with
a lovely melody I

I while my heart is whispering I

I I love you I

I don't know. I just opened my
eyes, and there she was.

I come where
the scented breeze I

I caresses you with I

I a lovely melody I

I while my heart I

I is whispering I

I I love you I

Iah ii

I everyone is romancing I

I in this tropical clime I

I everybody is dancing I

I Trinidad I I Trinidad I

I Trinidad I I Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

iayel

iayel

iahl

I I'm gonna tell you a story I

I and there's
no moral to be made I

I but don't forget
when you're dancing I

I the Piper must be paid I

I down on the nile
in the southern seas I

I there lives a Lassie
named minnie breeze I

I and all the natives
agree that I

I she's the hottest
thing in Trinidad! I

I when minnie dances
I guarantee I

I with every move
of her vertebrae I

I the temperature jump up
ten degree! I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I they all love minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I and all the natives
would be so sad I

I if minnie ever left Trinidad I

I although the natives
love minnie so I

I minnie had herself
a steady Beau I

I a fellow known
as calypso Joe I

I and minnie swore
they'd never part I

I but fate stepped in only as
fate could I

I min won a contest
for dancing good I

I so she went
away to Hollywood I

I when Joe heard that
it broke his heart I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I she wasn't good
but she wasn't bad I

I aye aye aye I

I calypso Joe was so very sad I

I when minnie
up and left Trinidad I

I in Hollywood
minnie traveled far I

I they changed her name
to minnie la mar I

I and pretty soon
she became a star I

I the siren
of the picture show I

I but one day minnie
got awful mad I

I a guy got fresh and she said
you cad I

I my heart belongs
to my Trinidad I

I my Trinidad calypso Joe I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I in Hollywood
minnie met a cad I

I aye aye aye I

I but there is only
one native lad I

I gets chinny
with minnie from Trinidad I

I so minnie gave up
her dough and fame I

I and she went back
to from where she came I

I but when she got there
she heard with shame I

I that her calypso Joe
was dead I

I when minnie heard that
she almost died I

I she took a gun
to try suicide I

I I think I'd rather live
instead I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I she went away
and they were so sad I

I aye aye aye I

I but now the natives
are mighty glad I

I 'cause minnie came back
to Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I they call her minnie
from Trinidad I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I aye aye aye I

I minnie poor minnie
poor minnie I

Man: Are you alright?
Sheila: Leave me alone!

- You better go on the wagon.
- You better take the pledge.

Yeah, I'm alright.

Didn't I tell you not to go on?

- Well, I...
- Sure, sure. That's right.

Here, Jenny, pour her
back in that bottle

and send her home for good.

Now, come on, kids.
Don't be so nosy.

Make your change
for the next act.

Hurry up! Hurry up!

How can a girl
do that to her career?

How can a girl do
that to herself?

- Sandra.
- Very good, my boy. Very good.

See you in carnegie hall.

Yes. Why not?
Wear this for luck, darling.

But if you ask me, honey

you looked better falling down
them stairs

than the rest of them
do strutting down.

Do you suppose prohibition
will ever get around to sodas?

I'm sorry it never
got around to alcohol.

You heard from Sheila yet,
Jerry?

Nothing
but a loud popping of corks,

and we can't seem
to track them down.

He's still knocking them
stiff in Omaha.

That is, stiffer than they were.

Oh. I almost forgot.

Funny, I didn't.

- Pinning a blue ribbon on me?
- Why not?

Aren't you the best
of your class?

I'm sorry, miss. It's a phony.

I'll give you ten dollars
for the setting.

I never thought you'd
quit the show, beautiful.

You can't do this to me, honey.
I got my pride.

What's this ionghaired husband
of yours got that I ain't got?

You're walking
out on a Ziegfeld contract

to do an act in hoboken
with a couple of old gimbos.

Well there's nothing
else I can do.

I've got a little name now.
We can probably get bookings.

Isn't there any other way
of helping your pop

without cutting
your throat so publicly?

Try and see it his way.

He's worked all of his life
getting to be what he is,

and if he can't go on
believing in that

look, why don't you
try hiring him

as your instructor or something.

I've tried that.
He knows it's a phony.

Then pension him off. Put him
out to pasture somewhere.

You're talking about my pop,
not a fire horse.

Get him a little job. Anything.

Like in the follies, maybe.

- Oh, Mr. Sage!
- No, Mr. Sage!

Can't you see how wonderful
it would be?

- For who?
- For everybody!

Anyway, I'd like him.

Baby, send pop around
to see slayton.

Send him? Why, he's... he's
waiting right outside.

- We were on our way to hoboken.
- Well, bring him in!

And leave hoboken where it is.

Might be easier
to bring hoboken here.

Pop's got a mind of his own.

You know, honestly, Mr. Sage,

I don't think
I noticed it before

but I guess that
you're really one

of the great men of the century.

The century is still young.

Oh, we couldn't let our
star attraction

walk out on us, could we?

You're paying
a bitter price to keep her.

That old guy smells
with lace on, and you know it.

We'd have to fumigate after
every performance.

Oh, no. Just after the first
performance, pal.

Stick the old guy in on the
opening night.

Put him in front
of a drop in one.

Give him two minutes.
Next night, he just isn't there.

And the kid's with him
in hoboken.

Oh. Well, I'll have to think
of an answer to that.

- Hello, kid.
- Hello, Joe.

That nag looks like
a cinch in the fifth.

Brandy, George.
And give it a twin.

- Well...
- I'm sorry, miss hale.

But the boss says no.
No more credit.

Good try anyway, kid.

- Remember?
- How could I forget?

- Seen you when you done it.
- Yeah.

You look like you got a
different kind

of headache these days.

You look good and defrosted.

But you're still on ice.

I got enough left
for a couple of beers

if you can stand the old ear.

Couple of beers.

They got booths
in this dump for ladies.

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When I was a champ, you gave me

the fisheye
and a lot of fast lip.

Now I'm a tramp,
you're willing to drink

my beer because
you're a tramp too.

The only difference
between you and me is,

you was a tramp then.

I'm not that thirsty.

Hey, somebody give me
a hand here. Quick! Hurry up!

Somebody! Somebody come here,
quick! Hurry up!

When you're through
reading that article

sacrebleu, ma, I was only
looking at the stock market.

- Jerry: Hello, Gil. How are you?
- Hello, Jerry.

Oh, Gil, we're so glad
to see you back.

Sheila will want to see you.

Wait a minute.
I'll tell her you're here.

Boy, Gil,
how's it feel to be out?

- Alright.
- What'd the doc say?

You didn't give much
over the phone.

Oh, well,
Sheila's a little run-down.

She's gotta stay
in bed a couple of days.

- How long?
- Well, a couple of weeks.

You're not a very good liar,
are you, kid?

She ain't so good at all, Gil.

Doctor says her heart
just ain't there anymore.

Gil, Sheila don't know
how it is.

.\ .\

Well, nurse, how's the patient?
Giving you any trouble?

Oh, she won't take her soup.
Says it's not on her diet.

Ah-ha. You better run along.

Time somebody
took charge around here.

Won't eat the soup, huh?

Ah, it's too good for her. Here.

Alright. Now open the kisser.

I got your flowers.

How'd you know
they were from me?

Roses wrapped in butcher paper?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

There you are.

How's your pal capalini?

When I came out of the clink,
I passed him going in.

That could mean a lot of things.

"Hello. Goodbye.
See you next year.“

yeah. Yeah. It can also mean,

"I'm glad to have met you."

Or, "go break your legs, huh."

What did you miss
most in jail, Gil?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Three or four.

To a razor edge.

Anyone I'd know?

I'm right with you, red,
only I'm going up.

We're gonna have so much
to tell our grandkids.

Or maybe we'd better
skip some of it, huh?

Kids gotta have
some respect for us.

That we were
just a couple of dopes

.\

We won't tell them nothing
except about the ducks.

You know the kind that
are always on the menus?

Well, they won't like you very
much when they find out

that you're raising them
for menus, you know.

- Am I raising ducks?
- We're raising ducks.

Beginning day before yesterday.

Red, there's a fortune in it.

Well, it's a living anyway.

Hm, yeah.

I want little,
yellow, fuzzy ones.

If they don't come in yellow,
I'll paint them for you, huh?

Of course, I don't believe
a word of this.

A word of what, honey?

It's too good for me,
like mom's soup.

There's nothing
too good for you, red.

Do you still have
the wedding license?

Oh, yeah.

Well,
I can get a new one, though.

.\

Look, red,
you'd better rest now.

- I'm not tired.
- No, no.

Look, now, I'm taking over here.

- Put that over here.
- Gil?

Gil, how far away
from 42nd street

would you be
if you had a duck farm?

Oh, an hour or two maybe.

That's not very far if you
happen to like ducks, is it?

And it's not very far
to get back

if you happen to like other
things too.

You know, don't you, Gil?

You know what's wrong with me.

And that just makes you twice
as good as anybody else, red.

Oh, no, Gil.

Neither one of them is any good.

Now, you're alright, red.
You're alright.

Maybe you got mixed up in the
wrong business for a while.

The follies didn't hurt
Sandra and Susan.

He said that the same things
would happen to us

even if we were still where
Mr. Ziegfeld found us...

That it was strictly up to us.

You know something, Gil?

I'm gonna hate to miss
this opening night.

You just go to sleep.

I love you, red.

Put that in your dream too,
will you?

Come on, girls. Hurry up.
Make your change. Now.

Just don't worry, pop.
Just take it easy.

And, and look them in the eye
like they were tigers.

And pop, if you lay an egg out
there, do me a favor, will you?

- What?
- Cackle.

That will be my signal
to catch a boat.

Say, boy, run out
and get a double bromo.

And split it
between the two of you.

Hey! There's your music.
Where's ai? You're on.

Don't worry about him,
he can smell a cue

hold her for me, kid, will you?

Rub her head against yours,
it's lucky.

- What year did follies start?
- 1907.

For the first time, they're
gonna get their money's worth.

Come on, al.

- Yeah. To stop them.
- How's Sheila, Jerry?

Oh, she's gonna be okay.

As I live
why, it's my old pal Mr. Shean.

How long have you been here?

I I've been over here a year I

I it's the strangest country
that I've ever seen I

I over here why we can
both live European I

I and we'll pay no income tax I

I absolutely Mr. Shean ii

But it's in the balcony.

Oh, that's fine, Ted.

Oh, no, I couldn't let you
pay for a ticket.

I Mr. Gallagher I I hm hm I

I Mr. Gallagher I

I I understand one day
you saved a lady's life I

I in a rowboat out at sea
you were a hero then to me I

I someone said that you had made
this girl your wife I

I oh, Mr. Shean oh Mr. Shean I

I when she sank
I clove down like a submarine I

I dragged her out upon the shore
now she's mine for evermore I

I who the lady Mr. Gallagher? I

- Could it be that we're wrong?
- It's happened before.

I oh Mr. Gallagher
Mr. Gallagher I

I at the follies you will see
some wonderful sights I

I are you
the redhead on the end? I

I I'd like to be your friend I

I how about a little date
with me tonight? I

I oh Mr. Shean oh Mr. Shean I

I why you haven't got a look-in
with that queen I

I why not? I

I who have lavished
her with gold I

I to keep her friendship
Mr. Gallagher? I

I to keep her mouth shut
Mr. Shean? I

I oh Mr. Gallagher I I yes I

I Mr. Gallagher I

I today I paid a visit
to a gallery I

I a gallery? I

I of all the statues
that they show I

I is the greatest
in all Greek mythology I

I oh Mr. Shean oh Mr. Shean I

I for de milos' Venus
I'm not very keen I

I why not? I

I for the thing
that spoils her charms I

I are the pair of broken arms I

I I didn't see them
Mr. Gallagher I

I where were
you looking Mr. Shean? Ii

- pop!
- Pretty good, eh?

Take another bow!
Take another bow!

Oh, Jerry!

Don't leave me holding the bag.

You did it, pop!
You really did it!

Oh, I just softened
them up for you, baby.

- You keep them that way.
- Alright.

Oh, I gotta get my costume on.

- Right?
- Right.

But, Mr. Gallagher,
there's something

I wanna ask you about Susan.

The answer is yes, Mr. Regan.

But you got to wait
five years to hear it.

I behold in us the newest crop I

I the ladies
who parade for you I

I in tons of blooms and pearls I

I we know our private history I

I would leave you rather lax I

I but as long as
you know the figures I

I you might as well
know the facts I

I from Georgia and Nebraska I

I and there is
one bewitching miss I

I who says she's from Alaska I

I one girl was a waitress I

I and one girl was a cook I

I one girl worked
in a bookstore I

I some have been
to high school I

I and some have been
to college I

I to be a perfect
Ziegfeld girl I

I you needn't
have much knowledge I

I the follies
is a school itself I

I not for French or grammar I

I a school where beauty
enters in the rough I

I and comes out
labeled a glamour I

I glamour is what
you all expect I

I to find in zeigfeld dollies I

I and glamour is
what you always get I

I in every zeigfeld follies I

I look into your programs
of the follies of the past I

I you'll find that
it's the Ziegfeld girl I

I who stands out in the cast I

I and every lovely number I

I a memory of the follies I

I of that year I

I you gotta pull strings I

I you gotta pull strings I

I if you wanna go places
wanna see things I

I you gotta pull strings I

I you gotta pull strings I

I you gotta pull strings I

I if you wanna go places
wanna see things I

I you gotta pull strings I

I if you wanna be happy
live like kings ii

I stepped out of a dream I

I to be what you seem I

I could there
be lips like yours? I

I could there
be eyes like yours? I

I could there be smiles
like yours I

I I am standing here I

I before you I

I telling you I'm longing I

I to adore you ii

Phone that doctor again
and find out if he's left yet.

Yes, sir.

Did you hear about me and Gil?

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We're gonna raise ducks.

Little, yellow, fuzzy ones.

I and now we're on a
final curtain call I

I before we take
a final curtain call I

I we want to always I

I hear your praises ringing I

I we hope that I

I we can always I

I hear you sing I

I you never looked
so perfectly divine I

I you're everything lovely I

I everything that I adore I

I you never looked
so beautiful before ii