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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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!

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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?

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Well, how about the music lessons?

I quit them. I got a job.

Not on a truck, by any chance?

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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