A Star Is Born Page #6

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No!

"I'm so hot and bothered that I don't know

my elbow from my ear

"Suffer something awful each time you go

but much worse when you're near

"Here am I with all my bridges burned

"Just a babe in arms

where you're concerned

"So lock the doors

Call me yours

"'Cause you took advantage of me"

Yes.

No!

"So I got into a tab show

"All I did was kick my feet

"You'd hardly call it a chance to sing

"But at least it was a chance to eat"

"They call it black bottom, a new twister

"It's sure got them and, oh, sister

"They clap their hands

and do a raggedy trot

"Hot!

"Old fellows with lumbago

and young fellows away they go

"They jump right in

and give it all that they've got"

Then one night something happened.

Dame Fortune showed her face.

The star got sick and I was told to go on

in her place.

But she recovered.

Oh, well.

"Black bottom, a new rhythm

"When you spot them, you go with them

"That do that black, black, black bottom

"You won't be blue

when you have got them

"If you do that black, black, black,

black bottom all day

"But finally I got an offer to sing

in New York

"And I wired, 'I'm on my way,'

"I had visions that this would be

"A fabulous, famous caf

"Filled with high society

"Elegant and spruce

"And I pictured me

"The epitome of a very chic chanteuse

"Peanuts

"Through every city,

town and country lane

"You'll hear him sing

his plaintive little strain

"And as he goes by, to you he'll say"

Sing "Melancholy Baby".

"Peanuts

"The little children like to trail along

"They like to hear

the peanut vendor's song

"They all laugh with glee

when he will say"

Sing "Melancholy Baby".

"Come to me, my melancholy baby

"Cuddle up and don't be blue

"All your fears are foolish fancy maybe

"You know, dear, that I'm in love with you

"Every cloud must have a silver lining

"Wait until the sun shines through

"Smile, my honey dear

"While I kiss away each tear

"Or else I shall be melancholy, too"

My benefactor appeared with his card.

And at first I thought he was fresh.

Fresh?

"He was fresh from heaven all right

"He produced the show

that gave me the chance

"To sing for you tonight"

"Swanee, how I love ya, how I love ya

"My dear old Swanee

"I'd give the world to be

"Among the folks in D-i-x-i-e

"Even know my mammy's waiting for me

"Praying for me down by the Swanee

"The folks up North will see me no more

"When I get to that Swanee shore

"Way down upon the Swanee

"I'm coming back to Swanee

"Mammy, Mammy

"I love the old folks at home

"I loves ya

"Swanee, how I loves ya, how I loves ya

"My dear old Swanee

"I'd give the world if I could only be

"Sitting on my mammy's knee!

"Among the folks

"I love the old folks

"I love the young folks

"Oh, my honey lamb

"You'll love them all in Alabamy

"Mammy, Mammy

"My dear old mammy

"Your wandering child will wander no more

"When I get to that Swanee shore"

"So I can't quite be called

"'Overnight sensation'

"For it started many years ago

"When I was born in a trunk

"In the Princess Theater

"In Pocatello, Idaho"

Oliver, what about Vicki

for the Morgan script?

Where's Norman?

I want you to read this script because...

Thank you.

Nobody buying anybody a drink

on the strength of all this success?

I heard a few comments about my film

which makes me feel the need of one.

Vicki, we'll see you over at my house.

All right, fine.

Ray, your score was out of this world,

the greatest.

Say, I've never seen preview cards like this

in my life. I waited for the breakdown.

Ninety-seven percent say

you got yourself a new star.

Read these and enjoy yourselves.

I'll need a lot of stuff on you.

Be in my office tomorrow morning early.

That is, if you can make it.

Read this.

This is what I was telling you about.

It's very interesting.

They all say her performance

was excellent. Get a load of these cards.

Every one says the same thing.

It's all yours, Esther.

And I don't mean just the Cadillacs

and the swimming pools.

It's all yours.

In more ways than one.

I hope...

Yes, Norman, go ahead.

Say it, would you?

You'll be a great star.

Don't let that change you too much.

Don't let it take over your life.

You're very dear.

Norman, you make this sound like,

like the end of something...

...instead of the beginning.

You make it sound like goodbye.

I did all I could for you.

You've come along the road with me

as far as you should.

Let's leave it that way.

Norman, don't you know

how I feel about you?

Yes. Yes, I do.

Don't you know nothing about you

could make any difference?

It's too late.

- No, it isn't. It is not...

- It is, I tell you!

- There's nothing you can...

- Listen to me!

I love you.

I destroy everything I touch.

I always have.

Forget me, I'm a bad lot!

You've come too late.

I don't believe that.

It's not too late.

Not for you and not for me.

Don't say that, Esther.

I might begin to believe it.

Please, believe it. Believe it.

Believe it. Believe it.

- I think they're all rehearsed.

- Fine.

We're ready whenever you are.

"What am I here for?

"It's time you knew

"Here's what I'm here for

"I'm here for you

"Can you forgive me?

"Am I too late?

"All the years that I wondered

"And pondered were squandered

"My heart insisted

"I seek you out

"That you existed

"My heart had no doubt

"To share a journey

"That leads to heaven's door

"You'll find is what I'm here for

"What am I here for?

"It's time you knew

"Here's what I'm here for

"I'm here for you

"Can you forgive me?

"Am I too late?

"All the years that I wondered

"And pondered were squandered

"My heart insisted

"I seek you out

"That you existed

"My heart had no doubt"

Cut. That's it. Wonderful.

Esther, listen to this one.

Okay, let's have the playback.

Just the last half of Miss Lester.

I want the chorus arrangement.

"My heart had no doubt

"To share a journey

"That leads to heaven's door

"You'll find is what I'm here for"

How'd I sound?

Just adequate.

Best-friend-severest-critic department?

What is this?

Listen to the arrangement Danny made

for the chorus.

Turn it off.

I was thinking about another kind

of arrangement.

Another kind?

Domestic. Will you marry me?

No, thank you.

"...I wondered and pondered"

Why not?

Well, you're irresponsible.

- Go ahead. Stop that. What else?

- "My heart insisted..."

"You drink too much."

Suppose I quit drinking?

Suppose I become absolutely dependable

on all occasions?

You wouldn't be Norman Maine.

I'd be marrying the wrong man.

Norman...

Yes?

... darling, would you do all that for me

if I said I'd marry you?

No. I've had a chance to think it over

with all that humming and singing...

... it's too much to ask.

Well, goodbye.

Now, wait a minute, my boy.

That's much too public a proposal...

...for me to say no to. I accept.

- You do?

- I do.

Oliver, we're gonna get married.

I guess I didn't read that line right.

I'll try again.

We're going to get married.

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