Babes on Broadway
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- 1941
- 118 min
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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this station has the honor to present...
...a weekly report on the New York scene
by Alexander Woollcott, The Town Crier.
This is Woollcott speaking.
This evening, instead of reporting to you
on the new plays along Broadway...
...I want to say a word about
the swarm of young hopefuls...
...who arrive in New York each year...
...determined to make good on the stage
if it takes a leg.
I have here over 1000 letters
from such young people...
...asking what to do, where to start.
Every one of these people...
...thinks that he has more talent
than 90 percent of the actors on Broadway.
Broadway. They call it
But it shines with a radiance
no electrical company can inspire.
It comes from the likes of you.
One word of advice,
take what you can get.
Grab the chances as they come along.
Act in hallways, sing in doorways...
...and if you have to, dance in cellars.
Hello, everybody. How do you do?
We're gonna do a song and a dance
and all for you.
Never seen a better crowd at any place.
We just wanna see you
have a smile on your face.
So here comes our bag of tricks.
We turn on the show.
Drop the nickel in, Nicky,
and here we go.
Hey! Hey!
New York, New York
Fascinating city
Magic castles rising in the air
Wall Street, Broadway
Guys are sittin' pretty
Every window hides a millionaire
So when defeatists holler
"There's no chance"
Just tell them this
But with a dirty glance
Once Mr. Woolworth
Didn't have a dime
And Irving Berlin
Didn't have a rhyme
And Thomas Dewey
Didn't have a crime
But anything can happen in New York
Once Rockefeller
Didn't have that oil
And Tiffany
He didn't have a pearl
And Ziegfeld
Didn't even have a girl
But anything can happen in New York
You, too, can be that big ball of fire
You, too, can have your name
In Who's Who
You, too, can climb up higher and higher
Until you reach that Rainbow Room
The Wall Street bankers
Didn't have a trust
The Automat
It didn't have a crust
The Hall Of Fame
It didn't have a bust
But even you can be one in New York
Yes, sir
You can be one in New York
You, too, can be that big ball of fire
You, too, can start from scratch
And get rich
You, too, can climb up higher and higher
Like Lord & Taylor, Bonwit Teller
Gimbel, Macy, Rockefeller
You can even be an Abercrombie Fitch
Once Mr. Morgan
Didn't have a yacht
And Joe DiMaggio
Didn't have a swat
The pot of gold
Didn't have a pot
But anything can happen in New
Don't mean innuendo
We mean only in New York
Yes, sir! Hey, hey, hey!
That's the show! Hey, hey!
Hey, that's us. Feed the little kitty, folks.
We take anything.
Hey, all the way.
Well, Nick, you got the armored car
outside for us tonight?
- Boys, I've got bad news for you.
- What's the matter?
I want you to resign.
You mean,
you want us to quit working here?
Oh, no, sir, Nick. We love you too much.
We wouldn't let you sit in this cellar
all by yourself every night, would we?
Then I got to fire you.
- Fired?
- Why?
Look, I got the business, yes?
I got the wife, I got the three kids...
...I got myself, I got you, yes?
- Yeah.
But I only got three customers
eating my spaghetti.
So, I've got to go out of business.
That's too bad, Nick.
Don't worry, Nick.
Spaghetti will come back someday.
Hey, what's this? Five bucks.
Wait a minute.
Who put this money in there?
- Five dollars?
- Yeah.
It couldn't be that icky from Waterbury,
could it?
I don't get it.
She probably thought it was a buck.
I'll have to give it back to her.
Hey, you're not gonna cast that nice,
fresh folding money back on the waters.
I hate to do it, fellas,
but things aren't that tough.
And I better do it quick,
before my stomach talks to my willpower.
Hey, wait a minute. Just let me hold it.
Goodbye, Mr. Lincoln.
Excuse me, lady,
but I think you made a mistake.
- I found that in the kitty over there.
- It's a 5.
- The kitty says you take anything.
You mean?
Gosh, that's an awful lot of admission
just to watch us...
...when you can see the top shows
on Broadway for $4.40.
I think your show is as good
as some I've seen on Broadway.
You do? You do?
Oh, gosh, thanks.
We kind of think we're pretty good too.
won't even listen to us...
...and the out-of-town trade
very seldom gets down this way.
Where are you from?
What part of the country?
- I was born in Wisconsin, but I...
- Wisconsin?
Well, that's funny.
My mom was born in Wisconsin.
- You like New York?
- I get tired of it sometimes...
Wait til you start swinging out.
You know something?
You talk just like my mom.
She said that God made New York...
...just so that the good people
would enjoy Wisconsin.
Your mother
might have something there.
No place like it.
That's what I tell her in every letter.
Where else can a fellow
shoot out of a firetrap like this...
...into a top spot on Broadway?
Fellow comes in, sees something he likes.
Says, "That's it. "
Your name goes up in lights.
- You're a hit overnight.
- Really?
- Sort of like Horatio Alger, isn't it?
- Yeah, yeah.
Only it hasn't happened to us
like that yet.
The roof caved in on us tonight.
But we're on the upbeat.
When we become headliners, we'll send
you tickets, get your money's worth.
- You do that. I'll give you my address.
- Swell.
- There.
- Well, thank you very much.
Miss Jones from Wisconsin.
You've been darn swell to us.
If you need a couple of fellows to
show you the city or anything like that...
Well, here, I'll give you one of our cards.
There you are.
Which of the Three Balls of Fire are you?
I'm the one you can't get any insurance on.
Tommy Williams.
You can phone me at Pitt-Astor Drugstore.
I'm there all the time.
It's kind of like an actors' clearing-house.
I'd like to show it to you sometime.
That's very nice, Tommy.
- I'm much obliged.
- Why, not at all.
You liked our act, didn't you?
You give a fella a lot of heart.
You know, the last person that made me
feel this good was my mother.
That's a nicer compliment than I paid you.
You'll hear from me.
You just drop your hat
and I'll come running.
Oh, and thanks again for this fiver.
You know, you made Santa Claus
seem like a schoolboy.
It won't seem so much when you split it
three ways and deduct the income tax.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hi, Tommy, Hammy.
- Hi, ladies.
- Tommy, I got that part.
- Swell, Sally.
- Wonderful.
- Great.
- Hi, sexy boy.
- Oh, hello, fellas.
- Been making the rounds?
- And how.
- Anything new?
- Yeah, did you have any luck?
I saw 14 producers,
but nobody's producing.
Oh, dear. That's...
Hi, Bert. Keep those sidewalks
hot enough nowadays, don't they?
- Stop looking at that 85c dinner.
- Boys, what will it be?
- Steak, medium.
- Chicken, fried.
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