Babes on Broadway Page #3
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- 1941
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- This is Barbara Jo. This is Mr. Williams.
- Pleased to meet you, Mr. Williams.
- Mr. Williams is an actor, you know.
- A real actor? On the stage?
- Well, I...
Here's your cake. Here, Barbara Jo.
Gee, you don't look like an actor.
That's what most of the producers think.
- Won't you sit down, Mr. Williams?
- Thank you.
You know, Mr. Williams, there's a couple
of things I don't understand about acting.
Only a couple of things?
When you're on the stage...
...you have your arms around the girl
and say:
"I love you more than
anything in the whole world. "
- Yeah?
- Do you really mean it?
Well, that depends upon the girl.
Yeah, I suppose so.
But, gee, when Robert Taylor says it,
You know, Penny's gonna be an actress.
She's always acting.
- Eat your cake, darling.
- Well, I am eating it.
Oh, well, got to be going.
Big meeting tonight.
Wait until the kids
find out they're really going.
Some of them
never even seen the country.
- Tell Papa I couldn't help it.
- I'll tell him, but you better practice.
Why, Penny, you know I love to practice.
Goodbye, Mr. Williams.
Sure like to see you act sometime.
Well, thank you.
Bye, Penny.
- Won't you sit?
- Won't you sit?
Here we are, just as if we had planned it.
Yeah, you mean just as if we didn't.
You know, I have a feeling that you're
gonna be that unknown quantity in my life.
What's that?
Something
that brings a fellow good luck.
The springboard. The inspiration.
The thing that everything adds up to.
Gee, that's quite an assignment.
Not with what you have.
Just what have I, Mr. Williams?
Well, it's a combination.
A combination of something sweet
and warm.
Plus a quality
that's far away from everybody.
Reflection of talent, that's what it is.
There's something special
lighting everything around you.
- I didn't know I had that.
- Sure, that's what you have.
And as soon as I see
Thornton tomorrow...
...why, I'm gonna tell him
to take a good look at you.
Before you know it, we'll be dancing
on top of the world, together.
Oh, gee, that would be fun,
if it ever came true.
As soon as I get through
with the audition...
...why, I'll come back over here
and you'll see how true it is.
Well, just so you won't get lost.
I'll be at the settlement house
filing envelopes.
And you can park your dream boat
right outside the entrance.
- Now, will you do something for me?
- Lf I can.
- Will you sing me a song?
- How do you know I can?
Because you sing when you talk,
when you walk.
Why, you're eyes are...
Why, they're singing right now.
They are?
Well, I'll be darned.
When a girl meets boy
Life can be a joy
But the note they end on
Will depend on
Little pleasures they will share
So let us compare
I like New York in June
How about you?
I like a Gershwin tune
How about you?
I love a fireside
When a storm is due
I like potato chips
Moonlight and motor trips
How about you?
I'm mad about good books
Can't get my fill
And Franklin Roosevelt's looks
Give me a thrill
Holding hands in the movie show
When all the lights are low
May not be new
But I like it
How about you?
I like Jack Benny's jokes
To a degree
I love the common folks
That includes me
I like to window shop on 5th Avenue
I like banana splits
Late supper at the Ritz
How about you?
I love to dream of fame
Maybe I'll shine
I'd love to see your name
Right beside mine
I can see we're in harmony
Looks like we both agree
On what to do
- And I like it
- And I like it
- How about you?
- How about you?
I'm so delighted
I've ignited the spark within you
Let me continue to make it burn
With you, I will be like a Trilby
So let's not dally
Come on, Svengali
I've lots to learn
When you're arising
Start exercising daily
For example
Just a sample
Bend and touch the floor
Fifty times or more
A fine start
To be a Bernhardt
A dictionary's necessary
But not for talking
It's used for walking
The Ziegfeld way
Is this okay?
That's the trick
You're catching on quickly
Should I take a bow?
Oh, let me show you how
- Just like partners on the stage
- Yeah.
If you can use a partner
I'm the right age
Hey, don't go under there.
The way our luck's been running,
I wish it was Friday the 13th.
- Oh, no, you don't.
- Wait a minute, what's the idea?
- This happens to be Friday.
- And the 13th.
It is?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Strange. Well, here we are.
Remember, this Thornton Reed is big-league.
This is a private audition.
No mugging, no pressing.
- Don't look anxious.
- All right.
Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!
Look's like
somebody's been reading our mail.
Easy, folks. Easy, folks. Do you realize
you're getting on Mr. Reed's nerves?
Mason, where's the boy
with my sandwich?
He'll be here.
I think he got lost in the crowd.
- I can't even get a 10c sandwich.
- Thornton, remember your headache.
Don't rub me down.
You're the cause of all this.
You and your discoveries.
I don't want to discover anyone.
I give you my word.
This time, I only told three boys.
Where, in Yankee Stadium?
This is wonderful.
Every actor in New York will love you.
I don't want every actor in New York
to love me. I want my wife to love me.
- Drink this.
- I don't want it, I want my sandwich. I'm...
Mason, you've got to keep them back.
- Please, please, please.
- I'm keeping them back.
People, you must stop this nonsense.
All I'm doing is a little intimate musical,
not the Passion play.
- Quiet, quiet, quiet!
- Listen, we want to give everyone a chance.
But unless you line up so I can see you,
I'll have to call the whole thing off.
- Come on, Jenny. Let's get in.
- Get in, Helen.
- Quit shoving back there, you pig.
- What's the big idea?
Mr. Reed, you don't know us, but
we just closed the Tip-Top Inn in Albany.
Yeah, we're the Four Hot Licks.
- May...
- Ray...
- Fay...
- And Kay.
Oh, sextet
I love you, yeah
Please, please, some other time.
Mason, have them pass by in one line
so we could get through with this.
Mr. Reed will see you.
- Keep in one line, keep moving.
- No, I'm sorry.
- Make it snappy.
- Yes, I could use you.
- Yes, no, too small.
- Just keep on going.
- No, too short. No, boys.
- No.
- What do you mean, no?
- But, Thornton...
- I mean no, I can't use you.
- Well, how do you know?
- How do I...?
- You haven't seen us do anything.
We're the Three Balls of Fire.
Once we get started, you can't put us out.
But I can put you out
before you get started. Mason.
Thornton, wait. These are the boys I've
been telling you about. They're tremendous.
In three years,
they'll be greater than Astaire.
Then bring them back in three years.
I'm sorry, lad, some other time.
- Not now, that's all. I'm sorry.
- Mr. Reed, I...
All right, keep them going.
- Just keep on going.
- No, no, no, I'm sorry.
No, I can't use you.
No, no children. No, no children.
Wait, wait,
don't send my brother to the chair.
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