Here Comes the Groom

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Good morning, Boston

Morning Express. Extension 52?

Boston, Massachusetts

calling Paris, France.

We want the International

Refugee Organization,

Children's Center Number 46 calling

Mr. Peter Garvey, G-A-R-V-E-Y,

person to person. Mr. George Degnan

calling from Boston...

"Wanted:
a mother".

That's not sob stuff!

- That's good human interest!

- Your Paris call is coming.

Do you realize over 300 war orphans

have been adopted here in Boston?

Fire him?

Fire Pete Garvey? Me?

Why, I wouldn't fire him if...

All right, you can get yourself

another editor, Mr. F.C.

He's perfectly right,

I should fire him.

- Where is that woman? Esther!

- Yes, sir!

- Get me Pete Garvey.

- He's coming on.

- Who?

- Pete Garvey, in Paris.

- Operator, put him on.

- "Robert Dulac, Number 401.

"Robert is only 10 years old,

but he's never had a childhood.

"His parents were both killed

in the late war."

- Hello, Pete! Hiya, toots!

- Give me that phone!

Don't snap your twig, Mr. Degnan.

He's doing a wonderful job.

At least smile.

Yelling won't bring him back.

Peter, dear. I miss you, Peter.

I've told you by letter, by cable,

by carrier pigeon that I miss you.

Now it's costing me an overseas call

to tell you I miss you, Peter.

Get your... Get yourself back here

immediately or you're fired.

Why didn't you answer

my cables, you...?

George, there's children

in the room. Nix.

I'm taking you off salary,

so help me, Pete!

You get back here on the first plane

or you can stay in Paris forever.

Now, are you coming back or not?

Hello?

Hello?

You peanut-brained son of a

peanut-brained kangaroo, you still on?

Hello! Hello?

Pete, you hear what I said?

George, I'm sorry,

you're just not getting through to me.

- I'll call you back later.

- You stay on this phone!

I can't. I gotta go practice baseball

with my team, the Notre Dame Tigers.

We lost a thriller last week, 48 to 47.

We gotta go practice.

We're playing the United Nations

Cubs. We'll win, because I'm pitching.

Oh, it's the mailman!

Yeah.

That's always a big event here,

George, the mailman.

- Hello, Pierre!

- Hello, Pierre!

Bonjour, Monsieur Garvey!

They don't get any letters, these kids,

but the mailman's wife

bakes them cookies every day.

You know why

they don't get any letters?

I'll tell you why,

because they don't belong to anybody.

I'm touched, there's a lump

in my throat, my heart is bleeding.

Oh, but you'll rally, George.

You'll rally. Fight, pitch.

Your article on Robert Dulac

touched me...

Oh, Bobby!

Say, he's some kid.

He speaks English. Yeah,

and he's a natural second baseman.

Goes to his right or his left,

throws underhand, switch hitter.

Do you think the Express pays you

a salary to teach punks

to play baseball and shoot marbles?

- It keeps him out of the pool halls.

- Who cares?

Besides, he just sort of took to me.

You remember, like I took to you?

All I remember is,

I'm stopping your articles.

- What?

- Yes!

Bobby, go get the mail, will you?

Look, you can't do this to me.

There's still 26 children here!

I've got to, Pete.

The war orphan racket's milked dry.

It isn't news anymore.

Not news? What are you saying?

A good idea is always news.

This is the best idea since

the invention of the wheel!

There's 60 nations taking care of these

waifs, providing homes for them,

and there's five million hot meals

every day in Europe,

the Near East, in Asia,

and in the Iron Curtain...

Why, UNESCO'S building

children's homes everywhere!

We need a hypo,

something sensational.

I got just the idea for you.

The Far East.

- Far East?

- Yeah. That's the hot spot.

Burma, Indochina, Hong Kong,

just the place for the old Pete Garvey

and his sizzling typewriter.

- Far East, huh?

- Yeah!

Now you're beginning to reach me.

You're getting through to me.

- This is for Mr. Garvey.

- Oh, a letter for Mr. Garvey.

Who wants to take it to him?

Mr. Garvey told me

to bring his mail today!

Pete Garvey is my friend! Anybody

don't like it, gets a sock in the nose!

Sock in the nose!

Robefl!

- That's he, that's Bobby.

- That's Bobby.

Come here a moment. I want to

introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey.

- Come on let's go!

- Bobby! Bobby, come here!

- Come on let's go!

- Bobby! Bobby, come here!

Now, Bobby!

- That was Bobby.

- He's just a little shy.

We might as well adopt a rabbit.

Mr. Garvey. A very nice couple

are here from America,

- they want to adopt Bobby!

- Good!

- But he...

- I know, you can't catch him, huh?

- Every time, he runs!

- He's a shifty little sprout, all right.

- You are leaving us?

- Yep, paper called me back.

It will break Bobby's heart.

He adores you.

What are we gonna do with him?

Please, we must place him

before you go. Come!

Oh, this is a wonderful little guy.

I can vouch for his honesty,

his intelligence,

and his sunny disposition.

He's practically a combination of

Joe DiMaggio and Monsieur Beaucaire.

Make with the manners, Bobby.

Oh, Bobby!

He just does this every once in a while.

It's a nervous habit from the bomb

shock. A little care, attention...

Personally, I do not care for children,

it is just that my wife...

Quiet, Walter. We'll come

some other time, Mr. Garvey.

Mr. Walter Godfrey... Aren't you with

the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra?

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

is with me.

Oh, you'll excuse my unfortunate

phrasing. I got a kid here...

You do recognize talent

when you see it.

- Go get Theresa.

- Theresa!

Don't you think

we'd better tell them that...?

- Theresa!

- Listen to amateurs?

Now, here, this is wonderful!

- Oh, dear.

- Oh, the poor hat.

Mr. Garvey, I am not interested.

I hate children!

Aren't they a pain?

Good thing you didn't take Bobby,

he has absolutely no ear for music.

He'd have driven a great musician

like yourself out of your mind!

But this is something.

Theresa, I want you to meet

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Godfrey,

from America.

They're in the market for a child.

- She's a bit older than we planned.

- They're all too old!

Mr. Godfrey is a great musician

from America. Understand?

Si, signore.

Her mother was a great musician,

but she wouldn't entertain the enemy.

All she left Theresa was

just her glorious voice.

You're going to hear a thing, you'll be

grateful to me for the rest of your life.

"Caro Nome"?

Why can't she sing some little song?

Beautiful.

Beautiful!

Come here, my child.

I want to kiss you.

Yes,

Theresa's blind.

But she has a heart and a throat

and that's what you use

to sing songs with, isn't it?

Oh, my dear. My dear.

Walter, let's take her home!

Home?

She will be in the Metropolitan

and Carnegie Hall.

The contracts, the papers...

The papers!

I want the papers!

Get the papers!

Sign up the papers immediately.

Isn't that wonderful?

We finally got a home for Theresa!

- What?

- Will I ever get a house?

Why, you can't miss, Marcel.

You've already got about

the best house in the world.

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