That's Entertainment, Part II Page #3

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And Laurel and Hardy.

So you can't sleep?

Abbott and Costello being

Abbott and Costello.

I'm going to put this in your ears...

and then when I go to sleep,

you won't hear the record.

When I go to sleep, you take the arm off...

- and the record will stop, and I'll sleep.

- All right.

- Yes.

- Now how's that?

Everything all right?

How's that? All right?

Is that all right?

I said, is that all right?

- Is that all right, the stuff in your ears?

- Yes. Can't hear. Swell.

And when you go to sleep, I'll turn it off.

- Take it off. These are good.

- Go ahead and get your sleep.

I know I'll get some sleep.

- I'm gonna get some sleep.

- What?

I says, I'm gonna get some sleep.

- That's what I'm here for.

- Then why do you keep saying...

- I can't hear you, please.

- Then keep them in your ears...

- you don't have to listen to nothing.

- What?

Look. Now listen.

Don't get excited, please. Will you?

With these in my ears, I can't hear.

Here. Try it yourself now. See that?

Now can you hear anything?

- What?

- Can you hear me?

You can't hear anything, can you?

How can I hear if you're gonna

put these in my ears like that?

After all, I can't hear

if you got them in my ears.

He's got them again.

In this 1929 film...

among a group of songwriters, we find...

Well, he'll introduce himself.

Ladies and gentlemen,

may I introduce myself.

My name is Jack Benny, and I was asked...

to be master of ceremonies

for this occasion.

I'd like to identify these boys for you...

so in case you find them

prowling around your home some night...

you'll know how to address them.

Mr. Nacio Herb Brown,

the composer at the piano...

and Mr. Arthur Freed, the lyricist...

who also writes the words.

These two boys wrote...

Doll Dance, Broadway Melody...

You Were Meant For Me,

the Pagan Love Song...

and The Wedding of the Painted Doll.

It's a holiday

Today's the wedding of the painted doll

It's a jolly day

The news is spreading all around the hall

Red Riding Hood and Buster Brown

The Jumping Jack jumped into town

From far and near, they're coming here

Church bells ringing

Bringing all the little dollies

From the follies

With their painted cheeks

Little mama doll has fussed around

for weeks and weeks

Shoo the blues, no time to lose

Bikes and shoes will spread the news

That it's a holiday

Today's the wedding

of the little painted doll

I've come to the conclusion that it's a very

simple matter to write a popular song.

Let's see how song writer Sammy Cahn

feels about that.

Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy.

It can take half an hour or half a year.

But when anyone

writes a song in a movie...

there never seems to be any problem.

Inspiration turns on

faster than a light bulb.

For instance...

look how hard

Ann Sothern and Robert Young...

have to struggle to write a song...

which was written by

George and Ira Gershwin.

And lovely.

Hey, "Oh, sweet and lovely."

Oh, sweet and lovely,

can it be true?

You are the one

Baby, be mine

Baby, be mine

Oh, sweet and lovely,

Baby, be mine

Baby, be good

Lady, be good

That's it, "Lady, be good."

Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good

Yeah!

Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good

Oh, lady, be good to me

How's that?

I am so awfully misunderstood

So, lady, be good to me

...this feeling.

Lew Ayres, prodded by Al Shean...

sets his love for Jeanette MacDonald

to music.

You got something that hurts you,

that's important, that means something.

Well, write it out. Put it in notes.

Orchestrate it.

Make the violins tell it, and the brasses.

You never lost Mary Hale.

You lost yourself.

You were like a bird that wouldn't fly,

a fish that wouldn't swim...

a musician that wouldn't write.

Speaking a woman's name

night after night before you go to sleep...

that's for nobodies, for weaklings.

But you, you got to sing out on them

so she'll hear it...

and no matter where she is,

she'll hear her name in your music...

and then she'll come back to you.

Although your tears may fall

Jimmy.

We won't be far apart

Summer journeys to Niagara

And to other places

Aggravate all our cares

We'll save our fares

I've a cozy little flat

in what is known as old Manhattan

We'll settle down

Right here in town

We'll have Manhattan, the Bronx,

and Staten Island, too

It's lovely going through

Now Mickey Rooney

and Tom Drake show us...

how Rodgers and Hart did it.

It's very fancy

On old Delancey Street, you know

The subway charms us so

When balmy breezes blow to and fro

Fred Astaire and Red Skelton

as Kalmar and Ruby.

I wouldn't write that song with you

if you begged me.

Begged you? I didn't even ask you.

I guess you just can't help it, Harry.

I feel sorry for you.

Feel sorry for me?

You must think I'm just some...

I can tell you what I think of you

in three little words.

You're a dope!

Three little words, "You're a dope."

You are a dope

In the film The Great Waltz...

Fernand Gravet as Johann Strauss...

composedTales from the Vienna Woods...

just by riding through the woods

with Miliza Korjus.

Come on, my Rosie

Come on, my Rosie

That's entertainment

Good morning

Good morning

It's great to stay up late

Good morning

Good morning to you

When the band began to play

This is one of those terrific

Singin' in the Rain numbers...

with Gene, Debbie Reynolds,

and Donald O'Connor having a ball.

So, good morning

Good morning

Sunbeams will soon smile through

Good morning

Good morning to you and you

and you and you

Good morning

Good morning

We've gabbed the whole night through

Good morning

Good morning to you

Nothing could be grander

Than to be in Louisiana

In the morning

In the morning

It's great to stay up late

Good morning

Good morning to you

Might be just as iffy

If we was in Mississippi

When we left the movie show

the future wasn't bright

But came the dawn

the show goes on

and I don't want to say good night

- So say good morning

- Good morning

Rainbows are shining through

Good morning

Good morning

Bonjour

Buenos Dias

Buongiorno

Guten Morgen

Good morning to you

Fred, Nanette Fabray,

and Jack Buchanan...

as a very young trio in this Schwartz and

Dietz number from Band Wagon.

Mrs. Wipple Poofer loves to talk

to Mrs. Hildendorfer

Of the fatal natal day

she had her silly Willy

Mrs. Hudson-Cooper loves to

talk to Mrs. Golden-Wasser

Of her major operation

when she had her twins

But when Mother comes along

She silences the others

She accomplished something

that is very rare in mothers

MGM has got a Leo

But Mama has got a trio

She is proud

but says three is a crowd

Oh, we do everything alike

We look alike

We dress alike, we walk alike

We talk alike, and what is more

We hate each other very much

We hate our folks

We're sick of jokes

on what an art it is to tell us apart

We eat the same kind of vittles

We drink the same kind of bottles

We sit in the same kind of highchair

highchair, highchair

I wish I had a gun

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