The Miracle of the Bells Page #2

Synopsis: Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. To arouse public ...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Irving Pichel
Production: RKO Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.7
APPROVED
Year:
1948
120 min
37 Views


all right Christmas it's pretty good

memory.

Katie miss Horan this is mr. Donigan oh

I saw your picture in the lobby success

huh

this is the most exciting thing that

could have happened I wanted to thank

you sir I've never forgotten how kind

you were give the kid a break and

disappearing like Santa Claus and if it

hadn't been for you I'd never had become

smokey sue the terror of the Ozarks

she's good huh no she's in there

hollering show business yeah I'm the

advance man for the up of the Moon

company uh-huh I'm glad you got a date

tonight kid

see you in the morning on the train.

Merry Christmas Merry Christmas

well duh if you got a date outlaw along

hey I just want to say hello oh I

haven't been your date

you're not going somewhere just look out.

Talent pretend it's a real Christmas Eve

I suppose you're with friends I won't

keep him mr. Donigan the name is Bill

and I'm your date tonight

go and get your coat on you hungry yes

wonderful must be some place in this

town that's open on Christmas Eve

besides the County Jail

[Music]

They'll never be a walk again like the

one that night yelling in the snow and

laughing you telling me to listen to the

reindeer bounce I felt as though I were

drunk but I didn't know what it was I

didn't know that I'd feel the same way

every time I was with you this way oh

yes

yeah you were close to the snow and to a

radiator are you Mingo yes my name is.

Bill and this is Olga I hope we're not a

nuisance coming in like this I'm happy

to have you

how much trailer on Christmas Eve huh no

everybody has a home on a Christmas Eve

but show people and minghao no no please

well the lady and gentlemen allow me to

prepare dinner thank you well in the

heart of our will we run into a Chinese

Santa Claus all right it's a wonderful

night first bird's nest soup with lotus

seed and fun sea floating in it then

thing hung which is lobster fixed in the.

Cantonese manner then the dish of gay

set gay and some Galen soon which is

only minced broccoli with a Chinese

accent then hopped on yay which is

chicken and walnuts then solid maker

that'll be enough food please they won't

be more oh babe

you're so nice Ming god you're so lucky

to me to you tonight we were walking

through the snow hoping to find some ham

and eggs and the weary travelers came

upon a castle in the snow presided over

by a venerable magician named Ming Gao

who said before the plates eat with

pomegranates and guinea hen from.

Zanzibar okay man give us the works

let's have a feast to remember

you shall have a feast that you shall

always remember

ah Beng tremendous calls for cigar

poverty no no I get it

how about the music okay I'd love it.

I like those tunes on Christmas Eve just

jam when I was a kid oh yeah baby

fine bill huh now I told from that

eminent philosopher minghao is in order

the floor is yours being a long time ago

three wise men followed a star found a

child in a cradle

we also are all from far away tonight we

were brought together by someone who

makes the snow fall I drink to what we

shall find how nice

you don't think it was an accident by

running a dog again no these things are

all written we follow the script yes we

follow

maybe you tell me something what would

you like to know Mingo your name.

Olga trockie alias Olga Toscana rocky

huh you mind telling me a little know

what did you first decide to be an

actress I don't know when I was a little

girl I think what was that I was born in.

Poland when I was quite young we came to.

America to a place in Pennsylvania

called cold down liquid Poland near

wilkes-barre yes colqhoun killed my

mother and then four years ago my father

died coal town kill him too but my

father was very sweet and kind he played

the accordion and sang and he used to

say to me when he had a hangover which

was very often go away someplace organ

sing dance act and sing

try to be happy that would make other

people happy too he taught me all the

songs he knew polish songs sad ones

happy ones

all kinds singing for us a happy one oh

yes please do.

Rolla said say let do wish Dom weebly's

go yuck James way no rock.

Bob Lee Scholl yes you may

oh nice go watch your shopsite so I mean

yeah oh yeah oh sh*t die

that's good it's just a little song

everybody in coldtown knows it it's

about coming home when you've been away

for a long time now you're gonna be a

star

oh yes I keep studying between shows and

on the trains I'll be ready when my

chance comes you know our shows heading

west

that's what Hollywood is according to

last reports I'm going to make good

there I must hey not so fast baby you've

just started what you need is a couple

of years in stock planned all the old

plays you've got a lot to learn I

haven't time for all that bill I want to

get there quickly when I'm a big star in

my own dressing room and all the

interviewers ask me how did this is

great success come to your gut risk

opener health care limit came from Bill.

Daniken who once it give the kid a break

I'll be right there taking a bar too but

I still think a year in stock is what

you need after all you're only 20 there

are two kinds of people that don't have

enough time the very old and the very

young I think we'd better go it's late

and we have to get early trains look

stop snowing I'll bet you the whole

town's asleep except us right let's have

the check me no check oh come on come on

we hate the whole restaurant no check

please

on Christmas people exchange gifts let

this humble meal be my gift to the other

two wise guests from far away okay admit.

Ringo and party they're arming for up on

the moon any night you want to go just

ask for Fred Cooper at the box office

thank you here it is it's nothing very

much just a little medal it's dedicated

to Saint Michael the Archangel here's my

favorites st. Will you take it please

thank you st. Michael there what's it

especially fighting for God here's a

very gallant same bill I will carry this

and hope for that great success

[Music]

Which way the Iowa here don't around the

corner

I'm at the Dexter what time you pulling

out 6:
30 are you going to the other way

now go east the 5:30 it's the milk train

what's the only connection

[Music]

What is it

nice tires yes a lot of them one of

them's mine

rhetoric you see over there with the

v-shaped glasses now just to the right

of it the bright one oh yeah I see the.

Jersey yes my father told me it appeared

in the sky for the first time the night

I was born could be it's there to remind

me every night of Baron gun I'm being

very silly I won't see you again for a

long time maybe will you accept the

Christmas present from a strange young

lady.

[Music]

My star up there I'll give you half of

it why didn't I say something no not a

word not even or can I write you what's

your rap sheet I want to see you again

just old clam off walking along with

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Russell Janney

Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was a theatrical producer and author. He is best known for his 1946 best-selling book and first novel, The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948. He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, working with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml. Janney also produced other plays including Marjolaine (1922) (based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker), White Eagle (1927) (based on Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man), June Love, Ballyhoo (1927), and an adaption of The O'Flynn (1934) by Justin Huntly McCarthy. His second novel, So Long As Love Remembers, was published in 1953, and the short novel Curtain Call followed in 1957.Janney was born in Wilmington, Ohio and graduated from Yale University in 1906. While at college, he put on plays for his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He died of natural causes at his apartment in New York City on July 14, 1963.Janney also served as a juror in a high-profile 1949 trial, one of the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders.Janney married Edith Hulda Cramer in 1907; they later divorced. Their son William Janney was a film actor in the 1930s. more…

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