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Ziegfeld Girl Page #5
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1941
- 132 min
- 273 Views
- Have a drink. Waiter.
- I had a drink.
- Have another.
- Had another.
Okay. Then sit down
and straighten your halo.
All right. Give me a shot of bourbon.
I've been wanting to get next
to a good, pure truck driver.
Ex-truck.
- Bounced?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I got this when I hit the ceiling.
I got a truck that ain't
been unwrapped yet.
- I got a fleet of trucks.
- Yeah. Heard all about them.
Also heard what they haul.
- Those loads pay off.
- Yeah, with a bullet in the belly.
You got a tender belly?
If I can take this,
what can a bullet do to my belly?
- What do you get for wheeling a truck?
- Twenty-five.
A day?
No, a week.
How would you like to collect
What, for wheeling a truck?
That and other things.
- Of course, if I'm boring you, I'll...
- No, no, no.
No, if my mouth was wide open, it wasn't
because I was yawning. No. Sit down, Nick.
I got a special use for some big dough.
All right, break it up.
Ten minutes rest.
Just because we're taking the show on
the road, you can't start letting down.
You either gotta get me a mink coat
or put steam heat in my apartment.
Oh, boy, I wish I was going
where that trunk's going!
That's a cinch, honey.
Just get to be a Ziegfeld girl.
- Hello, Susie.
- Hello, Al. What are you doing here?
Hello, Ed. I heard you were here,
and I got a proposition.
No time for propositions.
We're due right now for an audition.
This is Susan's big chance.
Then we're going to Palm Beach...
Listen, Ed, I got a routine
that's money in the mattress.
I gotta have a guy to do it with so we can
get the bookings. Who did I think of?
- Me, naturally.
- Sure.
- How about Mabel?
- I'm tired of her. She don't wear well.
That's it! Take the best years
of a girl's life!
Shut up, Mabel.
Us men is talking business.
So I thought maybe if you
were getting tired of this clambake...
I don't know. I've been working
my fingers to the bone, grooming Susan.
Pop, maybe we'd better go with Al.
Susie! Slayton's waiting, honey,
and I don't think he'll wait very long.
- Oh, I can't sing!
- Nonsense!
- My throat's closed up.
- Come on, or I'll close an eye for you!
Here's the kid that's gonna
knock you in the eye!
- I'll try and keep my feet under me.
- He's like a cat that way.
Well, commence.
Come on, honey. Louder and bigger does it!
Great performer, my kid. Makes me proud.
Like looking in a mirror.
Quiet, girls. Quiet!
Come on, honey.
Hook them right in the gills!
Hold it!
Don't you know they quit beating
- Oh, another intellectual.
- Won't do, honey, won't do.
You don't slug an audience
from the front nowadays.
You kind of sneak up on it from behind.
Say, you're not gonna count this kid out
with only one strike on her, are you?
Wait a minute.
- You know that song, boys.
- Surely.
Give her a little help, will you?
Just... Just a little slower, please.
I understand.
Oh, Susie!
Get Ziegfeld, will you, kid? I found
something worth listening to for a change!
- You found?
- Who's found?
Great stuff, kid.
After you hoed the corn.
Thank you.
Susie! That was wonderful!
- Pop!
- Susie, that was wonderful!
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Pop, wait for me!
Better take your woolens.
It's awful cold in Detroit.
Don't worry, honey. Al and me will frame
up an act hot enough to fry an egg on.
Gee, this is the first time we've
ever been separated, isn't it?
Remember when I was
going to school?
You wouldn't take bookings out of town.
Even when you could get them.
Nobody could ever separate us,
could they?
You wouldn't be trying to soften me up,
would you, honey?
Give me that armor plate.
Don't you know it's awfully cold
in Detroit?
Oh, Pop! Pop!
Take me with you, Pop!
Take me with you!
I don't want this job anyway.
Oh, I don't mean that.
I do want the job.
But I hope I didn't make
you feel bad today.
Mr. Slayton liked the way I sang.
Slayton! He's just a Johnny-newcomer.
There's nothing solid
about his technique.
He's a flash in the pan.
He's all wrong.
Wrong for you maybe, Pop,
but right for me maybe?
Maybe.
- Then you're not mad at me?
- Mad?
How could I be mad at anybody
for doing what I would have done myself?
- Oh, Pop!
- I'm not mad. I'm proud.
You stood there
and made them like it, honey.
- So long.
- Do you have to go?
Yeah, just like you had to do
what you did today.
And don't forget,
we're a couple of troupers.
And I ain't worried about
leaving you alone, Susie...
...because you're no ordinary kid.
- You know why that is?
- I do know, Pop. I do.
- Why?
- It's because...
...you're no ordinary father.
Right.
Pop?
Pop?
Blow, honey.
Thanks.
What you got to cry about?
By the time you get back from Florida,
Pop will be home, and you'll be laughing.
You're a cinch for a specialty
in the next Follies.
- Do you think so?
- Why, sure.
Hey, Susie?
You suppose you could kind of keep an eye
on Sheila while you're down in Florida?
She needs someone like you around.
Don't worry, Jerry.
Every time I think of you...
...l'll be looking after Sheila.
That means I'll be looking
after her a lot.
Seems the lady's having trouble
with the language again.
I give lessons, you know.
You finish the word like this.
FRANK:
Funny. They taught me
To finish it this way.
You probably drove your teachers crazy.
With my spelling?
No. Not with your spelling.
Sandra, you've gotta make up my mind.
You've gotta tell me whether I'm
sitting, standing, crawling or flying.
Must I worry about your mind too?
I have enough trouble with my own.
I'm glad to hear that.
Sometimes, I think
I'll never learn to spell.
I believe you will.
You're a pretty smart girl.
If not knowing what you want
is being smart...
...then I'm smart.
with the language myself.
Write it for me.
A smart girl never puts anything
in writing.
- Sheila?
- I'm in here, Susie.
Do you mind if I park in here
for a minute?
The girls took over my room
for a feed. Thanks.
- Another one of those pep talks from Pop?
- Yeah.
Says, "Last week, we broke
the house record in Omaha."
That means they probably established
a new all-time low.
To Pop and Al,
and a coat of shellac for Mabel.
You know, when Pop sounds cheerful,
that's the time to fret.
He's going to prove he's a success
if he has to starve to death doing it.
Gosh, if I could just hurry
and make good myself...
To Pop, Al, Mabel and Susie.
Oh, I can't stand to fret about you too.
Oh, I apologize to your orchids.
Sheila, you've got to keep your head
if you want to get anyplace.
My head's the one thing I have kept.
It's gotten me everything I've wanted.
So now, if you'll pardon me,
I'll launch myself.
Oh, that's Geoff.
Let him in, will you, Susie?
Sure.
Sure.
- Hello, Mr. Collis.
- Oh, Susie.
This is Annie's night out. I'm
pinch-hitting for her. Let me take that.
- Oh, thanks.
- Sheila's... She'll be ready in a minute.
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