Ziegfeld Girl Page #5

Synopsis: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
 
IMDB:
6.9
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

a song to death 10 years ago?

- 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.

I heard Slayton popping off.

- 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.

I'm having a little trouble

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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Marguerite Roberts

Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 – 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures. more…

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