Ziegfeld Girl Page #7

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
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Year:
1941
132 min
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Oh, I wish Pop was here.

I wish my pop was here.

I wish my doctor was here.

Well, well, well.

Oh, I sound like a crow with adenoids.

Sandra, do girls' voices change too?

Only for the better, baby.

I hope you're right.

Well, the town criers were right for once.

You are beautiful.

I'm Mrs. Frank Merton.

- You knew Frank had a wife, didn't you?

- Of course. How do you do? I'm...

And you're Sandra...

...the current town topic,

the glamour gal of the year.

You make me sound very silly.

Sour grapes, my dear.

See, that's how they used to bill me.

Doesn't Ziggy ever change this setup?

I came down a stairway just like this

the year I won my Z.

- But I'm not here for old home week, am I?

- Aren't you? Then why?

Maybe to say, "Bless you, my children."

You know, I always wanted to play

a big scene sitting on one of these things.

What makes you think this is

going to be a big scene?

For one thing, I hear you're

going to marry my husband.

- You hear? From whom?

- From him.

He's crazy about you,

and I can see his point.

I'll make my sad story short,

if not sweet.

Frank and I have been married

for 10 years. Count them, 10.

I kicked my own career out

of the window to help Frank keep his.

And I don't regret it.

He's a great guy, in spots.

He's always played around a little,

and I've known it.

It wasn't fun knowing it...

...but I got by because he

always came home.

But it looks like he's not coming home

this time.

After seeing you, I know why

he wouldn't want to.

Mrs. Merton...

...you love him very much, don't you?

Probably not the way you do.

I love the way he thinks I like his singing

when I really don't, you know.

Do you ever listen to his speaking voice?

He can do more to me with that

than a Caruso.

I love the way he blames me

when he's got a cold...

...because then I laugh.

He never knows why.

And the funny way his hair curls up

off his neck when he needs a haircut.

And the way he grumbles

when the coffee's not just right.

And the way he makes you laugh

when you're just about to cry.

And all the crazy little things

that you think you'll change in him...

...but that really make him yours.

You're not talking about Frank.

No, I'm not...

...but we seem to be talking

about the same thing, don't we?

Maybe I'm the one to say,

"Bless you, my children."

We're the same kind of idiot, I guess.

I won't pretend I'm not glad.

Sandra.

Here is Franz's violin.

- Pawnbroker wept to see it go.

- Oh, Mischa.

All right, I'll do what you told me to,

but I don't like it.

I'll give the violin back to Franz...

...and I'll tell him that's your way

of saying goodbye. Is that it?

No, Mischa, no. That's all wrong.

- Why, are you crazy?

- I have been, but I'm not anymore.

Mischa, did something ever happen

to you...

...that all of a sudden,

made everything clear?

You knew what you wanted all at once.

Did that ever happen to you?

Like a hit on the head?

Not lately. I've been divorced for years.

Poor Mischa.

- What?

- I'm so sorry.

- Why?

- About your uncle.

- What uncle?

- The one in Philadelphia.

I have no uncle,

and he does not live in Philadelphia.

- Poor Mischa.

- What?

You'll probably lose your job...

...unless, of course, you have

a very good violinist to take your place...

...while you're in Philadelphia

for the funeral.

Sandra, what are you driving for?

You are crazy.

I tell you, you are crazy.

Oh, Mischa.

And so am I.

All right.

I've got an uncle.

- Hey, Grandpa, did you get Sheila?

- No, she wasn't there.

She's not here. Get out and find her.

Look in every speakeasy like a barfly.

- When I get hold of her, I'll...

- Kick her. Kick her hard.

But kick her where it won't show.

With that costume she wears,

it's impossible.

You have five minutes, miss.

Yeah, I'll have three left over.

Well? A gentleman gets up

when a lady comes into a room.

This is a room, all right.

I'm too busy to argue the rest of it.

Where do you get off

not wanting to see me?

A dumb truck driver in the clink

on account of bootlegging.

You've got the nerve to make me

practically break in to see you.

In the old days, when you got sore,

it used to bother me.

Look, I'm only trying to help you get out.

Yeah, and then when you used to go soft,

that bothered me more.

Oh, will you stop rolling those things?

They tell me I gotta learn

a trade where I'm going.

All right. Go ahead.

Take the rap for those crooks

you call your friends.

Your pal Nick Capalini.

Every racket's got its own

kind of payoff.

Look, why don't you get smart.

You can get out of this.

You can get a new trial.

You can do things in this town

if you know the right people.

Yeah, yeah. Only I don't. Do you?

I haven't seen Geoffrey Collis

for months.

I hear the guy walked out on you.

True or false?

True.

Gil?

Don't you honestly care about me

anymore?

Yeah, sure.

Only now I can roll a cigarette

while I tell you about it.

Could you believe that

I still care about you?

Yeah, why not?

And I can still roll a cigarette.

You know, it's a funny thing.

What's happened to you always happens to

people that try and be two places at once.

And they wind up not being anyplace.

Gil...

...Geoff would help us. He's a good guy.

Hey, bud, take me back

to my cell, will you?

- Okay.

- Guy can't live very long on no fresh air.

- Hey, what's going on in here?

- Where can a lady get a drink?

There's a little joint around the corner.

Good liquor too.

Thanks.

Theater's been calling you all afternoon.

Wants to know why you wasn't there

for dress rehearsals.

I can walk down a flight of steps tonight

without rehearsing all afternoon, I guess.

- Pour me a drink, will you, Annie?

- Sure.

Guess I'm a little low.

You're up, you're down.

What is this, a prize fight?

Don't you know I'm never down?

I'm always up.

Geoffrey likes me that way.

Pardon me.

Used to like.

I forgot. Your kid brother's in there.

Been hanging around about an hour.

- Jerry?

- Yeah.

Why didn't you tell me?

Well, hello, big boy.

- What are you doing east of Broadway?

- Kind of wanted to see you.

I gotta talk to you, Sheila.

It's important.

All right.

What's the matter?

Smash up your new car?

No, I took it back.

Well, how about the music lessons?

I quit them. I got a job.

Not on a truck, by any chance?

No.

I got a job in a pool hall.

Sheila, I'm getting too old to let a woman

put up for cars and music lessons for me.

Is your old age the only reason?

What else?

Gosh, Sheila, I don't believe a word

of what they're saying.

Who's saying what about who?

Oh, them cats that hang

over the fences in every back yard.

Well, that's who.

Now let's have the what.

Things I wouldn't repeat

in front of a lady.

Thanks.

- Things about me?

- Yeah.

And it's sure got me on the jump

keeping it from the folks too.

So you don't believe it...

...the folks don't even hear it.

- Did Dad send you here?

- He don't know nothing about this.

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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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