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Ziegfeld Girl Page #7
- PASSED
- 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
- 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?
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