Applause (1929) Movie Script
That's for you, Kitty.
God, thank you.
Nothing serious, I hope, Kitty.
No.
It's- It's nothing.
Take it easy, boys!
Give these waiters a break!
Give a lot of 60 pounds!
And boys, don't forget, that's the conclusion of
tonight's performance.
Come back straight, Doc.
And make it sniper.
Hey, Doc!
How much do you want to get away
from the office now?
Right this way, Doctor.
I want you outside in a chair.
I'll take her to the dressing room.
Bail on her!
No, no, no!
That way.
You want to get on the dressing room,
please.
No, he hasn't been feeling so good for
a couple of weeks.
And then when we came off just now,
he got this telegram and passed out.
What's it all about?
It's from her husband.
He got sent up for cooking a big
buck from Tammany with a vegetable table.
Gee.
Eddie was a good world fella, but he
didn't belong to this racket.
Crazy about Kitty, jealous of everybody.
And that's no way to be in the
burlesque game.
No, I guess not.
He gets stuff on Kitty though.
Would you even go on and get the
make-up?
No, sir.
For many nights to come.
Send one of the boys across the street
for my surgical bag, will you?
Sure.
Is it anything very serious?
No, not if we work fast.
Hey, you.
Come in here.
I'll leave you.
Sure.
But they won't let him sleep.
Now, what do you want?
You're out of time.
I have
told you already.
Oh, I can't wait.
Turn to the front.
Gee, Kitty, the baby hurts so bad.
Oh, it looks just like Kitty.
Oh, what a beautiful baby.
Watch that left foot there, precious.
That's right.
That's fine.
That's common, big girl.
Come in.
Well, how's my best girl today?
Fine.
Kitty, I've got good news.
This came from Matt, son of a gun,
and you're the highest-ranking company in all
of Santa.
30 weeks straight, you're opening for Lido.
You make a play about my villain?
Oh, yeah.
He came through without a squawk.
And as for you, Snooks, look what I
got for you.
From one comic to another.
Mommy, look!
Oh, Johnny, well.
Come on, little monkey.
You run over there.
Try them on.
See how they look.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
Listen, Kitty, I've been thinking a lot lately
about you.
What you two need is a man like
me to take care of you.
Kitty Dolly don't need any man to take
care of her.
Ain't she getting along pretty well with that
one now?
If you'd leave it to me, I'd buy
a cozy little home someplace for you and
the kid, where she could grow up right.
A home for me, hey?
You've got lots growing on me, I suppose.
No, Mr. King.
I've got plans.
I'm headed straight for Broadway, the big time.
No fooling, Kitty.
The kid deserves a bed of bread.
Why, this burlesque racket is no place for
her.
I can take plenty care of her, thanks.
Yeah, I know.
But she's getting to the age where she's
learning things whether you like it or not.
Why, last night I overheard her trying to
tell the one that the girls brought back
from the outback.
Look, look.
You see what I mean?
Yes.
Maybe you're right, but still, what can I
do?
Listen, I've got a cousin that'll send her
kid to a nice school in Wisconsin, a
convent.
Send April away from me?
The blessed heart.
She said it was great.
Oh, no, Joe.
I couldn't.
I couldn't.
I'd die.
It's for her own good.
Kitty honest.
She'd get an education, grow up in a
nice place, not in some lousy burlesque theater,
no sleeper jobs, and none of those small
-town johns hanging around at night.
And there'd be sisters there to teach her
the word of God.
And she'd grow up in a nice place,
grow up to be a lady, not a
cheap little tot.
You want April to be a lady, don't
you?
You said she's going to be a lady.
I got plans for her.
Then you better send her to that convent.
Maybe I will.
Maybe I will.
Let us contemplate in mystery how our Lord
Jesus Christ, being sentenced to die, bore with
great patience the cross which was laid upon
him for his greater torment and ignorance.
And now, April, there's a little prayer that
goes with this deed.
It goes like this.
Oh, holy virgin, example of patience, by the
most painful carrying of the cross, on which
thy son, our Lord Jesus Christ, bore the
heavy weight of our sins, obtained for us
of him by thy intercession, courage and strength,
to follow his steps and bear our cross
up to him to the end of our
lives.
Amen.
I know he loves me to heaven, and
when he tells me he can, what wouldn't
I do?
He's not an angel, I say.
I know he loves me to heaven, oh
boy.
And when he tells me he can live
without me, what wouldn't I do for that
man?
I'll never leave him alone, I'll make his
troubles my own, with all his faults I
know you get by.
I'm just no good when his arms are
about me, what wouldn't I do for that
man?
Oh, what wouldn't I do for that man?
Come here.
Oh, boy, after that one, I'd better get
out of here while I'm still in shape.
Oh, come on, Hitch, stick around, it's early.
I can't, Peggy, honest.
Now, Kitty'll be sore.
Oh, anybody'd think she had a mortgage on
you.
You see that rock?
Well, as long as she keeps kicking in
with little love tokens like that, sweetness, I'm
gonna keep right on being her white-headed
boy.
Okay, big boy, as long as she doesn't
get wise that you're giving her the runaround
with every dame in the troop.
Well, when she does, I'll get me a
new mama, peaches, and your name's right on
the top of the list.
Ah, baloney.
Hi, honey.
Hello, beautiful.
Gee, Hitch, you gave me a start.
Ain't you home early?
Well, I ducked the gang, luscious.
Had to come home to my big blonde
mama.
Ah, honey, my old sweet boy.
Hey, what's all that stuff?
Get me nuts?
Oh, just a lot of old letters and
jokes.
Hey, what genre wrote you all those?
You ain't the first good-looking guy in
my life.
You ain't the last, huh?
Who's the dame?
Give me that, Hitch.
Wait a minute, can't you?
What's the rush?
It's a cute kid.
Sister, to my own darling mama.
Kid, will you give me that?
What's that mean, to my own darling mama,
huh?
You can read, can't you?
You mean...
Say, you mean to tell me this kid's
yours?
Well, is it?
Well, what she is.
Ah, you've been holding out on me.
Shut up, you robber.
Life's just a lot of dirty double-crossing
broads.
How old's the kid?
Seventeen.
Where's she at?
In school, in a convent.
That's a laugh.
What for?
I've got plans for her.
I want her to have an education.
Yeah, but I always thought those joints were
so expensive.
Oh, I manage to round up the coin
every month.
That's where all your spare cash goes.
Only you don't have the hundred bucks to
loan me, Mundy.
When I do have it to loan, what
do you do with it?
Drop it in some bookie's lap?
Well, I'm not thinking of myself so much
now, see?
But you ought to be sorting your dough
away.
Why, you've got a great career.
But it takes plenty of jack as well
as talent to make the grade.
Oh, I got plenty of both, I guess.
Speaking of that, how about that active artist
that the case officer's interested in?
There you are, you see?
That's going to cost about twelve hundred bucks
to mount.
Classy look and drop, three changes for you,
orchestrations, and I'll bet you ain't got twelve
hundred bucks.
Maybe not, but you said you'd help, remember?
Now, that ring I gave you.
Oh, I knew that was coming.
Hark it, huh?
That's all the sentiment you got in here.
Hark that new overcoat you got me too,
I suppose.
Oh, no, you don't.
I want you to look nice.
Yeah?
Well, I guess I'm going to be the
little old Lexus baggage around here from now
on.
Well, I can see you've been playing me
for a sucker.
Just a good time pal to keep you
from getting lonesome on sleeper jumps.
I've been nuts about you, but I'm wise
now.
Hitch, what are you driving at?
Well, I guess I've got sense enough to
know what I'm through.
Hitch, you're not walking out on me?
What do you expect me to do?
I've got a deal you've given me.
What deal, honey boy?
What are you talking about?
Now, listen.
We made our bargain.
It was going to be 50-50 and
no holding out on each other, right?
Well, now what?
I find you've got a kid 17, you've
been blowing your door.
Don't we meet for ourselves, for our future,
for your career?
Well, Hitch, what can I do?
She's my daughter, ain't she?
I'll tell you what you can do.
You don't have to keep her in some
expensive dump like that, do you?
Now, get the kid down here.
Take her out of school?
Yeah, make her go to work.
She's old enough.
Oh, Hitch, I want to keep my baby
out of show business.
Okay, Kitty, that's my answer to that.
Hitch, wait a second.
Give me time to think.
Now, there ain't nothing to think about.
Now, it's her or me, that's what.
All right, all right.
If you think that's the right thing to
do.
Why, sure it is, babes.
It's time you did something for yourself instead
of dishing out the gravy for someone else
like you do.
One thing, though, Hitch, she ain't going in
show business.
I'll get her a job outside someplace.
Okay, Kitty, just so long as she holds
up her own end.
Now, you sit right down over here and
write her a little letter.
Now, Hitch, don't be cross with me, but
don't you think we ought to think this
over a little?
I'm just the way you write me, and
at the same time, I'm dying.
Will you just stop fussing and write to
her?
You've been saving and scrimping all your life
to keep this Jane in school.
Now, it's her turn to do something for
you.
Help you put away a little money for
her any day, right?
I don't know.
You've got a great career, babes.
She ought to be proud to help you.
Proud of me, Kitty, darling's daughter, right?
Why, I know so.
She ain't as good looking as I'm are,
but maybe she takes after her old man.
Still, you can depend on me, Kitty Babies,
to treat her right for your sake.
Why, we'll just be one big happy family.
One big happy family.
May God's love and kindness guide you as
you go forth into the great world outside
these gates and keep you from all harm
till we meet again.
That is my prayer for you, little April.
Goodbye.
I'm sorry, but it can't be.
Okay, okay.
You looking for somebody, honey?
Yes, I...
Mr. Beattie.
Mr. Beattie.
Well?
Cash customer.
Well?
I'm supposed to meet my mother here, Miss
Darling.
Oh, so you're Kitty Darling's little girl, eh?
Well, I'm a couple of cockeyed so-and
-so's.
My name's Eddie Vermont.
I'm in the military, too.
Only I'm a man of my word.
What a vacuum.
How do you do, Mr. Vermont?
Your ma is up at the theater.
She wants you to wait upstairs till she
gets back.
Oh.
How long will I have to wait to
see her?
Oh, not more than an hour or so.
These uptown grind joints get out early.
I'll show you to the rooms.
Thank you.
You've got a great mom, Miss Darling.
And believe me, she sure knows her stuff.
That Swedish movement her husband's been laying them
in the aisles ever since I was a
pup.
Swedish movement?
I mean the way Kitty slams over her
number.
And boy, she packs the meanest strip and
teaser routine that ever burned up a runway.
You know what I mean.
Well, not exactly.
I haven't seen my mother on the stage
since I was five.
No?
But I remember, oh, she was wonderful.
I'll say.
Say, look.
I've got a bright idea.
Instead of hanging around in this dump, why
don't you grab the Lenox Avenue local and
go up and catch the show?
Do you really think I could?
Sure.
I can't take it myself.
I've got a heavy date.
But my kid brother Slim, he'll take you.
He's a nice guy, too.
OK with you?
Yes.
Thank you.
All right.
I'll get him right down.
512, sweetheart.
Slim?
Come right down.
I've got a job for you.
Yeah.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Yeah, he's all wiped up, anyway.
Look at that.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
If she
was not hopped up and seeing you, we
thought it might be a nice surprise.
It sure was.
You did just right.
Oh, my.
Well, love.
Such a big girl.
Guess I'll be answering the law.
So long, everybody.
Bye.
Like an old lady.
Oh, mommy.
You're so pretty, too.
Ain't she, Hitch?
Yeah.
Oh, this is Hitch, lover.
Hitch Nelson.
He's Hitch I've been writing you about.
How do you do, Mr. Nelson?
Make it Hitch, kid.
We're all pals together.
What do you think of my great big
girl?
A little skinny.
Why, Hitchy.
Ain't he the limit, though?
Honest, the things that he says to people,
I mean.
He's just a bad boy, but he don't
mean nothing by it.
Now, you sit down here.
Say, you better finish your change, beautiful.
You only got a couple of minutes.
Yes, that's right.
Why, if I'd known I was going to
have company like this.
Ooh.
Like this.
Well, April, maybe just as soon as we
get out of this dump, we'll go down
and see your letters.
And we'll put on the swellest BGM of
the song and choke ourselves black in the
face.
Up to it, Kitty.
All right, all right, all right.
Come on.
Watch me do this.
Finish the show.
Oh, I'd rather stay in here, if you
don't mind.
All right for you, then.
You're a funny kid.
Got any ideas about going into show business?
No.
Why not?
Don't you like it?
No.
You're a funny kid.
Poor dog chump, I ain't going to bite.
Do you hear that?
Suppose that was for you, huh?
Everybody in the whole damn house clapping and
yelling.
Going nuts about you.
Nice?
No?
Why not?
You're a funny kid.
Just a little bit goofy, but that comes
from not knowing what it's all about.
Please, Mr. Nelson.
Now, didn't I ask you to call me
Hitch?
I want to be your pal, see?
And if you'll listen to me, you'll let
me learn you a couple of dance routines.
I'll put you in the show.
No, thank you.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to be
in the show.
But you've got the makings of a great
artist.
With your looks and my training, it's Broadway
for you.
No problem.
You take the word of an old trooper.
That's a finale.
Gotta go.
See you later.
See you.
Why don't you try to get to sleep,
precious?
I can't.
You'll be pretty tired after your trip and
all.
Oh, I'm tired enough.
I don't know.
I feel funny.
All mixed up inside.
Why, precious.
What's the matter?
Tell Mother what's the matter.
Everything's so different from what I thought it
would be.
Well, sure, you ain't in a coffin anymore.
But ain't you glad to be back with
me again?
Yes, Mommy darling, but...
Oh, I don't know how to describe it.
But New York's so big and dirty and
noisy.
And you're seated with all those men.
The girls with no clothes on.
Oh, I suppose it didn't seem queer to
you, coming from a place where they cover
up everything but their noses.
But things ain't as bad as that.
It ain't what you do so much, it's
what you are.
That's it, it's what you are.
Why, there's a couple of dames in this
troupe as good as you'd ever expect to
see, even if they do make their living
shaking.
I ain't ashamed of it, and you shouldn't
be ashamed of me neither.
Oh, Mommy, I'm not ashamed of you.
Oh, let me tell you something, April, baby.
If it wasn't for the dough I've been
piling up that way the last ten or
twelve years, you would never have been to
no convent.
Oh, I know, I know.
That's what I've been thinking.
I'm just beginning to realize that.
All these things you've gone through and I
never knew.
Dancing with those girls.
Horrible men staring at you.
Saying awful things.
Oh, now don't you think I'm going to
be in this burlesque racket all my life
neither.
Just one more season.
My name on Broadway, in life.
And a big dough.
And then we'll have a nice little home.
And we'll be together and be happy.
Oh, Mommy.
You've done so much to make me happy.
From now on I'm going to try and
make you just as happy.
Oh, Pooh, I ain't done nothing.
But we got each other now and it's
going to be for always.
Yes, always.
And we'll be so happy together.
Just you and I.
You said it.
After all, Snook, things can't be all bad
as long as we got each other.
Don't you forget that.
Now you go to sleep now.
Close your pretty eyes.
And close your pretty lips.
And give your baby lots of loving.
Mommy, what about Mr. Nelson?
What about him?
I don't think he likes me.
Go on, he's crazy about you.
Why he said so.
Are you going to be married?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But don't you worry about it now.
Go to sleep, baby.
Go to sleep.
Close your pretty eyes.
And close your pretty lips.
And give your baby lots of loving.
Through Christ our Lord, Jesus Christ, for the
burden of our sins.
Obtained for us.
By thy intercession, the courage and strength.
Following his footsteps.
And bear our cross.
Until the end of our lives.
Amen.
What do you want?
Can you wake her up?
Well, get us a drink.
Oh, Mommy.
All right, baby.
Shall we go to sleep, Angel?
Yes, thank you.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Gus.
Good morning yourself.
Close that off.
OK, we'll meet the crew at the station
at three.
We'll discuss Feinbaum from the booking office.
We open in Buffalo first this week.
Better get up and get dressed fresh.
We've got to start packing.
Got a nice cold grapefruit for you, Anna.
Well, breakfast.
Oh, good.
We open in Buffalo tomorrow.
Now, Hitch.
Honey, let's settle our problems.
You and me, we can't go on like
we have with April here.
We've got to get married now.
Well, it's up to you, kid.
Now, it's OK with me, like I told
you.
Providing that kid of yours is put to
work.
She will, honey.
She's going to work.
But not in the show business.
I've got other plans for her.
There you go again.
What else can she do?
I'm asking you.
I mean, here we are, jumping off Buffalo
tonight.
And from there, well, who knows?
Now, if she gets a job in New
York, that means she can't travel with us.
You planning on leaving her alone here?
The kid's got a real chance of her
life.
Don't you see that?
She's got new looks, the whole works.
She comes by it naturally.
I can make her one of the biggest
bets in show business.
But she don't want to be in show
business.
She says she hates it.
How does a kid like that know what
she wants?
Now, listen, kiddie.
I'm not going to waste any more time
arguing.
I'm not going to get married unless I'm
going to be the boss.
And if I'm going to be the boss,
I say the kid's going in the show.
Now, that's final.
Well, I don't know.
Don't be cross with me, kid.
I'm trying to do the best all around.
If you think it's the right thing to
do.
Why, sure it is.
Babes.
Allison, you go on in there and get
her.
I'll talk to her.
I'll sell her the idea.
Why, she's getting the swellest break a kid
ever got.
We'll be one big happy family, huh?
The three of us.
We'll go to Buffalo or any other man's
place, eh?
Go on.
Get her in here.
April.
April, baby.
Come in here.
Mama wants to talk to you.
Come here, baby.
Come to your daddy.
He's going to pour a million dollars in
gold in your lap.
Here's to the bride and groom.
Flop.
Now, look.
Don't.
What's the matter?
I don't like to be mauled.
Too bad about you.
Maybe a good mauling will do you good
for a change.
Just touching me nonstop is beginning to give
me a pain in the neck.
What's the idea of that?
It's hot in here.
Oh, yeah?
Come on.
Let's run through that tap routine.
All right.
What's the matter with you?
You've been on the show eight months, and
you've got about as much ambition as a
Ziegfeld clothes horse.
Can't you take a little interest in what
I'm trying to teach you?
No.
I hate dancing.
I hate ballets.
But you don't have to stay in ballets.
If you'll just give me a little cooperation,
I'll make another Marilyn Muller out of you.
I'm not interested.
Oh, now, April, will you lay off that
tone of voice?
Here I am, trying to help you, trying
to be your pal.
You treat me like I was a Nash
man or something.
Geez, but you hit my goat.
Well, then, why don't you let me alone?
Let you alone?
Listen, what you need is to have somebody
wake up the baby, but it be human.
I got a good mind to teach you
a couple of tricks that didn't learn you
in a convent.
You won't teach me anything.
Let go of my wrist.
Now, I've met babies like you before, say,
Cecilia.
There's only one way to treat them, and
that's rough.
That's something to think about.
Oh.
Oh.
What's going on?
Oh, just that precious symphony of yours getting
temperamental again.
Will you two ever stop fighting?
Here I am, working like a dog, trying
to learn to the business.
Never mind.
What do you think that very little Spinebomb
pulled on me this morning?
He says he ain't going to give me
a contract for the new stock season until
I've been in the show for two weeks
and he can see how I get by.
Not only that, he practically insists that I
go with a bunch of the girls up
to a lousy stag smoker in the Bronx
after the show tonight.
Can you beat that for nerve?
Me, Kitty Darling, dancing for a lot of
Bronx stags.
Oh, what of it?
Trouble to you and that Kitty of yours.
You're both getting too damn high, Hatch.
Why, Hitchy.
What's the matter with you and Hitch, Cookie?
Oh, nothing.
You hadn't ought to be fighting all the
time.
I wish you'd try to be nice to
him for a change.
Try to make him love you, Cookie.
Make him love me?
Yes, Angel, make him love you.
For my sake.
This is a swell night to be going
to a stag smoker.
Thought you were going to try to get
me out of it.
Well, I argued with Gus, but it didn't
do no good.
A good husband you are, letting Gus send
your wife to shake for a mob of
Bronx gorillas.
On such a hot night.
Well, 50 bucks is 50 bucks.
Ready to go home, Mommy?
No, sweetness.
I've got to go to that stag smoker.
Hitch couldn't fix it for me with Gus.
I'll see that you get home.
I've got to get going.
Come on, Snooks, walk out to the door
with me.
You wait outside for me, April.
She will.
Mommy, take me with you, please.
To a stag party?
I should say no.
Well, I'll wait outside for you till 3
or 4 o'clock in the morning.
You're crazy.
No, you go back to the hotel.
But I don't want to go back to
the hotel with Hitch.
Please, Mommy, please.
Go ahead in the taxi.
He's waiting for you, Miss Dolly.
Thanks, Otto.
Now, you stop fussing about Hitch.
Be a good girl.
Maybe you'll buy him some chop suey.
I got it.
Mommy!
Open up!
Oh, there you are.
I've been waiting for you.
Hello, kid.
Hey, give us a kiss.
What's your hurry, sister?
Where are you going, baby?
Wait a minute, sweetheart.
Come on, baby.
Give me a break.
I'll just say a lesson.
I'll just say it.
Whenever you think you're serious.
Hey, what's this?
Keep out of this, Ellen.
This one is my girl.
I am not.
He's firing me.
On your way, Guyra.
I'll poke a hole through that pan of
yours.
You and how many Marines?
You Navy guys think you're tough, don't you?
What if they don't become any tougher?
Got any other odd jobs for the Navy
tonight?
No, thank you so much.
It's pretty late for a little girl like
you to be wandering around with yourself.
Maybe I'd better stroll a little way with
you.
Oh, please don't bother.
Did you say bother?
I hope you don't think I'm fresh walking
along with you like this.
Oh, not at all.
I hope you don't think I'm trying to
follow you or anything.
Oh, no.
Live around here?
No.
I come all the way from Wisconsin.
We went into a bed.
I think you're trying to get rid of
me.
How did you get?
Oh, I'm clever that way.
What way?
Oh, come on.
Be nice, won't you?
I'm not a gorilla.
But I don't know you.
Well, here's your chance.
Now, listen.
Here's the idea.
Why not let's stop somewhere and get something
to eat?
There's no harm in that.
And if you don't like to cut him
a jib, I'll be on my way.
Well, that seems fair enough.
I'll eat after the show anyway.
Now you're talking.
Say, you're a nice.
You don't look like a showgirl.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.
No kidding.
I like you.
And I guess you're not so bad yourself.
Come on, Wisconsin.
Boy, was I hungry.
Me too.
Gee, you don't know how I appreciate this.
No kidding.
I mean, I've been cruising around town all
evening, up one street and down the other,
just looking for somebody to talk to.
Sailors don't generally have much trouble finding company.
Oh, I don't want the kind of company
you mean.
Listen, all sailors ain't a bunch of bums.
But you've got no idea how tough it
is to be all alone and lonesome in
a city like this.
Maybe I have.
Oh, a girl like you, lonesome.
Say, what's your name anyway?
I've been so excited about finding you, I
forgot to ask.
April.
April?
No kidding?
Sounds like a name out of a book.
I don't know, though.
It sort of fits you.
Sounds sweet, sort of gentle.
Well, just like I'll bet you are.
Oh, you say the same thing to every
girl you meet.
How could I?
Never met a girl named April before.
What's your name?
Tony.
I don't like it much.
Sounds like a wop bootleg.
Oh, no, I think Tony's a nice name.
You do?
Tony and April.
Sounds nice together, eh?
Gee, but your eyes are blue.
Eat your chocolate cake.
April?
April?
April?
Hello, little...
Hello, Ed?
Say, did April come in yet?
She didn't?
You sure?
Thanks.
Hello, little...
Those big waves.
Gosh, they look to be about as tall
as the Woolworth building pretty near.
They'd come down over the bow, crash, and
the ship would shake like she was going
to split in two.
One big wave after the other.
Boy, all night we didn't know if we
was going to weather it or not.
Well, anyway, next morning the sun was shining,
the ocean was as smooth as glass, and
right off the starboard was the coast of
China.
Oh, it must be wonderful to sail all
over the world that way.
Oh, I don't know.
You get tired of it just like anything
else.
I got a week to make up my
mind if I'm going to enlist again.
I suppose I will.
I'm sorry, pal.
Closing time, but the parks are still open.
Okay, Gilbert.
I had no idea it was too late.
Here you are.
Gee, I don't want to lose you so
soon.
Just when we were getting acquainted.
Can't we find some other place?
But it's pretty late.
Listen, I know just the place.
It's nice and cool, too.
Where?
Brooklyn Bridge.
Isn't it beautiful?
Yeah, sure is pretty.
Even Brooklyn looks pretty.
It must be awfully late.
Why do you care?
My mother will be worried.
I do have to sleep sometimes.
We have rehearsal at 11.
Well, I won't get much sleep tonight.
It's too hot to sleep.
I mean, I'll be thinking about you.
Look at that city over there.
Everybody sleeping.
Everybody dreaming.
And two people like us on this bridge.
Just as if we'd known each other all
our lives.
It's sort of like a dream, too, isn't
it?
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure when the sun will come
up, and the people will wake up, and
even you and I will go right on
the way we were before.
Just as if we'd never met at all.
Say, don't kid yourself.
I'm going to camp right on your doorstep
the rest of the time I'm on leave.
How long is that?
Saturday.
This is Tuesday.
That makes four days.
And then you'll forget all about me.
No, sir.
Never.
Yes, you will.
You'll go sailing away from me, just like
that boat down there is now.
It's a tanker going up with the tide.
Ships have to go up with the tide,
don't they?
And sailors have to go with their ships.
And the world is full of other rivers
and bridges, with girls to sit on them
until the tide goes out.
Oh, April, I'm not like the rest of
those gobs.
Sometimes I think they're people that were just
meant to be lonesome.
You know, and then they meet someone for
a little while and it gives them something
to remember.
So the lonesomeness doesn't hurt so much for
a while.
I don't know how to say what I
mean.
Yes, but if those people meet the right
people, they get together for keeps.
Then they ain't lonesome anymore.
But the right people don't seem to find
each other very often.
Yeah, ain't it the truth.
Well, tell me.
Well?
I've got to go home.
I don't want to, but I've got to.
All right.
Let me help you down.
Good night.
Or rather, good morning.
Don't forget tomorrow.
That's a date.
I won't.
How am I going to live that long?
Just don't stop breathing.
Looks like I just can't let you go.
I've really got to go now.
Well?
Well, good night.
Good night.
Good night, girls.
We're right home now.
Well, isn't that sexy, girls?
Oh, dear boy.
Hello, yourself.
What's your name, dear boy?
Well, young lady, where do you think you've
been?
Is Mommy in yet?
Never mind that.
Who have you been out with till 5
o'clock in the morning?
None of your business.
A pick-up, huh?
A pick-up, just like any other cheap
little boy left standing.
I'm not a cheap little boy left standing.
No?
Just an innocent kid from a convent, huh?
Well, get this through your head.
If you're going to start this stay-out
-all-night stuff, I'm going to have something
to say about it myself.
Charity begins at home, baby.
Let me go.
Let me go.
Well, what's this?
Hello, beautiful.
You're just in time to witness the signing
of the peace treaty.
While we was waiting for you, we come
to an understanding.
Everything's japed now.
April!
April, is it true?
Just one big happy family from now on.
Everything's swell, okay?
One big happy family.
Hurray!
Gee!
Look at all those people down there.
Aren't there a lot of people in the
world now?
Only two as far as I'm concerned.
Look.
Guys, just look.
I'd hate to fall.
If you did, I'd fall right after you.
Wouldn't that be silly?
Look, the Woolworths building.
Yeah.
At some sight, isn't it?
Oh, it's wonderful.
You're wonderful.
Well, there's the sea.
Yes.
Look at the old Statue of Liberty.
I'll bet if I stood here, I could
see our ship when it leaves tonight.
I should wave my handkerchief.
What are you laughing at?
Well, April, I'm not going back to my
ship.
Why not?
Well, I've got an important date tomorrow.
Have you?
Mm-hmm.
And so have you.
We're going to be married.
Oh, I thought for a minute you were
serious.
I am.
You're going to marry me and we're going
back to my hometown in Wisconsin and raise
wheat and have a ford and a radio
and...
Well, several things.
We are not.
Oh, yes, we are.
You're going to marry me.
It's all decided.
I decided it.
Oh, did you?
You better say yes.
I don't see why.
Because if you don't, I'll jump right off
this roof.
Oh, Tony, yes!
But I believe everything you told me about
yourself and your folks.
I think you're on the level.
You bet I'm on the level, Miss Darling.
You've got to be good to my little
girl.
She's just a baby.
Don't worry about that.
She'll love it out in the country.
My folks will be crazy about her.
Well, that's that, I suppose.
I'm glad.
I never wanted April to be in the
show business.
My baby Angel.
What's the next thing on the program?
Why, I thought we might all have dinner
someplace to celebrate.
Where?
You've got to make it early.
I've got a show.
How about that chop suey place we was
at the other night?
Okay, about six.
Great.
Well, I'll be running along.
Goodbye for a little while, sweetheart.
Oh, excuse me.
You're all right, son.
Was that the boyfriend we've been hearing so
much about I've just run across in the
hall?
Mommy, I'll go in and change my dress.
Wait a minute, I'm talking to you.
Now, this playing around with the Navy's got
to stop.
Oh, let her alone.
She's got a date with her fianc.
Oh, what?
Man, she's going to marry.
Say, are you trying to kid me?
No, April's going to be married.
Say, Kitty, you mean to tell me you're
going to let April marry some lousy gob?
Oh, he's all right.
I like him.
We had a long talk.
Oh, you had a long talk.
Well, how about consulting me once in a
while?
Oh, turn your damper down.
Everything's under control.
Oh, it is, is it?
That's what you say.
And me just back from a two-hour
session at the chief's office getting that act
set.
What's that got to do with April?
Everything.
They want her to do it with me.
But that's our act.
Yours isn't mine.
Well, it's all been changed.
It's April or the whole proposition's cold.
They want a younger woman in the act.
That's all, Luscious.
A younger woman?
Yeah, they want a young girl like April.
She's ideal.
That smile of hers is worth a million
dollars.
She's got a swell figure and a pair
of legs.
Why, she's got more sex appeal than...
Dame, you couldn't stand the sight of her
a few days ago.
You seem to be taking a big interest
in April and her sex appeal.
Professionally, sure.
Yeah?
Why, I want to see her get ahead.
I got our future in mind.
What about my future?
Oh, now, beautiful.
Beautiful, my eye.
Listen, Hitch Nelson.
Nobody's going to do that act but me,
see?
I don't know what you and the Keith
office got up your sleeve, but nobody's double
-crossing Kitty Darling.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'll show you how much I'm double
-crossing you, wise girl.
You don't have to know.
I spent the whole morning with Gus Feinbaum
begging him to keep you in your own
show.
What are you trying to give me now?
Now, your two weeks is up tonight, and
Gus is all set to can.
You're a dirty liar.
All right.
Phone Gus and find out for yourself.
Well, I'm certainly going to call you on
that one.
Try it.
We'll just have a little showdown around here.
Shoot me fine.
Hello, I want to speak to Gus Feinbaum.
This is Miss Darling.
Hello, Kitty.
What's on your mind?
Say, what's this I hear about you not
renewing my contract after the show tonight?
Well, you haven't got that quite right, Kitty.
The fact is, I got Lou working on
a book now called A Boarding School Girl,
and it's got to have somebody in it
that's young, an ingenue lead, see?
Ingenue lead, say?
I got the stuff the boys out front
want.
I don't see why you shouldn't write that
book around me.
You're not going to be left out.
I got you down for a specialty number
and a runway number, so where do you
get in to squawk?
I'm a liar, eh?
I'll show Gus where he gets off.
I'll have a contract on my own terms
in 10 minutes.
Hello, girly.
Get me bright, 9400.
Hello, I want to speak to Dave Holtz.
I'll show the dirty little...
Hello, Dave.
This is Kitty Darling.
Say, Dave, I'm closing with Parisian flirts tonight.
How about grabbing yourself a real bet for
your new summer widows?
I thought I'd give you a first crack,
although I'm fooling around with a couple other
fellas.
Well, you better take them.
I got nothing for you.
20 marriages killed in the rush.
Oh, I got plenty of friends in this
town.
Ah, save your nickels.
You may need them.
None of your wisecracks, did you know that?
Well, it's a wise girl that knows when
to quit, and that's no wisecrack.
Quit what?
Aye, the show business.
Can't you see you're all washed out?
Why, you mind...
Aye, what do you got left to give
them?
You've been at it for 20 years.
Why kid yourself?
You're not kidding anybody else.
You mind your own business.
I'm not letting any cheap comic tell me
how to run my affairs.
A cheap comic, eh?
Well, listen, if it hadn't been for me
telling you how to run your affairs, you'd
have been through long ago.
Why, you're a joke.
You're just a fat old woman.
Look at yourself in the mirror there.
Look at that neck.
Look at them wrinkles.
You better get wise to yourself and figure
out where the coffee and cake money's coming
from next season.
Right in that next room there's your meal
ticket from now on, and you're letting her
marry some dope from the Brooklyn Navy yard
right when you need her the most.
She's got to marry him, too, if I
have to buy a tin cup and sell
pencils on Broadway.
Yeah, well, not after I have a talk
to her tonight.
If you dare open your trap to her
tonight, we're through.
I'm fired, eh?
Well, you're wrong.
I quit, see?
So what are you gonna do?
I'm sick of seeing you around here.
I guess I got everything out of you
I want, babes.
I got plans and they don't include any
old blondes.
Get out!
Get out before I kill you!
See you in the show business, beautiful.
Mommy, you look tired.
I am a little.
Maybe you'd better rest a little while instead
of coming to dinner with us.
I think I'd better.
You two don't want any old ladies along
anyway.
Now, you run along to your sailor boy.
Mommy!
Mommy!
What's the matter?
Mommy, I'm not going to be married.
I'm never going to go away from you
now.
You heard Hitch and me yell at each
other.
Come on now, Cookie.
Don't go taking it that serious.
You know how Hitch and me are.
Always rowing about something.
He don't mean what he says half the
time.
Why, by tomorrow, we'll both of us forget
all about it.
Everything's okay.
Don't let a thing like that get you
down.
Why, you run along now to your sailor
boy and stop being that way.
No, Mommy.
I'm going to tell Tony I can't marry
him.
But you must marry him, Snooks.
After all we've talked over.
I'm counting on it.
You don't know how much it means to
me.
No, Mommy.
I just can't, that's all.
Now, you listen to me, young lady.
I'm your ma, and I say you're going
right down to him and fix it up.
There'll be no more talk about it.
All right, Mommy.
I'll fix it up.
When I come to the theater tonight, I
want to be sure you're going to tell
me everything's okay.
It will be.
It will be.
Come on now, kid.
You got to do this.
Don't worry about me.
I'm not a black number yet.
I know, Mommy.
I know, Mommy.
Boy,
that's happy music.
Just for us.
Want to dance?
No.
See, I wish you didn't have to work
tonight.
We could go to Coney Island.
I don't like Coney Island.
Oh, come on.
You told me you did the other night.
That was the other night.
What's the matter with you, honey?
Why?
Nothing.
Oh, yes, there is.
Come on, let's have it.
Coney Island's heavy.
I don't know how to say it, but
Coney Island won't want to get married.
Say, don't say things like that.
I got a weak heart.
Tony, I mean it.
What?
I liked you an awful lot and all
that, but I just can't think of getting
married right now.
What's the matter, honey?
What's happened?
Nothing, Tony.
I don't think you'll be able to understand,
but big bone on the stage, you know?
We're getting married and leaving, and it seems
to be giving up everything.
You told me the other night you wanted
to get out of the show business.
That's how I thought I felt.
When I come right down to it, I
just can't.
That's all.
You'll never know, Tony, what it feels like
to be on the other side of those
good nights and hear them clap and clap
for you.
It does something to a girl.
I don't know what.
April, I don't believe a word you're saying.
Either you're lying to me, or else you've
just been kidding yourself.
Now, come on.
Let's dance and forget about it.
I don't want to dance.
I want you to get this through your
head right now.
This is it, really.
Must have signed a new contract, saved for
a new show.
And there's a chance for me to go
with her on a splendid part.
If I don't take it, I'll know I'll
be sorry all my life.
And then we'll both be miserable.
But listen, honey, that's no life for you.
Well, I'm not so sure that burying myself
in some godforsaken swamp is a life for
me, either.
After all, I'm young.
People tell me I'm pretty.
You know, I've got a big chance.
I might be a star.
Now, I ask you, Tony, what girl wouldn't
grab at a chance to land on Broadway
in a big show?
You know, and I...
I've meant such a lot to her.
Well, little Trudy had enough to think it
means a lot to me right now.
Tony.
Don't look at me like that.
It makes me feel terrible.
I really think you're an awfully sweet boy,
but something's wrong when it comes to love.
Well, I've only known you five days.
And to think of jumping into something and
giving up a whole career.
Well, Tony, you ought to understand.
Sure.
I mean, we'll still have lots of fun
together.
Lots of games.
Want lots of coffee?
Why, we might even still be engaged.
No.
I wouldn't want to feel like I've tied
you down.
I guess I'd better go back to the
ship.
You mean enlist again?
Yeah.
Sailing for the West Indies.
I'm always going to see the West Indies.
But you'll come back.
Sure, someday.
It's 8 o'clock almost.
I could just make it if I hurry.
Tony!
You're angry with me.
way for a boat.
I don't hate you, I just gotta hurry,
that's all.
That'll do.
Good night, Jim.
I'll see you in the morning.
Good night, honey.
Well, thanks for coming down with me, April.
That was all right.
Oh, here's my train.
Goodbye, Tony.
Don't cry, kid.
There'll be another one right along any minute.
Cheer up.
No!
I can't be quiet.
Hey!
Mother!
What's the matter?
Nothing's the matter.
Nothing's the matter.
What?
Well, I'll be.
Where did she get?
Mother, you see?
Don't worry about me.
Is everything all right?
Everything's fine.
What?
What?
What did she say?
Before you lie down, you'll feel better.
Tell me, tell me.
Don't worry, it's all over.
I sent him away.
Oh, Mother.
I guess he didn't love you after all.
It's a good thing we found out in
time.
Nothing matters now but you and me.
We'll always have each other.
Nothing's ever going to separate us again.
Oh, my God.
What have you done?
What have I done?
Mother, you're not well.
My baby.
My little baby.
Well, this is a swell time to be
showing up for a Saturday night show.
What's the matter with her?
Drunk?
Well, what if she is?
Yeah.
Drunk as a fool.
Look at her lying there, the chin soaked
all over.
You left my mother alone.
You madman.
You don't care about anything.
As long as you can shove somebody on
your filthy stage.
And make them pay for a bunch of
gorillas.
Yeah, well, that talk don't get me anywhere.
And so far as I'm concerned, Kitty Darling's
finished.
Here I talk to Gus Gott and find
Bob Orr.
She's long to keep with the show here.
And look at her, blind, paralyzed.
A Saturday night with nobody to take her
place.
I'll take her place.
I'll get out there and get those business
money for her.
What do you think of that?
Well, me take a chance on a dumb
chorus girl to fill her specialty?
Dumber.
You're crazy.
Listen, she ain't so dumb.
I've been rehearsing her for weeks.
She's swell, I'm telling you.
Anyway, ain't it better to take a chance
than to get my chance at your house?
Well, maybe it is.
Up to it, kid.
But you better be good.
Come on, baby, wake up.
I'll be good, all right.
I'll get out and give them what they
want.
I'll show them.
I'll show them.
Now you're talking.
You get out of my way.
Come on.
I'll be.
I'll be.
Tony.
Hey, buddy.
I came back because I thought well, maybe
you...
Tony, baby.
I had a hunch you weren't telling me
the truth.
Now, come on, what's it all about?
Isn't Mother?
Honey, I can't go anywhere now.
Let her come with us.
That'll be swell.
Come on, let's go in and talk to
her.
I bet I can make her see it
our way.
Oh, it'll be wonderful if she would.
Yes, honey?
All three of us.
All three of us.
God, thank you.
Nothing serious, I hope, Kitty.
No.
It's- It's nothing.
Take it easy, boys!
Give these waiters a break!
Give a lot of 60 pounds!
And boys, don't forget, that's the conclusion of
tonight's performance.
Come back straight, Doc.
And make it sniper.
Hey, Doc!
How much do you want to get away
from the office now?
Right this way, Doctor.
I want you outside in a chair.
I'll take her to the dressing room.
Bail on her!
No, no, no!
That way.
You want to get on the dressing room,
please.
No, he hasn't been feeling so good for
a couple of weeks.
And then when we came off just now,
he got this telegram and passed out.
What's it all about?
It's from her husband.
He got sent up for cooking a big
buck from Tammany with a vegetable table.
Gee.
Eddie was a good world fella, but he
didn't belong to this racket.
Crazy about Kitty, jealous of everybody.
And that's no way to be in the
burlesque game.
No, I guess not.
He gets stuff on Kitty though.
Would you even go on and get the
make-up?
No, sir.
For many nights to come.
Send one of the boys across the street
for my surgical bag, will you?
Sure.
Is it anything very serious?
No, not if we work fast.
Hey, you.
Come in here.
I'll leave you.
Sure.
But they won't let him sleep.
Now, what do you want?
You're out of time.
I have
told you already.
Oh, I can't wait.
Turn to the front.
Gee, Kitty, the baby hurts so bad.
Oh, it looks just like Kitty.
Oh, what a beautiful baby.
Watch that left foot there, precious.
That's right.
That's fine.
That's common, big girl.
Come in.
Well, how's my best girl today?
Fine.
Kitty, I've got good news.
This came from Matt, son of a gun,
and you're the highest-ranking company in all
of Santa.
30 weeks straight, you're opening for Lido.
You make a play about my villain?
Oh, yeah.
He came through without a squawk.
And as for you, Snooks, look what I
got for you.
From one comic to another.
Mommy, look!
Oh, Johnny, well.
Come on, little monkey.
You run over there.
Try them on.
See how they look.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
Listen, Kitty, I've been thinking a lot lately
about you.
What you two need is a man like
me to take care of you.
Kitty Dolly don't need any man to take
care of her.
Ain't she getting along pretty well with that
one now?
If you'd leave it to me, I'd buy
a cozy little home someplace for you and
the kid, where she could grow up right.
A home for me, hey?
You've got lots growing on me, I suppose.
No, Mr. King.
I've got plans.
I'm headed straight for Broadway, the big time.
No fooling, Kitty.
The kid deserves a bed of bread.
Why, this burlesque racket is no place for
her.
I can take plenty care of her, thanks.
Yeah, I know.
But she's getting to the age where she's
learning things whether you like it or not.
Why, last night I overheard her trying to
tell the one that the girls brought back
from the outback.
Look, look.
You see what I mean?
Yes.
Maybe you're right, but still, what can I
do?
Listen, I've got a cousin that'll send her
kid to a nice school in Wisconsin, a
convent.
Send April away from me?
The blessed heart.
She said it was great.
Oh, no, Joe.
I couldn't.
I couldn't.
I'd die.
It's for her own good.
Kitty honest.
She'd get an education, grow up in a
nice place, not in some lousy burlesque theater,
no sleeper jobs, and none of those small
-town johns hanging around at night.
And there'd be sisters there to teach her
the word of God.
And she'd grow up in a nice place,
grow up to be a lady, not a
cheap little tot.
You want April to be a lady, don't
you?
You said she's going to be a lady.
I got plans for her.
Then you better send her to that convent.
Maybe I will.
Maybe I will.
Let us contemplate in mystery how our Lord
Jesus Christ, being sentenced to die, bore with
great patience the cross which was laid upon
him for his greater torment and ignorance.
And now, April, there's a little prayer that
goes with this deed.
It goes like this.
Oh, holy virgin, example of patience, by the
most painful carrying of the cross, on which
thy son, our Lord Jesus Christ, bore the
heavy weight of our sins, obtained for us
of him by thy intercession, courage and strength,
to follow his steps and bear our cross
up to him to the end of our
lives.
Amen.
I know he loves me to heaven, and
when he tells me he can, what wouldn't
I do?
He's not an angel, I say.
I know he loves me to heaven, oh
boy.
And when he tells me he can live
without me, what wouldn't I do for that
man?
I'll never leave him alone, I'll make his
troubles my own, with all his faults I
know you get by.
I'm just no good when his arms are
about me, what wouldn't I do for that
man?
Oh, what wouldn't I do for that man?
Come here.
Oh, boy, after that one, I'd better get
out of here while I'm still in shape.
Oh, come on, Hitch, stick around, it's early.
I can't, Peggy, honest.
Now, Kitty'll be sore.
Oh, anybody'd think she had a mortgage on
you.
You see that rock?
Well, as long as she keeps kicking in
with little love tokens like that, sweetness, I'm
gonna keep right on being her white-headed
boy.
Okay, big boy, as long as she doesn't
get wise that you're giving her the runaround
with every dame in the troop.
Well, when she does, I'll get me a
new mama, peaches, and your name's right on
the top of the list.
Ah, baloney.
Hi, honey.
Hello, beautiful.
Gee, Hitch, you gave me a start.
Ain't you home early?
Well, I ducked the gang, luscious.
Had to come home to my big blonde
mama.
Ah, honey, my old sweet boy.
Hey, what's all that stuff?
Get me nuts?
Oh, just a lot of old letters and
jokes.
Hey, what genre wrote you all those?
You ain't the first good-looking guy in
my life.
You ain't the last, huh?
Who's the dame?
Give me that, Hitch.
Wait a minute, can't you?
What's the rush?
It's a cute kid.
Sister, to my own darling mama.
Kid, will you give me that?
What's that mean, to my own darling mama,
huh?
You can read, can't you?
You mean...
Say, you mean to tell me this kid's
yours?
Well, is it?
Well, what she is.
Ah, you've been holding out on me.
Shut up, you robber.
Life's just a lot of dirty double-crossing
broads.
How old's the kid?
Seventeen.
Where's she at?
In school, in a convent.
That's a laugh.
What for?
I've got plans for her.
I want her to have an education.
Yeah, but I always thought those joints were
so expensive.
Oh, I manage to round up the coin
every month.
That's where all your spare cash goes.
Only you don't have the hundred bucks to
loan me, Mundy.
When I do have it to loan, what
do you do with it?
Drop it in some bookie's lap?
Well, I'm not thinking of myself so much
now, see?
But you ought to be sorting your dough
away.
Why, you've got a great career.
But it takes plenty of jack as well
as talent to make the grade.
Oh, I got plenty of both, I guess.
Speaking of that, how about that active artist
that the case officer's interested in?
There you are, you see?
That's going to cost about twelve hundred bucks
to mount.
Classy look and drop, three changes for you,
orchestrations, and I'll bet you ain't got twelve
hundred bucks.
Maybe not, but you said you'd help, remember?
Now, that ring I gave you.
Oh, I knew that was coming.
Hark it, huh?
That's all the sentiment you got in here.
Hark that new overcoat you got me too,
I suppose.
Oh, no, you don't.
I want you to look nice.
Yeah?
Well, I guess I'm going to be the
little old Lexus baggage around here from now
on.
Well, I can see you've been playing me
for a sucker.
Just a good time pal to keep you
from getting lonesome on sleeper jumps.
I've been nuts about you, but I'm wise
now.
Hitch, what are you driving at?
Well, I guess I've got sense enough to
know what I'm through.
Hitch, you're not walking out on me?
What do you expect me to do?
I've got a deal you've given me.
What deal, honey boy?
What are you talking about?
Now, listen.
We made our bargain.
It was going to be 50-50 and
no holding out on each other, right?
Well, now what?
I find you've got a kid 17, you've
been blowing your door.
Don't we meet for ourselves, for our future,
for your career?
Well, Hitch, what can I do?
She's my daughter, ain't she?
I'll tell you what you can do.
You don't have to keep her in some
expensive dump like that, do you?
Now, get the kid down here.
Take her out of school?
Yeah, make her go to work.
She's old enough.
Oh, Hitch, I want to keep my baby
out of show business.
Okay, Kitty, that's my answer to that.
Hitch, wait a second.
Give me time to think.
Now, there ain't nothing to think about.
Now, it's her or me, that's what.
All right, all right.
If you think that's the right thing to
do.
Why, sure it is, babes.
It's time you did something for yourself instead
of dishing out the gravy for someone else
like you do.
One thing, though, Hitch, she ain't going in
show business.
I'll get her a job outside someplace.
Okay, Kitty, just so long as she holds
up her own end.
Now, you sit right down over here and
write her a little letter.
Now, Hitch, don't be cross with me, but
don't you think we ought to think this
over a little?
I'm just the way you write me, and
at the same time, I'm dying.
Will you just stop fussing and write to
her?
You've been saving and scrimping all your life
to keep this Jane in school.
Now, it's her turn to do something for
you.
Help you put away a little money for
her any day, right?
I don't know.
You've got a great career, babes.
She ought to be proud to help you.
Proud of me, Kitty, darling's daughter, right?
Why, I know so.
She ain't as good looking as I'm are,
but maybe she takes after her old man.
Still, you can depend on me, Kitty Babies,
to treat her right for your sake.
Why, we'll just be one big happy family.
One big happy family.
May God's love and kindness guide you as
you go forth into the great world outside
these gates and keep you from all harm
till we meet again.
That is my prayer for you, little April.
Goodbye.
I'm sorry, but it can't be.
Okay, okay.
You looking for somebody, honey?
Yes, I...
Mr. Beattie.
Mr. Beattie.
Well?
Cash customer.
Well?
I'm supposed to meet my mother here, Miss
Darling.
Oh, so you're Kitty Darling's little girl, eh?
Well, I'm a couple of cockeyed so-and
-so's.
My name's Eddie Vermont.
I'm in the military, too.
Only I'm a man of my word.
What a vacuum.
How do you do, Mr. Vermont?
Your ma is up at the theater.
She wants you to wait upstairs till she
gets back.
Oh.
How long will I have to wait to
see her?
Oh, not more than an hour or so.
These uptown grind joints get out early.
I'll show you to the rooms.
Thank you.
You've got a great mom, Miss Darling.
And believe me, she sure knows her stuff.
That Swedish movement her husband's been laying them
in the aisles ever since I was a
pup.
Swedish movement?
I mean the way Kitty slams over her
number.
And boy, she packs the meanest strip and
teaser routine that ever burned up a runway.
You know what I mean.
Well, not exactly.
I haven't seen my mother on the stage
since I was five.
No?
But I remember, oh, she was wonderful.
I'll say.
Say, look.
I've got a bright idea.
Instead of hanging around in this dump, why
don't you grab the Lenox Avenue local and
go up and catch the show?
Do you really think I could?
Sure.
I can't take it myself.
I've got a heavy date.
But my kid brother Slim, he'll take you.
He's a nice guy, too.
OK with you?
Yes.
Thank you.
All right.
I'll get him right down.
512, sweetheart.
Slim?
Come right down.
I've got a job for you.
Yeah.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Yeah, he's all wiped up, anyway.
Look at that.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
If she
was not hopped up and seeing you, we
thought it might be a nice surprise.
It sure was.
You did just right.
Oh, my.
Well, love.
Such a big girl.
Guess I'll be answering the law.
So long, everybody.
Bye.
Like an old lady.
Oh, mommy.
You're so pretty, too.
Ain't she, Hitch?
Yeah.
Oh, this is Hitch, lover.
Hitch Nelson.
He's Hitch I've been writing you about.
How do you do, Mr. Nelson?
Make it Hitch, kid.
We're all pals together.
What do you think of my great big
girl?
A little skinny.
Why, Hitchy.
Ain't he the limit, though?
Honest, the things that he says to people,
I mean.
He's just a bad boy, but he don't
mean nothing by it.
Now, you sit down here.
Say, you better finish your change, beautiful.
You only got a couple of minutes.
Yes, that's right.
Why, if I'd known I was going to
have company like this.
Ooh.
Like this.
Well, April, maybe just as soon as we
get out of this dump, we'll go down
and see your letters.
And we'll put on the swellest BGM of
the song and choke ourselves black in the
face.
Up to it, Kitty.
All right, all right, all right.
Come on.
Watch me do this.
Finish the show.
Oh, I'd rather stay in here, if you
don't mind.
All right for you, then.
You're a funny kid.
Got any ideas about going into show business?
No.
Why not?
Don't you like it?
No.
You're a funny kid.
Poor dog chump, I ain't going to bite.
Do you hear that?
Suppose that was for you, huh?
Everybody in the whole damn house clapping and
yelling.
Going nuts about you.
Nice?
No?
Why not?
You're a funny kid.
Just a little bit goofy, but that comes
from not knowing what it's all about.
Please, Mr. Nelson.
Now, didn't I ask you to call me
Hitch?
I want to be your pal, see?
And if you'll listen to me, you'll let
me learn you a couple of dance routines.
I'll put you in the show.
No, thank you.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to be
in the show.
But you've got the makings of a great
artist.
With your looks and my training, it's Broadway
for you.
No problem.
You take the word of an old trooper.
That's a finale.
Gotta go.
See you later.
See you.
Why don't you try to get to sleep,
precious?
I can't.
You'll be pretty tired after your trip and
all.
Oh, I'm tired enough.
I don't know.
I feel funny.
All mixed up inside.
Why, precious.
What's the matter?
Tell Mother what's the matter.
Everything's so different from what I thought it
would be.
Well, sure, you ain't in a coffin anymore.
But ain't you glad to be back with
me again?
Yes, Mommy darling, but...
Oh, I don't know how to describe it.
But New York's so big and dirty and
noisy.
And you're seated with all those men.
The girls with no clothes on.
Oh, I suppose it didn't seem queer to
you, coming from a place where they cover
up everything but their noses.
But things ain't as bad as that.
It ain't what you do so much, it's
what you are.
That's it, it's what you are.
Why, there's a couple of dames in this
troupe as good as you'd ever expect to
see, even if they do make their living
shaking.
I ain't ashamed of it, and you shouldn't
be ashamed of me neither.
Oh, Mommy, I'm not ashamed of you.
Oh, let me tell you something, April, baby.
If it wasn't for the dough I've been
piling up that way the last ten or
twelve years, you would never have been to
no convent.
Oh, I know, I know.
That's what I've been thinking.
I'm just beginning to realize that.
All these things you've gone through and I
never knew.
Dancing with those girls.
Horrible men staring at you.
Saying awful things.
Oh, now don't you think I'm going to
be in this burlesque racket all my life
neither.
Just one more season.
My name on Broadway, in life.
And a big dough.
And then we'll have a nice little home.
And we'll be together and be happy.
Oh, Mommy.
You've done so much to make me happy.
From now on I'm going to try and
make you just as happy.
Oh, Pooh, I ain't done nothing.
But we got each other now and it's
going to be for always.
Yes, always.
And we'll be so happy together.
Just you and I.
You said it.
After all, Snook, things can't be all bad
as long as we got each other.
Don't you forget that.
Now you go to sleep now.
Close your pretty eyes.
And close your pretty lips.
And give your baby lots of loving.
Mommy, what about Mr. Nelson?
What about him?
I don't think he likes me.
Go on, he's crazy about you.
Why he said so.
Are you going to be married?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But don't you worry about it now.
Go to sleep, baby.
Go to sleep.
Close your pretty eyes.
And close your pretty lips.
And give your baby lots of loving.
Through Christ our Lord, Jesus Christ, for the
burden of our sins.
Obtained for us.
By thy intercession, the courage and strength.
Following his footsteps.
And bear our cross.
Until the end of our lives.
Amen.
What do you want?
Can you wake her up?
Well, get us a drink.
Oh, Mommy.
All right, baby.
Shall we go to sleep, Angel?
Yes, thank you.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Gus.
Good morning yourself.
Close that off.
OK, we'll meet the crew at the station
at three.
We'll discuss Feinbaum from the booking office.
We open in Buffalo first this week.
Better get up and get dressed fresh.
We've got to start packing.
Got a nice cold grapefruit for you, Anna.
Well, breakfast.
Oh, good.
We open in Buffalo tomorrow.
Now, Hitch.
Honey, let's settle our problems.
You and me, we can't go on like
we have with April here.
We've got to get married now.
Well, it's up to you, kid.
Now, it's OK with me, like I told
you.
Providing that kid of yours is put to
work.
She will, honey.
She's going to work.
But not in the show business.
I've got other plans for her.
There you go again.
What else can she do?
I'm asking you.
I mean, here we are, jumping off Buffalo
tonight.
And from there, well, who knows?
Now, if she gets a job in New
York, that means she can't travel with us.
You planning on leaving her alone here?
The kid's got a real chance of her
life.
Don't you see that?
She's got new looks, the whole works.
She comes by it naturally.
I can make her one of the biggest
bets in show business.
But she don't want to be in show
business.
She says she hates it.
How does a kid like that know what
she wants?
Now, listen, kiddie.
I'm not going to waste any more time
arguing.
I'm not going to get married unless I'm
going to be the boss.
And if I'm going to be the boss,
I say the kid's going in the show.
Now, that's final.
Well, I don't know.
Don't be cross with me, kid.
I'm trying to do the best all around.
If you think it's the right thing to
do.
Why, sure it is.
Babes.
Allison, you go on in there and get
her.
I'll talk to her.
I'll sell her the idea.
Why, she's getting the swellest break a kid
ever got.
We'll be one big happy family, huh?
The three of us.
We'll go to Buffalo or any other man's
place, eh?
Go on.
Get her in here.
April.
April, baby.
Come in here.
Mama wants to talk to you.
Come here, baby.
Come to your daddy.
He's going to pour a million dollars in
gold in your lap.
Here's to the bride and groom.
Flop.
Now, look.
Don't.
What's the matter?
I don't like to be mauled.
Too bad about you.
Maybe a good mauling will do you good
for a change.
Just touching me nonstop is beginning to give
me a pain in the neck.
What's the idea of that?
It's hot in here.
Oh, yeah?
Come on.
Let's run through that tap routine.
All right.
What's the matter with you?
You've been on the show eight months, and
you've got about as much ambition as a
Ziegfeld clothes horse.
Can't you take a little interest in what
I'm trying to teach you?
No.
I hate dancing.
I hate ballets.
But you don't have to stay in ballets.
If you'll just give me a little cooperation,
I'll make another Marilyn Muller out of you.
I'm not interested.
Oh, now, April, will you lay off that
tone of voice?
Here I am, trying to help you, trying
to be your pal.
You treat me like I was a Nash
man or something.
Geez, but you hit my goat.
Well, then, why don't you let me alone?
Let you alone?
Listen, what you need is to have somebody
wake up the baby, but it be human.
I got a good mind to teach you
a couple of tricks that didn't learn you
in a convent.
You won't teach me anything.
Let go of my wrist.
Now, I've met babies like you before, say,
Cecilia.
There's only one way to treat them, and
that's rough.
That's something to think about.
Oh.
Oh.
What's going on?
Oh, just that precious symphony of yours getting
temperamental again.
Will you two ever stop fighting?
Here I am, working like a dog, trying
to learn to the business.
Never mind.
What do you think that very little Spinebomb
pulled on me this morning?
He says he ain't going to give me
a contract for the new stock season until
I've been in the show for two weeks
and he can see how I get by.
Not only that, he practically insists that I
go with a bunch of the girls up
to a lousy stag smoker in the Bronx
after the show tonight.
Can you beat that for nerve?
Me, Kitty Darling, dancing for a lot of
Bronx stags.
Oh, what of it?
Trouble to you and that Kitty of yours.
You're both getting too damn high, Hatch.
Why, Hitchy.
What's the matter with you and Hitch, Cookie?
Oh, nothing.
You hadn't ought to be fighting all the
time.
I wish you'd try to be nice to
him for a change.
Try to make him love you, Cookie.
Make him love me?
Yes, Angel, make him love you.
For my sake.
This is a swell night to be going
to a stag smoker.
Thought you were going to try to get
me out of it.
Well, I argued with Gus, but it didn't
do no good.
A good husband you are, letting Gus send
your wife to shake for a mob of
Bronx gorillas.
On such a hot night.
Well, 50 bucks is 50 bucks.
Ready to go home, Mommy?
No, sweetness.
I've got to go to that stag smoker.
Hitch couldn't fix it for me with Gus.
I'll see that you get home.
I've got to get going.
Come on, Snooks, walk out to the door
with me.
You wait outside for me, April.
She will.
Mommy, take me with you, please.
To a stag party?
I should say no.
Well, I'll wait outside for you till 3
or 4 o'clock in the morning.
You're crazy.
No, you go back to the hotel.
But I don't want to go back to
the hotel with Hitch.
Please, Mommy, please.
Go ahead in the taxi.
He's waiting for you, Miss Dolly.
Thanks, Otto.
Now, you stop fussing about Hitch.
Be a good girl.
Maybe you'll buy him some chop suey.
I got it.
Mommy!
Open up!
Oh, there you are.
I've been waiting for you.
Hello, kid.
Hey, give us a kiss.
What's your hurry, sister?
Where are you going, baby?
Wait a minute, sweetheart.
Come on, baby.
Give me a break.
I'll just say a lesson.
I'll just say it.
Whenever you think you're serious.
Hey, what's this?
Keep out of this, Ellen.
This one is my girl.
I am not.
He's firing me.
On your way, Guyra.
I'll poke a hole through that pan of
yours.
You and how many Marines?
You Navy guys think you're tough, don't you?
What if they don't become any tougher?
Got any other odd jobs for the Navy
tonight?
No, thank you so much.
It's pretty late for a little girl like
you to be wandering around with yourself.
Maybe I'd better stroll a little way with
you.
Oh, please don't bother.
Did you say bother?
I hope you don't think I'm fresh walking
along with you like this.
Oh, not at all.
I hope you don't think I'm trying to
follow you or anything.
Oh, no.
Live around here?
No.
I come all the way from Wisconsin.
We went into a bed.
I think you're trying to get rid of
me.
How did you get?
Oh, I'm clever that way.
What way?
Oh, come on.
Be nice, won't you?
I'm not a gorilla.
But I don't know you.
Well, here's your chance.
Now, listen.
Here's the idea.
Why not let's stop somewhere and get something
to eat?
There's no harm in that.
And if you don't like to cut him
a jib, I'll be on my way.
Well, that seems fair enough.
I'll eat after the show anyway.
Now you're talking.
Say, you're a nice.
You don't look like a showgirl.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.
No kidding.
I like you.
And I guess you're not so bad yourself.
Come on, Wisconsin.
Boy, was I hungry.
Me too.
Gee, you don't know how I appreciate this.
No kidding.
I mean, I've been cruising around town all
evening, up one street and down the other,
just looking for somebody to talk to.
Sailors don't generally have much trouble finding company.
Oh, I don't want the kind of company
you mean.
Listen, all sailors ain't a bunch of bums.
But you've got no idea how tough it
is to be all alone and lonesome in
a city like this.
Maybe I have.
Oh, a girl like you, lonesome.
Say, what's your name anyway?
I've been so excited about finding you, I
forgot to ask.
April.
April?
No kidding?
Sounds like a name out of a book.
I don't know, though.
It sort of fits you.
Sounds sweet, sort of gentle.
Well, just like I'll bet you are.
Oh, you say the same thing to every
girl you meet.
How could I?
Never met a girl named April before.
What's your name?
Tony.
I don't like it much.
Sounds like a wop bootleg.
Oh, no, I think Tony's a nice name.
You do?
Tony and April.
Sounds nice together, eh?
Gee, but your eyes are blue.
Eat your chocolate cake.
April?
April?
April?
Hello, little...
Hello, Ed?
Say, did April come in yet?
She didn't?
You sure?
Thanks.
Hello, little...
Those big waves.
Gosh, they look to be about as tall
as the Woolworth building pretty near.
They'd come down over the bow, crash, and
the ship would shake like she was going
to split in two.
One big wave after the other.
Boy, all night we didn't know if we
was going to weather it or not.
Well, anyway, next morning the sun was shining,
the ocean was as smooth as glass, and
right off the starboard was the coast of
China.
Oh, it must be wonderful to sail all
over the world that way.
Oh, I don't know.
You get tired of it just like anything
else.
I got a week to make up my
mind if I'm going to enlist again.
I suppose I will.
I'm sorry, pal.
Closing time, but the parks are still open.
Okay, Gilbert.
I had no idea it was too late.
Here you are.
Gee, I don't want to lose you so
soon.
Just when we were getting acquainted.
Can't we find some other place?
But it's pretty late.
Listen, I know just the place.
It's nice and cool, too.
Where?
Brooklyn Bridge.
Isn't it beautiful?
Yeah, sure is pretty.
Even Brooklyn looks pretty.
It must be awfully late.
Why do you care?
My mother will be worried.
I do have to sleep sometimes.
We have rehearsal at 11.
Well, I won't get much sleep tonight.
It's too hot to sleep.
I mean, I'll be thinking about you.
Look at that city over there.
Everybody sleeping.
Everybody dreaming.
And two people like us on this bridge.
Just as if we'd known each other all
our lives.
It's sort of like a dream, too, isn't
it?
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure when the sun will come
up, and the people will wake up, and
even you and I will go right on
the way we were before.
Just as if we'd never met at all.
Say, don't kid yourself.
I'm going to camp right on your doorstep
the rest of the time I'm on leave.
How long is that?
Saturday.
This is Tuesday.
That makes four days.
And then you'll forget all about me.
No, sir.
Never.
Yes, you will.
You'll go sailing away from me, just like
that boat down there is now.
It's a tanker going up with the tide.
Ships have to go up with the tide,
don't they?
And sailors have to go with their ships.
And the world is full of other rivers
and bridges, with girls to sit on them
until the tide goes out.
Oh, April, I'm not like the rest of
those gobs.
Sometimes I think they're people that were just
meant to be lonesome.
You know, and then they meet someone for
a little while and it gives them something
to remember.
So the lonesomeness doesn't hurt so much for
a while.
I don't know how to say what I
mean.
Yes, but if those people meet the right
people, they get together for keeps.
Then they ain't lonesome anymore.
But the right people don't seem to find
each other very often.
Yeah, ain't it the truth.
Well, tell me.
Well?
I've got to go home.
I don't want to, but I've got to.
All right.
Let me help you down.
Good night.
Or rather, good morning.
Don't forget tomorrow.
That's a date.
I won't.
How am I going to live that long?
Just don't stop breathing.
Looks like I just can't let you go.
I've really got to go now.
Well?
Well, good night.
Good night.
Good night, girls.
We're right home now.
Well, isn't that sexy, girls?
Oh, dear boy.
Hello, yourself.
What's your name, dear boy?
Well, young lady, where do you think you've
been?
Is Mommy in yet?
Never mind that.
Who have you been out with till 5
o'clock in the morning?
None of your business.
A pick-up, huh?
A pick-up, just like any other cheap
little boy left standing.
I'm not a cheap little boy left standing.
No?
Just an innocent kid from a convent, huh?
Well, get this through your head.
If you're going to start this stay-out
-all-night stuff, I'm going to have something
to say about it myself.
Charity begins at home, baby.
Let me go.
Let me go.
Well, what's this?
Hello, beautiful.
You're just in time to witness the signing
of the peace treaty.
While we was waiting for you, we come
to an understanding.
Everything's japed now.
April!
April, is it true?
Just one big happy family from now on.
Everything's swell, okay?
One big happy family.
Hurray!
Gee!
Look at all those people down there.
Aren't there a lot of people in the
world now?
Only two as far as I'm concerned.
Look.
Guys, just look.
I'd hate to fall.
If you did, I'd fall right after you.
Wouldn't that be silly?
Look, the Woolworths building.
Yeah.
At some sight, isn't it?
Oh, it's wonderful.
You're wonderful.
Well, there's the sea.
Yes.
Look at the old Statue of Liberty.
I'll bet if I stood here, I could
see our ship when it leaves tonight.
I should wave my handkerchief.
What are you laughing at?
Well, April, I'm not going back to my
ship.
Why not?
Well, I've got an important date tomorrow.
Have you?
Mm-hmm.
And so have you.
We're going to be married.
Oh, I thought for a minute you were
serious.
I am.
You're going to marry me and we're going
back to my hometown in Wisconsin and raise
wheat and have a ford and a radio
and...
Well, several things.
We are not.
Oh, yes, we are.
You're going to marry me.
It's all decided.
I decided it.
Oh, did you?
You better say yes.
I don't see why.
Because if you don't, I'll jump right off
this roof.
Oh, Tony, yes!
But I believe everything you told me about
yourself and your folks.
I think you're on the level.
You bet I'm on the level, Miss Darling.
You've got to be good to my little
girl.
She's just a baby.
Don't worry about that.
She'll love it out in the country.
My folks will be crazy about her.
Well, that's that, I suppose.
I'm glad.
I never wanted April to be in the
show business.
My baby Angel.
What's the next thing on the program?
Why, I thought we might all have dinner
someplace to celebrate.
Where?
You've got to make it early.
I've got a show.
How about that chop suey place we was
at the other night?
Okay, about six.
Great.
Well, I'll be running along.
Goodbye for a little while, sweetheart.
Oh, excuse me.
You're all right, son.
Was that the boyfriend we've been hearing so
much about I've just run across in the
hall?
Mommy, I'll go in and change my dress.
Wait a minute, I'm talking to you.
Now, this playing around with the Navy's got
to stop.
Oh, let her alone.
She's got a date with her fianc.
Oh, what?
Man, she's going to marry.
Say, are you trying to kid me?
No, April's going to be married.
Say, Kitty, you mean to tell me you're
going to let April marry some lousy gob?
Oh, he's all right.
I like him.
We had a long talk.
Oh, you had a long talk.
Well, how about consulting me once in a
while?
Oh, turn your damper down.
Everything's under control.
Oh, it is, is it?
That's what you say.
And me just back from a two-hour
session at the chief's office getting that act
set.
What's that got to do with April?
Everything.
They want her to do it with me.
But that's our act.
Yours isn't mine.
Well, it's all been changed.
It's April or the whole proposition's cold.
They want a younger woman in the act.
That's all, Luscious.
A younger woman?
Yeah, they want a young girl like April.
She's ideal.
That smile of hers is worth a million
dollars.
She's got a swell figure and a pair
of legs.
Why, she's got more sex appeal than...
Dame, you couldn't stand the sight of her
a few days ago.
You seem to be taking a big interest
in April and her sex appeal.
Professionally, sure.
Yeah?
Why, I want to see her get ahead.
I got our future in mind.
What about my future?
Oh, now, beautiful.
Beautiful, my eye.
Listen, Hitch Nelson.
Nobody's going to do that act but me,
see?
I don't know what you and the Keith
office got up your sleeve, but nobody's double
-crossing Kitty Darling.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'll show you how much I'm double
-crossing you, wise girl.
You don't have to know.
I spent the whole morning with Gus Feinbaum
begging him to keep you in your own
show.
What are you trying to give me now?
Now, your two weeks is up tonight, and
Gus is all set to can.
You're a dirty liar.
All right.
Phone Gus and find out for yourself.
Well, I'm certainly going to call you on
that one.
Try it.
We'll just have a little showdown around here.
Shoot me fine.
Hello, I want to speak to Gus Feinbaum.
This is Miss Darling.
Hello, Kitty.
What's on your mind?
Say, what's this I hear about you not
renewing my contract after the show tonight?
Well, you haven't got that quite right, Kitty.
The fact is, I got Lou working on
a book now called A Boarding School Girl,
and it's got to have somebody in it
that's young, an ingenue lead, see?
Ingenue lead, say?
I got the stuff the boys out front
want.
I don't see why you shouldn't write that
book around me.
You're not going to be left out.
I got you down for a specialty number
and a runway number, so where do you
get in to squawk?
I'm a liar, eh?
I'll show Gus where he gets off.
I'll have a contract on my own terms
in 10 minutes.
Hello, girly.
Get me bright, 9400.
Hello, I want to speak to Dave Holtz.
I'll show the dirty little...
Hello, Dave.
This is Kitty Darling.
Say, Dave, I'm closing with Parisian flirts tonight.
How about grabbing yourself a real bet for
your new summer widows?
I thought I'd give you a first crack,
although I'm fooling around with a couple other
fellas.
Well, you better take them.
I got nothing for you.
20 marriages killed in the rush.
Oh, I got plenty of friends in this
town.
Ah, save your nickels.
You may need them.
None of your wisecracks, did you know that?
Well, it's a wise girl that knows when
to quit, and that's no wisecrack.
Quit what?
Aye, the show business.
Can't you see you're all washed out?
Why, you mind...
Aye, what do you got left to give
them?
You've been at it for 20 years.
Why kid yourself?
You're not kidding anybody else.
You mind your own business.
I'm not letting any cheap comic tell me
how to run my affairs.
A cheap comic, eh?
Well, listen, if it hadn't been for me
telling you how to run your affairs, you'd
have been through long ago.
Why, you're a joke.
You're just a fat old woman.
Look at yourself in the mirror there.
Look at that neck.
Look at them wrinkles.
You better get wise to yourself and figure
out where the coffee and cake money's coming
from next season.
Right in that next room there's your meal
ticket from now on, and you're letting her
marry some dope from the Brooklyn Navy yard
right when you need her the most.
She's got to marry him, too, if I
have to buy a tin cup and sell
pencils on Broadway.
Yeah, well, not after I have a talk
to her tonight.
If you dare open your trap to her
tonight, we're through.
I'm fired, eh?
Well, you're wrong.
I quit, see?
So what are you gonna do?
I'm sick of seeing you around here.
I guess I got everything out of you
I want, babes.
I got plans and they don't include any
old blondes.
Get out!
Get out before I kill you!
See you in the show business, beautiful.
Mommy, you look tired.
I am a little.
Maybe you'd better rest a little while instead
of coming to dinner with us.
I think I'd better.
You two don't want any old ladies along
anyway.
Now, you run along to your sailor boy.
Mommy!
Mommy!
What's the matter?
Mommy, I'm not going to be married.
I'm never going to go away from you
now.
You heard Hitch and me yell at each
other.
Come on now, Cookie.
Don't go taking it that serious.
You know how Hitch and me are.
Always rowing about something.
He don't mean what he says half the
time.
Why, by tomorrow, we'll both of us forget
all about it.
Everything's okay.
Don't let a thing like that get you
down.
Why, you run along now to your sailor
boy and stop being that way.
No, Mommy.
I'm going to tell Tony I can't marry
him.
But you must marry him, Snooks.
After all we've talked over.
I'm counting on it.
You don't know how much it means to
me.
No, Mommy.
I just can't, that's all.
Now, you listen to me, young lady.
I'm your ma, and I say you're going
right down to him and fix it up.
There'll be no more talk about it.
All right, Mommy.
I'll fix it up.
When I come to the theater tonight, I
want to be sure you're going to tell
me everything's okay.
It will be.
It will be.
Come on now, kid.
You got to do this.
Don't worry about me.
I'm not a black number yet.
I know, Mommy.
I know, Mommy.
Boy,
that's happy music.
Just for us.
Want to dance?
No.
See, I wish you didn't have to work
tonight.
We could go to Coney Island.
I don't like Coney Island.
Oh, come on.
You told me you did the other night.
That was the other night.
What's the matter with you, honey?
Why?
Nothing.
Oh, yes, there is.
Come on, let's have it.
Coney Island's heavy.
I don't know how to say it, but
Coney Island won't want to get married.
Say, don't say things like that.
I got a weak heart.
Tony, I mean it.
What?
I liked you an awful lot and all
that, but I just can't think of getting
married right now.
What's the matter, honey?
What's happened?
Nothing, Tony.
I don't think you'll be able to understand,
but big bone on the stage, you know?
We're getting married and leaving, and it seems
to be giving up everything.
You told me the other night you wanted
to get out of the show business.
That's how I thought I felt.
When I come right down to it, I
just can't.
That's all.
You'll never know, Tony, what it feels like
to be on the other side of those
good nights and hear them clap and clap
for you.
It does something to a girl.
I don't know what.
April, I don't believe a word you're saying.
Either you're lying to me, or else you've
just been kidding yourself.
Now, come on.
Let's dance and forget about it.
I don't want to dance.
I want you to get this through your
head right now.
This is it, really.
Must have signed a new contract, saved for
a new show.
And there's a chance for me to go
with her on a splendid part.
If I don't take it, I'll know I'll
be sorry all my life.
And then we'll both be miserable.
But listen, honey, that's no life for you.
Well, I'm not so sure that burying myself
in some godforsaken swamp is a life for
me, either.
After all, I'm young.
People tell me I'm pretty.
You know, I've got a big chance.
I might be a star.
Now, I ask you, Tony, what girl wouldn't
grab at a chance to land on Broadway
in a big show?
You know, and I...
I've meant such a lot to her.
Well, little Trudy had enough to think it
means a lot to me right now.
Tony.
Don't look at me like that.
It makes me feel terrible.
I really think you're an awfully sweet boy,
but something's wrong when it comes to love.
Well, I've only known you five days.
And to think of jumping into something and
giving up a whole career.
Well, Tony, you ought to understand.
Sure.
I mean, we'll still have lots of fun
together.
Lots of games.
Want lots of coffee?
Why, we might even still be engaged.
No.
I wouldn't want to feel like I've tied
you down.
I guess I'd better go back to the
ship.
You mean enlist again?
Yeah.
Sailing for the West Indies.
I'm always going to see the West Indies.
But you'll come back.
Sure, someday.
It's 8 o'clock almost.
I could just make it if I hurry.
Tony!
You're angry with me.
way for a boat.
I don't hate you, I just gotta hurry,
that's all.
That'll do.
Good night, Jim.
I'll see you in the morning.
Good night, honey.
Well, thanks for coming down with me, April.
That was all right.
Oh, here's my train.
Goodbye, Tony.
Don't cry, kid.
There'll be another one right along any minute.
Cheer up.
No!
I can't be quiet.
Hey!
Mother!
What's the matter?
Nothing's the matter.
Nothing's the matter.
What?
Well, I'll be.
Where did she get?
Mother, you see?
Don't worry about me.
Is everything all right?
Everything's fine.
What?
What?
What did she say?
Before you lie down, you'll feel better.
Tell me, tell me.
Don't worry, it's all over.
I sent him away.
Oh, Mother.
I guess he didn't love you after all.
It's a good thing we found out in
time.
Nothing matters now but you and me.
We'll always have each other.
Nothing's ever going to separate us again.
Oh, my God.
What have you done?
What have I done?
Mother, you're not well.
My baby.
My little baby.
Well, this is a swell time to be
showing up for a Saturday night show.
What's the matter with her?
Drunk?
Well, what if she is?
Yeah.
Drunk as a fool.
Look at her lying there, the chin soaked
all over.
You left my mother alone.
You madman.
You don't care about anything.
As long as you can shove somebody on
your filthy stage.
And make them pay for a bunch of
gorillas.
Yeah, well, that talk don't get me anywhere.
And so far as I'm concerned, Kitty Darling's
finished.
Here I talk to Gus Gott and find
Bob Orr.
She's long to keep with the show here.
And look at her, blind, paralyzed.
A Saturday night with nobody to take her
place.
I'll take her place.
I'll get out there and get those business
money for her.
What do you think of that?
Well, me take a chance on a dumb
chorus girl to fill her specialty?
Dumber.
You're crazy.
Listen, she ain't so dumb.
I've been rehearsing her for weeks.
She's swell, I'm telling you.
Anyway, ain't it better to take a chance
than to get my chance at your house?
Well, maybe it is.
Up to it, kid.
But you better be good.
Come on, baby, wake up.
I'll be good, all right.
I'll get out and give them what they
want.
I'll show them.
I'll show them.
Now you're talking.
You get out of my way.
Come on.
I'll be.
I'll be.
Tony.
Hey, buddy.
I came back because I thought well, maybe
you...
Tony, baby.
I had a hunch you weren't telling me
the truth.
Now, come on, what's it all about?
Isn't Mother?
Honey, I can't go anywhere now.
Let her come with us.
That'll be swell.
Come on, let's go in and talk to
her.
I bet I can make her see it
our way.
Oh, it'll be wonderful if she would.
Yes, honey?
All three of us.
All three of us.