"How are you feeling now, Kitty?" "I'm all right." "You lay down during the intermisson and I'll give you a couple of shots." "I'll lay down but I don't want any shots." "Telegram for you, Kitty." "For God's sake, give me." "Nothing serious, I hope, Kitty." "No, it's nothing." "Kitty, Kitty." "There's more." "The one and only." "Take it easy, boys." "Hey, boys, don't forget." "At the conclusion of tonight's performance..." "Hey, is there a doctor in the house?" "No foolin, boys." "Is there a doctor in the house?" "All right, What's the answer to that?" "Is Dr. Leonard here?" "Is Dr. Leonard here?" "Leonard!" "Leonard!" "Doctor Leonard!" "Doctor Leonard." "Doctor Leonard." "What do you want?" "Come backstage, doc." "Make it snappy." "Hey doc, how did you ever get away from the office?" "Right this way, doctor." "All of you on the other side of the stage." "I'll take you to the dressing room." "Stay in your pallet." "No, no, right of center door." "That's right." "Oh, I don't get clothes." "Go on to your dressing-room, quick!" "Something she ate?" "No, she hasn't been feeling so good for a couple of days." "And then when we came off this number she got this telegram and passed out." "What's it all about?" "It's from her husband." "He got sent up for croaking a big bum with an itch for Kitty." "Eddie was a swell fellow." "But he didn't belong to this racket." "Crazy about Kitty." "Jealous of everybody." "But that's no way to be in the Burlesque game." "No, I guess not." "Gee, it's tough on Kitty, though." "Will she be able to go on again tonight, doc?" "No, sir." "Nor for many an acts to come." "Send one of the boys across the street for my surgical bag, will you?" "Sure." "Is there anything very serious?" "No, not if we work fast." "Hey, you." "Come in here." "I'll need you." "On stage everybody." "Step on it." "Come on, get on there." "Hurry up, Joe." "It's your entrance." "Well, Maude Adams?" "How about getting out there and giving the cast a little of your time, eh?" "What's the matter with you?" "You're not getting out there?" "Kitty's got a baby." "Well I'll be." "She's got a baby." "Kitty's got a baby." "Kitty's got a baby." "Kitty's got a baby." "Oh, Kitty's got a baby." "Kitty's got a baby." "Kitty's got a baby." "What?" "Oh, boy!" "Come on in, boys and girls, we got company." "Gee, Kitty, the baby looks great." "Oh, isn't it cute?" "It looks just like Kitty." "Oh, what a beautiful baby!" "Watch that left foot there, precious." "That's right." "That's fine." "That's momma's big girl." "Come in." "Uncle Joe!" "Well, how's my best girl today?" "Fine." "Now, Kitty, I got good news." "Just came from Maxmount's office" "And you and the Highflying Company is all set." "Thirty weeks date, you open in Toledo." "Did you make it plain about my billing?" "Oh, yeah." "He came through without a squawk." "And as for you, Snoops, look what I got for you." "From one comic to another." "Mommy, look!" "Oh, Joe, that's swell." "Come on, little monkey, you run over there." "Try'em on, see how they look." "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 Darling don't need any man to take care of her." "Ain't she getting along pretty well without one now?" "If you'd leave it to me I'd buy a cosy little home some place for you, Nicky." "where she could grow up right." "A home for me, eh?" "You want lumps growing on me, I suppose." "No, Mr. King, I got plans." "I'm headed straight for Broadway, the big time." "No foolin', Kitty." "The kid deserves a better break." "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 elf's backyard." "Look." "Look." "You see what I mean?" "Yes, maybe you're right." "But, Joe, what can I do?" "Listen, I got a cousin that'll send your kid to a nice school in Wisconsin." "A convent." "Take 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 at a nice place." "Not in some lousy burlesque theater." "No sleeper jumps and none of the small town johns hanging around at nights." "And there'll 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 bet she's gonna be a lady." "I got plans for her." "Then you'd better send her to that convent." "Maybe I will." "Maybe I will." "Let us contemplate in its 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 ignominy." "And now, April, there's a little prayer that goes with this, dear." "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, obtain for us of Him, by thy intersession, courage and strength to follow His steps" "And bear our cross after Him to the end of our lives," "Amen." "I know he loves me, heaven knows why" "And when he tells me he can't live without me what wouldn't I do for that man?" "He's not an angel or saint," "I know he loves me, heaven knows why and when he tells me he can't 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 we'll get by" "I'm just no good when his arms are about me what wouldn't I do for that man?" "what wouldn't I do for that man?" "Give me air." "After that one I'd better get out of here while I'm still alive." "Come on, Hitch, stick around." "It's early." "I can't, Peggy." "Honest." "Kitty'll be sore." "Anybody'd think she got a mortgage on you." "You see that rock?" "As long as she keeps kicking in with little love tokens like that, sweetness," "I'm gonna keep right on being her wide-bedded boy." "Okay, big boy." "As long as she doesn't get wise that you're giving the runaround with every dame in the coop." "When she does, I'll get me a new mama, peaches." "And your name's right on top of the list." "Aw, baloney." "I loved that man from the start and way down deep in my heart" "I know he loves me, heaven knows why and when he tells me he can't live without me" "What wouldn't I do..." "Hello, beautiful!" "Gee, you gave me a start." "Ain't you home early?" "Well, I dumped the gang, luscious." "Had to come home to my big blonde mama." "Oh, honey." "My own sweet boy." "What's all that stuff?" "Forget-me-nots?" "Just a lot of old letters and junk." "Hey, what john wrote your loads?" "You ain't the first good-looking guy in my life." "But the last, eh?" "Who's the dame?" "Give me that." "Wait a minute, can't you?" "What's the rush?" "Cute kid." "Sister?" "To my own darling mama." "Give me that." "Hey!" "What's that mean "To my own darling mama", eh?" "You can read, can't you?" "You mean to tell me this kid's yours?" "Well, is it?" "Well, what if she is?" "You've been holding out on me." "Shut up." "You're all alike." "Just a lot of dirty double-crossing broads." "How old is the kid?" "Seventeen." "Where's she at?" "In school." "In a convent." "That's a laugh." "What for?" "I got plans for her." "I want her to have an education." "Yeah, but I always thought those joints were so expensive." "I manage to round up a coin every month." "So that's where all your spare cash goes." "No wonder you didn't have 100 bucks to loan me Monday." "But 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 oughta be sore if I go away." "Sure, you got a great career." "But it takes plenty of jack as well as talent to make the grade." "I got plenty of both, I guess." "Speaking of that, how about that act of ours you said the Keith Office was interested in?" "There you are, you see?" "That's gonna cost about $1200 to mount." "Classy looking props, three changes for you, orchestrations and I'll bet you ain't got $1200." "Maybe not." "But you said you'd help, remember?" "Now, that ring I gave you." "I knew that was coming." "Hawk it, eh?" "That's all the sentiment you got in ya." "Hawk that new overcoat you got me too, I suppose." "No, I want you to look nice." "Yeah, well..." "I guess I'm gonna be the little old excess baggage around here from now on." "I can see you've been playing me for a sucker." "Just a goodtime 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?" "I guess I got sense enough to know when I'm through." "You're not walking out on me?" "What do you expect me to do after the deal you've given me?" "What deal, honey, what are you talking about?" "When we made our bargain it was gonna be 50/50 and no holding out on each other, right?" "Now what?" "I find out you got a kid seventeen and you've been blowing your dough up." "Dough we need for ourselves, for our future, for your career." "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?" "Make her go to work." "She's old enough." "I wanna keep my baby out of show business." "Okay, Kitty, that's my answer." "Wait a second." "Give me time to think." "There ain't nothing to think about." "It's her or me." "That's flat." "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 no, Hitch." "She ain't going in to show business." "I'll get her a job outside some place." "Okay, Kitty, just so long as she holds up our own name." "Now you sit right down here and write her a little letter." "Now, Hitch, don't be cross at me, but don't you think we oughta think this over a little?" "Honest, the way you rush me into things sometimes..." "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 a rainy day, right?" "Oh, I don't know..." "You got a great career, babes." "She oughta be proud to help you, proud to be Kitty Darling's daughter, right?" "Why, I know so." "She ain't as good looking as her ma... maybe she takes after her old man." "Instead you can depend on me, Kitty baby, 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 angel." "Goodbye." "Looking for somebody, honey?" "Yes, I..." "Mr. Greeley." "Mr. Greeley." "Cash customer." "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 sewing sewers." "My name's Eddy Vermont." "I'm in the merry-merry too." "One of your momma's best pals." "Put it back here." "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?" "Not more than an hour or so." "These uptown grind joints get out early." "I'll show you to the rooms." "Thank you." "You got a great ma, Miss Darling." "And believe me, she sure knows her stuff." "That Swedish movement of hers has been laying'em 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 a Verona way." "You know what I mean." "Not exactly." "I haven't seen my mother on the stage since I was five." "No?" "But I remember she was wonderful." "I'll say so." "Say, I got a bright idea." "Instead of hanging around this dump, why don't you grab the Lexington Ave. local and go up and catch the show?" "Do you really think I could?" "Sure." "I can't take you myself, I have a heavy date." "But my kid brother, Slim, he'll take you." "He's a nice guy, too." "Okay with you?" "Yes." "All right, I'll get him right down." "512, sweetheart." "Slim?" "Come right down." "I got a job for you." "Yeah, yeah." "Sorry the seats ain't so hot but the show's almost over." "Sit down!" "What are you looking at, punk?" "We oughta pension off that faded old blonde." "Yeah, she's all worked up anyway, look at that." "Let's go away from here, please." "Okay, I'll take you back to your ma." "All right." "All right, tag along this side." "Mommy!" "April, baby!" "I don't know whether I done right bringing her up here, Kitty." "but she was all harped up in seeing you." "We thought it would be a nice surprise." "It sure was, you did just right." "Oh, my, look at this girl..." "Well, guess I'll be edging along." "So long everybody." "Bye." "You look like an old lady." "Oh, mother, mommy!" "Oh, dear." "You're so pretty." "Ain't she, Hitch?" "Yes." "Oh, this is Hitch Nelson." "He's the 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 litttle skinny." "Ah, Hitchy." "Ain't he a lemon, though?" "Honest, the things he says to people I meet." "He's a bad one." "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." "Yeah, that's right." "If I had known I could have company like this I... oooh!" "like this, well..." "Angel baby, just as soon as we get out of this joint we'll go down to Gialetta's and we'll sit on the swellest place you ever saw and stuff ourselves flat in the face." "Up short, Kitty." "All right, all right." "Come on, watch me finish the show." "I'd rather stay here if you don't mind." "All right for you then." "Kick'er up, honey." "Got any ideas about going into show business?" "No." "Why not?" "Don't you like it?" "No." "You're a funny kid." "Oh, don't jump." "I ain't gonna bite." "Did you hear that?" "Suppose that was for you, huh?" "Everybody in the whole damn house clapping and yelling." "Going nuts about ya." "Nice?" "No?" "Why not?" "You're a funny kid." "Just a little bit goofy." "But that's what comes from not knowing what it's all about." "Please, Mr. Nelson." "Didn't I ask you to call me Hitch?" "I wanna be your pal, see?" "And if you listen to me you'll let me learn you a couple of dance routines to 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 foolin'." "You take the word of an old cue man." "That's the finale." "Gotta go." "Seeya later, kid." "...and give your baby nights a lovin'..." "Open up your eyes and open up your lips" "Why don't you try to get some sleep, precious?" "I can't." "You oughta be plenty tired after your trip and all." "Oh, I'm tired enough but..." "I don't know." "I feel funny." "All mixed up inside." "Why, precious." "What's the matter?" "Tell mother what's the matter." "Everything is so different from what I thought it would be." "Sure." "You ain't in a convent anymore." "But ain't you glad to be back with me again?" "Yes, mommy darling, but..." "I don't know how to describe it." "But New York's too big, dirty and noisy." "And your theater with all those men... and the girls with no clothes on." "Oh, I suppose it does seem queer to you." "Coming from a place where they cover 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 good at things you'd never expect to see, even if they do make their living shaking." "I ain't ashamed of it." "You shouldn't be ashamed of me neither." "Oh, mommy, I'm not ashamed of you." "Let me tell you something, April, baby." "If it wasn't for the dough I've been piling up that way in the last 10 or 12 years you would never have been to no convent." "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." "Now don't you think I'm going to be in this burlesque racket all my life neither." "Just one more season with my name on Broadway in lights." "And the big dough." "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'll try and make you just as happy." "Oh, I ain't done nothing." "But we've got each other from now on and it's gonna be for always." "Yes, for always." "And we'll be so happy together." "Just you and I." "You said it." "After all, snooks, 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 nights a loving..." "Mommy, about Mr. Nelson" "What about him?" "I don't think he likes me." "Aw, he's crazy about you." "Why, he said so." "Are you going to be married?" "Really?" "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" "Oh, Holy Virgin... by the pain..." "in which our Lord Jesus Christ..." "Bore the burden of our sins... obtain for us by thy intecession the courage and strength" "Follow in his footsteps and bear our cross until the end of our lives." "Amen." "What do you want?" "You'll wake her up." "Get us a drink." "Oh, mommy." "Mommy, the telephone." "All right, baby." "Did you have a good sleep, angel?" "Yes, thank you." "Hello." "Oh, hello, Gus." "Good morning yourself." "Oh, is that all?" "Ok, we'll meet the troupe at the station at three." "That was Gus Weinbaum from the booking office." "We open in Buffalo this week." "Better get up and get dressed, precious." "We gotta start packing." "Got a nice cold grapefruit for you and a swell 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 gotta get married now." "Well, it's up to you, Kitty." "It's okay with me like I told ya, providing that kid of yours is put to work." "She will, honey, she is going to work, but not in show business." "I got other plans for her." "There you go again." "What else can she do, I'm asking ya?" "I mean, here we are, jumping to Buffalo with that... and from there, well, who knows?" "Now if she gets a job in New York that means she can't travel with us." "So, are you planning on leaving her alone here?" "The kid's got a real chance in burlesque." "Don't you see that?" "She's got youth, 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 wanna be in show business." "She said she hates it." "How does a kid like that know what she wants?" "Now listen, Kitty." "I'm not gonna waste any more time arguing." "I'm not gonna get married unless I'm gonna be the boss." "And if I'm gonna be the boss, I say the kid is going into show." "That's final." "I don't know." "Don't be cross at me, Hitch." "I'm trying to do the best all around." "If you think it's the right thing to do..." "Why, sure it is, babes." "You go on in there and get her." "I'll talk to her." "I'll sell her the idea." "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, huh?" "Come on, get her in here." "April!" "April, baby." "Come here." "Mommy wants to talk to you." "Come here, baby." "Come to your daddy." "He's gonna pour a million dollars in gold in your lap." "Here's to the bride and groom." "How's that?" "Rotten." "Now look, now." "Don't!" "What's the matter?" "I don't like to be mauled Too bad about you." "Maybe a good maui would do you good for a change." "This touch-me-not stuff is beginning to give me a pain in the neck." "What's the idea of that?" "It's too hot in here." "Yeah?" "Come on, let's run through that tap routine." "All right." "What's the matter with you?" "You've been in the show eight months and you 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 dance." "And I hate burlesque." "You don't have to stay in burlesque." "Just give me a little cooperation I'll make another Marilyn Miller out of you." "I'm not interested." "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 an ashman or something." "Jeez, you get my goat!" "Why don't to let me alone." "Let you alone?" "Listen, what you need is to have somebody wake you up and make you be human." "I got a good mind to teach you a couple of tricks they'd never learn you in a convent." "You won't teach me anything." "Let go of my wrist." "I met babies like you before, Saint Cecilia." "There's only one way to treat them and that's rough." "There, that's something to think about." "Oh, oh!" "What's going on here?" "It's just that precious infant of yours getting temperamental again." "Don't you two ever stop fighting?" "here I am, working like a dog trying to learn her the business." "Never mind." "What do you think that dirty little Gus Weinbaum pulled on me this morning?" "He said he ain't gonna give me a contract for the new stock season... till 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... to a lousy stag smoker in the Bronx after the show tonight." "Can you beat that for a nerve?" "Me, Kitty Darling, dancing for a lot of drunk stags." "Well, what of it?" "The problem with you and that kid of yours is you're both getting too high-hat." "Why, Hitchy." "What's the matter with you, cookie?" "Oh, nothing." "You hadn't oughta be fighting all the time." "I'd like you'd to 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 Bronx gorillas." "On such a hot night." "Well, fifty bucks is fifty bucks." "Ready to go home, mommy?" "No, sweetness, I gotta go to that stag smoker." "Hitch couldn't fix it for me with Gus." "I'll see that you get home okay, April." "I gotta 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 not." "I'll wait outside for you." "Till 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning?" "You're crazy." "Now you go back to the hotel." "I don't want to go back to the hotel with Hitch." "Please, mommy, please." "The girls in the taxi are waiting for you, Miss Darling." "Thanks, Otto." "Now you stop fussing about Hitch." "Be a good girl." "Maybe he'll buy you some chop suey." "I gotta tip him." "Mommy!" "Oh, hey, I've been waiting for you." "Oops!" "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." "Say, listen now, just..." "Say, who do you think you're messing with?" "Stay away!" "Hey, what's this?" "Keep out of this." "She's my girl." "I am not." "He's following me." "On your way, guy, or I'll poke a hole through that pant of yours." "You and Harmony Marines." "You Navy guys think you're tough, don't ya?" "They don't come any tougher." "Got any other odd jobs for the Navy tonight?" "No, thank you so much." "Pretty late for a little girl like you to be wandering around by yourself." "Maybe I'll have to stroll a little way with you." "Oh, please don't bother." "Did you say "bother"?" "Hope you don't think I'm fresh walking along with you like this." "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." "Why don't you go back?" "Say, I think you're trying to get rid of me." "How did you guess?" "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, use your chance." "No, 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 the cut of my gib I'll be on my way." "Well, that seems fair enough." "I always eat after the show anyway." "Now you're talking." "Say, you're nice." "You don't look like a show girl." "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 much 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 got no idea how tough it is to be all alone and lonesome in a city like this." "Maybe I have." "Aw, a girl like you lonesome." "So, 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 sorta fits you." "Sounds sweet, sort of gentle." "Just like I bet you are." "Oh, you say the same thing to every girl you meet." "How could I?" "I never met a girl named April before." "What's your name?" "Tony." "I don't like it much." "Sounds like a white bootblack." "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." "Why the little..." "Hello, Ed?" "Did April come in yet?" "She didn't?" "Are you sure?" "Thanks." "The little..." "Those big waves..." "Gosh, they look to be about as tall as the Woolworth building, pretty near." "They'd come down over the bough, crash." "And the ship would shake like it was gonna split in two." "One big wave after the other." "Boy, all night we didn't know if we was gonna weather it or not." "Well, anyway... next morning the sun was shining the ocean was as smooth as glass." "And right up the starboard was the coast of China." "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 gonna enlist again." "I suppose I will." "Sorry, pal." "Closing time." "But the park is still open." "Okay, skipper." "I had no idea it was so 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." "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." "What do you care?" "My mother will be worried." "I do have to sleep some time." "They have rehearsal at eleven." "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've known each other all our lives." "It's sort of like a dream too, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Pretty soon 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 gonna 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 will now." "A tanker going out with the tide." "Ships have to go out 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 till the tide goes out." "Oh, April, I'm not like the rest of those gobs." "Sometimes I think there are people who were just meant to be lonesome." "You know, and then they'll meet someone for a little while and it gives them something to remember." "So their 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, Tony..." "Well..." "I've got to go home." "I don't want to, but I've got to." "Right." "Let me help you down." "Good night." "Or rather, good morning." "Don't forget tomorrow." "It's a date." "I won't." "I hope I'm gonna 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." "Go right home, now." "Leave that taxi driver alone." "Hello, sailor boy." "Hello, yourself." "What's the rush, sailor boy?" "Well, young lady, where do you think you've been?" "Is mommy in yet?" "Never mind." "Who've you been out with until 5 o'clock in the morning?" "None of your business." "A pickup, huh?" "A pickup just like every other cheap little burlesque dame." "I'm not a cheap little burlesque dame." "No?" "Just an innocent kid from a convent, huh?" "Well get this through your head." "If you're gonna start this stay-out-all-night stuff I'm gonna 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 jake now." "April April, is it true?" "Just one big happy family from now on." "Everything's swell okay." "One big happy family, hooray!" "Oooh, gee wiz, I gotta lie down," "Gee." "Look at all those people down there." "Aren't there a lot of people in the word, though?" "Only two as far as I'm concerned." "Look." "Just look." "I'd hate to fall." "If you did, I'd fall right after you." "Wouldn't that be silly?" "Look, the Woolworth Building." "Yeah." "That's some sight, isn't it?" "Oh, it's wonderful." "You are wonderful." "Well, there's the sea." "Yes." "Look at the old Statue of Liberty." "I bet if I stood here I could see your 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 got an important date tomorrow." "Have you?" "Hm-hm." "And so have you." "We're gonna be married." "Oh, I thought for a minute you were serious." "I am." "You're gonna marry me... and we're going back to my home town in Wisconsin and graze wheat and have a Ford, a radio, well, and several things." "We are not." "Oh, yes we are." "You're gonna marry me." "It's all decided." "I decided it." "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!" "Aw, gee, I'm happy." "Aren't you?" "Yes." "What I know about sailors, they" "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 gotta 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 show business." "My baby angel." "What's the next thing on the program?" "Why, I thought we all might all have dinner some place to celebrate." "Where?" "You gotta make it early." "I have a show." "How about that chop suey place we was at the other night?" "That's fine." "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 boyfreind 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." "This playing around with the Navy's gotta stop." "Oh, let her alone." "She's got a date with her fiancée." "Her what?" "The man she's gonna marry." "Are you trying to kid me?" "No, April's gonna be married." "You're telling me you're gonna allow April to marry some lousy gob?" "Oh, he's all right." "I like him." "We had a long talk." "You had a long talk." "Well, how about consulting me once in a while?" "Oh, turn your dapper down." "Everything's under control." "Oh, it is, is it?" "That's what you say." "Now me just back from a two-hour session at the Keith Office getting our acts set." "What's that got to do with April?" "Everything." "They want her to do it with me." "But that's our act." "Yours and 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 it younger, like April." "She's ideal." "A smile like hers is worth a million dollars." "She's got a swell figure and a pair of legs that..." "Why, she's got more sex-appeal than..." "For a dame you couldn't stand the sight of a few days ago... you seem to be taking a big interest in April and her sex-appeal." "Professionally, sure." "Yeah?" "I wanna see her get ahead." "I got our future in mind." "What about my future?" "Now, beautiful." "Beautiful my eye." "Listen, Hitch Nelson." "Nobody's gonna 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 ya, wise girl." "You don't have to know I spent the whole morning with Gus Weinbaum begging him to keep you in your own show." "What are you trying to give me now?" "Your two weeks is up tonight and Gus is all set to can ya." "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." "Bryant 9483." "We'll just have a little showdown around here." "It will suit me fine." "Hello, I want to speak to Gus Weinbaum." "This is Miss Darling." "Hello, Kitty?" "What's on your mind?" "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 "The Boarding School Girls"." "And it's gotta have somebody in it that's young." "An ingenue lead, see?" "Ingenue lead?" "I know the stuff the boys there out front want..." "I don't know why you shouldn't write that book around me." "You're not gonna 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 in my own terms in ten minutes." "Hello, girlie, get me Bryant 9400." "Hello, I wanna 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 Summer Widows?" "Thought I'd give you first crack instead of fooling around with other stuff." "Well, you better take him." "I got nothing for you." "Twenty managers killed in the rush." "I got plenty of friends in this town." "Ah, save your nickels, you may need them." "None of your wisecracks, Hitch Nelson." "It takes a wise girl to know when to quit and that's no wisecrack." "Quit what?" "Show business." "Can't you see you're all washed out?" "Why, you..." "What have you got left to give'em?" "You've been in it for twenty years." "Why kid yourself?" "You ain't kidding anybody else." "You mind your own business." "I'm not letting any cheap comic tell me how to run my affairs." "Cheap comic, eh?" "If it hadn't been for me telling you how to run your affairs you'd have been through long ago." "You're a joke." "You're just a fat old woman." "Look at yourself in the mirror." "Look at that neck, look at them wrinkles." "You better get wise to yourself and figure out where the coffee and cake's money is coming from next season." "Right in that room is your meal ticket from now on." "And you let her marry some dope from the Brooklyn Navy outright when you needed her most." "She's gonna marry him too, if I have to buy a tin cup and sell pencils on Broadway." "Not after I have a talk with her tonight." "If you dare to open your trap to her tonight we're through." "I'm fired, eh?" "Well, you're wrong." "I quit, see?" "So what do you think of that?" "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 for a while instead of coming to dinner with us." "I think I'd better." "You two don't want any old ladies along anyway." "You run along to your sailor boy." "Mommy." "Mommy." "Tell me, 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 yelling at each other, is that it?" "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." "By tomorrow we'll both of us forget all about it..." "Everything's okay." "Don't let a thing like that get you down." "You run along now see your sailor boy." "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 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 dinner and fix it up." "and there'll be no more talk about it." "All right, mommy." "I'll fix it up." "And when I come to the theater tonight I wanna be sure you're gonna tell me everything's okay." "It will be." "It will be." "Come on now, kitten." "You gotta do this." "And don't worry about me." "I'm not a black number yet." "I know, mommy." "Boy, that's happy music." "Just for us." "Wanna dance?" "No." "Wish you didn't have to work tonight." "We could go to Coney Island." "I don't like Coney Island." "Aw, come on, you don't." "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." "Tony, I'll tell you." "I don't know how to say it, but..." "Tony, I don't want to get married." "Say, don't say things like that, I got a week heart." "Tony, I mean it." "I like 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." "I don't think you'll be able to understand, but..." "Being born on the stage and all well, getting married and leaving, 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 footlights." "and to 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 it through your head right now." "This is it, really." "Mother signed a new contract today for a new show." "And there's a chance for me to go with her in a splendid part." "If I don't take it I know I'll be sorry all my life." "Then we'll both be miserable." "But listen, honey." "That's no life for you." "Well, I'm not so sure that married life in some godforsaken farm is a life for me either." "After all, I'm young." "People tell me I'm pretty." "Here I've got a big chance." "I might be a star." "Now, I ask you, Tony... what girl wouldn't grab at the chance to land on Broadway in a big show?" "None, I suppose." "Not since you're locked to them." "Let's pray it ended up with nothing to be locked with right now." "Tony, don't look at me like that." "Makes me feel terrible." "I really think you're an awfully sweet boy, but after all, when it comes to love, why, I've only known you five days." "You 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." "Just the same." "Go to lots of parties." "Why, we might even still be engaged." "No." "I wouldn't want to feel like I'm tying you down." "Guess I'd better go back to my ship." "You mean, enlist again?" "Yeah." "Sailing for the West Indies." "I've always wanted to see the West Indies." "But you'll come back." "Sure, some day." "What time is it?" "Eight o'clock, almost." "I could just make it if I hurry." "Tony!" "You're angry with me." "I didn't want you to be." "Tony, please try not to hate me." "Please try to understand." "This was the best way for us both." "I don't hate you." "I just gotta hurry, that's all." "You ought to be getting down to your show too, don't you?" "I'll walk to the subway with you." "It's on my way." "You'll be late." "I don't care." "Check, please." "Seventh floor, mam." "Good night, Jim, I'll see you in the morning." "Good night, honey." "Well, thanks for coming down with me, April." "Oh, that was all right." "Well, here's my train." "Bye, April." "Bye, Tony." "Don't cry, kid." "There'll be another one along any minute." "Cheer up." "April!" "April!" "April!" "April!" "April!" "Aw, be quiet!" "Where's April?" "Where's April?" "Mother!" "What's the matter?" "Help me to my dressing room" "Well I'll be..." "Where did she get?" "Mother, you're sick." "Don't worry about me." "Is everything all right?" "Everything's fine." "Are you gonna be married right away?" "No, I sent him back to his ship, ma." "What's this you're saying?" "You lie down, you'll feel better." "Tell me, tell me." "Don't worry, it's all over." "I sent him away." "I guess it is jolly life on board." "It's a good thing we found out in time." "Oh, nothing matters now but you, mommy." "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?" "Mommy, 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?" "Drunk as a fool, look at her lying there, the gin-soaked old..." "You let my mother alone!" "You men make me sick." "You don't care about anything as long as you can shove somebody on your filthy stage." "and make them shake for a bunch of gorillas." "Yeah?" "Well that talk don't get me anywhere." "So far as I'm concerned Kitty Darling's finished." "Here I talk to Gus Weinbaum trying to keep her in the show here... and look at her, blind, paralyzed, Saturday night with nobody to take her place." "I'll take her place." "I'll get out there and get those gorillas your money's worth." "Now what do you think of that?" "Me take a chance on a dumb chorus girl to fill a specialty number?" "You're crazy!" "Listen, she ain't so dumb." "I've been rehearsing her for weeks." "She's swell, I'm telling ya." "Anyway ain't it be better take a chance with the kid?" "Well, maybe it is." "Hop to it, kid." "But you'd better be good." "Come on, baby, wake up." "Oh, 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 talkin'." "You get out of my way." "Well I'll be..." "Come on, get out there and play again." "No!" "Come on, get out there." "No!" "Come on, girls, get out there." "Do something." "Go ahead, get onstage there..." "Come on, you get onstage too." "Tony!" "Tony!" "I came back because I thought, well, maybe..." "Take me away from this terrible place." "You mean it?" "I never want to be in the stage again." "You know, I had a hunch you weren't telling me the truth." "Aw, come on, what's it all about?" "It's mother." "Tony, I can't go away and leave her now." "She's sick." "She needs a home." "Then 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." "It would be wonderful if she would." "We'll always be together, won't we?" "Yes, honey." "All three of us." "All three of us." "Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes"