Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

When I speak All the papers hold their deadlines
All right, not on the mouth. Come here.
Just full of news, aren't you? Telling me all kinds of things, huh?
Don't print that Off the record
- Music? - We promised Dietz and Goff.
The booking office has been calling up all day...
...plain as any name can be.
- Close it? - Close it.
His writing, his song, why, even his walk and his talk...
...in a show called Peck's Bad Boy.
...50 percent of me will always be here in this office.
- Here, chick, chick, chick. - Heh.
That doggone town
I want to make sure that everybody knows it was written for me.
And I read the critics... Pfft.
Guys who had never been past the corner cigar store...
She wasn't gay or airy...
There will be five more performances.
- Thanks. Thanks very much. - Congratulations.
Here, chick, chick, chick.
Well, it was a wow. I haven't laughed so much in years.
Only 45 minutes
- Harrigan - That's me
We'll give your regards to Broadway
And we won't come back Till it's over
"Yankee Doodle Candy."
Manhattan went wild with postwar hysteria.
Now, don't ask me why it is, but it happens every time the curtain goes up.
And quite often, he isn't the best judge of how much he has given.
You have the leading part, yes.
You sit right here. You sit right here, and I will give you an idea of what I mean.
Cohan may find out he isn't either one.
And what's more, I phoned Sam right back and told him I'd play it.
A George M....? Oh, I see.
Mary
...and lose a little.
- Watch that water! - Max, I gotta leave.
...some thug nation decides we're a pushover, all ready to be blackjacked.
Nice going.
He doesn't get up that early.
If the hoodlums don't get you, a committee of actors will.
Ten consecutive weeks in New York. That's the big time.
I didn't think you'd care If you should never see me again
Oh, pardon me.
When they see it coming All them babies take a chill
How many curtain calls did you take tonight?
The song is gone. Pull out the lights.
- And the name, please? - Cohan. George M. Cohan.
And then came your wire, and I was really worried.
Courage, Emily, courage.
Why, there's a moon out.
Oh, yes, he's going to give work to the act any day now.
The Yanks are coming
It's pleasant at the White House But I'll tell you how I feel
May I have your autograph, Mr. Cohan?
From now on I'm Peck's bad boy only from 8:30 till 11 in the evening.
...from the earth.
You must be hungry after seven shows.
When does he get time to practice?
Jerry and I have seen a lot of chickens in train windows...
Double R-I
Naturally, they don't remember you. Nobody's got that good a memory.
Cohan. George M. Cohan.
Hurrah, hurrah
Well, that settled it.
...in The Yankee Prince.
Well, it's a good sign. They probably couldn't tear themselves away.
They tell me when he tries to sing, the orchestra puts up umbrellas.
But I love the name Billie
Good luck, kid.
We can pick it up on the way back.
A real live nephew Of my Uncle Sam
Now, watch carefully now.
You're not gonna break up the act.
"George M. Cohan, the Alvin Theater, New York.
We have no time to listen to that junk.
- Any messages come for me? - Not yet.
It's so inspiring
...on the Fourth of July, what about George Washington Cohan?
No, no, no. We've been billed as The Four Cohans.
So prepare Say a prayer
If positions were reversed, he'd help you out. You know he would.
Oh, darling, that's a lovely watch. Heh.
The land I love
Hey, George, there's a young lady, would like to talk to you.
That's just some more of that Harris con.
Have I your permission?
Oh, I like it. I like it because it's small.
Remember me to Herald Square
Yankee Doodle came to London Just to ride the ponies
Oh. What's your name, sir?
Like the wandering minstrel
Nellie.
The better notices you get on minstrel shows, the more it costs you.
I don't see how George does it at his age.
Mom's been working on the wedding dress for weeks.
I have slouched along the way
Well, hello there.
Where there's never a boast or brag
Turkey? I hear it's pretty good.
Hurrah, hurrah
Your songs were a symbol of the American spirit.
He ran away to the Civil War when he was 13.
Well, it's always been a dream of ours, Mary.
- I hope you haven't outgrown the habit. - Not a chance.
Over there
Do you know what this is?
Aren't you going roller-skating with that, tlick-tlick, Pipperino?
That's my department.
Yankee Doodle came to London.
- Maybe something wrong with Mom and Dad. - I've got reports on the minstrel show.
I said, "My mother thanks you...
...the family of George M. Cohan, the new Broadway sensation."
...I want you to know I'm darn glad I did.
You're doing a George M. Cohan lyric to a George M. Cohan melody.
Well, if I said anything accidental to make you mad...
Mm-hm. Ahem.
George, I'm afraid your mother and I are breaking up the act before Josie is.
I was born in Virginia
So prepare Say a prayer
...Mary...
- Must you give it? - Well, I don't know.
- You approach her and very tactfully too. - Well, if it's tact that does it, it's done.
- You... You... - Heh-heh-heh. Oh!
...and, well, we're just not ready to open.
Asking impossible terms and conditions.
Oh, no, no, no. Of course not.
There's no one can teach the same
...but if they want our act, they'll have to take him too.
- I'm not in the parade. I want to get through. - Not a chance, brother.
- I gotta find out what's happening. - Oh, for heaven's sake, Jerry.
All right. Come on. There's a piano in the private room.
Go broke that she's a hot potato She's a red-hot radiator
Oh, I know you can improve, if you want to.
Hmm.
The Irish are at the head of the parade.