Be Yourself! (1930) - full transcript
In the nightclub where entertainer Fannie Field sings, two rivals for her favors, Jerry Moore and Mac McCloskey, come to blows before either realizes the other is a boxer. Jerry loses the fight but wins Fannie, who becomes his trainer with the aid of her schlemiel brother. Aside from a slight tendency to lie down in the ring, Jerry is successful. But success brings the inevitable blonde; does this mean heartbreak for Fannie? Features the star's inimitable ethnic humor.
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Hello, Mac.
Hello, Step.
Great fight tonight.
Did you like it?
Great.
The boys are waiting for you.
Hello, Bill.
How are you?
Hiya, Frank.
Hello, you all.
Mac, my boy, I'm proud of you.
Hello, Mac.
That was some fight you put up there.
Did you like it?
I'll say I did.
Mountains snap their fingers at times
since this old world began.
But they're mole hills compared
to the mountains you'll climb
when a gal cares for a man.
Rivers have been flowing for years,
part of the mighty plan.
But they're ripples compared
to the river of tears
when a gal weeps for a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
Mansion or furnished room, she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Sharing his pain and ills
both going through the mill
Just being miserable gives her a thrill
when a woman loves a man.
He may be conceited,
a weakling who cheated
But still one woman in town
can't help but feel
that some day he'll settle down.
When you pile up your seven seas
mountains and rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
when a woman loves a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
Hello, Lil.
Mansion or furnished room,
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Sharing his pain and ills
both going through the mill
See you later, sweetheart.
Okay, honey, I'll be right here.
... When a woman loves a man... Okay?
Don't forget.
He may be conceited,
a weakling who's cheated
But still one woman in town
can't help but feel
that some day he'll settle down.
Pile up the seven seas
mountains, rocks and trees
you're up against a thing
stronger than these
When a woman loves a man.
Crooked or on the square
Mansion or furnished room,
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
Furnished ah...
room with a...
just being satisfied knowing...
when a woman loves a man.
Pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
...a weakling who cheated
but still one woman in town
can't help but feel that
someday
he'll settle down,
pooh-pooh-pa-doo...
Pile up the seven seas
... rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
when a woman
pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
Doesn't your elbow ever get tired?
I'm giving a party.
A party?
To whom?
To me. I just canned my manager.
I'm looking for another one.
Do you know one?
Keep training on that
and you wouldn't need a manager.
Well, I certainly don't need one
around here.
These heels in this town
won't fight me.
I got 'em scared.
I'm gonna leave this bird
flat on its so and so.
Going away?
Why not? An outsider's
got no chance around here.
You couldn't break into a fight game
with a crowbar.
They got it all sewed up.
It's a racket.
So is tennis.
But you got to be sober to play it.
Liquor never hurt my old man.
He's been drinking all his life
and he's 80 years old.
Wait. It'll get him.
Well, as far as I'm concerned,
you can have me right now.
I'll be sorry to see you go, Jerry.
Yeah?
You're a funny girl, Fannie.
I gotta be.
That's how I make my living.
No. I mean you pass up these other mugs
around here
and come over and sit down with me.
Why?
I don't know.
Maybe it's because you seem
kinda lonesome.
And I've taken you for a
square shooter.
And then again maybe it's because sometimes
you seem like a little boy.
You know, Fannie...
when you ain't clownin'
You ain't bad lookin'.
Honest?
Hey, Fannie.
I got some friends here
I want you to meet.
By and by, Mac.
But I want you to meet 'em now.
Oh, I'm having too good a time right here.
Aw, come on.
Scram!
You slug nutty ape,
don't tell me to scram.
Well, then, amscray!
Oh, Mac, what's the matter with you?
You're acting like a little baby.
Certainly.
Who do you think you...
Who do you think you are, anyway?
I'll show you who I am.
Sit down, Mac.
Sit down.
This guy don't like the way I talk.
He wants to know who I am.
All right, Mac, all right.
Listen, honey,
you're too big a guy to hit anyone
outside the ring.
Why, a great fighter like you don't start
brawls in a caf?.
Besides, you have your reputation
to consider.
Yeah, I guess you're right, Lil.
I gotta think about my reputation.
But somebody better tip that ape off
who I am.
You know it's lucky for that
cheese champ
I didn't take a pump at him.
He's got all the luck.
Ain't it the truth?
Better get ready
for your next number, Fannie.
I'm coming right along, Step.
Stick around, I'll be back.
Say, listen.
Lay off those window washers.
Those pooh-pooh-padooh-
pooh-poops.
If anyone said that to me
I'd turn on him like a flash.
I looked him right in the eye
and told the big Bozo
if he didn't marry me I'd shoot myself.
And what did he say?
You should have seen his face
when he begged me for time to think it over.
I told him he had to make up his mind
and let me know by tonight.
Yeah?
Sure.
Come in.
Package for you, Miss Wilson.
Thanks.
It's from him.
A wedding present.
Ain't it exciting?
Well, I never could say
he wasn't liberal.
A gun!
Well, of all the dirty low-down tricks.
Somebody sent you a present?
He must think a lot of you.
The dirty tramp.
What do you want to call him names for?
He figured a poor little innocent girl
like you needed something for protection.
Oh, yeah?
It ain't his fault if it came
five years too late.
Oh, you think you're funny,
don't you?
That's McCloskey, he's always butting
in here.
I don't want to see that pest.
Fannie, if you're not in,
why don't you say so?
I'm not in.
Oh, your brother.
Yeah, that bright young lawyer.
Are you decent?
Where's Fannie?
Fannie, congratulations.
Congratulations, thanks.
Congratulations, thank you.
I won, I won, Fannie.
Verdict for the plaintiff
on a fifty-fifty basis, and I get half.
Half! The jury just brought it in.
I wanted you to be the first
to hear it.
You mean you won a case?
My first first important litigation.
Didn't I tell you, Fannie,
I couldn't lose?
Not under section 346 of our Code.
The minute I said it to the judge,
he said to me, Harry, my boy...
I beg your pardon?
What kind of a case was it?
Oh, damages.
Damages for difammation of my client's
character.
Two hundred thousand dollars, I sued for.
How much was the verdict?
From 3 o'clock till just now
the jury was out deliberating.
Tomorrow you'll see it in all the papers.
I gave all the reporters a copy
of my speech.
You think I'm a fool?
Yeah, but how much was the verdict?
Of course, I could have sued under Section 541
but I picked Section 346 because
it also provided for putative damages
Smart, ain't it?
Harry, how much?
Fannie, don't be so mercenary.
I'm telling you,
I won my first big case.
Think of the glory when you see...
Never mind the glory.
What I want to know is how much
did you win?
Well, the verdict was for 6 cents.
Six c...
Yeah, but the very fact
that the verdict was in my favor
definitely makes it...
Six cents.
And you get half.
Three cents.
What's the matter with you there?
Well, now you can buy an envelope
and a two-cent stamp
and you can write home
and tell Mama.
And for that I paid three years
in Law School,
two years' office rent.
He had to be a lawyer.
Nothing else would do.
A lawyer he had to be.
(IN YIDDISH)
That's all right, Fannie.
You'll get it all back someday.
Yeah, three cents.
Now that I've broken the ice
you can never can tell
what's going to happen.
What's this?
Under Section 729 it's a felony to possess
a deadly weapon.
Oh, a guy sent it to me.
If he meant it as an insult
I think you've got a very good suit
under Section...
819, yes, 819.
Yeah, well I'll sue him for worse
than that
if he don't marry me.
Say, breech of promise is a good case,
too.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll take your case fifty-fifty
and believe me,
you couldn't do better no place...
Second number Fannie.
Okay.
...because I know all the judges
and if you listen to me
I could get you at least...
Six cents!
Please, Fannie, who's asking you?
I had a similar case once with
Mathilda Levcovitch
Her uncle M. Levcovitch came to me
and told me that Montgomery Levcovitch
said to her...
Listen, Miss Ritz,
I didn't ask you to come
to my table
just to hear myself talk.
Get me?
Hey, if you wanna hold hands
with somebody, I'd be delighted.
Sit down, Jerry. Relax.
Mac's only clowning.
If you got any complaints to make
we got a special department for them.
Stay right here.
I'm gonna go change.
Take my advice.
Don't even shake hands with him.
Unless you shake both of them.
Go to your rooms. There's a fight!
What's going on here?
Who's fighting?
Hey, what's the matter?
Cut out your shoving.
Who's shoving? You're shoving me
I'm not shoving you.
Aw, that's a lie, cut it out, that's all.
I'm a lawyer, I can...
Bring him in here.
All you girls go to your rooms.
I'll need witnesses.
Get names and addresses.
Everyone who saw the assault.
You understand?
What are you standing here
like dummies?
I'm telling you I need witnesses.
Go out and get witnesses...
What's the matter with you?
Standing and looking here.
Well, you finally got a fight.
I'd like to see this guy fight
when he isn't drunk.
Maybe when he isn't drunk
he wouldn't fight.
This guy's got a real wallop.
Yes?
He fought McCloskey once.
Is that possible?
Did I kill him?
Not yet.
He's still breathing a little.
What hospital did they take him to?
I always send him flowers.
Well, this time you won't have
to bother.
Are you all right, kid?
All right?
He never touched me.
How could you say such a thing,
"he never touched me."
Why, it was a malicious unprovoked assault.
For nothing, for nothing at all
a guy jumps up and he hits you.
He did not, I hit him first.
Oh, you, you, you...
you shlemiel...
You don't know what you're
talking about.
He hit you first.
Oh, go on, I hit him first.
Fannie.
If my brother says he hit you first,
he hit you first.
Yeah?
It's a clear case of assault and battery.
Well he couldn't do nothing to me for it,
could he?
I'm gonna sue him.
You are?
Yes, damages.
Heavy damages.
And I think under Section 952
I might even make it with intent to kill.
But I didn't intend to kil him.
No, he hit you with intent to kill.
He did not, I hit him.
My brother says he hit you
with intent to kill.
And if my brother says he hit you
with intent to kill
You're already dead.
I'll kill him if I ever get him in a ring.
He might at that.
Say, kid, who's your manager?
I ain't got any,
but all I need is a good manager...
But you got a good lawyer.
Sure, you got a good lawyer.
Step, you really think the kid's got it?
Sure looked it out there.
You say he did have a wallop,
didn't he?
Wallop? Say, when he landed that right
to McCloskey's jaw
it looked like curtains for McCloskey.
You want a manager?
You've got a manager.
Yeah, where is he?
Him.
I, I, I, I'm a lawyer.
No, you're a manager.
Harry, don't argue with me,
I've had an idea.
Don't get me angry, listen,
I'm telling you, you're a...
Harry, you're a manager.
All right, I'm a manager.
So, all right.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two. One, two.
Fannie.
What?
Please, come quick.
I want to talk to you very privately.
One, two.
One, two. One, two...
Fannie, it'a a calamity.
It's worse, it's a catastrophe.
It's, it's, it's terrible.
Here, look for yourself.
Read there.
The second preliminary
on tomorrow night's card
is a four-round bop between Slug McNut
and Jerry Moore.
How Moore got on the card at all
is a mystery.
He hails from Racine, Wisconsin,
where he has a record of four fights.
He won the technical decision over
Sandy Brown.
Read, read. read further.
He won the technical decision over
Sandy Brown by claiming a foul.
His second fight was with Cocky Wexler.
He dropped to his back in the
second round
and again claimed a foul
but the referee counted him out.
Next he was matched up against
Dopey Dwyer
Again he dropped to his back
in the first round
but was saved by the bell
at the count of eight.
He failed to come back for the
second round
claiming he had been doped.
His last fight in Racine was with
Lefty Schnitzler
Lefty landed a light left hook
to the stomach
and Moore promptly dropped
on his back.
Instead of counting him out,
the referee picked him up and rushed him
out of the ring
to save him from mob violence.
That was the last scene of him in Racine.
Here is one guy that you can't knock
off his back.
He's a dog.
He's a lay-down dog.
Maybe it ain't as bad as it sounds.
Let's look.
Fannie!
He's still on his back.
On his back?
Would you like a pillow?
Look. The cord broke.
Look, the cord broke!
Get off your back, you turtle.
I gotta lie down once in a while.
Once in a while?
With him it's a habit.
Get up on those round heels.
Let me rest. That's a tough guy I'm
up against tomorrow night.
Yeah?
Well, read that.
If I'm not asking too much,
would you mind sitting up?
Them newspaper guys has always
been sore at me.
Yeah, you and Peggy Joyce.
Who's she?
Listen,
I had to flip that matchmaker 200 dollars
to get you into this fight.
I did it because I thought
you could scrap
and I wanted to give you a chance.
I spent 15 hundred dollars
training you.
Why, this stuff alone cost me $920.
And it wouldn't bring $150 in a foresale.
Who's asking you?
I made a statement.
Why didn't you tell me you had
sleeping sickness?
I tell you it was the booze that made
him fight in the caf?.
He's a booze fighter.
Hey, pipe down, sawyer.
Sawyer? I don't even know him.
Tomorrow night you fight to win.
That's something new to you,
ain't it?
What do you mean?
I mean you gotta win.
But not by yelling foul the first time
you're hit below the eyes.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Turn out the lights,
them guys wanna be alone.
Aw, pluck him, he's a ham.
Break!
Break it up!
Come on, break it.
Now listen you guys,
get in here and fight.
I mean the both of you.
Get together, come on!
Say, they oughta kill that guy
and his manager too.
Hey, turn on the lights.
I wanna read.
Come on, Jerry, give it to him.
Go on!
Fannie, look!
He's on his back!
Get off your back!
Get off your back, you turtle.
Get off your back! Get up!
You heard me. Get up!
Fannie, he can fight.
Yeah, if he'll stay off his back.
Mornings, I'll be gettin' up
Mornin's I'll be settin' up
a tiny table for two.
Breakfast, I'll be making his breakfast
he'll be taking his shave and
his shower.
My happy hour.
The coffee is steamin'
Oh, boy, what I'm dreamin'
while I'm cookin' breakfast
for the one I love.
My baby likes bacon
and that's what I'm bakin'
while I'm cookin' breakfast
For the one I love
Our life has been so nice and chummy
right from the start
When I won his tummy
I won his heart.
My baby is happy.
No wonder I'm happy
while I'm cooking breakfast
for the one I love.
I'm bakin' that biscuit
He's willing to risk it
while I'm cookin' breakfast
for the one I love.
He's crazy for grapefruit
I'd rather have grape-nuts
While I'm cooking breakfast
For the one I love.
A plate of steaming oatmeal
Taste it!
Aw, schucks!
Who the heck wants oatmeal
sprinkled with Lux?
To show that he's grateful
He eats a big plateful.
And faints right after breakfast
For the one I love.
Ah, good morning. I see you're waiting
for me, as usual.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Who could that be?
I don't know.
Hey, listen, you.
What's the idea of attaching my
share of the game
on the Merillo fight tonight?
You've been tailing me long enough
with that joke suit of yours.
Joke? I'm laughing to you.
Oh, I'm wise to you.
You're trying to get my goat.
Goat? I don't want your goat.
I want damages.
He wouldn't have gone to court.
It's all your doing,
you cheap little scheister.
Scheister? I warn you under Section 541,
difammation of character.
I oughta take a smack at you.
Look out. Section 428 provides
and now I am under Section 513.
With glasses on. Come on, touch me,
touch me.
I'm gonna tear you apart.
Wait a minute!
Tear me apart. As if I was afraid.
You ain't gonna tear nobody apart.
Oh, no? Who's gonna stop me?
Who do you think?
Wait.
Don't fight here. Fight in the ring.
Where you get paid for it.
I'd like to get that Bozo in the ring.
Well, that could be arranged.
What I want is this attachment off.
When I fight
I don't want nothing bothering me.
Oh, you want to settle out of court.
Well, that could be arranged
amicably or legally.
What's your proposition?
What right have you to attach
my dough?
Because under Section 1122...
Harry, will you stop talking in sections.
Tell him what we want.
Mr McCloskey...
If you will agree to give my client
a match
my client will agree to withdraw the suit.
Fight him? With pleasure.
All right. Then I'll send you up
the papers tomorrow to sign.
Then I'll witdraw the suit
and remove the attachment.
Okay.
Say, if he can sue me
for what I did to him in the caf?
they can send me to the chair
for what I'll do to him in the ring
A laughing hiena.
Hey, is that guy laughing at me?
Let him laugh.
He's so dumb he don't know that
he who laughs last
lasts laugh... laughs...
last laugh...
You know the one I mean.
The one about laughin'.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Didn't I tell you
I'd get you your first big chance?
Yeah.
You see how it worked?
Maybe I didn't send you
through Law School for nothing.
And he can't back out.
Because under Section 296 a verbal agreement...
Is not worth the paper it's written on.
Fannie, how could you say a thing...
Eat, eat, eat.
All right, I'll eat.
Thank you.
But anyhow I'm the one that
put it over, you must admit this.
You put it over?
Oh, Harry, how can you say that?
I'm not saying...
Now, listen, Harry.
You know it was me that winked at you.
I admit that you winked...
You never would have thought of it.
Now, Harry, listen,
they were gonna fight
and I said...
don't fight here, go fight in a ring.
Yes.
Yes, you said that.
I give in to you there...
Listen, Harry, give me credit.
I'm giving you credit...
Harry, I put it over.
You put it over?
Yeah.
All right, you put it over.
Am I saying anything? Eat.
So I'll eat.
But...
You put it over.
McCloskey shoots the right across
to Jerry's chin, just missed...
Jerry folds up after that one.
I don't blame him.
They clinch. Moore ties up
another cut coming out.
It makes McClosky sore
and he tears after Jerry
shooting right and left to the body.
It's beginning to look like a fight.
Moore is sure taking them,
McCloskey leads again...
Jerry is recovering as we go...
He shoots the right across to
McCloskey's chin, no harm done...
This boy is tough!
Jerry is wide open and is jolted
by a terrific left hook
that sent him to his heels.
McCloskey aims right at the jaw...
Moore is dragging McCloskey to the right
and a left to the stomach
Moore holding on for dear life...
There goes the bell saving Mr Jerry Moore
at the end of the second round.
Stand by, ladies and gentlemen
for the third round.
Well, Fannie, where do you want
the body sent?
I don't know where Mac lives.
I'll have it sent to your house.
Oh, yeah?
Yes. Listen, you haven't been getting
away with this either.
Who do you think you are?
You and your wisecracks.
Cut the argument here.
Fannie, you're on.
Yeah? Well not for a long time.
There goes the bell for the
third round.
McCloskey dashes out of his corner
Moore meets him halfway
They spar around, both looking
for an opening
Moore leads with a left to the head,
not much steam behind his punches...
McCloskey counters with a left jab
trying to get set with that deadly right
He lets it go and it lands
on the point of Jerry Moore's chin.
Fannie, that's enough, you gotta go.
Not now, just a minute...
Go ahead, we'll call you when
he's knocked down.
Oh, yeah? Who says he's gonna be
knocked down?
I'll be here when you're finished!
You think I'm afraid?
Otto Kahn, the big millionaire
is a man who's crazy for art.
Singing Slovaks,
Greeks and Romanians
look to him for their stunts.
Gaze upon a dainty vocalist
with artistic temperament
and to think that great philanthropist
he wouldn't even give me a cent.
Is there something the matter with Otto Kahn,
or something the matter with me?
I wrote a note and I told him
what a hit I would make
He sent it back and marked it opened
up by mistake.
Why, I'd even get fatter for Otto Kahn
as all prima donnas must be.
I met Galla Hershey
and I trilled like a bird
She handed me a razor without
saying a word.
And if my high C
won't hand over a thrill
I think my tra-la-la-la will.
And the words that I bring
and the song that I sing
is a song of a heart
that's free.
And the words that I bring
and the song that I sing
is a song of a heart
that's free.
McCloskey's still at the peek
Morris is using his famed left
trying a little scientific punch in this round.
McCloskey is wise to this
and he wants to deliver that one too.
They shoot left and right
both boys gather at the center
of the ring,
the referee warns the boys
McCloskey shoots a terrific right
and he missed.
He's punched but he's missin'!
Yeah, but I'll stuff you one,
and I won't miss.
You'll do what?
You heard me.
Listen now, you...
One, two, three, four, five
six, seven, eight, nine
Ten!
McCloskey is out!
And so is this vile friend.
My Jerry won!
My Jerry won!
Jerry won!
Jerry won!
Oh, Hello, Jerry.
Hello, Step.
Great stuff.
Thanks.
There's a table down at the club.
Thanks.
Congratulations, Jerry.
Congratulations, champ.
Hello, Ned.
Gee, you look swell.
Thanks.
Say, I rented this.
Hello, Jerry. Some wallop.
Hello.
Your right's a forker See you later, Jerry.
Thanks.
The coffee is steamin'
Oh, boy, what I'm dreamin'
While I'm cooking breakfast,
breakfast
For the one I love.
Now, my baby likes bacon
so it's bacon I'm makin'
While I'm cookin', cookin' breakfast
For the one I love.
My baby is happy, happy
No wonder I'm happy.
While I'm cookin' breakfast
For the one I love.
Come to me, ye dancing fools
Throw away your golden rules
lovely ladies down in Hades
Satan will be waiting with the pleasure
you crave
Satisfy your appetites
with a thousand wild delights
Earthly troubles fade like bubbles
when you let the devil show you
how to behave
Don't be frightened
and don't believe in Mr Devil's lies
Hallelujah
The Lord is waiting
in the golden skies
So, throw up your hands
sing out your souls
and send the devil where he belongs
kicking a hole in the sky.
Laugh at the rain
laugh at the snow
up on your heels, down on your toes
kicking a hole in the sky
Laugh at your pains,
laugh at your blues
we'll have the rainbows
coming in twos
Kicking a hole in the sky.
Sing Hosannah
when you're upset and cursing
and sing, sing Hosannah
and don't forget God's children
but sing on
This war you won't
and that war you can
and we're warned the times
are heavenly sent
Kicking a hole in the...
Let the devil shovel his hole in...
He can never gather your soul in...
if you'll all just kick him a hole
in the sky.
Well, you came through.
Gee, I'm proud of you.
Are you?
So am I.
I'll see you in the dressing room
after the next song.
All right.
Hello, Lil.
Hello, Jerry.
I just came over to tell you
how happy I am.
Yeah?
It's time somebody
licked that big bag of wind.
And I'm tickled to death
it was you that done it.
What?
I know you're surprised my talking
this way.
But I've been rooting for you.
Yes, I have.
Ever since that night he talked to you
when you were drinking.
Do you remember how I dragged
him away?
But I thought you was...
I know.
You thought I was sweet on him.
Say...
why, I couldn't fall for that guy.
I have to be nice to him.
You know, he's a big spender here.
You understand.
Don't you, Jerry?
Oh, sure, sure, I understand.
I'm giving a little party
up at the house tonight.
I'd sure like to have you come up.
Fannie kind of expects me to be
with her...
I know,
but you're entitled to some fun.
I'm just crazy to have you.
Won't you, Jerry?
Please.
Well, er... er...
But I gotta give credit,
where credit is due,
and Jerry deserves an awful
lot of credit
because he followed my instructions
to the letter.
If prize fighters would only realize
what a good lawyer could do for them
Yessir, every paper that he signed
was legally 100% correct.
And if you girls don't think I'm
gonna make him the world's champion...
you're even dumber
than I thought you were.
You're gonna make him the world's champion.
Well, that is, of course, provided
he doesn't lose his head.
You mean, if he doesn't lose my head.
Maybe.
And besides being a great fighter
you'd be handsome if it wasn't
for that nose.
What's the matter with my nose?
Jerry, why don't you have it fixed?
Hm?
You'd look swell.
Honest you would.
Aw, you're kidding me.
No, I'm on the level.
The one consuming passion of my life
is not to play a fiddle or a pipe.
I want to be a dancer
my spirit fancy free
(...)
I long to be so slender and so slim.
To show my limb
to him and him and him
My dress is a cocoon
If I don't breathe I'll swoon
Oh, I can't get this outfit
off too soon
I'll take it off, yes I will,
no I wouldn't...
Oh, it's gorgeous to be graceful
to fleet and float and fly.
to make like this and make
like that
and let the evening breeze go by.
In public I'm Phoenecian
but Grecian on the sly
I bought myself a bearskin
It makes me so appealing
When I dance in my bearskin
I show a lot of feeling
Oh, it's gorgeous to be graceful
(...)
It's gorgeous to be graceful
and to fleet and float and fly.
You won't disappoint me,
will you, Jerry?
I'll see you later.
Come in.
Gee, Fannie, you was funny.
Did you like it, Jerry?
I like everything you do.
That dance certainly is hard work,
ain't it?
It sure is.
It always tires me out.
Yeah.
Guess you're pretty tired yourself.
Yeah, I am.
That was a tough scrap I had.
Would you mind very much
if I didn't wait for you tonight?
If you don't want to wait, Jerry,
it's all right with me.
Well, you understand...
Sure.
I understand.
Well...
Good night.
Good night, Jerry.
Hey, I wonder how much it would cost
to get this nose of mine fixed up.
You mean by one of those
trick surgeons?
Well, I wouldn't want no carpenter
doing it.
I imagine it costs plenty.
What's the use of having it fixed
when some guy will come along and unfix it?
What guy?
Say, I look like a different person.
Don't I?
I'll say so.
Didn't I tell you you'd be handsome?
You know, a lot of people is gonna be
surprised when they see me, eh, Lil?
You're the only one that knows
about it.
I'm gonna be awfully proud of you,
Jerry.
That's why I done it.
Somebody's at the door.
Hello, Fannie.
Hello, Jerry.
So this is where you've been
hanging out.
So you had it fixed, eh?
I'm pretty good lookin' now,
eh, Fannie?
Yeah, you'll look great steppin'
into the ring.
Thanks.
But when they carry you out...
Hey, listen, the Bozo don't live
that can mess up my nose.
No wonder I couldn't find you
for the past two weeks.
Hello, Fannie.
Oh...
You.
Swell apartment.
Swell nose.
Swell dame.
And for you a swell finish.
What do you mean?
They come and go with you,
don't they?
One champ after the other.
It's a very good idea,
don't you think, Fannie?
I'll give you a better idea.
You leave him alone.
He's got a career ahead of him.
And he don't need a tramp
like you to ruin him.
Don't you dare call me a tramp.
You've never been anything else but a tramp.
Don't talk like that to her,
Fannie.
She's gonna hear
what I've gotta say and like it.
And you too, you big boob.
You weren't fooling me.
I knew you were running around
with her.
But I thought you'd get wise
to yourself.
Why, a blind man can see
what she is.
Fannie, you got no right
to talk like this.
She's heard worse than anything
I've said.
Let her tell you what Mac's wife
said to her when she took up with him.
Oh, go ahead, rave on.
I'll do worse than rave.
No, you won't.
I won't let you.
Not about my future wife.
Your what?
Sure, me and Lil's gonna get married.
Oh, that's how it is.
Yes, that's how it is.
If you have anything more
to tell on me
spill it right now, or shut
your big mouth and get out.
So you think she's gonna marry you.
What an awakening you're
gonna have.
Aw, Fannie, why can't we all
be friends?
I'll always be your friend, Jerry.
And you'll keep right on being
me manager.
You know you're the real manager.
Sure, I'll manage you.
Anything you say.
Of course, Jerry and I always did appreciate
that you were a good businesswoman.
That's what I am, a businesswoman?
That's all it's ever been with us,
Jerry.
Business.
Sure, that's all.
That's all.
Mountains snap their fingers
at times
since this whole world began
But they're mole hills compared
to the mountains she'll climb
when a gal cares for a man.
Rivers have been flowing for years
part of the mighty plan
But they're ripples compared
to the river of tears
when a gal weeps for a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
mansion or furnished room
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Fannie certainly puts a lot of feeling
into that song, don't she?
Both going through the mill...
Jerry, darling,
please fasten this for me.
Just being miserable
gives her a thrill.
Thank you, honey.
When a woman loves a man.
He may be conceited, a weakling
who cheated
But still one woman in town
Can't help but feel that some day
he'll settle down
Pile up the seven seas
mountains and rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
When a woman...
loves...
a man.
Oh, hello, Fannie.
Fannie, I tell you, will you laugh.
I just heard one of the funniest stories
I ever heard in my life.
I don't want to hear it.
You're not acting like yourself
at all, Fannie.
You haven't been for the last
four weeks.
And I can't bear to see you
like this.
Honest, you're making me
very unhappy.
And you shouldn't do it.
Even if you've lost that prize fighter,
you've still got me.
And besides, what have you got
to be unhappy about?
You've got your health,
you're making good money.
You're getting offers from
Broadway managers.
Why, you're a big success, Fannie.
And if you listen to me...
Harry.
Yes, dear.
Will you do me a favor?
Sure.
Leave me alone.
Leave you alone.
It's sad enough when a girl like you
grieves herself sick over a cheap
prize fighter.
What do you see in him, anyhow?
Just answer me this, tell me.
What do you see in him?
I wouldn't care
if she was on the level.
But she's only a cheap gold digger.
Oh, what's the difference
who takes him?
One gold digger is the same
as the other.
She only wants him while
he's champ.
Then she'll give him the air
like she did Mac.
Oh, he'll see through her in time.
And besides, you know,
we're still his manager.
Yeah.
We're still his manager.
Sure we are.
I'd almost forgotten.
Harry, I want you to do something.
I want you to arrange a return match
with McCloskey.
McCloskey's in great shape.
He's likely to lick him.
Do as I tell you,
see McCloskey's manager.
Tell them they can have a return match,
the sooner the better.
Go on, do it. Do it now.
Fannie...
Oh, Harry, I know what I'm doing.
All right. Don't get excited.
I'll do it.
I've never seen anything like it
in my life.
Everybody's excited around here.
Love. Crazy people.
Why, I didn't think of it before.
You're doing fine.
But what's the idea?
when you had him going,
why didn't you knock him out?
I'm playing with him, I'll murder...
Save your wind, save your wind.
All you have to do is use your left.
Stick the left as fast as you can
and you can't lose.
If you get your left on his face...
Stop talkin'.
Did I say something?
You can't lose, Mac.
Go out there and sock him.
Just sock him.
Smell, smell.
Drink.
Take, take.
It's good for you.
Spit there.
Relax, will ya?
Please!
Keep your left in his face
all the time.
Come on, you got him, Jerry!
That's it, that's it!
Go for the nose.
One!
Go for the nose.
Two!
What are you talking to him for?
Did you hear me?
Go for the nose.
Beat his nose, he'll try to protect it.
The nose, the beezer.
The beezer, the schnozzle...
The beezer, go for the nose.
That's it!
You got him going, Mac.
That's fine! Go on!
That's it. Don't let up on him.
Go on, hit him right on the beezer.
Shut up, will ya.
I know what I'm doin'.
two, three, four...
five, six, seven,
eight, nine, out.
Here, put him here, please.
I want the dope on this.
Wait a minute, boys.
Please, wait a minute.
Give me a chance
I'll give you all a statement as soon as
I know what I'm talking about.
Wait a minute, please.
You see what you've done?
You've lost a championship for us.
What was the idea of yelling
"Hit him in the nose", "Hit him in the beezer"
"Hit him in the schnozzle."
Because I liked his old nose better.
Yeah.
Did I kill him?
Did I kill him?
You should live so long.
Fannie, tell him. Did he kill him?
What are you doing here?
I just came in
to see if I could be of any help.
Yeah, a lot of help you are.
You doublecrossing...
Tipping that guy off
just when I had him licked.
Oh, go on. Get out of here.
You really want me to go?
You made me lose the championship.
Fannie, what did you do it for?
I'm sorry, Jerry.
But somebody had to bring you
to your senses.
A little longer and nothing
could have saved you.
I couldn't stand by and see you
dragged down by somebody like her.
Thanks for the tip, Fanny.
But I'd have knocked him out, anyway.
Yes, you would.
Mac, what are you doing in here?
I came here to tell
this this punch drunk pug
to lay off you from now on.
Lillian, you're not...
Look what you did to his nose,
Mac.
Well, darling, don't be long.
I'll wait for you out in the car.
Right. Now get this.
If I ever catch you with Lil again
I'll beat your ears off.
Are you gonna let him get away
with that?
Get out of here.
You better get out before
he throws you out.
Him throw me out? Ha!
Hey, what is this here?
How many times I have to tell you
you shouldn't fight for nothing.
Let him fight.
Get in there, Jerry.
Use that right!
Get in closer!
Sock him!
Fannie, under Section 219
you can't do a thing like that.
Never mind Section 219.
Hit him in the midsection.
Go on in there, Jerry.
Go on, Jerry, you got him.
You got him, Jerry. You got him.
One,
two, three, four, five
and five are ten.
You're out.
I knew you could do it.
You can lick any guy in the world.
You mean we can.
SUBTITLES: Lu?s Filipe Bernardes
Two...
Three...
Four...
Five...
Six...
Seven...
Eight...
Nine...
Out!
Hello, Mac.
Hello, Step.
Great fight tonight.
Did you like it?
Great.
The boys are waiting for you.
Hello, Bill.
How are you?
Hiya, Frank.
Hello, you all.
Mac, my boy, I'm proud of you.
Hello, Mac.
That was some fight you put up there.
Did you like it?
I'll say I did.
Mountains snap their fingers at times
since this old world began.
But they're mole hills compared
to the mountains you'll climb
when a gal cares for a man.
Rivers have been flowing for years,
part of the mighty plan.
But they're ripples compared
to the river of tears
when a gal weeps for a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
Mansion or furnished room, she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Sharing his pain and ills
both going through the mill
Just being miserable gives her a thrill
when a woman loves a man.
He may be conceited,
a weakling who cheated
But still one woman in town
can't help but feel
that some day he'll settle down.
When you pile up your seven seas
mountains and rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
when a woman loves a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
Hello, Lil.
Mansion or furnished room,
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Sharing his pain and ills
both going through the mill
See you later, sweetheart.
Okay, honey, I'll be right here.
... When a woman loves a man... Okay?
Don't forget.
He may be conceited,
a weakling who's cheated
But still one woman in town
can't help but feel
that some day he'll settle down.
Pile up the seven seas
mountains, rocks and trees
you're up against a thing
stronger than these
When a woman loves a man.
Crooked or on the square
Mansion or furnished room,
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
Furnished ah...
room with a...
just being satisfied knowing...
when a woman loves a man.
Pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
...a weakling who cheated
but still one woman in town
can't help but feel that
someday
he'll settle down,
pooh-pooh-pa-doo...
Pile up the seven seas
... rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
when a woman
pooh-pooh-pa-dooh.
Doesn't your elbow ever get tired?
I'm giving a party.
A party?
To whom?
To me. I just canned my manager.
I'm looking for another one.
Do you know one?
Keep training on that
and you wouldn't need a manager.
Well, I certainly don't need one
around here.
These heels in this town
won't fight me.
I got 'em scared.
I'm gonna leave this bird
flat on its so and so.
Going away?
Why not? An outsider's
got no chance around here.
You couldn't break into a fight game
with a crowbar.
They got it all sewed up.
It's a racket.
So is tennis.
But you got to be sober to play it.
Liquor never hurt my old man.
He's been drinking all his life
and he's 80 years old.
Wait. It'll get him.
Well, as far as I'm concerned,
you can have me right now.
I'll be sorry to see you go, Jerry.
Yeah?
You're a funny girl, Fannie.
I gotta be.
That's how I make my living.
No. I mean you pass up these other mugs
around here
and come over and sit down with me.
Why?
I don't know.
Maybe it's because you seem
kinda lonesome.
And I've taken you for a
square shooter.
And then again maybe it's because sometimes
you seem like a little boy.
You know, Fannie...
when you ain't clownin'
You ain't bad lookin'.
Honest?
Hey, Fannie.
I got some friends here
I want you to meet.
By and by, Mac.
But I want you to meet 'em now.
Oh, I'm having too good a time right here.
Aw, come on.
Scram!
You slug nutty ape,
don't tell me to scram.
Well, then, amscray!
Oh, Mac, what's the matter with you?
You're acting like a little baby.
Certainly.
Who do you think you...
Who do you think you are, anyway?
I'll show you who I am.
Sit down, Mac.
Sit down.
This guy don't like the way I talk.
He wants to know who I am.
All right, Mac, all right.
Listen, honey,
you're too big a guy to hit anyone
outside the ring.
Why, a great fighter like you don't start
brawls in a caf?.
Besides, you have your reputation
to consider.
Yeah, I guess you're right, Lil.
I gotta think about my reputation.
But somebody better tip that ape off
who I am.
You know it's lucky for that
cheese champ
I didn't take a pump at him.
He's got all the luck.
Ain't it the truth?
Better get ready
for your next number, Fannie.
I'm coming right along, Step.
Stick around, I'll be back.
Say, listen.
Lay off those window washers.
Those pooh-pooh-padooh-
pooh-poops.
If anyone said that to me
I'd turn on him like a flash.
I looked him right in the eye
and told the big Bozo
if he didn't marry me I'd shoot myself.
And what did he say?
You should have seen his face
when he begged me for time to think it over.
I told him he had to make up his mind
and let me know by tonight.
Yeah?
Sure.
Come in.
Package for you, Miss Wilson.
Thanks.
It's from him.
A wedding present.
Ain't it exciting?
Well, I never could say
he wasn't liberal.
A gun!
Well, of all the dirty low-down tricks.
Somebody sent you a present?
He must think a lot of you.
The dirty tramp.
What do you want to call him names for?
He figured a poor little innocent girl
like you needed something for protection.
Oh, yeah?
It ain't his fault if it came
five years too late.
Oh, you think you're funny,
don't you?
That's McCloskey, he's always butting
in here.
I don't want to see that pest.
Fannie, if you're not in,
why don't you say so?
I'm not in.
Oh, your brother.
Yeah, that bright young lawyer.
Are you decent?
Where's Fannie?
Fannie, congratulations.
Congratulations, thanks.
Congratulations, thank you.
I won, I won, Fannie.
Verdict for the plaintiff
on a fifty-fifty basis, and I get half.
Half! The jury just brought it in.
I wanted you to be the first
to hear it.
You mean you won a case?
My first first important litigation.
Didn't I tell you, Fannie,
I couldn't lose?
Not under section 346 of our Code.
The minute I said it to the judge,
he said to me, Harry, my boy...
I beg your pardon?
What kind of a case was it?
Oh, damages.
Damages for difammation of my client's
character.
Two hundred thousand dollars, I sued for.
How much was the verdict?
From 3 o'clock till just now
the jury was out deliberating.
Tomorrow you'll see it in all the papers.
I gave all the reporters a copy
of my speech.
You think I'm a fool?
Yeah, but how much was the verdict?
Of course, I could have sued under Section 541
but I picked Section 346 because
it also provided for putative damages
Smart, ain't it?
Harry, how much?
Fannie, don't be so mercenary.
I'm telling you,
I won my first big case.
Think of the glory when you see...
Never mind the glory.
What I want to know is how much
did you win?
Well, the verdict was for 6 cents.
Six c...
Yeah, but the very fact
that the verdict was in my favor
definitely makes it...
Six cents.
And you get half.
Three cents.
What's the matter with you there?
Well, now you can buy an envelope
and a two-cent stamp
and you can write home
and tell Mama.
And for that I paid three years
in Law School,
two years' office rent.
He had to be a lawyer.
Nothing else would do.
A lawyer he had to be.
(IN YIDDISH)
That's all right, Fannie.
You'll get it all back someday.
Yeah, three cents.
Now that I've broken the ice
you can never can tell
what's going to happen.
What's this?
Under Section 729 it's a felony to possess
a deadly weapon.
Oh, a guy sent it to me.
If he meant it as an insult
I think you've got a very good suit
under Section...
819, yes, 819.
Yeah, well I'll sue him for worse
than that
if he don't marry me.
Say, breech of promise is a good case,
too.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll take your case fifty-fifty
and believe me,
you couldn't do better no place...
Second number Fannie.
Okay.
...because I know all the judges
and if you listen to me
I could get you at least...
Six cents!
Please, Fannie, who's asking you?
I had a similar case once with
Mathilda Levcovitch
Her uncle M. Levcovitch came to me
and told me that Montgomery Levcovitch
said to her...
Listen, Miss Ritz,
I didn't ask you to come
to my table
just to hear myself talk.
Get me?
Hey, if you wanna hold hands
with somebody, I'd be delighted.
Sit down, Jerry. Relax.
Mac's only clowning.
If you got any complaints to make
we got a special department for them.
Stay right here.
I'm gonna go change.
Take my advice.
Don't even shake hands with him.
Unless you shake both of them.
Go to your rooms. There's a fight!
What's going on here?
Who's fighting?
Hey, what's the matter?
Cut out your shoving.
Who's shoving? You're shoving me
I'm not shoving you.
Aw, that's a lie, cut it out, that's all.
I'm a lawyer, I can...
Bring him in here.
All you girls go to your rooms.
I'll need witnesses.
Get names and addresses.
Everyone who saw the assault.
You understand?
What are you standing here
like dummies?
I'm telling you I need witnesses.
Go out and get witnesses...
What's the matter with you?
Standing and looking here.
Well, you finally got a fight.
I'd like to see this guy fight
when he isn't drunk.
Maybe when he isn't drunk
he wouldn't fight.
This guy's got a real wallop.
Yes?
He fought McCloskey once.
Is that possible?
Did I kill him?
Not yet.
He's still breathing a little.
What hospital did they take him to?
I always send him flowers.
Well, this time you won't have
to bother.
Are you all right, kid?
All right?
He never touched me.
How could you say such a thing,
"he never touched me."
Why, it was a malicious unprovoked assault.
For nothing, for nothing at all
a guy jumps up and he hits you.
He did not, I hit him first.
Oh, you, you, you...
you shlemiel...
You don't know what you're
talking about.
He hit you first.
Oh, go on, I hit him first.
Fannie.
If my brother says he hit you first,
he hit you first.
Yeah?
It's a clear case of assault and battery.
Well he couldn't do nothing to me for it,
could he?
I'm gonna sue him.
You are?
Yes, damages.
Heavy damages.
And I think under Section 952
I might even make it with intent to kill.
But I didn't intend to kil him.
No, he hit you with intent to kill.
He did not, I hit him.
My brother says he hit you
with intent to kill.
And if my brother says he hit you
with intent to kill
You're already dead.
I'll kill him if I ever get him in a ring.
He might at that.
Say, kid, who's your manager?
I ain't got any,
but all I need is a good manager...
But you got a good lawyer.
Sure, you got a good lawyer.
Step, you really think the kid's got it?
Sure looked it out there.
You say he did have a wallop,
didn't he?
Wallop? Say, when he landed that right
to McCloskey's jaw
it looked like curtains for McCloskey.
You want a manager?
You've got a manager.
Yeah, where is he?
Him.
I, I, I, I'm a lawyer.
No, you're a manager.
Harry, don't argue with me,
I've had an idea.
Don't get me angry, listen,
I'm telling you, you're a...
Harry, you're a manager.
All right, I'm a manager.
So, all right.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two.
One, two. One, two.
Fannie.
What?
Please, come quick.
I want to talk to you very privately.
One, two.
One, two. One, two...
Fannie, it'a a calamity.
It's worse, it's a catastrophe.
It's, it's, it's terrible.
Here, look for yourself.
Read there.
The second preliminary
on tomorrow night's card
is a four-round bop between Slug McNut
and Jerry Moore.
How Moore got on the card at all
is a mystery.
He hails from Racine, Wisconsin,
where he has a record of four fights.
He won the technical decision over
Sandy Brown.
Read, read. read further.
He won the technical decision over
Sandy Brown by claiming a foul.
His second fight was with Cocky Wexler.
He dropped to his back in the
second round
and again claimed a foul
but the referee counted him out.
Next he was matched up against
Dopey Dwyer
Again he dropped to his back
in the first round
but was saved by the bell
at the count of eight.
He failed to come back for the
second round
claiming he had been doped.
His last fight in Racine was with
Lefty Schnitzler
Lefty landed a light left hook
to the stomach
and Moore promptly dropped
on his back.
Instead of counting him out,
the referee picked him up and rushed him
out of the ring
to save him from mob violence.
That was the last scene of him in Racine.
Here is one guy that you can't knock
off his back.
He's a dog.
He's a lay-down dog.
Maybe it ain't as bad as it sounds.
Let's look.
Fannie!
He's still on his back.
On his back?
Would you like a pillow?
Look. The cord broke.
Look, the cord broke!
Get off your back, you turtle.
I gotta lie down once in a while.
Once in a while?
With him it's a habit.
Get up on those round heels.
Let me rest. That's a tough guy I'm
up against tomorrow night.
Yeah?
Well, read that.
If I'm not asking too much,
would you mind sitting up?
Them newspaper guys has always
been sore at me.
Yeah, you and Peggy Joyce.
Who's she?
Listen,
I had to flip that matchmaker 200 dollars
to get you into this fight.
I did it because I thought
you could scrap
and I wanted to give you a chance.
I spent 15 hundred dollars
training you.
Why, this stuff alone cost me $920.
And it wouldn't bring $150 in a foresale.
Who's asking you?
I made a statement.
Why didn't you tell me you had
sleeping sickness?
I tell you it was the booze that made
him fight in the caf?.
He's a booze fighter.
Hey, pipe down, sawyer.
Sawyer? I don't even know him.
Tomorrow night you fight to win.
That's something new to you,
ain't it?
What do you mean?
I mean you gotta win.
But not by yelling foul the first time
you're hit below the eyes.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Turn out the lights,
them guys wanna be alone.
Aw, pluck him, he's a ham.
Break!
Break it up!
Come on, break it.
Now listen you guys,
get in here and fight.
I mean the both of you.
Get together, come on!
Say, they oughta kill that guy
and his manager too.
Hey, turn on the lights.
I wanna read.
Come on, Jerry, give it to him.
Go on!
Fannie, look!
He's on his back!
Get off your back!
Get off your back, you turtle.
Get off your back! Get up!
You heard me. Get up!
Fannie, he can fight.
Yeah, if he'll stay off his back.
Mornings, I'll be gettin' up
Mornin's I'll be settin' up
a tiny table for two.
Breakfast, I'll be making his breakfast
he'll be taking his shave and
his shower.
My happy hour.
The coffee is steamin'
Oh, boy, what I'm dreamin'
while I'm cookin' breakfast
for the one I love.
My baby likes bacon
and that's what I'm bakin'
while I'm cookin' breakfast
For the one I love
Our life has been so nice and chummy
right from the start
When I won his tummy
I won his heart.
My baby is happy.
No wonder I'm happy
while I'm cooking breakfast
for the one I love.
I'm bakin' that biscuit
He's willing to risk it
while I'm cookin' breakfast
for the one I love.
He's crazy for grapefruit
I'd rather have grape-nuts
While I'm cooking breakfast
For the one I love.
A plate of steaming oatmeal
Taste it!
Aw, schucks!
Who the heck wants oatmeal
sprinkled with Lux?
To show that he's grateful
He eats a big plateful.
And faints right after breakfast
For the one I love.
Ah, good morning. I see you're waiting
for me, as usual.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Who could that be?
I don't know.
Hey, listen, you.
What's the idea of attaching my
share of the game
on the Merillo fight tonight?
You've been tailing me long enough
with that joke suit of yours.
Joke? I'm laughing to you.
Oh, I'm wise to you.
You're trying to get my goat.
Goat? I don't want your goat.
I want damages.
He wouldn't have gone to court.
It's all your doing,
you cheap little scheister.
Scheister? I warn you under Section 541,
difammation of character.
I oughta take a smack at you.
Look out. Section 428 provides
and now I am under Section 513.
With glasses on. Come on, touch me,
touch me.
I'm gonna tear you apart.
Wait a minute!
Tear me apart. As if I was afraid.
You ain't gonna tear nobody apart.
Oh, no? Who's gonna stop me?
Who do you think?
Wait.
Don't fight here. Fight in the ring.
Where you get paid for it.
I'd like to get that Bozo in the ring.
Well, that could be arranged.
What I want is this attachment off.
When I fight
I don't want nothing bothering me.
Oh, you want to settle out of court.
Well, that could be arranged
amicably or legally.
What's your proposition?
What right have you to attach
my dough?
Because under Section 1122...
Harry, will you stop talking in sections.
Tell him what we want.
Mr McCloskey...
If you will agree to give my client
a match
my client will agree to withdraw the suit.
Fight him? With pleasure.
All right. Then I'll send you up
the papers tomorrow to sign.
Then I'll witdraw the suit
and remove the attachment.
Okay.
Say, if he can sue me
for what I did to him in the caf?
they can send me to the chair
for what I'll do to him in the ring
A laughing hiena.
Hey, is that guy laughing at me?
Let him laugh.
He's so dumb he don't know that
he who laughs last
lasts laugh... laughs...
last laugh...
You know the one I mean.
The one about laughin'.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Didn't I tell you
I'd get you your first big chance?
Yeah.
You see how it worked?
Maybe I didn't send you
through Law School for nothing.
And he can't back out.
Because under Section 296 a verbal agreement...
Is not worth the paper it's written on.
Fannie, how could you say a thing...
Eat, eat, eat.
All right, I'll eat.
Thank you.
But anyhow I'm the one that
put it over, you must admit this.
You put it over?
Oh, Harry, how can you say that?
I'm not saying...
Now, listen, Harry.
You know it was me that winked at you.
I admit that you winked...
You never would have thought of it.
Now, Harry, listen,
they were gonna fight
and I said...
don't fight here, go fight in a ring.
Yes.
Yes, you said that.
I give in to you there...
Listen, Harry, give me credit.
I'm giving you credit...
Harry, I put it over.
You put it over?
Yeah.
All right, you put it over.
Am I saying anything? Eat.
So I'll eat.
But...
You put it over.
McCloskey shoots the right across
to Jerry's chin, just missed...
Jerry folds up after that one.
I don't blame him.
They clinch. Moore ties up
another cut coming out.
It makes McClosky sore
and he tears after Jerry
shooting right and left to the body.
It's beginning to look like a fight.
Moore is sure taking them,
McCloskey leads again...
Jerry is recovering as we go...
He shoots the right across to
McCloskey's chin, no harm done...
This boy is tough!
Jerry is wide open and is jolted
by a terrific left hook
that sent him to his heels.
McCloskey aims right at the jaw...
Moore is dragging McCloskey to the right
and a left to the stomach
Moore holding on for dear life...
There goes the bell saving Mr Jerry Moore
at the end of the second round.
Stand by, ladies and gentlemen
for the third round.
Well, Fannie, where do you want
the body sent?
I don't know where Mac lives.
I'll have it sent to your house.
Oh, yeah?
Yes. Listen, you haven't been getting
away with this either.
Who do you think you are?
You and your wisecracks.
Cut the argument here.
Fannie, you're on.
Yeah? Well not for a long time.
There goes the bell for the
third round.
McCloskey dashes out of his corner
Moore meets him halfway
They spar around, both looking
for an opening
Moore leads with a left to the head,
not much steam behind his punches...
McCloskey counters with a left jab
trying to get set with that deadly right
He lets it go and it lands
on the point of Jerry Moore's chin.
Fannie, that's enough, you gotta go.
Not now, just a minute...
Go ahead, we'll call you when
he's knocked down.
Oh, yeah? Who says he's gonna be
knocked down?
I'll be here when you're finished!
You think I'm afraid?
Otto Kahn, the big millionaire
is a man who's crazy for art.
Singing Slovaks,
Greeks and Romanians
look to him for their stunts.
Gaze upon a dainty vocalist
with artistic temperament
and to think that great philanthropist
he wouldn't even give me a cent.
Is there something the matter with Otto Kahn,
or something the matter with me?
I wrote a note and I told him
what a hit I would make
He sent it back and marked it opened
up by mistake.
Why, I'd even get fatter for Otto Kahn
as all prima donnas must be.
I met Galla Hershey
and I trilled like a bird
She handed me a razor without
saying a word.
And if my high C
won't hand over a thrill
I think my tra-la-la-la will.
And the words that I bring
and the song that I sing
is a song of a heart
that's free.
And the words that I bring
and the song that I sing
is a song of a heart
that's free.
McCloskey's still at the peek
Morris is using his famed left
trying a little scientific punch in this round.
McCloskey is wise to this
and he wants to deliver that one too.
They shoot left and right
both boys gather at the center
of the ring,
the referee warns the boys
McCloskey shoots a terrific right
and he missed.
He's punched but he's missin'!
Yeah, but I'll stuff you one,
and I won't miss.
You'll do what?
You heard me.
Listen now, you...
One, two, three, four, five
six, seven, eight, nine
Ten!
McCloskey is out!
And so is this vile friend.
My Jerry won!
My Jerry won!
Jerry won!
Jerry won!
Oh, Hello, Jerry.
Hello, Step.
Great stuff.
Thanks.
There's a table down at the club.
Thanks.
Congratulations, Jerry.
Congratulations, champ.
Hello, Ned.
Gee, you look swell.
Thanks.
Say, I rented this.
Hello, Jerry. Some wallop.
Hello.
Your right's a forker See you later, Jerry.
Thanks.
The coffee is steamin'
Oh, boy, what I'm dreamin'
While I'm cooking breakfast,
breakfast
For the one I love.
Now, my baby likes bacon
so it's bacon I'm makin'
While I'm cookin', cookin' breakfast
For the one I love.
My baby is happy, happy
No wonder I'm happy.
While I'm cookin' breakfast
For the one I love.
Come to me, ye dancing fools
Throw away your golden rules
lovely ladies down in Hades
Satan will be waiting with the pleasure
you crave
Satisfy your appetites
with a thousand wild delights
Earthly troubles fade like bubbles
when you let the devil show you
how to behave
Don't be frightened
and don't believe in Mr Devil's lies
Hallelujah
The Lord is waiting
in the golden skies
So, throw up your hands
sing out your souls
and send the devil where he belongs
kicking a hole in the sky.
Laugh at the rain
laugh at the snow
up on your heels, down on your toes
kicking a hole in the sky
Laugh at your pains,
laugh at your blues
we'll have the rainbows
coming in twos
Kicking a hole in the sky.
Sing Hosannah
when you're upset and cursing
and sing, sing Hosannah
and don't forget God's children
but sing on
This war you won't
and that war you can
and we're warned the times
are heavenly sent
Kicking a hole in the...
Let the devil shovel his hole in...
He can never gather your soul in...
if you'll all just kick him a hole
in the sky.
Well, you came through.
Gee, I'm proud of you.
Are you?
So am I.
I'll see you in the dressing room
after the next song.
All right.
Hello, Lil.
Hello, Jerry.
I just came over to tell you
how happy I am.
Yeah?
It's time somebody
licked that big bag of wind.
And I'm tickled to death
it was you that done it.
What?
I know you're surprised my talking
this way.
But I've been rooting for you.
Yes, I have.
Ever since that night he talked to you
when you were drinking.
Do you remember how I dragged
him away?
But I thought you was...
I know.
You thought I was sweet on him.
Say...
why, I couldn't fall for that guy.
I have to be nice to him.
You know, he's a big spender here.
You understand.
Don't you, Jerry?
Oh, sure, sure, I understand.
I'm giving a little party
up at the house tonight.
I'd sure like to have you come up.
Fannie kind of expects me to be
with her...
I know,
but you're entitled to some fun.
I'm just crazy to have you.
Won't you, Jerry?
Please.
Well, er... er...
But I gotta give credit,
where credit is due,
and Jerry deserves an awful
lot of credit
because he followed my instructions
to the letter.
If prize fighters would only realize
what a good lawyer could do for them
Yessir, every paper that he signed
was legally 100% correct.
And if you girls don't think I'm
gonna make him the world's champion...
you're even dumber
than I thought you were.
You're gonna make him the world's champion.
Well, that is, of course, provided
he doesn't lose his head.
You mean, if he doesn't lose my head.
Maybe.
And besides being a great fighter
you'd be handsome if it wasn't
for that nose.
What's the matter with my nose?
Jerry, why don't you have it fixed?
Hm?
You'd look swell.
Honest you would.
Aw, you're kidding me.
No, I'm on the level.
The one consuming passion of my life
is not to play a fiddle or a pipe.
I want to be a dancer
my spirit fancy free
(...)
I long to be so slender and so slim.
To show my limb
to him and him and him
My dress is a cocoon
If I don't breathe I'll swoon
Oh, I can't get this outfit
off too soon
I'll take it off, yes I will,
no I wouldn't...
Oh, it's gorgeous to be graceful
to fleet and float and fly.
to make like this and make
like that
and let the evening breeze go by.
In public I'm Phoenecian
but Grecian on the sly
I bought myself a bearskin
It makes me so appealing
When I dance in my bearskin
I show a lot of feeling
Oh, it's gorgeous to be graceful
(...)
It's gorgeous to be graceful
and to fleet and float and fly.
You won't disappoint me,
will you, Jerry?
I'll see you later.
Come in.
Gee, Fannie, you was funny.
Did you like it, Jerry?
I like everything you do.
That dance certainly is hard work,
ain't it?
It sure is.
It always tires me out.
Yeah.
Guess you're pretty tired yourself.
Yeah, I am.
That was a tough scrap I had.
Would you mind very much
if I didn't wait for you tonight?
If you don't want to wait, Jerry,
it's all right with me.
Well, you understand...
Sure.
I understand.
Well...
Good night.
Good night, Jerry.
Hey, I wonder how much it would cost
to get this nose of mine fixed up.
You mean by one of those
trick surgeons?
Well, I wouldn't want no carpenter
doing it.
I imagine it costs plenty.
What's the use of having it fixed
when some guy will come along and unfix it?
What guy?
Say, I look like a different person.
Don't I?
I'll say so.
Didn't I tell you you'd be handsome?
You know, a lot of people is gonna be
surprised when they see me, eh, Lil?
You're the only one that knows
about it.
I'm gonna be awfully proud of you,
Jerry.
That's why I done it.
Somebody's at the door.
Hello, Fannie.
Hello, Jerry.
So this is where you've been
hanging out.
So you had it fixed, eh?
I'm pretty good lookin' now,
eh, Fannie?
Yeah, you'll look great steppin'
into the ring.
Thanks.
But when they carry you out...
Hey, listen, the Bozo don't live
that can mess up my nose.
No wonder I couldn't find you
for the past two weeks.
Hello, Fannie.
Oh...
You.
Swell apartment.
Swell nose.
Swell dame.
And for you a swell finish.
What do you mean?
They come and go with you,
don't they?
One champ after the other.
It's a very good idea,
don't you think, Fannie?
I'll give you a better idea.
You leave him alone.
He's got a career ahead of him.
And he don't need a tramp
like you to ruin him.
Don't you dare call me a tramp.
You've never been anything else but a tramp.
Don't talk like that to her,
Fannie.
She's gonna hear
what I've gotta say and like it.
And you too, you big boob.
You weren't fooling me.
I knew you were running around
with her.
But I thought you'd get wise
to yourself.
Why, a blind man can see
what she is.
Fannie, you got no right
to talk like this.
She's heard worse than anything
I've said.
Let her tell you what Mac's wife
said to her when she took up with him.
Oh, go ahead, rave on.
I'll do worse than rave.
No, you won't.
I won't let you.
Not about my future wife.
Your what?
Sure, me and Lil's gonna get married.
Oh, that's how it is.
Yes, that's how it is.
If you have anything more
to tell on me
spill it right now, or shut
your big mouth and get out.
So you think she's gonna marry you.
What an awakening you're
gonna have.
Aw, Fannie, why can't we all
be friends?
I'll always be your friend, Jerry.
And you'll keep right on being
me manager.
You know you're the real manager.
Sure, I'll manage you.
Anything you say.
Of course, Jerry and I always did appreciate
that you were a good businesswoman.
That's what I am, a businesswoman?
That's all it's ever been with us,
Jerry.
Business.
Sure, that's all.
That's all.
Mountains snap their fingers
at times
since this whole world began
But they're mole hills compared
to the mountains she'll climb
when a gal cares for a man.
Rivers have been flowing for years
part of the mighty plan
But they're ripples compared
to the river of tears
when a gal weeps for a man.
Beggar or millionaire
crooked or on the square
mansion or furnished room
she doesn't care
when a woman loves a man.
Fannie certainly puts a lot of feeling
into that song, don't she?
Both going through the mill...
Jerry, darling,
please fasten this for me.
Just being miserable
gives her a thrill.
Thank you, honey.
When a woman loves a man.
He may be conceited, a weakling
who cheated
But still one woman in town
Can't help but feel that some day
he'll settle down
Pile up the seven seas
mountains and rocks and trees
and you're up against a thing
stronger than these
When a woman...
loves...
a man.
Oh, hello, Fannie.
Fannie, I tell you, will you laugh.
I just heard one of the funniest stories
I ever heard in my life.
I don't want to hear it.
You're not acting like yourself
at all, Fannie.
You haven't been for the last
four weeks.
And I can't bear to see you
like this.
Honest, you're making me
very unhappy.
And you shouldn't do it.
Even if you've lost that prize fighter,
you've still got me.
And besides, what have you got
to be unhappy about?
You've got your health,
you're making good money.
You're getting offers from
Broadway managers.
Why, you're a big success, Fannie.
And if you listen to me...
Harry.
Yes, dear.
Will you do me a favor?
Sure.
Leave me alone.
Leave you alone.
It's sad enough when a girl like you
grieves herself sick over a cheap
prize fighter.
What do you see in him, anyhow?
Just answer me this, tell me.
What do you see in him?
I wouldn't care
if she was on the level.
But she's only a cheap gold digger.
Oh, what's the difference
who takes him?
One gold digger is the same
as the other.
She only wants him while
he's champ.
Then she'll give him the air
like she did Mac.
Oh, he'll see through her in time.
And besides, you know,
we're still his manager.
Yeah.
We're still his manager.
Sure we are.
I'd almost forgotten.
Harry, I want you to do something.
I want you to arrange a return match
with McCloskey.
McCloskey's in great shape.
He's likely to lick him.
Do as I tell you,
see McCloskey's manager.
Tell them they can have a return match,
the sooner the better.
Go on, do it. Do it now.
Fannie...
Oh, Harry, I know what I'm doing.
All right. Don't get excited.
I'll do it.
I've never seen anything like it
in my life.
Everybody's excited around here.
Love. Crazy people.
Why, I didn't think of it before.
You're doing fine.
But what's the idea?
when you had him going,
why didn't you knock him out?
I'm playing with him, I'll murder...
Save your wind, save your wind.
All you have to do is use your left.
Stick the left as fast as you can
and you can't lose.
If you get your left on his face...
Stop talkin'.
Did I say something?
You can't lose, Mac.
Go out there and sock him.
Just sock him.
Smell, smell.
Drink.
Take, take.
It's good for you.
Spit there.
Relax, will ya?
Please!
Keep your left in his face
all the time.
Come on, you got him, Jerry!
That's it, that's it!
Go for the nose.
One!
Go for the nose.
Two!
What are you talking to him for?
Did you hear me?
Go for the nose.
Beat his nose, he'll try to protect it.
The nose, the beezer.
The beezer, the schnozzle...
The beezer, go for the nose.
That's it!
You got him going, Mac.
That's fine! Go on!
That's it. Don't let up on him.
Go on, hit him right on the beezer.
Shut up, will ya.
I know what I'm doin'.
two, three, four...
five, six, seven,
eight, nine, out.
Here, put him here, please.
I want the dope on this.
Wait a minute, boys.
Please, wait a minute.
Give me a chance
I'll give you all a statement as soon as
I know what I'm talking about.
Wait a minute, please.
You see what you've done?
You've lost a championship for us.
What was the idea of yelling
"Hit him in the nose", "Hit him in the beezer"
"Hit him in the schnozzle."
Because I liked his old nose better.
Yeah.
Did I kill him?
Did I kill him?
You should live so long.
Fannie, tell him. Did he kill him?
What are you doing here?
I just came in
to see if I could be of any help.
Yeah, a lot of help you are.
You doublecrossing...
Tipping that guy off
just when I had him licked.
Oh, go on. Get out of here.
You really want me to go?
You made me lose the championship.
Fannie, what did you do it for?
I'm sorry, Jerry.
But somebody had to bring you
to your senses.
A little longer and nothing
could have saved you.
I couldn't stand by and see you
dragged down by somebody like her.
Thanks for the tip, Fanny.
But I'd have knocked him out, anyway.
Yes, you would.
Mac, what are you doing in here?
I came here to tell
this this punch drunk pug
to lay off you from now on.
Lillian, you're not...
Look what you did to his nose,
Mac.
Well, darling, don't be long.
I'll wait for you out in the car.
Right. Now get this.
If I ever catch you with Lil again
I'll beat your ears off.
Are you gonna let him get away
with that?
Get out of here.
You better get out before
he throws you out.
Him throw me out? Ha!
Hey, what is this here?
How many times I have to tell you
you shouldn't fight for nothing.
Let him fight.
Get in there, Jerry.
Use that right!
Get in closer!
Sock him!
Fannie, under Section 219
you can't do a thing like that.
Never mind Section 219.
Hit him in the midsection.
Go on in there, Jerry.
Go on, Jerry, you got him.
You got him, Jerry. You got him.
One,
two, three, four, five
and five are ten.
You're out.
I knew you could do it.
You can lick any guy in the world.
You mean we can.
SUBTITLES: Lu?s Filipe Bernardes