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Riley getting his daughter Babs a blind date.
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00:00William Bendix in The Life of Riley.
00:08With Marjorie Reynolds as Peg, Tom D'Andrea as Gillis,
00:13Loujean Sanders as Bams, and Wesley Morgan as Junior.
00:19Produced by Tom McKnight and directed by Abby Berlin.
00:26Well, at least your daughter's no househouse.
00:28She gets a date once in a while.
00:30Look, Gillis, my daughter could be out every night of her life.
00:33I ain't complaining about that.
00:34Well, what's your beep?
00:35I wanted to hang out with a high-class type of fellow,
00:38a guy that's got a future mapped out.
00:40Well, we'd better get moving, or we'll be mapped out.
00:42Here comes a super.
00:48This is one of our ring assembly units, Leonard.
00:50Good morning, Riley. Good morning, Gillis.
00:52Oh, hi, super. Hello, Mr. Cox.
00:54Boys, I'd like you to meet Leonard Johnson.
00:56Leonard, Riley, and Gillis.
00:59How do you do, Mr. Riley?
01:00How do you do?
01:01How are you?
01:03Leonard came out here to go to college.
01:05He's a senior at SC, studying aerodynamics.
01:08Oh, a college man, huh?
01:09Well, I hope to be a co-worker right here in the plant.
01:12Yes, I've been showing him over the plant.
01:14But I have a meeting in 20 minutes,
01:15so I'd like one of you men to take over.
01:17Oh, sure, Mr. Cox.
01:19I'd be glad to have Gillis show him the works.
01:21Me? I've got to go over there.
01:22Now, Gillis, we mustn't keep Leonard waiting.
01:25I'd appreciate it very much.
01:27We're always on the lookout for up-and-coming young men, you know.
01:29Well, sure, sure.
01:30I'd be glad to, Mr. Cox.
01:32Thanks, Mr. Cox.
01:33Not at all, Leonard, not at all.
01:35Fine boy.
01:36Has he got a steady girl?
01:38Well, I haven't gone into that with him yet.
01:40He's a splendid specimen of American youth.
01:43Comes a fine stock.
01:44Has a brilliant future.
01:45If I could get my hands on some of that stock,
01:47I'd have a future, too.
01:48He's also a brilliant student.
01:50Spends most of his evenings reading.
01:52My Babsy likes to stay home nights and read, too.
01:55Maybe we should get together.
01:56How about tonight?
01:58Now, wait a minute, Rob.
01:59I can't wait a minute.
02:00But, Babsy, you've got to go out with Leonard Johnson tonight.
02:04It's all set.
02:05I keep telling you, Dad, I just can't tonight.
02:08Will you hook me up, please?
02:09His father owns Criss Cross Crunchies.
02:12Think of a discount we could get.
02:14I don't care if he owns a racehorse.
02:16I've got a date tonight that I've been working on for weeks.
02:19Ouch!
02:20Cancel it, Babsy.
02:23Leonard has a flashing smile like Burt Lancaster,
02:25a dimple like Cary Grant,
02:27and he looks like Tony Curtis.
02:29Besides that, he's loaded with fine stock.
02:32You've got one hook left over.
02:34Oh, Dad, you've done it all wrong.
02:37Riley, are you still pestering Babs?
02:38I'm merely asking your daughter to do me a simple favor
02:41that could do all of us a lot of good.
02:43I can't, Mother.
02:44I just can't tonight.
02:46Believe it or not, Riley.
02:49Okay, Peg.
02:50But this is fine payment for all the worrying
02:53I've done about my little Babsy.
02:56Well, if you'd stop worrying, we'd all appreciate it.
02:59When she had pneumonia,
03:00who walked two miles in a raging blizzard for the doctor?
03:04I did.
03:06Okay.
03:07But when he stuck the needle in her little arm,
03:08who fainted?
03:09I did.
03:10And when she had...
03:11All right, Dad, I'll cancel my date and go out with Leonard.
03:15You will?
03:16Oh, Babsy, that's wonderful.
03:18You thank me for this.
03:19This Leonard is...
03:20That's him.
03:21Babsy, answer the phone.
03:23Quick, hurry.
03:24Tell him that your studio is faithful and a good cook.
03:26Tell him...
03:26Babsy, what...
03:27Oh, Mother, what are we going to do with him?
03:33I don't know.
03:35There are no more Indians to give him back to.
03:38Some jerk wants Babs.
03:40Leonard Johnson is no jerk.
03:41Go hurry up, Babs.
03:43Hello?
03:44Yeah, hello, Leonard.
03:46Yeah, she's here.
03:48Yeah, come on out.
03:50Mrs. Rowdy and I will be in the kitchen when you ask her to go out with you,
03:53which she will.
03:55Right.
03:56Bye.
04:02Hi, Babs.
04:05You got stood up, too, huh?
04:08Hardly, Audrey.
04:09I have two dates on my hands.
04:11Two?
04:12Gee, I had one, but he phoned and said he twisted his ankle.
04:16I have more trouble with twisted ankles.
04:19Audrey, would you like a date?
04:22If you mean with Otto, the delivery boy again, no.
04:26I mean with a luscious hunk of man named Leonard Johnson.
04:29Leonard Johnson?
04:31He doesn't know me.
04:32That makes it perfect.
04:33He doesn't know me, either.
04:35I don't get it.
04:36Well, my father fixed it up for me,
04:38and I have a date with Bruce Adams that I want to keep,
04:41so you can go out with Leonard.
04:43It sounds complicated.
04:45Where do I meet Bruce?
04:47You don't meet Bruce.
04:48I meet him at the drugstore.
04:50You just wait out here for Leonard.
04:52Oh.
04:53Hmm?
04:54All you have to do is pretend that you're me.
04:57I'm you?
04:59Yes.
04:59Leonard's never seen me,
05:00so you just tell him that you're Babs Raleigh.
05:03You mean lie to him on the first time out?
05:05So what?
05:06He's a college boy.
05:08Oh.
05:09In that case, I better take some money.
05:10Oh.
05:11You won't need any.
05:12He's rich and handsome.
05:14Gee.
05:15You think you'll try and kiss me?
05:16You might.
05:17I better tighten my pivot.
05:19Last time, I nearly swallowed it.
05:21Well, I've got to meet Bruce at Kramer's drugstore.
05:23Have a swell time,
05:24and oh, don't tell anybody.
05:26Oh, my lips are sealed.
05:27But how will I know him?
05:29Well, Dad says he looks just like Tony Curtis.
05:32Oh, I'm hungry.
05:38How long do we have to stay cooped up like this?
05:40Just till Leonard gets here.
05:43That's him now.
05:47In a taxi.
05:48I told you he had class.
05:49Oh, I still think we should go in there
05:51and introduce him to Babs.
05:52Peg, he's the shy type.
05:53He'll get all fussed up.
05:54Now, let's do it my way just this once, huh?
05:56Very well, but I still think it's the wrong way.
05:59Hello.
06:00You must be Babs Raleigh.
06:01I must?
06:03Well, this is 1313 Blueview Terrace,
06:06and you're the only girl I can see.
06:08Oh, Leonard, let's always keep it that way.
06:11Huh?
06:12Oh, I see.
06:14Well, where shall we go?
06:16I've always wanted to see Hawaii.
06:19Now, that's a little far for a taxi,
06:22but, well, there's the Symphony Under the Stars
06:24or Othello at the Biltmore,
06:26and then perhaps the Statler for a little snack.
06:28How about the pinball machine at Kramer's Drugstore?
06:31That's always good for a star.
06:40They're getting in the taxi.
06:42This is going to be a turning point for our little girl, Peg.
06:44You're an interfering, warring old nuisance.
06:47But you're rather a dear.
06:49Well, I had a lovely time, Bruce.
07:01Thanks.
07:02Maybe we should make a habit of it.
07:03How about another day?
07:05Well, I'll think it over.
07:07Call me up soon and see.
07:08Well, I don't think I can make it before tomorrow.
07:11So, uh, maybe I should have a kiss to hold me over.
07:14Hmm?
07:15I don't know.
07:17Well, I do.
07:19Well, all right, Babsy, give out.
07:20How was it?
07:21I was what?
07:22The date with their square who dragged you out.
07:25June, Junior.
07:26He's not a square.
07:27He's terrific.
07:29I'm just overboard about it.
07:31Well, I wouldn't get over my death.
07:32All right, let's get out of the ocean and down to facts.
07:35Did you make a good impression on him?
07:36I think so.
07:37He kissed me goodnight.
07:38He did swell.
07:40Well, wasn't it a little early for that?
07:43Heck no.
07:44She didn't get in till after midnight.
07:46Junior, were you spying on me?
07:48No.
07:49You woke me up singing a kiss in the dark.
07:55He's calling me for another date.
07:57And he's got the cutest curly blonde hair.
08:00And the cutest blanket...
08:01Blonde?
08:03Yesterday, Leonard was a brunette.
08:05Leonard?
08:06Yes, Leonard.
08:07Oh, yes, Leonard.
08:11Did I say blonde?
08:13I meant brunette.
08:15But if you can't remember what he looks like,
08:17you certainly must be in a daze.
08:19Well, this is one daze I don't mind her being in.
08:22Now, wait, Dad.
08:24I don't want you to get all fouled up.
08:27The fact is...
08:28Forget it, Babsy.
08:29I know what's going on.
08:30You can't fool your old daddy.
08:34Eat, Junior, eat.
08:35I am, I am.
08:38I am.
08:47So Babs marries him,
08:49and I move in as vice president of Criss Cross Crunchies.
08:52Stop dreaming, Ryle.
08:55So your daughter made a hit.
08:57That doesn't mean he's lugging it to the altar.
08:59Leonard's half crazy about her.
09:01I met him on the way to the super's office,
09:03and he fell all over me.
09:04What'd he say?
09:06Good morning, Mr. Riley.
09:07Yeah, he went overboard, all right.
09:09I'll bet he's in the super's office right now,
09:11raving about beds.
09:12His door's ajar.
09:13Let's go listen.
09:15Eve's not the name polite, Ryle.
09:17Besides, you can get fired for it.
09:19No, no, no.
09:19This is a family matter.
09:21Come on.
09:21This is wrong, Ryle.
09:23This is wrong.
09:27Tell me.
09:29How did your date with Ryle's daughter turn out?
09:32Well, to be truthful,
09:34I haven't the words for it.
09:36You see that?
09:37She knocked him speechless.
09:39That is the stupidest girl that ever stood on two feet.
09:41She's a drip.
09:44A drip.
09:48He called her a drip.
09:50She made an impression, all right.
09:52I'm sick, Gips.
09:53Let's face it, Ryle.
09:55Babs is a drip.
09:56But don't worry.
09:58Someday a drip will come along.
10:01Carry me back to work, Gips.
10:03Babs, stupid?
10:08That's absurd.
10:09But I heard it with my own ear.
10:11Well, I don't know the more intelligent girl.
10:13Well, you can't judge about people, Peg,
10:16when you get too close to them.
10:17Now, you take you, for instance.
10:18To me, you are beautiful.
10:20Well, thank you, dear.
10:21But to a monkey, another monkey is beautiful.
10:23Men are all alike, Babs.
10:31That Leonard said he's never had such a night in his life.
10:34And I haven't heard a word from him.
10:36Bruce is different.
10:38I know he likes me.
10:39He proved it.
10:41I can't understand why he hasn't even called me up.
10:44That's life, Babs.
10:45For the playthings of men.
10:47Fools.
10:48Just fools.
10:50Well, goodbye.
10:52So long, Audrey.
11:08Hello, Dad.
11:09Hello, stupid.
11:10I mean, hello, Babsie.
11:12Did anyone call on me?
11:13Uh-uh.
11:15Babsie, I've got a book for you at the library.
11:18I, uh, I want you to read it from cover to cover.
11:23Why should I read Important Events of 1938?
11:27Well, so that when you go out with boys, you know how to talk to them.
11:31I don't want to go out with boys.
11:33I'm only interested in one boy.
11:36You sort of fell for him, huh?
11:39I guess maybe I did just that, Daddy.
11:45Babsie, let me put it this way.
11:49Being stupid's no crime, as long as a person's willing to change.
11:53I love you just as you are, Dad.
11:58Let me put it another way, Babsie.
12:00You'd only phone like he promised.
12:01That's all I ask.
12:03Well, I don't like to puncture your dreams, baby, but I don't think he's ever going to phone.
12:07Dad, he's got to.
12:08He's just got to.
12:10Well, now don't do it over him, baby.
12:13Maybe he ain't so much after all.
12:15He's everything I want.
12:18A girl meets plenty of boys every day.
12:20Suddenly one comes into her life and she knows this is it.
12:26I know.
12:27It was like that with your mother.
12:30When she took me home and introduced me to her folks and said she was marrying me,
12:36her father looked at me and said,
12:38this is it.
12:40Oh, Daddy, I'm miserable.
12:42There, there, baby.
12:46Don't cry.
12:48There's lots of other boys.
12:49I don't want the other boy.
12:51I never want to look at another boy ever again.
12:58Poor stupid little mixed up kid.
13:02Her heart is breaking.
13:03What's Babs ballin' about?
13:10As the French say, Junior,
13:12to Jules L'Amour.
13:14What's that mean?
13:16How do I know?
13:16I'm no philosopher.
13:23Hi, I'm Bruce Adams.
13:25Is Babs in?
13:26Well, yeah, she's in,
13:27but she doesn't want to see you.
13:29Why not?
13:30Because she's crazy about a certain boy named Leonard.
13:33Leonard?
13:34Leonard who?
13:35The This Is It boy.
13:37It's no good you see it,
13:38and you'd just be wasting your time.
13:41Well, I don't understand.
13:41She said I was to call.
13:43Well, I'm sorry, Sam,
13:44but you ain't it.
13:45She just told me she couldn't look at you.
13:48Oh, yeah?
13:49Well, okay, if that's the way she feels,
13:50goodbye.
13:51Goodbye.
13:52Goodbye.
13:58Huh?
14:01That's life, Junior.
14:03There's a boy who thinks
14:04I got a charming, intelligent daughter.
14:09Dad?
14:11Who was that?
14:12Some square called Bruce Southern or other.
14:15Bruce Adams?
14:17Yeah, but I got rid of him fast, Babsy.
14:19I told him you didn't even want to look at him.
14:21Dad, you didn't.
14:23Boy, was he sore.
14:24Bruce Adams is the boy I've been waiting to hear from.
14:28And you...
14:29You've just ruined my life.
14:33Babsy, I thought Leonard was...
14:36Leonard.
14:36You and your silly Leonard.
14:38I hate him.
14:39I despise him.
14:40And I never want to hear his name again.
14:43Oh, yeah.
14:51Well, now what's happened?
14:53Riley, what have you done to Babs?
14:55Well, nothing, Peg.
14:56I was just straightening out her...
14:57Boy, I ever cared about him, Siri,
14:59and my father throws him out.
15:01Yep, that's how it goes.
15:02My father sits on the porch trying to drag him in.
15:05Babs, there he is.
15:13Bruce?
15:14No, Leonard.
15:16Yoo-hoo, Leonard.
15:19Yoo-hoo, Leonard, over here.
15:22Jesus, he's dreaming.
15:27Hello, Miss Riley.
15:28Nice seeing you again.
15:30It's mutual.
15:31I don't think I've met this young lady.
15:33Oh, well, this is Babs.
15:35My friend, uh...
15:38Who are you?
15:41I'm Babs Riley.
15:44Babs Riley?
15:46I'm afraid I played a dirty trick on you, Mr. Johnson.
15:49Who's a dirty trick?
15:52I didn't mean it that way, Audrey.
15:54Well, could an outsider get in on what you do mean?
15:57Well, I had another date last night
16:00when my father made the date with you,
16:02and, well, Audrey wasn't doing anything last night, so...
16:05Or tonight, either.
16:08So we just switched identities.
16:11I guess I owe you an apology.
16:13You most certainly do.
16:15May I sit down?
16:16Oh, of course.
16:25Golly, Audrey, you'll be late.
16:27Late?
16:28For what?
16:30Uh, the dentist.
16:31Oh, that's not until next week.
16:34I've got plenty of time.
16:36But if your tooth hurts so,
16:38I'm sure you'll see you now.
16:44Oh.
16:45Oh, yeah.
16:46My pivot.
16:48Excuse me, Leonard.
16:49I'm in agony.
16:51Darn it.
16:57So you're Babs.
16:59I'm very ashamed.
17:01Will you forgive me?
17:03We'll have to go into conference about that.
17:06Say, tonight?
17:07About 8.30?
17:08Babs?
17:10I just adore conferences, Leonard.
17:12Excuse me.
17:19You're Mr. Riley, aren't you?
17:21Yeah.
17:23You ain't one of Babs' bows, are you?
17:25I don't think so.
17:27I'm Waldo Binney.
17:29I just moved in the Good Acre house down the street,
17:31and I make it a point to meet my neighbors.
17:34Oh, yeah.
17:35Well, you don't want to meet me.
17:36I'm in the doghouse.
17:38Oh, gee.
17:39That's too bad.
17:41Life trouble?
17:43No.
17:43Daughter trouble.
17:44Oh, yeah.
17:46Children can be a great problem, I always say.
17:49You married?
17:50No, that's why I always say it.
17:54Well, my Babs is cute and charming,
17:56but a little on the stupid side.
17:59Oh, I wouldn't say that, Mr. Riley.
18:01Well, I don't say it.
18:02The boy that she went out with said it.
18:04Oh.
18:05Peak, probably.
18:07Just plain peak.
18:09You mean he took a peak and saw that she was stupid?
18:13No.
18:14I mean she probably wouldn't neck, and it hurt his vanity, see?
18:17So he just said she was stupid.
18:19Oh.
18:20You know, well, my daughter ain't no neck of nightingale.
18:23Well, I haven't met your daughter as yet, Mr. Riley, but I'd hazard a guess that she's cute, coy, captivating, charming, cheerful, and chick.
18:36Huh?
18:37Yeah.
18:38Yeah, she gets it from me.
18:40Excuse me, I gotta go inside.
18:42If there's anything you need, why don't you ask me for it, huh?
18:45Oh, you can count on me, Mr. Riley.
18:46Yeah, well, welcome to Blue View.
18:48Good night.
18:49Good night.
18:50That's my boy.
18:52What's that for?
18:53That's for being a charming, intelligent son.
18:55And from now on, I'm not interfering in your life or Babs'n's.
18:58Gosh, Pa, do you mean it?
19:00Shake.
19:01Ha!
19:05You could have shaken southpaw.
19:12Good evening, Mr. Riley, is Babs'n?
19:14Not to you.
19:15Get out, you contemptible kid.
19:16What?
19:17Never darken my daughter's life or my porch steps again.
19:26For heaven's sakes, Riley.
19:28Who was that, Junior?
19:29Pop threw him out so fast, I couldn't see.
19:32I know what I'm doing, Peg.
19:33Babs, you'll thank me for this.
19:35Thank you for what?
19:36Pop just tossed out another one of your boyfriends.
19:39Dad.
19:40Don't worry, Babs.
19:41It was just that Leonard that you hate and despise.
19:44But I don't hate and despise him.
19:47I think he's the most wonderful boy I ever met.
19:50Mother, he just ruined my life.
19:52That's two lives.
19:57She's got more lives than a cat.
19:59That's for you, Babs.
20:03Well, Riley, I hope you're satisfied.
20:05Peg, I distinctly heard her say that she hated and despised that Leonard.
20:10That's him.
20:11Come back.
20:12I'll square it.
20:12Just what's the darned idea, Riley, of shutting the door in Leonard's face?
20:21What, if it was a mistake?
20:22I'll say it was.
20:24After I took the trouble diving around here.
20:25Yeah, but I know.
20:26But if the bed, she'd love to go out with Leonard.
20:28You can fire me if she don't.
20:30I already have that in mind.
20:31Well, mistakes can happen, Mr. Cox.
20:33Especially around here.
20:35Everything's all right, Dad.
20:39I'm sorry I made a scene.
20:41I'm going out.
20:42Oh, that's fine, Babsy.
20:44Well, hurry up.
20:45Don't keep Leonard waiting.
20:46Leonard?
20:47I'm going out with Marvin.
20:49Marvin?
20:49Who's Marvin?
20:50Third string end on the football team.
20:52Good night.
20:53I won't be late.
20:57Well, Mr. Riley, what does Leonard do now?
21:02Well, I'll call up Bruce.
21:06He and Leonard can go out together.
21:11Hi, Peg.
21:12Did you have fun?
21:13Don't speak to me.
21:15Well, Peg, I didn't get fired.
21:16And I got Leonard a date to go dancing, didn't I?
21:19Oh, Leonard doesn't dance.
21:21He does a marathon.
21:23My feet are killing me.
21:25That's the thanks I get.
21:27Women are a losing fight.
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