Lady of Burlesque (1943) is a lively musical mystery directed by William A. Wellman, starring the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O’Shea. Based on the novel The G‑String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee, the film blends comedy, music, and murder mystery into one of the most unique Hollywood productions of the 1940s.
The story is set in a burlesque theater where Dixie Daisy, a new performer, quickly becomes a star attraction. But when backstage rivalries escalate and performers begin turning up dead, Dixie finds herself caught in a dangerous web of intrigue. With witty dialogue, musical numbers, and Stanwyck’s magnetic performance, Lady of Burlesque remains a fascinating mix of glamour and suspense.
Film Details
Title: Lady of Burlesque
Year: 1943
Genre: Musical Mystery / Comedy / Crime
Director: William A. Wellman
Based On: The G‑String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee
Starring:
Barbara Stanwyck as Dixie Daisy
Michael O’Shea as Biff Brannigan
J. Edward Bromberg
Iris Adrian
Runtime: Approx. 91 minutes
Studio: United Artists
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white
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The story is set in a burlesque theater where Dixie Daisy, a new performer, quickly becomes a star attraction. But when backstage rivalries escalate and performers begin turning up dead, Dixie finds herself caught in a dangerous web of intrigue. With witty dialogue, musical numbers, and Stanwyck’s magnetic performance, Lady of Burlesque remains a fascinating mix of glamour and suspense.
Film Details
Title: Lady of Burlesque
Year: 1943
Genre: Musical Mystery / Comedy / Crime
Director: William A. Wellman
Based On: The G‑String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee
Starring:
Barbara Stanwyck as Dixie Daisy
Michael O’Shea as Biff Brannigan
J. Edward Bromberg
Iris Adrian
Runtime: Approx. 91 minutes
Studio: United Artists
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white
#LadyOfBurlesque #BarbaraStanwyck #MichaelOShea #BurlesqueMystery #GStringMurders #GypsyRoseLee #1940sCinema #ShowgirlMurders #ClassicMovies #BlackAndWhiteFilm
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00:00:00The End
00:02:10Sure why you've healed some house, huh, boss?
00:02:14Before they see S.P. Foss's new Dixie nitroglycerine, they only bring down the dog.
00:02:18After they see her.
00:02:20Crowds just like they used to have when this was an opera house, huh, boss?
00:02:23Grand opera brought crowds like this into this lobby.
00:02:26Girls.
00:02:26That's what the public wants.
00:02:36That's what the public wants.
00:03:16Oh, this is you. Would you mind just standing there a while? So, this is you. Please forgive me if
00:03:29I stare a while.
00:03:32It's hard to believe that I could conceive a dream like you. But you're in my arms.
00:03:42He's out there again.
00:03:43Oh, I know it must be true. So, this is you. And you're everything I hope you do.
00:03:54I never knew that a smile would be so much for me.
00:04:04The birds on the wing, the first signs of spring, the moon above, all this at last, my love, is
00:04:16yours.
00:04:22Keep in line there and smile, will you? Smile.
00:04:25Hiya, St. Peter. How goes it? Lots of mail for you, Mr. Brannigan.
00:04:28I can't read the first of the month. Hey, Jake, is that new doll from Columbus on yet?
00:04:31Just a minute, Brannigan. How about that five spot you owe me being on?
00:04:34The five spot? Yeah.
00:04:36Oh, you mean the Finn. The Finsky. Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:04:39You didn't forget anything, did you? Oh, I may forget my lyrics.
00:04:42Oh, you better not. We're not at the Columbus Gator, you know. Dixie, your ma. Your ma.
00:04:46Gigi. Oh. Be a good girl, huh? I'll be rooting for you.
00:04:52Help you, honey? I'm warning you, comic. Yeah, so did the copper that gave me this.
00:04:58No romance in those copper soles, Dixie. Just because a guy goes through two red lights together.
00:05:02Quiet, Irish. Get upstairs and put your false face on. Dixie.
00:05:05Well, I just wanted to wish you luck.
00:05:07That's okay, comic, but keep it at a distance.
00:05:10That would mean so much to me.
00:05:13It's the very clear that you will send me from above.
00:05:20And this at last, my love, is you.
00:05:37Beautiful, Junior, but it's not for me.
00:05:40Come on and give me heat, cause I don't like my music sweet.
00:05:45I wanna feel my impulse beat.
00:05:48Take it off the E string, play it on the G string.
00:05:51If this gives you a thrill, it's happening much against my will.
00:05:56And only cause I've caught a chill.
00:05:59Take it off the E string, play it on the G string.
00:06:02What goes a lot goes when I do my act.
00:06:08Boys, it's a fact.
00:06:09Whenever I'm applauded, you're rewarded.
00:06:13Each time the drummer jumps, I get goose flesh big as lumps.
00:06:18I start breaking out in bumps.
00:06:27Brother, I'm making my eggs and bacon, earning my pay.
00:06:32Just by shaking this way, four shows a day.
00:06:38Time was when crime was if you stole some dough.
00:06:44Now that ain't so.
00:06:46Cause if you lack attire, it's the Black Mariah.
00:06:49Mm-mm, Lady Godiva.
00:06:52I know what you're waiting for.
00:06:55I've been waiting a week.
00:06:56And I've a mind to do some more.
00:06:58I'll stick around.
00:06:58But I don't wanna break the law.
00:07:00Cause listen, brother, I've got a mother, old and gray.
00:07:05But she's a Lulu.
00:07:06I support her this way, four shows a day.
00:07:25How about a little supper after the show tonight?
00:07:28The only date I make with comics is with the Sunday funnies.
00:07:31That'd be all right with me.
00:07:32Sunday morning breakfast.
00:07:33Yeah, I'm sure it would be.
00:07:36Hey, you forgot to take your hand out of that one.
00:08:00You let him in the aisles.
00:08:01You let him in the aisles.
00:08:18They'll never let her off at that stage.
00:08:20Gee, you work fast.
00:08:21Nothing to it, Mandy.
00:08:23Butterflies are usually hard to catch.
00:08:24Nah, not when you've had practice.
00:08:25Boy, you sure have practice.
00:08:27Pretty sure there won't be no more room.
00:08:28For her they can all move over.
00:08:30Mandy, here's some glitter to start your collection.
00:08:32Gee, thanks, Biff.
00:08:33You'd better tell them what that glitter is.
00:08:35As though I don't know.
00:08:38Of course I know.
00:08:39They wear it around the waist and they have to...
00:08:43Well, they use it.
00:08:46Oh, you make me so mad.
00:09:04Easy to follow you, Dixon.
00:09:06Hi, darling.
00:09:06Makes me want to leave the wife.
00:09:07Come for a couple of lessons.
00:09:09That worm's lucky he did run away.
00:09:10Wait till I slap his face in the pickle for sweater.
00:09:12They'll find his jaw on Staten Island.
00:09:14Yeah?
00:09:16What?
00:09:18What did I tell you?
00:09:20With diamonds in your hair,
00:09:21and S.B. Foss personally grooming you for stardom.
00:09:24No thanks to your first comic.
00:09:26Oh, Fossie, are they all alike?
00:09:27Don't you ever make a new one?
00:09:28Not with comics.
00:09:30Only with girls.
00:09:31And only S.B. Foss can do anything new with them.
00:09:33Well, I guess it's up to me.
00:09:35And I'm just the gal to enjoy the job.
00:09:43You really gave them the money for it.
00:09:45Nice going, Dixon.
00:09:45You know, the next show on the Yale boat.
00:09:47Why is it going home dreaming, Dixon?
00:09:48Gee, if I could plead the customers like that,
00:09:50I'd be the happiest girl in the world.
00:09:53That's what keeps me young and beautiful, Alice.
00:09:55Don't we get any congrats from the Golden Voice Goddess?
00:09:58Oh, it had its novelty appeal.
00:10:01Meow.
00:10:01Meow.
00:10:02Well, there are plenty of novelties around the old opera.
00:10:04Oh, bravo.
00:10:05Well, that doesn't sound like the old opera.
00:10:06I have one of them.
00:10:08If that's who I think it is, save your applause for the acts that need it.
00:10:11Yours.
00:10:11Now, is that the way to talk when I'm handing your posies?
00:10:13Your applause is no music to my ears, Branigan.
00:10:16Where's that prop you swiped?
00:10:17I meant to tell you, Dixie.
00:10:19When you dress for our date tonight, blue is my favorite color.
00:10:21And no big hat, see that it'll get in my way.
00:10:23When I dress for a date with you, it'll be a suit of armor and brass knuckles.
00:10:28Gee.
00:10:29That's just a come on.
00:10:30She wants to make it look difficult.
00:10:32She'll change her tune.
00:10:35Honey, sugar.
00:10:37See?
00:10:38Yes, darling.
00:10:39Russell, sugar.
00:10:43What is it, Angel?
00:10:44I've just thought of the play.
00:10:45Yeah, the double play.
00:10:46Wait till Dolly catches up with you.
00:10:48How does it sound?
00:10:49Fine.
00:10:50Out of class.
00:10:51That's for us.
00:10:52Shall we read it together later?
00:10:54Anytime you say.
00:10:56Why don't you give it up, goddess?
00:10:57It'll take one play to get you and Russell out of burlesque.
00:11:00It'll take a dare.
00:11:02That settles up.
00:11:03We've got to have a new one.
00:11:05New what?
00:11:05Oh, the museum piece.
00:11:07I haven't seen one like that since the Wilkes-Barre Regal.
00:11:09In some ways, I think it would have been better to stay on the farm.
00:11:12Mr. Foss always says that nothing's too good for S.B. Foss players, but that thing is certainly too something
00:11:18for me.
00:11:19Me too.
00:11:19Hey.
00:11:21Look, to keep you cutie dolls from pining so much, us fellas up here are going to chip in a
00:11:24buck a piece on some new plumbing for you.
00:11:26How's that?
00:11:27Our hero.
00:11:28Now put the switch on low if he's backstage.
00:11:30He said he knew where we could get one.
00:11:33It's nothing, girls.
00:11:34I was just doing it for that lovely young butt of the old opera, Miss Dixie Daisy.
00:11:39Well, I'm touched.
00:11:41Mandy.
00:11:42Joey.
00:11:44Phil.
00:11:45Biff.
00:11:47Maybe Biff will pay double with his new interest.
00:11:50If you figure that way, don't forget your saloon keeper friend Louie, even if he doesn't work here.
00:11:54Sure.
00:11:55Anybody that saved as much out of the rack is Louie.
00:11:57That's a poor part of this guy.
00:11:58Stop keep.
00:11:58Or does he?
00:12:00While you're at it, put Russell down for plenty.
00:12:03He's here so much the guys upstairs will forget what he looks like.
00:12:07Well, someone else had better forget what he looks like, too.
00:12:10Some dames never know when a guy's fed up.
00:12:13Oh, Dolly.
00:12:14We were just kidding about how much jack we could get out of upstairs for the new bric-a-brac.
00:12:19Yeah, I came in on the tail end of it.
00:12:23I'll take care of Russell's.
00:12:25I sort of got the habit.
00:12:26Good thing you have, girlie.
00:12:28You sure couldn't hold a man unless you did pay up.
00:12:32Now stop it, you poor old.
00:12:34I can't hurt you, sir.
00:12:37Put that racket up there.
00:12:51Yes, you poor old.
00:12:58Oh, my vocal cords.
00:13:06My voice.
00:13:10Thank heaven, Mother.
00:13:12They're still all right.
00:13:13Mother.
00:13:14What kind of a mother would a dame like you have?
00:13:16A mother with a good, right?
00:13:17No!
00:13:18Stop it!
00:13:22There's a pocket for you, boys. Don't open it till Christmas.
00:13:26Ouch.
00:13:27Fight it again, Dolly.
00:13:29Take her up there.
00:13:32Quiet, there's a number on with it.
00:13:33Oh, you look what crawled out of the antiques.
00:13:36Hey, what are you burning in that ground? Bird scene?
00:13:39We ought to put those two down in the basement with the rest of the problem.
00:13:42Opera singers didn't mind it, but burlesque artistes.
00:13:47Times have changed.
00:13:49They ain't got no manners.
00:13:50Think they're better than an honest man that works for a living and don't pose around on the stage.
00:13:55Excuse me!
00:14:08Hey, what did you do to the statue of the Hermit?
00:14:09Boy, were you getting dished by the gruesome twosome.
00:14:13It's gin. You know alcohol like they use in hospitals.
00:14:16Yeah, well, I know a better place to use it.
00:14:18Get me it.
00:14:24And the next time you girls pull a free-for-all, don't pull it during my act.
00:14:31You know, it's tough enough doing something artistic for those lugs out there without you and Dolly calling each other
00:14:36by your right names.
00:14:37Well, you do, honey. Drop your spangles.
00:14:40Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:14:43And it was embarrassing, believe me.
00:14:45But very successful.
00:14:48What hit me?
00:14:52How do you get up, Miss Dixie? We're on.
00:14:54Coming.
00:14:55Well, girls, keep the home fires under control.
00:14:58Shall we join the customers?
00:14:59That's what we're getting paid for.
00:15:01You're gonna feel pretty silly someday when you remember acting like this.
00:15:03If I remember you that long.
00:15:05Oh, you'll remember.
00:15:06We're gonna make sensational partners.
00:15:08Sure about that?
00:15:08Oh, I mean in some of our dance routines.
00:15:10Naturally.
00:15:11Never any doubt what a comic means.
00:15:12You better settle down to it, Dixie.
00:15:15Looks like you and I are in for a good long run here.
00:15:17I've been training for it.
00:15:18I can keep ahead of you.
00:15:21Hurry up, Miss Dixie, will you? You're on.
00:15:32I told you the last time there's no use asking you.
00:15:35This time I'll be good, please.
00:15:36I said no, I mean no.
00:15:38Hey, where are you going?
00:15:38I'm going to meet a blonde.
00:15:39A blonde?
00:15:39A blonde that works the dice in Kelly's pool room.
00:15:42Maybe you know it.
00:15:42No, I don't know it.
00:15:43Hey, I want a blonde.
00:15:44You want a blonde?
00:15:44What kind of a blonde?
00:15:45Any kind.
00:15:46One like this, or one like this, or one like this.
00:15:48Just a blonde.
00:15:49Hey, how come you have all the luck with the girls?
00:15:51Because, my boy, I have something you haven't got.
00:15:53Oh, you got a magic thing there?
00:15:54See this little article?
00:15:55All I have to do is wave that little persuader onto the lady's nose.
00:15:58She gives me anything I want.
00:15:59Anything?
00:16:00Anything at all.
00:16:00Sell it to me.
00:16:01Boy, that's a very valuable article.
00:16:03My price would be $1,000.
00:16:05So long.
00:16:17Hey, lady.
00:16:18You left your motor running.
00:16:19Don't get excited.
00:16:20You didn't start.
00:16:20I bet I could stop it.
00:16:22Hey, maybe I ought to buy that thing, huh?
00:16:23I thought you said you wanted a blonde.
00:16:24Ah, she looks like she's a blonde at heart.
00:16:26Here, here.
00:16:26You can't talk that way about that sweet, charming, innocent young lady.
00:16:29I was just trying to tell her that...
00:16:30Never mind what you were trying.
00:16:31Now, are you interested in purchasing this persuader or not?
00:16:34Well, it seems like an awful lot of money for such a small article.
00:16:36My boy, don't you realize the best things always come in small packages?
00:16:39Yeah, but before I spend all that money, how do I know it's going to work?
00:16:41Why, of course it'll work.
00:16:42All you have to do is have the little persuader on to the ladies.
00:16:44No, she gives you anything you want.
00:16:47Hello.
00:16:48Hello.
00:16:48Oh, there's never anybody around there where you want to.
00:16:50What is it?
00:16:51It looks like a raid.
00:16:51I'm trying to get forced.
00:16:52A raid?
00:16:53Hello, hello.
00:16:54They're red lights supposed to flash when the cops are in the lobby.
00:16:57Why isn't it working?
00:16:58That's swell, but couldn't you make it a little cheaper?
00:17:01Well, I might sell it in the neighborhood of $500.
00:17:04That's an expensive neighborhood.
00:17:06Well, how much money have you got?
00:17:07Oh, roughly $400.
00:17:09What do you mean, roughly?
00:17:10Well, when you smooth it out, it's three bucks.
00:17:12Well, enough of this nonsense.
00:17:13Now, because I like you and because you have an honest face...
00:17:16Murder.
00:17:16I'm going to sell you this little article for $100.
00:17:18$100.
00:17:21Remember, my boy, just pass it under her note.
00:17:24Just pass it under her note.
00:17:26Anything I ask for, anything.
00:17:28Now you've done it, they heard that hand you got way down at the police station.
00:17:30Something smells fishy around here.
00:17:32Why wasn't that light on?
00:17:33Because somebody didn't want it on.
00:17:34Look!
00:17:35Cut as clean as a whistle right here under my nose.
00:17:37And by somebody who...
00:17:38Give me your money.
00:17:40When the lights black out make a break for the coal chute, know where it is?
00:17:42I don't hang around the same parts of this theater that you do.
00:17:45Give me a kiss.
00:17:47In the cellar next to the vacant room and cut the end of the blackout.
00:17:50Not a chance, Brannigan.
00:17:51I've been saving up for this all evening.
00:17:55Hey!
00:17:56Wait for a minute!
00:18:00Oh!
00:18:02Oh!
00:18:04Oh!
00:18:06Oh!
00:18:07Oh!
00:18:08Oh!
00:18:10Oh!
00:18:14Oh!
00:18:15Oh!
00:18:16Oh!
00:18:18Oh!
00:18:19Oh!
00:18:20Oh!
00:18:25Alice don't get excited. I'll protect you. Come on
00:18:43What's going on down there
00:18:52Okay, okay
00:18:55Wait a minute
00:19:12Stop it. Pull up the curtain
00:19:14Stop it
00:19:14Don't fight
00:19:15I'll fix everything
00:19:18Be calm
00:19:21Be calm
00:19:26Be calm, I beseech you
00:19:28Stop it
00:19:29Stop it. Don't fight
00:19:31Be calm
00:19:33S.B. Foss has never let his actors down
00:19:37And you are not riding in the wagon
00:19:39I, S.B. Foss, out of my own pocket have hired limousines to take you to jail
00:19:44Three cheers for Foss I've bought
00:19:46Yes, he came just in the niche of time
00:19:49Call in
00:19:54Well, you didn't have to
00:19:55Didn't have to what?
00:20:00Nothing, never mind
00:20:15One hour
00:20:15S.B. Foss gives you his word
00:20:18In one hour I will have you out
00:20:27I said one hour, didn't I?
00:20:29Well, here we are
00:20:31All ready for our little snack of steaks and champagne
00:20:34Hooray!
00:20:38What else could the cops do
00:20:40When not one of you did anything to warrant such a
00:20:42Such a
00:20:43Such a
00:20:44Ignoble act like that rage
00:20:45Right
00:20:46But
00:20:46Wasn't the cops that kept the light from flashing
00:20:49And right from our middle
00:20:51And it wasn't the cops that tried to strangle me
00:20:52That female Flatfoot was wearing gloves
00:20:54Oh!
00:20:55Dixie, what are you talking about?
00:20:56When the lights went out I made for the coal chute
00:20:58I was starting down the stairs when somebody grabbed me
00:21:00Mandy, you ought to be ashamed of yourself
00:21:01Well, it wasn't me, Dixie
00:21:02Honest it wasn't
00:21:03Somebody grabbed me and tried to strangle me
00:21:05Those hands were long and thin and they knew what they were doing
00:21:09Was strong enough to make me black out
00:21:10Sugar
00:21:11You're still blacked out
00:21:12Dixie
00:21:13Somebody was trying to find his way out
00:21:15Yeah, neck is a funny thing to mistake for a signpost
00:21:18Well, I've seen a lot of pink elephants in my day, honey
00:21:20But never a strangler
00:21:21But some
00:21:22Who'd want to kill you?
00:21:24I
00:21:24I don't say they wanted to kill me
00:21:27What I'm saying is that
00:21:29Somebody in that theater tried to kill somebody else
00:21:39Maybe somebody does want to get rid of somebody else around here
00:21:42Just what do you mean by that?
00:21:44I mean that three people get crowded at a table for two
00:21:46And when some people get crowded, they push
00:21:49Please, please
00:21:51Whatever we got in the old opera house, we ain't got murderers
00:21:55Right
00:21:55And this is my answer to such foolishness
00:22:00Ah, wallpaper
00:22:01You should have such wallpaper to pretty up your house
00:22:04To each and every one of my actors, I give free
00:22:07And without cost
00:22:08One paid and full share of my personal stock in the old opera house
00:22:13Hooray!
00:22:14Thank you!
00:22:16Come on up, everybody and hear this
00:22:18Great
00:22:18That's right
00:22:19Come on
00:22:21We should have a radio on your side and walls
00:22:22Yes, that's right
00:22:23Now we are one for all and all for the old opera
00:22:27The champagne and cocktails are riding our lives
00:22:32It's sweet and alive
00:22:35Remember, easy, a dozen
00:22:36Should it?
00:22:37Was it?
00:22:38The switches were most difficult
00:22:43So, Sir Galahad finally got here
00:22:47Got a bad temper, Songbird
00:22:49Why don't you come down and get me? I called you, didn't I?
00:22:51I don't go near jails, I don't go near cops, you know that
00:22:54But a cell crawling with floozies is all right for me
00:22:57I can be booked like a common tramp, can't I?
00:23:00You might have liked it if your boyfriend had serenaded you
00:23:03Might have worked up a quartet with your cell buddies
00:23:06Big Louie the Grin
00:23:07Turns gray when he sees a cop like a gunsel
00:23:09You shouldn't have plugged that cop in...
00:23:11Get your coat
00:23:23Get your coat
00:23:23You won't get too lonesome for us, will you?
00:23:34Let's break it up
00:23:41Needed that, didn't you?
00:23:43Don't worry, the cops haven't got anything on you yet
00:23:46When they do, they'll catch up on a lot of things
00:23:48Won't they, Louie?
00:23:50I don't know, will they?
00:23:58Ah, this is more like it
00:24:00Do you mind, Curly?
00:24:01Not at all
00:24:01Thank you
00:24:03See that? He gets it quicker than you do
00:24:05We belong together
00:24:06Champagne cocktail, please
00:24:07In a flasso garçon, too
00:24:10Linguist
00:24:10Oh, French
00:24:11I see you've been here before
00:24:13Oh, beer's a lot better for you
00:24:14Always got your best interest at heart, that's me
00:24:17And I left upstairs to come down here with you
00:24:19Steak, champagne
00:24:20Yeah, but things upstairs were getting sudden and violent
00:24:23Yeah
00:24:24They've been that way all evening
00:24:27Biff, I wonder...
00:24:28Don't forget that stuff, will you?
00:24:30Oh, I get it
00:24:32You're just pulling this act to make me feel protective
00:24:35Don't you ever figure on anybody telling the truth?
00:24:37Not burlesque names
00:24:38They're used to wriggling out of things
00:24:40Ha, ha, ha, ha
00:24:41Did you get that one?
00:24:42Ha, ha, ha
00:24:45Dixie, tell me something
00:24:46Uh-uh, you tell me
00:24:49Who'd want to close the old opera?
00:24:50More important, who'd be after me?
00:24:52Well, Dixie, I guess I'll have to confess
00:24:54It was just me taking a natural advantage of the dark
00:24:57Oh, no
00:24:59That's not where you'd grab me
00:25:02Go ahead, make a mystery out of it
00:25:05But didn't you say before they were probably after somebody else?
00:25:08Yeah, I know, but...
00:25:10Oh, let's get out of here and get some fresh air
00:25:13I want to think this thing out
00:25:14If you'll promise to think something else over first
00:25:16Or on that track again
00:25:19Dixie, I don't get it
00:25:20I've always gotten along before
00:25:21Is it the set of my shoulders you don't like?
00:25:24The look of my eyes?
00:25:25No
00:25:26No, your shoulders aren't bad
00:25:29Your eyes are a pretty color
00:25:31But...
00:25:31I guess what I need with you is a good four-leaf clover
00:25:34No, you need more than that, Branigan
00:25:37You're a comic
00:25:39What is the matter with comics?
00:25:41I went into show business when I was seven years old
00:25:43Two days later, the first comic I ever met
00:25:45Stole my piggy bank on a railroad station in Portland
00:25:48When I was eleven, the comics were looking at my ankles
00:25:50When I was fourteen, they were...
00:25:53Just looking
00:25:54When I was twenty, I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks
00:25:56To paper a three-story house
00:25:58Now, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless
00:26:00I've got it, you're ambitious
00:26:03Well, maybe I'd like to get away from comics
00:26:06Maybe I'd like to be in a 440 show and have Sunday nights off
00:26:10You'll do it too, Dixie
00:26:12You don't mean that
00:26:13I can see it right now
00:26:15Your name up there
00:26:17What's your real name, honey?
00:26:20Deborah Hoople
00:26:21Deborah Ho...
00:26:24You think...
00:26:25Yeah, maybe just Dixie
00:26:26Dixie Daisy in Broadway's latest hit
00:26:28You know what I'm gonna do opening night?
00:26:30Uh-uh
00:26:30By the whole first row, just for me
00:26:33Sounds nice, Branigan
00:26:34You'll see, won't take long either
00:26:36Come on, let's get out of here
00:26:40Yeah
00:26:40Yep
00:26:45Hey
00:26:47Uh-uh
00:26:49That's why I ordered beer
00:26:51I said it was to your interest
00:26:57Comics
00:26:59Thank you
00:27:02Four-fifty, sir
00:27:03Four-fifty, sir
00:27:07For when I'm not around
00:27:08To protect my best interest
00:27:11Oh, here's your change, mister
00:27:14Keep it
00:27:23وسipping
00:27:24Let's hang out
00:27:26But, come on, sweetheart
00:27:30RUNNING
00:27:32RUNNING
00:27:37I'll volunteer
00:27:38The problems
00:27:40Really?!
00:27:41That's� nguck
00:27:41Ain't all yours
00:27:43You're delicious
00:27:44I'll try to get some magic
00:27:52jealousy you look in this window once more you'll get a bottle over there those jock suey hustlers
00:27:57don't stop why don't you dress someplace else it's my dressing room and it's their porch they're
00:28:01probably a darn sight hotter than that a couple of sales fell right out of their boxes what's that
00:28:07work of art laurel leaves for the party tonight we're gonna have a regular unveiling like when
00:28:12you unveil statues of generals and holland things maybe that'll teach you to mind your own business
00:28:22not that it matters to you dames but someone had to teach them that a lady's entitled to privacy
00:28:26you'll get plenty of privacy if that wait is hurt they have laws for people like you oh yeah who
00:28:31gave you a cue stick to your own business and i'll stick to mine stick to my own business that's
00:28:35a
00:28:35laugh i've stood for your knives in the back to keep a little peace around here but i'm through
00:28:38if you're not jumping on us you're knocking out waiters who wouldn't look at you if you were
00:28:41rolled and battering french fries and i'm through letting the cornfield upstart gets pushed ahead
00:28:45of me where does everybody get the idea you're so hot maybe the customers get the idea you can
00:28:50have these customers i'm getting out of this grindhouse oh i wish he wouldn't say that it sounds so cheap
00:28:58moey let me help you
00:29:00i got a chance to make that lady found me
00:29:03go
00:29:04give another bo brummel hey is that good that uh bo business
00:29:09it ain't hot is it what do you mean hot this i think of this palomon i used to work
00:29:14with me
00:29:14all days when we got legitimate he took up plumbing and what do you know he gives me it wholesale
00:29:20and what's more i saved you plenty by installing the poster just look at that just look at that
00:29:26ain't that gorgeous why it's got class enough for the queen of sheba now you'd really have something
00:29:31if you had a whole suit to match sweet come on come on everybody down for the conger you play
00:29:36with
00:29:36that thing later come on everybody
00:29:37okay
00:29:38what's the matter what's that he sounds like it's wild a file probably slow because we didn't ask him to
00:29:43the party
00:29:44probably won't even have a party with mother's darling throwing bottle grenades at the food supply
00:29:48i'll try and smooth things over while you girls hand out the allure
00:29:55hey jinks
00:29:56yeah
00:30:01i'm worried
00:30:02what about
00:30:03look it was a break for us to come on here so okay
00:30:06but columbus was never like this the leaves ready to slit your throat dollies up in the air
00:30:10since when couldn't i take care of myself yeah i know but
00:30:22we almost got them that time
00:30:32see what i mean
00:30:33ever find a stage gang that didn't eavesdrop go on get down
00:30:56now is that a sight i ask you hold it
00:31:03if they could get moonlight on that stage force would be a millionaire tomorrow
00:31:07where you off to miss venus
00:31:09i'm on a peace mission if you hear any screams tell force to hire a new woman
00:31:13uh-uh
00:31:15you won't lose any arguments not looking like that you won't have time
00:31:20you know if this were real lasso i'd drag you up here like a calf in a western only no
00:31:26calf ever had a hide as pretty as that
00:31:30what would you do when you got me you've had a little trouble putting the brand on so far
00:31:35ah that's so far
00:31:38after a sight like that my irish ancestors would rise up in their graves if brannigan missed the bus
00:31:43i hate to disturb your ancestors
00:31:54well what sense friends i'll show you soon what sense and if you want to start something
00:31:59hey bear the girl's dance level's nearly finished you better get ready
00:32:03oh now wait a minute boys i'm carrying a white flag you chinese fight too darn well for us to
00:32:07want to mix with you
00:32:09come here let me take a look at that
00:32:12that isn't the way to take care of it
00:32:20you go back we have nothing to do with you yeah we'll have something to do with this here
00:32:26uh no dinners no more dinners ever no oh now look we have to put up with enough of that
00:32:31dame without her starving us out in the bargain
00:32:33she was born with an axe in her mouth she ought to be put out of her misery like a
00:32:36mad dog
00:32:38come on tell me you'll bring us our dinners and i'll smoothie divorce into giving you some passes
00:32:46things getting a little bit difficult for you piff yeah mandy you know how it is
00:32:51sometimes these things take time they sure do you gotta plan it out
00:32:56sometimes you finagle them this way and other times you finagle them that way
00:33:00that's why i like sweet dumb girls like alice
00:33:03no finagling refrain the dinners thank you spirit and don't spare the ice until that's better
00:33:07see you later wait wait wait a minute
00:33:11ginseng root you eat it makes you live a long time thanks thanks a lot
00:33:21so he slips you one of those never die things huh
00:33:23yes mr brannigan it's a charm to ward off the evil spirit
00:33:39biff what's the matter that was my ancestors rising up in their graves
00:33:48how'd you make out with the waiters dixie yeah do we put on the feed bag yeah and what's that
00:33:54i don't know
00:33:55the waiter gave it to me hey dixie's got a new boyfriend
00:33:59you eat it and live long time ceiling wax
00:34:03oh i'm sorry girls well everything's hunky-dory now
00:34:08oh uh jake has a few surprises he wants to put in for the unveiling
00:34:12so you better clear out early for the finale
00:34:14this place has as much privacy as a hot dog stand
00:34:17look it's shaped like a man
00:34:19ugh it's disgusting
00:34:21not so much like a man
00:34:23more like a skeleton hanging from the gallows
00:34:25want to trade it in dixie
00:34:27ah you can have the full thing
00:34:31the same charming gathering
00:34:35hello
00:34:38well look what the pixies brought in out of the rain
00:34:40the same old familiar faces
00:34:45and some new arrivals
00:34:48who are you
00:34:51i'm dixie daisy this is gg graham
00:34:53who are you
00:34:55i am the princess nirvina
00:34:58star of this theater
00:35:00i have been in the hospital for the last two weeks
00:35:05dislocated vertebrae
00:35:08maybe she took a little trip to toledo
00:35:10for old time's sake
00:35:11i have never worked in how you say to toledo
00:35:16don't give me that accent business
00:35:18you know how to say it when i first knew you
00:35:20toledo
00:35:21i don't go to toledo
00:35:23only tramps work in toledo
00:35:25well they get around
00:35:27no
00:35:29i should have danced before royalty
00:35:32instead the princess throws pearls
00:35:36to swine
00:35:39are you snooty
00:35:40we're on again beautiful
00:35:42hello black iron
00:35:43it wasn't bad luck
00:35:44i'd let her have it
00:35:45who was that overexposed debutante
00:35:47a dame will think she's four times sharper than she is
00:35:49there's one thing i hate
00:35:50it's a phony
00:35:53i should have danced before royalty
00:35:57instead the princess throws pearls
00:36:01to swine
00:36:03i had a black cat like that once
00:36:05only there wasn't so much of it
00:36:06well i wouldn't be too hard on her
00:36:08she's bad luck to some people not so bad to others
00:36:10if anyone else drops in then i should meet
00:36:12tell them i'm on stage
00:36:13the court is now in order
00:36:14make one a little discipline
00:36:16leave us have order and leave us have quiet
00:36:18bring the bristol before the
00:36:19i startled you
00:36:20lately sister i've been startled by experts
00:36:22tell me while i have been gone
00:36:24has this lulita
00:36:26has she said anything about me
00:36:28don't know
00:36:29you were a smash surprise to me
00:36:31it is only that some people talk too much
00:36:34and this lulita talks a lot too much
00:36:38not to me
00:36:39ask the others in the dressing room
00:36:41i dress alone
00:36:43downstairs
00:36:44i'd rather live in a big sty than with those women
00:36:47what are you doing jake moving up the whole prop room
00:36:50i gotta do my surprises upright dixie
00:36:55still clumsy eh
00:36:59yes i am back
00:37:02just visiting i hope
00:37:04stay in mr prop man
00:37:06the court finds you guilty of being drunk and finds you five dollars
00:37:10here's a ten dollar bill
00:37:11ten dollar bill i haven't got any change
00:37:13go out and get drunk again
00:37:15court is now ready for seeing the trial
00:37:17in the worst case of miss peaches wilson
00:37:18mint peaches wilson
00:37:21come on what are you waiting for you're on
00:37:23oh i'm sorry sam
00:37:23oh hello excellency
00:37:27v
00:37:29what is dot
00:37:31dot
00:37:43she does what you do
00:37:44i like it better
00:37:45you two can trade notes at that wing ding they're throwing tonight
00:37:48do you think i would go
00:37:50i the princess
00:37:53free drinks heinous
00:37:55i might come
00:37:57now i want to see mr faas
00:38:00is he here
00:38:01right in the same old rat's nest
00:38:02want me to tell him you're back
00:38:04tell him to come to my dressing room
00:38:10want to get a cigar i'll be back right away
00:38:15come come miss peaches we want the truth
00:38:17the what
00:38:17the truth
00:38:18oh that old thing
00:38:19will you over up before me
00:38:20i don't know what time do you get up
00:38:22now miss peaches
00:38:23the facts of the case are clear to me
00:38:25you plead guilty
00:38:27or not guilty
00:38:27don't you think that's a rather personal question
00:38:29oh you'll have to tell him
00:38:31why
00:38:31why
00:38:32why
00:38:33because according to the constitution of the bylaw state of coma
00:38:36663 upper 7 car rate of fall
00:38:38leaving for south mississippi at all points where
00:38:40it's distinctly said
00:38:41it all
00:38:42i hold you in contempt
00:38:46i don't like you either
00:38:48i don't like you either
00:38:50well i don't like you either either either either
00:38:53enough of that
00:38:54who's a carpenter with a hammer
00:38:56how dare you refer to me as a carpenter
00:38:58i am justice
00:38:59yeah well i'm justice too
00:39:01justice who
00:39:02just as good as you are
00:39:07what for i'm not thirsty
00:39:11hey louis
00:39:12you know something
00:39:13them girls is lucky they know a couple like us
00:39:16i bring in defensive gadget
00:39:17you roll the kegs
00:39:19we're running this party
00:39:20yeah
00:39:21where you going
00:39:23back in to get the rest of the beer
00:39:25that's all you're gonna get
00:39:26i told charlie to take it easy on the free drinks from my pals
00:39:29sure louis
00:39:31sure
00:39:36step aside
00:39:37it's all dark and withered
00:39:38some gentlemen are passing
00:39:46all my sacrifices
00:39:48alfred
00:39:49are but keys to open the gates of heaven
00:39:52and let me be
00:39:53with you
00:39:54i'll bear them in the aisles with that one
00:39:57i feel it
00:39:58here
00:39:59it says here in the complaint
00:40:00that you hit your husband over the head with a frying pan
00:40:02like both his eyes
00:40:03are coming sammy
00:40:06some people don't learn easy songbird
00:40:08now don't do it louis
00:40:09you gotta take a lot of lessons before they sign
00:40:12now don't do it louis
00:40:16quiet
00:40:17just kidding
00:40:18you're terrific louis
00:40:22no it's so rough and tough as big shot louis the grid
00:40:25winning bad women are pushing guys around
00:40:32come on and give me heat
00:40:35cause i don't like my music sweet
00:40:37i wanna feel my impulse beat
00:40:40take it off the e string
00:40:41play it on the g string
00:40:42if this gives you a thrill
00:40:44it's happening much against my will
00:40:47and only cause i caught a chill
00:40:49take it off the e string
00:40:51play it on the g string
00:40:52what goes a lot
00:40:54goes when i do my act
00:40:57or if it's a good time
00:40:59whenever i'm afforded
00:41:01you're rewarded
00:41:02each time i get more jokes
00:41:04let's get it
00:41:05use the biggest love
00:41:07i start breaking
00:41:08pound and ponds
00:41:09brother i'm making my agent
00:41:11banking
00:41:12earning my pay
00:41:13just by shaking this way
00:41:15for shows a day
00:41:19oh
00:41:19Oh, my God.
00:42:16Oh, my God.
00:42:19Oh, my God.
00:42:21Oh, my God.
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00:44:28Oh, my God.
00:44:51Oh, my God.
00:45:14Oh, my God.
00:46:08Hey, you're holding up the parade.
00:46:12Oh, my God.
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