00:01It's the biggest night in Hollywood history.
00:04Stars, directors, executives, ace critics, and leaders from all walks of life
00:08attend the Gala Press preview of the motion picture industry's most magnificent achievement.
00:14Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band.
00:18Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman and Cesar Romero,
00:22Deanna Durbin and James Wallington,
00:24Mr. and Mrs. John Barrymore,
00:26Harry Joe Brown and Sally Eilers,
00:28Jack Haley,
00:29Constance Bennett and Gilbert Rowland,
00:31Jack Benning,
00:33Claudette Colbert,
00:35Henry King,
00:36Freddie Bartholomew,
00:38Irene Dunn,
00:39Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Letzana,
00:41Don Amici,
00:43Merle Oberon,
00:44Norma Shearer,
00:45and James Stewart,
00:47Alice Faye and Tony Martin,
00:49Paul Muni,
00:50Tyrone Power and Janet Gaynor,
00:52Irving Berlin.
00:54These are a few of the famous who acclaimed Alexander's Ragtime Band
00:58as one of the greatest dramatic spectacles ever produced.
01:29The minute my back was turned,
01:30and try to set yourself in here with my stuff, huh?
01:33Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know that.
01:33All right, kids, that's dynamite.
01:34You're in.
01:35Who's in?
01:36All of you.
01:37Say, don't hook me up with this outfit.
01:39I came here to get myself a job.
01:42Why, you two by four snob.
01:44Look what you've done.
01:45You've ruined my dress.
01:46Now, listen to me.
01:48You're not dressing for your sailor friends now.
01:50This isn't Dirty Eddie's.
01:51I'm trying to build a band that has class and distinction,
01:54and I'm going to begin right now.
01:55Oh, say, you're a know-it-all about women's clothes, too.
01:59Listen, the bankroll is getting thin.
02:02I'm going to have to worry about that when it's all gone.
02:05Here, Jerry.
02:07Some ice?
02:08Here, drink this.
02:10Say, are you going crazy?
02:12Yes.
02:13Do you mind?
02:14Certainly not.
02:15I'm a little cracked myself.
02:16Oh, there you are.
02:17You see, she understands.
02:22That's for all the times I've wanted to break your neck.
02:30And that's for all the times I've wanted to slap your ears down.
02:36The great love story
02:39Has never been told before
02:46But now
02:51Now can be told
02:55Now can be told
03:06Now can be том
03:08Now can be told
03:11Now can be told
03:37The End
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