Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

You're too anxious to make good.
How does it sound?
...unless it was my mother.
- Ooh! - Oh!
Front row center, the greatest show on earth, the people.
Oh, gosh. I forgot.
We've got this thing licked.
But it won't be the same going back on the road without you, Georgie.
Broadway nights A million dancing lights
- Mr. Cohan will see you. - Thank you.
Well, we didn't take it. See, it just wasn't right.
Pretty cocky kid. A regular Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Well, it's silk and very red and very yellow.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
Say, Dad, will you tell Josie that there's no reason to break up the act?
Darling, there's something I forgot to tell you.
She calls me Mary too
Mary
George, you've always been the one with the words.
It's only 45 minutes from here...
It's awfully nice of all you boys To see me to the train
- What are you talking about? - Waiter, waiter!
It's a grand old name
Melody untiring
Good. Dietz said it's the best musical he's ever read.
Oh, there'll be no stopping George.
I congratulate you, Mr. Cohan.
I was correct about man's love.
Heh. Well, that isn't why we're opening the theater.
I've been in this business a long time and never met a performer...
With the history their flag has, I'd have waved myself to death.
You can't lay off just because every manager has blackballed Georgie.
Mr. Harris and I produced that play.
- ..of "Yankee Doodle." - "Yankee Doodle"?
He's the most original thing that ever hit Broadway. You know why?
To mingle with the old-time throng
Would you like to buy it? Thank you.
...will say, "Hm-hm. Marie."
...The Four Cohans open there this fall with their new show...
- What'd we lose this week? - Oh, 10,000, more or less.
Even your voice sounds younger.
They'll gang up on me and do a good job of it, but I'll beat them to it.
Born on the Fourth of July
I was on Broadway in the legitimate theater.
Shh!
- Upstairs. - I tell you what I'm going to do.
- Mm-hm. - And Harris.
We're all packed.
Their smiles would've sold tickets to wooden Indians.
Georgie, I thought you said you were going to reform.
Get your props together. You're on next.
You haven't discussed our musical with Schwab?
Why is Dietz's wife's money better than my wife's money?
- Laugh. Now, look... - There's really no use discussing anything.
We stuck our necks out, and we got clipped.
The money's good, and the jumps are short.
No, George, I...
I've got some things I want to talk over with Sam.
Printed by Sam Divensky."
Hmm. That include the cost of the red ink?
George Michael Cohan. Heh.
They don't telegraph you to come and be shot at sunrise.
Greek. I'll bet that's Greek talk.
I'm so glad you like it, Dad.
- I make the decisions. - Well, what did you think?
It's from George.
Until he's paid, he sits at the foot of the table with the Cohans.
It seems to me you're taking all this very calmly, Jerry Cohan.
You won't even be able to get into a stage door of any theater...
And we won't come back Till it's over over there
In a love nest
Not on the mouth! He has to sing.
I didn't know there was that much love left in the entire Western Union codebook.
Don't you ought to get my permission too, Dad?
It takes two men to impersonate a horse on Broadway.
I was 6 or 7 years old before I realized they weren't celebrating my birthday...
That was your department.
Flag
They have whiskers like hay
- It was perfect the way it was. - Oh, you're gonna like this.
We're with them We're with them
Don't forget, that's a Republican newspaper.
Oh, so fast!
- Address: Devonshire Hotel." - How do you know so much about me?
Froze in winter and roasted in summer.
But it was a good life.
That sounds so square
Oh, Jerry.
No. She's getting along in years. She's 17.
And forever in peace may you wave
I never was much of a hand at saying things.
- Give the company two weeks' salary. - All right.
Enough to keep young Johnny Jones Away from old Broadway
Well, what's this?
Mom and Pop know?
...were saying my stuff was no good.
Bring her back to supper after the show.
- Let me take a look at that. - Excuse me.
- The Germans won't ask for a birth certificate. - I know how you feel, Mr. Cohan...
- Oh. Mm-hm. - Did you catch it?
Quite sure.
- Well, what do you think? - I didn't like it. It didn't appeal to me.
What a grand old flag
Sit down and give me a pickup.
We'll make this whole business sit up and holler for help.
- Does he dance? - One of the best.
- I think so. - The Herald Tribune says...
Show her in.
- Oh, no, Georgie. - Oh, but you will.
For instance
I've been pounding the pavement so long, my socks have bunions.
- And a very good idea too. - Now I know who got the dog act drunk.
G-A-N, you see Tlick
- Don't do that! - Ha-ha-ha!
...that Hammerstein was bringing over the Scotch actor...
She's the warmest baby in the bunch
And as for New York...
So long, Mary
In the ways of the people and things
- Yes, from now on. - I'd like to make you an offer.
Why, I wanted to hear the story of your life.
Oh, starvation corner.
- Good evening, Mr. Cohan. - Good evening.
Got it.
So prepare
Imagine knowing how to feed chickens or how much to feed them.
Yes, but we gave our word to Dietz.