Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

"George M. Cohan, the Alvin Theater, New York.
I said, "My mother thanks you...
Oh, I know you can improve, if you want to.
A real live nephew Of my Uncle Sam
- You approach her and very tactfully too. - Well, if it's tact that does it, it's done.
There will be five more performances.
When does he get time to practice?
When they see it coming All them babies take a chill
It's pleasant at the White House But I'll tell you how I feel
- And the name, please? - Cohan. George M. Cohan.
Yankee Doodle came to London Just to ride the ponies
I have slouched along the way
That's just some more of that Harris con.
He doesn't get up that early.
And what's more, I phoned Sam right back and told him I'd play it.
...plain as any name can be.
We can pick it up on the way back.
Well, it was a wow. I haven't laughed so much in years.
Remember me to Herald Square
...on the Fourth of July, what about George Washington Cohan?
- Any messages come for me? - Not yet.
Nice going.
The song is gone. Pull out the lights.
Well, that settled it.
All right, not on the mouth. Come here.
Yankee Doodle came to London.
...Mary...
When I speak All the papers hold their deadlines
And quite often, he isn't the best judge of how much he has given.
That doggone town
Don't print that Off the record
Hurrah, hurrah
Asking impossible terms and conditions.
We have no time to listen to that junk.
Well, it's always been a dream of ours, Mary.
Hmm.
- Harrigan - That's me
Oh, yes, he's going to give work to the act any day now.
You must be hungry after seven shows.
Jerry and I have seen a lot of chickens in train windows...
Aren't you going roller-skating with that, tlick-tlick, Pipperino?
Cohan may find out he isn't either one.
- You... You... - Heh-heh-heh. Oh!
I didn't think you'd care If you should never see me again
- Close it? - Close it.
So prepare Say a prayer
- I gotta find out what's happening. - Oh, for heaven's sake, Jerry.
Well, hello there.
She wasn't gay or airy...
...some thug nation decides we're a pushover, all ready to be blackjacked.
Oh. What's your name, sir?
Mary
It's so inspiring
- Maybe something wrong with Mom and Dad. - I've got reports on the minstrel show.
You sit right here. You sit right here, and I will give you an idea of what I mean.
I want to make sure that everybody knows it was written for me.
George, I'm afraid your mother and I are breaking up the act before Josie is.
Like the wandering minstrel
Where there's never a boast or brag
Over there
You're not gonna break up the act.
They tell me when he tries to sing, the orchestra puts up umbrellas.
Naturally, they don't remember you. Nobody's got that good a memory.
His writing, his song, why, even his walk and his talk...
If positions were reversed, he'd help you out. You know he would.
I don't see how George does it at his age.
...in a show called Peck's Bad Boy.
We'll give your regards to Broadway
Why, there's a moon out.
Well, it's a good sign. They probably couldn't tear themselves away.
Here, chick, chick, chick.
There's no one can teach the same
- Here, chick, chick, chick. - Heh.
...I want you to know I'm darn glad I did.
And I read the critics... Pfft.
The booking office has been calling up all day...
That's my department.
Mm-hm. Ahem.
...and lose a little.
You're doing a George M. Cohan lyric to a George M. Cohan melody.
The Irish are at the head of the parade.
All right. Come on. There's a piano in the private room.
You have the leading part, yes.
But I love the name Billie
...from the earth.
Turkey? I hear it's pretty good.
Do you know what this is?
How many curtain calls did you take tonight?
- Watch that water! - Max, I gotta leave.
A George M....? Oh, I see.
Double R-I
From now on I'm Peck's bad boy only from 8:30 till 11 in the evening.
"Yankee Doodle Candy."
Hurrah, hurrah
If the hoodlums don't get you, a committee of actors will.
Well, if I said anything accidental to make you mad...
So prepare Say a prayer
May I have your autograph, Mr. Cohan?
Nellie.
- Thanks. Thanks very much. - Congratulations.
The better notices you get on minstrel shows, the more it costs you.
Your songs were a symbol of the American spirit.
Now, watch carefully now.
Go broke that she's a hot potato She's a red-hot radiator
Oh, darling, that's a lovely watch. Heh.
And then came your wire, and I was really worried.
- Music? - We promised Dietz and Goff.
The land I love
Oh, no, no, no. Of course not.
Oh, pardon me.
He ran away to the Civil War when he was 13.
No, no, no. We've been billed as The Four Cohans.
Now, don't ask me why it is, but it happens every time the curtain goes up.
Cohan. George M. Cohan.
Courage, Emily, courage.
I was born in Virginia
Only 45 minutes
...the family of George M. Cohan, the new Broadway sensation."
- Must you give it? - Well, I don't know.
...but if they want our act, they'll have to take him too.
- I'm not in the parade. I want to get through. - Not a chance, brother.
Guys who had never been past the corner cigar store...
Hey, George, there's a young lady, would like to talk to you.
...in The Yankee Prince.
And we won't come back Till it's over
Oh, I like it. I like it because it's small.
Have I your permission?
Ten consecutive weeks in New York. That's the big time.
Just full of news, aren't you? Telling me all kinds of things, huh?
- I hope you haven't outgrown the habit. - Not a chance.
The Yanks are coming
...and, well, we're just not ready to open.
Mom's been working on the wedding dress for weeks.
Manhattan went wild with postwar hysteria.
...50 percent of me will always be here in this office.
Good luck, kid.