Babes on Broadway (1941)

Judy Garland: Penny Morris

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Quotes 

• Penny Morris : I don't think I like you.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Thank you.

  Penny Morris : Your welcome!

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : I was a failure yesterday, now look at me today!

  Penny Morris : You mean you even looked worse yesterday?

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Will ya sing me a song?

  Penny Morris : How do you know I can?

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Because you sing when you talk. When you walk. Why your eyes, why their singing right now

  Penny Morris : They are? Well I'll be darned.

  [singing] 

  Penny Morris : When a girl meets boy, Life can be a joy...

• Penny Morris : I just haven't got any talent.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Well, you cry awfully pretty.

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Well, now that I've straightened your life out, what's your name?

  Penny Morris : Penny.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Penny, just like that?

  Penny Morris : No puns.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : All right, one-cent.

• Penny Morris : [singing]  From the dark cafes of Paris, From the streets of Amsterdam, From the homes of old Vienna, To the shores of Uncle Sam, Wherever freedom's hope is true, Each heart cries out to you, Don't give up...

• Penny Morris : Gosh, he - he never stops to think of himself. But he'll be paid back.

  Barbara Jo : You know, Penny, if it was anybody else but you, I'd be jealous.

  Penny Morris : If it was anybody else but him, you could have him.

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : What's the matter?

  Penny Morris : Nothing. I just don't think you're Abraham Lincoln anymore, that's all.

• Penny Morris : [singing]  Chin up! Cheerio! Carry on! Keep a stiff upper lip, When you're in doubt, fella, Chin up! Cheerio! Carry on! Oh, the sun's sure to smile, On your tight little isle, So hang on to your wits, And you'll turn the blitz on Fritz, There's a whole world behind you, Shoutin', "Stout fella!" Chin up! Cheerio! Carry on!

• Penny Morris : It's kind of like a haunted house.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Penny, every theater is a haunted house. Ghosts with greasepaint, ghosts that sing and dance, and laugh and cry. Gosh, think of all the shows that have been in this theatre. Flops, successes, bad shows, great shows. You can't tell me that that ever dies. It's all around us right now, all the laughter and applause, cheers. Why, it's on every inch of this old stage up here. Do you see what I mean?

  Penny Morris : Yeah, I see what you mean.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Then when new ones come along, kids like us, that love the theatre just as much as they did, they're glad and they're rootin' for us. They're saying, "This is your chance. Go on out there, we've had ours, now it's your turn. There's your audience. They're waitin' for you!" Oh, can't you just see it now?

• Penny Morris : Everybody, come here for a minute. Come on around me. Come on. Wait a minute. I got something to tell you. Now, this is the first time in *years* that the curtain's gone up in the old Duchess Theater. Let's make them glad they didn't tear it down, huh? What do you say? Come on, places, everyone!

• Penny Morris : [singing]  Sure, I've got rings on my fingers, And bells on my toes, Elephants to ride upon, My little Irish rose...

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : [singing]  We're babes on Broadway, We're goin' places, When our new faces appear, It's a wonderful street, For babes like us to be on, We're here because, We want our names in neon, We left Topeka, We left Eureka, And came to seek a career, Oh, we're milkin' applause, Instead of milkin' a cow, 'Cause we're babes on Broadway now!

• Penny Morris : [singing, in blackface]  How can he be a dud, Or a stick-in-the-mud, When he's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones?

• Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny : [singing]  Every southern lass, Is gonna cook with gas, And boy, that southern cookin's okay

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris : And when you hear that moan, On the slide trombone

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : You'll wanna black up, For that blackout over Broadway...

  [proceeds to put on blackface makeup] 

• Penny Morris : [singing]  Watch them shufflin' along, See them shufflin' along, Go take your best gal, Your real pal, Go down on the levee, I said to the levee, And we'll join that shufflin' throng...

• Penny Morris : I'm just a failure.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Oh, well, I was a failure yesterday. Now look at me today!

  Penny Morris : You mean, you even looked worse yesterday? I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. But I was a success yesterday.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : You mean, you even looked better yesterday?

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Oh, I could say "I love you" just like all the rest of 'em.

  Penny Morris : That's still good, you know.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : But it wouldn't tell you what I really mean.

  Penny Morris : Well, I'll settle for it.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Oh, no, you're not gonna talk me out of my love scene. Were you ever in a rainstorm and you felt like you were the only person in the world that wasn't getting wet? Did you ever look up and see a full moon and, well, it only looked like a half a moon to you because you were looking at it all alone? Penny, did you ever find someone and - and all of a sudden, you felt like you were taking off, right out into space, like a propeller going round, round and round, 30,000 revolutions a minute and there wasn't any landing fields left in the world?

  Penny Morris : Uh-huh. I've had that feeling. And it all started in a drugstore.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Penny.

  Penny Morris : Yeah?

  [kiss] 

  Penny Morris : Tommy.

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Oh, isn't it wonderful what you can find these days in drugstores?

  Penny Morris : Yeah!

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : Oh, gosh!

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams : [singing]  I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Yankee Doodle do or die, A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, I was born on the 4th of July, I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart, She's my Yankee Doodle joy, Yankee Doodle came to London, Just to ride the ponies, Say, I am a Yankee Doodle Boy

  Penny Morris : He's a Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Yankee Doodle do or die...