With a Song in My Heart (1952)

Thelma Ritter: Clancy

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• Clancy : I'm here to tell the cockeyed world... stage history was made that night. To be perfectly frank, none of us knew what to expect. Here was a girl with a 35 pound cast on her leg... who's have to be carried on and off the stage 22 times a performance... making her first public appearance since the accident. The big question on all our minds was... would the audience take her this way? More important still, could she stand the gaff?

• Don Ross : [to Jane]  First, I'm gonna play your theme song. This comes right after the opening number As the curtains part, you're sitting there, better still, standing - if we can figure some way to prop you up. You're posing for this artist, the tenor. That's you, Clancy.

  Clancy : Well, that's typecasting, all right.

  Don Ross : As it happens, you're nuts about Jane, but there are reasons why you can't tell her so yet.

  Clancy : I know one good reason. I ain't a boy.

  Don Ross : Well, he walks over to you, and you have a few lines of dialogue. You know, love stuff. You say, uh, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." And then, Clancy, you say, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

  Clancy : Who wrote this, Eugene O'Neill?

• Jane Froman : I wouldn't have caused this much excitement if I'd ridden in on a horse like Lady Godiva.

  Clancy : That's a good act too, but your hair ain't long enough.

• Jane Froman : The army might think it's too great a nuisance carting me around.

  Clancy : They manage to cart around a lot of tanks and bazookas. I know a couple of top sergeants that could handle it.

• Clancy : Look, this has nothing to do with you, you understand. I'm talking about another couple of dames. Pure hypothetical. See? But just for the sake of argument, let's say one of them had the prettiest pair of legs in the world. Regular pinup girl. All the men beatin' their brains out tryin' to marry her: millionaires, dopes, playboys. So she gets married, and three columnists swoon just writing about it. But before you know it, she starts worrying about what's gonna happen, when maybe she hasn't got the prettiest legs in the world and how nice it would be if she could sit back and relax and say to herself there was something else he married her for. Like maybe he was in love with her. Or, maybe he admired her spirit or her stamina or something.

  Jane Froman : Clancy, you're wonderful.

  Clancy : That's why the lovelorn all come to me for advice. "Cuddles Clancy" they call me.

• Clancy : Aw, you don't wanna pay attention to doctors. They've got a view with alarm so that later they can point with pride. You know, like politicians.

• Jane Froman : Clancy, you're wonderful.

  Clancy : That's why the lovelorn all come to me for advice. Cuddles Clancy, they call me.