With a Song in My Heart (1952)

David Wayne: Don Ross

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• Don Ross : You're a very nice looking young lady. I thoroughly approve of both your face and contour. For all I know you may even have a good voice. Shall I go on?

• Don Ross : Having a good voice is a big help. Let's call that God's contribution. But, in show business you got to have a lot more than a pair of pipes. You've got to know how to walk, how to smile, how to take a bow; but, most of all, what to do with your hands. Look, you're singing a song, not waving to a bunch of immigrants at Ellis Island.

• Jane Froman : [singing]  I got that old feeling, the moment...

  Radio Director : No, no, no. That's not it at all. We're looking for a hot singer. One with a lot of, eh...

  Don Ross : Verve?

  Radio Director : Exactly.

• Don Ross : I'm her manager.

  Theatre Manager : Since when?

  Don Ross : Well, now, you know, I never could remember dates.

  Theatre Manager : She didn't say anything to me about a manager.

  Don Ross : I'll bet she didn't say anything to you about a birthmark either, but she's got one. Right, Jane?

  Jane Froman : Right!

• Don Ross : [narrating]  She had Chicago eating right out of her hands. But if you're in show business, there's only one town. New York, they call it. 'Baghdad-on-the-Hudson'.

• Don Ross : How are you, baby?

  Jane Froman : I am fine. Come on in.

  Don Ross : Miss me?

  Jane Froman : Like a front tooth.

  Don Ross : You don't show it.

  Jane Froman : You dog. Just because I've put on four pounds.

  Don Ross : Where?

  Jane Froman : Where do you think?

• Don Ross : I'm a poor little sheep who's lost his way. And you, baby, you're big business. I need you. You need me. The perfect setup for matrimonial bliss.

• Don Ross : I give you my word that as cook, dishwasher, lover boy, I'll be strictly Phi Beta Kappa. What more could you wish for than that?

• Don Ross : How'd it go?

  Jane Froman : Wonderful. Only I made the mistake of doing that Claudette Colbert routine. 'It Happened One Night.' Where I lift my skirt and pretend I'm thumbing a ride. Pretty low trick, but those gobs ate it up.

  Don Ross : Art lovers to the last man, no doubt.

• 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?

• Don Ross : Right here we bring the chorus on, the models. That's you, Sister. Step back by the door. I'll tell you when to come on. We're gonna have about 20 of the best looking dames we can find. Typical artist models, which means they'll have on as little as the law allows. This is their music.

  [singing] 

  Don Ross : Montparnasse, We are the models and we pose for those we love,

  [talking] 

  Don Ross : That's you, Sister. Come on. And be sure and keep in step with the music.

  [singing] 

  Don Ross : Montparnasse We are the models

  Jane Froman : [interrupts]  Don. Just a minute, if you don't mind.

  Don Ross : Yes?

  Jane Froman : Maybe Sister Marie doesn't want to be a model.

  Don Ross : What? Oh, I'm sorry, Sister. I didn't mean to offend you. I...

  Sister Marie : Oh, I'm not offended in the least!

• Don Ross : What's all this I read in Winchell's column about you and that Long Island polo player?

  Jane Froman : Oh, him. He's all right. He's fun - not a brain in his head.