1:19:04
You're being modest, Miss Templeton.
1:19:06
If you'd let yourself go, you'd be
just as entertaining as the rest of us.
1:19:10
You might even have fun yourself.
1:19:12
Abe, isn't it about time
for the curtain to go up?
1:19:15
If you haven't time now,
maybe you'll give us time after the show?
1:19:19
I'm sorry, after the show
I'm going home to New Rochelle.
1:19:22
It's only 45 minutes from here.
Thank heavens, it's like a thousand miles...
1:19:27
...from all the noisy,
neurotic people in our profession.
1:19:30
- Now, Miss Templeton, you can't...
- Fay, I wanted...
1:19:34
That tact of yours, that wonderful tact.
1:19:42
What are you thinking about?
1:20:00
- Well, have you thought it over, Fay?
- I'm not interested in Mr. Cohan or his plays.
1:20:05
Now, you're making a great mistake.
He's the most original thing on Broadway.
1:20:09
You know why? Because he's the whole
darn country squeezed into one pair of pants.
1:20:15
His writing, his songs,
why even his walk and his talk.
1:20:18
They all touch something
way down here in people.
1:20:22
Don't ask me why it is, but it happens
every time the curtain goes up.
1:20:26
- It's pure magic.
- I'm bored by magic.
1:20:29
I know his formula. A fresh young sprout
gets rich between 8:30 and 11:00 p.m.
1:20:34
Yes, that's just it, Fay.
1:20:36
George M. Cohan has
invented the success story...
1:20:39
...and every American loves it because
it happens to be his own private dream.
1:20:44
He's found the mainspring
in the antique clock.
1:20:47
Ambition, pride, patriotism.
1:20:50
That's why they call him
the Yankee Doodle Boy.
1:20:53
Now, if you'll take a tip from me
you'll do just what I'm doing.
1:20:56
You'll hitch your wagon
to his star right now.