Don Lockwood Singin' in the Rain Lines

DORA: Don, you can tell me confidentially. Are these rumors true that wedding bells are soon to ring for you and Lina?

Well, Dora, Lina and I have no statements to make at this time. We're just good friends.

DORA: "Just good friends"! Do I hear the -- the wedding march?

Cosmo, can you play the wedding march?

DORA: You've come a long way together, Don. Won't you tell us how it all happened?

No, no, Dora. Not in front of all these people.

DORA: But, Don, the story of your success is an inspiration to the young people all over the world -- please.

Well, Dora, I've had one motto which I've always lived by: Dignity -- always dignity. This was instilled in me by Mum and Dad from the very beginning. They sent me the the best dancing schools.

... Where I met my life-long friend --

-- Cosmo Brown.

And with him, I used to perform for all Mum and Dad's society friends.

They used to make such a fuss over me. Then, if I was very good, I was allowed to accompany Mum and Dad to the theatre. They brought me up on Shaw and Moliere. The finest of the classics.

This stimulated my love for performing, and to this we added rigorous musical training at the conservatory. In a few years, Cosmo an I were ready to embark on a dance concert tour. We played the finest symphonic halls in the country.

"The Royal Rascal" ends. Lina continuously tries to speak.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

We are pretty darn thrilled at your response to "The Royal Rascal". We had fun making it, and I hope you had fun seeing it tonight.

Folks, we screen actors aren't much good at speaking at public, so we better just act out our thanks.

LINA: What do I care where Gettysburg lives?

Donny, how can you let him talk to me like that -- your fee-an-see.

My fianc... Lina, you've been reading the fan magazines again. You shouldn't believe all the banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. There's nothing between us. There has never been anything between us -- just air.

SIMPSON: Hurry up, Don. I've got a lot of press waiting.

This cooked-up romance, Cosmo. Just for publicity!

COSMO: Price of fame, Don. You've got the glory. You've got the take the heartaches that go with it. Now look at me. I've got no fame, I've got no glory, but I've got -- hey, what have I got?

I don't know, what have you got?

COSMO: I got to get out of here.

Cos, you could have all those things. You've got all kinds of talent. All you need is a little drive!

COSMO: Drive? Why didn't you say so? The car's outside -- let's go!

I think I'd rather walk. I could use the fresh air.

COSMO: Are you kidding? the fans'll mob you.

Cos, do me a favor. See that nice cashmere coat and hat? Put them on, step into my limo and you are Don Lockwood.

Sure. Why not?

I love playing the role of a star. It fits so well...

Well, not the coat... just the role!

Thanks, Cos! See you at the party!

FAN #2: Aren't you Don Lockwood?

Funny you should say that. I'm often mistaken for him. Actually I'm...

No, I'm just your average, everyday citizen, waiting for a trolley here with my girl.

KATHY: Hey, what are you doing?

Nothing. Just do me a favor. They're after me.

KATHY: Let go of me!

I'll call a policeman.

Please don't

Thanks all the same for the compliment. I love his movies, too. Bye!

KATHY: Don't hurt me.

Don't worry. I'm not a criminal.

KATHY: I don't care who you are. Just go away.

Now look, let me explain...

POLICEMAN: How are you, Mr. Lockwood? Out for a stroll?

Actually, yes.

POLICEMAN: Anything I can do for you?

No, thanks.

POLICEMAN: You sure are a lucky lady. Goodnight, Mr. Lockwood.

Goodnight, and --

Well -- thanks for saving my life.

I'd very much like to know whose hospitality I'm enjoying.

KATHY: Selden. Kathy Selden.

Enchanted, Miss Selden. I'm sorry I frightened you. I was getting just a little too much love from my adoring fans.

KATHY: Oh, that's what you were running away from! You can't even go out for a walk. That's terrible!

No, it's not terrible at all. We movie stars get all the glory. I guess we have to take the little heartache that goes along with it. People think we live lives of glamor and romance. The truth is, we're lonely...

...terribly lonely

KATHY: Uh-Mr. Lockwood--I can't tell you how sorry I was about taking you for a criminal before -- but it was understandable under the circumstances. I knew I'd seen you.

Er, which of my pictures have you seen?

KATHY: I -- I don't remember... I saw one once.

You saw one once!

KATHY: Yes -- I think you were ah -- (mimes dueling)

--Dueling!

KATHY: Yes! And there was that girl-uh--

--Lina Lamont!

KATHY: Right! And-oh...I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Well, thank you.

KATHY: Oh, no offense. But you see, I'm not interested in the movies. I guess it's entertaining enough for the masses, but the personalities on the screen don't impress me. I mean, they don't act -- they just make a lot of dumb show ... well, you know.

Like that.

You mean like what I do?

KATHY: Well, yes.

Wait a minute! You mean I'm not an actor? Pantomime on the screen isn't acting?

KATHY: Of course not. Acting means great parts -- wonderful lines -- speaking those glorious words...Shakespeare, Ibsen...

Well, what's your lofty mission in life that let's you sneer at my humble profession?

KATHY: Well - uh - I'm an actress!

What!?

KATHY: -- On the stage!

Oh! I'd like to see you act. What are you in right now? I could brush up on my English -- bring along an interpreter. That is, if they'd let in a movie star.

KATHY: Well, I'm not in a play right now. But I will be -- I'm going to New York... and...

New York?- and we'll all hear of you, Kathy Selden as Juliet... as Lady Macbeth... as King Lear. You'll need a beard for that one

KATHY: Oh, you can laugh if you want to -- but at least the stage is a dignified, honorable profession. And what have you got to be so conceited about?

You're nothing but a shadow on film -- you're not flesh and blood!

Oh, no?

KATHY: You keep away! Just because you're a big movie star -- wild parties -- swimming pools -- you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet.

Fear not, sweet lady. Nay! I am only a shadow and you, my fair damsel, are but a figment of my imagination.

PEDESTRIAN #2: My god, it is Don Lockwood!

Now come on kids give me a break...

Farewell, Ethel Barrymore. I must tear myself from your side.

Come on, give me a break!

GIRL: Oh, so's your Aunt Tilly! (everyone applauds)

Thanks. Thanks everyone.

Hi, Cosmo.

COSMO: Don! I thought you weren't coming!

What happened to you?

Just my fans wanting a piece of Don Lockwood.

Listen Cosmo -- am I a good actor?

COSMO: As long as I work for Monumental, you're the greatest of them all.

No, kidding, Cosmo. You're my pal. you can tell me.

COSMO: What's the matter with you? Of course you're good.

Well, just keep telling me from time to time. I feel a little shaken.

SIMPSON: Don!

Hello R.F.

SIMPSON: Open the drape, Sam.

A movie? We've just seen one.

LINA: There you are, Donnie. Where've you been? I was lonely.

Hello, Lina.

SIMPSON: It's for you two. A very special cake, full of delicious surprises.

(KATHY pops through the cake)

Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore.

KATHY: (getting angry)

Please!

I hope you're going to favor us with something special tonight. Hamlet's soliloquy, or the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet" or --

KATHY: (growing more angry)

Mr. Lockwood, I --

Oh, don't be shy. That's the perfect costume for Juliet.

KATHY: ALL I DO song ends

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your performance.

KATHY: Excuse me

Don't go. Now I know you live in a cake, let me see you home.

LINA: Who is this dame, anyway?

Oh, someone lofty and far above us all. An actress on the legitimate stage. She couldn't learn anything from the movies.

LINA: (Lina gets hit with cake)

Oh! Oh!

Oh, Lina, I'm sorry. This is --

LINA: (Gasping)

Oh! Oh!

Now, now. She was aiming at me.

LINA: Let me at her -- I'll kill her!

It was just a mistake, Lina. A little accident.

LINA: OHHHHHH!

Just let me get my hands on her. I'll tear her ...

Dignity, Lina. Remember your dignity.

LINA: Dignity, my ass!

Where is she?

Did you see one of those performers rush by?

COSMO: Enter the star!

ROD: Good luck, Mr. Lockwood.

Thanks, Rod.

Well, new picture, new role -- Conte Pierre de Battaille, better known as the Dueling Cavalier!

COSMO: What's this one about?

A French Revolution story.

COSMO: I've got it.

-- you're a French aristocrat -- she's a simple girl of the people -- and she won't even give you a tumbril.

Well, it's a living.

COSMO: Why bother to shoot this picture? Why don't you just release the last one under a new title? If you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Why did you say that?

COSMO: Say what?

That's what that Kathy Selden said to me that night.

COSMO: Three weeks ago and you're still thinking about it.

I can't get her out of my mind.

COSMO: How could you? She's the first dame who hasn't fallen for our line since you were four.

She's on my conscience.

COSMO: It's not your fault she lost her job at the Coconut Grove

I've got to find her.

COSMO: Well, you've been trying haven't you -- short of sendin' out blood hounds and a posse.

I suppose so.

1ST ASSISTANT

Mr. Lockwood on the set, please!

2ND ASSISTANT

Mr. Lockwood on the set, please!

3RD ASSISTANT

Mr. Lockwood on the set, please!

Mr. Lockwood is on the set!

LINA: I looked for you the other night at Wally Ray's party. Where were you?

Oh -- I've been busy --

And I know what you've been busy at. Looking for that girl.

As a matter of fact, yes.

LINA: (pouting)

Why?

I've been worried about her.

LINA: You should have been worried about me a little. I'm the one who got whipped cream in my kisser.

But you didn't lose your job and she did.

LINA: You're darn tootin' she did -- I arranged it.

What!

LINA: They weren't going to fire her. I called them up and told them they better.

Why you! ---

DEXTER: Roll 'em! Okay, Don -- enter --you see her -- you run to her.

Why you, rattlesnake! You got that poor kid fired!

LINA: That's not all I'm gonna do if I ever get my hands on her!

I never heard of something so low. What did you have to do it for?

LINA: 'Cause you liked her. I could tell.

So that's it! Believe me I don't like her half as much as I hate you --

-- you reptile.

LINA: Sticks and stones may break my bones.

I'd like to break every bone in your body.

LINA: Oh, Donnie, you couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it a teensy bit.

Meet the greatest actor in the world! I'd rather kiss a tarantula!

LINA: You don't mean that!

Oh no? Bring me a tarantula! Lina, I'm telling you for the last time --

DEXTER: Shutting down?

What's the matter, R.F.?

SIMPSON: "The Jazz Singer", that's what's the matter. "The Jazz Singer". It's a sensation. The public is screaming for more!

More what?

KATHY's "You Are My Lucky Star" song ends

Bravo!

SIMPSON: Don, you know this young lady?

That's Kathy Selden.

SIMPSON: I'm thinking of casting her as the kid sister in "Beautiful Girl".

That's terrific!

KATHY: I'm sorry, Sid. I should have told you about it. Goodbye.

Just a second, Miss Selden.

R.F., what's this all about?

SIMPSON: Well, we were going to cast Miss Selden in a featured role, but if it will make you and Lina unhappy --

Unhappy! I think it's wonderful.

SIMPSON: Are you speaking for Lina, too?

Now look, R.F. The owner of Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to. But you're the head of this studio.

COSMO: Glad you turned up, Kathy. We've been looking inside every cake in town.

Thanks, Cosmo.

KATHY: Have you really been looking for me?

I turned this town upside down. Then I got the New York office on it --

I remember you said the New York stage was clamoring for you.

KATHY: A slight exaggeration. I was clamoring for the New York stage. In fact, I started out for New York... Then the talkies came.

You know, up to now I haven't thought much of the talkies but if that's what brought you here - it's the greatest invention since the wheel.

KATHY: Now listen, Mr. Lockwood ...

Now listen, Mr. Lockwood, just because you're a big movie star doesn't mean a girl is going to have lunch with you just like that!

Will you have lunch with me. Just like that?

KATHY: Sure.

Main dining room -- right this way!

KATHY: Don't you usually tear a pheasant at lunch with Miss Lamont?

Now look, Kathy. All that stuff about Lamont and me is sheer publicity.

KATHY: Oh. It certainly seemed more than that. From what I've read in the columns -- and all those articles in the fan magazines ...

Oh! You read the fan magazines.

KATHY: And... well you do achieve a kind of intimacy in all your pictures that would lead one to believe...

All my pictures?

KATHY: I guess now that I think of it, I've seen eight or nine of them.

But I still insist -- "If you've seen one you've seen them all" --

KATHY: I did say some awful things that night, didn't I?

I deserved them. Of course, I must admit that I was pretty much upset by them.

So upset that I haven't been able to think of anything but you ever since.

KATHY: I've been a little upset, too.

Kathy, I -- seeing you again... now that I've--

Kathy, I'm trying to say something to you. But I'm such a ham I, -- well, I just can't say it without the proper setting.

KATHY: What do you mean?

(Lead up to "You Were Meant for Me")

Wait a second!

A beautiful sunset.

Mist from the distant mountains.

Colored lights in a garden.

A lady is standing on her balcony in a rose-trellised bower, flooded with moonlight. We add five hundred thousand kilowatts of stardust.

A soft summer breeze... and... You look lovely in the moonlight, Kathy...

KATHY: Now that you have the proper setting, can you say it?

I'll try.

Vocal Teacher Scene begins (10-A)

Cahn't - Cahn't - Cahn't

TEACHER: Good. Now. Around the rocks the rugged rascal ran

Around the rocks the rugged--

TEACHER: (Interrupting)

Rrrrrrocks - Rrrrrrocks.

Around the rocks the rugged rascal ran.