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We love you, Bessie!
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We love you, Bessie!
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Hey, Bessie...
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I love you! I love
you so much!
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- Bessie!
- I love you so much!
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(Bessie...)
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I love you, Bessie!
That was amazing!
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Hello?
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Mommy!
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Where are you?!
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Where's my mama?
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Mommy!
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I want her back!
I want my mama back!
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Where did she go?
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Mama ain't here to save you now.
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Your mama dead.
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- Where's my mama?!
- It's your fault Mama dead.
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- Bessie.
- Where are you, Mom? Where are you?
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Bessie!
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You ain't part of the act.
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- Whoo!
- Excuse me! Excuse me!
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Excuse me! I gotta get downstairs!
I gotta be changing!
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Come on back here and put on
a good show for me tonight.
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I gotta change first. Get
on outta the way, Leroy!
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Tape. Let's roll tape...
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Ooh, yeah, girl.
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Come here, girl.
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Oh, yeah.
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Ah, yeah.
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- Yeah.
- You like that?
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- Ooh.
- Yeah.
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Oh, that's nice.
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Just let me put it in.
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No, I think it's just
fine where it is.
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Oh, come on, baby. Just a little bit.
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No, pap...
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It's gonna feel
real good to you.
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Don't mean I don't wanna
mess around a little bit.
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I just didn't wanna do all of that.
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Come on, now.
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It's just getting good to me.
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What the hell happened to you?
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- Clarence?
- I told you be here 9, 9:30.
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- What time is it?
- 11:00, hell!
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Come on, go, go, go!
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Wait, wait, wait. Give me this.
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Here, put this on your head.
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Put that on right now.
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There you go.
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Come on, let's go.
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Come on, now.
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That's good. Just...
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♪ Woke up this morning ♪
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♪ When chickens was
crowing for days... ♪
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Get her off the stage!
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- Good Lord!
- Just let her sing anyway.
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- ♪ Looked on the right side of my pillow... ♪
- Get off the stage!
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- ♪ My man had gone away... ♪
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I don't wanna hear this,
man. Go back inside.
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Oh, come on. Just
let the girl sing!
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♪ By his pillow ♪
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♪ He left a note ♪
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♪ Reading, "I'm sorry, Jane ♪
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♪ You got my goat ♪
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♪ No time to marry ♪
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♪ No time to settle down"... ♪
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- Get what everybody else gets.
- Well, we ain't everybody else.
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No, no, no. You said $5, sir.
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A little something extra
for me and my sister.
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A dollar's good enough and
a dollar's what you'll take.
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$2, sir, for the both of us?
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- For a week's work?
- That's the deal.
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Can you see her this time?
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Hmm?
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You had a good week, at least.
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I know washwomen who make more.
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Don't be that way.
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Well, I'm tellin' ya,
Mama ain't satisfied.
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I'm gonna quit the 81.
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You not.
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Not if it means quitting you.
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Bessie, you come out
of there right now!
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I told you about having
all those men in the room.
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Ain't no mens here, Miss Taylor!
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Just us ladies, ma'am.
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Go on and take her her board.
She'll cool down.
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Miss Taylor?
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Y'all are gonna have to take
that foolishness somewhere...
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Okay. This is not
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the only boardinghouse
in Atlanta.
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Bessie!
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Hey, look here, I'm coming
to work with you today.
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I gotta get me a new act.
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- I like it.
- I like you.
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I like you, too.
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Bessie!
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Good, Georgette.
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Mary Watson, if I have
to tell you to smile
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one more time, we having words.
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Francine, baby, you're clomping
around up there like a horse.
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A H -O
-R -S
-E.
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Bessie, get down now.
Stop teasing.
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- It's not your rehearsal.
- Hey, Mr. Scandrick.
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I've been working on
a little something.
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Are you saying you wanna
be in my chorus line?
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Yeah, come on, girls. Let's show him.
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And a...
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♪ Oh, I've got what it takes ♪
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♪ But it breaks my heart
to give it away ♪
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♪ It's in demand ♪
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♪ They want it every day ♪
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♪ I've been saving it up... ♪
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You just keep right on saving it.
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You don't like it?
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It's all right, but it ain't
hitting on all the sixes.
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Now, if you done messing
up my rehearsal...
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What about the bag test, James, hmm?
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Yeah, give her the test.
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You must be lighter than.
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Whoo!
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The top prize for tonight's
raffle... a gold tooth.
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That's right.
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Hold up them tickets. Hold 'em up.
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I know you got 'em.
I know you got 'em.
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But first, the Queen of Melody,
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the Empress of Rhythm.
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We're talking about the
real Mother of the Blues,
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Ma Rainey.
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This the real
blues here.
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Mm
-hmm, mm
-hmm.
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♪ Ooh. ♪
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♪ Ooh. ♪
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♪ Lord, you see me weepin' ♪
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♪ And you hear me cry ♪
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Sing it, girl.
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♪ Lord, you see me weepin' ♪
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♪ And you hear me cry ♪
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♪ I ain't weepin' 'bout no money ♪
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♪ Just that man of mine ♪
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♪ Lord, you see me
weepin' ♪
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♪ And you hear me cry... ♪
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We got rehearsals in the morning.
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- I could be sleeping or at least partying.
- Well, go on, then.
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- I just wanna meet her.
- You can meet her tomorrow.
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Mobile, Alabama, we're
on the road for a week,
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then Gainesville, Florida.
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Oh, slow, slow, slow,
baby. Have mercy.
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Contract's only four nights,
then we can go on to...
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Why we backtracking to Mississippi
instead of going to 'Bama?
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Seem like we should
just go on from here,
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maybe do a longer run in
Mobile, even add Huntsville.
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Well, we'll be making it just
in time for cotton season
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and catch everybody with
their pay, you know?
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Oh, sh...
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Hey, get back here.
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Besides, the harvest
don't start in Florida
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- for another two weeks.
- Mm
-hmm.
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You've been using that goober
oil like I told you?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Nice and soft.
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Well, what about Tennessee?
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You got Memphis, you
got Chattanoog... oh!
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- How'd you get in here?
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- Can I join your show?
- You can see yourself out.
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Where you from?
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- Blue Goose Hollow.
- A who what?
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That a street name?
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Where I'm from, they don't
have no street names.
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That where your people from, too?
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They died a long time ago.
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Well, the loneliest
thing in the world
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is a motherless child.
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Well, I got two brothers
and my sister Viola...
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Well let me shave you dry.
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They don't amount to much, do they?
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You on your own.
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- Well, Miss Blue Goose...
- Bessie!
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- I thank you for calling.
- Bessie! Bessie, get down from there.
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- Do I audition or...
- I heard you in the show.
I know you can sing.
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So stay or jump, bitch.
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- Well, the train is...
- I don't give a damn about the train,
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a thunderstorm, a shotgun or what.
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You just got to decide for yourself.
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Hell, you got the St. Louis blues,
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the Chicago blues,
the Gin House blues,
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the "my man done left me" blues.
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They all the same song, ain't they?
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With the same three chords.
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And you done heard 'em about a dozen hundred
times from a dozen hundred people.
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So what make folks
wanna hear from you?
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So you got to put
something else in it.
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The blues is not about
people knowing you.
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It's about you knowing people.
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Who done that to you, huh?
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Big old girl like you letting
folks beat on you.
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This look like it might stay forever.
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What you doing fanning
yourself around here for?
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Shut the door good on your way out.
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Where you going without
my sugar, though?
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- Mm.
- Mm
-hmm.
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What you grinning about, Blue Goose?
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What you know about it?
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Same thing you know.
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What's your name, pretty lady?
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Bessie Smith.
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Miss Bessie Smith.
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- So, like we said...
- How many seats in the house?
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- 200.
- I counted 250.
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Ah, I meant 200 plus, give or take.
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And you sure eager to take.
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- She need to be here?
- She needs to understand
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why TOBA stands for "Tough
On Black Asses."
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Actually, it stands for Theater
Owners Booking Association, T
-O
-B...
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- What's the cover?
- A nickel.
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Hmm, newspaper ad say a dime.
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- Well, we don't always...
- $12.50.
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- Pardon me?
- That's 10 cents times 250 seats.
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Our contract is 50
-50 per head.
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$12.50 in advance every night.
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We have no way of knowing
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how many people are actually
gonna show up.
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We'll refund your no
-shows.
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Bessie will be counting
the empty seats.
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$12.50.
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Boy, aren't you getting
a hell of a deal?
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Now let's talk about the bar.
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What you standing way back here for?
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Keep on going.
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I ain't said stop.
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A little bit more.
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- Ma.
- That's about right.
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Now how that feel?
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Like I'm about to fall.
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That's how it should
feel every night.
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If you're not risking nothing,
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neither will they.
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Now where's that heifer
that stole your man?
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- Ain't nobody here.
- Pick somebody.
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Right there. How about her?
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Three rows back on the left.
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- Mm
-mmm.
- Yeah.
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Yeah, that look like her.
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And what you gotta say to that bitch?
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And right there.
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Oh, there's that pinched
-back man that stole all your money.
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Yeah, that's him.
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Tell them about
theyselves. Go on, baby.
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- Bess? We're rehitching.
- Okay.
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That mighty caboose right there.
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That was Bertha... I
mean, Miss Bessie Smith.
-
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Aw, come on now,
be nice, be nice.
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We got your headliner
coming up.
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Gin.
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I got that, Clive.
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Gin'll make you crazy.
256
00:16:15,110 --> 00:16:18,410
Why don't you let me buy
you a whiskey instead?
257
00:16:19,780 --> 00:16:22,100
That "stand and shout"
shit might work back home,
258
00:16:22,150 --> 00:16:25,950
but you got to bring some hoop
-de
-doo to get these silly folk attention.
259
00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:28,110
Don't nobody care what you think.
260
00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,110
You don't know nothin' from nothin'.
261
00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,320
Oh, I ain't trying to
fuss with you, gorgeous.
262
00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,110
Just 'cause you got a little
sport in your strut
263
00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,610
don't make you no authority.
264
00:16:36,660 --> 00:16:39,760
I was just giving you
my opinion, that's all.
265
00:16:40,130 --> 00:16:41,850
I'm gonna see you later tonight.
266
00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,400
- Not hardly.
- Yeah, you will.
267
00:16:49,010 --> 00:16:50,810
Hey.
268
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,040
Say, you seen Ma?
269
00:16:53,410 --> 00:16:55,910
You were just talking to her.
270
00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,120
♪ I went out last night ♪
271
00:17:07,430 --> 00:17:10,030
♪ With a crowd of my friends ♪
272
00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:14,730
♪ Must have been women, 'cause
I don't like no men ♪
273
00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,040
♪ Wear my clothes just like a fan ♪
274
00:17:19,370 --> 00:17:23,440
♪ Talk to the gals just
like any old man ♪
275
00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,110
♪ They say I do it ♪
276
00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:28,650
♪ Ain't nobody caught me ♪
277
00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:33,320
♪ Sure got to prove it on me... ♪
278
00:17:33,650 --> 00:17:36,140
Oh, wait a minute now,
wait a minute now.
279
00:17:36,190 --> 00:17:39,140
I see some of your eyes rolling,
trying to find my Johnson.
280
00:17:39,190 --> 00:17:40,980
That ain't ladylike.
281
00:17:41,030 --> 00:17:44,200
Trust me, mama, I got
everything you need.
282
00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:45,560
Ha!
283
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,290
♪ 'Cause they say I do it ♪
284
00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:55,360
♪ Ain't nobody caught me ♪
285
00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:59,940
♪ Sure got to prove it on me ♪
286
00:18:00,250 --> 00:18:03,210
♪ Sure got to prove it on me. ♪
287
00:18:11,060 --> 00:18:13,010
I almost got her to
go to bed with me.
288
00:18:13,060 --> 00:18:14,610
You ain't almost nothing.
289
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:16,560
What?
290
00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:19,150
Oh, ain't no "almost"
right here, baby.
291
00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,000
Ooh
-hoo!
292
00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:23,430
Ma get more tail than me.
293
00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:26,960
What you looking 'round for?
294
00:18:27,010 --> 00:18:28,490
Who gonna see ya?
295
00:18:28,540 --> 00:18:30,330
And so what if they do?
296
00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:33,050
They got to prove it on you, baby.
297
00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:37,450
They got to prove it on you, baby.
298
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,080
Shit, like they doing something bad.
299
00:18:46,130 --> 00:18:48,590
What they doing, baby?
300
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,600
Go on with that.
301
00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:52,580
Let the cards do the talking.
302
00:18:52,630 --> 00:18:54,590
Let the cards do the
motherfucking talking.
303
00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,440
What the fuck was she talking about?
304
00:18:58,070 --> 00:19:00,260
Take that bullshit on back
where you got it from.
305
00:19:00,310 --> 00:19:03,610
I told you, you ain't ready
for the big leagues.
306
00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,090
Oh!
307
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,300
♪ Lord, you see me
weepin' ♪
308
00:19:34,570 --> 00:19:38,510
♪ And you hear me cry ♪
309
00:19:43,820 --> 00:19:48,050
♪ Lord, you see me weepin' ♪
310
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,160
♪ And you hear me cry ♪
311
00:19:56,660 --> 00:20:01,300
♪ I ain't weepin' 'bout no money ♪
312
00:20:01,540 --> 00:20:05,640
♪ Just that man of mine ♪
313
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,950
♪ Lord, this mean old engineer ♪
314
00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:19,450
♪ Cruel as he could be ♪
315
00:20:24,060 --> 00:20:28,330
♪ This mean old engineer ♪
316
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,500
♪ Cruel as he could be ♪
317
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,870
♪ Took my man away ♪
318
00:20:41,210 --> 00:20:46,080
♪ And blowed the smoke back at me ♪
319
00:20:46,310 --> 00:20:50,150
♪ Back at me ♪
320
00:20:50,380 --> 00:20:55,050
♪ I'm going down South ♪
321
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,490
♪ Won't be back till fall ♪
322
00:20:59,730 --> 00:21:03,160
♪ Back till fall ♪
323
00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:06,800
♪ I'm going down South... ♪
324
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,270
Yeah!
325
00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,840
♪ Won't be back till fall ♪
326
00:21:15,940 --> 00:21:21,210
♪ If I don't find my easy rider ♪
327
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,180
♪ Ain't comin' back at all ♪
328
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,750
Bessie!
329
00:21:29,260 --> 00:21:34,020
♪ Yeah, if I don't find
my easy rider... ♪
330
00:21:34,430 --> 00:21:39,530
- Come on, Bessie!
- ♪ Ain't comin' back at all ♪
331
00:21:39,770 --> 00:21:43,100
♪ Back at all. ♪
332
00:21:51,380 --> 00:21:53,050
Yeah, Bessie!
333
00:21:53,910 --> 00:21:55,430
Yeah!
334
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,400
You can't control that.
335
00:21:57,450 --> 00:21:59,340
- Her goddamn ego...
- Whoo
-hoo hoo!
336
00:21:59,390 --> 00:22:01,990
I ain't never seen 'em like that!
337
00:22:02,060 --> 00:22:04,220
We sung that song.
338
00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:06,920
Yeah, I earned this tonight.
339
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,750
Oh, yeah.
340
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,510
Come on, Ma, you ain't
gonna drink no co...
341
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,660
I know you ain't drinking
no corn with me.
342
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,700
Remember what I told
you about the blues?
343
00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:25,880
About you knowing the people
and not the other way around?
344
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,110
Yeah.
345
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,430
I knowed everybody in there
and they knowed me.
346
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,920
You sure love yourself.
347
00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,820
I see that gin done finally
made you blow your top, huh?
348
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,500
I did good.
349
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,930
It's not a matter of you doing good.
350
00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:48,990
You're just busted 'cause
they was yelling for me
351
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,090
more than they was yelling for you.
352
00:22:51,140 --> 00:22:53,800
You better turn your damper down.
353
00:22:54,210 --> 00:22:57,160
- I ain't scared of you.
- I ain't never asked you to be.
354
00:22:57,210 --> 00:22:58,930
All I asked you for was respect.
355
00:22:58,980 --> 00:23:01,970
Respect for yourself,
respect for these songs.
356
00:23:02,020 --> 00:23:04,170
I ain't see you respect all this
extra money I'm bringing in here.
357
00:23:04,220 --> 00:23:07,020
Oh, let me get you told, little gal,
358
00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:09,440
'cause I can see you ain't
learnt your lesson yet.
359
00:23:09,490 --> 00:23:11,610
It's my name on this train,
360
00:23:11,660 --> 00:23:13,080
it's my name on those flyers,
361
00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:16,150
and it is in my name that
everybody in this company
362
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,780
takes to that stage.
363
00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:19,780
Now, until you can
get yourself together,
364
00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:23,100
you're going back to deucing, 'cause
you ain't ready to headline.
365
00:23:23,370 --> 00:23:24,690
- Deucing?
- Deucing.
366
00:23:24,740 --> 00:23:26,370
No.
367
00:23:26,710 --> 00:23:29,810
I ain't playing second
to nobody anymore.
368
00:23:31,310 --> 00:23:33,650
Best we shake hands and go.
369
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,420
Well, Miss Blue Goose...
370
00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:40,250
take off my goddamn shoes.
371
00:24:01,010 --> 00:24:03,130
What's wrong? What happened?
372
00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:04,730
- We're starting our own show.
- Our own show?
373
00:24:04,780 --> 00:24:06,160
- We're just getting started.
- I'm finished with starting.
374
00:24:06,210 --> 00:24:07,900
Wait, Bessie, I'm
gonna go talk to Ma.
375
00:24:07,950 --> 00:24:10,350
Hey, don't leave. I'm coming!
376
00:24:13,350 --> 00:24:17,150
- The 3:00 with service...
- They're coming, all right?
377
00:24:22,530 --> 00:24:23,850
All right, don't give
me that face now.
378
00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:26,900
Just relax. They're coming.
379
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,340
- Ha ha!
- Hey, man!
380
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,440
- How you feeling?
- You all right?
381
00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:45,450
Bobby, you know I'd catch you.
382
00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:47,400
Good to see you.
383
00:24:47,450 --> 00:24:49,790
So good to see you.
384
00:24:50,090 --> 00:24:52,340
It's corn bread time.
385
00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:54,740
The money gonna come in soon.
Thank y'all for heaven.
386
00:24:54,790 --> 00:24:56,610
Sure. This ain't nothing
like it used to be.
387
00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:58,250
You want some more of these greens?
388
00:24:58,300 --> 00:24:59,850
You know, I ain't
nervous yet.
389
00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:01,620
You have to take the
show on the road.
390
00:25:01,670 --> 00:25:03,890
Hip, too. Get a piano
on the ground floor.
391
00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:06,120
We're gonna take good care of you.
392
00:25:06,170 --> 00:25:08,530
'Cause what we're doing here, man, is
393
00:25:08,580 --> 00:25:10,460
we're bringing a little
South to the North.
394
00:25:10,510 --> 00:25:13,230
A little taste of home for
all these homesick Yankees.
395
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,070
You know what I'm saying?
They ain't ready for it.
396
00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:16,370
They ain't ready for
it, but I'm telling you,
397
00:25:16,420 --> 00:25:18,700
Bessie's doing big
things, man, and...
398
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:20,640
you on bass,
you on horn.
399
00:25:20,690 --> 00:25:25,260
Next, we have Doreen Dupree
from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
400
00:25:28,030 --> 00:25:30,110
Is that a real name or a made
-up one?
401
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,280
- Hattiesburg is a real...
- Not Hattiesburg.
402
00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:34,050
I know where in the
hell Hattiesburg is.
403
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:36,320
I'm talking about "Doreen Dupree."
404
00:25:36,370 --> 00:25:38,750
That sound like some made
-up, store
-bought shit to me.
405
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,120
Don't that sound like some
old vaudeville mess to you?
406
00:25:41,170 --> 00:25:43,630
Who mama and daddy gonna name 'em
something go together like that?
407
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,730
You pick that out of
a magazine or something?
408
00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:47,460
It's on my birth certificate.
409
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:51,380
They have birth certificates
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi?
410
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,270
And take that damn
gum out your mouth.
411
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,440
Don't nobody wanna see you
up there chewing like a cow.
412
00:25:56,490 --> 00:25:59,990
- Where do I put it?
- Hold it in your damn hand, Hattiesburg.
413
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,830
(Five, six, seven, eight.)
414
00:26:06,130 --> 00:26:08,350
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
415
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,440
What is that?
416
00:26:10,670 --> 00:26:12,490
Um, I'm dancing, ma'am.
417
00:26:12,540 --> 00:26:14,290
- I wanna...
- You better sing something first.
418
00:26:14,340 --> 00:26:16,460
I don't know how to sing.
419
00:26:16,510 --> 00:26:18,850
You don't know how to sing?
420
00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:21,660
You wanna be in my show,
you have to be able to sing,
421
00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:24,450
dance, and tell a damn joke or two.
422
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,340
♪ Well, I woke up this morning... ♪
423
00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:33,690
That's enough. Clarence,
give her the bag test.
424
00:26:35,930 --> 00:26:37,510
What you grinning for?
425
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,100
You failed.
426
00:26:39,330 --> 00:26:42,390
You must be darker than
the bag to be in my show.
427
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,650
Now get going with your high
-heeled ass.
428
00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:47,970
- Next!
- Etta Johnson,
Bell Buckle, Tennessee.
429
00:26:48,210 --> 00:26:50,030
Bell Buckle? Lord!
430
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,140
No yellow bitches.
431
00:26:52,380 --> 00:26:54,080
Next!
432
00:26:54,450 --> 00:26:57,880
- Next!
- What if I didn't pass your bag test?
433
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,050
- I never give you no test.
- Oh, you test me... daily.
434
00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:07,340
No, you... you tell me.
435
00:27:07,390 --> 00:27:09,460
Come on, Lucy.
436
00:27:09,630 --> 00:27:12,230
No.
437
00:27:12,430 --> 00:27:15,170
I wanna know.
438
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,240
Would you still love me?
439
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:20,320
You'd still be you.
440
00:27:20,370 --> 00:27:22,260
And how would you know that?
441
00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:24,480
You know how I feel.
442
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,700
Then I need you to say it.
443
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:31,670
- You know.
- No, I don't know.
444
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,190
You know.
445
00:27:34,490 --> 00:27:36,090
Then say it.
446
00:27:38,090 --> 00:27:39,940
It wouldn't matter.
447
00:27:39,990 --> 00:27:41,340
It wouldn't matter, what?
448
00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:44,190
It wouldn't matter about your color.
449
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,170
And?
450
00:27:48,330 --> 00:27:50,130
And?
451
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,110
You know what?
452
00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:02,080
I cares for you.
453
00:28:06,190 --> 00:28:08,080
You cares for me?
454
00:28:09,790 --> 00:28:12,140
You cares for me. Is that all?
455
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:13,210
No, that ain't all.
456
00:28:13,260 --> 00:28:16,260
What... why you acting up today?
457
00:28:16,530 --> 00:28:19,130
I need you to tell me something.
458
00:28:19,530 --> 00:28:23,270
I'm gonna show you something instead.
459
00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,290
You can make this bigger.
You know what I mean?
460
00:28:28,340 --> 00:28:30,290
It's got to say, "This
is Bessie Smith,"
461
00:28:30,340 --> 00:28:33,440
so make this bigger and this
a little bit smaller like that.
462
00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:40,580
Now, that's what... that's what
I'm talkin' about, right there.
463
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,020
Come on. All right.
464
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,570
Open your eyes!
465
00:28:52,860 --> 00:28:55,930
- Hey now!
- That's right.
466
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,240
Bessie Smith and Her
Down Home Trio.
467
00:29:00,740 --> 00:29:03,340
- Ho
-ho, now!
- That's right.
468
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,960
♪ I was with you, baby... ♪
469
00:29:06,010 --> 00:29:10,510
♪ When you didn't have a dime ♪
470
00:29:15,150 --> 00:29:17,820
♪ I was with you, baby ♪
471
00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:22,230
♪ When you didn't have a dime ♪
472
00:29:26,370 --> 00:29:30,130
♪ Now, since you got
plenty of money ♪
473
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:34,670
♪ You have throwed your
good gal down... ♪
474
00:29:40,050 --> 00:29:42,470
This is A.R. Knight from
the "Chicago Defender,"
475
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,870
and I'm here to tell you
that Bessie Smith
476
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,300
is the locomotive that
shot out of Tennessee.
477
00:29:46,350 --> 00:29:48,910
This is W. Alexander from
the "Boston Guardian."
478
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,810
Talk about "Chattanooga Choo
-Choo,"
479
00:29:50,860 --> 00:29:53,810
Bessie Smith is the biggest
thing since Ma Rainey.
480
00:29:53,860 --> 00:29:56,880
This is J. Anderson reporting for
the "New York Amsterdam News."
481
00:29:56,930 --> 00:29:59,180
If you haven't got your tickets,
folks, you're not gonna get 'em,
482
00:29:59,230 --> 00:30:02,330
'cause it's already
sold out.
483
00:30:12,910 --> 00:30:14,410
Who is it?
484
00:30:14,780 --> 00:30:16,670
I'm here to audition
for Miss Bessie Smith.
485
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,000
I didn't ask you what you want,
I asked you who you are.
486
00:30:19,050 --> 00:30:22,150
Open the door and
see me, big man.
487
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:35,220
My name is Jack Gee, ma'am,
and I'm 32 years old
488
00:30:35,270 --> 00:30:37,950
from Titustown, Virginia, and
I schooled till the 10th grade.
489
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,060
I'm nobody's husband
and I'm nobody's daddy.
490
00:30:40,110 --> 00:30:45,210
I make $13.75 a week working as a
security guard at the five and dime.
491
00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:48,430
Another $2.80 on the
weekend at the Top Hat.
492
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,900
I got my own two
-bedroom apartment
493
00:30:49,950 --> 00:30:53,200
and I drive a brand
-new 1921 Davis Touring.
494
00:30:53,250 --> 00:30:55,370
Now, I don't believe in church,
but I do believe in God,
495
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,310
and I know it to be
the God's honest truth
496
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,940
that you're the most beautiful woman
497
00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:04,500
ever sing the blues,
or any woman, period.
498
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,080
And I'm very pleased to make your
acquaintance this fine afternoon.
499
00:31:08,130 --> 00:31:09,820
- Can you sing?
- Oh, yes.
500
00:31:09,870 --> 00:31:11,650
- Can you dance?
- Oh, yes.
501
00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:13,390
Auditions for the show are over.
502
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,790
I ain't auditioning for no show.
503
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,790
I'm auditioning to be your man.
504
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,800
You look a little small.
505
00:31:19,850 --> 00:31:22,300
- Baby, I'm built for speed.
- Really, now?
506
00:31:22,350 --> 00:31:25,150
Well, maybe you only auditions women.
507
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,790
I auditions whosoever I please.
508
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,810
I can give it as hard
as I can take it,
509
00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:34,820
and I don't mind going to jail.
510
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:51,410
- Mm
-mm
-mm.
- ♪ Whoa, gone away, baby ♪
511
00:31:51,710 --> 00:31:54,810
♪ Won't be back
till fall ♪
512
00:31:55,050 --> 00:31:57,370
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
513
00:31:57,420 --> 00:32:01,180
♪ Gone away, baby,
won't be back... ♪
514
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,720
Bottle of gin for the
lady and a glass for me.
515
00:32:07,430 --> 00:32:11,430
♪ If I find me
a good man ♪
516
00:32:11,730 --> 00:32:15,060
♪ I won't be
back at all... ♪
517
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,100
Oh, she fine. Man.
518
00:32:20,010 --> 00:32:21,950
Watch this.
519
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:26,740
- The lady don't smoke.
- The hell she don't.
520
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,700
So that's your man or what?
521
00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:35,090
No, he's still auditioning.
522
00:32:37,020 --> 00:32:39,420
Can I have this dance, baby?
523
00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:41,540
Touch her hand, Charlie,
and draw back a nub.
524
00:32:41,590 --> 00:32:43,790
And what if I touch his?
525
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,500
Ah!
526
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,660
Hey! Yeah, come here!
527
00:32:53,710 --> 00:32:55,470
Come on, girl.
528
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,380
- Let's go get 'em, okay?
- Get that motherfucker!
529
00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:02,370
- Chump!
- You were so brave, papa!
530
00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:05,160
See how crazy I am about you, girl!
531
00:33:06,890 --> 00:33:09,290
Your audition ain't over yet.
532
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,900
Keep your eyes on the road.
533
00:33:14,490 --> 00:33:17,380
♪ A good man is
hard to find ♪
534
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:20,430
♪ You always get
the other kind ♪
535
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,970
♪ Just when you think
that he's your pal... ♪
536
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,440
Say, we still $15 short.
537
00:33:26,510 --> 00:33:29,860
- 10 is what everybody gets.
- But we had a contract, sir.
538
00:33:29,910 --> 00:33:31,860
Contract? You must be one
of them old country niggers.
539
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:33,740
Contra...
540
00:33:34,010 --> 00:33:36,230
I'll cut you every way but loose.
541
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,430
♪ Hug him in the morning,
kiss him every night ♪
542
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,200
♪ Give him plenty of lovin',
you know what I mean ♪
543
00:33:41,250 --> 00:33:44,610
♪ And treat him right, 'cause
a good man nowadays... ♪
544
00:33:44,660 --> 00:33:46,880
And remember when we did
that show at Don's place?
545
00:33:46,930 --> 00:33:48,640
- Ah, you don't remember that.
- Oh, lookit.
546
00:33:48,690 --> 00:33:50,910
Lookit, J.G. That's our corner.
547
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,900
- That's our corner.
- A penny a song.
548
00:33:53,970 --> 00:33:56,150
- I love you, Bessie!
- You see that gin joint right there?
549
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,390
That's where I made
my first whole dollar.
550
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,760
- Spent it, too.
- ♪ Hug him in the morning,
kiss him every night ♪
551
00:34:01,810 --> 00:34:04,730
♪ Give him plenty of lovin',
treat him right ♪
552
00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:08,950
♪ 'Cause a good man nowadays
is hard to find ♪
553
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,430
♪ Ah, yes, hard to find... ♪
554
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,440
- How y'all doing?
- Oh, my God.
555
00:34:13,490 --> 00:34:17,520
♪ A good man is hard to find ♪
556
00:34:17,820 --> 00:34:21,020
♪ You always get another kind ♪
557
00:34:21,330 --> 00:34:24,400
♪ So if your man
is nice ♪
558
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,030
- ♪ Take my advice...
- Come over here right now.
559
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,520
- You know all them words?
- Yeah.
560
00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:33,970
You know what you're singing?
561
00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:38,410
Hold out your hand right now.
562
00:34:43,250 --> 00:34:45,320
Keep singing.
563
00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:48,590
Make sure all you're
doing is singing.
564
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,820
Come on, let's go.
565
00:35:00,730 --> 00:35:03,400
Mommy. Where's my mama?
566
00:35:13,610 --> 00:35:15,570
Welcome home. Come on inside.
567
00:35:15,620 --> 00:35:17,880
Hey, hey!
568
00:35:18,220 --> 00:35:21,220
Hey y'all. How you
doing? How you doing?
569
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:46,540
Well, I guess you think
you're something.
570
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,810
How are you?
571
00:35:50,980 --> 00:35:52,580
You care?
572
00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:57,790
I think I'm gonna go show
Jack and Lucille around.
573
00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:12,970
That's your man?
574
00:36:15,270 --> 00:36:17,470
You got something to eat?
575
00:36:17,740 --> 00:36:21,010
- Drink?
- Oh, city gal, huh?
576
00:36:21,410 --> 00:36:24,850
Can't stand to be in regular
folks' houses no more.
577
00:36:32,460 --> 00:36:33,940
You still keeps the food locked up.
578
00:36:33,990 --> 00:36:36,190
That's right.
579
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,130
Y'all was like little rats.
580
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:41,720
How else was I supposed to
keep the food in the house
581
00:36:41,770 --> 00:36:44,800
- and feed six people?
- Come here.
582
00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:47,920
Go get a case of Coca
-Cola and a lot of ice.
583
00:36:47,970 --> 00:36:51,090
As many potato chips and
peanuts as you can get.
584
00:36:51,140 --> 00:36:54,810
Oh, golly. Mm.
585
00:36:55,110 --> 00:36:58,120
A whole case of Coca
-Cola.
586
00:36:58,450 --> 00:37:02,490
After 10 years, ain't you a saint?
587
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,480
Don't drink it all up.
588
00:37:10,530 --> 00:37:12,450
You're one to talk.
589
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:14,150
Well, you're the one still
keeps the food locked up.
590
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,090
Don't look like you're
missing no meals.
591
00:37:16,140 --> 00:37:19,140
Well, I sure didn't
get 'em here, did I?
592
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,080
I got some tickets
for the show tonight.
593
00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:28,660
You want to bring the family...
594
00:37:28,710 --> 00:37:31,050
I got someplace else to be.
595
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,560
You been by Mama's grave yet?
596
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,820
No street signs, no
lights, no nothing.
597
00:38:07,090 --> 00:38:09,040
Told ya, Mama, this
is Blue Goose Hollow.
598
00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:12,590
I know this town better than J.G.'s ding
-a
-ling.
599
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,240
Yeah, this is my town!
600
00:38:15,290 --> 00:38:17,730
Hey, Bessie! Hey.
601
00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:36,140
Oh, you remember. I
know you remember...
602
00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:45,020
Easy, papa. Leave room
for the Holy Ghost, now.
603
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,520
Good times with you two.
604
00:38:47,730 --> 00:38:49,850
Girl, you gotta get your man.
605
00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:52,400
- Hey.
- Leave them gals be.
606
00:38:52,630 --> 00:38:54,830
- Yeah.
- Get off of me.
607
00:38:55,130 --> 00:38:57,250
- What do you think this is?
- I said leave 'em be!
608
00:38:57,300 --> 00:38:59,740
Shut up, fat bitch.
609
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:03,100
- What'd that fucker say to me?
- I said...
610
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,350
Don't nobody try her.
611
00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:16,420
She's in her gin, y'all.
612
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,470
... your little dancer
613
00:39:35,770 --> 00:39:38,910
decided to come along for the ride.
614
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:42,250
Y'all know how to ball!
615
00:39:42,550 --> 00:39:45,350
And we're gonna ball again tomorrow.
616
00:39:47,690 --> 00:39:50,220
Hey, get back here!
617
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,830
Clarence, help us.
618
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,030
- Where's a doctor?
- Get somebody!
619
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,120
- Get somebody! Hurry up.
- Baby, look at me. Look at me.
620
00:40:06,170 --> 00:40:07,690
Oh, shit.
621
00:40:07,740 --> 00:40:09,340
Help!
622
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,010
Help!
623
00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:13,520
Baby...
624
00:40:15,010 --> 00:40:17,780
- Bessie!
- Hurry up!
625
00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:19,320
Bessie!
626
00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:23,150
- Bessie! Bessie!
- Mommy!
627
00:40:23,390 --> 00:40:25,010
- Bessie!
- Mommy!
628
00:40:25,060 --> 00:40:28,060
- Bessie!
- No!
629
00:40:34,070 --> 00:40:35,940
Where's my mommy?
630
00:40:38,070 --> 00:40:39,840
Where's Mama?
631
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,310
It's okay. It's okay, baby.
632
00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:52,070
- Baby, it's okay.
- Get off of me! Get off of me!
633
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,220
- Get off of me!
- She's okay. She's okay.
634
00:40:56,290 --> 00:40:58,170
- Why did you...
- I'm right here, baby.
635
00:40:58,220 --> 00:41:00,710
- You let her get me.
- I ain't going nowhere, I love you.
636
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,850
Jack You gotta let that heal.
You gotta let that heal.
637
00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,210
- Bess, you gotta let that heal.
- We got a show to do.
638
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:06,050
No, no, ain't no show. Ain't no show.
639
00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:08,660
Bess!
640
00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:10,540
Bess!
641
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:11,970
Bess!
642
00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:15,100
- Nurse!
- Bess, what are you doing?
643
00:41:25,580 --> 00:41:27,370
How much y'all pay to get in here?
644
00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:30,820
- 25 cents.
- 25 cent?
645
00:41:31,190 --> 00:41:34,690
Hmm, I wouldn't pay
25 cent to go nowhere.
646
00:41:40,430 --> 00:41:43,390
Well, I guess I better
sing something, huh?
647
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,840
'Cause y'all spent all that money.
648
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:19,850
"Dear Miss Smith,
649
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:22,120
my name is Harry
Herbert Pace,
650
00:42:22,170 --> 00:42:24,690
president of the newly formed
Black Swan Records
651
00:42:24,740 --> 00:42:27,260
based in Harlem,
New York City.
652
00:42:27,310 --> 00:42:28,860
I'm a great admirer
of your work,
653
00:42:28,910 --> 00:42:30,600
having seen you perform
654
00:42:30,650 --> 00:42:33,950
at the Royal Theater
in Philadelphia.
655
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,410
News of your great talent
continues to precede you
656
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:39,910
and we would like to invite
you to an audition
657
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,580
at our offices in Times
Square, New York City,
658
00:42:42,630 --> 00:42:45,960
to be our first recording artist
signed to the Black Swan label!
659
00:42:46,260 --> 00:42:48,280
- Hoo!
- Well, this is it.
660
00:42:48,330 --> 00:42:50,550
I always wanted to live in
New York City, you know.
661
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:51,890
You're gonna be the biggest
thing since Mamie Smith.
662
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:53,150
You know how many records
she sold last year?
663
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,620
- A million.
- A colored outfit?
664
00:42:55,670 --> 00:42:57,590
Ain't nobody heard of no Black Swan.
665
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,230
What you need is a national label. Big
-time.
666
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,130
W.E.B. Du Bois' company
wants to record you, sis.
667
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:04,180
This is the big time!
668
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,600
- So? I read his book.
- I doubt you read his book.
669
00:43:06,650 --> 00:43:08,640
I read the damn book.
670
00:43:08,690 --> 00:43:11,410
- What's that got to do with music?
- This is the big ticket.
671
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:13,740
Bessie, this is what they're calling Pan
-Africanism.
672
00:43:13,790 --> 00:43:15,310
Well, what about Pan
-Americanism?
673
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,810
Can she sell more tickets?
That's what I wanna know.
674
00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:20,080
"The only genuine colored records.
675
00:43:20,130 --> 00:43:22,580
The others are only
passing for colored."
676
00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:24,520
- That's their motto.
- I like that.
677
00:43:24,570 --> 00:43:26,120
I like it, too.
678
00:43:26,170 --> 00:43:29,370
"Yours in negritude,
Harry Herbert Pace."
679
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,330
The fuck is negritude?
680
00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:34,160
That means they're real, real black.
681
00:43:34,210 --> 00:43:36,080
My kind of people.
682
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,880
Talk about passing.
683
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:44,610
Y'all is fried, dyed,
and laid to the side.
684
00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:47,110
Well, and we are very
excited to be here.
685
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,710
- Very excited.
- We were surprised you could
schedule the audition
686
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,380
so quickly given your
busy tour schedule.
687
00:43:51,430 --> 00:43:54,660
We canceled the rest
of our tour to be here.
688
00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:58,120
- Well, that's, uh...
- Well, y'all wanna hear me sing, right?
689
00:43:58,170 --> 00:44:00,470
Yes. Yes, yes, of course.
690
00:44:00,770 --> 00:44:02,860
Is there anything else that you need?
691
00:44:02,910 --> 00:44:04,560
I need a little something
for this tea.
692
00:44:04,610 --> 00:44:07,110
Honey, sugar, milk?
693
00:44:07,410 --> 00:44:10,200
Splash of Old Tom will be just fine.
694
00:44:10,250 --> 00:44:12,620
- "Old Tom"?
- Gin?
695
00:44:12,850 --> 00:44:14,850
I'm sorry, I... I...
696
00:44:15,050 --> 00:44:18,520
I don't know that we have any
or where we could find any.
697
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,890
You see, it's, ah...
698
00:44:21,260 --> 00:44:23,150
- I mean, it's illegal.
- Never mind. It's okay.
699
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,070
No, it ain't okay.
700
00:44:26,530 --> 00:44:30,000
You want her at her best, then
give her what she needs.
701
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,240
Oh, it's okay, papa.
702
00:44:37,610 --> 00:44:39,080
♪ Oh... ♪
703
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,410
Hold up.
704
00:44:42,650 --> 00:44:43,670
Something ain't right.
705
00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:45,590
♪ Oh... ♪
706
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:48,420
Ahem...
707
00:44:54,260 --> 00:44:56,930
♪ I got a man I love ♪
708
00:44:58,830 --> 00:45:01,720
♪ Why he had
to leave me? ♪
709
00:45:01,770 --> 00:45:05,500
♪ I got a man I love ♪
710
00:45:05,770 --> 00:45:07,970
♪ Smart as he can be... ♪
711
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,980
Dear Miss Smith,
712
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,750
while we appreciate
your downhome sound,
713
00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:20,900
we do not feel that it is a fit
714
00:45:20,950 --> 00:45:22,870
for Black Swan Records.
715
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,510
We have chosen to record instead
716
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,740
a young lady who
we unanimously agree
717
00:45:27,790 --> 00:45:30,790
has a more compatible sound
718
00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:32,980
and is a bright,
shining example
719
00:45:33,030 --> 00:45:35,520
of the Harlem Renaissance
and an uplift to the race.
720
00:45:35,570 --> 00:45:37,650
We hope you can appreciate
721
00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:39,350
the difficulty
of our decision
722
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,160
and the choices
that must be made
723
00:45:41,210 --> 00:45:43,430
in the name of progress.
724
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,260
We remain admirers
of your work
725
00:45:45,310 --> 00:45:46,990
and hope that you will
keep us in mind
726
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,430
for your future recordings.
727
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,570
You let her go in there
and make a damn fool
728
00:45:50,620 --> 00:45:52,730
- out of herself.
- Pour me another glass of this corn.
729
00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:54,370
- Ain't nobody crying.
- It was a good meeting, man.
730
00:45:54,420 --> 00:45:56,370
Hey, baby, look here.
Never again.
731
00:45:56,420 --> 00:45:58,170
Damn fools don't know
nothing about no talent.
732
00:45:58,220 --> 00:45:59,910
I'm gonna get you a real record deal!
733
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:01,110
I said I don't wanna
hear no more about it.
734
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,280
What the hell you know
about anything?
735
00:46:02,330 --> 00:46:03,850
We've been in this business
736
00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:05,610
- before you were wiping your own ass.
- Look it here.
737
00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:08,350
It's about damn time she started
taking advice from a nigger
738
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,000
that don't wear no stage makeup!
739
00:46:12,670 --> 00:46:14,200
Listen...
740
00:46:14,470 --> 00:46:16,090
Give me some more of this!
741
00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:18,940
Give me some more of all this stuff!
742
00:46:51,510 --> 00:46:53,050
It'll pass.
743
00:47:14,830 --> 00:47:15,850
... a couple of them myself, too.
744
00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:17,570
Are you sure?
745
00:47:22,870 --> 00:47:24,870
Hey, Bessie.
746
00:47:25,380 --> 00:47:28,480
This here Mr. Walker...
want to meet you.
747
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,670
The hell you bring him here for?
748
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:32,200
You remember him.
749
00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:33,430
Brought him by a couple
of your shows.
750
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,500
He wants to talk to you
about a record deal.
751
00:47:35,550 --> 00:47:37,510
- A real recording contract.
- Miss Smith,
752
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,710
I'd like to record you
for Columbia Records
753
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,860
for our new Race
Records division.
754
00:47:44,930 --> 00:47:47,520
What is a Race Record? The one where
they put a coon on the front?
755
00:47:47,570 --> 00:47:50,200
What? Um, no, ma'am.
756
00:47:50,570 --> 00:47:53,870
We at Columbia are taking
a different approach.
757
00:47:54,210 --> 00:47:56,730
I'm not interested
in your Race Records.
758
00:47:56,780 --> 00:48:00,610
And I'm not interested in wasting
my time singing no store
-bought blues.
759
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,300
But we want your sound.
760
00:48:02,350 --> 00:48:04,500
We want the Bessie Smith sound.
761
00:48:04,550 --> 00:48:06,300
And it would be your face on the ad,
762
00:48:06,350 --> 00:48:07,400
- nothing like those other records.
- I already sell out
763
00:48:07,450 --> 00:48:10,190
every show from Philly to Chicago.
764
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,470
Ain't nobody doing
it like I'm doing it.
765
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,120
You'd attract a broader audience.
766
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,180
I've been doing just
fine without 'em.
767
00:48:17,230 --> 00:48:18,850
I can offer you 50 dollars a side.
768
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:21,100
No royalties, of course.
769
00:48:33,910 --> 00:48:36,080
Don't play with me now.
770
00:48:42,490 --> 00:48:44,120
J.G.
771
00:48:51,230 --> 00:48:53,900
Now, you want what's in my jacket
772
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,300
or in my pocket?
773
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,840
I already know what's in your pocket.
774
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:01,890
Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
775
00:49:01,940 --> 00:49:03,590
Now, what do you want?
776
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,640
This or this?
777
00:49:05,910 --> 00:49:08,440
I want another velvet box.
778
00:49:15,620 --> 00:49:17,090
Marry me.
779
00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:28,950
You ou can't be putting
me upon no shelf.
780
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,600
I ain't no henpecked man, either.
781
00:49:35,010 --> 00:49:37,080
Take the chance on me.
782
00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:52,520
Come here, girl.
783
00:49:58,060 --> 00:49:59,710
Now, what's in that other pocket?
784
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,800
Oh.
785
00:50:03,070 --> 00:50:07,400
Uh, just a recording contract
786
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,420
from Columbia Records.
787
00:50:09,470 --> 00:50:11,880
125 a side.
788
00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:14,230
That's double what that man said.
789
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,380
That's 'cause I'm fighting
for you now, baby.
790
00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:20,370
Well, maybe we should tell Clarence.
791
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:23,590
Uh
-uh. This here is me and you now.
792
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,750
All set. Let 'em know.
793
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,050
Let's hope she knows
what she's doing.
794
00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:38,850
They tell me she does.
795
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:41,420
Take a listen. This
always takes...
796
00:50:41,470 --> 00:50:43,860
Everything all right, Bessie?
797
00:50:43,910 --> 00:50:45,030
Yeah, as soon as y'all
move this thing
798
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,760
out the way, I'm ready to go.
799
00:50:46,810 --> 00:50:48,630
Well, no, that's the
recording apparatus.
800
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,870
- I know it's bigger than what...
- It's crowding me.
801
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,770
Well, we need it to...
802
00:50:52,820 --> 00:50:54,130
- I don't need it.
- Look, Bess, you got to...
803
00:50:54,180 --> 00:50:57,620
Hey, hey. I'll help her.
804
00:50:57,820 --> 00:50:59,490
What's wrong?
805
00:51:01,330 --> 00:51:03,480
It's gonna be just
like the last time.
806
00:51:03,530 --> 00:51:06,550
- No, it's not.
- It ain't gonna go, J.G.
807
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,980
It ain't gonna go, J.G. I know it.
808
00:51:08,030 --> 00:51:09,550
I know how they do it.
809
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,790
They act like they're your pal,
and then it all comes loose.
810
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,320
You can't make no silk
purse out of no sow's ear
811
00:51:15,370 --> 00:51:18,160
- just like Viola always said...
- Damn Viola.
812
00:51:18,210 --> 00:51:19,960
You hear me? Damn her.
813
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:21,800
Damn Black Swan.
814
00:51:21,850 --> 00:51:23,900
Damn these crackers in here.
815
00:51:23,950 --> 00:51:25,980
Let's just go home.
816
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:33,390
Okay, we're going. We're
going now. Right now.
817
00:51:33,660 --> 00:51:35,920
But sing one song, honey.
818
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,430
The way you like it.
819
00:51:38,730 --> 00:51:41,960
Don't sing it for me, them, nobody.
820
00:51:42,230 --> 00:51:44,430
You sing it for yourself.
821
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,870
Now what you say?
822
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,680
Okay, here we go, Bessie.
823
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,000
Mr. Gee, if you could just
step away from the cone...
824
00:52:01,050 --> 00:52:02,440
He's staying right here.
825
00:52:02,490 --> 00:52:05,250
Um, okay.
826
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:25,140
♪ Gee, but it's hard
to love someone ♪
827
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,880
♪ When that someone don't love you ♪
828
00:52:31,950 --> 00:52:37,320
♪ I'm so disgusted,
heartbroken, too ♪
829
00:52:37,620 --> 00:52:41,790
♪ I've got those downhearted blues ♪
830
00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:48,230
♪ Once I was crazy 'bout a man ♪
831
00:52:48,570 --> 00:52:54,200
♪ Who mistreated me all the time ♪
832
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,570
♪ The next man I get ♪
833
00:52:56,910 --> 00:53:01,710
♪ Has got to promise me to be mine ♪
834
00:53:01,910 --> 00:53:06,080
♪ All mine ♪
835
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,920
♪ Trouble, trouble ♪
836
00:53:10,220 --> 00:53:14,490
♪ I've had it all my days ♪
837
00:53:18,130 --> 00:53:21,860
♪ Trouble, trouble ♪
838
00:53:22,130 --> 00:53:26,840
♪ I've had it all my days ♪
839
00:53:30,010 --> 00:53:31,960
♪ It seems that trouble's ♪
840
00:53:32,010 --> 00:53:33,560
I love you. You're mine.
841
00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:37,350
♪ Going to follow me
to my grave ♪
842
00:53:41,190 --> 00:53:45,290
♪ I ain't never loved but ♪
843
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,020
♪ Three mens in my life ♪
844
00:53:52,930 --> 00:53:56,400
♪ I ain't never loved but ♪
845
00:53:56,670 --> 00:54:01,340
♪ Three mens in my life ♪
846
00:54:05,180 --> 00:54:08,680
♪ My father, my brother ♪
847
00:54:08,980 --> 00:54:13,550
♪ The man that wrecked my life ♪
848
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,490
♪ I got the world in a jug ♪
849
00:54:20,790 --> 00:54:24,560
♪ The stopper's in my hand ♪
850
00:54:27,870 --> 00:54:32,100
♪ I got the world
in a jug ♪
851
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,570
♪ The stopper's
in my hand... ♪
852
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,080
Put that on top of that box.
853
00:54:47,990 --> 00:54:49,320
Hey.
854
00:54:51,020 --> 00:54:54,520
Seems I done traced the
lightning back to her source.
855
00:54:56,060 --> 00:54:59,130
Hey, boss. One more.
856
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,230
What's your name?
857
00:55:03,370 --> 00:55:06,770
Ain't too smart to give
out names in my business.
858
00:55:08,070 --> 00:55:11,410
Just call me your bootlegger.
And what do I call you?
859
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,880
You don't know who I am?
860
00:55:15,180 --> 00:55:17,710
Oh, I know who you are.
861
00:55:19,780 --> 00:55:22,580
But what do you want me to call you?
862
00:55:25,190 --> 00:55:26,860
Oh, yes. Yeah!
863
00:55:27,090 --> 00:55:29,140
What the fuck is your name?
864
00:55:29,190 --> 00:55:30,580
- Richard.
- Tell me your name.
865
00:55:30,630 --> 00:55:33,860
Richard, baby! My name is Richard.
866
00:55:34,100 --> 00:55:39,600
Come on, baby.
867
00:55:39,770 --> 00:55:41,370
Mm
-hmm.
868
00:55:41,570 --> 00:55:43,110
Right here.
869
00:55:44,780 --> 00:55:48,080
Look good, huh?
870
00:55:49,610 --> 00:55:54,050
Yeah!
871
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,150
Well, why is your name on it?
872
00:55:57,390 --> 00:55:59,390
Why is my name on it?
873
00:55:59,620 --> 00:56:01,280
'Cause somebody somewhere
right now putting
874
00:56:01,330 --> 00:56:02,880
a record on listening to you.
875
00:56:02,930 --> 00:56:04,910
You're making money while you sleep.
876
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,450
Ain't had to sing
a word this morning.
877
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:10,830
It is fine.
878
00:56:11,170 --> 00:56:13,390
- A whole train.
- It was my idea.
879
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,060
Told you six months ago
we should get a train.
880
00:56:16,110 --> 00:56:18,780
Look here, we're saving money now.
881
00:56:19,180 --> 00:56:22,610
Ain't never have to go through another third
-rate backdoor again.
882
00:56:22,850 --> 00:56:24,130
That's what I told you!
883
00:56:24,180 --> 00:56:27,480
Yeah, well, some are talkers
and some are doers.
884
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,650
And, baby, I'm a doer.
885
00:56:31,990 --> 00:56:33,930
And I done done it.
886
00:56:35,030 --> 00:56:36,610
"Jack Gee presents."
887
00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:39,710
Jack Gee presents the
most demonstrating,
888
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,800
syncopating, electrifying
woman in the world.
889
00:56:45,270 --> 00:56:47,070
My girl.
890
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,880
How y'all feeling tonight?
891
00:57:00,050 --> 00:57:01,550
Yeah!
892
00:57:03,690 --> 00:57:06,860
Come on, now. Yeah!
893
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,490
Give a little bit.
894
00:57:13,330 --> 00:57:15,800
Oh, this reminds me of church.
895
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:22,100
What? I think we might have
to preach them blues tonight.
896
00:57:22,410 --> 00:57:24,510
Yeah!
897
00:57:30,820 --> 00:57:33,030
Here, nigger, nigger,
nigger, nigger!
898
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,220
- Nigger!
- Hurry!
899
00:57:35,470 --> 00:57:36,470
Nigger, nigger,
nigger nigger!
900
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,890
Give it here, give it here.
901
00:57:39,260 --> 00:57:41,010
Come on, go around the side.
Go around the side.
902
00:57:41,060 --> 00:57:42,680
Come on, let's move it.
903
00:57:42,730 --> 00:57:45,050
- Bring it down!
- We gotta get out of here.
904
00:57:45,100 --> 00:57:47,330
The Klan is here.
905
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,200
The Ku Klux Klan is here!
906
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,520
- It's gonna be all right.
- Come on, niggers!
907
00:57:54,570 --> 00:57:56,190
Come on, come on.
Let's get a move on.
908
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,990
You ain't singing so pretty
now, are you, nigger?
909
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,400
Are you scared inside?
910
00:58:01,450 --> 00:58:03,850
I bet you are!
911
00:58:04,250 --> 00:58:05,330
Don't go out there, Bessie!
They're gonna kill you.
912
00:58:05,380 --> 00:58:06,920
Bessie, no!
913
00:58:14,290 --> 00:58:16,230
Get on out of here!
914
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:17,710
What the hell are you doing?
915
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:19,700
- Get back.
- Hey!
916
00:58:20,030 --> 00:58:22,970
You better pick up
your sheets and run!
917
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,720
Get out of here. I'm gonna get you!
918
00:58:27,770 --> 00:58:29,970
Get out of here!
919
00:58:30,540 --> 00:58:34,480
We'll be back!
920
00:58:36,110 --> 00:58:38,110
We'll be back!
921
00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:00,970
♪ Down in Atlanta, GA ♪
922
00:59:01,270 --> 00:59:04,910
♪ Under the viaduct every day ♪
923
00:59:06,510 --> 00:59:10,980
♪ Drinking liquor and
hollerin' hooray ♪
924
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,880
♪ Pianos playing till
the break of day ♪
925
00:59:15,150 --> 00:59:18,290
♪ But as I turned my head ♪
926
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,030
♪ I loudly said ♪
927
00:59:24,300 --> 00:59:26,300
♪ Preach them blues ♪
928
00:59:26,430 --> 00:59:28,760
♪ Sing them blues ♪
929
00:59:29,100 --> 00:59:33,440
♪ They certainly sound good to me ♪
930
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:38,040
♪ I've been in love for
the last six months ♪
931
00:59:38,310 --> 00:59:42,380
♪ Ain't done worrying yet ♪
932
00:59:42,710 --> 00:59:47,050
♪ Moan them blues,
holler them blues ♪
933
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,020
♪ Let me convert your soul ♪
934
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,860
♪ 'Cause just a little spirit ♪
935
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,420
♪ Of the blues tonight ♪
936
00:59:56,690 --> 00:59:58,480
♪ Let me tell you, girls ♪
937
00:59:58,530 --> 01:00:01,530
♪ That your man ain't
treating you right ♪
938
01:00:01,900 --> 01:00:05,600
♪ Going on down the line
a little further now ♪
939
01:00:05,900 --> 01:00:10,410
♪ There's many a poor woman down ♪
940
01:00:10,710 --> 01:00:14,810
♪ Read on down to chapter nine ♪
941
01:00:15,180 --> 01:00:19,120
♪ Woman must learn how
to take their time ♪
942
01:00:19,420 --> 01:00:22,980
♪ Read on down to chapter ten ♪
943
01:00:23,350 --> 01:00:27,660
♪ Taking other women's
men, you are doing a sin ♪
944
01:00:27,990 --> 01:00:32,530
♪ Sing 'em, sing 'em,
sing them blues ♪
945
01:00:32,830 --> 01:00:36,930
♪ Let me convert your soul... ♪
946
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,660
Here we go! Here we go!
947
01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:09,640
Hey, Bessie! We're praying for you!
948
01:01:37,730 --> 01:01:39,250
Thank you, Bessie!
949
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:41,170
Thank you!
950
01:01:43,570 --> 01:01:46,510
Never thought it'd
be like this.
951
01:01:47,940 --> 01:01:50,010
You woke us up.
952
01:02:16,870 --> 01:02:18,540
Hit it again.
953
01:02:21,370 --> 01:02:24,430
New York is celebrated
for its transitory fads.
954
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,780
During the current season,
the Negro is in ascendency.
955
01:02:28,110 --> 01:02:29,660
Miss Smith, so wonderful
you could join us.
956
01:02:29,710 --> 01:02:31,900
You're one of our last
guests to arrive.
957
01:02:31,950 --> 01:02:34,620
Edgar! Mr. Van Vechten, 4th floor.
958
01:02:36,650 --> 01:02:41,890
Soon, doubtless, the homely
Negro songs of lovesickness
959
01:02:42,230 --> 01:02:46,630
known as "the blues"
will be better known
960
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,680
and appreciated by
white audiences.
961
01:02:49,730 --> 01:02:52,530
It's a little tight, don't you think?
962
01:02:56,740 --> 01:02:58,610
Ooh, yeah!
963
01:03:03,980 --> 01:03:05,370
Bessie Smith is here!
964
01:03:05,420 --> 01:03:08,420
Oh, you look fabulous! I
heard that you were wild.
965
01:03:08,650 --> 01:03:10,650
Get the fuck off me.
966
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:12,210
Now, where's the good music,
967
01:03:12,260 --> 01:03:15,000
the good food, and the good liquor?
968
01:03:16,090 --> 01:03:19,310
Langston Hughes is the greatest
Negro poet of our time.
969
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,160
Oh. Who's the best regular poet?
970
01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:26,550
Langston, how about a little poem?
971
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:27,550
I'm not feeling up to it.
972
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:28,890
Well, I'll sing a note or two.
973
01:03:28,940 --> 01:03:30,060
Ladies and gentlemen, quiet, please.
974
01:03:30,110 --> 01:03:31,230
Go, girl.
975
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,190
Miss Smith. Miss Smith,
I should warn you.
976
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,180
This crowd isn't...
977
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,330
I have a treat. I have
a special treat.
978
01:03:40,380 --> 01:03:41,840
The incomparable Bessie Smith
979
01:03:41,890 --> 01:03:44,450
is going to sing us a song.
980
01:03:50,530 --> 01:03:53,160
♪ Everybody's cryin' ♪
981
01:03:53,460 --> 01:03:56,900
♪ The workhouse blues,
all day ♪
982
01:03:57,100 --> 01:04:00,340
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
983
01:04:00,540 --> 01:04:03,400
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
984
01:04:04,710 --> 01:04:07,680
♪ The work is so hard ♪
985
01:04:07,940 --> 01:04:11,080
♪ Thirty days is so long ♪
986
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,980
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
987
01:04:15,250 --> 01:04:18,420
♪ I can't plough ♪
988
01:04:18,620 --> 01:04:21,690
♪ I can't cook ♪
989
01:04:22,060 --> 01:04:27,600
♪ If I'd run away, wouldn't
that be good? ♪
990
01:04:27,900 --> 01:04:32,570
♪ Well, I'm goin' to the nation ♪
991
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:38,010
♪ Goin' to the territor' ♪
992
01:04:39,810 --> 01:04:44,250
♪ The workhouse sits
way out a ♪
993
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:49,020
♪ Long old lonesome road ♪
994
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,060
♪ I'm a hard
-luck gal ♪
995
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:59,700
♪ Get the devil everywhere I go... ♪
996
01:04:59,860 --> 01:05:01,800
Mmm.
997
01:05:03,700 --> 01:05:06,540
Where the drinks at around here?
998
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,270
Let me get a little something.
999
01:05:11,940 --> 01:05:14,180
You are a treasure.
1000
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,510
That was so beautiful and so soulful,
1001
01:05:17,850 --> 01:05:21,680
and, frankly, exactly
the kind of dusky pathos
1002
01:05:21,950 --> 01:05:23,000
that I'm looking to capture
1003
01:05:23,050 --> 01:05:24,070
for my new book "Nigger Heaven"...
1004
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,920
- Say what?
- "Nigger Heaven," it...
1005
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,010
You know the only difference
1006
01:05:31,060 --> 01:05:32,410
between white folks in the North
1007
01:05:32,460 --> 01:05:33,910
and white folks in the South?
1008
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:36,420
White folks in the South
don't care how close you get
1009
01:05:36,470 --> 01:05:39,020
as long as you don't get too big.
1010
01:05:39,070 --> 01:05:42,300
And white folks in the North
don't care how big you get
1011
01:05:42,570 --> 01:05:45,310
as long as you don't get too close.
1012
01:05:51,050 --> 01:05:53,630
- Are you all right?
- If Bessie Smith is
crude and primitive,
1013
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:57,980
she reflects the true
folk spirit of her race.
1014
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,270
Whoo
-hoo!
1015
01:06:15,510 --> 01:06:17,510
Morning, Gee!
1016
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,040
I got something for you.
1017
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,500
Got somebody I want you to meet.
1018
01:06:28,550 --> 01:06:30,570
This here is Gertrude.
1019
01:06:30,620 --> 01:06:33,290
She's a singer. Writes songs, too.
1020
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,600
You know Claudine dropped
out in Cincinnati.
1021
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,180
Got pregnant.
1022
01:06:42,230 --> 01:06:43,920
So I hired Gertrude
here to replace her.
1023
01:06:43,970 --> 01:06:46,970
What the fuck you showing
her to me for?
1024
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:48,760
I don't know.
1025
01:06:48,810 --> 01:06:50,860
Thought maybe you might
have something to say.
1026
01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:52,390
Sort of like "welcome."
1027
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,260
What kind of fucked
-up name is Gertrude?
1028
01:06:55,310 --> 01:06:57,030
- You a half
-breed?
- Excuse us, please.
1029
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:00,280
Go on and get yourself
something to eat, baby.
1030
01:07:02,090 --> 01:07:03,270
What the hell is wrong with you?
1031
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:04,740
I know you got your side pieces,
1032
01:07:04,790 --> 01:07:06,410
but why you gotta rub 'em in my face?
1033
01:07:06,460 --> 01:07:07,510
I'm just trying to build a...
1034
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:08,840
You want me to sniff
her for you, too?
1035
01:07:08,890 --> 01:07:10,080
I'm just trying to build
a show here, Bessie.
1036
01:07:10,130 --> 01:07:12,600
You got her wearing my things.
1037
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,250
I know you think I'm
big and ugly.
1038
01:07:14,300 --> 01:07:15,780
You think I'm blind and dumb, too?
1039
01:07:15,830 --> 01:07:18,890
It ain't... it ain't like you
ain't been tipping out, too.
1040
01:07:18,940 --> 01:07:21,340
I know it. Tell me different.
1041
01:07:32,750 --> 01:07:34,450
Look.
1042
01:07:34,750 --> 01:07:37,790
Baby, I promise. Cross my heart.
1043
01:07:38,090 --> 01:07:40,540
I don't love nobody else but you.
1044
01:07:40,590 --> 01:07:42,280
And you don't love
nobody else but me,
1045
01:07:42,330 --> 01:07:46,480
so the rest really don't
matter now, do they?
1046
01:07:46,530 --> 01:07:49,820
You know I don't think
what you said.
1047
01:07:49,870 --> 01:07:51,870
You're my fine woman.
1048
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:00,150
Look.
1049
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:03,340
Let's start over, huh?
1050
01:08:03,650 --> 01:08:06,320
Let's me and you both clean house.
1051
01:08:11,890 --> 01:08:13,390
Come on.
1052
01:08:14,790 --> 01:08:16,790
Let's try.
1053
01:08:37,410 --> 01:08:39,300
They said you had your own train.
1054
01:08:39,350 --> 01:08:41,170
I didn't believe 'em.
1055
01:08:41,220 --> 01:08:44,350
But goddamn, sis.
1056
01:08:44,590 --> 01:08:47,790
You a high post now, huh?
1057
01:08:48,090 --> 01:08:50,690
You ain't tell me about all this.
1058
01:08:52,230 --> 01:08:54,950
- You get that money I sent you?
- Oh, yeah.
1059
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,820
I get them little wires
you've been sending.
1060
01:08:57,870 --> 01:09:02,170
They're nice, feeding
four kids and all.
1061
01:09:15,890 --> 01:09:17,520
Okay, look.
1062
01:09:17,890 --> 01:09:22,190
I know you and I bump
heads most of the time,
1063
01:09:22,530 --> 01:09:25,330
but I'm just here to show my support.
1064
01:09:28,300 --> 01:09:30,970
Mmm, real nice.
1065
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:33,600
This is from Europe and...
1066
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,310
what have you.
1067
01:09:47,150 --> 01:09:49,150
I got you something.
1068
01:09:50,750 --> 01:09:53,850
Probably not fancy enough
for you now, but...
1069
01:09:55,590 --> 01:09:57,790
I thought you'd like it.
1070
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:26,990
I'm proud of you.
1071
01:10:30,830 --> 01:10:33,500
I'm so proud of you.
1072
01:10:46,380 --> 01:10:49,110
You gonna stay around for a while?
1073
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,920
Think Clarence could get me tickets?
1074
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,450
He's in the box office.
1075
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:04,830
Thank you.
1076
01:11:42,730 --> 01:11:44,930
Come on. Come on and see.
1077
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:47,840
Come on in here.
1078
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,540
Come on.
1079
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:51,460
- Come on, y'all.
- Get inside.
1080
01:11:51,510 --> 01:11:52,730
The paint already fading.
1081
01:11:52,780 --> 01:11:55,120
Take a look around.
1082
01:11:55,910 --> 01:11:57,630
Lord have mercy.
1083
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,730
Look around,
breathe it in.
1084
01:11:59,780 --> 01:12:02,170
This is something, Bessie.
1085
01:12:02,220 --> 01:12:03,140
Smell different, don't it?
1086
01:12:03,190 --> 01:12:05,190
Listen here, Bessie.
1087
01:12:05,390 --> 01:12:07,310
We ain't talk about getting no house.
1088
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,300
I ain't see your name
on my bank book.
1089
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:17,130
I mean, I did it for us, papa.
1090
01:12:17,530 --> 01:12:20,220
- I knew you'd like it.
- How the upstairs look?
1091
01:12:20,270 --> 01:12:23,440
But if you did it for us, why all
of them got to move in here for?
1092
01:12:23,740 --> 01:12:25,860
And especially why is she here?
1093
01:12:25,910 --> 01:12:27,430
Baby, she's gonna be all
the way back in the house.
1094
01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:29,160
You ain't hardly gonna see her.
1095
01:12:29,210 --> 01:12:33,080
I don't know why certain people's
got they lip turned up.
1096
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:35,270
Must be smelling something.
1097
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,700
Damn right, I'm smelling something.
1098
01:12:37,750 --> 01:12:39,870
Must be a dead rat in the wall.
1099
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:41,320
Must be.
1100
01:12:41,390 --> 01:12:44,020
Baby, stop.
1101
01:12:44,290 --> 01:12:46,250
Why you ain't ask me first?
1102
01:12:46,300 --> 01:12:49,300
- See if I was ready?
- Well, I'm ready.
1103
01:12:49,570 --> 01:12:52,520
I want a real family,
not no road family.
1104
01:12:52,570 --> 01:12:54,450
I want the whole thing, you know?
1105
01:12:54,500 --> 01:12:56,520
A big house and everybody in it.
1106
01:12:56,570 --> 01:12:59,980
Well, everybody ain't gonna be in it if
you don't start showing me some respect!
1107
01:13:05,420 --> 01:13:08,350
I'm gonna put a big piano right here,
1108
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:11,100
a big dining room table
is gonna go here.
1109
01:13:11,150 --> 01:13:13,640
I'm gonna get me a nice
rug for that parlor.
1110
01:13:13,690 --> 01:13:14,870
And I'm gonna get me a baby, too,
1111
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:15,980
and I'm gonna put him right in there.
1112
01:13:16,030 --> 01:13:17,210
- A what?
- Come see the... a baby.
1113
01:13:17,260 --> 01:13:19,460
Come on, see the kitchen.
1114
01:13:38,780 --> 01:13:40,650
Always a pleasure.
1115
01:13:44,890 --> 01:13:46,190
Bess?
1116
01:13:46,620 --> 01:13:49,640
You're gonna have to start delivering.
I'm a married woman now.
1117
01:13:49,690 --> 01:13:51,510
I can't keep doing these pick
-ups.
1118
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:53,760
No problem, ma'am.
1119
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:55,870
What do you want?
1120
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,370
I'll follow you home just like this.
1121
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:03,300
You trot yourself out there swinging
and dangling. See what happens.
1122
01:14:03,540 --> 01:14:05,540
Yeah, suits me fine.
1123
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,590
I don't want you for no
customer anymore, nohow.
1124
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:10,040
Why not?
1125
01:14:12,850 --> 01:14:15,880
Every man in your life is
a business relationship.
1126
01:14:16,250 --> 01:14:19,470
Your brother's your partner,
your man's your manager,
1127
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:22,590
and your woman is your dancer.
1128
01:14:22,860 --> 01:14:25,060
And you're my bootlegger.
1129
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,630
Not no more.
1130
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:33,870
Matter of fact, I'm giving
you a full 100% refund.
1131
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,180
- Richard.
- Look...
1132
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:51,220
I don't wanna be in
business with you.
1133
01:14:52,290 --> 01:14:54,760
I want to be in love with you.
1134
01:15:03,470 --> 01:15:05,470
I'll take the shine.
1135
01:15:05,770 --> 01:15:09,440
Fine, take it. I'm giving it to you.
1136
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,640
Not selling it.
1137
01:15:18,250 --> 01:15:20,450
I oughta get home to J.G.
1138
01:15:21,220 --> 01:15:23,280
Bess.
1139
01:15:25,490 --> 01:15:26,510
You don't have to pay for something
1140
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,300
that I'm already offering for free.
1141
01:15:34,430 --> 01:15:37,430
I'm gonna spend it on you anyhow.
1142
01:15:40,300 --> 01:15:42,140
Shit.
1143
01:15:46,980 --> 01:15:49,380
Everybody!
1144
01:15:49,650 --> 01:15:52,480
I want you to meet Jack, Jr.
1145
01:15:52,750 --> 01:15:55,580
Junior, this is my family.
1146
01:15:55,790 --> 01:15:57,820
Your new family.
1147
01:15:58,190 --> 01:16:01,320
That's your Uncle Clarence.
There's your Aunt Viola.
1148
01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:08,700
And this is your new daddy, Jack.
1149
01:16:15,740 --> 01:16:18,740
J.G., come meet your
son, Jack, Jr.
1150
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:32,640
How old are you, boy?
1151
01:16:32,690 --> 01:16:34,820
Seven years old, sir.
1152
01:16:36,490 --> 01:16:38,430
Where are you from?
1153
01:16:39,730 --> 01:16:42,470
Shelby County Children's Home, sir.
1154
01:16:42,670 --> 01:16:46,100
- An orphanage?
- Mm, mm, mm!
1155
01:16:46,440 --> 01:16:48,290
I don't know
about that, sir,
1156
01:16:48,340 --> 01:16:51,940
but that's what she
told me to say.
1157
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:54,890
Well, what's your real name?
1158
01:16:54,940 --> 01:16:57,540
My name is Jack Gee, Jr., sir.
1159
01:16:57,850 --> 01:17:01,080
- Oh!
1160
01:17:21,070 --> 01:17:24,170
Come on over here and
give your daddy a hug.
1161
01:17:28,310 --> 01:17:29,760
Whoo!
1162
01:17:29,810 --> 01:17:31,770
Smells good in here.
1163
01:17:31,820 --> 01:17:33,770
Eat as much as
you want, Jack Jr.
1164
01:17:33,820 --> 01:17:36,540
- Mmm!
- Happy Thanksgiving.
1165
01:17:36,590 --> 01:17:38,610
What you looking at, Viola?
1166
01:17:38,660 --> 01:17:39,770
Come on, sit down here.
1167
01:17:39,820 --> 01:17:42,560
With that fork there.
1168
01:17:42,890 --> 01:17:45,250
- Know how to use a knife?
- Yes, sir.
1169
01:17:45,300 --> 01:17:48,800
That piece of chicken
right there.
1170
01:17:53,170 --> 01:17:56,770
You want some of this
dressing here?
1171
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,060
Wait till I'm finished.
1172
01:18:33,440 --> 01:18:34,910
Come here!
1173
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,330
Bessie, where you at, baby?
1174
01:18:58,540 --> 01:18:59,820
Put 'em up.
1175
01:18:59,870 --> 01:19:01,020
Yeah, guard yourself. Bam!
1176
01:19:01,070 --> 01:19:02,150
I'll knock you out.
1177
01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:03,620
Guard that face. Bam, bam!
1178
01:19:03,670 --> 01:19:05,460
Come one, you ain't gonna
whup nobody like that.
1179
01:19:05,510 --> 01:19:07,430
Now, you gotta get in there,
baby. Come on. Pop!
1180
01:19:07,480 --> 01:19:08,760
- Oh.
- There you go. Pop!
1181
01:19:08,810 --> 01:19:10,300
There you go. Get in there on him.
1182
01:19:10,350 --> 01:19:12,030
You can't get him if you're
afraid to take one.
1183
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,000
Block him. Block now. Block!
1184
01:19:14,050 --> 01:19:15,630
What you trying to do, huh?
1185
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:16,670
What you trying to do?
1186
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,120
Get him, Mama! Yeah, get him!
1187
01:19:19,860 --> 01:19:22,460
You gonna beat your old man, huh?
1188
01:19:49,750 --> 01:19:52,350
Louis and I are getting married.
1189
01:19:54,020 --> 01:19:55,620
You and who?
1190
01:19:59,260 --> 01:20:01,100
I can't no more.
1191
01:20:05,570 --> 01:20:07,370
I want a family.
1192
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:10,440
Like you.
1193
01:20:14,540 --> 01:20:17,140
Showbiz life can't last forever.
1194
01:20:18,480 --> 01:20:21,420
I just want a normal life.
1195
01:20:47,110 --> 01:20:48,780
Thank you.
1196
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,380
We love you, Bessie!
1197
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,880
Love you, Bessie.
1198
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:56,680
♪ It's a long old road ♪
1199
01:21:58,250 --> 01:22:02,350
♪ But I'm gonna find the end ♪
1200
01:22:06,990 --> 01:22:09,860
♪ A long old road ♪
1201
01:22:11,030 --> 01:22:13,160
♪ Mm
-mm ♪
1202
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,230
♪ Find the end ♪
1203
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:22,440
♪ And when I get there... ♪
1204
01:22:27,340 --> 01:22:29,210
♪ Shake hands ♪
1205
01:22:29,450 --> 01:22:31,410
♪ With a friend ♪
1206
01:23:16,930 --> 01:23:18,800
Come on, come on.
1207
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,110
No, no, no, you don't... no.
1208
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:23,250
- No, no, no.
- What the fuck is this shit?
1209
01:23:23,300 --> 01:23:24,780
Don't worry about it.
1210
01:23:24,830 --> 01:23:27,770
Bitch! Jack, you fucker!
1211
01:23:28,100 --> 01:23:31,200
"The most beautiful
blues sensation"? Huh?
1212
01:23:31,270 --> 01:23:32,730
The hell are you
talking about?
1213
01:23:32,780 --> 01:23:34,730
I'm talking about you backing
this bitch with my money!
1214
01:23:34,780 --> 01:23:36,960
- With what?
- I can't believe
you did this shit!
1215
01:23:37,010 --> 01:23:38,870
- I gotta see it on the street!
- That's my money!
1216
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:40,770
You're spending my
money on this bitch!
1217
01:23:40,820 --> 01:23:43,020
That's my goddamn money.
1218
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:46,860
- I made you!
- ... fucking money.
1219
01:23:47,020 --> 01:23:48,290
Huh?
1220
01:23:48,660 --> 01:23:51,440
- You promised me, Jack.
- You promised me, too!
1221
01:23:51,490 --> 01:23:53,900
You promised me, too!
1222
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,220
Where you get them
earrings from, huh?
1223
01:23:56,270 --> 01:23:59,210
I know where. That
goddamn bootlegger.
1224
01:23:59,370 --> 01:24:01,710
- You...
- Don't touch me!
1225
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,160
Don't you fucking touch me!
1226
01:24:03,210 --> 01:24:04,620
You want this bitch, you eat her!
1227
01:24:04,670 --> 01:24:06,940
You eat her.
1228
01:24:08,480 --> 01:24:10,010
Crazy.
1229
01:24:10,310 --> 01:24:11,630
Where are you going? You're leaving?
1230
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:13,420
You're leaving?
1231
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:16,100
You don't get to leave me!
I should've left your ass!
1232
01:24:16,150 --> 01:24:18,470
You got what you want.
You can have it.
1233
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:21,660
Get away.
1234
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,200
Jack!
1235
01:24:31,470 --> 01:24:32,610
Go!
1236
01:24:33,870 --> 01:24:35,540
You go!
1237
01:24:40,410 --> 01:24:42,810
Jack!
1238
01:24:44,380 --> 01:24:45,910
Jack!
1239
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:48,620
Jack!
1240
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:50,460
No!
1241
01:24:50,820 --> 01:24:55,120
- I can't stand it.
- You want me to get your medicine?
1242
01:24:56,660 --> 01:24:57,940
What did you say to me?
1243
01:24:57,990 --> 01:25:00,360
Your medicine, honey.
1244
01:25:00,730 --> 01:25:03,680
Don't think I don't know
what you be saying about me.
1245
01:25:03,730 --> 01:25:05,130
Get out!
1246
01:25:05,340 --> 01:25:06,450
- Get out.
- We're not talking about...
1247
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:08,940
Get the fuck out of my room!
1248
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,060
Get out of here, Viola!
1249
01:25:11,110 --> 01:25:14,210
The fuck is you
looking at? Go!
1250
01:25:15,380 --> 01:25:17,710
It ain't my fault!
1251
01:25:17,910 --> 01:25:19,530
I hate you.
1252
01:25:19,580 --> 01:25:21,680
Go, go.
1253
01:25:22,020 --> 01:25:25,720
You think I don't know?
Yeah, I know.
1254
01:25:33,700 --> 01:25:35,440
Leave me alone.
1255
01:25:36,380 --> 01:25:37,380
Shh, shh, shh.
Come on, come on.
1256
01:25:37,430 --> 01:25:38,650
Hurry up.
1257
01:25:38,700 --> 01:25:39,970
J.G.?
1258
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:41,890
- Hey!
- Let's go.
1259
01:25:41,940 --> 01:25:44,090
- Who the hell are you?
- Mama!
1260
01:25:44,140 --> 01:25:45,160
What you doing in...
1261
01:25:45,210 --> 01:25:46,360
- Come on, boy.
- Jack!
1262
01:25:46,410 --> 01:25:48,360
- Mama!
- Junior! No!
1263
01:25:48,410 --> 01:25:50,430
Mama! Mama, keep me!
1264
01:25:50,480 --> 01:25:53,350
- Jack, don't you...
- Mama, keep me!
1265
01:25:56,670 --> 01:25:57,670
What you doing?
1266
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:58,910
- That's my stuff.
- Mama!
1267
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:00,070
Hurry up. Get in there.
1268
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:01,560
Hey!
1269
01:26:01,890 --> 01:26:04,080
- I'll kill you.
- Get this shit off.
1270
01:26:04,130 --> 01:26:05,800
Get off of me.
1271
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:07,410
Get Junior in the car!
1272
01:26:07,460 --> 01:26:09,720
Stealing my baby! You're
trying to kill me.
1273
01:26:09,770 --> 01:26:11,350
- Stop it, stop it!
- Mama!
1274
01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:12,550
You ain't fit to be a mother!
1275
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:14,220
Can't just leave him?
Just leave him, okay?
1276
01:26:14,270 --> 01:26:16,920
You're high, you're
drunk. You ain't fit!
1277
01:26:16,970 --> 01:26:18,290
You're just trying to kill me!
1278
01:26:18,340 --> 01:26:20,130
You ain't gonna never
see Junior again!
1279
01:26:20,180 --> 01:26:22,030
You're a liar! I'll kill you!
1280
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:23,300
I'll kill myself.
1281
01:26:23,350 --> 01:26:25,370
- Go! Let's go!
- No! Stop!
1282
01:26:25,420 --> 01:26:27,090
Mama!
1283
01:26:27,180 --> 01:26:28,730
- Junior!
- Mama, keep me!
1284
01:26:28,780 --> 01:26:30,450
Mama!
1285
01:27:04,050 --> 01:27:05,820
You let him in.
1286
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:08,470
... to glimpse a small,
flickering hope.
1287
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:09,670
General Motors,
1288
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:11,240
that formidable
industrial titan,
1289
01:28:11,290 --> 01:28:12,740
has not only weathered
the Great Depression,
1290
01:28:12,790 --> 01:28:14,970
but has bested it
in a demonstration
1291
01:28:15,020 --> 01:28:18,210
of typically American
fortitude and ingenuity.
1292
01:28:18,260 --> 01:28:20,180
Where others are shuttering
their windows,
1293
01:28:20,230 --> 01:28:24,530
General Motors turns in its
second quarter of profits.
1294
01:28:54,930 --> 01:28:56,400
Hmm.
1295
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:20,140
... draws his gleaming revolver,
1296
01:29:20,190 --> 01:29:23,660
its cold silvery glint
reflected in a dark puddle.
1297
01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:48,120
Hey, there's food here, now.
1298
01:29:48,380 --> 01:29:50,980
You need to eat something.
1299
01:30:14,310 --> 01:30:15,710
Come on.
1300
01:30:19,220 --> 01:30:21,820
You have anybody under that name?
1301
01:30:23,050 --> 01:30:24,220
No.
1302
01:30:24,490 --> 01:30:26,690
Yeah, yeah, I'll take it.
1303
01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:28,830
Mm
-hmm.
1304
01:30:32,090 --> 01:30:34,480
- ♪ Old, empty bed ♪
- It's gonna be all right.
1305
01:30:34,530 --> 01:30:37,130
♪ Springs hard as lead ♪
1306
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:39,220
♪ Feel like old Ned ♪
1307
01:30:39,270 --> 01:30:41,520
♪ Wish I was dead ♪
1308
01:30:41,570 --> 01:30:44,300
♪ All my life through ♪
1309
01:30:44,610 --> 01:30:48,540
♪ I've been so
black and blue ♪
1310
01:30:51,250 --> 01:30:56,320
♪ I'm white inside ♪
1311
01:30:56,620 --> 01:31:00,190
♪ But that don't help
my case ♪
1312
01:31:01,460 --> 01:31:05,960
♪ 'Cause I can't hide ♪
1313
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:10,260
- ♪ What is in my face ♪
- We're going on a trip.
1314
01:31:14,370 --> 01:31:17,270
♪ How will it end? ♪
1315
01:31:17,610 --> 01:31:19,030
- ♪ Ain't got a friend ♪
- You ready?
1316
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:21,710
- Yeah.
- ♪ My only sin ♪
1317
01:31:21,940 --> 01:31:24,140
♪ Is in my skin ♪
1318
01:31:24,380 --> 01:31:27,330
One last drive, then we
have to sell this, too.
1319
01:31:27,380 --> 01:31:30,320
♪... to be so black
and blue? ♪
1320
01:32:25,940 --> 01:32:27,210
Okay.
1321
01:32:35,820 --> 01:32:38,360
Yeah, she just needs some time.
1322
01:32:40,290 --> 01:32:42,470
"Of the artists who have
communicated the blues
1323
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,590
to the more sophisticated
Negro and white public"...
1324
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,750
What the hell does he know
about being sophisticated?
1325
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:51,320
"I think Ethel Waters
is the best.
1326
01:32:51,370 --> 01:32:54,740
In fact, to my mind,
Miss Waters is superior
1327
01:32:55,070 --> 01:32:58,400
to any other woman stage
singer of her race."
1328
01:32:58,670 --> 01:33:00,910
"Superior."
1329
01:33:01,340 --> 01:33:04,430
See how they love to instigate?
Set us up against each other?
1330
01:33:04,480 --> 01:33:07,250
Them's graveyard words.
1331
01:33:07,480 --> 01:33:09,270
Don't worry, honey.
1332
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:12,270
No decent colored folk even
read that silly magazine.
1333
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:13,640
It ain't for us anyhow.
1334
01:33:13,690 --> 01:33:15,890
"Nigger Heaven."
1335
01:33:16,090 --> 01:33:17,810
I'm thinking of writing
my own book.
1336
01:33:17,860 --> 01:33:20,090
"Cracker Hell."
1337
01:33:21,730 --> 01:33:23,620
If Vechten is the
nigger expert,
1338
01:33:23,670 --> 01:33:26,770
then I'm damn sure
the cracker authority.
1339
01:33:28,100 --> 01:33:30,690
Come on, Ma. It hurts
too much to laugh.
1340
01:33:30,740 --> 01:33:32,060
Yankee blacks
cut you up.
1341
01:33:32,110 --> 01:33:34,460
Yankee whites trying
to cut you down.
1342
01:33:34,510 --> 01:33:36,110
Hmm.
1343
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:52,630
J.G. took Junior.
1344
01:33:59,440 --> 01:34:01,570
And he's trying to...
1345
01:34:04,070 --> 01:34:06,940
- And he's...
- Shh.
1346
01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:11,240
You just take care of you right now.
1347
01:34:11,480 --> 01:34:13,480
Get your head right.
1348
01:34:38,110 --> 01:34:40,740
Things never turn out straight.
1349
01:34:41,140 --> 01:34:43,430
Well, you can't hit a straight
lick with a crooked stick,
1350
01:34:43,480 --> 01:34:46,580
and you're about as
crooked as they come.
1351
01:34:59,130 --> 01:35:01,730
Oh!
1352
01:35:02,100 --> 01:35:05,430
Now, this right here, this
used to be my favorite.
1353
01:35:05,770 --> 01:35:08,320
See how it'd been
drawn up three sizes?
1354
01:35:08,370 --> 01:35:10,370
You grew three sizes.
1355
01:35:10,510 --> 01:35:12,660
Just like you
outgrowed your life.
1356
01:35:12,710 --> 01:35:14,490
It was like you had a
hole in your stomach,
1357
01:35:14,540 --> 01:35:16,910
or maybe even a worm,
1358
01:35:17,350 --> 01:35:20,450
and you weren't gonna stop till
you ate up everything around ya.
1359
01:35:20,820 --> 01:35:22,900
You got to fill that hole
yourself, sweetheart.
1360
01:35:22,950 --> 01:35:25,750
Nothing or nobody else will fill it.
1361
01:35:27,660 --> 01:35:28,930
Yeah.
1362
01:35:40,500 --> 01:35:42,900
Uh
-huh, yeah.
1363
01:35:43,070 --> 01:35:44,370
Yeah.
1364
01:35:44,570 --> 01:35:47,310
They still fit.
1365
01:35:48,740 --> 01:35:50,010
Now...
1366
01:35:50,180 --> 01:35:52,780
You done heard the rest.
1367
01:35:53,050 --> 01:35:55,370
And I'm gonna show you the best.
1368
01:35:55,420 --> 01:35:58,350
Ma gonna show ya her black bottom.
1369
01:35:59,860 --> 01:36:01,510
♪ Don't you see the dance ♪
1370
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,300
♪ They call your big black bottom ♪
1371
01:36:04,530 --> 01:36:06,510
♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪
1372
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:07,830
♪ Ha ♪
1373
01:36:08,030 --> 01:36:10,960
♪ All the boys in the neighborhood ♪
1374
01:36:11,330 --> 01:36:15,170
♪ They say my black bottom
is really good ♪
1375
01:36:15,540 --> 01:36:19,810
♪ Come on, let me show you,
do the big black bottom ♪
1376
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:21,830
♪ I want to learn that dance ♪
1377
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:23,230
Come on, Bess. Come on. Get up.
1378
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,950
♪ Early in the morning,
'bout the break of day ♪
1379
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:30,980
♪ Grandpa told my grandma,
I heard him say ♪
1380
01:36:31,350 --> 01:36:35,260
♪ Come on and let me see
your big black bottom ♪
1381
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,560
♪ I want to learn that dance, oh ♪
1382
01:36:38,890 --> 01:36:41,830
All right now, Ma!
Come on now, honey.
1383
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:44,720
You gettin' kind of rough there, Ma.
1384
01:36:44,770 --> 01:36:47,400
Ah, too strong, too strong!
1385
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:49,640
Oh, baby, too strong.
1386
01:36:49,770 --> 01:36:51,490
Oh, I love you, baby.
1387
01:36:51,540 --> 01:36:53,030
I love you, too, Ma.
1388
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:55,280
Rent shake this Saturday.
1389
01:36:56,710 --> 01:36:59,810
Rent shake this Saturday.
Bring what you can.
1390
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:07,410
♪ Why I'm a ladies man ♪
1391
01:37:07,460 --> 01:37:10,960
♪ About the sweetest
in the land ♪
1392
01:37:12,900 --> 01:37:15,910
- Here you go.
- Hey, that's right, Gilbert.
Don't be stingy now.
1393
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,050
Hey, y'all, help yourself
to the kitchen, now.
1394
01:37:18,100 --> 01:37:20,300
Cooked up some good food.
1395
01:37:23,570 --> 01:37:26,310
Still got 'em coming, too. Come on!
1396
01:37:32,610 --> 01:37:35,230
Hey, can I use this kitchen for a
second, child, if you don't mind?
1397
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:38,280
Come on right back
and do as you please.
1398
01:38:16,660 --> 01:38:20,780
And how are you gonna have a
rent shake without a bootlegger?
1399
01:38:20,830 --> 01:38:23,500
You ain't my bootlegger, remember?
1400
01:38:24,570 --> 01:38:26,840
♪... pretty papa ♪
1401
01:38:26,940 --> 01:38:33,440
♪ Falling on my knees ♪
1402
01:38:33,780 --> 01:38:36,840
♪ I ask, if you
ain't got nobody ♪
1403
01:38:37,150 --> 01:38:41,310
♪ Kind daddy,
take me please ♪
1404
01:38:45,690 --> 01:38:48,270
You wanna know how to really
make some money nowadays?
1405
01:38:48,320 --> 01:38:50,740
Now... Now, I'm serious, now.
1406
01:38:50,790 --> 01:38:52,380
This is only for
grown folks, now.
1407
01:38:52,430 --> 01:38:55,410
If you plan on going to church
this morning, stop me now.
1408
01:38:55,460 --> 01:38:57,460
Play the damn record.
1409
01:39:07,010 --> 01:39:09,390
♪ I got a man I love ♪
1410
01:39:09,440 --> 01:39:11,560
♪ I got a man I like ♪
1411
01:39:11,610 --> 01:39:13,570
♪ Every time I fuck
them mens ♪
1412
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:15,900
♪ I give em' the
doggone claps... ♪
1413
01:39:15,950 --> 01:39:20,050
Oh. Oh, my Lord. She's so nasty!
1414
01:39:20,220 --> 01:39:21,690
Mm
-hmm.
1415
01:39:24,230 --> 01:39:27,390
♪ But that's the kind
of pussy that... ♪
1416
01:39:27,700 --> 01:39:29,950
Oh, unh
-uh, that is too much.
1417
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:31,450
Unh
-uh, she is just too rough.
1418
01:39:31,500 --> 01:39:33,690
These party records going
much further nowadays.
1419
01:39:33,740 --> 01:39:35,920
Mm
-mm, I can't go that far.
1420
01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:38,360
Well, you could always
dust something off,
1421
01:39:38,410 --> 01:39:41,210
do one of your old numbers, you know?
1422
01:39:42,540 --> 01:39:44,500
♪ Rough cock, suck my cock ♪
1423
01:39:44,550 --> 01:39:45,960
♪ You can tuck my cock... ♪
1424
01:39:46,010 --> 01:39:49,610
I ain't gonna suck, tuck,
or nothing else to nobody.
1425
01:39:50,490 --> 01:39:52,140
We can get close to it, though.
1426
01:39:52,190 --> 01:39:55,590
See, that's what I'm...
that's the spirit.
1427
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:07,100
♪ His frankfurters
are, oh, so sweet ♪
1428
01:40:07,400 --> 01:40:10,840
♪ How I like his sausage meat ♪
1429
01:40:11,170 --> 01:40:17,110
♪ I can't do without my kitchen man ♪
1430
01:40:19,780 --> 01:40:23,550
♪ Oh, how that boy
can open clam ♪
1431
01:40:23,890 --> 01:40:27,220
♪ No one else can
touch my ham ♪
1432
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:33,090
♪ I can't do without my kitchen man ♪
1433
01:40:42,970 --> 01:40:45,110
Gin with no ice, right?
1434
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:48,530
You know, when I saw your
name on the sign out front,
1435
01:40:48,580 --> 01:40:51,330
I thought it had to be some sort
of mistake or an imposter.
1436
01:40:51,380 --> 01:40:53,270
I... I can't believe it's you.
1437
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:56,420
It is such an honor to
meet you, Miss Smith.
1438
01:40:57,290 --> 01:41:00,720
Alhambra Ballroom, 7th
Avenue, 126th Street,
1439
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:04,460
Harlem, New York, 1927?
1440
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:06,780
I stand by it. You changed my life.
1441
01:41:06,830 --> 01:41:08,910
That was six years ago, sugar.
1442
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:10,750
Change doesn't last that long.
1443
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:12,580
Oh, but it does.
1444
01:41:12,630 --> 01:41:15,290
I'm sorry. I'm John
Hammond, by the way.
1445
01:41:15,340 --> 01:41:18,400
Bessie, I wanna produce
your comeback tour.
1446
01:41:18,810 --> 01:41:20,790
And this is only the beginning.
You see, I'm putting together
1447
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:23,840
a concert, right, from
spirituals to swing.
1448
01:41:24,080 --> 01:41:25,530
Nothing but the best musicians.
1449
01:41:25,580 --> 01:41:28,530
We've got Benny Goodman,
Fletcher Henderson,
1450
01:41:28,580 --> 01:41:30,470
a young girl named Billie Holiday.
1451
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:33,690
- She loves you so much...
- Hey, slow down, now.
1452
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:36,190
Sorry, I get excited.
1453
01:41:36,620 --> 01:41:41,090
Gonna build a new venue specially
for it called the Cafe Society.
1454
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:43,880
The first integrated nightclub.
1455
01:41:43,930 --> 01:41:46,700
No color lines, no balconies.
1456
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:50,740
Everyone under one
roof just swingin'.
1457
01:41:50,970 --> 01:41:53,040
You're dreaming, John.
1458
01:41:53,180 --> 01:41:55,450
Will you dream it with me?
1459
01:41:55,610 --> 01:41:57,230
Sing some of that old stuff?
1460
01:41:57,280 --> 01:41:59,970
I'm going in a different
direction now.
1461
01:42:00,020 --> 01:42:02,070
You know, trying on some new shoes.
1462
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:03,270
Okay, well, whatever you're thinking,
1463
01:42:03,320 --> 01:42:05,720
I just wanna be a part of it.
1464
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:10,620
We'll see.
1465
01:42:13,730 --> 01:42:17,060
Give me a call? Throw me a line?
1466
01:42:17,370 --> 01:42:20,110
Just wanna be a part of it, Bessie.
1467
01:42:20,740 --> 01:42:24,200
♪ Laugh, frown, laugh ♪
1468
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:27,330
Okay, this one is good,
with the dancer girl.
1469
01:42:27,380 --> 01:42:28,990
Now, see, I like
this one here.
1470
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:32,650
- Look at this little smile.
1471
01:42:34,180 --> 01:42:37,020
Calvin, how are you? Nice to see you.
1472
01:42:37,390 --> 01:42:40,890
This is Bessie Smith, who
I was telling you about.
1473
01:42:42,990 --> 01:42:45,180
We got everything you might need.
1474
01:42:45,230 --> 01:42:47,110
Not those old weights and pulleys.
1475
01:42:47,160 --> 01:42:48,560
Get tea.
1476
01:42:48,700 --> 01:42:52,400
- Nothing but the best.
- I see you got all the parts.
1477
01:42:53,900 --> 01:42:56,840
You got Buck Washington, Chu Berry,
1478
01:42:57,100 --> 01:42:59,370
and this is Benny Goodman.
1479
01:42:59,540 --> 01:43:01,240
Such an honor.
1480
01:43:04,180 --> 01:43:05,880
Well, well.
1481
01:43:12,290 --> 01:43:13,910
I didn't know where
you wanted to start,
1482
01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:18,360
so I put together every song
you ever wrote and then some.
1483
01:43:46,790 --> 01:43:50,860
♪ It's a long, old road ♪
1484
01:43:51,160 --> 01:43:55,160
♪ But I'm gonna find
the end ♪
1485
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:03,000
♪ It's a long, old road ♪
1486
01:44:03,300 --> 01:44:07,440
♪ But I'm gonna find
the end ♪
1487
01:44:11,250 --> 01:44:14,110
♪ And when I get there ♪
1488
01:44:14,450 --> 01:44:19,150
♪ I'm gonna shake hands
with a friend ♪
1489
01:44:23,390 --> 01:44:27,130
♪ Weeping and crying ♪
1490
01:44:27,430 --> 01:44:32,060
♪ Tears falling on the ground ♪
1491
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:39,140
♪ Weeping and crying ♪
1492
01:44:39,440 --> 01:44:44,580
♪ Tears falling on the ground ♪
1493
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:51,780
♪ When I got to the end ♪
1494
01:44:52,020 --> 01:44:56,760
♪ I was so worried down ♪
1495
01:45:00,500 --> 01:45:04,430
♪ It's a long, old road ♪
1496
01:45:04,770 --> 01:45:09,140
♪ But I'm gonna find
the end... ♪
1497
01:46:07,900 --> 01:46:09,700
I do wanna know.
1498
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:13,070
Know what?
1499
01:46:14,770 --> 01:46:18,070
What's over that next hill,
round the next corner.
1500
01:46:20,540 --> 01:46:23,380
Well, you can't go back.
1501
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:30,050
But you can stop.
1502
01:46:30,350 --> 01:46:33,420
No, I can't stop.
1503
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:37,190
Well, let's go.
1504
01:46:37,390 --> 01:46:39,390
Well, let's go.
1505
01:46:56,210 --> 01:46:58,210
25 cents? Ha!
1506
01:46:58,480 --> 01:47:00,930
No, no. I wouldn't
pay 25 cents
1507
01:47:00,980 --> 01:47:02,770
to go in nowhere!
1508
01:47:02,820 --> 01:47:04,740
'Cause listen here...
1509
01:47:04,790 --> 01:47:08,090
♪ Up in Harlem every
Saturday night ♪
1510
01:47:08,420 --> 01:47:10,540
♪ When the highbrows
get together ♪
1511
01:47:10,590 --> 01:47:13,130
♪ It's just too tight ♪
1512
01:47:13,230 --> 01:47:17,630
♪ They all congregate at an all
-night strut ♪
1513
01:47:17,970 --> 01:47:22,100
♪ And what they do is
tut, tut, tut ♪
1514
01:47:22,440 --> 01:47:26,540
♪ Oh, Hannah Brown
from cross town ♪
1515
01:47:26,940 --> 01:47:30,740
♪ Gets full of corn and
starts breaking 'em down ♪
1516
01:47:31,010 --> 01:47:34,680
♪ Just at the break of day ♪
1517
01:47:34,980 --> 01:47:38,880
♪ You can hear
old Hannah say ♪
1518
01:47:39,250 --> 01:47:44,590
♪ Give me a pigfoot
and a bottle of beer ♪
1519
01:47:44,930 --> 01:47:48,730
♪ Send me 'gain,
I don't care ♪
1520
01:47:49,030 --> 01:47:52,400
♪ I feel just like
I wanna clown ♪
1521
01:47:52,700 --> 01:47:54,590
♪ Give the piano
player a drink ♪
1522
01:47:54,640 --> 01:47:56,950
♪ Because he's
bringing me down ♪
1523
01:47:57,000 --> 01:47:59,600
♪ He's got rhythm, yeah ♪
1524
01:47:59,770 --> 01:48:01,630
♪ When he stomps his feet ♪
1525
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:06,350
♪ He sends me right
off to sleep ♪
1526
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:10,650
♪ Check all your razors
and your guns ♪
1527
01:48:11,020 --> 01:48:14,450
♪ We gonna be arrested
when the wagon comes ♪
1528
01:48:14,820 --> 01:48:19,490
♪ I want a pigfoot
and a bottle of beer ♪
1529
01:48:19,830 --> 01:48:23,900
♪ Send me 'cause
I don't care ♪
1530
01:48:24,200 --> 01:48:27,570
♪ Play me 'cause
I don't care ♪
1531
01:49:17,180 --> 01:49:22,320
♪ Gimme a pigfoot and
a bottle of beer ♪
1532
01:49:22,620 --> 01:49:26,430
♪ Send me 'gain,
I don't care ♪
1533
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:30,300
♪ I feel just like
I wanna clown ♪
1534
01:49:30,600 --> 01:49:32,580
♪ Give the piano
player a drink ♪
1535
01:49:32,630 --> 01:49:34,520
♪ Because he's
bringing me down ♪
1536
01:49:34,570 --> 01:49:37,340
♪ He's got rhythm, yeah ♪
1537
01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:39,360
♪ When he stomps his feet ♪
1538
01:49:39,410 --> 01:49:43,780
♪ He sends me right
off to sleep ♪
1539
01:49:44,110 --> 01:49:48,010
♪ Check all your razors
and your guns ♪
1540
01:49:48,420 --> 01:49:52,120
♪ Do the shim
-sham
-shimmy till the rising sun ♪
1541
01:49:52,450 --> 01:49:57,320
♪ Give me a reefer
and a gang o' gin ♪
1542
01:49:57,620 --> 01:50:01,460
♪ Play me 'cause
I'm in my sin ♪
1543
01:50:01,800 --> 01:50:05,600
♪ Play me 'cause
I'm full of gin. ♪