Babes on Broadway (1941)

Richard Quine: Morton Hammond

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Quotes 

• Morton 'Hammy' Hammond : Looks like somebody's been reading our mail.

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Ray Lambert : [singing]  Once Mr. Woolworth, Didn't have a dime, And Irving Berlin, Didn't have a rhyme, And Thomas Dewey, Didn't have a crime, But anything can happen in New York

  Morton 'Hammy' Hammond : Once Rockefeller, Didn't have that oil

  Ray Lambert : And Tiffany, He didn't have a purl

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams : And Ziegfeld, Didn't even have a gurl

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Ray Lambert : But anything can happen in New York

• Morton 'Hammy' Hammond : Come on, now, let's move. And don't forget, give us lots of zambo!

• Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : [singing]  We're babes on Broadway, We're goin' places, When our new faces appear, It's a wonderful street, For babes like us to be on, We're here because, We want our names in neon, We left Topeka, We left Eureka, And came to seek a career, Oh, we're milkin' applause, Instead of milkin' a cow, 'Cause we're babes on Broadway now!

• Morton 'Hammy' Hammond : [intro for "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"]  We all expect some dancing, When the minstrels come to town, So now may I present to you, Mr. Rufus Rastus Jefferson Davis Brown...

  [Ray, in blackface, taps] 

• Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny : [singing]  Every southern lass, Is gonna cook with gas, And boy, that southern cookin's okay

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris : And when you hear that moan, On the slide trombone

  Tommy 'Tom' Williams , Penny Morris , Morton 'Hammy' Hammond , Jenny , Ray Lambert , Barbara Jo : You'll wanna black up, For that blackout over Broadway...

  [proceeds to put on blackface makeup]