Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Jack Webb: Pete Kelly

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• Ivy Conrad : What are you doing?

  Pete Kelly : Making tea.

  Ivy Conrad : Could I have some?

  Pete Kelly : You won't like it. I'm using water.

• Pete Kelly : [voiceover]  The beer's good, the whiskey's aged, if you get here late in the day.

• Pete Kelly : [voiceover]  Rudy Shulak took over. Rudy got a booze contract out of Joplin and bought some tablecloths. It's been a gin bin ever since.

• Pete Kelly : Did you ever sing before?

  Rose Hopkins : Sometimes in clubs and one time for a road show. That's when I met him. I was singing.

  Pete Kelly : Were you any good?

  Rose Hopkins : Couple of people said I was.

• Maggie Jackson : Up in the still, somebody waitin' for you.

  Pete Kelly : Well, who is it?

  Maggie Jackson : I don't know. A friend, I guess.

  Pete Kelly : Not these days.

  Maggie Jackson : Huh?

  Pete Kelly : If I wanted a friend, I'd have to send to Sears Roebuck.

• Pete Kelly : [voiceover]  I knew it was a mistake the minute Rose got out there. She'd had bad crowds before but never like this. They wouldn't pay attention to a naked girl yelling, "Fire."

• Pete Kelly : All right, let's do some Scott Joplin. How about "Pineapple," all right, Al?

  Al Gannaway : Yeah, if I can find my fingers.

• Pete Kelly : What have you got in there?

  Cigarette Girl : Milo Violets, Deities, Sweet Caporals. Anything you want. You going by the Plantation later? Bennie Moten's in.

  Pete Kelly : I don't know. Pack some lunch. We'll see.

• Fran McCarg : I like you. I can do you some good.

  Pete Kelly : You couldn't give me a cold.

• Ivy Conrad : Were you ever lonesome?

  Pete Kelly : It shouldn't be any trick for you. Hire a stadium and fill it with people.

  Ivy Conrad : Wouldn't it be wonderful? Except that's when you feel the most lonesome of all, with so many people.

  Pete Kelly : You might try an empty stadium.

• Pete Kelly : If you got tanked up and lost track of the party, go down to the street and start another one but don't bother me. I'm tired.

• Pete Kelly : They say you got rubber pockets so you can steal soup.

• Pete Kelly : Goodbye, Ivy.

  Ivy Conrad : Gosh, I'm sorry to see me go.

• Pete Kelly : He booked us at the Everglade Ballroom over on 10th and Locust... It was dark three nights a week. They had a player piano for three more. Whatever night it was, you could put the whole crowd in a bathtub and still have room to splash around.