Amos 'N" Andy - Cousin Effie's Will (1952)

out of the library of american folklore those treasured stories such as huck finn paul bunyan and rip van winkle which have brought us laughter and joy for generations come the warm lovable tales of amos and andy created by freeman gosden and charles correll presented by the blatts brewing company of milwaukee wisconsin a division of schenley industries on behalf of flats dealers everywhere now enjoy plants milwaukee's finest beer i'm from milwaukee the amos and andy show as you all know miss effie stevens passed on approximately two years ago at the age of 94. however it has taken all this time to locate new relatives of the deceased but now that we're all together here we can proceed with the reading of the will first of all i'd like to mention that excuse me mr marvin there's a mr and mrs george stevenson uh pardon me mr marvin but you need to give away no money yet here no we have it mr stevens will you please take a seat uh thank you sir i just wanted to make sure we were in time for the jackpot hey hello jeff hello hot how is you lucy what do you think ray where in the reading of the will i don't think it's necessary by any means to go through the legal terminology or the introduction and if you will bear with me a moment i'll get to the portion of the will that concerns all of you i sure would like to know what's in that wheel for us i think i'll go up there and see can i get a gander at the thing george hi a little first yeah you don't mind me having a drink of water do you go right ahead well there must have been a leak in the glass or something here mr stevens will you please take a chair as you all know every stephens was very proud of the stevens family in the stephen's name and it was her concern that the family and the name be perpetuated consequently her will states that there will be a bequest of two thousand dollars from an established fund to every one of the stephen's family who at any time in the past or future has a male child to carry on the family name you look like we don't struck out again let's go clark oh hi king fish come on over say kingfish you ain't seen my new technical office yet come on in i'd like you to see it [Music] well you sure got a nice place here aims i wish you a lot of luck ah thanks gang fish i'm trying to expand the business a little i even spoke to andy about coming back in the business here with me i may even put on another cab oh that's pretty much kingfish you know what that is that's the first dollar bill the fresh air taxi cab company ever made and you're still got it yep hey king fishy look down the dumps anything wrong well just another bad break i got on that wheel stuff this morning oh yeah tell me what happened with this well the only one what got any money was the one that uh had a male child that proper raised the name of stephen oh i see that is tough all right yeah but since i left there i've been toying with the idea of adopting one but i don't get as much chance of that me and sapphire tried that a couple of times and they wouldn't let you down huh no and the reason was they said they was uh worried about the support oh but i don't know what they're worried about i wouldn't ask the kid to support me till they were at least 10 years old but it's just one of the things but i sure could use that two thousand dollars though but i don't get that any sense in thinking about it because adopting the sun is out of the [Applause] question well so long amos hello kingfish [Music] [Music] hi game kingfish hi brandy say you look like you was miles away there kingfish yeah i've been doing a lot of thinking here what a wonderful thing it is for a father to have a son and a son to have a father yeah that's good all right yeah yeah thinking what a wonderful thing a relationship between father and son is matter of fact our thinking about me and you you being what you is i being what i is ah i see what you mean king do you really understand yeah that means you go out and adopt a couple of sons oh no no and i don't think you'll last on there now you'll see i loaned some first son and sapphire lonesome too yeah well we'll get an extra one for her come on andy and sit down and try and pay attention andy i'm gonna give it to you right from the heart i want to adopt you as my oh what's the son son ah what happened i'll drop around again when you steal a little better kingfish it's been in the back of my mind a long time andy i really want to adopt you as my very own son or not wait a minute king fish this is silly why would you want to adopt a grown man like me well india just one of them things you know if you ain't got your own you got to take the prefabricated and it's on and everything but there's just one thing i'm as crazy about kids as you is how about me adopting you just a thought andy i don't think you realize how beautiful it would be father and son sunday morning in the park we'd get out there bright and early father and son playing ball together all right annie i'll stand right over there and get the feel of the thing yeah get right over there ah thanks by the door yeah that was pretty good all right well in the end think of the home life you would have oh it's gonna be wonderful sapphire gonna be just like a mother to you come over here son just look at that feet handy jump for a motherly devotion love and affection oh of course that stuff don't come through with these cheap cameras you know i don't know about that kingfish well andy i don't get you realized that being my son you live up at our place and you won't have no rent to paying or nothing and you even get home cooking yeah that don't sound bad at all yeah and another thing andy i ain't gonna live forever you know and when i goes you being my son everything i have is yours yeah that sounds good cause in that way i might get back a lot of the stuff you didn't jip me out of you know kingfish i think you don't sold me a bill of goods it's a deal but uh just one thing though does sapphire know about this arrangement yet well not just exactly andy but i know when i tell her she's gonna want you in the family more than i do yeah well tell me this when are you gonna push the matter to her i'm going home right now andy and tell her the good news the amos and andy show continues in a moment i'll never forget the day i discovered it the day we visited the architect to plan our first home he gave us some fine ideas including wonderful blatz beer i wanted a modern home you a cape cod but we all agreed on blatz well today in our cape cod home we still agree on blacks mellow and friendly as our home itself there are some things a man never forgets one of them is the taste of platts you'll never forget your discovery of brats either for blatz is milwaukee's finest beer wherever you are ask for blatz oh server [Applause] server oh george you're home nice enough wait a minute i wants to look at you there's no two ways about it you're the motherly type all right george what on earth are you talking about well honey i've been doing a lot of thinking here lately about something that lacking in our lives and i finally come to a decision that you're gonna be overjoyed with well what is it george we gonna adopt a son a son we're going to die one oh george you don't mean it well that's what you always wanted in it yes but we tried before and they've always turned us down well honey this time they got to be no hitches oh george i'm so excited to think of having a fun at last a little son that i can love and the beauty of this son you can hold him on your lap or he can hold you on here oh george stop your joking where did you find it in the founding home well no well it doesn't make any difference as long as he's ours george tell me how old is he have you got any teeth yet well he got teeth in the front but he got bridges in the back talking about bridges what are you trying to tell me george who is this child we're going to adopt well uh well uh today i see the whole thing now you're just trying to adopt him so you can get the two thousand dollars from the wheel well honey there's nothing wrong with that all i'm gonna do is drop andy until the will is clear and then reach it to two thousand dollars george stevens if you bring andrew brown in here it'll be the first time my mother ever struck her son on the day he arrived city and i'm leaving on the afternoon look honey yeah calvin when i told her the story she hit the ceiling and the whole plan went up in smoke well you can't blame himself out kingfish after all no woman wants to get up in the morning and find herself the mother of a 240 pound baby but captain that two thousand dollars in bowels yeah look kingfish a woman don't care nothing about no money when she's thinking about adopting somebody see the thing you don't understand is that a woman has got a a a maternal instinct this has been going on ever since the world began a mother wants a wants a child and she can fondly and hold close to it a mother wants a little child that she can love and whose love she can get in return she wants a little child that she can caress tenderly to plant a kiss on but i sure would like to have inherited that two thousand dollars well now kingfish since it means so much to you if i was you i just wouldn't give up why don't you go back and talk to sapphire again no i can't do that because she's spending a few days in atlantic city without mama you just uh you mean she's out of town there's your angle right there she don't even have to know nothing about this thing you can adopt andy get the money and then undock him before she gets back [Music] i think you got something there i am yeah i think i can swing that i'll get the adoption paper right away go to quote tomorrow and adopt andy and get some money for sapphire get back i better be hurrying on over to the lawyer right now wait a minute kingfish wait a minute i've been sitting here thinking about something does you get two thousand dollars for every son you have that right then why don't you doubt me too and we'll split the daily double [Applause] will we have to wait very long no i think the judge will be here any moment it looks like we're the only two children that are going to be adopted today [Applause] [Music] i'm gonna go over that a little bit will you sonny boy but this role is reserved for the children who are going to be adopted oh go ahead move over i know what i'm [Applause] doing he looks like he's old enough to be his own father you ask him no you asking no you ask him well all right did you get that fight either problem a little boy like you ought to keep your personal remarks to yourself you got to learn how to disrespect your [Music] elders the special adoption court will please come to order [Applause] the first application for adoption is by george stevens will mrs stevens step up here please yes sir your honor i'm coming right up i suppose your application is all in order yeah your honor i want to adopt the son he's in court i assume oh yes sir that's him right there on the front row the big child but the one smoking the cigar was there you mean to say you are fighting an application to adopt that man yeah your honor and this arraignment gonna work out fine because there's an emptiness in our lives and there's an emptiness in his i knew there's an emptiness someplace can you step up your place i assume that being a grown man you've given this a lot of intelligent consideration and i guess you have a very good reason for wanting to enter into this adoption oh sure we're going to play ball every sunday morning [Music] well there's no law that states at what age a person can be adopted so the court has no choice but to approve the adoption next case thank you very much joanna now this is the copy of the adoption paper sent to us from the court well it looks all right don't you mr marvin yes as a matter of fact my secretary and i had a little discussion over the age it looked like a typographical error she said the child was four and i said the child was two but we found out we were both right the child is 42. need a grown up boy all right well i must say this is a rather unusual adoption but according to the will there's no stipulation as to age so i'd say it's perfectly all right we're glad to hear that there's just one little formality i'll stop around your house tomorrow morning with a check i just want to confirm the fact that you've adopted a boy that's living at your home well you'll have the two thousand dollars we don't want you mr marvin yes you can expect me at about 11 o'clock okay that's a date i'll expect you and the chick at 11 o'clock that's how we got to hurry back home you know i completely forgot about julia's party tomorrow night yeah well george doesn't expect his home for another two days but i don't think there's any point in calling you no say what time does that train leave in the morning anyway it leaves at seven mama and as i figure if we should be in the house no later than quarter of 11. no joyce would be surprised yeah the amos and andy show continues in a moment they will prove this copy jim so i think we better push it chief he says he's got a wonderful idea for black's beard commercial want to look it over okay let's see it i'm from milwaukee and i order no it's black that's black that's fine but we don't need any tricks to serve black spear the black story is simple as one two three one blatz is milwaukee's finest beer as soon as folks taste it they agree two flats is the largest selling beer in milwaukee year after year and milwaukee is where the best beers of brew three flats is fast becoming a favorite everywhere in fact it's blacks blacks blacks wherever you go come on and i'll show you you know he's right yes blatz is milwaukee's finest beer so wherever you are ask for bless [Applause] well son it's 10 30. son son [Music] hello miss what is you i must roll and toss for 15-20 seconds before i fell asleep yeah well i going out now and get something for breakfast then i expected somebody here an hour or so in connection with adoption oh yeah well you can keep on snooting if you wanna i'll let them take a peek at you to confirm everything but by the way uh what you want me to get for breakfast let me see um uh how about some orange juice and some some pancakes some waffles and four or five scrambled eggs and coffee holy mackerel i done adopted the tapeworm here all right i run down the back steps to the store so long park will goodbye son go on you were right there you said we would be holding a quarter of a limb i wonder if george is home yet i don't know [Applause] george or george i guess he must be going out already yeah that's so well i'm going in and unpack mama me too sapphire [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] aah oh mama i never heard of you trickiest thing i ever heard of there's a man in there i'm gonna call the police i'm going witches hello mom andrew brown what are you doing in this apartment well what else would you expect your son to live you were in my bedroom that's right where are you going to sleep grandma grandma i thought you know about it sapphire the kingfishers adopted me and he told me that from now on i'm living in the lap dog of luxury so he went ahead with the adoption after all just wait till he gets back listen andy the only reason he adopted you was to get two thousand dollars from a will well he told me because he wanted to play ball and everything andy brown i'm surprised that you fallen for a thing like this why you ain't got sense enough to come in out of the rain oh he is too i've done it lots of times honey boy hi home [Applause] what you two doing home you want food to come home for two days yet it's lucky we did andy has already told us the whole story now wait a minute honey everything's gonna work out just fine listen kingfish buy it honest honey this is the smarter thing that i ever done fooled kingfish you got some nerve putting a stunt like this on me i told you to keep quiet now listen to your father [Music] george stevens all i can say is this is the rottenest trick you've ever pulled and i'm going to see that you don't get the money now wait a minute honey [Laughter] good morning mr marvin would you mind coming back in about an hour nothing doing all right here mr marvin i've got some news for you well what seems to be the trouble mr marvin the only reason my husband wants to adopt andy there is to get the two thousand dollars from the wheel is this the son you adopted mr stevens that's right sir well mrs stevens the adoption papers are in order mr stevens has lived up to the will well i just don't think it's right that he should get the two thousand dollars for a thing like this you heard what the man said sapphire the thing is legal and mr marvin i is glad to know that you is an honest man and if you don't mind i'll take the check just a moment mr stevens didn't you understand the terms of the will what are you talking about according to your cousin nephew's will the two thousand dollar check goes to your son father open the door for pops [Music] the amos and andy show has been presented by flats milwaukee's finest beer the amos and andy show is shown to our armed forces overseas on film wow [Music] bye

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Length: 29min 34sec (1774 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 19 2020