Beale Street Mama (1946) | Spencer Williams

[Music] so so [Music] so [Music] bye so [Music] do [Music] oh says samuel cut that thing off matilda says play us some red hot boogers for our new papa pretty boyfriend [Music] [Music] so [Music] thank you gee baby they don't call you bill street mama for nothing use bell's class and capital letters thanks for the compliment but you're not so bad yourself oh i'm just a country boy trying to get along ain't nowhere you're headed in the right direction you know honey i think i'm gonna like your whole life who is your sweet man that depends depends on what on whether or not you can live up to your reputation you mean that you could like me too why do you think i'm giving you this birthday party [Music] oh [Music] as a living dream what is it sammy some dog gable out here wants to see you excuse me kids i'll be right back be nice and boogie baby my my [Music] what are you doing here what do you want no honey don't get mad you just said you'd have a swell party up here and i thought i'd drop me in on the counter tomorrow's my day off and and nothing and have i ever invited you to come up to my private office just because you were dumb enough to buy me an automobile on your own account do you think you can come knocking on my door whenever you feel like it honey but nothing i'm not your honey a sugar a baby i'm not your honey and furthermore where's that money i told you to bring me uh honey i mean miss matilda i don't get paid off until next week and what's that got to do with the money you have in the bank i ain't got it all i had was that 542 dollars i throw it out and paid on that car point you get out of my face uh who was that out in the hall baby jealous a little oh that was just my policy writer i've got to win some money you know do i get in heaven maybe [Music] hello july hello news well i guess i can get a little good from you this morning from who from you guys who i always let you have something when i win daughter news listen news i ain't in no move for really what is you talking about i'm talking about money that's what i'm talking about did you play them numbers last night what number some numbers on that new automobile you bought from matilda may grind well um did you play them no i didn't well uh man don't you know that them numbers run one two three on policy last night when i saw them drawings this morning i know just well wait a minute wait a minute i got to join right here in my pocket here it is look at that see that look 11 19 and 40. there it is you see him don't you right down the middle look at him well man everybody in town caught some on them numbers but me and you catfish 150 little froggy caught 17.50 and put it boy brown one over 200. how come you didn't play my reason for not playing the same as yours bro did you say broke yes bro well i know there was something wrong with you when i see matilda riding pretty boy brown and that automobile you bought for that's what i say about pretty women when you're flush with dough they'll love you alone but when your scratch gets low they're up and gone i guess i'll go down the playland see what i can scratch up for myself you know i need some scratch myself see you later [Music] mr brown asked me to tell you to be out in a very few moments miss crying thank you mr jackson tell him that i'll wait i certainly will [Music] huh hello darling hello gee honey i'm sorry i kept you waiting but that barber slower than the horses i've been on i don't mind but aren't you forgetting something no pressure i thought you wouldn't like being kissed out in public like this usually i don't but today we have a very special audience well i'll reach all them [Music] [Music] well well well if it is my good friend and the general gentleman from jackson jones long time no see long time and how is the word serving you mr jones will uh uh uh well now that's fine that's fine now you know me don't you i reckon well well of course you do and tell me how that luscious bit of brown sugar miss matilde may dry oh well she see she's all right isn't that nice now you know mr jones it makes me very happy indeed to know that you two are still in the groove but i see you're oh yes yes i know exactly what you're trying to say mr jones why every saturday popped on deals we thought that matilda was taking you for a ride just to clip you for your scratch but you fooled him mr jones you fooled her but you see matilda is uh oh i know against it offered a bit two to one that she picked full robin clean inside of three months well what i'm trying to say is uh uh uh yes but that was six months ago three months longer than they thought you'd last but you fooled them mr jones you fooled them and i'm glad of it i'm glad because all them sharp cats think that good looks good hair and good clothes are the only answer to a woman's dream they don't know like you do mr jones that some women want money sometimes but uh mr uh uh uh fletcher elias p fletcher aced reporter for the beale street bugle and a man with a nose for news news that's right mr jones news what did he tell you about luke what did who tell whom about which what did news tell you about me and matilda what did news tell me about you oh well now i'm beginning to see the light mr jones i'm beginning to see the light you are talking about your good friend henry bad news johnson and that little slip of the lip makes me know that some slick rat has been nibbling on your cheese mr jones you know i've been thinking that maybe bad news johnson knows why pretty boy brown is seen riding around so much in that beautiful car that your money bought and paid for mr jones well perhaps you're not in the mood to talk about affairs so close to the heart in an hour so close to dinner time so in that case i'll be running along mr jones but in the meantime i might run into a friend of yours who sees all knows everything and will stop at telling nothing good day mr jones bad news ain't gonna tell you nothing about me listen my dear mr jones for 25 cents cash bad news johnson would throw a brick in a hearse good day mr jones another good day like yesterday we'll be ready to move on yeah by the time the cops get wise we'll be knee deep and clover hey you said it i'm gripping the sparrow i thought they'd be down earlier this morning oh they've been here and gone the spider had a little deal down on sun street and i send gripple on just keep an eye on him that's a good idea boss i'm afraid of that sparrow i bet all the tea in china he sang if the cops ever picked him up yeah that's what i think too was a sparrow that was a trap ball the cops came in just as we were turning the trick they would stake back in the back room but i gotta wait and if you know what i think about the sparrow we'll pack up and get out of here before the cops make him talk that's what i say too boy all right that's what we'll do let you hustle over to the garage and get the car and meet me at the hotel okay boy rest you want to load hotels pack up our bags and i'll be over there as soon as i picked up everything here right bob the cops are coming no no no not that they're already in the building they're coming up the stairs they all they got flint they got me gentlemen i'll be right with you fill out the comedy bottom you're under arrest get up stand over there with another maybe threw it out the window but that won't get the minute we've got enough evidence i don't see nothing down there [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] you is what was all that parade and all that stuff out there with you that's all i want to ask you that so but all i want to ask you is what did you tell eli fletcher about me and material man who told you i told you not about anything about you and matilda him that cigar that's who oh who ever heard in a cigar telling anybody anything about anybody else oh you ought to be seeing me yourself where you get that stuff from listen news then that cigars you got that gold 15 cents a feet seven times 15 and 75. you just got to eat return of things and coined you because you got pot liquor only time and crumbs on your mouth that falls down of course you trying to figure how much you call that's right i didn't go for two bits that's all it's called all right two bits for you there six bits within cigars that cause a dollar now where'd you get the money all i told eli is that that you and matilda wasn't doing so for it now that's all i told him and when i told him that he last is that a blind horse knows when the troll feels empty that's all i told him i didn't tell nothing else well mr johnson you can go back and tell mr fletcher that the troll ain't quite 50 years good gordon just man what thank you then rob three dollars yeah you see uh uh i got my clothes and pawn down and i got a date tonight and i was just keen in the kitchen i was broken ten commandments here i ain't got those small teams like two dollars had twenty you might need it man you don't know how much i appreciate this baby you doing me yes because i promised to take them two girls out tonight and i didn't have a cry and died you know a friend in need is a friend indeed yes and hey all right we don't see it i got an idea that's all you ever did there with ideas that he is yeah but you see these two girls i'm taking out tonight they ain't never defended no night club and nothing like that and they asked me to bring a friend how about you i don't know about that movie because you see i ain't never been the new knife look informal i ain't got none of them kind of clothes oh we can fix that all right all you need is a tuck we can rinse that and man when matilda sees you with this pretty little brown i'm gonna introduce you to tonight she's gonna get jealous and burn up and remember when a woman gets jealous she likes you how you know what you're saying oh she'll see us all right we'll make every spot in town and she's bound to see us what do you see remember now the billy goat gets in his heart as liquid it looks like going back out of the fight yeah but i ain't no billy goat yeah but you got money christmas without a holiday is like a channel without a wick before you say you talk like a man got two things come on man let's go for 20. somewhere somebody's been indeed two foreign him um [Applause] oh no no miss anna you see uh big business like weird we don't have no time for such small food just like this is the only reason we here tonight is because uh we specially invited guests see where our table is right down in front of everybody else's [Applause] a very very pleasant good evening ladies and gentlemen is now show time at the keyhole i know what a better way to get started than to present the entertainment in an original number and sensational saxophone duet of michael griffin and jack sims in eclipse let's give him a nice hand let's go tomorrow [Music] ah [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] uh [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] now ladies and gentlemen i give to you that sensational comedy team allen and allen [Music] woman around here talking about two women building those men how you get that way every woman you ever laid your eyes on baby's better than her man you know huh look at her baby those men are always this better than you women to prove it i tell you what you do what you take all the women's in the audience and i'll take all the millions in the order that suits me we're taking women all right girls are you with me that's a good deal stick with me cause i'm gonna get him all right i'm gonna take them in are you with me man [Applause] [Music] that's what i'm talking about all right baby tell me one thing that makes you women so much greater than us beings hear that you want to know one thing that makes us women much greater than you mean i sure do talk to them go ahead if it wasn't for the women who would you men get to sow buttons on your pants let me get you straight baby you said if it wasn't for you women who we met have us abundant on our pants that's right baby did you ever stop the thing if it wasn't for you women we men will have to win old damn pants that's what i'm talking about hello baby you know what babe you keep running around here talking about you women still love me you making me mad baby that's your business woman i take my sister i try to knock your friends out i'll tell you i'll tell you about that yes buddy and i'll put you in [Music] jail [Music] what you gonna do about it [Music] i'm gonna kill you [Music] [Music] and i'll cut you [Music] he lives right down the street he if will be and now ladies and gentlemen at this time it's indeed a pleasure to present the entertainment a charming personality with a terrific voice so i give to you at this time for your entertainment joyce ran let's give him a nice hand [Applause] [Music] when the real man came along everybody four miles around [Music] slow down [Music] is heartbreaking [Music] judgment [Music] that she [Music] she lost him the best [Music] red heart feels free red heart feels [Music] [Applause] hey hold that beauty i'm gonna show you [Music] guys [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] so [Music] waiter stay there wait up i see wait around here a man can't get no service hey you come over here did you call sir i didn't whistle you the boss around here i'm the head waiter jimmy open waiters over here i'll send one over right away one ain't gonna be enough send folks but no but i won't wait one two three four i won't service i'm paying for everything here take this squishy buy yourself a couple pigs off thank you sir never mind to thank let's get them waitings over here yes sir you gentlemen sure must have lots of money oh uh well we is and uh we ain't you see ms rose big businessman like we are we don't ever have a lot of cash money and most of our money is tied up in our business well i bet we got over uh uh i bet we ain't got over three or four hundred thousand dollars in cash right now to save our lives oh that's a lot miss john must be the tragedy of confidence you seem to be carrying all the money oh no no and he's like that was rosie no no he it's like this when me and mr jones gets ready to go out on a party to have a good time now which ain't very often we both take the big roll of money but before we leave the office uh we throws up a 20 gold piece to see who starts bending for you if it comes here i feel free if it comes tails mr jones been afraid but then the strong one the last house what's the matter honey don't you feel well oh i have a slight headache but i'll be all right a minute i'll get you an offering thank you hey y'all darling take one of these oh i think will that be anything yes sir no that'll be will that be all for you sir oh uh yeah that's all uh no just a moment i'll make that full egg with that steak instead of two and double up on them fresh fried potatoes you know i like these yeah we're really having a nice time now mr jones but you didn't seem to be having any fun when we first came in yes i know but you see i had something bothered when i first came in but last year cruise spell cruise off powerful when a man meets a sweet little girl like you oh you flatter me mr jones [Music] oh yeah [Music] okay someone over there i want to see yes go ahead please you know it's a real pleasure to grind to have you with them it is an order that the lonely sweet people with ordered in the present of a gorgeous young lady like you mrs grant well when i uh never mind the flowers that's cooking oh chicken chicken yes three chicken two young pullers in a tough old home i don't get it oh but you will cause when them two young police come back and sit down at this table i know a tough one here if you just start the about now you listen here mr jones now you listen i've been listening long enough now you listen to me you thought i was busted you thought i didn't have any more money in the bank well i didn't have no more in that thank goodness plenty of the banks in this town and i got money in every one of these i ain't got nothing but money you sold out for me five hundred and forty dollars when you could wrote your own ticket for any amount you could count you plead me for a chunk you got sent to georgia yourself too many women in the world for me to worry about one woman four or five years ago i was five women to ever one man but today was ten times that many and when a man has got as much money as i got right here in my pocket you can find by the door just like you can't aid and for the same price yeah you thought i was broke aren't you wrong see here take a good look both have enough money in that road to burn up a wet meal and plenty more where that come from yeah where did i get it yeah i know but i'm gonna tell you this is just my refund for my income tax payment now you get out of my faith come on we are going home [Music] say it new did you see what the other one she went out here man she was his hottest little sister did not tell you that's what you got to do with women when they get out of hand you sure did you know women and children are exactly alike they got to be spanked once in a while only you don't smack them both in the same place i guess you right about that because with a man that's got as much money as i got here in my pocket he's just gonna have to do you see what i see now what do you see i see the law well whatever i see them too yeah no i ain't stolen well i ain't neither not lately and i see a man with them rented up these clothes after me huh i wonder who they're looking for i don't know where they point over here towards this table you know who they looking for listen july where'd you get all them 20 bills you got in your pocket i found them found them well down on field street july using a tight spot folks don't lose all that money you found in nobel street and if detective galvan kimball sees you with all them 20 bills in your pocket hot springs water won't help you none you got to get out of here but how i don't know when that music starts saying these folks start to dance and you follow me wait a minute here comes feels [Music] don't slow down ugh [Music] foreign [Music] baby i'm sure that you're gonna stay mad at me we're taking them girls out to this cavalry and killing them like i did last night that would lose the idea and i'm not [Music] [Music] what where am i brother if you don't know where you is i can sure tell you where you ain't ung me too [Music] ah [Music] uh this year that you oppose the charge of possession of passing of constant money where did you get it yes counterfeit where did you get it you mean that money ain't no [Music] saying we love shut up you'll have plenty of time to do your talking this is a case for the united states department of justice and i'm afraid you boys are in for a lot of trouble oh hello kennedy i'm just about to call you i've got a case for you yes counterfeit sure [Music] i'm holding two colored boys here in my office now so they found the stuff down on beach street [Music] yeah bully for you now then what do you want me to do with these two colored boys i've got over here no no sure okay okay well thanks for calling old man i'm not going to see you sometime all right all right yeah boys i've just had a talk with mr joe kennedy the united states department of justice they arrested those counterfeiters in a building on fourth near beale street just before you found that package of bogus money one of my men uh one of the men threw the money out the window and when my men got downstairs it was gone but we've got enough evidence on them to send them up for life we have found accountability energy has left your case up to me and i'm going to going to turn you loose now get out get out here they come boys i want you to give them a good working over we would show them about giving us a counterfeit twenty way pee wee that's [Music] right okay you

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Published: Sun Jul 25 2021