A Blonde Dream
We like the world, with or without money,
We always keep our good humour.
We walk right in the middle of our street,
with a flower behind our ears.
We won't despair and we won't complain,
as long as they leave us hope.
So march along and don't lose your head
because one thing is certain:
Everyone will make it sometime,
everyone who is capable is a success.
Everyone will make it sometime,
it only depends on yourself.
Boldly show life your teeth,
everyone has a lucky streak sometime.
Everyone will make it sometime,
everyone who is capable is a success.
Good morning, Willy. - Good morning, Willy.
Do you know what I dreamt last night? - No idea.
I dreamt that you were with my Erna.
What a coincidence.
What? You really were with her?
No, that you dreamt about it.
What was your business up there with my Erna?
You won't believe it: I was looking for you.
You...
I dreamt something else, too.
Something else?
Indeed.
What was it?
I strangled you.
You don't say.
See, that's only because you always sleep on your stomach.
You can't avoid dreaming of things like that.
You should be ashamed.
I'm sitting at home all the time, and you are after my girl.
Your girl, huh?
Why should Erna be your girl?
After all, I was going to marry her perhaps.
You are going to marry all of them 'perhaps'.
Erna from up there, the porter's Paula, the photographer's Josephine...
Indeed, I was going to. But you always snatch them from under my nose.
Be glad, man.
Otherwise you would have been married thirty times.
Short circuit.
You damn bastard.
You dirty... you mean...
You swine!
Hey, I don't know that one!
Who is that?
A lady from the Café Paris.
Sweet?
Beyond words.
I am going to marry her perhaps.
I must absolutely get to know her.
Of course. I can introduce her to you.
That's nice of you. I knew you are a friend.
Say, when will you introduce her to me?
Whenever you like, perhaps this evening.
Move on, we have to work.
Where do we start? - At the American consulate.
Shall we race each other? - Perhaps.
The loser has to clean the windows alone.
And the winner may watch and read the newspaper.
Good. Where's the finish?
As always, at Magazine-Ilse's.
All right, let's go!
If you open the newspapers, like every day,
and read the reports of the course of the day,
Swindles and conferences, trials and sports,
stock prices, insolvencies, riots and so on,
nothing but bankruptcies, scandals and trouble,
all are enemies and no-one gives in.
Let them go on and don't interfere,
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
The Monday Post!
The Monday Paper!
You have won! - No, you have won!
No, you were the first! - But you rode much faster than I!
Out of the question, you have won and I will clean the windows.
No, I will clean the windows.
Haven't you made up your mind, guys?
Okay, we will both clean them.
Best to you! - Even better to you!
Oh, my darlings!
What's up, you have a new hairstyle? - Suits you very well, Ilse!
I've had it done only for you.
With 'gentlemen beckoners', have a look!
Glamorous!
How about having a little stroll again?
Great idea!
This evening!
We could do that perhaps.
In the Luna Park?
Done!
But you wanted to make me a cold compress tonight, Willy.
Oh, I forgot. You're going to have a headache tonight.
Everytime I want to do something you have a headache!
You can tell that to your dead aunt!
Good morning, Director! How's your cold?
Thanks, it's completely gone.
Bless you! - Special blessings!
So how about tonight, then?
Well, Ilse... you know... I thought...
Willy has said... - I? .... No...
Hey, you, what are you doing? Keep away from our ladders!
Indeed! Don't touch our ladders!
Keep away from our ladders! Are you crazy to knock them over?
Ah, well then.
Twit!
If I don't come with you, you have a date tonight.
You don't allow me any woman, do you?
Be happy that you have me!
Ah, don't talk to me like that! What's up with you?
To slang me like that! - And that from you!
So what?!!
Those cyclists!
Well, as I said.
Indulgence makes sense if it comes to some men,
because love, too, has its season.
And one beautiful day, you feel without doubt:
now the fellow is mad about another woman.
If he wants to leave, don't say no.
He will return out of his own accord.
Let him go and don't interfere,
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Hey, Willy!
Catch!
Enjoy your meal!
Same to you!
Pardon!
Catch!
Can't you throw any better, man?
Twit! Can't you catch any better?
Willy. - Yes?
Can you see that sausage?
No. - Then it's gone.
Because I can't see it either.
That's what Columbus choked on.
Man, he only eats eggs.
Willy.
What's the matter?
I can see the thief.
Look, something's wagging there.
What beast of prey is this?
A cross-breed between a rollmops and a bedside rug.
Hello, miss! Drop in to see us up here!
Come, Buffalo.
Wait a moment! - Not so suddenly!
We only wanted to ask you something.
It's about the sausage, Countess.
Actually, what do you want, Gentlemen? Eh?
Tell us, what are you doing here?
I'm waiting for the American consul.
Today? Early on a Monday morning?
Well, I'm waiting for him since Saturday afternoon.
But what do you want from the American consul?
A ship ticket for Hollywood.
Well, now you are surprised, aren't you?
And now I ask you not to bother me any longer.
Otherwise I am constrained to have you thrown out by the porter.
Get out now!
What are you doing here again with your disgusting mutt?
But I have to...
Saturday afternoon I threw you out for the twentieth time
But I have to see the consul... - What?!
I must have my ship ticket, I've been waiting for three weeks now.
Here's a letter to the consul. - I know it by heart!
And the consul won't be available for you even in three years time.
And now see that you get out!
Hey, you ugly bird!
You will regret that!
Take your hands off that lady!
The lady is under our protection! - Damn it!
Miss, give that footboy a smack!
Quick, Buffalo, come, bite that fellow, eat him!
Eat him!
Quick, quick, Buffalo, come!
I will show you!
You, when I'm in America I am going to see the president and have you sacked!
I'm an artist!
And my dog isn't a disgusting mutt!
You little beast! Just wait until I get you!
Unparalleled cheek!
What an impertinent fellow!
I'll pay him back!
Come, Buffalo.
Look there, Buffalo.
In five days you can be in America.
And we, too, are going there on a ship like that.
Only that ours will be much larger.
Much more elegant.
You can count on that, Buffalo.
I'll get to Hollywood.
And I'll take you with me. For sure.
Say, what's that drivel about Hollywood all the time?
Do you really want to go there?
Of course. I have to.
I am booked as a film star.
I will get a first class ship ticket,
free meals,
they're already waiting for me over there.
Say, who is waiting over there?
The gentleman who discovered my talent.
And who is that?
Oh, someone who has discovered many stars already.
Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan...
But how do you know that?
He told me himself. - Ah, yes.
And that idiotic porter won't let me see the consul!
Even though I have a letter. Look!
"Please issue a ship ticket to Hollywood to the bearer of this letter."
Well... - Well.
I gave him 25 dollars for that.
All my savings.
Say, who are you after all?
I? I am Jou-Jou.
And what are you doing?
I'm an artist.
Here, have a look please.
Ping... - Pong...
What's that? - That's our number.
'International trapeze act. Ping and Pong.'
And what's your part in it?
I? I am the 'and'.
For eleven years now I've been flying through the air.
On Sundays and holidays twice.
Always on tour through all the small towns.
Payment became less and less.
I often wanted to quit, but where was I to go?
It's difficult for artists these days.
I've such a yearning, I dream so often
that luck will be near one day.
I've such a yearning, and I had hoped
that the hour would come one day.
Days and nights I've been waiting for it,
and I will never give up hope.
Somewhere in the world there's a little bit of happiness,
and I dream of it every single moment.
Somewhere in the world there's a little bit of bliss,
and I've been waiting for it for a long, long time.
If I knew where it was I would go out into the world,
because for once I want to be happy with my whole heart.
Somewhere in the world my road to heaven begins,
Somewhere, somehow, sometime.
Tonight I had dream, and in it was a girl exactly like you.
You know it, Willy, don't you?
Yes, yes, he dreams of that every night.
And I dreamed of that girl, she was as young as you are,
as blonde as you, from the province, without a penny or a place to stay.
And one day this girl meets two boys.
Both of them roughly as old as my friend and I.
And the boys like that girl, and they say to her:
"You know what, come with us!"
"Perhaps you can stay with us as long as you want."
And the girl?
She agreed and went with them.
And they took the girl to their place.
That was far out, right in the outskirts of the big city.
Far out where no trams run and no street lanterns shine.
On an old, humpy meadow.
And right on that flowering meadow, the two had their villas.
Each one of his own.
We have our abode out there where the last houses are
and where the trams don't go anymore; you go there by bike.
The window misses the pane,
but otherwise not the tiniest thing is missing.
Two bright rooms, kitchen and loggia,
with hallway and bathroom.
We don't pay any rent anymore,
we are at home in the countryside.
If our nest was even smaller, we simply couldn't care less.
1.5 square meters, but we have little luggage.
and as long as there's a little garden for spinach and lettuce,
we won't ever move away.
ATTENTION! VICIOUS CHICKEN The chicken's called Aunt Frieda,
she once received the second prize in a beauty contest,
because of one enormous hen's egg, which weighed a quarter lb.
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO FEED THE BEASTS OF PREY
The goose is called Aunt Ida,
she's got a migraine and bad digestion,
the veterinarian says it's in her blood,
but otherwise she's healthy.
We don't pay any rent anymore,
we are at home in the countryside.
If our nest was even smaller, we simply couldn't care less.
1.5 square meters, but we have little luggage.
and as long as there's a little garden for spinach and lettuce,
we won't ever move away.
and as long as there's a little garden for spinach and lettuce,
we won't ever move away.
Where are we?
On the humpy meadow, and these are our villas.
In former times, mine went between Koenigsberg and Aachen.
And mine between Munich and Stralsund.
There will be a little place for you, too.
But, that's not possible. - What?
It's impossible for me to stay here.
But why not?
We will cancel your rooms in the Hotel Bristol.
And you are staying with us until the ship ticket arrives.
Scarecrow!
Scarecrow, come here!
Jou-Jou, this is Scarecrow! - Our valet!
Our family doctor! - Our private secretary!
Our tax advisor.
Pleased to meet you.
A nice start into the week.
Scarecrow! The lady is our guest.
Behave accordingly, will you? - Yes.
And what happens now, gentlemen?
Actually we should.... - My opinion. Off to work, gentlemen.
Goodbye, my dear. - Goodbye, dearest!
Goodbye, Jou-Jou!
So you are staying here with us?
Well, I'm not sure, Mr. Scare...
Just call me Scarecrow.
And you don't have to be afraid, either.
In truth, people get along with me quite well.
Shall we race each other? -Done!
To Magazine-Ilse's, yes?
What are we racing for? - Whatever you like.
For the girl? - Perhaps for the girl.
He who wins... - She's his.
And who loses... - Has bad luck.
Well, then? - Let's go!
I've won! - I have won!
Are you crazy? I was the first! - Don't talk nonsense, I have won!
Yes, Ilse... - Hang on!
Ilse, please, who arrived here first?
This one.
FAMILY BATH I've always said to the two Willys:
Don't get involved too much with the dames.
What are dames good for, anyway?
I can do the cooking myself.
Sewing-on buttons, too.
And washing clothes even more so.
Well, and love?
Love? Nothing but high spirits.
Please don't turn around for a moment, will you?
Don't worry. I've seen something like it before.
WEDDING DRESSES
What are you doing there? - Nothing.
And you?
The same.
By the way, what are your plans for tonight?
I don't know yet. And you?
I? I have won the wager.
Yes, that's true.
I think it's best if you go to the cinema tonight.
So that you can think of other things.
Other things, yes....
What's going on here?
Have you opened a dishwasher's shop?
No, but I put some order to this bachelors' joint.
That's very kind of you.
Well, then...
we are now, as it were, alone.
Why? Won't the other Willy come, too?
I don't know.
Why do you ask?
Oh, he's such a nice guy.
He's so funny when he does the cuckoo's call.
Ah sure, he does that nicely.
Very nicely.
But today he's occupied.
He'll come late.
Very late.
Oh, the soup...
He is probably very successful with women?
You can say that again.
As soon as he sees a girl, he wants to marry her.
However, only perhaps.
Good, then he has to eat a cold supper.
Hey, Jou-Jou!
Let me go!
Wait a moment, Countess, don't be so stern!
Better take care of your pretty creases!
Hey, don't run away.
I only want to talk with you.
Don't lock up.
Hey, I want to take you out.
Out of the question.
Come on.
I'll put on Willy's new patent leather shoes.
He doesn't like that very much, but I'll put them on nevertheless.
You can dance wonderfully with them.
I'll be back in two minutes.
Do you know what a girl thinks deep inside,
before she really gives away her heart?
Do you know why she only takes the one?
Not even she herself knows that for sure.
And if you happen only to be the other one,
it's probably better to forget about her.
Let her go and don't interfere.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Good evening, Willy. - Good evening, Willy.
Willy, how was it in the cinema?
Oh, quite nice. I wasn't there.
Well, what I'd like to tell you...
the little girl...
she's sleeping over in my carriage tonight.
Which little girl?
The one with the dog.
Ah yes, the one with the dog.
I'll go to bed now.
Willy.
Yes?
Here you are.
Where do you want to sleep? In bed, or on the sofa?
I don't care.
Buffalo! Buffalo!
Buffalo!
Come here now.
Where have you been, you rascal?
I've been looking for you everywhere.
We have to go away again.
Where could you want to go?
To some waiting room?
Or a bench in the park?
That makes no sense.
You'll stay here with us, won't you?
Yes, but...
You can put your mind at rest.
No one is going to harm you here.
Are you sleeping?
Yes.
And you?
Me, too.
Tell me, Willy....
How much did you save up?
90 marks, why?
What are you going to do with it?
But you know that already.
I'm going to buy myself a dark suit, a white waistcoat,
and a pair of patent leather shoes.
I have 70 marks as well.
You saved up 90 marks, I have 70, that makes 160 all together...
We can buy a third carriage with that.
A third carriage? What for?
For the girl.
Or don't you want her to stay?
Oh yes, yes, but...
She wants to go to Hollywood.
She wants that, sure, but it will never work out.
Willy, you certainly are a smart guy.
That's a great idea about the third carriage.
At the Southern Station, on the lower meadow
there's an old, discarded luxury lounge carriage.
It once was part of a court train, you know.
They surely don't need it anymore.
And we can get it for our 160 marks.
Perhaps.
And so the garden house is ready,
you can get it without an official document,
you really make yourself at home in it,
and you don't need money for that.
Because from the smallest screw to the most wonderful treasure,
we only get it on the cuff these days.
The whole world is doing it like that.
We don't pay any rent anymore,
we are at home in the countryside,
If our nest was even smaller, we simply couldn't care less.
1.5 square meters, but we have little luggage.
And as long as there's a little garden for spinach and lettuce,
you won't ever move away.
And as long as there's a little garden for spinach and lettuce,
you won't ever move away.
And yet a morning will come
when a good breakfast will remain untouched,
even yesterday evening you noticed nothing
At the regular's table in the club.
All worries will be over then,
two spades are digging up fresh soil,
two black horses in a trot are carrying you out
and they will return alone.
Then you won't pay any rent anymore,
and you will be at home in the countryside.
From time to time only, someone will come
with a bouquet of heather.
Your little house is not all too big,
as you have little luggage.
And then you will sleep like in your mother's womb
effortlessly and without troubles
and you won't stir at all.
And then you will sleep like in your mother's womb,
only dreaming of blonde angels,
and you won't ever move away.
Well, we're still alive for the moment.
And won't ever move away.
So then, the garden house is ready.
The bedroom is rather small.
So if you want to turn around, you have to open the door to the saloon.
Heavens, please be quiet in the saloon,
or the gramophone will get out of tune.
After an extended walk you arrive in the kitchen.
You can't make... Take care!
You can't make coffee for more than three people here.
Use is strictly forbidden during stops at the stations.
Jou-Jou, come here for a moment.
Pull the emergency cord there.
Just in case.
So that you're protected from unexpected visitors.
Well done.
Well, Buffalo, are you satisfied now?
Ah, do you like it here?
Or do you still want to go to Hollywood?
Next week I'm going to obtain some money
And I'll give everything back to you.
Back?
Well, everything you lent me.
For the lounge carriage.
Lent? I am as much involved in this business as you.
You're not goddamn involved at all!
You presume a great deal.
One word more, and I...
Somewhere in the world
there's a little bit of happiness,
and I dream of it every single moment.
Somewhere in the world
there's a little bit of bliss,
and I've been dreaming of it
for a long, long time.
If I knew where it was,
I would go out into the world.
because for once I want to be happy with my whole heart.
Somewhere in the world
my road to Heaven begins,
Somewhere, somehow, sometime.
Everyone will make it sometime,
everyone who is capable is a success.
Everyone will make it sometime,
it only depends on yourself.
Boldly show life your teeth,
everyone has a lucky streak sometime.
Everyone will make it sometime,
everyone who is capable is a success.
Stop!
What do you want here?
Become a film star.
Show what you are able to do!
Is that all?
If I knew where it was
I would go out into the world,
because for once I want to be happy
with my whole heart.
Strip!
What has happened?
I... I've been to Hollywood.
Are you still dreaming of the film world?
No, I've dreamed enough now.
Sunday paper!
Sunday Post!
Sunday Paper!
Sunday Post!
Sunday Morning!
What does a gentleman read on a Sunday morning?
Sunday Morning!
We like the world, with or without money,
We always keep our good humour.
We walk right in the middle of our street,
with a flower behind our ears.
We won't despair and we won't complain,
as long as they leave us hope.
So march along and don't lose your head
because one thing is certain:
Everyone will make it sometime,
everyone who is capable is a success.
Everyone will make it sometime,
it only depends on yourself.
Give me one of those papers.
Ah, the Baron!
Hello, Ilse.
What a rare honour.
Say...
You didn't come all the way from the meadow only to get a newspaper?
No no, I just happened to be around.
Good morning, Director, good morning.
There you are, Director.
How's the cold?
Thanks, it's completely gone.
Bless you!
Tell me, what's up on your meadow? High season, eh?
A lot of things are going on.
The carriages are newly painted,
everything's in bloom...
By the way, why don't you come to us anymore?
I? Don't make me laugh!
After all, Willy has a crush on your new film diva.
But I don't mean that Willy.
I mean the other Willy.
He's after that girl even more.
Ah, Miss Trude! The 23rd installment, here you are.
Tell me, will the two get each other in the end?
Of course they will. No question, my dear, with sequel.
Well, wasn't I right?
There's something wrong with the two boys.
Don't talk rubbish, Ilse.
The two boys are best friends.
They get along great, as usual.
To which Willy does the girl belong, then?
To none of them. The three of them go to the dance together,
they go to the cinema together,
they're always together and live in perfect peace.
Do you know what we're doing now? We're swimming across the lake!
Bravo! Great idea! - Nonsense, Jou-Jou.
You can't go into the water now. - Why not?
You're totally heated up!
I want to go to and fro once only. - Of course.
And how do you want to go into the water? As you are?
Or maybe...
Ah well, I have no bathing costume.
Otherwise you certainly wouldn't have kept me from doing it.
As we happen to be alone now:
I'd like to tell you something.
Tomorrow I am going to talk to our boss
about some possible extra pay.
You know,
bachelors in our company get 15% less.
Yes.
And if I can get the 15%, then...
You know...
Then...
What happens then?
Don't be scared, Jou-Jou.
Then I could marry you perhaps.
Perhaps even not just perhaps.
But Willy...
Just imagine, Jou-Jou,
I have 65 marks per week, plus the 15 %,
we can live like princes off that.
But we will save.
We will stay at home every day, and only once a month have a night out.
To the cinema, or the theatre,
or perhaps to the dance.
And in summer, when we will have saved up some money,
we will buy a paddle boat and spend the weekend at the Wannsee.
Now say something, anything!
Do you want to?
Yes or no?
Perhaps.
I have to tell Willy at once!
Willy!
A man!
Help!
Well, madame, here's our latest collection of bathing costumes.
Latest fashion guaranteed, all sizes in stock,
fits like a glove, and doesn't tear up in water.
It even already has a monogram:
"JJ" is for "Jauchzende Jugend", but for me it stands for Jou-Jou.
That's nice of you! - Madame...
If I may ask you to enter.
It may only be a discarded ticket office
but for me it's a first class luxury cubicle.
If you please, madame. Thanks a million.
Please change your clothes at once,
and if I can be of any service... Oh, sorry!
Hey, listen.
Willy is looking for you.
He wants to tell you something.
Let him.
At the moment it's quite nice that he isn't here.
He only would have grumbled about you taking a swim now.
And besides...
I'd like to tell you something, Jou-Jou.
Yes?
What is it?
Listen.
Tomorrow I am going to talk to the boss about some extra pay.
But I only get that extra pay
if I get married.
How come?
Do you want to marry?
For sure.
Well, by all means there needs to be marriage.
Listen, Jou-Jou.
I have 65 marks per week, plus the 15 % extra pay.
We can't live like princes off that, but we don't have to save either.
If it's not enough, we will borrow some money.
And every day we will have a night out.
You in your silk gown,
and I in my dark suit, white waistcoat and patent leather shoes, you know,
and every day we'll go to the cinema,
or to the theatre, or...
But once in a month, we'll stay at home.
Just the two of us, only you and I.
And in summer,
in summer we will buy a motor boat
and spend the weekend at the Riviera.
Now say something, Jou-Jou, anything.
Do you want to?
Yes or no?
Yes, but, the other Willy...
Nonsense about Willy.
I can deal with Willy, take my word for it!
Hey!
What do you want from the girl?
What I want?
I won the wager, haven't it?
Stop talking about that idiotic wager, will you?
Once and for all:
The girl belongs to me.
Understood?
Yes, as always, from Whit Sunday to Whit Monday , and that's it!
Be on your guard!
This time I'm serious!
I'm going home.
Monday Courier!
Don't make such a fuzz about your stuff!
Can't you take better care?
You're batty in the brain!
A screw loose, eh?
Please, miss.. - Two rooms further.
Well then, miss, write:
To the police inspectorate, etc.
You know the full address.
Do you have that?
Well, then.
We want to inform you about the following - colon.
Using the name of C. H. Merryman,
a swindler is on the prowl - comma,
who promises unknown actresses film jobs in America
No comma!
and under this pretense elicits sums of money from them.
Full stop.
Mr Merryman... - Is not available for anyone.
Every day a considerable number of girls get in touch with us...
Yet another one!
How much did that crook take from you for this?
How much, miss?
25 dollars.
You will receive them back.
Mr. Merryman doesn't want anyone to suffer a loss in his name. Full stop.
Please!
I don't want the 25 dollars! - But, what...
I must speak to Mr. Merryman, I must absolutely...
He's not available for anyone!
Please! - You're welcome.
Beg your pardon. But I must speak to Mr. Merryman...
I have to speak to him by all means!
Don't you understand?
I have to...
Willy!
What's up?
Morning break.
Rascal! Why don't you say hello anymore? Ilse.
BACK SOON
Rascal! Why don't you say hello anymore? Ilse.
Willy!
Willy! Hold on!
Boy, you had a stroke of luck.
Only the two files dropped down.
Why do you have two files?
Twit.
That's my trick.
But I thought you always carry one file only.
I do.
One for throwing,
and one for drawing out.
You rascal, I should have known that before.
Perhaps I would have let you fall.
You should have.
Would have been much cleverer.
Don't act up.
What's wrong with you?
I only want to know who exchanged the ladders.
Exchanged the ladders?
Because...
It was yours that was broken.
I see.
That can't be true.
Because of Jou-Jou, you wanted to... - Yes.
But Willy.
You should have told me.
I don't want to take her away from you.
Nonsense. She only wants you.
That's not decided yet.
Even a blind man can see that she's got a crush on you.
Well, it can't continue like this between us and Jou-Jou.
Something has to happen now.
Yes, I agree. But what?
Shall we race each other again?
No.
Jou-Jou shall decide.
Then someone came with golden buttons and white gloves,
And he said to me: "Dear Miss", and then he threw me out.
Wasn't the first time, eh, Buffalo?
Now our Hollywood has fallen through completely.
And what will happen now to...?
You mean what will happen... concerning the boys?
Jou-Jou, Jou-Jou... - Listen carefully!
Jou-Jou, you have to tell the truth now, don't consider our feelings!
Be honest: isn't Willy much more elegant than I am?
Jou-Jou, don't be bashful, just say you like him better!
You can't say that, because he talked to you first.
But he had the idea to take you with us.
And he bought the carriage for you.
Jou-Jou, but he lent the money for it.
His trick with the nail file isn't bad either.
And you always liked his cuckoo's call, didn't you?
I don't understand you. Am I really to decide for...?
Well boys, what are you thinking of?
It's not as easy as you think.
What's your advantage if I say I like one of you better than the other?
I can't stay with you, after all, with neither of you.
Neither with you, Willy,
nor with you, Willy.
You have to understand that,
it's unthinkable to spend my whole life on this meadow.
in a discarded carriage like that.
I know you only want the best for me, but...
but after all...
...you're nothing but window cleaners.
But boys, you don't know the big news!
I am going to America!
Please, ask Scarecrow! It's in all the papers.
The famous Mr. Merryman has arrived.
I went to him, spoke to him: everything will be fine.
The ship ticket, the engagement: I am going to be a big film star!
And once my films are shown here, I'll send you free tickets
and you have to give me a big applause and always think of me!
But let me tell you one thing:
never let Scarecrow do the laundry again, he'll ruin all your shirts!
Is that true? - Has the American really arrived?
I thought she was over her film fad!
Go to her, Willy?
Me?
Why me?
Look, Willy, I clearly noticed
that she suits you better.
Why this? After all, I'm only a window cleaner, too.
Just go ahead.
If you only say one word to her now, she'll stay with you.
And you?
I?
You know that I don't take such things to heart.
Listen, Willy.
Don't you guys have eyes?
She will never ever go to America.
It's all a fib!
Jou-Jou! Jou-Jou!
Gone! Come Willy, let's go.
Willy! Willy!
Once again, you cheeky girl!
Stop her! Stop her!
Mr. Merryman... - I ask you! What do you want here?
I have to talk with Mr. Merryman!
Mr. Merryman isn't available for anyone, even...
Mr. Merryman, nobody lets me see you, I have to talk with you at once.
That woman is crazy!
Indeed, you are crazy!
With whom do I have the pleasure?
I'm sorry, Mr. Merryman, I don't speak English well,
but we will understand each other.
Mr. Merryman, I've been terribly tricked by you.
Of course not by you, by the other Mr. Merryman, the crook!
He took my last 25 dollars, you know...
Please authorize a payment of 25 dollars to the lady. - Very good.
But it's not the 25 dollars... let me pass!
She's crazy, completely crazy!
Mr. Merryman, it's that you have to take me to America, like it or not.
Mr. Merryman hasn't to nor wants to.
Beat it, you character!
Mr. Merryman, I can do everything, you will have use for me,
I can dance, sing, jump, everything,
What do you want? - To sing!
What is your job, then?
Please, Mr. Merryman, let me sing just once!
You want to sing? Heavens!
I've such a yearning, I dream so often
that luck will be near one day.
Will you please stop!
See, Mr. Merryman, when I sang that song before everyone was thrilled!
Admit that... - I admit it, but it's not my fault.
...that the hour would come one day. Let me!
Days and nights I've been waiting for it,
and I will never give up hope.
I gave it up completely!
Now comes the chorus, it's much more beautiful!
Even more beautiful? Oh, please...!
Somewhere in the world there's a little bit of happiness,
Mr. Merryman, happiness!
A little, little bit of happiness!
What's this? What are these people doing here?
Window cleaners! I will set them on you! - But why?
... a little bit of bliss...
See, Mr. Merryman, these window cleaners
will all go to the cinema if a film of mine is on!
Don't listen to her, I'm not up to it, I'm not responsible
If I knew where it was
You will be amazed about how profitable my films will be!
Now will you stop it!
...because for once I want to be happy with my whole heart.
How dare you!
Somewhere in the world...
Please stay for only one moment longer!
Somewehere, somehow, sometime.
Totally crazy! - That's what I said.
Now for the dance, with fantasy costume and lots of feathers!
Do you have it here? - No!
- Thank God!
Nothing but honky tonk.
Here normally the first applause sets in.
Fairground.
It only looks so easy.
It's very difficult in fact.
Not everyone can do it.
Please! I'm truly sorry Mr. Merryman, you can see it's out of the question.
Idiot. - Pardon?
Idiot! - Very good.
Hello, miss!
Please come back here.
Come, please.
Is your passport in order?
Yes.
Do you have any obligations here?
Obligations?
No.
Then I will engage you. I liked what you did.
Please wait here.
Come.
Well, Jou-Jou... - I'm glad we arrived in time.
To congratulate you.
Well done!
Really well done.
With the American, I mean.
Excuse me, Mr. Merryman, what do you have in mind for that girl?
Oh, we put her into some film revue.
She can dance in the last row, or something like that.
Something like that, excellent.
On our meadow,
it will be a little quieter from now on.
And the third carriage...
Well.
It will be vacant for a while now.
Or... perhaps we'll sell it.
Then Willy will finally get his black suit,
with the white waistcoat and the patent leather shoes.
Fetch the girl, she's to come with us at one.
Just one moment, mister!
The girl you just talked about remains here, understood?
She's much more sensible.
Please, would you tell me what...
Hey, mister, listen!
Do you really want to make an actress out of that poor little thing?
What for? What for, eh?
He doesn't know either.
If she doesn't get famous, she'll die of grief,
and if she gets famous, who cares.
You can leave that completely to... - Please shut up for a moment now.
You're welcome.
Always working, always learning roles, always playing comedy,
always smiling at strangers she doesn't care for,
having to kiss a man whom she would like to smack,
and then she's playing the big farewell scene,
with teardrops and bells ringing to tear people's hearts to pieces,
and suddenly somebody has to sneeze, and everyone's laughing; now tell me,
Tell me, is that a life? Just sit down.
Just imagine, having to get up early every day, right when you want to sleep.
Having to eat rusk and lemons every day
while all the while she has an appetite for knuckle of pork with sauerkraut,
only to keep a thin shape...
And even if you continue your whinging, you won't put me off.
Believe me, mister, that's not up the girl's alley.
This work, these disappointments, these hardships,
And even if everything works out fine, how long will it last?
How long, eh? No more than three years.
Three years it's up; a few years more, and she's forgotten.
Right? Am I wrong?
See, the kid says I'm right, too. Thanks a million.
But the girl wants to join the film world by all means.
Oh, that doesn't mean anything. I'll talk her out of it, trust me.
And it's not that important.
She had better stay here and marry a decent boy.
I can tell you: the right one is here already.
With him she can eat knuckle of pork with sauerkraut as much as she wants.
And he likes her even if she weighs a few pounds more.
So, it's a deal, dear old friend and mister:
The girl stays.
She won't be a great artist, but a little housewife.
She doesn't fit into the film world, believe me.
Film, that's no profession for adults.
Can you repeat at any time what you just said to me?
As often as you want.
Good. Then I'll let the girl stay.
But I'll take you with me.
Me?
What you said to me you will learn by heart in three languages.
You'll sit in my outer office,
and you'll talk to the people like you've just talked to me.
Like he has just talked to you, very good.
Well, he never managed.
Well? Agreed?
Yes, but actually I am...
You'll get it right.
You'll get a dark suit with a white waistcoat.
And a pair of patent leather shoes?
You'll get them, too. - Done!
Farewell, Jou-Jou.
See that everything will be as you want it to be.
Jou-Jou, when you are famous, send us an autograph perhaps!
Don't cry, Jou-Jou.
Everything's settled
Don't be angry, Jou-Jou, but Hollywood has fallen through completely.
You are to stay with Willy.
Attention, Willy, you forgot something!
And you? - What will happen to you, Willy?
To me?
I'll learn three languages and go to America.
Who shall understand these things?
Willy wanted to marry a hundred women, perhaps,
and all hundred women were snatched away by the other Willy.
But the only one that mattered,
that one he left to him.