Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Robert Walker: Jerome Kern

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• Jerome Kern : Always the same discouraging answer. The big hits were all English or European, and the local talent didn't stand a chance - Broadway was closed to an American.

• Joe (segment "Show Boat") : Where to? The Waldorf, Mr. Kern?

  Jerome Kern : What was that Joe?

  Joe (segment "Show Boat") : The big shindig they're throwing for you. It's down at the Waldorf, ain't it, Mr. Kern?

• Jerome Kern : I remember the day very well. It was Spring. Then, I might have been any American kid coming down that street. I had a song under my arm, my hopes were high, and the world was wonderful.

• James I. Hessler : What's your name again?

  Jerome Kern : Kern. Jerome Kern.

• Jerome Kern : My life became a pattern of notes and clefs, tempos and modulations.

• James I. Hessler : You certainly are full of surprises. I thought you'd be up in the clouds!

  Jerome Kern : I feel like I've just been yanked out of the clouds.

• Jerome Kern : Jim, you know, for the first time in my life I'm lonely. Here I am on a ship full of people and with you, and I might as well be on a deserted island all by myself. Did you ever feel this way?

  James I. Hessler : Yes, once.

  Jerome Kern : What did you do about it?

  James I. Hessler : I married the girl.

• Jerome Kern : Yes, it was good to be home. I felt I had everything in the world: happiness, success, and the wife I had dreamed about. I wanted to put it all into music: Eva's smile - and her eyes - and what it meant to be with her. And at last it seemed to me that the clouds had rolled by.