Robert Walker credited as playing...
Jerome Kern
- 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: 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.