Tortilla Flats - 1942 - Drinking Song

I'm not doing justice to this post, I should write paragraphs but I'm in the mood to share now not later.

Tortilla Flats - 1942 - Drinking Song


Akim Tamiroff's verse:

"listen amigos and I will ask you this/
why is a glass just like a woman's kiss/ (muah)
when it's full of wine it makes you blind a little bit/
when the wine is gone you can see through it..."

The paisanos celebrate Danny's inheritance with an "impromptu" drinking song (words by Broadway's Frank Loesser.) Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard.

The film is actually quite fun and stays pretty true to the book.

Tortilla Flats - 1942
Directed by Victor Fleming
This was Fleming's second film with Tamiroff the first being Reckless 1935
so Tamiroff shared the screen with Hedy Lemarr in Tortilla Flats and Jean Harlow in Reckless... not bad.
Other information about Tortilla Flats... Stars Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lemarr. Based on a Steinbeck novel. Frank Morgan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.