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==Part 6==
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We open on Miami Beach, where Little Pinks (Fonda) carries Gloria (Lucille Ball) to a shaded beach chair, and then leaves.  Decatur Reed is there on the beach, and Lucy has some sort of undisclosed plan to get Decatur Reed interested in her again while concealing her condition from him.  They talk briefly and then make plans to meet again tomorrow.  Decatur goes back to his friends and we now meet old Col. Samuel and his very-much-younger blonde wife.

Cut to Pinks trying to find a job.  The club he picks just happens to be owned coincidentally by Case Abels.  The head waiter brushes him off but Case tells him no, to run after Pinks and hire him.  Pinks does not learn that Case owns the club. And Case' reason for hiring him isn't made clear.

Now we cut back to Gloria on the beach and Pinks shows up with the Professor and Horsethief. But she wants nothing to do with them, "This is a class joint, and I'm strictly not from characters like you two!"  On the way back from the beach, Decatur Reed and his party inadvertently bump into Pinks pushing Gloria in her wheelchair, and so her plan, whatever it was, is now ruined.  Gloria blames Pinks and yells at him.   This scene has perhaps the most-unintended funny lines: "I'm the best busboy there is, no one in the world is better at being a bus boy than I am." So, he '''finally''' wises-up and leaves the shrew.

Now we cut to Pinks at work and Violette comes in screaming that "Her Highness has collapsed and might die".  Case Abels takes this opportunity to make it known that he runs the club, and Pinks slugs him and the other waiters beat up Pinks.  Pinks shows up at Gloria's bedside a bit beaten-up, and knows that she has lost the will to live.  Pinks seeing her on her last stand, reverts to his role of supporting and encouraging her.