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==Part 1==

Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlDpNAFDfI ''The Big Street'', Part 1] on YouTube

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Outside Mindy's restaurant on 50th and Broadway in New York City, in the midst of a group of horse-race gamblers, a pushing match has broken out between two men, the "Professor" and another man. The men are physically disagreeing about the eating contest that is about to begin inside. Among others Case Abels has wagered $20,000 on the Professor's man J. "Nicely Nicely" Johnson "the greatest eater alive", while the other unnamed man is the manager of the contender for the title, Joel Duffel of Boston.

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Henry Fonda then appears in his role of "Little Pinks", calling the Professor to come in to see Case Abels. The Professor and his trusty side-kick "Horsethief" then go inside to find that Nicely Johnson has terrible indigestion and cannot go on. At this point Little Pinks, mentions that a woman in his boarding-house is a voracious eater. Her name is Violette Shumberger. "For supper last night she ate a whole Virginia Ham, three plates of soup and quite a lot of potatoes and strudel."

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We then learn that Joel Duffel of Boston weighs 337 pounds, while we get our first glimpse of Violette Shumberger "of this city, weight 100 pounds." And instantly we recognize Endora... I mean Agnes Moorehead. She is quite bashful of the large crowd, and tells Pinks that if he stays with her, she can win, "Just don't leave me." (I think you know what's coming.)

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Just as they commence eating, in walks Lucille Ball as "Miss Lyon", dressed all elegant-like and carrying a tiny yapper who she calls "Baby". Her tough exterior breaks through when the crowd won't clear a path for her, and she threatens to "start breakin arms". Baby decides to take this moment to run out into traffic. Little Pinks goes out after the dog, rescuing it from certain death. Violette noticing that Pinks is not beside her gets all nervous and loses the eating contest. This makes Case Abels mighty pissed off and he slugs Pinks, knocking him to the floor. Lucy states "You've shoved around a lot of guys, mostly bigger than you and that's all right with me, but when you start picking on '''mice''' I don't like it!" To which he responds, "You'll like what I tell you to like." Lucy says "Thanks kid" to Fonda who still lying on the floor smiles, rugs his jaw and says "Thank you Miss Lyon!"

==Part 2==

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 ==Part 1==
 Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlDpNAFDfI ''The Big Street'', Part 1] on YouTube
+Outside Mindy's restaurant on 50th and Broadway in New York City, in the midst of a group of horse-race gamblers, a pushing match has broken out between two men, the "Professor" and another man.  The men are physically disagreeing about the eating contest that is about to begin inside.  Among others Case Abels has wagered $20,000 on the Professor's man J. "Nicely Nicely" Johnson "the greatest eater alive", while the other unnamed man is the manager of the contender for the title, Joel Duffel of Boston.
+Henry Fonda then appears in his role of "Little Pinks", calling the Professor to come in to see Case Abels.  The Professor and his trusty side-kick "Horsethief" then go inside to find that Nicely Johnson has terrible indigestion and cannot go on.  At this point Little Pinks, mentions that a woman in his boarding-house is a voracious eater.  Her name is Violette Shumberger. "For supper last night she ate a whole Virginia Ham, three plates of soup and quite a lot of potatoes and strudel."
+We then learn that Joel Duffel of Boston weighs 337 pounds, while we get our first glimpse of Violette Shumberger "of this city, weight 100 pounds."  And instantly we recognize Endora... I mean Agnes Moorehead.  She is quite bashful of the large crowd, and tells Pinks that if he stays with her, she can win, "Just don't leave me."  (I think you know what's coming.)
+Just as they commence eating, in walks Lucille Ball as "Miss Lyon", dressed all elegant-like and carrying a tiny yapper who she calls "Baby".  Her tough exterior breaks through when the crowd won't clear a path for her, and she threatens to "start breakin arms".  Baby decides to take this moment to run out into traffic.  Little Pinks goes out after the dog, rescuing it from certain death.  Violette noticing that Pinks is not beside her gets all nervous and loses the eating contest.  This makes Case Abels mighty pissed off and he slugs Pinks, knocking him to the floor.  Lucy states "You've shoved around a lot of guys, mostly bigger than you and that's all right with me, but when you start picking on '''mice''' I don't like it!"  To which he responds, "You'll like what I tell you to like."  Lucy says "Thanks kid" to Fonda who still lying on the floor smiles, rugs his jaw and says "Thank you Miss Lyon!"
 ==Part 2==