Nelly Don the Musical Movie is a true Kansas City story about Nelly Don, a trailblazer who ignited a fashion revolution | dG1fMmxaT3BZNjhLSFk
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00:00 ♪ Virgil let 'em down ♪
00:03 ♪ Round and round ♪
00:05 - From the great American musical tradition
00:07 comes a fashion icon.
00:09 - Nellie Don, it's Donnelly inverted.
00:11 - Very creative.
00:12 - I'm glad you like it.
00:13 - A young girl obliged to sew and reconstruct.
00:16 - You mean four more hand-me-downs?
00:18 Yuck!
00:19 - Add 16.
00:20 So smart and pretty.
00:21 ♪ Shoo to Kansas City ♪
00:25 ♪ ♪
00:26 - And there's more.
00:27 - I'm so excited.
00:28 ♪ ♪
00:31 - And from there,
00:32 this improbable tale of fashion and passion proceeds.
00:35 - I have decided not to let housework
00:37 make a frump out of me.
00:39 ♪ You gotta sell now ♪
00:41 ♪ To share your dresses all around ♪
00:44 ♪ Now ♪
00:45 ♪ Not in a hundred years ♪
00:47 ♪ Not for a thousand tears ♪
00:48 ♪ Not with Mitra Pierce ♪
00:50 ♪ No, thank you ♪
00:51 - Who's gonna pay a dollar for some kitchen frock?
00:54 - I insist you buy me one of Mrs. Donnelly's
00:56 beautiful creations.
00:58 - Henry Ford.
00:59 He is the answer.
01:01 If he can make a car every few minutes,
01:02 we can do the same with dresses.
01:04 [hammering]
01:05 Because of you, in the span of ten years,
01:07 we have 1,000 employees
01:09 and we're making 5,000 dresses a day.
01:11 - I would be nobody if it weren't for you.
01:13 ♪ All this gossip ♪
01:15 ♪ All this guessing ♪
01:17 - Well, how do we keep this a secret?
01:18 - I'm offering you $2 million for your silence.
01:22 - That was just plain wrong.
01:23 [slap]
01:24 - Please don't hurt me!
01:25 - Pezzo 90, faccia brut.
01:28 We got 24 hours to get this dressmaker dame back.
01:31 - And we may be going down the same path.
01:33 The path of least resistance.
01:35 - You're in big trouble, lady.
01:36 - We'll make sure it's a law-abiding evening,
01:38 Mr. Pendergast.
01:39 - No more dresses.
01:41 No more money.
01:42 - You'd look good with a scarlet letter now.
01:44 ♪ Ah, oh, Dehli-Tas ♪
01:49 [glass shattering]
01:50 [silence]