A cinema in New York. William Wyler’s film ""Dead End"" from 1937, based on the theater play by Sidney Kingsley from 1935, is on. Humphrey Bogart as Baby-Face Martin is in a dialog scene with his mother. Shirley, dressed in the uniform of an usherette, is leaning against the wall on the right side, under a lamp. She has her eyes closed, and listens to the soundtrack. She knows it by heart, and imitates the mothers speech simultaniously....