As Lou sat at the bar and spoke to the black bartender Queenie, Dave walked over to Fred and initiated a drug deal - their conversation quickly moved from the public bar area to the restroom.Cohan inYankee Doodle Dandy (1942).In this first musical portrayal, he starred as briefly-unemployed, enterprising and lively (yet crazed) Broadway heatrical-musical producer Chester Kent, with Joan Blondell as his loyal, faithful, dedicated and long-suffering secretary Nan Prescott who looked after him.He was presumably running an errand during his Friday work-day, and returned after a half-hour to his lowly, dead-end job as a clerk in the paint department of a local hardware store on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn.As a parting gift and token of his sincerity, he offers her his mother's coiled snake bracelet [a symbol of female domesticity] and places it on her wrist.