He also sent young women to San Francisco to be pickpockets.Gus worked with two other crooked entertainer-assistants or accomplices:Rita (Rafaela Ottiano), a RussianSerge Stanieff (Gilbert Roland), Rita""s suave boyfriend-loverA city mission (a thinly-disguised Salvation Army) was located next door to the bar.[Note: Berlin would go on to write songs for five more Astaire films.] All of Berlin""s songs, that are smoothly integrated into the storyline within the film, reached the top of the popular music charts at the ime.Scarlett: Oh, Pa.You talk like an Irishman.Gerald: It""s proud I am that I""m Irish, and don""t you be forgetting, Missy, that you""re half-Irish, too.Why, what""s there to be afraid of? And when I get in a tight spot, I shoot my way out of it.Why sure.Shoot first and argue afterwards.You know, this game ain""t for guys that""s soft!Joe admits that there""s money and women, "good imes," and "excitin"" things" in the big town for them, where their fame and fortune lie.