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This was the last of the That’s Entertainment/Dancing movies, and the hook they used for this one was cut numbers, inspired by the Wizard of Oz cut number in That’s Dancing, and way more really obscure numbers.

Have I mentioned yet that Ray Bolger gave me my very first tap lesson, impromptu on the Warner lot?

You can’t change entirely the whole premise of a series of detective stories right on the very first one.

Edna May Oliver was 49 when she made this movie, and the inspector, played by James Gleason, whom she calls “young man,” is 50. Age was a much different thing in the 1930s!

It was made and released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of MGM. Watching it now, I realize that we are only a few years off from the 100th anniversary, and then I crumble into dust.

One very nice thing indeed about having actors for parents is how sometimes movies or TV shows they were in just sort of pop up out of nowhere.

Charade is like The Maltese Falcon, or The African Queen, in that when you have the opportunity you watch it, you watch it.

It is so hard to believe that even after blackface was pretty much gone, yellowface was still around even through the 1980s.