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Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1944
Although it's pretty obvious, the broken-down bathroom fixture discussed by the members of the troupe is none other than a toilet. The Production Code wouldn't allow the offending word to be uttered or shown, and when the replacement arrives, it's a bathroom sink.
The characters of Biff Brannigan and Gee Gee Graham were based on Rags Ragland (who was Gypsy Rose Lee's boyfriend) and Georgia Sothern (who was Lee's closest friend in burlesque).
This film was a success at the box office, earning a profit of $650,000 ($9.7M in 2018) according to studio records.
It is commonly assumed that Craig Rice, mystery writer from the 1940s and roommate of Gypsy Rose Lee, ghost-wrote "The G-String Murders" for her. However, this has been disputed both on stylistic grounds and on the evidence of manuscripts.
The Production Code office objected to a G-string being the murder weapon and that the "Pickle Persuader" routine was potentially objectionable. Both stayed in the film.
"Biff: What's the matter with comics? Dixie: I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was 14 they were...just looking. When I was 20 I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless..."
"S.B. Foss: Grand opera brought crowds like this into this lobby? Girls! That's what the public wants."
