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Best Writing Motion Picture Story | 1956 | Daniel
Best Written American Musical | 1956
Top Female Musical Performance | 1956 | Doris
Top Male Character Performance | 1956 | Cameron
Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture | 1956 | George
Best Writing Screenplay | 1956
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1956 | James
Best Sound Recording | 1956
Best Music Original Song | 1956
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1956
Of the 62 films he made, James Cagney wrote that he rated this among his top five.
This was the only time, after becoming a star in the 1930s, that James Cagney accepted second billing for a major role. He thought that Doris Day's character was more central to the film's plot and so ceded top billing to her.
This was the last time James Cagney portrayed a gangster in a movie.
There was some discussion of starring Jane Powell in this movie, but the studio had a hard time seeing Powell as a nightclub performer and in a serious role. Before Ruth Etting died, she told an interviewer she wished Powell was given the role.
According to an interview with Ruth Etting, she never actually worked as a dance hall hostess. This was dramatic fiction, to underscore the song "Ten Cents a Dance".
"Martin Snyder: [to Ruth Etting when she visits him in jail] Tell 'em you seen me in the pokey and I looked great! Tell 'em I like it! Makes me feel like a kid again!"
"Martin Snyder: Now look here, you stupid little broad. Ruth Etting: Don't you talk to me like that. Martin Snyder: I'll talk to you any way I like. Do you know who I am? Do you think I let dames get away with anything?"
