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Best Music Original Song | 1944
Budget 1,568,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,621,000 USD
When Conrad Wiedell takes Bette Davis and does a "Jitterbug", she felt he was holding back in rehearsals and told him to treat her like an experienced dance partner. When the cameras rolled, Wiedell--a national jitterbug champion hired specifically for this dance--pulled out all the stops and swung her around and she fell on her knee. As she finishes her song, she is seen limping out of the nightclub set and leaning against a post, rubbing her knee. This was a real injury, but she finished the song despite the pain. When director David Butler asked Davis to "try it once more", she replied, "No! No! I said one take, and that was it." She then turned to the press who had shown up to watch her number, telling them "Show's over, gentlemen. Now get the hell out."
Reportedly the only film in which Bette Davis actually sings. The Oscar-nominated song "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" introduced here by Davis became a hit for Jimmy Dorsey with vocalist Kitty Kallen.
Probably Errol Flynn's most uncharacteristic screen appearance occurred in this film when he sang and danced his way through a pub number entitled "That's What You Jolly Well Get."
In the film, Eddie Cantor winds up in a mental hospital, where he is mistakenly scheduled for a lobotomy. As he flees the operating room, Cantor passes a gurney and meets the "real patient" for the lobotomy. It is Bert Gordon, a.k.a. "The Mad Russian," a regular and very popular character on Cantor's weekly radio comedy show. Gordon greets Cantor with the Mad Russian's signature line, "How do you do-oo-oo?"
Bette Davis insisted Warner's studio boss Jack L. Warner contribute the profits from this film to the war effort.
"Humphrey Bogart: [after an effort at being tough has no effect whatsoever on S.K. Sakall] Hey, I must be losing my touch! I hope my movie fans don't hear about this!"
"Marty: Now, don't be impatient! Dr. Kirby will be here in a few minutes. Eddie Cantor: Dr. Kirby? Listen - [sitting up] Marty: [pushing him back on gurney] Down! Eddie Cantor: You don't understand! [sitting up] Fred: [pushing him back on gurney] Down! Eddie Cantor: This is all a mistake! [sitting up] Fred: [pushing him back on gurney] Down! Eddie Cantor: [flailing his legs and sobbing] Oh-hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh! Nurse Hamilton: [as all three hold down his legs] And don't kick! Eddie Cantor: [sitting up] I always kick on the fourth down."
