Idiot's Delight (1939)

Harry Van: It's a pleasure to be entertaining, but you can't get away with it.

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Irene Fellara: You are a very bad dancer.
Harry Van: Hmmm... in Romania they thought I was pretty good.

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Irene Fellara: Harry, do you know any hymns?

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When Clark Gable had to sing "Puttin' on the Ritz," he actually had to be carried off by Harry Van's Les Blondes, so they saved that scene for last in case he was injured. On the day of the shooting Carole Lombard came to watch and was amazed that it only took one take.
This film was adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his own Pulitzer Prize winning play. The original Broadway production, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, opened at the Shubert Theatre in New York on Mar. 24, 1936 and ran for 300 performances.
Near the end of "Puttin' on the Ritz", the dancer second from the viewer's left is barely in step and not doing any of the arm movements because she is holding up the top of her costume, which has a broken right strap and is flopping about as she dances.
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