How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

[There is music when Finch thinks of Rosemary]
J. Pierpont Finch: Can't you hear it? It's all around me, it's like a beautiful pink sky.
Rosemary: J. Pierpont Finch, what are you ...
J. Pierpont Finch: Rosemary, darling, will you please marry J. Pierpont Finch?
Rosemary: NOW I hear it.

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Rosemary: Lunch.
J. Pierpont Finch: Huh?
Rosemary: I said, "Lunch."
J. Pierpont Finch: What about "lunch"?
Rosemary: I'd love to!

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J. B. Biggley: I realize that I'm the president of this company, the man that's responsible for everything that goes on here. So, I want to state, right now, that anything that happened is not my fault.

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All of Rosemary's songs (including "Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm" and "Paris Original") were cut from the movie version. To make up for this "I Believe In You" was given to her for the movie. In the stage play, she does not sing this to him, and the first time we hear it is during the scene where Finch sings it to himself in the executive washroom, but she does a brief reprise of the song after this scene.
Many of the actors, notably Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee, reprised their Broadway roles in this film.
The original Broadway production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opened at the Forty-sixth Street Theater in New York on October 14, 1961, ran for 1417 performances and won the 1962 Tony Awards for the Best Musical and Book and was nominated for Best Score. Robert Morse (Winner of the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Rudy Vallee, Ruth Kobart and Sammy Smith recreated their stage roles for the movie version.
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