The Lady with the Torch (1999)
Famous Movie Dogs (Short 1940)
Bedtime Story (1941)
The dialogue from this film is re-used in the film Bedtime Story (1941), in which Fredric March portrays a playwright and Loretta Young his actress wife. All the dialogue in March's new "play" is actually from the screenplay of the Theodora Goes Wild (1936). It's virtually word for word, with only the heroine's name changed. The "gardener" referred to in the dialogue is of course Melvyn Douglas. Columbia, the distributor of "Bedtime Story," made "Theodora Goes Wild," but none of the writers overlap between the films. Interestingly, in "Bedtime Story," the actors playing the onstage scene are not meant to be in a comedy. What is borrowed is the confrontation over the gardener between Theodora, her aunt, and the local club ladies. Also, in an early scene, March has an inspiration for the last line of his play---something about nobody in the town ever calling the heroine "baby" before---an idea that figures in "Theodora Goes Wild" as well.- the movie poster is hanging on a wall in Margaret's apartment.
- line that Charles Busch himself recites, pointing at the title of the Irene Dunne movie, during his play Theodora -- She Bitch of Byzantium
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