Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Blackie puts Eve in a cab in front of a theater showing this film--a film-within-a-film title, also from Columbia
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
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.
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