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Idiot's Delight (1939) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Hunt Stromberg.

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Harry Van: Somehow or other I couldn't help feeling touched, that of all the sordid hotels you've been in, that you should have remembered that one.
Irene Fellara: The age of chivalry still lives!


Irene Fellara: Harry, do you know any hymns?


Harry Van: [at a train station] Well, we gotta be pulling out now babe.
Irene Fellara: I know, but not together.
Harry Van: No, not together. You go your way and I go mine. But I got a hunch we'll see each other again. Sometime.


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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.
Greta Garbo was first offered the role of Irene Fellara. She turned it down.
This was the only film in which Clark Gable performed a dance number. He spent 6 weeks rehearsing the steps with the dance director, George King, and practicing at home with his wife, Carole Lombard. Because of his fear of messing it up during a take, the set was closed during the filming of this sequence.
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