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


Harry Van: I'm a thinker, not a performer.


Harry Van: [to Irene] Excuse me, but were you always blonde?


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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.
Lana Turner was supposed to be one of the blondes that carried Clark Gable off at the end of his musical number "Puttin on the Ritz", but she had to go into hospital to fix a botched operation on her appendix.
Greta Garbo was first offered the role of Irene Fellara. She turned it down.
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