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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: The world you live in isn't a world of facts and figures, it's a world of dreams. Maybe that's what I like about you Irene.
Irene Fellara: And maybe you're wrong my darling. Maybe we two cheap people, with our cheap lives, maybe we're the only ones in this crazy world who are real.


Irene Fellara: Here we are, on a mountain peak in Bedlam. Tonight war is breaking over the world. And all you worry about is whether I am a girl you once casually met in Oma - ha-ha-ha.
Harry Van: Ha-ha-ha. Did I say it was casual?


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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Greta Garbo was first offered the role of Irene Fellara. She turned it down.
When Clark Gable had to sing "Puttin' on the Ritz," he actually had to be carried off by Harry Van's Les Blondes, so they saved that scene for last in case he was injured. On the day of the shooting Carole Lombard came to watch and was amazed that it only took one take.
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.
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