Idiot's Delight (1939)

Harry Van: [to the waiter] Seems to me everyone would be happier in Europe if they learned how to make a decent cup of coffee.

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Irene Fellara: But I have talked too much about myself. What about you my friend?
Harry Van: Oh, I'm not very interesting. I'm just what I seem to be.

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Irene Fellara: Oh, 'Kak Stranna!' How strange!

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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.
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.
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