To Please a Lady (1950)

Mike Brannan: Well, what can we do for you that already hasn't been done?
Regina Forbes: You can give your eyes a rest and answer a few questions.

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Regina Forbes: It's like the Fourth of July and the heavyweight fight and the World Series all rolled into one.

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Regina Forbes: [after a spontaneous kiss] What was that for?
Mike Brannan: I just wanted to do it.
Regina Forbes: You're some kind of guy!

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At 20:26 in the film, a close-up shows the Sports Final section of the Bainsville daily paper. Under Barbara Stanwyck's photograph (as Regina Forbes) three pictures of "sports stars" are shown: Kathryn Grayson, Walter Pidgeon and Gene Kelly. This must have been an inside-joke as the film and the stars shown were all under contract with MGM.
The film featured short-track midget car racing, a highly popular form of auto racing in post-World War II America. From the mid-1930's through the mid-1960's, most drivers who aspired to race in the famous Indianapolis 500 usually started competing in the midgets, then sprint cars (similar in looks, but more powerful and faster than midgets), then to "championship," or Indianapolis-type cars.
A young Bill Hickman can be seen as one of the members of Clark Gable's pit crew. Hickman was famous as one of the top movie stunt drivers in Hollywood for many years, and his most notable on-camera role was as the middle-aged, bespectacled driver of the black Dodge Charger that is chased by Steve McQueen's green Ford Mustang in the film Bullitt.
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