Universal paid $175,000 for the rights to the 1926 play of the same name that had previously been filmed in 1929. On Broadway, Lee Tracy played the dancer, Thomas Jackson played the detective and Paul Porcasi played the nightclub owner. In the 1929 film, Jackson and Porcasi reprised their roles and Glenn Tryon replaced Tracy. Pat O'Brien once played the detective role in a road show.
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(1942) " WHEN RAFT and O’BRIEN BATTLE BROADWAY…It’s heaven help the mob and molls! (Print Ad – Philadelphia Inquirer, ((Philadelphia, Penna.)) 28 June 1942)"
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| Runtime | 1 hr 31 min |
| Premiere: World | December 7, 1942 |
| Premiere: USA | March 23, 1942 |
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George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city’s most notorious gangsters.Сast and Crew
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