This is such an interesting film, if as the previous comments attest to, some details that even I never knew, IE: The finale that was originally part of the WPA (ask kids today what THAT was!) and the Federal Theater Project's contribution to the Depression. What I found interesting/sad/macabre, was how many of the young actors in that film met an early demise. On the IMDb site itself:
1)Virginia Weidler: Heart attack, age 41
2)Larry Nunn: Self inflicted gun shot wound, age 49
3)Ray McDonald: Death by choking on food in hotel room, age 34
4)Ben Carter, age 35
5)Leo Gorcey: Liver failure, age 53
6)Douglas McPhail: poison, after 1st failed suicide attempt,age 30
7)Rags Ragland: uremic poisoning, age 40
8)Darla Hood: died in North Hollywood following a relatively minor
operation of acute hepatitis under "mysterious
circumstances", age 47
9)Richard Haydel, age 22 Was this film cursed? Or did actors die quicker then?
1)Virginia Weidler: Heart attack, age 41
2)Larry Nunn: Self inflicted gun shot wound, age 49
3)Ray McDonald: Death by choking on food in hotel room, age 34
4)Ben Carter, age 35
5)Leo Gorcey: Liver failure, age 53
6)Douglas McPhail: poison, after 1st failed suicide attempt,age 30
7)Rags Ragland: uremic poisoning, age 40
8)Darla Hood: died in North Hollywood following a relatively minor
operation of acute hepatitis under "mysterious
circumstances", age 47
9)Richard Haydel, age 22 Was this film cursed? Or did actors die quicker then?