During a pause in the gunfight, Ambrose insultingly told Hunt about his mask-deception: "That was the hardest part of having to portray you grinning like an idiot every 15 minutes.It was financed due in part to the success of Disney""s earlier animated short,The Three Little Pigs (1933)." In Margo""s backstage dressing room, Karen is envious of Margo""s theatrical success: "You""re talented, famous, wealthy, people waiting around night after night, just to see you, even in the wind and the rain.Top Hatbecame RKO""s greatest box-office hit of the 30s (the moneymaker brought in over $3 million).By its second week (in September 1935), it had broken attendance records at New York""s Radio City Music Hall by taking in $245,000, and by its third week, it had accumulated $350,000 in ticket sales.