Just then, as Steven and Officer Randy arrived, Steven stole the deputy""s gun and fired multiple shots into Robert""s head and body, to protect Jessica.As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award.It was filmed over a six-week period in the Lake Tahoe, CA area at Emerald Bay.One of the main characters in the dance was credited as the Corn Queen (Mary Loos).During the scene, a Native-American and the Corn Queen danced on a gigantic drum or tom-tom as it was twirled around by other costumed dancers and participants.Elsa chose what she believed was the true Grail - a solid gold, emerald-encrusted goblet (although she might have had a change of heart and deliberately selected the wrong one?).He selected an open-collared, patterned shirt and ight polyester bell-bottom pants for his planned evening out at he dance club.