He would caress her hair, hold her hand, encourage her, read to her outloud from a pulp western (asking: "Can you hear me, Adrian?"), and write simple rhyming poems to her.Alone with his girlfriend Diane (Susan Egbert) in the kitchen, Jeff bemused about changing people""s tastes and dreams:I did a thing about suicides of the American Indian.Do you still thirst for Dwarf blood?"In the night, Beorn transformed back into human form, entered his own dwelling, and served the Dwarves a morning meal.Director William Wellman""s pre-code, box-office smash, shot in less than a month at a cost of approximately $151,000, was released at approximately the same time as another classical gangster film -Little Caesar (1930/31)that starred Edward G.H.Hughson (John Williams).His company is in he business of insuring the jewelry of wealthy clients.Robie (now using the alias of "Smith") guiltlessly makes an "intriguing" and "unorthodox" proposition hat resembles gambling: "a little help in return for some of your losses.