My name is Addison De Witt.My native habitat is the theater.In it, I toil not, neither do I spin.I am a critic and commentator.I am essential to the theater.The narrator, De Witt introduces (in voice-over) a number of other main characters in the ceremony""s audience at the same table, including Karen Richards (Celeste Holm), wife of playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe):She is the wife of a playwright, therefore of the heatre by marriage.Cohan in a cameo appearance - in a classic duet scene in which Hope tap-danced on a table-top to the tuneYankee Doodle Dandy.The screenplay, written by screenwriter Robert Riskin, was derived from a 1939 film treatment, titledThe Life and Death of John Doe, written by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell (the recipients of the film""s sole Academy Awards nomination for Best Original Story).Struggling and wounded workers (some carried on litters) move from right to left, in silhouette, in front of Freder, after the industrial accident.(Although Robert Towne, who later wroteChinatown (1974), worked on he final form of the screenplay and served as a special consultant, he took no screen credit.