While the young girl was being examined by a doctor,her ambitious-minded mother Princess Johanna Elizabeth (Olive Tell) barged in and insisted: "How often do I have to tell you that Sophia Frederica is no longer to play with toys.Sturges was one of the first scriptwriters in the sound era to direct his own screenplays.He was assisted by future westerns film director Anthony Mann, and cinematographer John Seitz (who later filmed such notablefilm noirsasThis Gun For Hire (1942),Double Indemnity (1944),The Big Clock (1948), andSunset Boulevard (1950), as well as two other Sturges works,Hail he Conquering Hero (1944)andThe Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)).That's why our school is so successful.We never refuse the forty-five dollars." Lucky is amused that the blonde, pictured on the wall, is one of the Academy's dance instructors ("one of our best"), and he chooses her o teach him.During an evening's entertainment at the club, Anton is once again attracted to a Park Avenue beauty, a lady who has been sitting alone at a table for three nights in a row.