He comes down the main staircase with a grand entrance, wearing a black cape (through which can be seen a high-collared silk shirt and bow tie), high top hat, and a cane with a taxi horn on the end of it.Ironically, although the film was advertised as authentic and accurate, the film""s major black roles in the film -- including the Senator""s mulatto mistress, the mulatto politican brought to power in the South, and faithful freed slaves -- were stereotypically played and filled by white actors - in blackface."He joins her tent ministry, and becomes her genuine lover after sweet-talking her to have sex with him:One minute you""re a howling banshee, the next, you""re cold potatoes.Dowd (James Stewart), who believed he was befriended by a giant six-foot rabbit that no one else could see.To his surprise, she introduced her newly-wed husband Mort (or "Pinky") Snyke (Robert Nichols).The BBQ was held in a sunny and hot wide-open space near the home.Weakened by the harsh sun, the beautifully luminous but fading Leslie sought shade under one of the few trees on the property, while Jett lingered on the outskirts of the gathering near the black convertible, and Bick tended to the BBQ pit with Luz.