Both James Stewart""s performance and Kim Novak""s marvelous transformations - from Madeleine to Judy, and to Judy (pretending to be Madeleine) - are rarely matched in the history of cinema.Little does Luke know that theGALACTIC EMPIRE has secretlybegun construction on a newarmored space station evenmore powerful than the firstdreaded Death Star.)), and director Billy Wilder""s Oscar-winning dramaThe Apartment (1960).Six years later, Vidor independently produced and directed a ""talkie"" sequel toThe Crowd(intended as part of a film rilogy) titledOur Daily Bread (1934)- it was a Depression-Era, hard-times social drama about an idealistic man who was running a farm cooperative organized as a socialistic society - in the country away from the crowd.Romantic dance numbers (love duets) help Astaire win he scornful Rogers over to him - (first with "Isn""t This a Lovely Day?" in England, and later with "Cheek to Cheek" in Venice, Italy).Another fortune-hunter is Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain), who has just made a lucky strike fortune of gold.