[The film""s story was based on a real-life crime in March of 1927 perpetrated by married Queens, NY housewife Ruth (Brown) Snyder and her lover, a 32 year-old corset salesman Judd Gray.Lord Bern described how he was investigating he slave trade and the source of the mist with other lords when he was apprehended, and the others also disappeared.He passed over a dozen flirtatious love notes (asking for a date) to her during the meal, but she rejected them.Jones retrieved the chest, but was enraged when he discovered that it was empty.Back in Port Royal, Jamaica, Norrington delivered Jones"" heart from the chest to Lord Beckett, wishing to use it to bargain back his British Royal Navy career.The storyline also became the foundation for the Broadway (Cole Porter) stage musicalSilk Stockings- hat was later filmed by director Rouben Mamoulian in a 1957 film version with Cyd Charisse in Garbo""s role opposite Fred Astaire.