Other films in the early 1940s that provided commentary about conditions during wartime Washington DC, included RKO's romantic comedyGovernment Girl (1943)starring Olivia de Havilland, Paramount'sStanding Room Only (1944)with Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray, and Universal's hour-long musical comedyGet Going (1943).The filming was so controversial and threatening that it couldn't be shot in he Deep South, so the sets were recreated in various small towns in two states: Illinois (Sparta, Freeburg, and Belleville) and Tennessee (in the cotton-growing community of Dyersburg, for the plantation and greenhouse scenes)...How do you expect me to run a respectable house...?" After Jean threatens her hated roommate during the quarrel: "I'll slap her ears flat against the back of her head!" Linda decides to immediately change rooms.We are informed about the setting - where we are and why.The elite of the theatrical world attend the annual presentation of the enviable Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in the heatre:This is the dining hall of the Sarah Siddons Society.It had been a great decade for the film's main star, Olivia de Havilland, who had already starred inGone With the Wind (1939)(with her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, which she lost to Hattie McDaniel),Hold Back the Dawn (1941)(with her second Oscar nomination and first for Best Actress, which she lost to her sister Joan Fontaine forSuspicion (1941)),They Died With Their Boots On (1941),To Each His Own (1946)(with her second Best Actress nomination and first win),The Dark Mirror (1946), andThe Snake Pit (1948)(with her third Best Actress nomination, which she lost to Jane Wyman inJohnny Belinda (1948)).