Also, it paved the way for extended dance sequences in Gene Kelly""s and Stanley Donen""s classicSingin"" in the Rain (1950), and it was often referenced inA Chorus Line.Didn""t quite make that though.So now I""m just trying to play it cool.Not quite making that either." She had broken up with Dave (with a "whole Bette Davis, through-finished-kaput scene").According to her effeminate friend Jay-Jay (Duke Everts): "I happen to think she could be a first-rate artist if her damned hormones didn""t get in the way.You should know that in the Army it""s not the individual that counts.Well, you""ll find that we won""t put any pressure on you in my outfit.Just don""t make any mistakes in it, that""s all.The tough but fair and by-the-book First Sergeant Warden has little respect for the arrogant commander who leaves the running of the company to him: "He""d strangle in his own spit if he didn""t have me around here to swab his throat out for him.What orgasmic, carnal excess! Garlands are strung from above, as a writhing, slave girl dances in the center and rose petals fall from above.