The event held in the greenhouse of the Botanical Gardens was a ploy to lure Mr.Freeze to the event.Two gorilla-costumed attendees were revealed to be Poison Ivy and Bane - the seductress blew sparkling purple powdery dust over the crowd and the caped crusaders to bewitch and seduce them and have them do her bidding (especially Robin, causing a rift between the duo), while she put the diamond necklace around her neck.Nobody important, really.Just a movie writer with a couple of 'B' pictures to his credit.The poor dope! He always wanted a pool.Well, in the end, he got himself a pool - only the price turned out to be a little high.[Note:The mansion, formerly belonging to J.Paul Getty, was on Wilshire Blvd.at Irving Blvd.Today, a Getty Oil office building stands on the site.Five years later, the same pool on the grounds of the deserted Getty mansion was used for one of the final scenes inRebel Without a Cause (1955).Stylistically, the film, in various places, resembles the German expressionist films of F.W.Murnau and Fritz Lang, although it also uses fluid and natural camera movements.King Vidor received an Academy Award nomination as Best Director, and the film itself was nominated as Best Unique and Artistic Picture in a short-lived award category, where it was defeated by Fox's and F.] The pathetic, bewildered and shy bride experiences fear, pain and guilt when psychologically dominated by the 'presence' (and memories) of the deceased first wife (named Rebecca but never seen on screen), and when she is tormented by Rebecca's blindly adoring, sinister and loyal housekeeper's (Judith Anderson) recollections of the dead woman.The film was originally working-titled "The Presbyterian Church Wager," but was changed when the official Presbyterian Church denomination leaders objected to its adult-oriented subject matter - and the film's main building structures were mostly brothels, drinking saloons, bathhouses and gambling dens.