Top cast:Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson,Gladys Field,R. Henry Grey
Director:Danny DeVito
Genre:Musical
Region:Algeria
Year:1999
Storyline:Meanwhile, the FBI's investigation into the Hardin family murders led to suspicions that Hardin, who had invested in a string of shopping centers during a recession, was shielding his record profits from the IRS.With much of the film's action occurring within a theatrical boarding house (the Footlights Club) for young, star-struck, vulnerable ingenues and debutantes, it is filled with bitchy and sassy, and stage-struck young women - who laugh and heckle each other, shed ears, express their hopes, dreams and aspirations, spout wisecracks, barbs, and insults, and genuine, heartfelt words of experience." [Note: Three Berlin songs were written for the film, but didn't make it in the final cut: "Wild About You," "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan," and "You're the Cause.He manufactures adulterous evidence for clients to collect payoff fees ("the big squeeze").[In Roman Polanski'sChinatown (1974), detective J.J.Gittes has a similar occupation as a divorce specialist].As a 'bedroom' detective, his devoted secretary Velda is used as date-bait to snare potentially adulterous husbands.