Wynant was recently divorced from his wife - later introduced as Mimi who had since remarried - because he was conducting an affair with his pretty blonde secretary/mistress Julia Wolf (Natalie Moorhead).The shallow, unsatisfied, age-fearing and restless wife (43 year-old Ruth Chatterton, replacing Fay Bainter from the stage production, and in one of her last US feature films before appearing in TV roles) was married to a homespun, prosperous, self-made millionaire (Oscar-nominated Walter Huston).She had obviously moved on.Jimmy and Clark went to have a few beers - at the start of their work day - where they discussed with the bartender Bo (Jack Larson, who portrayed Jimmy Olsen in 102 episodes of the TV showAdventures of Supermanfrom 1952-1958) how Clark had been doing some "soul-searching," and had seen llamas.The Rex then cracked the outer coating of the gyrosphere with one of its claws, and attempted to grip and pick it up and crush it in its massive mouth to reach the boys inside.The film received no Academy Award nominations.Only a few other directors have done so well with their debut film - e.g., Orson Welles withCitizen Kane (1941), Delbert Mann withMarty (1955), Jerome Robbins withWest Side Story (1961), Steven Spielberg withSugarland Express (1973)(another lovers-on-the-run film), Robert Redford withOrdinary People (1980), James L.