Other attendees at Luthor""s Metropolis philanthropist event includedDaily Planetreporter Clark Kent and mysterious antiques dealer Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) - the curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris.] The screenplay by Morrie Ryskind (a co-screenwriter for the Marx Bros.""A Night at the Opera (1935)) and Eric Hatch was based on Hatch""s own short novel1011 Fifth Avenue.The film displays the mad-cap personalities of a wildly rich, eccentric family.One of its members - a flighty socialite/heiress, finds a down-and-out "forgotten man" tramp in a hobo colony during a scavenger hunt, and hires him as the family""s butler.As a film pioneer and producer of over 500 short films, Melies made up and invented the film medium as he directed.The innovative finale is an overwhelming, rhythmic, conglomerate sequence which weaves all four stories into a stirring, fast-moving and exciting climax - as the suspenseful drama begins to conclude, he cross-cutting increases in tempo and rapidity with shorter and shorter segments of each tale flowing together.Only Sessue Hayakawa, a former silent screen star and one of the first important Asian stars, who was nominated for his Best Supporting Actor role as the hot-tempered Japanese colonel, lost.