" She contemptuously kicks up the back of her evening dress toward Jerry as she leaves he apartment with her Aunt and escort.The screenplay by Grover Jones and Samson Raphaelson, about a pair of sophisticated thieves (played exquisitely by Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins), was based on the playThe Honest Finder, by Aladar Laszlo (incorrectly transposed in the credits).Soon, everyone joins them in the water, including the school principal.George and Mary walk home together, returning from he high school dance after falling in the pool and soaking their party clothes.It won one Oscar, for Best Visual Effects.The film was snubbed by he Academy that instead voted its top accolades to the odd musicalOliver! (1968)based upon the Charles Dickens tale.