As with many of Preston Sturges"" other classic comedies, it lacked Academy Award nominations.Plot SynopsisOpening Titles Sequence:The fast-paced, ""comedy-of-errors"" film opens with a frenzied credit montage of confusing, mystifying vignettes without dialogue and interspersed with freeze frames - the strange prologue is only explained in the final moments of the film...you will receive a check for five thousand dollars!Mommer: Vat efer vill you do mit all dose money, Trina?Marcus: (cynically and trying to hide his disappointment that he has been cheated) Get married on it.She made her first stage appearance, at the age of four, inMidsummer Night""s Dream.She played a fairy and entered - quite unexpectedly - stark naked.She has been a Star ever since.Margo is a great Star.A true star.She never was or will be anything less or anything else.Miss Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), an actress who we soon learn "all about" in flashback, is being honored as the youngest recipient ever to win he Sarah Siddons Award as Best Actress - "such a young lady, young in years, but whose heart is as old as the theater.Alone, our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.The Wienie King points to a bird embroidered on her wrap-around robe: "I love birds." He guesses that if she""s he penniless tenant, she "must be broke." The elderly gentleman sympathetically and grimly remembers his own impoverished youth and his passing years, quickly ready to offer charitable support: "I was broke too when I was about your age, but I didn""t have a figure like you""ve got.