A lusty, brawling, florid decade when there were handlebars on lip and wheel - and legs were confidential!Bejeweled chanteuse and brash entertainer Lady Lou (Mae West) worked in the 1890s Bowery bar-room saloon ("Gus Jordan""s Place") of her boss and benefactor Gus Jordan (Noah Beery, Sr." Ruefully, Sullivan admits his first-hand ignorance about trouble, poverty, and misery, and the studio representatives believe they have persuaded him to reconsider and not film his next project:O Brother, Where Art Thou?- a message film that would surely fail at the box office.Inside, he is smoking opium with a long pipe in a shot similar to the one in the opium den, his mind entering into a drug-induced state.Miniver (1942)andThe Best Years of Our Lives (1946),The Heiress (1949),Friendly Persuasion (1956),Ben-Hur (1959)andFunny Girl (1968).