He quickly removes his nightshirt to reveal a suit, and slides down an unlikely fireman""s pole into the spacious ballroom hall.Big Daddy""s wife "Big Mama" Ida (Judith Anderson) joyfully delivers jubilant news about his medical report: "The exploratory operation proved there""s nothin"" wrong with Big Daddy.Most of the characters were hiding serious problems and issues.Cracks in the facade of the high-society members began to emerge - suicide, financial ruin due to a business take-over, love, infidelity, economic pressure, class conflict, the dawn of the talkies, divorce, aging and fading careers, and alcoholism all adversely affected their interactions.She entered the room using a detecting instrument to determine where the object was hidden near a bathtub, and they engaged in flirtatious conversation in the tub itself.