The story is a classic, timeless, universal tale of attempted murder, love, emotion, seduction, and reconciliation.Don""t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.While she indignantly belly-aches at his insults with loud, grating utterances such as "Ah-ah-aw-aw-oo-oo!", he delivers a well-aimed tirade at the deterioration of the English language.Did it show? Is talent like hat - written on the face? Which one of them could he be?At that instant, an unidentified, giggling white-whigged gentlemen was viewed immaturely chasing a laughing, blue-dressed girl through the throngs of stately guests.Already in hell [pointing up mistakenly] or in heaven [pointing down mistakenly].Sorry for the grave diggers.Hard work.It is frost.[The film both begins and ends with a funeral sequence and the burial of the same person.]Holly hurriedly rushes to the gravesite in the cemetery to attend Harry""s funeral.As he approaches, he inquires about the cryptic ceremony, and is told by a distant onlooker (later identified as Major Calloway): "A fellow called Lime.He was put through a series of challenges: financial, social, and emotional.The film was quickly made by director Vincente Minnelli while he was preparing production for his next film:An American in Paris (1951).