In contrast to the fantasy, escapist romantic dance musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that also began in the same year (Flying Down to Rio (1933)), his film was an unglamorized look at the tough realities of backstage life behind the footlights.(He holds her hand.) Don""t you believe in love, Marguerite?Marguerite: I don""t think I know what it is.Armand: Oh, thank you.Marguerite: For what?Armand: For never having been in love.(She laughs at him.)...BackgroundThe master showman Cecil B.DeMille""sCleopatra(1934) is a modernistic 1930s costume spectacle that reshapes the Cleopatra story - the kind of film for which DeMille was best known...I was wonderin"", uh, if you wouldn""t mind marryin"" me very much?" She replied positively: "Yes, I""d like to marry you" and they kissed each other." Then, he accepted a few angry punches from Vanessa, and sincerely apologized for leaving her.After joking about the intervening years, he added: "I should have come and found you sooner." She reached out to remove his face-mask, but revealed only a picture of Hugh Jackman""s (Wolverine) face pasted on...If you""d brought along a band and a gun, you mighta got the job." Eddie is denied his pre-war garage mechanic""s job repairing cabs by his ex-foreman Fletcher (Joseph Crehan): "Sorry Eddie, I haven""t anything for you.