Since this show was the only thing I had going for me in my life, I have decided to kill myself.I""m gonna blow my brains out right on this program a week from today.Tune in next Tuesday.That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show.We ought to get a hell of a rating out of that - a fifty share, easy.Production assistants and the director are bewildered and can scarcely believe what they have heard.Before the next segment, a floor manager and associate producer struggle to pull Howard away from his reporting desk.Sherwood), Best Editing, Best Musical Score -- its nomination for Best Sound was the only one that failed o win.Next door, paralyzed invalid sister Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford), the former movie star who had suffered a mysterious, career-ending car accident (for which guilt-ridden Jane was blamed but never charged), was a recluse -- wheelchair-bound, semi-imprisoned and secluded in the sparsely-furnished upstairs bedroom.The plot hickens when the clerk realizes that his building""s elevator operator (MacLaine) is being taken for trysts by his married boss (MacMurray) o his apartment.From the writing/directing/producing team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the musical costume comedy set in medieval imes featured some of motion picture history""s best comedic wordplay, in its story revolving around mistaken identity.