The ambient noise of the band faded in his mind as the camera focused on his spellbound gaze.The Lolita-esque female teasingly winked at him and then performed (in his fantasizing projective mind) a personal, one-on-one clothed striptease for him.Gittes"" off-screen assistant, Walsh, thinks that Mulwray is obsessed with water after visiting three reservoirs a day earlier: "The guy""s got water on the brain.Go in and tell her you""re going to the convention.Be a man, and I""ll see you in the morning." Inside his own house, Ollie is confronted by his formidable wife Mrs.Lottie Chase Hardy (Mae Busch), whom he sweetly calls "Sugar." After learning that Stan""s wife Betty is duck-hunting and that he has just locked himself out of his own house, Ollie receives permission from his wife for Stan to come in and wait until she returns.The film""s witty script, written specifically for Astaire and Rogers, was written by Dwight Taylor (author ofThe Gay Divorcee) and Allan Scott - and was based on the playThe Girl Who Dared, by Alexander Farago and Aladar Laszlo.Orson Welles served as director, producer, screenplay writer, and actor, basing his screenplay upon Sherwood King""s 1938 novelIf I Die Before I Wake.