Her rigid, puritanical mother vows that boys never respect a girl who goes all he way - love-struck Deanie is troubled by her own emerging, raw physical feelings:Mrs.I need your help - oh, I need it badly, but I""m not gonna beg for it.In the name of this state, which we love, in the name of the governor in whose house we meet, I demand it.With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, hree and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching an unadjusted intake of almost $200 million domestic, and just over $402 million worldwide), and Max Steiner""s sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed, Technicolor film was a blockbuster in its own time.When Hardwick, he show-business impresario departs from the club with the high-spirited Travers, the dancer again upsets the club""s hushed atmosphere and awakens club members by loudly tap-dancing his exit from the club.