" One of the young, raw, wide-eyed, naively-confused girls is Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler in her film debut), who appears from behind a piano being hauled onto the stage.Props hat were thrown included rice (during the wedding scene), water from plastic pistols (during the thunderstorm), providing light (from cigarette lighters or flashlights during the musical number(There""s a Light) Over at the Frankenstein Place), or pieces of toast (when Frank proposed a dinner toast).It rightly deserved its sole Academy Award for Gregg Toland""s expressionistic, moody B/W cinematography.Myers stalked after her as she valiantly fought him off with a fireplace iron poker.She broke a window with the poker, and screamed at the police, who had just arrived: "He""s not dead," but wasn""t heard.