On a budget of $2.2 million, the domestic box-office revenue totaled $7.27 million.The film""s success earned Monroe better roles opposite such stars as Laurence Olivier (as Elsie inThe Prince and the Showgirl (1957)), Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk inSome Like It Hot (1959)), and Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift (as Roslyn Taber inThe Misfits (1961)), before her untimely death at the age of 36 in 1962.[La Cava""s previous film was the classic screwball comedyMy Man Godfrey (1936).]The backstage comedy features snappy dialogue and acting from some of RKO""s greatest female stars - Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers (in her first serious actress rolewithoutAstaire), and other up-and-coming actresses such as Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Gail Patrick and Ann Miller (a 17 year old, underage actress who secured the part with a fake birth certificate)." Alice vowed to devise a plan with her friends that night to defeat Freddy: "Mind over matter." [Alice was acquiring the abilities, powers, sayings, and talents of those who were murdered by Freddy, and was planning to use them against him.There have been at least two satiricalFantasiaspoofs: (1) WB""sA Corny Concerto (1943)with Elmer Fudd impersonating Deems Taylor introducing animated shorts (Tales from the Vienna Woodsand theBlue Danube), and (2) Bruno Bozzetto""sAllegro non Troppo (1976)with six famous classical musical pieces visualized by a live-action story and animation (Debussy""sPrèlude à l""après-midi d""un faune, Dvorak""sSlavonic Dance, Ravel""sBolero, Sibelius""Valse Triste, Vivaldi""sConcerto in C-Dur, and Stravinsky""sThe Firebird).Wyatt returns to town, wakes up he mayor, and offers to take the Marshal""s job immediately to tame he community of Tombstone [its name symbolizes death], bring decency o the wild land, and seek revenge - legally - for the killing:Mayor? Is that Marshal job still open?.