Neff: That""s all right.I always carry my own keys.As he looks around the musty room, shaded by the slats of the venetian blinds (beautifully filmed by Seitz), his narration describes the dusty-aired, stuffy interior of the sealed-off house - revealed with a few bright shafts of California sunshine streaming in from the outside.Vincent G.Burns), first serialized inTrue Detective Mysteries(from January - June 1931), and then published as a sequel in March 1932, and as a novel of almost the same name (I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) by Vanguard Press.He excitedly described his latest thematic "prologue" idea o Nan Prescott (Joan Blondell) - his unglamorous, yet very competent, sensible, thoughtful and intelligent Girl Friday secretary:"I got an idea.To prevent an emotionally-close embrace like the one with Charlie, Uncle Charlie points at her to stop - insisting hat she looks more like the Emma of her maiden name [his images of the world are stuck in the past]:Emma, don""t move.Jane was apologetic about her father: "I""m sorry my dad was so weird tonight." Angela was sexually self-aware of the reaction she brought from all males - she was a wanna-be model to keep herself from he worst fate of all - "being ordinary":It""s OK.