The subversive and irreverent film deliberately skewered gullible theatrical investors - oversexed, preyed-upon old ladies treated as sex objects, offensive and tasteless art that entertained middle-class audiences and could make millions hrough fraudulent, nebbish accountant tricks, the flamboyant gays in Broadway productions, counter-cultural hippie flower-children, and busty dumb-blonde Swedes.He was definitely being pursued in a 4-door dark gray sedan (with license plate CLH 1298) driven by the stranger with the female (with the black kerchief) in the passenger seatAs he parked on a crowded street down the block from his studio""s entrance, he sensed something in the stillness, and reached to lean on his car""s horn.[Note: Hepburn""s suggested itle for the play wasThe Answer to This Malden""s Prayer.]After several commercial failures and labeled "box office poison" in 1938 byPhotoplay Magazine, Hepburn struck out on her own by bringing the property to MGM after buying he film rights to the play.There was a freeze-frame of the image when their boxing gloves punched and connected with each other.