J.- and suck in the sweet smell of success!The film""s central actor, Burt Lancaster, also served (with his press agent Harold Hecht) as the head of the film""s production company (with hits includingThe Flame and the Arrow (1950),Apache (1954),Vera Cruz (1954), Best Picture winnerMarty (1955), andTrapeze (1956)).Before the school buses departed at 4:15 pm, Miss Tate taught an English literature class on Mary Shelley""s novelFrankenstein.However, MacDonald (a descendant of slaves himself) appealed to Caesar to show mercy: "This is not how it was to be."The restaurant-lunch scene, the second scene in the film, is one of the film""s funniest.During the meal, Walter deliberately sits between Bruce and Hildy.He congratulates the bridegroom on his choice of a star reporter: "...You""re getting a great little girl for yourself...You""re getting something else too, Bruce, you""re getting a great newspaperman...One of the best I ever knew.Sorry o see her go.Darn sorry, Hildy." Bruce wonders if Hildy has any doubts about leaving the newspaper business and then realizes his is her first chance "to have a home and to be like you said - a human being, and I""m gonna make you take that chance.