Jeff, you""re just like your father...I can see him, back at his old rolltop desk, hat and all, getting out his papers.Always kept his hat on his head so he was ready to do battle.Clayton Smith, editor and publisher, and champion of lost causes." In a shared memory, Jeff thinks of his father""s motto:Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes.When the floor separates beneath them, they are so carried away with their hectic Charleston dancing that they don""t notice - and they plunge backwards into the pool.The planters supply the tenants with the simple requirements of every day life and in return, the tenants work the land year in and year out.Working titles for the film includedOo La La,Firecrackers,Grasshoppers, andCracked Ice.It was the Marx Brothers"" fifth film in a five-picture contract with Paramount Studios, before they went on to MGM.Well, you should have seen this kid fight for me that night."- "Honey, remember our last bout with champagne? Why say.We got so plastered why they threw us out in the gutter.And it took five waiters to do it.Yes, and not only that, it took five cops to land us in jail."- (And pulling him toward her for a kiss) "Oh Joe, it""s just life to see ya.Come here, crawl to me baby.Crawl o me."Later on in the evening, to get away from a tipsy Mrs.Jellyman and a bawdy and boozing Maudie, Joe excuses himself with Miss Healy to go on a house tour.Remaining at the table, Mrs.Jellyman asks:Mrs.Jellyman: Do you believe in love at first sight?Maudie: I dunno, but it saves an awful lot of time.Maudie remembers what Joe was like in the past: "When I first met him, he was a third-rate part.But I always said he had he makings, Mabel." Maudie offers her more to drink: "Your glass is empty! Now listen Mabel, if you""re gonna be Broadway, you gotta learn to take it.