John""s blind date, who is a friend of Bert""s girl friend Jane (Estelle Clark), is named Mary (Eleanor Boardman) - she is a plain-dressed, no-makeup, dowdy, gum-chewing stenographer:Jane.BackgroundMurder, My Sweet(1944) was to be released with the original itle of its literary source, writer Raymond Chandler""s 1940 novelFarewell, My Lovely, although it was changed so that fans of 30s song-and-dance star Dick Powell, portraying the main character, wouldn""t think the film was a musical comedy." Producers Jones (Robert McWade) and Barry (Ned Sparks) are planning to stagePretty Lady- a Broadway musical, despite the Depression, and they have hired the well-known "musical comedy director" Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter)." He warns the two misfits to leave town as soon as possible:Sheriff: Fiddlin"" huh? Well, we don""t like your kind around these parts.