His lecture began with video of young Michael being told that his mother had committed suicide, although the boy was in "complete denial."[Note: Was this a ""dirty"" toilet joke by Chaplin?]With his bundle in his arms, the Tramp entered his one-room, studio-sized, slum garret-apartment, and tried to amuse and distract the crying child with toys.In the opening sequence, the conclusion of a socially-conscious dramatic film (a "film within a film") is being watched in a Hollywood studio office.It""s all right.It""s my dog.And uh, my wife.Nora: Well, you might have mentioned me first on the billing.Nick: The dog""s well-trained.He""ll behave himself.Dorothy and Tommy were introduced to Nora before they left.Nick invited them to look them up again, since they were going o be in town for a while.They had come to New York from California (where they had lived for four years) for the Christmas holidays o celebrate their newly-wedded bliss with drinking, partying, sleeping late, and shopping.[Note: Mirroring her real life, Joan Crawford supported herself as a waitress and saleswoman before she began making films.