This film was in the tradition of other backstage dramas (such as Gregory La Cava""sStage Door (1937)) and tales of unknown actresses rising to stardom (such as William Wellman""sA Star is Born (1937)).She looked in a mirror in vain disgust: "Oh, God, I look 20 years old." She asked Glen questions about dreams foretelling the future, or his belief in the Boogeyman, and then asked him for a favor to help her in an experiment." Koba told Caesar""s impressionable son Blue Eyes about his father""s dangerous attachment to humans: "Your father doesn""t trust me now.e., Louis Pasteur inThe Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Emile Zola inThe Life of Emile Zola (1937), and President Benito Pablo Juarez inJuarez (1939).