I remember describing it to the cast, based on a dim memory of watching "Gold-Diggers of 1933" on TV.

I have the weird feeling that I knew the song before seeing the film for the first time with my cousins in their old apartment, maybe as much as eight or nine years ago now, but the staging just knocked me sideways. I don't know if I could evaluate it then, but now it looks to me very different from most of Berkeley's work: narrative, theatrical, expressionistic, focused on male bodies instead of female. I should try to read something about the making of the film.