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* LowClearance: As a dolly rig passes under a tree, Nitvich and his chair are caught on a branch, leaving him dangling.
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* ChorusGirls: A big number in ''The Texas Tornado'' has Joan sing a song, accompanied by two lines of leg-kicking chorus girls.
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* IAmSong: Joan's character in the film-within-a-film sings a song where she boasts "I am the queen of the border cantina, the toast of the Texas frontier."
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* AlcoholHic: InUniverse Joan does this when asked to demonstrate a "soused" accent. (Nitvitch the FunnyForeigner keeps confusing "souse" for "south".)
* TheCameo: Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnGarfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids (called the "Crime School Kids" for some reason), George Brent, and MarieWilson.Wilson, are all seen in the studio cafeteria.
* CrowdSong: The waitresses in the studio cafe sing a song about being waitresses.
* TheCameo: Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnGarfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids (called the "Crime School Kids" for some reason), George Brent, and Marie
* CrowdSong: The waitresses in the studio cafe sing a song about being waitresses.
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* OldFashionedRowboatDate: InUniverse, Joan does such a scene for her screen test for ''The Texas Tornado''. Her co-star is apparently a singing cowboy.
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The highlight of the film is the scene in the Warner Brothers cafeteria featuring cameos from several stars of the day.
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* TheCameo: The highlight of the movie is all the starts in the Warner Brothers cafeteria: Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnGarfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids (called the "Crime School Kids" for some reason), George Brent, and Marie Wilson.
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''Swingtime in the Movies'' is a 1938 short film (20 minutes) directed by Crane Wilbur.
Down on the Warner Brothers lot Nitvich the director is struggling with his latest production, a Western called ''The Texas Tornado''. He has to fire his actress, who not only can't do the required southern accent but also speaks with a lisp. On a lunch break, Nitvitch and his assistant Sammy head over to the Warner Brothers cafeteria. There they run into lovely Joan Mason, an aspiring actress working as a waitress in the cafe, who as it happens has a southern accent.
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* TheCameo: The highlight of the movie is all the starts in the Warner Brothers cafeteria: Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnGarfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids (called the "Crime Kids" for some reason), George Brent, and Marie Wilson.
* FilmWithinAFilm: ''The Texas Tornado'' is suffering from a TroubledProduction.
* FunnyForeigner: Nitvich is high-strung and speaks with a thick accent and confuses his words, saying "loafers" instead of "lovers" and "souse" instead of "south", the latter leading his actresses to act drunk when he asks them to do the accent.
* HighClassGlass: Nitvich's use of this contrasts humorously with his hysterical accents.
* TheMusical: Five songs crammed into a 20-minute movie.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The German accent, the widow's peak, the monocle--Nitvich the director sure does look a lot like Creator/FritzLang.
* SpeechImpediment: Nitvich's actress has a lisp. She actually makes Nitvich start speaking with a lisp as well, to his horror.
Down on the Warner Brothers lot Nitvich the director is struggling with his latest production, a Western called ''The Texas Tornado''. He has to fire his actress, who not only can't do the required southern accent but also speaks with a lisp. On a lunch break, Nitvitch and his assistant Sammy head over to the Warner Brothers cafeteria. There they run into lovely Joan Mason, an aspiring actress working as a waitress in the cafe, who as it happens has a southern accent.
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!!Tropes:
* TheCameo: The highlight of the movie is all the starts in the Warner Brothers cafeteria: Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/JohnGarfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids (called the "Crime Kids" for some reason), George Brent, and Marie Wilson.
* FilmWithinAFilm: ''The Texas Tornado'' is suffering from a TroubledProduction.
* FunnyForeigner: Nitvich is high-strung and speaks with a thick accent and confuses his words, saying "loafers" instead of "lovers" and "souse" instead of "south", the latter leading his actresses to act drunk when he asks them to do the accent.
* HighClassGlass: Nitvich's use of this contrasts humorously with his hysterical accents.
* TheMusical: Five songs crammed into a 20-minute movie.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The German accent, the widow's peak, the monocle--Nitvich the director sure does look a lot like Creator/FritzLang.
* SpeechImpediment: Nitvich's actress has a lisp. She actually makes Nitvich start speaking with a lisp as well, to his horror.
