Holiday Inn/Trivia

• Defictionalization/The Red Stapler: Sortakinda. The "Holiday Inn" hotel chain is named for this movie.
• Enforced Method Acting: Fred Astaire was really drunk for the drunken dance: he took two shots of bourbon before the first take, and another shot before each additional take. What ended up in the final film is something like the seventh take.
• Technology Marches On: Several very obvious examples, ranging from a console record player to a studio telephone that's useless because the operator has gone home for the night.