A rather free and updated version of the famous Scott Fitzgerald short story, which was itself inspired by an actual incident at a Hollywood party given by Irving Thalberg and his wife Norma Shearer. At the party, a drunken Fitzgerald had made a fool of himself by singing a sentimental song, something which is said by several of his biographers to have done him great harm in the movie community.
Dick Powell was still alive when this segment was first aired in the US, and it has, as usual, an introduction by him. When the show was first aired on British television in 1963, however, Powell had recently died, and the introduction was now instead made by David Niven - a shorter introduction, but replicating some of Powell's remarks verbatim.
Closing credits: The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.