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You can see this on Youtube ("Lillian Roth Sings Songs from the 1920s and 1930s"). What pleasure you can get from Lillian's singers is marred by boring non-singing interludes.

Saw its TV debut and remember only one thing, and if the whole movie had been as good as this scene the film would be a classic: I refer to Jerry Lewis, standing in front of a theater, sees Dean Martin approaching in slow motion. Jerry could not be more in awe of this stranger than if it had been Moses sashaying down the sidewalk.

I saw this at the age of 16, when I didn't know Samuel Johnson from Hildy Johnson, Walter Johnson, or Howard Johnson's. It was absorbing in a grown-up sophisticated cultural way that was fairly knew to me. Can still picture a few seconds of it over 60 years on. Have scoured the web but cannot find a video, even though there is some old Omnibus material out there. Much price TV studio tapes were dumped or reused, including the first Johnny Carson shows.