Hairspray (1988 film) film version of "Hairspray", an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for "The Corny Collins Show", a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life "Buddy Deane Show"). Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). However, despite being
William Tracy William Tracy William Tracy (December 1, 1917 – July 18, 1967) was an American character actor. Tracy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is perhaps best known for the role of Pepi Katona, the delivery boy, in "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940). He starred in the John Ford film "Tobacco Road" (1941), and appeared in "Brother Rat" (1938) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941). In 1940, Tracy began a recurring role as Sgt. Dorian "Dodo" Doubleday in a string of Hal Roach's Streamliners service comedies, the first of which was "Tanks a Million". Surprisingly, this B-movie comedy