Rudy Vallée and 1940s, and by the time he began working with Preston Sturges in the 1940s, he had become a successful comedic supporting player. He appeared opposite Claudette Colbert in Sturges's 1942 screwball comedy "The Palm Beach Story". Other films in which he appeared include "I Remember Mama", "Unfaithfully Yours" and "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer". In 1955, Vallée was featured in "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", co-starring Jane Russell, Alan Young, and Jeanne Crain. The production was filmed on location in Paris. The film was based on the Anita Loos novel that was a sequel to her acclaimed "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". "Gentlemen
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown in color with Dean Martin in his first semi-serious role - which he's done fabulously since - and the publicity alone would have pulled it off. Or we should have had another director...Norman still got his slapstick ending, but it just seemed old fashioned without color. The picture was neither fish nor fowl, but I still liked it.". Despite her honest assessment of the movie, Jane considered "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown," along with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as the two favorite films of her career . "Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" bombed when it was released in the fall of 1957 and