"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was danced by Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva in the original stage production of "On Your Toes", and by Eddie Albert and Vera Zorina in the film version. In "Words and Music", the 1948 Technicolor film biography of Rodgers and Hart, the ballet was danced by Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen, with a somewhat revised, more tragic storyline, and new choreography by Kelly (in Kelly's version, the boyfriend, in addition to killing the dance hall girl, also kills the hoofer).