Stewart's last three film releases of 1936 were all box-office successes. He had only a bit part in "The Gorgeous Hussy", but a starring role in the musical "Born to Dance". His performance in the latter was not well-received: "The New York Times" stated that his "singing and dancing will (fortunately) never win him a song-and-dance-man classification," and "Variety" called "his singing and dancing [...] rather painful on their own," although it otherwise found Stewart aptly cast in an "assignment calls for a shy youth." Stewart's last film to be released in 1936, "After the Thin Man", featured him as a murderer. Kate Cameron of the "New York Daily News" wrote that he "has one grand scene in which he demonstrates most effectively that he is something more than a musical comedy juvenile."