Gossip Friday: Dachshund Wanted

From November 1935:

Carole [Lombard] is playing in “Hands Across the Table,” with Fred MacMurray and Ralph Bellamy. We drop in with the F.S. Reinhardts from Minneapolis for a chat, to find her trundling Ralph in a wheelchair, for a scene in the flicker.

Enter Fieldsie, Carole’s secretary: “Carole, I give up. I can’t find a black, male dachshund anywhere.”

Carole: “But we’ve got to!”

Ralph Bellamy: “Try Frank Morgan–he knows all about dachshunds.”

We: “What’s this all about?”

Carole: “Well, the nephew of a friend of mine lost his dachshund, and he is broken-hearted. I’ve got to locate one just like it before the boy discovers his pet is dead.”

Fieldsie: “I found one that fits the description except–it’s a girl.”

Carole: (looking pained) “What a help you are!”

Director: “Ready, Miss Carole. Ready, Mr. Bellamy.”