For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

His surname was legally changed to Moody in 1930. Moody then 80 but still spry and Jack Wild (seriously ill with oral cancer at the time) recreated their dance from the closing credits of the film. He acted again with former Oliver! co-star Jack Wild in Flight of the Doves.