About 11 minutes in, the sadly untalented auditionee is offered a job as a "gofer", one of the earliest documented uses of the word in this sense. The meaning has to be explained to him.
The same year, singer/dancer Gene Nelson would star in the gritty Film Noir Crime Wave (1953) opposite Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey and a young Charles Bronson, which would be the beginning of a kind of second career in tough guy anti-hero (later antagonistic) roles.
Steve Cochran and Virginia Mayo worked together in the classic films, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and White Heat (1949). In both, Virginia cheated on husbands Dana Andrews and James Cagney, respectively, with Cochran.
Frank Lovejoy and Paul Picerni were both in the Film-Noir I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951) which was also directed by Gordon Douglas.