 A mousy screenwriter played by Elisha Cook, Jr. outlines his script for the screen adaptation of "Hellzapoppin", and the rest of the movie depicts Cook's script.The 1942 Academy Awards nomination for Best Song of "Pig Foot Pete," (which lost to "White Christmas"), was attributed to "Hellzapoppin',"; however, the song never appeared in the film -- it was actually performed in the Abbott and Costello film "Keep 'Em Flying", another Universal Pictures production from 1941.The film has a 5-minute long jazz and lindy hop dance sequence at approximately the 48th minute of the film.