I suspect that Pal Joey and its poor reviews still rankled with Hart after several years, but I more suspect that it was a good, fast, easy hook/explanation for the movie audience about Hart's general state of mind. There are so many lyrics, from 1925 to 1943, that clearly point to a general unhappiness with the ways of the world, the despair of the outsider beating at doors to get inside, that break my heart. Josh Logan once told Bruce Pomahac, in a discussion of the wonderful "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" which is a comedy number in I Married an Angel, that people went to Rodgers & Hart shows for the comedy numbers. Was no one working with Hart aware of all the serious trouble he was in?