Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 American romantic comedy film adapted from Arthur Kober's 1937 Broadway play of the same name, directed by Alfred Santell and starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. along with Lucille Ball and Eve Arden.

Mac explains that the waiters have to pay for their jobs; they make their money in tips, and most of them are college students.

Chick gives up waiting, and Teddy accidentally falls asleep at Buzzy's cabin and stays overnight.

While trying to sneak out the next morning, Teddy is spotted by Miriam, who throws a rock through Buzzy's bedroom window.

Produced by Marc Connelly, it had its original Broadway run at the Lyceum Theatre from 20 February 1937 to 8 January 1938.

[3] The cast included John Garfield, Katherine Locke, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt and Cornel Wilde.

Thereupon, RKO very carefully explained that this angle would be entirely eliminated—that the picture would simply be about young people of the lower-middle class...So when I was called in to make the adaptation, the first thing I had to do was turn my Jewish characters into Gentiles. "

It includes the iconic "Doughnut Dunkers" routine that he developed with his wife, Edna (and eventually copyrighted in every possible combination of beverage and dunkable baked goods).

[5] That routine got him a job at New York City's Loew's State Theatre in 1937 and launched him into the big time on stage.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. wrote in his memoir, "...the big bosses at the studio were unable to appreciate Skelton's broad, slapstick style and cut his part down to the barest minimum needed to hold the slender plot together.