As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on Turner Classic Movies. Only one has stayed with me: the end of what I would eventually come to learn was the 1948 film Words and Music, a biographical musical about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. In the final scene, Hart, played by Mickey Rooney, sneaks out of a hospital to watch a musical before staggering out into the rain and dying.