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Night and Day [DVD] [1946]
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Release Date:12/04/2018
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood wag came up with a potential story angle: "How does the S.O.B. make his second million dollars?" By the time the Porter biopic Night and Day was released, the three-person scriptwriting team still hadn't come up with a compelling storyline, though the film had the decided advantages of star Cary Grant and all that great Porter music. Roughly covering the years 1912 to 1946, the story begins during Porter's undergraduate days at Yale University, where he participated in amateur theatricals under the tutelage of waspish professor Monty Woolley (who plays himself). Though Porter's inherited wealth could have kept him out of WWI, he insists upon signing up as an ambulance driver. While serving in France, he meets nurse Linda Lee (Alexis Smith), who will later become his wife. Focusing his attentions on Broadway and the London stage in the postwar years, Porter pens an unbroken string of hit songs, including "Just One of Those Things," "You're the Top," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Begin the Beguine," and the title number. The composition of this last-named song is one of the film's giddy highlights, as Porter, inspired by the "drip drip drip" of an outsized rainstorm, runs to the piano and cries "I think I've got it!" The film's dramatic conflict arises when Porter is crippled for life in a polo accident. Refusing to have his legs amputated, he makes an inspiring comeback, even prompting a WWI amputee to remark upon his courage! Corny and unreliable as biography, Night and Day is redeemed by the guest appearances of musical luminaries Mary Martin (doing a spirited if disappointingly demure version of her striptease number "My Heart Belongs to Daddy") and Ginny Simms, the latter cast as an ersatz Ethel Merman named Carole Hill. Jane Wyman, seen as Porter's pre-nuptial sweetheart Gracie Harris, also gets to sing and dance, and quite well indeed. Beset with production problems, not least of which was the ongoing animosity between star Grant and director Michael Curtiz, Night and Day managed to finish filming on schedule, and proved to be an audience favorite -- except for those "in the know" Broadwayites who were bemused over the fact that Cole Porter's well-known homosexuality was necessarily weaned from the screenplay.~Hal Erickson
Features
Vintage Shorts Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra and Musical Movieland
Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in the Classic Looney Tunes Cartoon The Big Snooze
Cole Porter Musicals Trailer Gallery
Director
- Michael Curtiz
Writers
- Charles Hoffman
- Jack Moffitt
- Leo Townsend
- William Bowers
Cast
- Cary GrantCole Porter
- Alexis SmithLinda Lee Porter
- Monty WoolleyHimself
- Jane WymanGracie Harris
- Dorothy MaloneNancy
- Eve ArdenGabrielle
- Herman Bing"Peaches"
- Tom D'AndreaBernie
- Paul CavanaghBart McClelland
- John AlvinPetey
- Alan HaleLeon Dowling
- Victor FrancenAnatole Giron
- Howard FreemanProducer
- Milada MladovaSpecialty dancer
- Clarence MusePorter
- Mary MartinHerself
- Carlos RamirezSpecialty singer
- George RileyO'Halloran
- Selena RoyleKate Porter
- Sig RumannWillowsky
- Ginny SimmsCarole Hill
- Boyd DavisDean
- Harry SeymourPiano Player
- Henry StephensonOmar Cole
- Bobby Watson
- Donald WoodsWard Blackburn
- Philip Van ZandtLibrettist
- George ZoritchSpecialty dancer
- Richard BartellPhotographer
- Edward BibySurgeon
- George BoyceStage Manager
- George NokesWayne Blackburn Child
- Harlan BriggsDoorman
- Peter CamlinFrench Lieutenant
- Regina WallaceTina's Mother
- Chester CluteMusic Publisher
- John Compton
- Harry CrockerNewspaperman
- Frank FergusonTina's father
- Harold de BeckerEnglish Workman
- Henri DeSotoWaiter
- Fern EmmettSecretary
- Herbert EvansBobby
- Helen PenderPretty Nurse
- Rudy FrimlOrchestra Leader
- Gene GarrickSoldier
- Pat GleasonDance Director
- John W. GoldsworthyYale Gentleman
- Lisa Golm
- Buddy GormanEnglish Page Boy
- Susanne RosserChorine
- Hans HerbertHeadwaiter
- Rune HultmanAmerican Lieutenant
- Lynne BaggettSexboat
- Gladden James
- Edward KellyCallboy
- Colin KennyDoorman
- George KirbyCab Driver
- Mike Lally
- Ellen Lowe
- Frank MarloweArmy Driver
- Tom McGuire
- Bob McKenzieHansom Cab Driver
- Eddie KaneHeadwaiter
- George MeaderMinister
- John Miles
- Charles MillerProfessor
- Jack MowerLivery Chauffeur
- Gregory MuradianSmall Caroler
- Mayo NewhallBearded Man
- Vivien OaklandMarried Couple
- Garry OwenBartender
- Albert PetitFrench Waiter
- Joe Kirkwood, Jr.Classmate
- Robert ArthurCustomer
- Marie MeleschScrub Woman
- Virginia SaleMinister's Wife
- Fred SantleyYale Alumni
- Wallace ScottChauffeur
- Almira SessionsCouple in Hospital Corridor
- Laura TreadwellWoman in Theater
- Elizabeth ValentineMatron in Hospital
- John VosperMan
- Crane WhitleyCommercial Artist
- Charles WilliamsCustomer
- Eric WiltonEnglish Officer
- Joan WinfieldNurse
- Ernest GolmForeign Couple
- Paul GustineMen in Theater
- Rebel RandallChorus Girl
- Jo Ann MarloweTina
- Bernard DeRouxAssistant to Giron
- Richard ErdmanCustomer
- Joyce ComptonChorine
Crew
- Arthur SchwartzProducer
- J. Peverell MarleyCinematographer
- William SkallCinematographer
- Leo F. ForbsteinMusical Direction/Supervision
- Max SteinerComposer (Music Score)
- Ray HeindorfComposer (Music Score)
- David WeisbartEditor
- John HughesArt Director
- Jack L. WarnerExecutive Producer
- Milo AndersonCostume Designer
- William TravillaCostume Designer
- Robert BurksSpecial Effects
- Perc WestmoreMakeup
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Q: Questionis this version in b&w or color ?
Asked by snowy.
- A:Answer It is a Technicolor movie
Answered by David
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