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THIS IS THE NIGHT









THIS IS THE NIGHT was Cary Grant's first feature film.


This Is the Night (film)

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This Is the Night
This is the Night poster.jpg
Theatrical poster with Lilli Damita and Cary Grant
Directed byFrank Tuttle
Produced byBenjamin Glazer (uncredited)
Written byBenjamin Glazer
George Marion Jr.
play Naughty Cinderella
Avery Hopwood
play Pouche
Henry Falk
René Peter
StarringLili Damita
Charles Ruggles
Roland Young
Thelma Todd
Cary Grant
Music byRalph Rainger
W. Franke Harling (uncredited)
John Leipold (uncredited)
CinematographyVictor Milner
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • April 8, 1932 (1932-04-08)
Running time80 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
This Is the Night is a 1932 comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, and Cary Grant.
The picture is based on the 1923 play Pouche by Henri Falk and René Peter, and the 1925 English-language adaptation Naughty Cinderella written by Avery Hopwood. The plays had already been adapted for film once before as Good and Naughty (1926) with Pola Negri.
Night scenes in this film were intended to be seen in blue tint. Tinting is used on the restored 2011 DVD version released by Turner Classic Movies. However, tinting was absent from recent prints prior to restoration. The version shown on the TCM cable channel in the 1990s was not tinted.
This is the Night is Cary Grant's feature film debut. He disliked his role, believing that a man accepting the unfaithfulness of his wife so calmly was unbelievable. After seeing the film, he decided to quit the movie industry; his friend Orry-Kelly talked him out of it.[1]

Plot

When Claire Mathewson's (Thelma Todd) husband Stephen (Cary Grant) comes back unexpectedly from the 1932 Summer Olympics, where he was supposed to compete in the javelin throw, he discovers the train tickets for a romantic Venice getaway she has planned with her lover Gerald (Roland Young). Gerald's friend Bunny (Charles Ruggles) lies and says that the tickets are actually for Gerald and his wife. With Stephen still suspicious, Gerald must find a fake wife to go to Venice with him. He tries to hire the actress Chou-Chou (Claire Dodd), but since her boyfriend is a jealous man, she gives the job to out-of-work Germaine (Lili Damita), who needs the 2000 franc fee to keep from starving. At first, Gerald thinks she is too demure, but she soon convinces him that she can pretend to be a glamorous wife.
The two couples go to Venice. Bunny, attracted to Germaine, decides to join them. On the train, Stephen questions Gerald and Germaine about how they met. When they arrive in Venice, Claire quickly becomes jealous, as both Stephen and Gerald seem fascinated by Germaine. Claire eventually demands that Gerald send Germaine away immediately, so he orders her to leave the next day. Meanwhile, a drunken Bunny climbs a ladder into Germaine's bedroom and offers to take her away. After she turns down his offer, he falls into a canal on his way out and is apprehended by two policemen. Stephen believes he hears a burglar and goes to her room to investigate. The two are then caught in a seemingly compromising position by Gerald and Claire. However, Bunny reappears and explains what really happened. Her love for her husband rekindled, Claire breaks off her affair with Gerald. Germaine reveals to Gerald that she is not in fact Chou-Chou and decides to return to Paris, but Gerald catches up to her in a gondola and asks her to marry him.

Cast

References

  1. Jump up ^ Eliot, Marc (2005). Cary Grant: A Biography. Random House. pp. 63–4. ISBN 0-307-20983-0. 

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The films of Ernst Lubitsch were popular in this period, and this movie was supposed to be like the ones that he made. I didn't like his movies and I didn't care much for this one either.

Thelma Todd's losing her dress in a car door was something that Jean Harlow had done in Laurel and Hardy's DOUBLE WHOOPEE ( 1929 ). They would have been seen as the same type during this period, although Jean Harlow was the more popular.

What makes this more important than it might otherwise be is that it was Cary Grant's first feature film. But evidently nobody paid much attention to him till he worked with Mae West, leading to her claim that she had "discovered" him. By that time he had also worked with Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich at the same studio.

Lili Damita was popular at the time; later she married Errol Flynn, who got to be more popular than she was. That's probably what she's best known for today.

Roland Young seems to have been associated with Thelma Todd off as well as on screen. He was credited with having invented a "Thelma Todd Cocktail" that was served at the Sidewalk Café. Young would go on to play Topper in a series of movies for Hal Roach. Cary Grant was in the first one.













THIS IS THE NIGHT was Cary Grant's first feature film, although Mae West later claimed to have discovered him.


 
 
A running gag in this film has Thelma Todd repeatedly losing her skirt. 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 







 
 
 
Lily Damita:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Damita


Claire Dodd:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Dodd


DOUBLE WHOOPEE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Whoopee


Cary Grant:
http://www.carygrant.net/


Thelma Todd Cocktail:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/05/more-from-motion-picture.html


THIS IS THE NIGHT:
http://moviemagg.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-is-night-paramount-1932.html

http://www.carygrant.net/reviews/thisnight.html

Watch THIS IS THE NIGHT:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2015/06/watch-this-is-night.html


TOPPER:
http://www.carygrant.net/reviews/topper.html


Roland Young:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Young



 
 



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