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
Theatrical poster with Lilli Damita and Cary Grant
Directed by	Frank Tuttle
Produced by	Benjamin Glazer (uncredited)
Written by	Benjamin Glazer George Marion Jr. play Naughty Cinderella Avery Hopwood play Pouche Henry Falk René Peter
Starring	Lili Damita Charles Ruggles Roland Young Thelma Todd Cary Grant
Music by	Ralph Rainger W. Franke Harling (uncredited) John Leipold (uncredited)
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	April 8, 1932 (1932-04-08)
Running time	80 min
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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

• Lili Damita as Germaine
• Charles Ruggles as Bunny West
• Roland Young as Gerald Grey
• Thelma Todd as Claire
• Cary Grant as Stephen
• Irving Bacon as Sparks, Gerald's chauffeur. In a running gag, he accidentally snags Claire's dress repeatedly, for example in a limousine door or luggage, causing her to lose her clothing.
• Davison Clark as Studio Official (uncredited)
• Gino Corrado as Manager of Neapolitan Hotel (uncredited)
• Claire Dodd as Chou-Chou (uncredited)
• Alex Melesh as Porter (uncredited)
• Donald Novis as Singing Gondolier (uncredited)
• Tiny Sandford as Porter (uncredited)
• Rolfe Sedan as Boulevardier (uncredited)
• Harry Semels as Man in the Manhole (uncredited)

References

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

External links[edit]

• This Is the Night at the Internet Movie Database
• This Is the Night at the TCM Movie Database
• This Is the Night at AllMovie
• This Is the Night at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database

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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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THIS IS THE NIGHT

Thelma Todd with Roland Young and Lili Damita in THIS IS THE NIGHT.

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THIS IS THE NIGHT Lobby Card

Here we see Thelma Todd with Roland Young and Lily Damita in THIS IS THE NIGHT.

Thelma Todd often played the "other woman", but here Lily Damita is supposed to be the other woman. Cary Grant was also in this movie, in his first feature film appearance.







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More From MOTION PICTURE

More items from MOTION PICTURE.



This ad for Lux soap predates the ad that shows Thelma Todd's picture.

 

but Thelma Todd is listed as one of the blondes who use Lux soap.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of Thelma Todd on the bottom of the page.

 Howard Dean Carsey, who took the picture of Thelma Todd, was a prominent Hollywood photographer.

 

 

 

Fans ask abour their favorites. Second item, adressed to "Jo", refers to Thelma Todd as well as Sue Carol.

 

 

 

 

 

 One of a series of photos of Thelma Todd with Alice White from around the time they made NAUGHTY BABY.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of Thelma Todd feeding a deer at the bottom of the page.

 

"Thank Thelma" item for Thelma Todd cocktail from September 1935.

Roland Young and Thelma Todd had appeared together in the movie THIS IS THE NIGHT. They were also said to be associated offscreen.






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THE AUTOGRAPH HOUND

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The Autograph Hound
Donald Duck series
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack King
Voices by	Clarence Nash Billy Bletcher
Animation by	Johnny Cannon John Elliotte Larry Clemmons Ed Dunn Ed Love Ward Kimball Paul Allen Rex Cox Seamus Culhane Nick De Tolly (assistant)
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	September 1, 1939
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7:55
Language	English

The Autograph Hound is a 1939 American Donald Duck cartoon which features Donald Duck as an autograph hunter in Hollywood. Many celebrities from the 1930s are featured. This is the first cartoon where Donald Duck is featured in his blue sailor hat.

Plot

Donald Duck tries to enter a Hollywood studio so he can search for celebrities willing to sign their autograph. A police officer guarding the gate prevents him from entering the building. Donald manages to sneak inside by climbing on the limousine with Greta Garbo so that it seems he's riding along with her. The police officer discovers he's been fooled and chases Donald, who enters a room with the name "Mickey Rooney" on it. Inside, Mickey Rooney is dressing up in front of the mirror, when Donald asks him for his autograph. Rooney writes his name in Donald's book and makes it disappear and reappear with a magic trick. Donald, who is not amused, tries to impress Rooney by doing a similar trick with an egg. The egg is however obviously hidden under Donald's hat and Rooney who is aware of this, crushes it, laughing loudly. Donald gets extremely angry and starts waving his fists, while Rooney manages to put a violin in Donald's hands. When Donald discovers he has been tricked for the third time he throws the violin at Rooney. Rooney ducks and the instrument lands in the face of the police officer.
Alarmed, Donald runs away and hides under a bell-jar carried by actor Henry Armetta. When the police officer discovers Donald's hiding place the duck runs to another film set full with ice. There he meets Sonja Henie and asks her for an autograph. Henie signs her name by skating it in the ice, so that Donald has to carry it with him. While walking in a desert setting Donald discovers the ice has melted. He notices a tent with the silhouettes of three belly dancing Arabic women, who turn out to be the Ritz Brothers. Excited, he asks them for their autographs, but behaving like screwballs they jump on Donald and sign their group name on his buttocks. An enraged Donald throws a paint can at their heads, but it hits the face of the police officer instead.
Again Donald has to flee and he runs to a castle with the sign The Road To Mandalay, which turns out to be just a model. After bumping his head into it and realizing his mistake he runs into another direction. On a pair of stairs he bumps into Shirley Temple. She, too, recognizes him and asks for an autograph. They both sit down to sign each other their autographs and Donald, excited he has his first real autograph, jumps in the air with joy. Then the police officer grabs him. Shirley tells the police officer to leave him alone and he drops Donald on the floor in surprise. "Donald Duck? Did you say "Donald Duck?". Other Hollywood actors hear his comment and enthusiastically rush to Donald to ask him to sign his autograph for them. (In chronological order: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, The Andrew Sisters, Charlie McCarthy, Stepin Fetchit, Roland Young, the Lone Ranger riding his horse Silver, Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Irvin S. Cobb, Edward Arnold, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Slim Summerville, Lionel Barrymore, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Mischa Auer, Joan Crawford and Charles Boyer). When the police officer asks Donald to sign his autograph book and offers him his pen, Donald squirts ink in the policeman's face. While the ink drips from the officer's face and writes Donald's name on his chest, Donald laughs hysterically.

Cultural references

• Quite a few of the caricatures featured at the end of the cartoon also appeared in an earlier Disney short: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
• Donald Duck imitated Sonja Henie in an earlier cartoon, The Hockey Champ (1939).
• Bette Davis is featured in her role as Jezebel (1938), Lionel Barrymore appears as Dr. Gillespie from the Dr. Kildare film series and Charles Boyer is dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte in reference to his film Conquest (1937).
• The Road to Mandalay was the working title of the first "Road to..." series, Road to Singapore, with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

More information

• IMDB entry
• Explanation and visual comparison between the caricatures featured in the cartoon and the real celebrities

External links

• The Autograph Hound at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Autograph Hound at the Internet Movie Database

   

The Garbomobile.

Donald Duck fools the guard into thinking he's with Garbo. Actually, he's on the outside of the car.

Donald tries to play a joke with an egg, but Mickey Man spoils it. "That joke laid an egg- or was it you?"

Mickey Rooney at left and Henry Armetta at right.

The Ritz Brothers at left, Sonja Heinie at right.

Donald asks for an autograph.

The autograph is on ice.

Shirley Temple on the good ship Lollipop.

Donald fell down and hit his head and saw stars. No, just one.

The Marx Brothers, who are more highly reguarded today than the Ritz Btothers

 

Charlie McCarthy was supposed to be a sort of a lady's man, or aspired to be one.

 

Slim Summerville was one of Zasu Pitt's frequent costars. Irvin S. Cobb was a famous writer who once worked for Hal Roach.

They had a lot of jokes about Martha Raye having a big mouth. Somehow, that wasn't what I thought of whenever I looked at her. She was very well develped in other areas as well.

 

"I've noticed!"




Stepin Fetchit, whose act would be considered objectionable by many today.

Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. She didn't get to play Scarlet O'Hara, either.

"Oh-oh! My OTHER boyfriend is here!!!"

The Lone Ranger began as a radio show, but a movie serial had already been made, in 1938. Clayton Moore played him on the television version. I was on television with Clayton Moore when he made a personal appearance in Indianapolis.

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Original pencil drawing of Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown characters.

 

Original pencil drawing of Shirley Temple character.

I frequently come across references to "modern audiences" not knowing who the old movie stars are in these cartoons. When I originally saw this one, I didn't know who the Ritz Brothers were, myself. And I wouldn't doubt that some people wouldn't be familiar with these stars of the past. But sometimes it's strange what they want to tell you people do or don't know about, such as the phony story about nobody knowing what phonograph records are.

 

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