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Glamorous Night is a film of genre Drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst released in USA on 15 december 1937 with Mary Ellis
Glamorous Night (1937)
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Add to a movie listGlamorous Night is a 1937 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger and Victor Jory. It is an adaptation of the play Glamorous Night by Ivor Novello.
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Actors
Mary Ellis
Otto Kruger
(King Stefan)
Victor Jory
(Baron Lyadeff)
Barry MacKay
(Anthony Allan)
Maire O'Neill
(Phoebe)
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