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This Is the Night is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Tuttle released in USA on 8 april 1932 with Lili Damita

This Is the Night (1932)

This Is the Night
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Released in USA 8 april 1932
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2923853.2923853.2923853.2923853.292385

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.



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

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Lili Damita

(Germaine)Charles Ruggles

(Bunny West)Roland Young

(Gerald Gray)Thelma Todd

(Claire Mathewson)Cary Grant

(Stephen Mathewson)
And :
Irving Bacon
Gino Corrado
Claire Dodd
Tiny Sandford
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