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Lucky Night ()

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A wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening.
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Cora Jordan
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Bill Overton
Joseph Allen ...
Joe Hilton
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Calvin Jordan
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George
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'Dusty' Sawyer
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Carpenter
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'Blondie'
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'Blackie'
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Mrs. Briggs
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Policeman
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Conductor
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Police Lieutenant
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Jordan's Butler (uncredited)
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$50 Passerby (uncredited)
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$35 Passerby (uncredited)
Jack Daley ...
Quarter Passerby (uncredited)
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Fifty-Cent Passerby (uncredited)
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Mrs. Applewaite (uncredited)
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Play Palace Announcer (uncredited)
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Flower Man (uncredited)
Raymond Kelly ...
Regents Plaza Bellboy (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Seller in Play Palace (uncredited)
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Bouncer in Dusty's (uncredited)
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Policeman Against Kissing (uncredited)
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Stickman in Dusty's (uncredited)
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Casino Gambler (uncredited)
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Willie Smith (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ...
Waiter in George's (uncredited)
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Night Club Bouncer (uncredited)
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Secretary (uncredited)
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Bus Passenger (uncredited)
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Mr. Applewaite (uncredited)
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Tramp (uncredited)
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Employment Office Clerk (uncredited)
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Bum (uncredited)
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Orchestra Leader at George's (uncredited)
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Lady in Paint Store (uncredited)

Directed by

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Norman Taurog

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Vincent Lawrence ... (screen play by) and
Grover Jones ... (screen play by)
 
Oliver Claxton ... (based on the story by)

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Louis D. Lighton ... producer (produced by)

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Franz Waxman ... (uncredited)

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Ray June ... (photographed by)

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Elmo Veron ... film editor

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Peter Ballbusch ... montage effects

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Cedric Gibbons

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Edwin B. Willis ... (set decorations)

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Dave Friedman ... unit production manager (uncredited)

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Robert A. Golden ... assistant director (uncredited)

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John S. Detlie ... associate art director

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Douglas Shearer ... recording director

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Dolly Tree ... wardrobe

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Franz Waxman ... musical director
George Bassman ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Paul Marquardt ... orchestrator (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

After initially encountering each other casually in the employment office, Bill Overton and Cora Johnson run into each other later that evening by happenstance on a park bench. Beyond each looking for work, that trip to the employment office unsuccessful for both, their situations are slightly different. While Bill is a regular Joe who has been unable to hold a job for one reason or another in his want for a fun life regardless of what else is happening, Cora is an heiress, her want to work in an effort to find herself. After turning down the latest proposal of marriage, this one from Joe Hilton, Cora took the advice of her father, steel magnate Calvin Jordan, to work to find that excitement missing in her life, that excitement missing from the many men who have asked her to marry them. Cora took that advice one step further by wanting to find that job without her father's help, and vowing not to go running home even if she was destitute. While this park bench meeting begins with them with no money and thus hungry and no roof over their respective heads to which to head "home", Bill, in spending time with Cora, begins to believe that she is his lucky star in having enough good fortune to have that fun he so wants, and she in turn begins to see in Bill that excitement missing in her life. The question then becomes if they can maintain this special night into the sober light of day, the proverbial real life. Written by Huggo

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Taglines THEY'RE MORE THRILLING TOGETHER THAN YOU'VE EVER DREAMED (original herald - all caps). See more »
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Also Known As
  • Счастливая ночь (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Roligt hela natten (Sweden)
  • Su Noche Feliz (Chile)
  • Su noche feliz (Mexico)
  • Noite Feliz (Brazil)
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  • 82 min
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Budget $589,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Overton is supposed to be flat broke and homeless, but he's wearing an immaculate three-piece suit and tie and is freshly shaved. (Loy is also well-dressed in a fur-trimmed suit, but she's only pretending.) As was so often the case at MGM, Louis B. Mayer loathed the depiction of poverty. See more »
Goofs The neon sign over the gaming establishment is Play Palace, but the sign painted on the glass over the front door is Play Place, both identifications appearing in the same shot, at the same time, as the couple drives out with their new car. This identical shot, but shortened to end before the car appears, is used again in Third Finger, Left Hand (1940), also starring Myrna Loy who apparently visits the Play Palace again, this time with Melvyn Douglas. See more »
Movie Connections References Slave Ship (1937). See more »
Soundtracks You Are My Lucky Star See more »
Quotes Cora Jordan: Bill!
Bill Overton: [Asleep] Hmmmm?
Cora Jordan: I don't know where we are. Do you?
Bill Overton: Hmmmm.
[Wakes up, startled]
Bill Overton: It looks like a hotel!
Cora Jordan: Look outside and see if we're still in America.
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