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15 March 1939 (USA)
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A chorus girl, stranded in Paris, is "set up" by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man. full summary | add synopsis
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Taxi Driver
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Party
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Aristocrat
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Millinery
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Piano
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(6 articles)
Best Films - 1939
(From Alternative Film Guide. 10 May 2009, 1:26 AM, PDT)
Line-Up of 2009 Cannes Film Festival Announced
(From Aceshowbiz. 23 April 2009, 7:49 PM, PDT)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 10 May 2009, 1:26 AM, PDT)
Line-Up of 2009 Cannes Film Festival Announced
(From Aceshowbiz. 23 April 2009, 7:49 PM, PDT)
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a fairy tale, a screwball comedy, a gem
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Claudette Colbert | ... | Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny |
 | Don Ameche | ... | Tibor Czerny |
 | John Barrymore | ... | Georges Flammarion |
 | Francis Lederer | ... | Jacques Picot |
| Mary Astor | ... | Helene Flammarion |
| Elaine Barrie | ... | Simone |
| Hedda Hopper | ... | Stephanie |
| Rex O'Malley | ... | Marcel Renaud |
| Monty Woolley | ... | The Judge |
| Armand Kaliz | ... | Lebon - Eve's Lawyer |
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #4906) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
Spain:18 |
Argentina:16
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Mary Astor's pregnancy caused some filming problems.
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Étude No.12 in C minor Op.10-12: Revolutionary
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Break out the night vision goggles, the pick-axe, and the compass to find this one if you haven't seen it. I caught it at the MOMA cinema in the old museum basement and laughed so hard I was in tears -- and so were the hundred+ people around me. Monty Woolley and Hedda Hopper are a stitch to watch -- but this is definitely Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche's movie. Colbert spends the first 15 minutes of the movie cold, wet, and hungry -- and Ameche (her knight in shining Taxicab) thoroughly enjoys her predicament. The volley of screwball slap-lines goes on for another hour before the shoe finally fits (as we knew it always would.) The best grins are from Ameche's smug insanity -- and a shaving mug fully loaded.
Best of all, the dazzling innocence of the comedy writing from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett is so light and politically incorrect that you can almost smell "Some Like It Hot" on the distant horizon. There is no meanness or cynicism in MIDNIGHT. Just a good story, good laughs, and a cast full of people you want to meet again and again.