Tonight and Every Night (1945)

A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love ... See full summary »

Director:

Victor Saville

Writers:

Lesser Samuels (screenplay), Abem Finkel (screenplay),

Stars:

Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Rita Hayworth	...	Rosalind Bruce
Lee Bowman	...	Squadron Leader Paul Lundy
Janet Blair	...	Judy Kane
Marc Platt	...	Tommy Lawson
Leslie Brooks	...	Angela
Professor Lamberti	...	Fred, (The Great Waldo)
Dusty Anderson	...	Toni
Stephen Crane	...	Observer Leslie Wiggins
Jim Bannon	...	Life Photographer
Florence Bates	...	May Tolliver
Ernest Cossart	...	Sam Royce
Richard Haydn	...	Specialty
Philip Merivale	...	Reverend Gerald Lundy
Patrick O'Moore	...	David Long

Storyline

A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love affair between star Rosalind Bruce and a British flyer.

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Plot Keywords:

theater | life magazine | world war two | based on play

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Genres:

Musical

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 January 1945 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cette nuit et toujours

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Rita Hayworth was pregnant during production. As a result, the musical numbers were filmed first, before the pregnancy began to show. As filming progressed, great care was taken to hide her growing belly with muffs, furniture and purses.

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Goofs

When Rita is putting on the silver dress, the part in her hair jumps from the side to the middle and back again.

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Connections

Featured in Ballets russes (2005)

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Soundtracks

"Anywhere"
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Sung by Janet Blair
Also played on xylophone by Professor Lamberti with Rita Hayworth dancing in the background

User Reviews

The Show Must Go On, Even During The Blitz

The movie's number one sex symbol carried a lot of films to box office success on the strength of her looks and personality. But Rita Hayworth was definitely asked to tote a lot in Tonight And Every Night, a film set during the air attacks on London about a theater that never missed a performance. There was actually such a theater as the Windmill.

A whole lot of extravagant musical numbers photographed in gorgeous technicolor are held together by a plot involving Rita being the object of a campaign by Eagle Squadron RAF member Lee Bowman. Though she's warned by fellow performer and best friend Janet Blair that Bowman's a wolf in Eagle Squadron uniform, Rita plunges headlong into things. She's also got dancer Marc Platt interested in her as well.

For a British set film, this cast sure had an awful lot of Americans. This film would have been so much better done across the pond with someone like Jessie Matthews or Anna Neagle starring. The numbers are nice enough though, the musical score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn contained one song, Anywhere which got an Oscar nomination. A much better song of their's that Frank Sinatra sung in Anchors Aweigh, I Fall In Love Too Easily, was also nominated that year, but Rodgers and Hammerstein got the statue that year for It Might As Well Be Spring. Tonight And Every Night also got an Oscar nomination for Best Musical Scoring.

The musical numbers are great, but the plot is pretty thin.