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An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Ivan F. Simpson
- Tindle
- (as Ivan Simpson)
Charley Grapewin
- Clerk
- (as Charles Grapewin)
Ernie Adams
- Court Photographer
- (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow
- Trial Judge
- (uncredited)
Louise Beavers
- Anna - Mary's Maid
- (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
- Court Photographer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaOriginally conceived as a vehicle for Jean Harlow.
- GoofsIn the opening courtroom scene, the Cosmopolitan magazine edition that Mary is reading differs between the long and close-up shots. The edition she reads in long shots is the February, 1933 edition and in close-up shots, she reads the May, 1933 edition.
- Quotes
Mary Martin: Are you ever serious about anything?
Tom Mannering Jr.: No, what is there to be serious about? The income tax? Tonsils? The decline of the white race?
[Potter, the butler enters]
Tom Mannering Jr.: Of course there's always sex. How do feel about sex, Potter? Or, uh... do you?
Potter - Tom's Butler: At this hour of the night, sir? It would be almost impossible to know.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Complicated Women (2003)
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Pre-code Bliss!
Midnight Mary is pre-code bliss par excellence! Loretta Young stars as a down on her luck young woman who finds herself in situations that she never would've found herself in later in her career! From the opening courtroom scenes where Mary finds herself reminiscing about her past, we are taken on a roller coaster ride through the years to find out how she came to be where she is now! Mary isn't a bad girl, she's just had a lot of bad luck and made unfortunate choices in consequence.
Loretta has tons of chemistry with her co-stars Ricardo Cortez (yummy) and wise-cracking, adorable Una Merkel, who has a really great philosophical drunk scene in the movie! There are many scenes that wouldn't have made it past the censors later on, such as the one at the kitchen table where Loretta and Franchot Tone discuss a subject that's on a lot of people's minds a lot of the time. And towards the end of the movie, there's a scene with Mary trying to seduce Leo, who responds by licking her fingers as she strokes his face.
This is a great little morality play and a comment on the hard times encountered during the Depression Era, when many people were forced into hard choices they might never have made otherwise.
All the cast is great, including Franchot Tone as the suave lawyer who befriends and saves Mary and Andy Devine as his loud-mouthed friend who's along for the ride.
Midnight Mary really is Pre-Code Bliss!
Loretta has tons of chemistry with her co-stars Ricardo Cortez (yummy) and wise-cracking, adorable Una Merkel, who has a really great philosophical drunk scene in the movie! There are many scenes that wouldn't have made it past the censors later on, such as the one at the kitchen table where Loretta and Franchot Tone discuss a subject that's on a lot of people's minds a lot of the time. And towards the end of the movie, there's a scene with Mary trying to seduce Leo, who responds by licking her fingers as she strokes his face.
This is a great little morality play and a comment on the hard times encountered during the Depression Era, when many people were forced into hard choices they might never have made otherwise.
All the cast is great, including Franchot Tone as the suave lawyer who befriends and saves Mary and Andy Devine as his loud-mouthed friend who's along for the ride.
Midnight Mary really is Pre-Code Bliss!
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- sunlily
- Nov 20, 2005
Details
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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