Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

19681968
M/PGM/PG
1h 29min

Doris Day, Lola Albright, Robert Morse, Patrick O'Neal, and Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.

Director
- Hy Averback
Writers
- Everett Freeman(screenplay)
- Karl Tunberg(screenplay)
- Claude Magnier(play "Où étiez-vous quand les lumières se sont éteintes?")
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Doris Day in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Doris Day and Robert Morse in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Doris Day and Robert Morse in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

Director
- Hy Averback
Writers
- Everett Freeman(screenplay)
- Karl Tunberg(screenplay)
- Claude Magnier(play "Où étiez-vous quand les lumières se sont éteintes?")
All cast & crew
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When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company; and two people whose paths he's destined to cross: Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband Peter. —Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>

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Taglines
- At exactly 5:27 P.M. New York went out like a light. This is the story of what happened in the dark. Only the names have been changed to protect the people who didn't get home to sleep.
Genre
- Comedy
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- M/PG
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Doris Day's character in this film, Maggie Garrison, is an actress constantly being typecast as a virginal heroine (the title of her current Broadway show is The Constant Virgin), and was meant to be a parody of Day's own squeaky-clean screen image.

Goofs
When Margaret is sitting on the couch during her interview, the yellow cushions beside her keep on moving.

Quotes
Margaret Garrison: [repeated line]
Margaret Garrison: Hello Peter, so you're here!

Connections
Featured in Lionpower from MGM (1967)

Soundtracks
Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?
Words by Kelly Gordon
Music by Dave Grusin
Performed by The Lettermen
[Title song played over the opening titles and credits, with a reprise played over the end credits]

Top review

7/10

Pants down farce

Doris Day and Patrick O'Neal are husband and wife in this permissive comedy based on a stage play with Terry-Thomas as a stinker, playing a Hungarian but apparently with received pronunciation.

A young man is passed over for promotion by the bosses stupid son so he hatches a plan to steal the companies dividends. When there is a black out in New York, he has difficulty escaping and ends up sleeping with Doris Day.

Its a jolly and pretty well made film and I'm don't really understand all the negative comments. Perhaps because it's a foreign script, or because it's not dripping in gee-schucks All-American schmaltz like the other Doris Day films ?

Product placements - Kodak, The New York Times and Pan- Am. The Kaiser Group (Checker) provided the vehicles, an S series Valiant breaking down.

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Release date
- June 19, 1968 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Also known as
- Grad u mraku
Filming locations
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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Gross US & Canada
- $7,988,000

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Runtime
- 1h 29min
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

Doris Day, Lola Albright, Robert Morse, Patrick O'Neal, and Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)

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By what name was Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) officially released in Canada in English?

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