Night and Day

Night and Day (1946)

  • 46% of users liked it
    (2,261 ratings)

Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood wag came up with a potential story angle: "How does the S.O.B. make his second million dollars?" By the time the Porter biopic Night and Day… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend
Genres
Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
In Theaters
Aug 3, 1946 Wide
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser

    a notorious example of the fantasizing Hollywood freely dealt to contemporary reality, but its strength comes from the use of close to two dozen Porter songs, so that the narrative, in which Porter is always too busy with his next Broadway show to spend q

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Laughably sanitized biopic.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    Typical Hollywood hard sell designed to keep you from thinking too long on the fact that you're actually getting very little. So there's oodles of scantily clad dancing girls in Technicolor (in typically extravagant, over-the-top MGM Busby Berkely inspired dance numbers -… More

  • AJ V


    Grant plays Cole Porter in this biography of his life. It features many of his hit songs too. If you're a fan of either Grant or Porter, you will enjoy this movie.

  • jay n


    Almost total fabrication of Cole Porter's life, but you can't beat the music and even though Cary Grant is unusually stiff in the title role the rest of the cast is fun, especially Jane Wyman in one of her last light hearted and blonde roles.

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