One Night of Love (1934)
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60% of critics liked it
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50% of users liked it
(114 ratings)
After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of Love. Moore opens the film by losing a radio talent contest in New York. She disconsolately heads to Europe, where the best job she can come up with is singing in a restaurant.… More After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of Love. Moore opens the film by losing a radio talent contest in New York. She disconsolately heads to Europe, where the best job she can come up with is singing in a restaurant. Here she is discovered by brilliant voice-teacher Tulio Carminatti, who carefully nurtures Moore until she becomes the toast of the European opera world. The two fall in love, but jealousy nearly destroys them both. Happily, Moore recovers to the extent of making a triumphant return to the US as reigning diva of the Metropolitan Opera. One Night of Love represents Grace Moore's finest screen work. The film's musical manifest includes such operatic standards as Lucia di Lammermoor, Madame Butterfly and Carmen; the "contemporary" musical lineup was composed by such hands as Louis Silvers (who won an Oscar for his efforts), Victor Schertzinger (who also directed), and Gus Kahn. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Victor Schertzinger
- Written By
- S. K. Lauren, James Gow, Edmund H. North
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 15, 1934 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
One Night of Love is basically an operatic film. It's the fact that the film is human, down to earth, that helps most.
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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
An enjoyable light diversion, one worthy of the charm and talent of its stellar performer.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
It's all rather cliche-ridden, but the film was a box office hit and began a brief period of Hollywood stardom for operatic diva Moore.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Worth watching as a sampler of the kind of musical that prevailed for a short time, the Hollywood operetta, featuring former Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore singing arias from Carmen and Madame Butterfly alongside more popular tunes by Kahn and others
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
Once you got over the thrill of seeing real opera sung onscreen, you get tired of the tired story.
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Cast
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Grace Moore
as Mary Barrett
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Tullio Carminatti
as Giulio Monteverdi
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Lyle Talbot
as Bill Houston
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Mona Barrie
as Lally
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Jessie Ralph
as Angelina Housekeeper
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Luis Alberni
as Giovanni
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Andreas De Segurola
as Galuppi
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Rosemary Glosz
as Frappazini
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Nydia Westman
as Muriel
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Henry Armetta
as Cafe Proprietor
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Reginald Barlow
as Stage Manager
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Herman Bing
as Vegetable Man
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William Burress
as Mary's Father
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Frederick Burton
as Impresario
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Jane Darwell
as Mary's Mother
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Paul Ellis
as Pinkerton
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Curt Furberg
as Stage Manager
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Arthur Stuart Hull
as Sugar Daddy
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Sam Hayes
as Radio Announcer
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Olaf Hytten
as Viennese Valet
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Hans Joby
as Taxi Driver
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Arno Johnson
as Second Doctor
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Edward Keane
as Stage Director
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Marion Lessing
as German Girl
- Wilfred Lucas
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Michael Mark
as Flower Store Man
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Spec O'Donnell
as Call Boy
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Rafael Storm
as Man
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Fredrik Vogeding
as First Doctor
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Leo White
as Florist
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Reginald Le Borg
as Opera Director
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John Ardizoni
as Radio Judge
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Wadsworth Harris
as Judge
- Edmund Burns
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Richard La Marr
as Steward
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Joseph P. Mack
as Captain of Italian Yacht
- Tullio Carminati
