Night and Day (1946 film)
- Cary Grant: Cole Porter
- Alexis Smith: Linda Lee Porter
- Monty Woolley: Himself
- Ginny Simms: Carole Hill
- Jane Wyman: Gracie Harris
- Eve Arden: Gabrielle
- Victor Francen: Anatole Giron
- Alan Hale: Leon Dowling
- Dorothy Malone: Nancy
- Tom D' Andrea: Bernie
- Selena Royle: Kate Porter
- Donald Woods: Ward Blackburn
- Henry Stephenson: Omar Cole
- Paul Cavanagh: Bart McClelland
- Sig Ruman: Wilowski
- John Alvin: Petey
- Carlos Ramirez: Begin the Beguine singer
- Mary Martin: Herself
Day and night I think of you is an American biographical film from 1946 about the life of composer Cole Porter ( 1891-1964 ), with Cary Grant in the lead role.
Action
From a young age Cole Porter feels for music and theater attracted. Professor Monty Woolley, the drama classes he attended, supported him in his decision to abort the started studying law at Yale University. When Cole writes his first musical, Monty gives him a chance to show. But the piece falls through at the premiere.
Disappointed with this failure pulls Cole in 1914 as a volunteer in the French army in the First World War and is injured. In a hospital, he meets his girlfriend Linda Lee again who works there as a nurse. In order to bring Cole back quickly to his feet, she worried a piano, on which Cole then one of his biggest hits writes: Night and Day. Linda finally proposes to him to live with her in her villa on the Riviera. But although Cole has now fallen in love with Linda, he does not want to let her stand, but in America earn his own money.
In New York, he initially takes a job as a piano player in a music store. Along with Monty, who now works as an actor, he produced soon after a new show under the title The New Yorker. The musical is a great success, as well as Cole's next project. He finally gets an offer to write a musical in England, where he again meets Linda, who he still loves. After they got married, they return immediately back to New York so that Cole can produce his next show. Linda Cole promises that he will make up for the honeymoon with her as soon as possible. But always when he has finished working on a musical, he begins a new one. Linda has finally had enough and travels alone to Europe.
When Cole learns that his grandfather Omar is dying, he flew immediately to his native Indiana. For a while Cole remains in Indiana, where he was in a storm again seriously injured when he is thrown from his horse. The injury irritates his old war wounds so much that he can no longer run. Before he undergoes a series of operations, he asks Monty, opposite Linda nothing to talk about his condition. When Cole visited one addressed to him tribute at Yale University one day, Monty ensures that Linda also appear, whereupon the couple reconciled.
Background
Cole Porter chose Cary Grant personally made for the lead role. With an actual biography but the film should not be confused - Cole Porter to its authenticity: " It should be a good [ film ], so nothing wrong in it. "
The premiere took place on July 2, 1946 in New York. The reviews were bad, but the audience made day and night I think of you to a greatest of Grants commercial successes. The premiere was held in West Germany with a shortened to 21 minutes version on December 13, 1949.
Reviews
" Solid directed and magnificently decorated, but some of them quite lengthy conversation that has little in common with the actual biography Porter's something. "
" Only for the ears a real treat. "
Awards
At the Academy Awards in 1947, the film was nominated in the category Best Original Score, however (The Jolson Story) could not against the movie musical The Jazz Singer prevail.
Musical numbers by Cole Porter
- I'm in Love Again - played by Jane Wyman
- Bulldog - Male Choir and Cary Grant
- In the Still of the Night - Dorothy Malone
- Old Fashioned Garden - Cary Grant and Selena Royle
- You've Got That Thing - Pat Clark, Paula and Jane Drew Harker
- Let's Do It - Jane Wyman
- You Do Something To Me - Jane Wyman and Chorus
- Miss Otis Regrets - Monty Woolley
- What Is This Thing Called Love? - Ginny Simms
- I've Got You Under My Skin - Ginny Simms
- Rosalie - a quartet of singers
- Night and Day - sung by Bill Days
- Just One of Those Things - Ginny Simms
- Anything Goes - Orchestra
- You're the Top - Ginny Simms and Cary Grant
- I Get a Kick Out of You - Ginny Simms and choir
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin with choir
- Do I Love You? - Choir
- Do not Fence Me In - Roy Rogers
- Begin the Beguine - Carlos Ramirez and Choir