Night and Day (1946)


Night and Day
Release Date02 July 1946
GenreMusical, Drama, Biography
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsGeorge Lewis Mansion - Benedict Canyon Drive, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassBiopic [feature], Musical Drama
ThemesMusician's Life
TonesReverent, Light, Bright, Stylized, Slick
TagsComposer, Fame, Injury, Legs, Marriage Problems, Music, Songwriter, Success, War


Night and Day is a 1946 Technicolor Warner Bros. biographical film of the life of American composer and songwriter Cole Porter. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Arthur Schwartz, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend and William Bowers.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Cole Porter

Linda Lee Porter

Himself

Carole Hill

Gracie Harris

Gabrielle

Anatole Giron

Leon Dowling

Bernie

Kate Porter

Ward Blackburn

Omar Cole

Bart McClelland

Wilowski

Carlos Ramírez
Specialty Singer

Milada Mladova
Specialty Dancer

George Zoritch
Specialty Dancer

Adam Di Gatano
Specialty Dancer

Jane Di Gatano
Specialty Dancer

Estelle Sloan
Specialty Dancer

Herself

John Alvin
Petey

Tall Showgirl

Valerie Ardis
Nurse

Customer

Sexboat

Richard Bartell
Photographer

Edward Biby
Surgeon

Ladisaus Smedick

Betty Blair
Nurse

George Boyce
Stage Manager

Maurice Brierre
French Waiter

Harlan Briggs
Doorman

Edgar Caldwell
American Officer

Peter Camlin
French Lieutenant

Man in Hospital Corridor

Wheaton Chambers
Assistant Headwaiter

Bit Role

Jack Chefe
Headwaiter

Willis Clare
Husband

Specialty Trio Member

Chester Clute
Music Publisher

John Compton
Student

Chorine

Dorothy Costello
Dancer

Ruth Costello
Dancer

Harry Crocker
Newspaperman

Frank Dae
Professor

Armba Dandridge
Bit part

Dean

Harold De Becker
English Workman

Fred Deming
Guest

Bernard DeRoux
Assistant to Giron

Henri DeSoto
Waiter

Jimmie Dodd
Red, a Student

Fred Dosch
French Waiter

Specialty Trio Member

Adrian Droeshout
Man at Bar

Pierre Duval
French Officer

Dick Earle
Doctor

Fern Emmett
Secretary

Richard Erdman
Music Store Customer

Herbert Evans
Bobby

Frank Ferguson
Tina's Father

Sam Flint
Professor

Howard Freeman
Max Fisher

Rudolf Friml Jr.
Orchestra Leader

Bit part

Paul Garkie
Student

Eugene Gericke
Soldier

Pat Gleason
Dance Director

John Goldsworthy
Yale Gentleman

Ernest Golm
Foreign Gentleman

Lisa Golm
Foreign Lady

Buddy Gorman
English Pageboy

Marion Gray
Wife

Paul Gustine
Man in Theater

Man in Theater

Bill Hardsway
Surgeon

Specialty Trio Member

Patsy Harmon
Young Customer

Edna Mae Harris
Nurse

Henry Hastings
Black Bartender

Hans Herbert
Headwaiter

Tom Herbert
Drunk

Emil Hilb
Orchestra Leader

Bill Hind
English Officer

Shep Houghton
Dancer, singer

Rune Hultman
American Lieutenant

Boyd Irwin
Professor

Gladden James
Doctor

Jack W. Johnston
Doctor

Head Waiter

Art Kassel Jr.
Student

Colin Kenny
Doorman

George Kirby
Cab Driver

Classmate

Mike Lally
Doctor

Leota Lorraine
Wife

Ellen Lowe
Nurse

Frank Marlowe
Army Driver

Jo Ann Marlowe
Tina

Gregory Marshall
Small Caroler

Caren Marsh
Young Customer

Alan Marston
American Officer

Ruth Matthews
Nurse

Tom McGuire
Surgeon

Singer, "Easy To Love"

Claire Meade
Customer

George Meader
Minister

Marie Melish
Scrubwoman

John Miles
Student

Frank Miliott
Man in theater

Charles F. Miller
Professor

Jacqueline Milo
French Girl

Rene Mimieux
Man at Bar

Bert Moorhouse
Yale Alumnus - 1916

Livery Chauffeur

Porter

Mayo Newhall
Bearded Man

Georgie Nokes
Wayne Blackburn as a boy

Married Woman

Chorine

Garry Owen
Joe the bartender

Michael Panaieff
French Officer

John Pearson
First 'Peaches'

Pretty Nurse

Albert Petit
French Waiter

Louis Quince
Husband

Chorus girl

Dorothy Reisner
Young customer

Gordon Richards
Cochran

Surgeon

George Riley
O'Halloran

Married Man

Arlyn Roberts
Chorus Girl

Susanne Rosser
Chorine

Don Roy
Bandleader

Laddie Rucker
Student

Marshall Ruth
Yale Alumnus - 1916

Virginia Sale
Minister's Wife

Fred Santley
Yale Alumnus, 1916

Leonardo Scavino
French Officer

Allen Schute
English Officer

Wallace Scott
Chauffeur

Almira Sessions
Woman in Hospital Corridor

Harry Seymour
Clarence

Laurie Sherman
Intern

Tall Showgirl

Gene Stanley
Classmate of Porter

Black Waiter

George Suzanne
Waiter

Drummer at 'Anything Goes' rehearsal

Laura Treadwell
Woman in Theater

Gladys Turney
Society Woman

Elizabeth Valentine
Matron in Hospital

Librettist

George Volk
American Officer

John Vosper
Bit part

Tina's Mother

Bobby Watson
Director

Crane Whitley
Commercial Artist

Charles Williams
Customer

Eric Wilton
English Officer

Bertha Woolford
Servant

Director

Writer

Charles Hoffman

Leo Townsend

William Bowers

Jack Moffitt

Producer

Arthur Schwartz
producer

Jack L. Warner
executive producer

Cinematographer

William V. Skall

Editor

David Weisbart
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Art Director

John Hughes
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Set Decorator

Armor Marlowe
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Makeup Department

Perc Westmore
makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Frank Heath
assistant director

Sound Department

Everett A. Brown
sound

Charles David Forrest
sound

Special Effects

Robert Burks
special effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Milo Anderson
wardrobe

Travilla
costume designer: dance costumes

Music Department

Dudley Chambers
vocal music arranger

musical director

Ray Heindorf
orchestrator: production numbers, conductor: production numbers

composer: additional music, additional music adaptor

Other Crew

Herschel Daugherty
dialogue director

Leonard Doss
associate technicolor color director

Natalie Kalmus
technicolor color director

James Leicester
montages

LeRoy Prinz
creator: dance numbers, dance director

Thanks

acknowledgment: based on the career of

Production Company

Warner Bros. Pictures
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Distributor

Warner Bros. Pictures

Dominant Pictures Corporation

Warner Bros.

Living Colour Entertainment

MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Warner Home Video






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