I think of you day and night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I think of you day and night |
| Original title | Night and Day |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Curtiz |
| script |
Charles Hoffman Leo Townsend William Bowers Jack Moffitt |
| production |
Arthur Schwartz Jack L. Warner |
| music |
Max Steiner Ray Heindorf Cole Porter |
| camera |
J. Peverell Marley William V. Skall |
| cut | David Weisbart |
| occupation | |
| |
I think of you day and night is a 1946 American film biography about the life of composer Cole Porter (1891–1964), with Cary Grant in the lead role.
action
From a young age, Cole Porter was drawn to music and theater. Professor Monty Woolley , whose theater course he is attending, supports him in his decision to drop out of the law course he has started at Yale University . When Cole wrote his first musical , Monty gave him a chance to perform. But the piece fails at the premiere.
Disappointed by this failure attracts 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, who works as a nurse there. To get Cole back on his feet quickly, she gets a piano, on which Cole then writes one of his greatest hits: Night and Day . Linda finally suggests that he live with her in her villa on the Riviera . But even though Cole has fallen in love with Linda, he doesn't want her to endure him, but rather earn his own money in America.
In New York he first took a job as a piano player in a music store. Together with Monty, who is now working as an actor, he soon produces a new show called The New Yorkers . The musical will be a huge success, as will Cole's next project. He eventually receives an offer to write a musical in England , where he meets Linda, whom he still loves. After they get married, they immediately return to New York so that Cole can produce his next show. Cole promises Linda that he will make up for the honeymoon with her as soon as possible. But whenever he has finished working on a musical, he starts a new one. After all, Linda has had enough and is traveling to Europe alone .
When Cole learns that his grandfather Omar is dying, he immediately flies to his native Indiana . Cole stays in Indiana for a while, where he is seriously injured again in a storm when he is thrown from his horse. The injury irritates his old war wounds so much that he can no longer walk. Before undergoing a series of operations, he asks Monty not to tell Linda about his condition. One day, when Cole attends a tribute addressed to him at Yale University, Monty makes sure that Linda also shows up, whereupon the couple reconciles.
background
Cole Porter personally selected Cary Grant to star. However, the film must not be confused with an actual biography - Cole Porter on its authenticity: "It should be a good [film], which is why nothing is right about it."
The premiere took place on July 2, 1946 in New York . The reviews were bad, but the audience made me think of you one of Grant's greatest commercial successes day and night . The first performance in West Germany took place on December 13, 1949 with a version shortened by 21 minutes.
Reviews
"Solidly staged and splendidly equipped, but sometimes quite lengthy entertainment that has little in common with Porter's actual biography."
"Only a real treat for the ears."
Awards
At the Academy Awards in 1947 , the film was nominated in the category Best Film Music, but could not prevail against the film musical The Jazz Singer ( The Jolson Story ).
Music numbers by Cole Porter
- I'm in Love Again - performed 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 Drew, and Jane Harker
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Jane Wyman
- You Do Something To Me - Jane Wyman and Chorus
- I'm Unlucky at Gambling - Eve Arden
- 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 Chorus
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin with choir
- Do I Love You? - Choir
- Don't Fence Me In - Roy Rogers
- Begin the Beguine - Carlos Ramirez and choir
Web links
- Day and night I think to myself to you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Night and Day (1946) on All Movie Guide
- Reviewed in The New York Times , July 26, 1946 (Eng.)
Individual evidence
- ^ TIME Magazine Archive, Review of Kiss Me, Kate , January 10, 1949
- ↑ Life Stories: Cary Grant Biography ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . based on: Graham McCann, Cary Grant - A Class Apart , 1996
- ↑ a b I think of you day and night in the lexicon of international film
- ^ Cinema
