A Night in Paradise

Plot

If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian name, but that's who played him in A Night in Paradise. Turhan Bey portrays the fable-spouting Aesop, who tries to escape his bondage by disguising himself as an old man. It is at the lavish court of King Croesus that the greyed-up Aesop first meets luscious Grecian princess Merle Oberon. The low-born talespinner is smitten, and determines to win the princess for his very own. Moral: If Universal buys a novel by George S. Hellman titled The Peacock's Feather, transforms it into a picture called A Night in Paradise, and appoints onetime Abbott and Costello cohort Arthur Lubin as director, you know what you're in for. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Merle Oberon - Delarai
• Turhan Bey - Aesop "Jason"
• Thomas Gomez - King Croesus
• Gale Sondergaard - Attossa
• Ray Collins - Leonides

George Dolenz - Frigid Ambassador; John Litel - Archon; Ernest Truex - Scribe; Jerome Cowan - Scribe; Douglas Dumbrille - High Priest; Paul Cavanagh - Cleomenes; Marvin Miller - Scribe; Moroni Olsen - High Priest; Richard Bailey - Lieutenant; Wee Willie Davis - Salabaar; Roseanne Murray - Marigold; Hans Herbert - Priest; Ruth Valmy - Palace Maiden; Karen X. Gaylord - Palace Maiden; Kathleen O'Malley - Palace Maiden; Karen Randle - Palace Maiden; Kerry Vaughn - Palace Maiden; Daun Kennedy - Palace Maiden; Julie London - Palace Maiden; Eula Morgan - Townswoman; Art Miles - Townsman; Barbara Bates - Palace Maiden; Jean Trent - Iris; Jane Adams - Lotus; Richard Alexander; John Berkes; Joe Bernard - Old Man; Harry Cording - Captain; Wade Crosby - Rough Man; Pedro de Cordoba - Magus; Rex Evans - Chef; Al Ferguson; Kit Guard - Man in Crowd; Frank S. Hagney - Townspeople; Francis McDonald - High Priest; John Merton - Sailor; Jack Overman - Man; Pietro Sosso - Beggar; Audrey Young - Palace Maiden; Colin Campbell - Goatman; Robert Espinosa; Harlan Miller - Slave; Margaret Campbell

Credit

Alexander Golitzen - Art Director, John B. Goodman - Art Director, Vera West - Costume Designer, Arthur Lubin - Director, Miton Carruth - Editor, Frank Skinner - Composer (Music Score), Frank Skinner - Musical Direction/Supervision, Jack Brooks - Songwriter, W. Howard Greene - Cinematographer, Hal Mohr - Cinematographer, Walter Wanger - Producer, Russell A. Gausman - Set Designer, Edward Ray Robinson - Set Designer, John P. Fulton - Special Effects, Emmett Lavery - Screenwriter, Ernest Pascal - Screenwriter, George S. Hellman - Book Author

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