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Night After Night

  • Director: Archie Mayo
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Romantic Drama
  • Themes: Opposites Attract, Class Differences
  • Main Cast: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns
  • Release Year: 1932
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 73 minutes

Plot

In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in love with Park Avenue socialite Miss Healy (Constance Cummings). Hoping to come up to the girl's social level, Joe starts taking lessons in speech and behavior from haughty dowager Mrs. Jellyman (Alison Skipworth). What he doesn't know is that Miss Healy pays attention to him only because he's living in the posh apartment where her family had resided before the Stock Market crash. Even so, the girl genuine falls in love with Joe when it appears as though he's about to desert her in favor of his ex-flame Iris Dawn (Wynne Gibson). A dreary retread of stock movie-drama themes, Night After Night would be utterly forgotten today were it not for the presence of Mae West, making her film debut. A scant few seconds after her first appearance, the generously bejeweled West is accosted by a hatcheck girl who coos "Goodness, what lovely diamonds." Swivelling those famous hips, La West replies expansively "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie." Commenting years later on Night After Night, George Raft, who suggested that Mae West be cast in the film, ruefully recalled "She stole everything but the cameras." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Al Hill - Blainey; Louis Calhern - Dick Bolton; Mary Boland; William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Escort; Marty Martyn - Malloy; Bradley Page - Frankie Guard; Dink Templeton - Patsy; Harry Wallace - Jerky; Tom Kennedy - Tom

Credit

Archie Mayo - Director, Ernest Haller - Cinematographer, William Le Baron - Producer, Vincent Lawrence - Screenwriter, Kathryn Scola - Screenwriter, Mae West - Screenwriter, Louis Bromfield - Book Author
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