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Star of Midnight (1935)

Star of Midnight poster
Directed by
Stephen Roberts
Genre
romantic comedy, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer looks into a dancer's disappearance from a Chicago theater. He gets caught up in a romantic tangle along the way.

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What happens

Star of Midnight is a 1935 American comedy mystery film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring William Powell, Ginger Rogers, and Paul Kelly. The film follows an attorney investigating the disappearance of a dancer who vanished from a Chicago theater. It is based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Arthur Somers Roche. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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