Midnight (1939)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 94 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American showgirl is stranded in Paris with no money. A wealthy man hires her to lure his wife's lover away from her.

fast-pacedwhimsicalwittyglamorousplayfulsophisticatedlightheartedsharp-tongued

What happens

Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl stranded in Paris who is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man. In 2013, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, a distinction for "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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