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That Midnight Kiss (1949)

That Midnight Kiss poster
Directed by
Norman Taurog
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy socialite tries to prove she can make it on her own by taking a job at her family's trucking company. There she meets a handsome opera-singing truck driver and they fall in love.

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What happens

That Midnight Kiss is a 1949 Technicolor American musical romance film also starring Mario Lanza (in his first leading role) and Kathryn Grayson. Among the supporting cast were Ethel Barrymore, conductor/pianist Jose Iturbi (playing himself), Keenan Wynn, J. Carrol Naish, and Jules Munshin. The commercially popular film was directed by Norman Taurog, who the following year would again direct Lanza and Grayson in the even more successful The Toast of New Orleans. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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