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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789767
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789760
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 14010
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 03, 1946
Editorial Review:
Description:
Swellegant and elegant. Deluxe and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Cole lead to a meeting at the altar. More than 20 Porter songs grace this tale of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending his amiable voice to You're the Top, Night and Day and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy Night and Day.
Amazon.com:
With Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) as director, Cary Grant in the lead, and wall-to-wall songs by Cole Porter, how could Night and Day lose? Why, by taking broad liberties with the composer's life story and failing to live up to expectations. If you can overlook such shortcomings, however, it's lively entertainment that doesn't completely deserve the scorn it has elicited. Grant is good as a bon vivant who had a way with words but lacked the discipline to pursue a career in law. As a singer, on the other hand, he's merely adequate. Curtiz wisely has the fine supporting actresses (Jane Wyman, Ginny Simms, etc.) handle the big numbers such as 'You're the Top.' Also, Porter's story was meant for black and white. The Technicolor process adds an unfortunate garishness to the tale of a man whose very name has become a synonym for elegance. With Mary Martin and Monty Woolley as themselves. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Night and Day is delightful!
It's clear from the beginning of this film that the star of Night and Day is the music of the man himself...Cole Porter. The song and dance sequences are beautifully done (the tap dancing number in particular was fantastic) and I even took pleasure in the story. Of course, since this film has been made, we now know much more about Cole Porter than is revealed in this film such as his being homosexual. However, I find that Night and Day better honors Porter and his love of his music first and foremost. ... Read More
Rating:  - Not lovely
If you're looking for a movie that accurately tells the story of Cole Porter, this is clearly not it. Nor is it a great movie in any way. The story telling is cheesy and quite amateurish -- a surprise for a movie starred by Cary Grant. Still Grant's sheer charisma, and Porter's extraordinary music, make this a movie somewhat worth watching.
Rating: - It's a good thing Cole Porter had a sense of humor
Night and Day is probably the worst of the reverential "biographies" of America's great theater composers which Hollywood cranked out in the Forties. Rodgers & Hart, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, the list goes on, were all smoothed out, glossed over, given awful dialogue and had to see their songs so over-produced at times it must have seemed that they were hearing the heavenly choir.
Night and Day gives us a number of Cole Porter songs polished and massaged with the lush ... Read More
Rating: - Night and Day
I am thankful this movie is available on DVD. It is very entertaining and enjoyable, because I LOVE OLD MOVIES!!!
Rating: - It's the Music - not the storyline
This "bio" of Cole Porter was produced in an era (pre-50's)when certain personal lifestyles were not discussed and certainly not accepted. Thus, you get a squeaky clean Cary Grant as Cole Porter. But it's the music and the presentation of the music that I've always liked. Just writing this review has me humming "Night and Day" and thinking about "When they begin the Beguine".
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