MIDNIGHT - BLU-1939-CLAUDETTE COLBERT-CRITERION COL

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• Release Year: 1939
• Genre: Classic, Comedy, Romance
• Plot: Academy Award® winners* Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore light up the screen in Midnight - one of the best romantic comedies from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The fun begins when a penniless showgirl (Colbert) impersonates a Hungarian countess and with the help of an aristocrat (Barrymore) quickly adapts to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man (Ameche)? Written by Academy Award® winners** Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Midnight has been hailed as 'just about the best light comedy ever caught by the camera!' (Motion Picture Daily); ; * 1934 Best Actress, It Happened One Night, 1985 Best Supporting Actor, Cocoon.; ** 1945 Best Screenplay and Best Director, The Lost Weekend, 1950 Best Story and Screenplay, Sunset Blvd.; ; From the Archives: Claudette Colbert remains the only actress in history to star in 3 films nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards® in the same year (1934): Cleopatra, Imitation of Life, and It Happened One Night.;
• Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Rex O'Malley, Monty Woolley, Armand Kaliz, Eugene Borden, Paul Bryar, Jack Chefe, André Cheron, Eddie Conrad, Gino Corrado, Gennaro Curci, Billy Daniel, Leander De Cordova, Joe De Stefani, Carlos De Valdez, Elspeth Dudgeon, William Eddritt, Bess Flowers, Arno Frey, Robert Graves, Lucille Harding, Sam Harris, William Hopper, Judith King, Max Lucke, Mary MacLaren, Tony Martelli, Joyce Mathews, Scotty Mattraw, Louis Mercier, Harold Miller, Bert Moorhouse, Edmund Mortimer, Ferdinand Munier, Nestor Paiva, Lionel Pape, Manuel París, Donald Reed, Joseph Romantini, Ronald R. Rondell, Harry Semels, Helen St. Rayner, Larry Steers, Bert Stevens, Leonard Sues, Michael Visaroff, Florence Wix, Mitchell Leisen, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Edwin Justus Mayer, Franz Schulz, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Charles Lang, Doane Harrison, Friedrich Hollaender, Hans Dreier, Robert Usher
• Director: Mitchell Leisen
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc., EMKA, Ltd., Universal Studios, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie