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Night and Day
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NR,2hrs 8min
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1946
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Warner Home Video
Synopsis: Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood wag came up with a potential story angle: "How does the S.O.B. make his second million dollars?" By the time the Porter biopic Night and Day was released, the three-person scriptwriting team still hadn't come up with a compelling storyline, though the film had the decided advantages of star Cary Grant and all that great Porter music. Roughly covering ... Full Synopsis
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Night and Day purports to be a biography of Broadway composer Cole Porter, but as with most such musical "biopics" of the period, it bares only a scant resemblance to the subject. The real Porter story is much more interesting, dealing as it does with a wealthy sophisticate from a prominent family whose marriage to a wealthy socialite masks his (and possibly her) homosexuality; even more notably, both ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Petey
Cole Porter
Gabrielle
Linda Lee Porter
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Night and Day: Uma Thurman dazzles on the Cannes red carpet in a flawless ice blue cowl-necked,...
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