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History Is Made at Night (1937 film)
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History Is Made at Night is a 1937
romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.
It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop.
Colin Clive
plays the insanely jealous and homicidal husband, Bruce Vail. Jean Arthur
is his wife, Irene, and Charles Boyer
is Paul, the headwaiter with whom she falls in love.
The film was produced by Walter Wanger
and directed by Frank Borzage
. Leo Carillo portrays Paul's best friend, Cesare. The film has an amazing Titanic
-like climax, when the ocean liner "SS Princess Irene" (named after Jean Arthur
's character) strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
But the intruder, Paul Dumond, returns the jewelry to Irene and invites her to dine with him at the Château Bleu restaurant where he works. They dance the night away. Irene goes home in the morning to find the police at her place, for Michael is dead. Her husband blackmails her into coming back to America with him and calling off her relationship with Dumond. Paul reads in the newspaper that Irene has left for America. Accompanied by Cesare, the head cook of Château Bleu, he embarks for the United States.
To Manhattan, Paul opens a French restaurant, the "Victor's", to rediscover the one that it likes: a day or the other, she will come. The encounter takes place at last but Paul learns that a man was stopped to Paris for the murder of Michael. Decided to prevent a judicial error, it embarks himself, accompanied Irene, on the "Princess Irene" that belongs to Vail.
In the middle of the crossing, because of the instructions of the ship owner that demanded to beat a speed record, the boat bumps an iceberg. Learning the catastrophe, Vail commits suicide while leaving a confession where it declares having killed Michael. Remained on the wreck, Paul and Irene will be saved by a passage vessel.
1937 in film
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romantic drama with elements of comedy and spectacle.
It deals with a love triangle among a possessive shipping magnate, his beautiful wife, and a French headwaiter, with a spectacular ocean liner as a backdrop.
Colin Clive
Colin Clive
Colin Clive was an English stage and screen actor best remembered for his portrayal of Dr...
plays the insanely jealous and homicidal husband, Bruce Vail. Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
is his wife, Irene, and Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...
is Paul, the headwaiter with whom she falls in love.
The film was produced by Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger was an American film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a...
and directed by Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor.-Biography:Frank Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in Ronzone, in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg , where she worked in a silk factory...
. Leo Carillo portrays Paul's best friend, Cesare. The film has an amazing Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
-like climax, when the ocean liner "SS Princess Irene" (named after Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
's character) strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Plot
Following his accusations of her involvement with another man, Irene Vail decides to dissolve her marriage with her husband, the rich ship owner Bruce Vail. The divorce procedures go through, and Vail learns that the divorce will be finalized if he does not find evidence of her involvement with another man within six months of filing the divorce. Vail pays his driver Michael to go to Irene's hotel room in Paris and pretend to be her lover, so that he can lead a private detective to the room and catch her in a compromising position, but an unknown man hears Irene screaming and knocks Michael out. When Bruce and the detective burst into the room, the man threatens them with a gun, demands Irene's jewelry, and takes Irene hostage.But the intruder, Paul Dumond, returns the jewelry to Irene and invites her to dine with him at the Château Bleu restaurant where he works. They dance the night away. Irene goes home in the morning to find the police at her place, for Michael is dead. Her husband blackmails her into coming back to America with him and calling off her relationship with Dumond. Paul reads in the newspaper that Irene has left for America. Accompanied by Cesare, the head cook of Château Bleu, he embarks for the United States.
To Manhattan, Paul opens a French restaurant, the "Victor's", to rediscover the one that it likes: a day or the other, she will come. The encounter takes place at last but Paul learns that a man was stopped to Paris for the murder of Michael. Decided to prevent a judicial error, it embarks himself, accompanied Irene, on the "Princess Irene" that belongs to Vail.
In the middle of the crossing, because of the instructions of the ship owner that demanded to beat a speed record, the boat bumps an iceberg. Learning the catastrophe, Vail commits suicide while leaving a confession where it declares having killed Michael. Remained on the wreck, Paul and Irene will be saved by a passage vessel.