Middle of the Night is a 1959 American drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Delbert Mann

Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty...

, and released by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival

1959 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Marcel Achard *Antoni Bohdziewicz *Michael Cacoyannis *Carlos Cuenca *Pierre Daninos *Julien Duvivier *Max Favalelli *Gene Kelly *Carlo Ponti *Micheline Presle...

. The screenplay was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky

Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky , was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay....

 from his Broadway play of the same name.

Plot

A 56-year-old clothing manufacturer (March) falls in love with 24-year-old Novak, much to the dismay of both families. Future Oscar winners Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam

Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...

 (A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns

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, 1965) and Lee Grant

Lee Grant

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 (Shampoo

Shampoo (film)

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, 1975) also star in this film, which was mildly controversial in its day. It was originally a stage play starrng Edward G. Robinson. Some of the stage cast were in the film.

Cast

• Fredric March
  Fredric March
  Fredric March was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
  
   - Jerry Kingsley
• Kim Novak
  Kim Novak
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   - Betty Preisser
• Glenda Farrell
  Glenda Farrell
  -Career:Farrell came to Hollywood towards the end of the silent era. Farrell began her career with a theatrical company at the age of 7. She played Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin...
  
   - Mrs. Mueller
• Albert Dekker
  Albert Dekker
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   - Walter Lockman
• Martin Balsam
  Martin Balsam
  Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...
  
   - Jack
• Lee Grant
  Lee Grant
  Lee Grant is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. She was blacklisted for 12 years from film work beginning in the mid-1950s, but worked in the theatre, and would eventually win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Carp in the...
  
   - Marilyn
• Lee Philips
  Lee Philips
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   - George Preisser
• Edith Meiser - Evelyn Kingsley
• Joan Copeland
  Joan Copeland
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   - Lillian
• Betty Walker
  Betty Walker
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   - Rosalind Neiman, the widow
• Lou Gilbert - Sherman
• Rudy Bond
  Rudy Bond
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   - Gould
• Effie Afton - Mrs. Herbert, the neighbor
• Jan Norris - Alice Mueller
• David Ford
  David Ford (actor)
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   - Paul Kingsley
• Lee Richardson - Joey Lockman