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Midnight

film by Leisen [1939]

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  • In Mitchell Leisen: Films of the 1930s

    Midnight (1939) was in an entirely different class; an accomplished, complicated, witty screwball comedy (scripted by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder), it presented Claudette Colbert as a showgirl in Paris who is hired by a millionaire (John Barrymore) to impersonate a Hungarian countess as part…

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role of Colbert

  • Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
    In Claudette Colbert

    …Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland), Midnight (1939; with Don Ameche and John Barrymore), and The Palm Beach Story (1942; with Joel McCrea). She also had notable dramatic roles in such films as Private Worlds (1935; with Charles Boyer and McCrea), for which she was nominated for the best actress Academy…

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