Night After Night

Director: Archie Mayo Archie Mayo

Overview

In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in love with Park Avenue socialite Miss Healy (Constance Cummings). Hoping to come up to the girl's social level, Joe starts taking lessons in speech and behavior from haughty dowager Mrs. Jellyman (Alison Skipworth). What he doesn't know is that Miss Healy pays attention to him only because he's living in the posh apartment where her family had resided before the Stock Market crash. Even so, the girl genuine falls in love with Joe when it appears as though he's about to desert her in favor of his ex-flame Iris Dawn (Wynne Gibson). A dreary retread of stock movie-drama themes, Night After Night would be utterly forgotten today were it not for the presence of Mae West, making her film debut. A scant few seconds after her first appearance, the generously bejeweled West is accosted by a hatcheck girl who coos "Goodness, what lovely diamonds." Swivelling those famous hips, La West replies expansively "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie." Commenting years later on Night After Night, George Raft, who suggested that Mae West be cast in the film, ruefully recalled "She stole everything but the cameras."

Product Details

Release Date:	03/17/2015
UPC:	0025192263095
Original Release:	1932
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:14:00
Sales rank:	45,229

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

George Raft	Joe Anton
Constance Cummings	Jerry Healy
Mae West	Maudie
Alison Skipworth	Mrs. Mabel Jellyman
Wynne Gibson	Iris Dawn
Roscoe Karns	Leo
Louis Calhern	Dick Bolton
Bradley Page	Frankie Guard
Al Hill	Blainey
Harry Wallace	Jerky
Dink Templeton	Patsy
Marty Martyn	Malloy
Mary Boland	Actor
Tom Kennedy	Tom
Bill Elliott	Escort

Technical Credits

Archie Mayo

Director