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Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny
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Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie . Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl ...
Midnight: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer. A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1939-03-24
Midnight (1939) Midnight (1939) Midnight (1939) Midnight (1939) Midnight (1939) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis When out-of-work showgirl Eve (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris with no ...
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- Claudette Colbert
- Mitch Leisen
- Comedy
As the 1930s came to a close, the screwball comedy was still around and going strong. Midnight feels like the perfect transitional film from the screwballs of the 1930s and their preoccupation with exorbitant wealth (My Man Godfrey, If You Could Only Cook) and screwballs of the 1940s, which kept a class-conscious interest (and penchant for sending up the uber-rich) but branched out to feature ...
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- Paramount Pictures
- Mitchell Leisen
An enchanting comedy which starts with Colbert, as an American chorine on the make, stranded in Paris in a gold lamé evening gown (what else?). She is befriended on the one hand by a poor taxi ...
Film Length. 8,429ft (10 reels) American showgirl Eve Peabody finds herself stranded penniless in Paris on a rainy night, her only possession the evening gown on her back. Eve strikes a bargain with soft-hearted cab driver Tibor Czerny to double his fee in exchange for driving her from nightclub to nightclub looking for a job.
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Midnight (1939) Midnight. (1939) NR 03/24/1939 (US) Comedy , Romance 1h 34m. User. Score.
