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History Is Made at Night is a 1937 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, and Colin Clive. It was distributed by United Artists.
A divorced woman falls for a Parisian waiter while her jealous ex-husband tries to stop them. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes and more for this classic film.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Frank Borzage
- 1937-03-05
A classic Hollywood romance by Frank Borzage, starring Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer as lovers on the run from her husband. The film blends melodrama, comedy, noir and disaster in a delirious vision of carnal and spiritual desire.
- Paul Dumond
When his wife, Irene (Jean Arthur), plans to divorce him, wealthy and cruel businessman Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) sends his chauffeur to her Paris hotel room so he can catch her in a "compromising...
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- Charles Boyer
- Frank Borzage
- Romance
Irene Vail, the wife of sadistic American shipping magnate Bruce Vail, is about to turn in for the night in her Paris hotel room when Michael, her chauffeur, enters the room and informs her that he has been instructed by Bruce to force her into a compromising position so that she will drop her divorce suit against him.
- Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage
- Charles Boyer
The obsessive and jealous shipowner Bruce Vail does not accept the divorce his wife Irene Vail is seeking to make final, so he hires his chauffeur Michael Browsky to forge adultery with Irene in Paris to make the provisional decree she has achieved there null.
Apr 13, 2021 · History Is Made at Night forgoes the emotionally potent physical contrast between Borzage lovers and delves instead into contrasts of behavior, riding high on an air of try-and-stop-us improbability and that most romantic of notions: opposites attract.
