Let's Make a Night of It

{{Short description|1937 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Let's Make a Night of It

| image = Let's Make a Night of It.jpg

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| director = Graham Cutts

| producer = Walter C. Mycroft

| writer = {{ubl|Henrik Ege (play)|F. McGrew Willis|Hugh Brooke}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Charles "Buddy" Rogers|June Clyde|Claire Luce}}

| music = Harry Acres

| cinematography = {{ubl|Claude Friese-Greene|Otto Kanturek}}

| editing = Flora Newton

| studio = Associated British Picture Corporation

| distributor = Associated British Picture Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1937|06|28|df=y}}

| runtime = 67 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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Let's Make a Night of It is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, June Clyde and Claire Luce.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116062705/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/409923 BFI.org] The screenplay concerns a husband and his wife, who acquire rival nightclubs at the same time.{{Cite book |last=Conrich |first=Ian |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Film_s_Musical_Moments/59SqBgAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Let's+Make+a+Night+of+It+Graham+Cutts&pg=PA31&printsec=frontcover |title=Film's Musical Moments |date=2006-07-14 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2727-1 |language=en}} It was based on the play The Silver Spoon by Henrik Ege. It was distributed in America by Universal Pictures the following year.{{Cite book |last=Villecco |first=Tony |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Silent_Stars_Speak/vSh_uXgkXxgC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Let's+Make+a+Night+of+It+Graham+Cutts&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover |title=Silent Stars Speak: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers |date=2015-11-18 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8209-2 |language=en}}

Claude Friese-Green was responsible for the cinematography.{{Cite book |last=Petrie |first=Duncan J. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_British_Cinematographer/oBXcAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Let's+Make+a+Night+of+It+Graham+Cutts&dq=Let's+Make+a+Night+of+It+Graham+Cutts&printsec=frontcover |title=The British Cinematographer |date=1996 |publisher=British Film Institute Publishing |isbn=978-0-85170-581-1 |language=en}}

Cast

References

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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