Night Song (film)

Night Song

1948 half-height US Theatrical Poster
Directed by John Cromwell
Produced by Harriet Parsons
Screenplay by Frank Fenton
Dick Irving Hyland
DeWitt Bodeen (adaptation)
Starring Dana Andrews
Merle Oberon
Ethel Barrymore
Music by Leith Stevens
Cinematography Lucien Ballard
Edited by Harry Marker
Distributed by RKO Pictures
Release dates
  • January 20, 1948 (1948-01-20) (U.S.)[1]
Running time
102 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.7 million (US rentals)[2]

Night Song is a 1948 American film drama directed by John Cromwell and starring Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon and Ethel Barrymore.[3]

Plot

Wealthy San Francisco socialite Cathy Mallory (Oberon) is entranced by the music of nightclub pianist Dan Evans (Andrews), who is blind. He is bitter and resents a potential lady bountiful's attempt to become his patron saint.

Next time she's at the club, bandleader Chick Morgan (Hoagy Carmichael) informs her that Dan has quit. Cathy arranges to meet him on a public beach as if by coincidence and introduces herself as Mary Willey, a woman of limited means who is also blind. They strike up a relationship and Dan explains how he lost his sight from another driver's car crash.

Going to great lengths to continue the ruse, she and longtime companion Mrs. Willey rent an inexpensive apartment. Dan is persuaded to resume writing a piano concerto. Cathy sponsors a $5,000 prize for a contest without telling him, confident Dan's music will win. It does and will be performed at Carnegie Hall by the famed pianist Artur Rubinstein.

Dan uses the money to undergo an operation in New York that restores his vision. At the contest, he discovers Cathy provided the prize money but still has no idea that she is also Mary as well.

Cast

Production

References

The film recorded a loss of $1,040,000.[4][5]

References

  1. "Night Song: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  2. "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
  3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039659/
  4. Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p46
  5. Richard B. Jewell, Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures, Uni of California, 2016
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