Night and Day (film)

Infobox Film
name = Night and Day


caption = DVD cover
director = Michael Curtiz
producer = Arthur Schwartz
Jack L. Warner (executive producer)
writer = Charles Hoffman
Leo Townsend
William Bowers
starring = Cary Grant
Alexis Smith
Monty Woolley
Mary Martin
music = Ray Heindorf
Max Steiner
Milton Ager
Jack Yellen
cinematography = J. Peverell Marley
William V. Skall
editing = David Weisbart
distributor = Warner Brothers
released = flagicon|USA 2 July 1946
runtime = 128 min
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:35185
imdb_id = 0038776

"Night and Day" is a 1946 Warner Brothers biographical film of the life of American composer and songwriter Cole Porter. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Arthur Schwartz, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Charles Hoffman, Leo Townsend and William Bowers.

The music score by Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner was nominated for an Academy Award. The film features several of the best-known Porter songs, including the title song, "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine" and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy".

The film stars Cary Grant as Cole Porter and Alexis Smith as his wife, Linda Lee Porter. Monty Woolley and Mary Martin appear as themselves and the rest of the cast includes Jane Wyman, Eve Arden, Alan Hale, Dorothy Malone, Donald Woods, and Ginny Simms.

The film is a highly fictionalized and sanitized version of Cole Porter's life, leaving out amongst other things references to his homosexuality. A later film biography of Porter, the 2004 "De-Lovely" with Kevin Kline, dealt more frankly with his sexuality.

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