The Night of Nights (1939)
Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, this backstage drama stars Pat O'Brien as Dan O'Farrell, a boozy Broadway producer who makes his way back to show-business after a long absence. As a young man, O'Farrell had a brilliant career as a playwright-actor-producer, but when his wife left him, he threw it all away and fell into seclusion. Years later, his estranged daughter Alyce (Olympe Bradne) locates him and inspires him to return to the Great White Way. With his eye on re-emerging as a smash hit with critics and the public alike, O'Farrell enlists the aid of two loyal friends and embarks on a full-fledged comeback. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lewis Milestone
Synopsis of The Night of Nights
Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, this backstage drama stars Pat O'Brien as Dan O'Farrell, a boozy Broadway producer who makes his way back to show-business after a long absence. As a young man, O'Farrell had a brilliant career as a playwright-actor-producer, but when his wife left him, he threw it all away and fell into seclusion. Years later, his estranged daughter Alyce (Olympe Bradne) locates him and inspires him to return to the Great White Way. With his eye on re-emerging as a smash hit with critics and the public alike, O'Farrell enlists the aid of two loyal friends and embarks on a full-fledged comeback. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Night of Nights
- Pat O'Brien - Dan O'Farrell
- Roland Young - Barry Keith-Trimble
- George E. Stone - Sammy Kayne
- D'Arcy Corrigan - Actor
- Mary Gordon - Pencil Woman
- Frank Melton - Newcomb, the Author
- Oscar O'Shea - Mr. Conway
- Aileen Pringle - Perfume
- Wyndham Standing - Naval Commander
- Frank Sully - Taxi Driver
- Theodore Von Eltz - John, Man with Silk Hat
- C.L. Sherwood
- Ronnie Rondell - Attendant
- Olympe Bradna - Marie-Alyce O'Farrell
- Reginald Gardiner - J. Neville Prime
- Murray Alper - Muggins, the Chauffeur
- Richard Denning - Call Boy
- Ethan Laidlaw - Roustabout in Play
- Pat O'Malley
- Russell Powell - Pop, the Doorman
- Frank Shannon - Frank, the Bartender
- Larry Steers - Well-Wisher
- Laura Treadwell - Mrs. Abigail Keith-Trimble
- Doodles Weaver - Flower Deliveryman
- Charles Miller - Wilton
- Director(s):
- Lewis Milestone
- Writer(s):
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Producer(s):
- George M. Arthur
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