Glamorous Night (1937)

• Director
  • Brian Desmond Hurst
• Writers
  • Ivor Novello(play)
  • Dudley Leslie(adaptation)
  • Hugh Brooke(adaptation)
• Stars
  • Mary Ellis
  • Otto Kruger
  • Victor Jory

  The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to convince her Bohemian cohorts to rescue the King from the machinations of his ambitious prime minister. As "cast insurance" to make certain that Glamorous Night would get American bookings, Hollywood character actors Otto Kruger and Victor Jory are given leading roles. The US distributors also sliced the film down from 81 to 65 minutes, through the simple expedient of removing several songs.