Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
- new york city
- paris
- france
- ambition
- mistress
- black and white
- pre-code
- speakeasy
- gold digger
- flirtation
- kept woman
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Barbara Stanwyck
Lily Powers
George Brent
Courtland Trenholm
Donald Cook
Ned Stevens
Alphonse Ethier
Adolf Cragg
- Henry Kolker — J.R. Carter
- Margaret Lindsay — Ann Carter
- Arthur Hohl — Ed Sipple
- John Wayne — Jimmy McCoy Jr.
- Robert Barrat — Nick Powers
- Douglass Dumbrille — Brody
- Theresa Harris — Chico
- Joan Barclay — Job Seeker (uncredited)
- Charles Coleman — Hodges (uncredited)
- Heinie Conklin — Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
- Grace Hayle — Mrs. Hemingway (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred E. Green
- Written
- Gene Markey, Darryl F. Zanuck, Kathryn Scola
Production
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
