Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
- fan
- musical
- partner
- film in film
- hollywood
- broadway
- dancing in the street
- audience
- chorus girl
- diction coach
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Millard Mitchell — R.F. Simpson
- Cyd Charisse — Dancer
- Douglas Fowley — Roscoe Dexter
- Rita Moreno — Zelda Zanders
- Mae Clarke — Hairdresser (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers — Audience Member (uncredited)
- Robert Foulk — Matt - Policeman (uncredited)
- Kathleen Freeman — Phoebe Dinsmore (uncredited)
- Joi Lansing — Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- Sylvia Lewis — Female Tango Dancer (uncredited)
- Harry 'Snub' Pollard — Old Man Getting Umbrella (uncredited)
- Directed
- Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- Written
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Production
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
