Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
- daughter
- ship
- snake
- gambling
- passenger
- fraud
- romcom
- deception
- con artist
- money
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Barbara Stanwyck
Jean Harrington
Henry Fonda
Charles Pike
Charles Coburn
'Colonel' Harrington
Eugene Pallette
Horace Pike
- William Demarest — Muggsy
- Eric Blore — Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
- Melville Cooper — Gerald
- Martha O'Driscoll — Martha
- Janet Beecher — Janet Pike
- Robert Greig — Burrows
- Dora Clement — Gertrude
- Luis Alberni — Emile, Pike's chef
- Bobby Barber — Ship's Waiter with Toupee (uncredited)
- Eddie Hall — Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Arthur Stuart Hull — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Directed
- Preston Sturges
- Written
- Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 403 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount 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.
