This Is The Night

This blithe comedy marked Cary Grant's film debut, a charming and engaging romp that maintains a fresh feeling from the first frame to the last. Taken from the 1925 Broadway comedy "Naughty Cinderella," the film opens with Thelma Todd in Paris making time with rich bachelor Roland Young. While escorting her to a party, Young catches Todd's long dress in a car door and the garment is torn from the woman. A cry breaks out--"Madame has lost her skirt"--and turns into a joyful song that suddenly sweeps the city, springs up from the streets, on the radio, and even from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Unperturbed, Todd merely wraps herself in her long fur coat and heads hom...