Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy (with some elements of screwball comedy) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. It starred Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore.
Out-of-work showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris during a rainstorm with just the clothes on her back. A Hungarian cab driver, Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), take...
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Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy (with some elements of screwball comedy) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. It starred Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore.
Out-of-work showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris during a rainstorm with just the clothes on her back. A Hungarian cab driver, Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), takes pity on her. He drives her around to the city's nightclubs in a fruitless attempt to get her a job. He offers to let her stay overnight at his apartment (he will be out driving all night), but she makes it clear to Tibor that she has set her sights financially higher than a taxi driver. When he stops for gas, she slips away.
She finds shelter from the rain by crashing a socialite's (Hedda Hopper) late-night party by passing off a pawn ticket as an invitation. Posing as the "Baroness Czerny", Eve sits next to wealthy Georges Flammarion (John...
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