A swooning mash-up of comedy, melodrama, farce and tragedy, History is Made At Night defies narrative logic in favor of love’s more unpredictable ways. After an unhappily married American woman (Jean Arthur) meets a debonair Parisian maitre d’ (Charles Boyer), not her murderously jealous husband, a bad bouillabaisse, or an iceberg in the Atlantic, could keep them apart.
Production: Walter Wanger Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists Corp. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Screenwriter: Gene Towne, Graham Baker. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Art Director: Alexander Toluboff. Editor: Margaret Clancey. Music: Alfred Newman. With: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff. 35mm, b/w, 97 min.
