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The Shining Hour is a 1938 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, based on the 1934 play The Shining Hour by Keith Winter, and starring Joan Crawford and Margaret Sullavan. The supporting cast of the MGM film features Robert Young , Melvyn Douglas , Fay Bainter and Hattie McDaniel .
- $1,068,000
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frank Borzage (uncredited)
The Shining Hour (1938) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Shining Hour, The -- (Movie Clip) And Who So Diggeth Big sister Hannah (Fay Bainter) presiding as ex-showgirl and new bride Olivia (Joan Crawford) dances, her husband Henry (Melvyn Douglas) and grumpy brother David (Robert Young) joining, his wife Judy (Margaret Sullavan) compensating, in The Shining Hour, 1938.
- Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage
- Joan Crawford
The Shining Hour is a must see. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating Cast & Crew
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- Frank Borzage
- Drama
- Joan Crawford
blanche-2 10 December 2006. Joan Crawford disrupts a family in "The Shining Hour," a 1938 film also starring Melvyn Douglas, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, and Fay Bainter. Crawford is Olivia Reilly, a New York City dancer who works in a nightclub with a partner doing an act sort of modeled on Astaire and Rogers though it's clearly down ...
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Olivia, a beautiful nightclub singer (Joan Crawford), attracts every man she meets, including the brother of her new fiance. Her fiance, Henry, (Melvyn Douglas) and his brother, David, (Robert Young) are from an old, wealthy, landed-gentry-type family. Even David's wife, Judy (Margaret Sullavan) adore Olivia, but their sister, Hannah (Fay ...
When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on stage, she pleaded with the studio to let her spread her acting wings in the film version. She got her wish, playi...
