Claudette Colbert
Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny
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Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie.
Midnight: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer. A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
- (5.6K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
American showgirl Eve Peabody finds herself stranded penniless in Paris on a rainy night, her only possession the evening gown on her back. Eve strikes a bargain with soft-hearted cab driver Tibor Czerny to double his fee in exchange for driving her from nightclub to nightclub looking for a job.
- Mitchell Leisen, Hal Walker
- Claudette Colbert
Midnight. When out-of-work showgirl Eve (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris with no work in sight, she asks taxi driver Tibor (Don Ameche) to drive her from club to club.
- (14)
- Claudette Colbert
- Mitch Leisen
- Comedy
Directed by Mitchell Leisen. In director Mitchell Leisen’s delightfully frothy comedy, Eve (Colbert) is a showgirl who’s washed up in Paris without a penny. Crashing a party, she meets Georges Flammarion (Barrymore), who hires her to lure a French playboy away from his straying wife (Astor).
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver. Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party.
Director Mitchell Leisen’s film about a gold digging American showgirl in Paris is a tale of con vs con vs The Great Con. The last one, being the highly lampoon-able charade that is the possession of excess wealth.
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