Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
- Katherine Mead
- (as Nancy Davis)
- Anne Ainley
- (as Rosemary De Camp)
- Margaret Andersen
- (as Katharine Warren)
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- (uncredited)
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- TriviaOne of two films starring Ray Milland that deals with alcoholism and co-stars a wife of Ronald Reagan. This one features his second wife, Nancy Reagan (credited here as Nancy Davis, her pre-marriage name), and the other, The Lost Weekend (1945), features his first wife, Jane Wyman.
- GoofsShadow of the helicopter on the clock tower in the closing scene.
- Quotes
Katherine Mead: [as Phillip opens the window to jump to his death] Phil, wait! Don't! I'm not going to try to stop you. Please listen to me. I stood exactly like that once. Exactly. Only it was a bridge. And I stood there quite calmly, looking at the lights of the city that no longer existed. And I would have hated anyone who said "don't" or "wait". And then someone did say it, all the way across the Pacific. I heard Dan, telling me not to do it. You could hear Anne and Timmy. That's what they'd say to you. As long as you live, they have a special kind of immortality, Phil. They're alive as long as you're around. Let them live, Phil. Let them live!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)
Helping him through the crisis are fellow faculty member John Hodiak and department secretary Nancy Davis try to keep Milland grounded. Davis is a war widow and she held on to the memory of a husband killed in the Pacific for quite a bit, she's come to terms and hopes Milland does the same. Hodiak and Davis are an item, but Hodiak is afraid that Davis just might be going a bit overboard in her concern, that she's falling for Milland and putting their relationship in danger.
Lewis Stone has a small role as chair of the English department. I was surprised he was not used more, possibly a Judge Hardy moment with all three of the leads. Jean Hagen has a small memorable role as a cheery woman in the next apartment who has a most interesting scene with Milland. Can't say more, you have to see it.
Those stages of grief we go through, Milland just can't let himself go. But when he does you know it will work out.
Leads and supporting cast bring home a winner in Night Into Morning, a textbook study in grief.
- bkoganbing
- Jul 12, 2017
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- Budget
- $777,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1