Midnight (1939)

MIDNIGHT  (1939)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Mitchell Leisen
    Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore,
    Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Monty Woolley
A Cinderella comedy with Colbert as a chorus girl from Indiana who gets off the train in Paris with five centimes in her purse, and it's night and she's got no place to stay and it's raining. She's in luck, though, because she's befriended immediately by a cab driver (Don Ameche), and then by a wealthy socialite (John Barrymore) who enlists her in a cockeyed scheme to save his foundering marriage. It all gets pretty crazy, of course, and everything has to go wrong before it goes right, but that's what makes it fun. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett wrote the script, and Barrymore has one of his best late-career comedy roles.