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Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Charles Arnt
- Tom
- (as Charlie Arnt)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Rufus
- (as Snowflake)
Jean Acker
- Jury Member
- (uncredited)
Ambrose Barker
- Customs Official
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to director Mitchell Leisen, the role of Lee's mother was originally taken by Marjorie Main. After Main's performance proved to be far too broad and overdone, the scene was re-shot with Georgia Caine.
- GoofsThe street sign on the corner of the shop where Lee tries to pawn the stolen bracelet reads "3rd Avenue" and "West 54th Street" in NYC. With 3rd Avenue being east of Fifth Avenue, which divides east from west Manhattan, the street sign should read "East 54th Street."
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA srl, "CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (Il sergente e la signora, 1945) - New Widescreen Edition + RICORDA QUELLA NOTTE (1940)" (2 Films on a single DVD, with "Christmas in Connecticut" in double version 1.33:1 and 1.78:1), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)
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Dewey Wouldn't Approve
Watching Remember The Night I remembered something else that audiences might have forgotten in 1940 in seeing this film on screen. The District Attorney of New York County was one Thomas E. Dewey who was definitely not one for mixing business with pleasure. If one of his Assistant District Attorneys went bail for a prisoner he was prosecuting and took her home for Christmas and across a few state lines to boot, that man would not have had a job and Dewey wouldn't have cared about reasons of love.
But with a script by Preston Sturges and direction by Mitchell Leisen you could forget about reality and concentrate on Christmas romance. Leisen assembled a great cast of character players in this very charming comedy/drama. And you can't miss with leads like Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the first of four films they did together.
MacMurray's the ADA who's prosecuting Stanwyck for shoplifting and this ain't her first offense. But a combination of her beauty and charm and one flannelmouth defense attorney has him feeling sorry for her and then going her bail and taking her home because, after all it's Christmas.
They have an eventful drive to Indiana where they both coincidentally hail from and MacMurray himself winds up a fugitive from a speed trap in a hilarious sequence. And the two see the kind of homes each came from, something that prosecutors and criminals don't often see from each other's point of view.
Beulah Bondi and Elizabeth Patterson play MacMurray's mother and aunt and are quite the contrast to Georgia Caine who is Stanwyck's cold hearted mom. Spencer Charters does a good job as the speed trap judge in Pennsylvania.
My favorite however is Stanwyck's attorney Willard Robertson who is really carried away with himself as her lawyer. He's giving her a defense on the shoplifting charge that Clarence Darrow gave Leopold&Loeb. Man does love to hear himself talk. But his talk keeps the trial over the holidays allowing cupid to work.
Stanwyck and Sturges became friends and he confided in her that he would be directing as well as writing soon and next year he might just have a project perfect for her. The project turned out to be The Lady Eve according to a recent biography of Stanwyck.
Remember The Night is a charming film by some charm masters. But I suspect that Thomas E. Dewey probably hated it.
But with a script by Preston Sturges and direction by Mitchell Leisen you could forget about reality and concentrate on Christmas romance. Leisen assembled a great cast of character players in this very charming comedy/drama. And you can't miss with leads like Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the first of four films they did together.
MacMurray's the ADA who's prosecuting Stanwyck for shoplifting and this ain't her first offense. But a combination of her beauty and charm and one flannelmouth defense attorney has him feeling sorry for her and then going her bail and taking her home because, after all it's Christmas.
They have an eventful drive to Indiana where they both coincidentally hail from and MacMurray himself winds up a fugitive from a speed trap in a hilarious sequence. And the two see the kind of homes each came from, something that prosecutors and criminals don't often see from each other's point of view.
Beulah Bondi and Elizabeth Patterson play MacMurray's mother and aunt and are quite the contrast to Georgia Caine who is Stanwyck's cold hearted mom. Spencer Charters does a good job as the speed trap judge in Pennsylvania.
My favorite however is Stanwyck's attorney Willard Robertson who is really carried away with himself as her lawyer. He's giving her a defense on the shoplifting charge that Clarence Darrow gave Leopold&Loeb. Man does love to hear himself talk. But his talk keeps the trial over the holidays allowing cupid to work.
Stanwyck and Sturges became friends and he confided in her that he would be directing as well as writing soon and next year he might just have a project perfect for her. The project turned out to be The Lady Eve according to a recent biography of Stanwyck.
Remember The Night is a charming film by some charm masters. But I suspect that Thomas E. Dewey probably hated it.
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- Also known as
- Die unvergessliche Nacht
- Filming locations
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada(Lee and Jim enter Canada)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $167,800
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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