Remember the Night

…atypically sentimental) screenplay for Leisen’s Remember the Night (1940), Sturges directed Christmas in July (1940), a deftly crafted low-budget compendium of comic confusions about a lowly clerk (played by Dick Powell) who goes on a mad shopping spree after mistakenly thinking that he has won $25,000 in a contest. The…

…first film of the 1940s, Remember the Night (1940), featured a funny script by Sturges and starred MacMurray again, this time opposite Barbara Stanwyck, playing a recidivist shoplifter who gets caught at Christmastime. A softhearted prosecutor (MacMurray) takes her home during the court’s holiday recess to his family in Indiana,…

…Golden Boy (1939); the comedies Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941); and the westerns Union Pacific (1939) and Cattle Queen of Montana (1954). Other notable films were Meet John Doe (1941), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Clash by Night (1952), and