---
title: 'Midnight (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mitchell Leisen'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 92
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/midnight-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031647/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Midnight (1939)

1939 · 92 min · Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl stranded in Paris who is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mitchell Leisen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-leisen)
- **Screenplay:** [Billy Wilder](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-wilder), [Charles Brackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-brackett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Friedrich Hollaender](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-hollaender)
- **Producer:** [Arthur Hornblow, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hornblow-jr)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lang)
- **Editor:** [Doane Harrison](https://cinepixo.com/people/doane-harrison)

## Cast

- [Nestor Paiva](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-paiva)
- [William Hopper](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hopper)
- [Gino Corrado](https://cinepixo.com/people/gino-corrado)
- [Michael Visaroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-visaroff)
- [Mary MacLaren](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-maclaren)
- [Mary Astor](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-astor)
- [Claudette Colbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudette-colbert)
- [Robert Graves](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-graves)
- [Elaine Barrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/elaine-barrie)
- [Francis Lederer](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-lederer)
- [Hedda Hopper](https://cinepixo.com/people/hedda-hopper)
- [Leander de Cordova](https://cinepixo.com/people/leander-de-cordova)
- [Edmund Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-mortimer)
- [André Cheron](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-cheron)
- [Sam Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-harris)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/midnight-1939
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