Still image from the 1940 film Remember the Night.

Remember the Night

Directed by Mitchell Leisen

An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.

1940 1h 26m Comedy TV-G

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CAST
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Mitchell Leisen, Director
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Mitchell Leisen
Director

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Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Leander
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Barbara Stanwyck
Lee Leander

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Fred Macmurray, John Sargent
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Fred Macmurray
John Sargent

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Beulah Bondi, Mrs. Sargent
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Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Sargent

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Elizabeth Patterson, Aunt Emma
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Elizabeth Patters..
Aunt Emma

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Willard Robertson, Francis X. O'Leary
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Willard Robertson
Francis X. O'Leary

FULL SYNOPSIS

Realizing that he is about to lose his case against Lee Leander, a beautiful shoplifter, assistant district attorney John Sargent foils long-winded defense attorney Francis X. O'Leary's argument to have the case decided quickly so that everyone can go Christmas shopping. Knowing that convictions, especially against a woman, are almost impossible during the holidays, he moves to adjourn the case until after the beginning of the year. Soon after, his conscience begins to bother him at the thought of Lee spending Christmas in jail, and he posts her bail. Lee is broke and has nowhere to go, though, and when Jack discovers that she is from Indiana, where he is about to drive to visit his mother for the holidays, he offers to drop her off at home. Enroute, they get disoriented on a country road and get arrested as trespassers, but Lee saves them from jail by starting a fire in the local Justice of the Peace's waste basket. When they finally make it to Lee's mother's farm, the hateful woman turns her own daughter away, hurting Lee who never could live up to her mother's moralistic code. Feeling sorry for Lee, Jack brings her home to his mother and Aunt Emma. Jack secretly tells his mother about Lee and she sympathizes with the girl, whom she recognizes as a victim of a loveless childhood. Aunt Emma, who doesn't know about Lee's background, enocurages a romance between her and Jack, and they soon fall in love. On New Year's Eve, before they are to return to New York City, Jack's mother, fearful that a relationship with Lee would destroy her son's career, pleads with her to give him up and Lee agrees. On the drive home, Jack offers to leave Lee in Canada so that she can avoid prosecution, but, mindful of his mother's plea, Lee insists upon returning to New York. The trial resumes and the judge, who has seen Jack and Lee together on the evening they left for Indiana, suspects that Jack might try to throw the case. Hoping to win sympathy for Lee, Jack begins to brow beat her in front of the jury, but Lee, realizing his motives, pleads guilty and is remanded to jail. As she is lead away, Jack proposes to her and she promises that if he still feels that way after she has paid her debt to society, she will marry him.


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ARTICLES
A heartwarming Christmas-time movie which skillfully blends touching drama with zany comedy, Remember the Night (1940) is a good example of the studio system functioning like a well-oiled machine. It has a witty, incisive screenplay by the great Preston Sturges, stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in their first film together and is produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen, who had just made the masterful romantic comedy Midnight (1939). It even works in three songs: "Easy Living," "Back Home in Indiana," and "The End of a Perfect Day." Sturges's story revolves around an Assistant District Attorney (MacMurray) falling in love with the shoplifter he is prosecuting (Stanwyck). Feeling sorry that she will have to spend Christmas in jail awaiting trial, he bails her out and takes her to her childhood home in Indiana. But when he sees how cold and unwelcoming Stanwyck's mother is, he takes her to his own mother's home, also in Indiana, where Stanwyck is bowled over by the love and affection she encounters. Hanging over both their heads is the realization that they still have to return to the city to resolve the trial. Will MacMurray purposefully blow the case? Will she let him? Sturges himself summarized his script this way: "Love reformed her and corrupted him." The finished movie, he said, "had quite a lot of schmaltz, a good dose of schmerz and just enough schmutz to make it box office." Sturges's wife at the time, Louise, later recalled the period when h...

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 Scene Stills from the movie 'Remember the Night'
Remember the Night...
Scene Stills
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Scenes Stills from the movie 'Remember the Night'
Remember the Night...
Scenes Stills

NOTES

According to studio publicity contained in the production files at the AMPAS Library, this was the first time that director Mitchell Leisen did not appear as an extra in one of his films. This was the first film in which Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray worked together. Their only other joint screen appearance was in Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder in 1944. Materials contained in the Preston Sturges Papers at the UCLA Library add that Sturges suggested the title Great Love for this film. This was Preston Sturges' last writing project before he became a writer-director. Modern sources add that Leisen shortened Sturges' script considerably.

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