The Night Before the Divorce

The Night Before the Divorce
The Night Before the Divorce
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Gina Kaus (play) ; Ladislas Fodor (play) ; Jerry Sackheim
Produced by	Ralph Dietrich
Starring	Lynn Bari ; Mary Beth Hughes ; Joseph Allen
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	John Brady
Music by	Leigh Harline ; Cyril J. Mockridge
Production; company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 6, 1942
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Night Before the Divorce is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes and Joseph Allen, adapted from the 1937 play of the same name by Gina Kaus and Ladislas Fodor.^[1]

Main cast

Lynn Bari as Lynn Nordyke
Mary Beth Hughes as Lola May
Joseph Allen as George Nordyke (as Joseph Allen Jr.)
Nils Asther as Victor Roselle
Truman Bradley as Inspector Bruce Campbell
Kay Linaker as Hedda Smythe
Lyle Latell as Detective Brady
Mary Treen as Olga - the Maid
Thurston Hall as Bert 'Mousey' Harriman
Spencer Charters as Small Town Judge
Leon Belasco as Leo - the Headwaiter
Tom Fadden as Captain Walt
Alec Craig as Jitters Noonan

References

^ Alpi p.110

Bibliography

Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography. McFarland, 1998.
Greco, Joseph. The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951. Universal-Publishers, 1999.

External links

The Night Before the Divorce at IMDb

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[1] Alpi p.110

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v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)