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Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. [1] The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho , that determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz .
The film is based on the true story of a theater that kept going during the horrific bombings London suffered, unlike other theaters, which closed their doors. In the film, a photographer from Life arrives to do a feature about the theater and hears a story about Rita and friends from a stagehand.
Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho, that determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz.
- Victor Saville
What is not typical is the story based on real events in London during the blitz instead of a contrived plot to frame the musical numbers. (See the recent "Mrs. Henderson Presents".) The story has bravery and tragedy as well as the usual romance and fluff.
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- Drama, Musical, War
- Victor Saville
- 1945-01-09
Nov 21, 2016 · Told as a retrospective story to a LIFE magazine reporter, a theater in London never closed or missed a performance during the German blitz in London throughout World War II. The stars of the show were Rosalind Bruce (Hayworth), Judy Kane (Blair) and Tommy Lawson (Platt) are the stars of the show.
Tonight And Every Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) You Excite Me Reflecting the wartime success of London's "Music Box" theater (based on the real "Windmill" theater), Rita Hayworth, choreographed by Jack Cole, tune by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, in producer-director Victor Saville's Tonight And Every Night, 1945.
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Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical movie directed by Victor Saville and was based on the 1942 play Heart of the City by Lesley Storm. It stars Rita Haywood , Lee Bowman , Janet Blair , Leslie Brooks , Dusty Anderson , Jim Bannon , Florence Bates and was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1946.
