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Blues in the Night is a 1941 American musical film noir [1] directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson. It was released by Warner Brothers .
Films dealing with blues history or prominently featuring blues music as a theme include: St. Louis Blues (1929): the only short movie with Bessie Smith; Blues in the Night (1941) Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Sounder (1972) Lady Sings The Blues (1972): about Billie Holiday
"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen , the lyrics by Johnny Mercer , for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne , but finally released as Blues in the Night .
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Blues in the Night is a 1980s musical revue conceived by Sheldon Epps. It was produced by Mitchell Maxwell, Alan J. Schuster, Fred H. Krones and M Squared Entertainment, Inc., and Joshua Silver (Associate Producer).
Birth of the Blues (1941) as Fancy-Pants, Doorman (uncredited) Blues in the Night (1941) as Black Prisoner #1 (uncredited) Among the Living (1941) as Pompey; Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941) as Sam (uncredited) The Bugle Sounds (1942) as Cartaret; Drums of the Congo (1942) as King Malaba; Arabian Nights (1942) as Nubian Slave ...
That year, Life included him in a photo montage of "Hollywood's Movie-struck Kids" and described Montgomery, still using his full name, as "6 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs 210 lb., rides well, is superlatively handsome." [7] He went back to Westerns in Southward Ho (1939) and The Arizona Kid (1939) with Rogers.
Whitney appeared in the films Destination Tokyo (1943), Action in the North Atlantic (1943), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Murder, He Says (1945) (in which he played a dual role), The Big Heat (1953), In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and others before becoming well known for his work in television.