Tonight Is Ours

1933 film by Stuart Walker
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Fredric March
  • Alison Skipworth
CinematographyKarl StrussMusic by
  • Karl Hajos
  • John Leipold
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 21, 1933 (1933-01-21) (US)
Running time
75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Tonight Is Ours is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Alison Skipworth. Made by Paramount Pictures, it is based on the play The Queen Was in the Parlour by Noël Coward.[1]

Plot

It tells the story of a princess who had an affair with another handsome commoner before her marriage to a prince.[2]

Colbert as Princess Nadya

Cast

  • Claudette Colbert as Princess Nadya
  • Fredric March as Sabien Pastal
  • Alison Skipworth as Grand Duchess Emilie
  • Arthur Byron as Gen. Krish
  • Paul Cavanagh as Prince Keri
  • Ethel Griffies as Zana
  • Clay Clement as Seminoff
  • Warburton Gamble as Alex
  • Edwin Maxwell as mob leader

See also

  • The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927)

Notes

  1. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 72–73
  2. ^ Tonight is Ours TCM synopsis, accessed October 31, 2023
  • Mander, Raymond; Joe Mitchenson (2000) [1957]. Theatrical Companion to Coward. Barry Day and Sheridan Morley (2000 edition, ed.) (second ed.). London: Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.

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