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Encouraged by his grandfather, Cole Porter enrolls at Yale to study law. A professor there, hearing the songs Porter writes, tells him to follow music instead, and Porter leaves the law behind. He serves in the First World War and is wounded, and in a hospital he meets Linda Lee, a nurse who takes an interest in the tunes he makes up. After the war he returns to New York and stages one show after another, and his work brings him back to Europe, where Linda, long a friend of his family, becomes his wife. Their marriage has to make room for the hours his songwriting takes.
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- Adam Di Gatanoas Dancer in I've Got You Under My Skin (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Night and Day (1946)
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- The screenwriters knew the life of composer Cole Porter would have to be fictionalized, both because he lacked the rags-to-riches arc common to film biographies and because he was gay, which the Hays Code then barred films from showing.
- Cary Grant and director Michael Curtiz clashed often, mainly over a script Grant dismissed as weak with "lousy characterizations"; much of it was rewritten at his request, and he refused to act in scenes he thought poorly written.
- Making the film was held up by a 1945 strike by the Conference of Studio Workers, the union that represented the film's set builders.
- Jack Warner paid $300,000 for the rights to Cole Porter's best-known songs, and treated the film as a big-budget extravaganza celebrating Warner Bros.' twenty years in sound pictures.
