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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1931 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White |
| TYPE: | Classics (Silents/Avant Garde) |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381920024 |
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Customer Reviews of Tonight or Never
DEVOUTED CONSUMMATION! A BRILIANT RESTORATION of this early-talkie gem! Nary a scratch or a hiss ~ and a word of advice - DON'T play these oldies through a hi-tech sound system - you'll just be disappopinted - use your standard TV audio - you won't be disappoinetd.
CONTRARY to an earlier review - Miss Swanson DOES NOT sing in this moving picture - she plays an Opera singer - without the required fire ["Tosca" being her tour-de force] and discovers ther equired passion through a liason with a dashing Mr. Melvin Douglas.
MIS SWANSON has never been lovelier [or intentionally funnier! Great comedic timing under Mervin le Roy's baton] - as for the gowns! SPLENDID CREATIONS BY CHANEL! This alone is worth the admission price. Make up is slightly harsh - but that was the period - numerous generous closeups of the famous [and perfect] Swanson figure! They certainly 'had faces' back then! [AND there's nothign wrong with Miss Swanson's voice - check out 'Sunset Boulevard'!!!]
Lots of tongue in cheek yuks [Miss Swanson vacates her hotel suite due to the 'noises' from the newly-weds next door].
This is a perfect product of "Movies - when Movies were Movies!"
Boris Karloff cameos as a waiter ........
Poor Little Gloria!
No wonder Gloria Swanson never succeeded in talkies. This movie would have wiped out the career of nearly any star--whether or not they could talk, sing or what. I gave up watching this after 45 minutes although I've always been obsessed with Gloria Swanson. You would think that as an opera singer, Gloria would at least have lip-synched some songs. Instead, the movie takes forever to get started. Clad in stunning Chanel gowns and jewels, Swanson looks fantastic. But she spends her time staring, staring, staring at the mysterious gigolo, Melvyn Douglas, who cruises her hotel. One glaring weakness, too, is Gloria's voice. It simply has no vibrancy or personality. Although she looks phenomenal, everytime Gloria opens her mouth, she loses her star charisma. The movie creeps along at a glacial pace. Gloria looks completely uncomfortable talking. I found this movie so depressing to watch--after reading about it for years--that I quickly put in my new DVD of "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" and had a ball!
SWANSON & DOUGLAS.
Nella Vago is a young opera singer who is making her first major appearance at a Venetian opera house. The critics are less than enchanted, and her teacher remarks that she lacks the passion & fire which makes the difference between a singer and a diva. Gloria's voice takes on a newly-found timbre after an amourous affair with a handsome "gigolo" played by Fredric March...A fairly entertaining early talkie which was originally a stage play starring Melvyn Douglas and his wife, Helen Gahagan. The play was the last to be produced by Broadway legend David Belasco before his death. Note that Boris Karloff has a slyly engaging comedy part in this antique curio which continued to keep Swanson's fading career in the talkies on the down-side.