''Tell Me Tonight'' or ''Be Mine Tonight'' is a 1932 British

musical comedy film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as break ...

directed by

Anatole Litvak Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak (10 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), commonly known as Anatole Litvak, was a Russian-American filmmaker. Born to Jewish parents in Kiev, he began his theatrical training at age 13 in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, ...

and starring Jan Kiepura, Sonnie Hale and Magda Schneider. It was shot in

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at the

Babelsberg Studio Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of a ...

s as part of a co-production between

Gainsborough Pictures Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, east London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951. The co ...

and the German firm Cine-Allianz.Wood p.76 A separate German-language version '' The Song of Night'' was also released.

Cast

* Jan Kiepura as Enrico Ferraro * Sonnie Hale as Alexander Koretsky * Magda Schneider as Mathilde Pategg *

Edmund Gwenn Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1947), for which he won t ...

as Mayor Pategg *

Athene Seyler Athene Seyler (31 May 188912 September 1990) was an English actress. Early life She was born in Hackney, London; her German-born grandparents moved to the United Kingdom, where her grandfather Philip Seyler was a merchant in London. Athene Se ...

as Mrs. Pategg * Betty Chester as Miss Barker *

Aubrey Mather Aubrey Mather (17 December 1885 – 16 January 1958) was an English character actor. Career Mather was born in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, and began his career on the stage in 1905. He debuted in London in ''Brewster's Millions'' in ...

as Balthasar

References

Bibliography

* Creekmur, Corey & Mokdad, Linda. ''The International Film Musical''. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1932 films 1932 musical comedy films British musical comedy films 1930s English-language films British multilingual films Gainsborough Pictures films Films directed by Anatole Litvak Cine-Allianz films British black-and-white films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1932 multilingual films 1930s British films English-language musical comedy films {{musical-comedy-film-stub