Midnight Mary

1933 film by William A. Wellman

June 30, 1933 (1933-06-30)

Running time

74 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Midnight Mary is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, and Franchot Tone.

Plot

The story begins with an indifferent Mary Martin (Young) sitting in a courtroom on trial for murder. As the jury leaves to deliberate her fate, the story depicts flashbacks on Mary's hard life as a woman living in a large city of the 1930s as well as on the two lusty men—a gangster, Leo Darcy (Cortez), and a lawyer, Tom Mannering, Jr. (Tone)—with whom she is involved.^[1]

Cast

Loretta Young as Mary Martin ("Midnight Mary")
Ricardo Cortez as Leo Darcy
Franchot Tone as Tom Mannering, Jr.
Andy Devine as Sam Travers
Una Merkel as Bunny
Frank Conroy as the District Attorney
Warren Hymer as Angelo Ricci
Ivan F. Simpson as Tindle (credited as Ivan Simpson)
Harold Huber as 'Puggy' Nestle
Sandy Roth as Blimp
Martha Sleeper as Barbara Loring Mannering
Charley Grapewin as Clerk (credited as Charles Grapewin)
Halliwell Hobbes as Churchill
Robert Emmett O'Connor as Charlie, the Cop
Ernie Adams as Court Photographer
Reginald Barlow as Trial Judge
Louise Beavers as Anna, Mary's Maid
Lynton Brent as Court Photographer
Don Brodie as Court Photographer
Mike Donlin as Guard at Club Imperial
Robert Dudley as Mannering's Night Watchman
Bill Elliott as Party Guest
Robert Greig as Potter - Tom's Butler
Wilfred Lucas as Nightclub Bouncer
Philo McCullough as Masher
Nelson McDowell as Salvation Army Leader
Miki Morita as Chinese Restaurant Owner
Bob Perry as Head Waiter at Club Saraband
Lee Phelps as Club Imperial Floor Manager
Charles Sellon as Night Watchman
Phillips Smalley as Defense Attorney
Richard Tucker as Club Imperial Manager
Otto Yamaoka as Chinese Proprietor

References

^ Midnight Mary, plot overview, cast and crew credits, and production details; online catalog of the American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved November 1, 2023.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Midnight Mary (1933 film).

Midnight Mary at the TCM Movie Database
Midnight Mary at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
Midnight Mary at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Stills at Movie Classics
Stills at torontofilmsociety.org

Films directed by William A. Wellman

Second Hand Love (1923)
The Man Who Won (1923)
Big Dan (1923)
Cupid's Fireman (1923)
Not a Drum Was Heard (1924)
The Vagabond Trail (1924)
The Circus Cowboy (1924)
When Husbands Flirt (1925)
The Boob (1926)
You Never Know Women (1926)
The Cat's Pajamas (1926)
Wings (1927)
The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
Ladies of the Mob (1928)
Beggars of Life (1928)
Chinatown Nights (1929)
The Man I Love (1929)
Woman Trap (1929)
Dangerous Paradise (1930)
Young Eagles (1930)
Maybe It's Love (1930)
Other Men's Women (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Night Nurse (1931)
The Star Witness (1931)
Safe in Hell (1931)
The Hatchet Man (1932)
So Big (1932)
Love Is a Racket (1932)
The Purchase Price (1932)
The Conquerors (1932)
Frisco Jenny (1932)
Central Airport (1933)
Lilly Turner (1933)
Heroes for Sale (1933)
Midnight Mary (1933)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Female (1933)
College Coach (1933)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Stingaree (1934)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
Small Town Girl (1936)
A Star Is Born (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Men with Wings (1938)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Light That Failed (1939)
Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Roxie Hart (1942)
The Great Man's Lady (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
This Man's Navy (1945)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Gallant Journey (1946)
Magic Town (1947)
The Iron Curtain (1948)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Battleground (1949)
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950)
The Happy Years (1950)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
It's a Big Country (1951)
Westward the Women (1951)
My Man and I (1952)
Island in the Sky (1953)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Ring of Fear (1954)
Blood Alley (1955)
Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Lafayette Escadrille (1958)

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film
/I signals that Loos also wrote the intertitles;
some works are co-written

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Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)
Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
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