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by Frank Showalter

Tonight or Never

D+: 2 stars (out of 5)
1931 | United States | 80 min | More...
Reviewed May 3, 2021

A romantic comedy starring Gloria Swanson as a prima donna criticized for her passionless performances because she’s never made time for a man. To remedy this, she falls for convenient handsome stranger Melvyn Douglas, but an idiot plot causes her to believe him a gigolo. Putting aside the plot’s overt sexism, I struggled with Swanson’s petulant, egomaniacal character. Boris Karloff appears in a single scene as a hotel waiter.

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    Mon, May 3, 2021 via DVD