La chanson des ténèbres

Original title: Night Song

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Dana Andrews and Merle Oberon in La chanson des ténèbres (1947)

When a beautiful socialite falls in love with an embittered composer who is blind, she feigns blindness herself in order to get closer to him.When a beautiful socialite falls in love with an embittered composer who is blind, she feigns blindness herself in order to get closer to him.When a beautiful socialite falls in love with an embittered composer who is blind, she feigns blindness herself in order to get closer to him.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 4 wins total

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Dana Andrews

Merle Oberon

Cathy

Ethel Barrymore

Miss Willey

Hoagy Carmichael

Chick

Artur Rubinstein

Artur Rubinstein

Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy

Jacqueline White

Connie

Donald Curtis

George

Walter Reed

Jimmy

Jane Jones

Mamie

Whit Bissell

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

Chez Mamie Headwaiter
(uncredited)

Charles Cirillo

Sailor at Chez Mamie
(uncredited)

Angela Clarke

Woman
(uncredited)

George Cooper

Bellboy
(uncredited)

Lynn Craft

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Suzi Crandall

Fur-Coated Pedestrian
(uncredited)

Herbert Evans

Butler
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Dana Andrews wore opaque contact lenses throughout filming to give him a realistic sensation of blindness.

Goofs
When Chick begins singing the verses on the song "Who Kill Er", you hear horn riffs playing in the background. But when it cuts to the horn players on stage, they are sitting still and not playing although you can hear the horns in the music.

Quotes
Miss Willey: My heart's an old wastepaper basket, filled with unpaid bills and paperback novels.

Connections
Featured in Let's Go to the Movies (1949)

Soundtracks
I COULDN'T SLEEP A WINK LAST NIGHT
(uncredited)
from Amour et swing (1943)
Music by Jimmy McHugh
Performed by "Chick Morgan Band"

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Featured review

Succeeds on many levels

If you ask me, this film seems undervalued or under-appreciated. I don't know why. RKO's NIGHT SONG stars Dana Andrews as a blind pianist and Merle Oberon as the woman who loves him. The music is wonderful, and while the plot is full of melodramatic complications and a liberal amount of hokum, it still manages to entertain and engage the audience because the characters are well-drawn and well played. The film boasts the added bonus of having Ethel Barrymore and Hoagy Carmichael in the supporting roles.

In some ways, NIGHT SONG reminds me of MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, where Irene Dunne (or Jane Wyman, take your pick) experiences blindness and manages to find love in an unlikely source.

While not considered an 'essential' (in the TCM sense of the word), NIGHT SONG is a studio film that is very well put together and succeeds on many levels.