Night in Paradise (1946)
May 3, 1946Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Merle Oberon
Delarai
Turhan Bey
Aesop
Thomas Gomez
King Croesus
Gale Sondergaard
Attosa
Ray Collins
Leonides
Ernest Truex
Scribe
George Dolenz
Frigid Ambassador
John Litel
Archon
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Release DateMay 3, 1946
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Content RatingNR
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Night in Paradise is a 1946 American Technicolor fantasy comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Merle Oberon, Gale Sondergaard and Turhan Bey. It was produced by Walter Wanger for distribution by Universal Pictures.
In 560 BC King Croesus of Lydia incurs the wrath of the sorceress Queen Attossa he had promised to marry, when he chooses the beautiful Delarai of Persia instead. Attossa, in disembodied form, mocks Croesus nearly to the point of madness, so he seeks a solution from the fortune-teller Aesop, who is very young and handsome, but believes that people only receive wisdom with age, arrived from the Isle of Samos in disguise of an old man with a hunch, a limp, and a cane. But Aesop also has eyes for Delarai.
This expensive, lavish Technicolor production of plaster Grecian temples and painted skies was Wanger's second attempt to film the novel, and ended up costing $1.6 million and losing Universal some $800,000. One source describes it as a kitschy "Maria Montez vehicle without Maria Montez". (The correct title is Night in Paradise, not "A Night in Paradise" as some sources have it.)