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Night Nurse (1931 film)

Night Nurse
Night Nurse 1931 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by William A. Wellman
Screenplay by
Based on Night Nurse
1930 novel
by Dora Macy
Starring
Music by Leo F. Forbstein
Cinematography Barney McGill
Edited by Edward M. McDermott
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • August 8, 1931 (1931-08-08) (USA)
Running time
72 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Night Nurse is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama and mystery film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by William A. Wellman. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable and Vera Lewis. It was based on the 1930 novel of the same name, written by Grace Perkins, later Mrs. Fulton Oursler (under the pen name Dora Macy). The film was considered risqué at the time of its release, particularly the scene where Stanwyck is seen in her lingerie. Gable portrays a vicious chauffeur gradually starving two little girls to death.

Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) applies for a job as a trainee nurse in a hospital, but is rejected by the Superintendent of Nurses, Miss Dillon (Vera Lewis) for not having graduated from high school. Fortunately, a chance encounter with the hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Arthur Bell (Charles Winninger), in an uncooperative revolving door, gets that requirement waived. Lora's roommate and fellow nurse, Miss Maloney (Joan Blondell), becomes her best friend. Lora is assigned to night duty in the emergency room. One night, Lora treats bootlegger Mortie (Ben Lyon) for a gunshot wound and earns his gratitude by letting herself be persuaded not to report it to the police as required by law. He also admires the pretty young nurse.

After she passes her training, Lora is hired for private duty, looking after two sick children, Desney and Nanny Ritchie (Betty Jane Graham and Marcia Mae Jones). She moves into the Ritchie mansion, where there is always a party going on. The children's socialite mother, Mrs Ritchie, lives in an alcoholic stupor, infatuated with the brutish chauffeur Nick (Clark Gable). When a drunken guest tries to molest Lora, Nick knocks him out. Then, when Lora turns down his demand that she pump out the stomach of a very drunk Mrs. Ritchie, he knocks Lora out and removes her to her room.


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