Word: kern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving from Austria to Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland and France, So Ends Our Night is a story of the sad flight of the democrats from one brief sanctuary to another as Hitlerism rolled across Europe. When Josef Steiner (Fredric March), a former officer in the German Army, meets young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford), they are under arrest in Vienna, about to be put over the border into Czecho-Slovakia. Without passports, they have no civil rights, can be deported at any time. Without labor permits, they cannot legally earn a living...
Steiner slips back into Austria: he is hoping for some word from his wife (Frances Dee) who is still in Germany. Kern hopes to find his refugee father in Prague, finds him dead. But in Prague, at a boarding house for refugees, Ludwig meets Ruth Holland (Margaret Sullavan), a medical student until she fled from Berlin when her lover denounced her publicly as a Jewess...
Back in Vienna, Steiner buys a false passport, gets jobs for Kern and himself in the Prater, Vienna's famed amusement park. Ruth finds a job in a hospital. Then Hitler marches into Austria, and they light out once more. United again in Paris, Kern and Steiner work for awhile in a construction gang, Ruth in a laboratory. In France, too, there are restrictions against aliens. Ruth finds a way to evade them for herself and Kern. But Steiner, when he hears his wife is dying, goes back to her, to Germany, and to death...
...Rugged Cross; for Catholics, no Rosary; for Jews, no Eili Eili. There will be no tunes by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern. Rachmaninoff, Kreisler...
...years, Lyricist Hammerstein has written show songs with Composer Kern (Show Boat, Sunny, Music in the Air). The Last Time I Saw Paris, said he last week, is the only song he ever wrote that was not written to order. It is also the first Kern-Hammerstein piece whose words were written before the music. It is a hit, said Mr. Hammerstein, because "everyone feels that way about Paris, even the people who've never been there...