Night Song (1948 film)

Night Song is a 1948 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon and Ethel Barrymore.

Wealthy San Francisco socialite Cathy Mallory is entranced by the music of blind nightclub pianist Dan Evans.

Scenes were shot in San Francisco, Trancas Beach and Lake Arrowhead, California as well as various locations in New York City.

[1] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther panned the film's "incredibly mawkish plot" and added: "Our old friend, the young musician who has a great concerto chasing through his mind but can't get it down on paper because—well, something's eating on him, is back again...and, so far as this reviewer sees things, neither he nor his concerto are improved.

As a matter of fact, for our money, they are both worn uncomfortably thin in comparison to previous incarnations, and neither is long for this world...[T]he music, the prize concerto—well, that is really the thing which puts Night Song in the spotlight as baldfaced and absolute sham.