Night and Day is a 1946 American musical film, a fictionalized account of the life of composer and songwriter Cole Porter.

Porter's songwriting is interrupted by French Foreign Legion service in the First World War, in which he is wounded.

Their marriage suffers due to Porter's dedication to his songwriting, which leaves him little time for a personal life.

At the height of his career, after many successes, Porter suffers a serious accident while horseback riding, fracturing both his legs and crippling him.

[2] Warner paid Grant $100,000 and bought out his contract at Columbia Pictures at a considerably greater sum.

[2] Grant sings several of the songs, which made Night and Day the closest he came to making a musical after the end of his stage career.

He praised the musical numbers and the performances by Grant and Woolley, but noted the straying from historical fact and the "thin and conventional scenario the scenarists concocted about the fabulous Mr.