Middle of the Night (Columbia Pictures) (1959)

; COLUMBIA PRESSBOOK SELL ‘MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT’ TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY! KIM NOVAK and FREDRIC MARCH The screen's top beauty and the two-time Academy Award winner, heading a superb cast of character actors in a warm, poignant and sure-to-be-talked about drama of human emotion! PADDY CHA YEFSKY Academy Award-winning writer of "Marty," and the behindcamera crew which made ''Marty'' the best picture of the year, now turn his Broadway hit play into a film audiences will love! A SHOWMANSHIP TITLE Store promotions involving windows, co-op ads, radio and TV aids and merchandise tie-ins are possible with ''Middle of the Night," a title that sells! BOOK-BUMPER STRIP PROMOTION! Banta... JW6K3" is supplementing its "'read-the-book, see-themovie'’ campaign with special bumper strips for its circulation trucks. These strips, adapted, are available to showmen! DRESS PROMOTION There is a scene in ''Middle of the Night" in which Kim Novak models a two-piece suit, sparking a retail dress store promotion involving a prominent manufacturer! THE PICTURE'S THEME SONG An appealing new hit tune, with lyrics by author Paddy Chayefsky himself, has been recorded on the Colpix label by exciting new records star Nina Simone. It's a disc jockey favorite! Shown at the right is Ad No. 403—800 Lines. (See page 3 for 3-column size of this ad.) CAST and CREDITS Betty Preisser Kim Novak Jerry Kingsley .... Fredric March George Lee Philips Anna Berger Mrs. Mueller Glenda Farrell Paul Kingsley David Ford Lockman Albert Dekker Elizabeth Kingsley ..Audrey Peters Jack Martin Balsam Sherman Lou Gilbert Marilyn Lee Grant Lockman’s Wife. ..Dora Weissman Evelyn Kingsley .... Edith Meiser. Lockman’s Son ... Lee Richardson Lillian Joan Copeland Ellman Alfred Leberfeld Rosalind Betty Walker Erskine tmp cits Nelson Olmsted Gould Rudy Bond Effie Afton Jan Norris Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, based on his play as presented on Broadway by Joshua Logan; Directed by Delbert Mann; Assistant Director, Charles H. Maguire; Director of Photography, Joseph Brun; Music Composed and Conducted by George Bassman; Art Director, Edward S. Haworth; Assistant Art Director, Leo Kerz; Film Editor, Carl Lerner; Production Co-ordinator, Irving Temaner; Set Decorator, Jack Wright, Jr.; Casting and Dialogue Supervision, Everett Chambers; Costumes Designed by Frank L. Thompson; Miss Novak’s Clothes, Jean Louis; Sound, Richard Gramaglia, Richard Vorisek; Camera Operator, Saul Midwall; Script Supervisor, Marguerite James; Technical Advisor, Lionel Kaplan; Production Manager, Stephen Bono; Assistant Editor, Jerry Michaels; Gaffers, Buddy Fortune, Edward Knott; Grip, Tom Browne; Wardrobe, Flo Transfield; Make-up, George Newman; Optical Effects, Film Opticals, Inc.; Delbert Mann’s Services by arrangement with Caroline Prods., Inec.; Produced by George Justin. A Sudan Production. A Columbia Picture. STORY (Not for Publication) Betty Preisser, recently-divorced secretary, and Jerry Kingsley, her middle-aged boss and a widower, find their vast loneliness dispelled when they are together. Their developing relationship successfully meets the opposition of their respective families; they plan to wed. But the difference in their ages is too much; neither Betty nor Kingsley are able to face the problems ahead. They quarrel bitterly and separate. When Jerry realizes that only love can make his life—with its problems—worth living, he finds Betty waiting for him. (Running Time: 118 Minutes) Copyright © 1959 Columbia Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved For every girl who was ever involved with an older man... NEVER HAS A MOTION PICTURE TALKED THIS WAY, THIS FRANK, THIS frue BEFORE! ““...Try to understand, Jerry, everybody else we knew were getting married so George and I got married. I guess we just got tired necking in the back of his car. We’d watch televisivi, and around eleven o’clock we’d both march into the bedroom as if it were the gas chamber...” “...So we're sitting down to dinner, your father says to me: ‘I’ve been going out with a girl.’ So I thought a 45-yearold-girl, a 50-year-old-girl. It comes out later it’s a 24-year-old-girl. “I couldn’t eat. I kept my mouth shut. But I was sick.” “This pretty little thing wants to marry you, so marry her! How many years you got left in your life, you can afford to throw away even a couple of good ones?” COLUMBIA PICTURES presents “Two months after you marry this old man you'll be meeting me at nights anyway. So why bother marrying him?” KIM NOVAK FREDRIC MARCH co-starring GLENDA FARRELL ALBERT DEKKERMARTIN BALSAMLEE GRANT and LEE PHILIPS Screenplay by PADDY CHAYEFSKY Based upon his play as presented on Broadway by Joshua Logan Produced by GEORGE JUSTIN . Directed by DELBERT MANN A SUDAN PRODUCTION