Though the musical biopic would soon become a Hollywood staple, Warner Bros. was entering uncharted territory with the first two entries in the genre, this film and the previous year's Rhapsody in Blue (1945). Both films started a precedent, namely fictionalizing their protagonists' lives, chiefly because so many of the real-life players depicted were still alive and active. As a result, in Night and Day (1946), Ginny Simms sings nearly all of the Porter songs immortalized by Ethel Merman without any mention of Merman herself. Conversely, Monty Woolley plays a highly sanitized variation on himself while Mary Martin recreates nearly verbatim the musical number that made her a star. Oscar Levant had also played himself in Rhapsody in Blue (1945). These would be two of three two musical biopics produced by Warner Bros. (the third being Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942). M-G-M took the reins with Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), adding the crowning touch to the genre: the all-star performing roster, which answered the problem of distributing an entire catalogue of songs to only a small handful of performers, as had been done at Warner Bros.
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