“Not only the most romantic title in the history of the cinema but also a profound expression of Borzage's commitment to love over probability” (Andrew Sarris). History Is Made at Night begins as a romantic comedy and modulates into suspense and tragedy. Charles Boyer portrays the debonair Parisian head-waiter with whom Jean Arthur falls in love, giving cause for despicable acts on the part of her hateful husband, Colin Clive. Boyer pursues them across the Atlantic, then faces murder charges on his return to Paris. The story of violent jealousy versus true love transcends all clichés of its type, remaining sensitive where other films would be sentimental; if love proves impervious even to a climactic shipwreck, perhaps this is why David Thomson (Biographical Dictionary of Films) calls History Is Made at Night “typical of Borzage's serene confidence in the imagination when faced by material destruction.” Spiced with gourmet bits of “kitchen comedy” (Leo Carrillo as The Great Cesare, master chef), the film is, above all, great and engrossing entertainment; Sarris ranks it among the three best films of 1937. The beautiful 35mm print we present tonight was recently restored from the original negative by Robert Gitt of UCLA Film Archives through the cooperation of Stanley R. Caidin.