A hugely successful film operetta that still delights in its mixture of comedy and classical opera. Metropolitan opera star Grace Moore, whose earlier films failed her, made a screen comeback in One Night of Love as a young American hopeful studying opera in Italy. When her voice rises birdlike above the cacophony of untrained warblers, she is discovered by impressario Tullio Carminati who takes her under his own wing. Their love affair is a burlesque of all Great Loves between temperamental types, and the film's fine comic moments include a send up of La Boheme as our heroine and her impoverished cronies are forced to sing for their rent. But when Moore performs arias from La Traviata, Carmen, Butterfly and other operas, all quite wonderfully worked into the plot by director Victor Schertzinger, she means business. Nominated for six Academy Awards, One Night of Love bowed to that year's big winner, also from Columbia, It Happened One Night, but took the Oscars for sound recording and a musical score which includes original compositions by Schertzinger.