Tonight's Movie: Night and Day (1946) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

The Warner Bros. musical NIGHT AND DAY (1946), a biography of composer Cole Porter, has recently been released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.NIGHT AND DAY, like most '40s musical biopics -- including the previous year's Warner Bros. film RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945) -- is a fictionalized telling of a composer's life.In the case of this biography of Cole Porter, NIGHT AND DAY is even more fictionalized than most such films, spinning a story which has only tangential connections to Porter's real life. Anyone looking for a film vs. reality breakdown can easily find it online; I'll leave that to others, approaching NIGHT AND DAY here strictly as a movie.The movie begins with Cole Porter (Cary Grant) as a student at Yale. Cole's lack of interest in his studies disappoints his grandfather (Henry Stephenson), who dreamed Cole would be a lawyer, but Cole is only interested in music.Cole's developing career goes off track due to service in World War I, where he is injured, but over…