One Rainy Afternoon is a 1936 English-language Comedy Musical film written by Emeric Pressburger, Ren Pujol, Stephen Morehouse Avery and Maurice Hanline. The movie is directed by Rowland V. Lee and produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Mary Pickford. Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd scandal results; to protect Yvonne, Philippe insists that he was simply overcome by Monique's beauty. This naturally intrigues Monique..but her nominal fiancée feels differently. French bureaucracy is broadly satirized. Written by Rod Crawford. One rainy afternoon stars Francis Lederer in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, Erik Rhodes, Joseph Cawthorn and Liev De Maigret. The music was composed by Ralph Erwin along with Preston Sturges and Jack Stern. Cinematography was done by Merritt B. Gerstad and J. Peverell Marley and editing by Margaret Clancey. The film has a running time of 94-80 min. It was released on 13th May 1936. One Rainy Afternoon was made on a budget of $0 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $0 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by United Artists.