Early to Bed (1933 film)

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Early to Bed
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Directed by Ludwig Berger
Written by Robert Liebmann
Robert Stevenson
Hans Székely
Produced by Erich Pommer
Starring Heather Angel
Fernand Gravey
Edmund Gwenn
Sonnie Hale
Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund
Music by Werner R. Heymann
Production
companies
Distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 27 November 1933 (1933-11-27)
Running time
83 minutes
CountriesGermany
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Early to Bed is a 1933 British-German romantic comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Heather Angel, Fernand Gravey and Edmund Gwenn.

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Plot

A young waiter and a manicurist share the same room without ever meeting – because she works in the day and he at night. They encounter each other for the first time, and fall in love, without realising that they are already roommates.

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Production

The film was made as a co-production between the German giant UFA and Gaumont British. As was common at the time, the film was made as a multiple-language production with three separate versions modelled on the German original I by Day, You by Night . Early to Bed was made at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin, along with the French and German versions. Robert Stevenson acted as a supervisor. The casting of the comedian Sonnie Hale in a supporting role, slanted the British version in a more humorous direction than its counterparts. [1]

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References

  1. Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.57

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