While the Patient Slept
MURDER IN THE BEDROOM!
1935 | 66m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Ray Enright |
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| Writer: | Robert N. Lee, Mignon G. Eberhart, Eugene Solow |
| Staring: |
| A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 09, 1935 |
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| Director: | Ray Enright |
| Writer: | Robert N. Lee, Mignon G. Eberhart, Eugene Solow |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | nurse, grandfather |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Aline MacMahon | Nurse Sarah Keate |
| Guy Kibbee | Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary |
| Patricia Ellis | March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Eustace Federie |
| Dorothy Tree | Mittie Federie |
| Robert Barrat | Adolphe Federie |
| Helen Flint | Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife |
| Lyle Talbot | Ross Lonergan |
| Henry O'Neill | Elihu Dimuck |
| Walter Walker | Richard Federie |
| Allen Jenkins | Police Sgt. Jim Jackson |
| Eddie Shubert | Detective Muldoon |
| Russell Hicks | Dr. Jay |
| Brandon Hurst | Grondal - the Butler |
| Joseph E. Bernard | 'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited) |
| George Chandler | Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited) |
| Nick Copeland | Detective Davis aka Johnson (uncredited) |
| Joseph Crehan | Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited) |
| Bill Elliott | Bank Teller (uncredited) |
| Virginia Howell | Kema - the Cook (uncredited) |
| Milton Kibbee | Evening Bulletin Archivist (uncredited) |
| Henry Otho | Frank - Detective (uncredited) |
| John J. Richardson | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Ferdinand Schumann-Heink | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Harry Seymour | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Huey White | Sarah's Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Jack Wise | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert N. Lee | Screenplay |
| Brown Holmes | Additional Writing, Additional Dialogue |
| Esdras Hartley | Art Direction |
| Mignon G. Eberhart | Novel |
| Owen Marks | Editor |
| Eugene Solow | Screenplay |
| Ray Enright | Director |
| Arthur Edeson | Director of Photography |
| Orry-Kelly | Costume Design |
| Leo F. Forbstein | Conductor |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Guy Kibbee ("O'Leary") and Aline MacMahon ("Nurse Sarah") are clearly having some fun in this amiably entertaining big house murder mystery. The story centres around a dying old millionaire who finds his grasping family assembling to see what they are going to get! When the butler is killed, everyon ... e starts pointing fingers, and it falls to these two to, rarely in conjunction and frequently despite themselves, get to the bottom of things. It doesn't hang around, there is plenty of quick-witted dialogue and though the plot - there are twins involved, which is always a bit of a giveaway - is maybe not the most taxing, it does end quite quirkily and I rather enjoyed it.