---
title: 'By Candlelight (1933)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Whale'
released: '1933-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 70
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/by-candlelight-1933'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023860/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# By Candlelight (1933)

1933 · 70 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

By Candlelight is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by James Whale. The film is based on the Austrian play Candle Light by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas, which was adapted to the English-speaking stage by P. G. Wodehouse. The film stars Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, and Dorothy Revier. A musical version adapted by Rowland Leigh, Cole Porter, Robert Katscher and Edwin Gilbert premiered in 1938 under the title You Never Know, but was a critical and box office flop that closed after only 78 performances.

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Whale](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-whale)
- **Producer:** [Carl Laemmle Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-laemmle-jr)
- **Director of Photography:** [John J. Mescall](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-j-mescall)

## Cast

- [Paul Lukas](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-lukas)
- [Lawrence Grant](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-grant)
- [Dorothy Revier](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-revier)
- [Esther Ralston](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-ralston)
- [André Cheron](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-cheron)
- [Nils Asther](https://cinepixo.com/people/nils-asther)
- [Lois January](https://cinepixo.com/people/lois-january)
- [Elissa Landi](https://cinepixo.com/people/elissa-landi)

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