---
title: 'While the Patient Slept (1935)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ray Enright'
released: '1935-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/while-the-patient-slept-1935'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027204/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# While the Patient Slept (1935)

1935 · Crime, Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

While the Patient Slept is a 1935 comedy murder mystery film directed by Ray Enright starring Aline MacMahon as a nurse/crime sleuth and Guy Kibbee as her boyfriend and police detective. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Mignon G. Eberhart.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ray Enright](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-enright)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert N. Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-n-lee)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernhard Kaun](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-kaun)
- **Producer:** [Harry Joe Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-joe-brown)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arthur Edeson](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-edeson)
- **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks)

## Cast

- [Dorothy Tree](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-tree)
- [Guy Kibbee](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-kibbee)
- [Lyle Talbot](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyle-talbot)
- [Hobart Cavanaugh](https://cinepixo.com/people/hobart-cavanaugh)
- [Aline MacMahon](https://cinepixo.com/people/aline-macmahon)
- [Allen Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-jenkins)
- [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat)
- [Brandon Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/brandon-hurst)
- [Helen Flint](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-flint)
- [Henry O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-o-neill)
- [Russell Hicks](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-hicks)
- [Walter Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-walker)

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