''The Night Angel'' is a 1931 American pre-Code

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March,

Phoebe Foster Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 – June 1975) was an American theater and film actress. Career Foster studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began appearing on Broadway in 1914, starting with a production of Roi ...

Alison Skipworth Alison Skipworth (born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom; 25 July 18635 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. Early years Skipworth was born in London. She was the daughter of Dr. Richard Ebenezer Groom and Elizabeth Rodgers, an ...

and Alan Hale, Sr. The film was released on July 18, 1931, by

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Cast

* Nancy Carroll as Yula Martini * Fredric March as Rudek Berken *

as Theresa Masar *

as Countess von Martini * Alan Hale, Sr. as Biezel *

Hubert Druce Hubert Druce (May 20, 1870 – April 6, 1931) was an English actor and producer involved with English and American theater for over forty years. Druce was born as Benjamin Hubert Druce in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, in 1870. His stage debut ...

as Vincent * Katherine Emmet as Mrs. Berken *Otis Sheridan as Schmidt *E. Lewis Waller as Kafka *Clarence Derwent as Rosenbach *Charles Howard as Clown * Doris Rankin as Matron *Francine Dowd as Mitzi *

Cora Witherspoon Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the ...

as Head Nurse *

Francis Pierlot Francis Pierlot (July 15, 1875 – May 11, 1955) was a stage and film actor with over 90 film credits between 1914 and 1953. The Massachusetts-born actor's first film credit was in 1914, but he did not begin appearing in films full-time until ...

as Jan

References

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* 1931 films American drama films 1931 drama films Paramount Pictures films Films directed by Edmund Goulding American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub