''The Night Without Pause'' (german: Die Nacht ohne Pause) is a 1931 German

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Andrew Marton Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director. In his career, he directed 39 films and television programs, and worked on 16 as a second unit director, including the chariot race in ...

and

Franz Wenzler Franz Wenzler (26 April 1893 – 9 January 1942) was a German film director.Grange p.384 Selected filmography * '' The Scoundrel'' (1931) * '' The Night Without Pause'' (1931) * ''Marriage with Limited Liability'' (1931) * ''When Love Sets the Fa ...

and starring

Sig Arno Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron, 27 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as ''Pardon My Sarong'' and ''The Mummy's Hand''. He may be best remembered from ''The Palm Beach Story'' (1942) as Toto ...

Camilla Horn Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions. Biography The daught ...

and

Max Adalbert Max Adalbert (born Johannes Adolph Krampf; 19 February 1874 – 7 September 1933) was a German stage and film actor. Biography Adalbert was born in Danzig (Gdansk), Imperial Germany as ''Maximilian Adalbert Krampf'' to a Prussian Officer. He u ...

.Waldman p. 193 It was made by the German subsidiary of

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in partnership with

Tobis Film Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company. Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as a leading German sound studio. Tobis ...

. The film's sets were designed by

Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominatio ...

and

Gabriel Pellon Gabriel Pellon (1900–1975) was a German painter and art director.Shandley p.212 Pellon was born in Metz, which was then part of the German Empire having been annexed from France at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. When Metz was later annex ...

. It is based on a popular stage farce by

Ernst Bach Ernst Bach (10 May 1876 – 1 November 1929) was an Austrian actor and playwright. He made his debut as an actor at the Wiener Raimond Theater in 1899. In 1903 he moved to Berlin to the Residenztheater, then to Lustspielhaus in 1905, where he beca ...

and

Franz Arnold Franz Arnold (1878–1960) was a German actor and playwright. He frequently collaborated with Ernst Bach after their debut play ''The Spanish Fly (play), The Spanish Fly'' was a hit.Grange p.61 He emigrated to Britain in 1933. Plays by Arnold and ...

, and was remade in 1952.

Synopsis

When his wife becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius Seipold manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship. He invents a wild backstory about Max, which in turn fascinates the Julius Seipold's daughter Gertie.

Cast

as Max Stieglitz *

as Letta Larbo *

as Julius Seipold *

Ida Wüst Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...

as Regine Seipold *

Ilse Korseck Ilse Korseck (1911–1933) was a German stage and film actress.Young p.89 After working initially in theatre she began to appear in films from 1930 onwards during the early sound era. In 1933 she died suddenly at the age of twenty one. Selecte ...

as Gertie Seipold *

Paul Richter Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang. Biography Richter made his film debut right before W ...

as Walter Reimann, Filmregisseur *

Willy Stettner Willy Stettner (1895–1961) was a German singer and stage and film actor.Wottrich p.166 Selected filmography * ''The Land of Smiles'' (1930) * ''How Do I Become Rich and Happy?'' (1930) * ''The Night Without Pause'' (1931) * '' Victoria and Her ...

as Heinz Fellner *

Annemarie Hase Annemarie Hase (1900 – 1971) was a German actress and cabaret artist. She emerged as a star during the Weimar Republic, but because she was Jewish she faced increasing persecution following the Nazi takeover in 1933. In 1936 she went into exile ...

as Anna, Dienstmädchen * Walter Steiner as Kinodirektor *

Karl Harbacher Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ...

as Friseur * Hans Richter as Piccolo *

Gustl Gstettenbaur Gustl Gstettenbaur (1 March 1914 – 20 November 1996) was a German stage, film and television actor. Born in Bavaria, Gustl Gstettenbaur began his career onstage as a child actor in 1927, at the age of thirteen. He went on to play a variety of ...

as Bürolehrling bei Stieglitz

References

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* 1931 films 1931 comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic German comedy films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Andrew Marton Universal Pictures films Tobis Film films German films based on plays German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub