While Parents Sleep

1935 British film

While Parents Sleep

Directed by| Adrian Brunel
Written by| John Paddy Carstairs
Jack Marks
Anthony Kimmins (play)
Edwin Greenwood
Produced by| Paul Soskin
Starring| Jean Gillie
Enid Stamp Taylor
Romilly Lunge
Cinematography| Ernest Palmer
Edited by| Michael Hankinson
Music by| Percival Mackey

Production
company

British & Dominions Film Corporation

Distributed by| United Artists Corporation

Release date

* September 1935 (1935-09)

Running time

| 72 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

While Parents Sleep is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Jean Gillie, Enid Stamp Taylor and Romilly Lunge. The film is a screen adaptation of a 1932 play of the same name by Anthony Kimmins, which had been a popular success on the West End stage in the West End of London.

Unlike many of Brunel's 1930s quota quickie films, While Parents Sleep has survived and is regarded as an example of his ability to produce a worthwhile film under the most straitened of financial conditions. The Time Out Film Guide notes: "With a couple of tatty sets and a bunch of unknown actors, he produces a witty, sharply-paced, economical essay on class and manners in inter-war Britain."[1] It was produced by Transatlantic Film Corporation and British & Dominions Film Corporation.

## Premise

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The film is a farce about the romantic adventures of two young men with women of differing social backgrounds and the revelation of their true worth.[2]

## Cast

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* Jean Gillie as Bubbles Thompson
* Enid Stamp Taylor as Lady Cattering
* Romilly Lunge as Neville Hammond
* Mackenzie Ward as Jerry Hammond
* Athole Stewart as Colonel Hammond
* Ellis Jeffreys as Mrs. Hammond
* Davy Burnaby as Lord Cattering
* William Hartnell as George
* Wally Patch as Taxi Driver
* Ronald Shiner as the Mechanic[3]

## References

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1. ^ Time Out Film Guide, Penguin Books London, 1989, p.652 ISBN 0-14-012700-3
2. ^ "While Parents Sleep (1935)". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
3. ^ "While Parents Sleep (1935)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.

## External links

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* While Parents Sleep at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
* While Parents Sleep at IMDb

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Films directed by Adrian Brunel

* The Cost of a Kiss  (1917)
* The Man Without Desire  (1923)
* Lovers in Araby  (1924)
* Blighty (1927)
* The Constant Nymph (1928)
* The Vortex (1928)
* A Light Woman (1928)
* The Crooked Billet (1929)
* Taxi to Paradise (1933)
* Two Wives for Henry  (1933)
* The Laughter of Fools  (1933)
* I'm an Explosive  (1933)
* Follow the Lady (1933)
* Important People (1934)
* Badger's Green (1934)
* Menace (1934)
* City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
* Cross Currents (1935)
* While Parents Sleep (1935)
* Variety (1935)
* Vanity (1935)
* The Invader (1935)
* Prison Breaker (1936)
* Love at Sea (1936)
* The Rebel Son (1938)
* The Lion Has Wings (1939)
* The Girl Who Forgot  (1940)

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