Early to Bed

Name: Early to Bed
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1936-06-05
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier

19361936
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1h 15m

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George Barbier, Mary Boland, Lucien Littlefield, Gail Patrick, and Charles Ruggles in Early to Bed (1936)

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Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. ... Read allChester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get tim... Read allChester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to ... Read all

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6.7/10

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Director
- Norman Z. McLeod
Writers
- Lucien Littlefield(story)
- Chandler Sprague(story)
- Arthur Kober(screenplay)
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Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case. —Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>

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Taglines
- THEIR GREATEST COMEDY HIT SINCE "RUGGLES OF RED GAP" Charlie waited Twenty Years to marry Mary...and on her Wedding Night she found out why! Yep! Charlie's a Sleep-Walker! (Print Ad-Albany Times-Union, ((Albany NY)) 10 June 1936)
Genre
- Comedy
Certificate
- Approved
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One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, that were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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8/10

"Early to Bed" (1936) Will Not Put You to Sleep!

The two previous "Early to Bed" reviews here were lukewarm at best, so I wish to give a little boost to this minor but warm and quite fun presentation from Paramount. A minor film yes, but being it is from a prestigious studio the direction is crisp, the sets well filled, and the continuity sharp and without fault. The program is filled with diverse characters with fun faces to match; it is almost as if a little cartoon had come to life. Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland have good rapport in their free-flowing dialog and the support staff is more than willing to join in the fun without hamming it up. Undoubtedly a second film on a double bill in the major markets of the day, this is a most pleasant and amusing comedy from the mid 1930's and should not be passed up by movie fans of the era.

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