While The Patient Slept

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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur sleuth, Nurse Sarah Keate. Our heroine is summoned to the home of millionaire Adolphe Federie (Robert H. Barrat), who has suffered a stroke. Federie sleeps through an incredible series of intrigues involving family secrets, stolen heirlooms, and other such niceties. When a murder occurs, it's up to the efficient Nurse Keate to solve the mystery. Still, nursie finds time to pursue a cute romance with cherubic Lance O'Leary (Guy Kibbee). While the Patient Slept was part of Warner's brief "Clue Club" series, which also included the studio's Perry Mason mysteries (Incidentally, Hollywood's subsequent "Sarah Keate" films tended not only to alter the name of the nurse protagonist, but also her age: In one picture, she was played by "oomph girl" Ann Sheridan!) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Aline MacMahon
as Sarah Keate
Guy Kibbee
as Lance O'Leary
Lyle Talbot
as Deke Lonergan
Patricia Ellis
as March Federie
Allen Jenkins
as Jackson
Robert H. Barrat
as Adolphe Federie
Hobart Cavanaugh
as Eustace Federie
Dorothy Tree
as Mittee Brown
Henry O'Neill
as Elihu Dimuck
Russell Hicks
as Dr. Jay
Helen Flint
as Isobel Federie
Brandon Hurst
as Grondal
Eddie Shubert
as Muldoon
Walter Walker
as Richard Federie
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