Directed by:
Richard SaleScreenplay:
Robert RiskinCinematography:
Milton R. KrasnerCast:
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Jim Backus, Irene Ryan, John Ridgely, Edwin Max, Herb Vigran, Jeffrey Sayre, Robert Adler, Harold Miller (more)Plots(1)
Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays Nora, a prim and proper nurse, engaged to the stuffy Tim (John Ridgely). Unbeknownst to both, Nora is a sleepwalker; during her nocturnal forays, the less-inhibited side of her personality takes over. While somnambulizing one evening, she heads to the home of her former boyfriend John (Joseph Cotten) and makes amorous advances towards him. Fascinated, John tries to get Nora to behave the same way while she's awake, but it takes eight reels to accomplish that formidable feat. Half Angel bears no resemblance to the 1936 Claire Trevor vehicle of the same name. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
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Joseph Cotten
USA
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Cecil Kellaway
South Africa
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Jim Backus
USA
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Irene Ryan
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John Ridgely
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Edwin Max
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Herb Vigran
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Jeffrey Sayre
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Robert Adler
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Harold Miller
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Basil Ruysdael
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Ralph Brooks
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Larry Steers
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George Eldredge
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Anthony Jochim
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John Davidson
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Cecil Weston
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Paul Kruger
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Harry Carter
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