''Sunday of Life'' (German: ''Sonntag des Lebens'') is a 1931 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Leo Mittler Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, University of Music and Per ...

and starring

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 ...

Willy Clever Willy Clever (1905 in Elberfeld –1969) was a German actor and screenwriter.Silberman p.239 He worked on several multi-language versions at the Joinville Studios in Paris during the early years of sound. Selected filmography * '' Spring Awakeni ...

and Oscar Marion.Gevinson p.328 It was made at the

Joinville Studios The Joinville Studios were a film studio in Paris which operated between 1910 and 1987. They were one of the leading French studios, with major companies such as Pathé and Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont making films there. A second studio was a ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

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as the

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version of '' The Devil's Holiday''.

Cast

as Ellen Hobart *

as David Stone * Oskar Marion as Mark Stone *

Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * '' The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * '' The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' T ...

as Ezra Stone * Werner Kepich as Charlie Thorn * Otto Kronburger as Dr. Reynolds * Peter Ihle as Monk Mac Connell * Emmerich Lukas as Jack Carr * Ernestine Mayer as Tante Betty *

Eugen Rex Eugen Rex (8 July 1884 – 21 February 1943) was a German actor. Rex was a member of the Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party ...

as Hamond * Margarete Roma as Ethel

References

Bibliography

* Alan Gevinson. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1931 films American drama films 1931 drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Leo Mittler Paramount Pictures films Films shot in France Films shot at Joinville Studios American multilingual films American black-and-white films 1931 multilingual films 1930s American films German-language American films German-language drama films {{1930s-drama-film-stub