Paul L. Stein

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Austrian-born film director (1892–1951) who worked in Germany, Britain, and Hollywood. He directed the pre-Code RKO comedy Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) and several British musicals of the 1930s.

Directed

5.61930·1h 20mPD

Comedy, Romance

Constance Bennett plays Sylvia Brenner, a dowdy secretary who agrees to a marriage of convenience with her divorce-lawyer boss Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna) so he can fend off a demanding client. She sails to Paris to wait out the arrangement and comes back transformed — which is when the fake marriage starts becoming a problem. An early RKO pre-Code romantic comedy that makes good use of Bennett's knack for playing women smarter than the plot around them. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Romance · Drama

Sin Takes a Holiday

1930 - Comedy