Mitchell Leisen — Director (19)
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Death Takes a Holiday (1934) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB WikiData
Death Takes a Holiday
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Fredric March / Evelyn Venable …
other title: La morte in vacanza / Die schwarze Majestät …
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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Four Hours to Kill! (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Hours to Kill!
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Richard Barthelmess / Ray Milland …
other title: Compás de espera / Ultime Forfait
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus …
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Alan Ladd / Wanda Hendrix …
other title: La spia del lago / Le Dénonciateur …
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.
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The Mating Season (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Mating Season
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: John Lund / Gene Tierney …
other title: La madre dello sposo / SOS - Zwei Schwiegermütter …
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
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Kitty (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Kitty
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Eine Lady mit Vergangenheit / La bribona
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Bride of Vengeance (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bride of Vengeance
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / John Lund …
other title: La maschera dei Borgia / La máscara de los Borgia
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Lady Is Willing (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Lady Is Willing
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Marlene Dietrich / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La signora acconsente / Fräulein Mama …
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
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Swing High, Swing Low (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Swing High, Swing Low
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Comenzó en el trópico / Trompette Blues …
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
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Practically Yours (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Practically Yours
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Fred MacMurray / Claudette Colbert …
other title: Sinceramente tua / Sturzflug ins Glück …
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.