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Take a Letter, Darling (1942) Mitchell Leisen, Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. Read More »
Song of Surrender (1949) Mitchell Leisen, Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum Read More »
I Wanted Wings (1941) Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris
Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps — a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Read More »
Young Man with Ideas (1952) Mitchell Leisen, Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children. Read More »
Remember the Night (1940) Mitchell Leisen, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. Read More »
Easy Living (1937) Mitchell Leisen, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. Read More »
The Mating Season (1951) Mitchell Leisen, Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. Read More »
Tonight We Sing (1953) Mitchell Leisen, David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters
Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music. Read More »
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan, W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Read More »
Four Hours to Kill! (1935) Mitchell Leisen, Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael
A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer Read More »
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936) Mitchell Leisen, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts
Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco Read More »
The Girl Most Likely (1958) Mitchell Leisen, Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes
Dotie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. Read More »
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Mitchell Leisen, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Told in flashback from a preface in which the main character visits Paramount to sell his story! Read More »
Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Mitchell Leisen, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. Read More »