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Darling, How Could You! (1951) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman
Based on James Barrie’s play “Alice Sit-By-The-Fire”. In turn-of-the-century New York 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 »
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936) Mitchell Leisen, Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930’s radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline Read More »
No Time for Love (1943) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase
Sandhog Jim Ryan is suspended from his job helping to dig a tunnel beneath a river because Read More »
Hands Across the Table (1935) Mitchell Leisen, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. Read More »
Arise, My Love (1940) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War Read More »
Masquerade in Mexico (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador Read More »
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 »