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Tag Archives: Mitchell Leisen
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 »
Midnight (1939) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. Read More »
Frenchman’s Creek (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone
An English lady bored with London society brings her 2 children to their country home. 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 »
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 »
To Each His Own (1946) Mitchell Leisen, Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. 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 »
Golden Earrings (1947) Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany 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’. Read More »
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 »
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 »