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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Bolero (1934) Wesley Ruggles, Mitchell Leisen, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Drama, Music

This is the story of an egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, his determination to succeed at all costs Read More »
Kitty (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Drama, History

London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1950) Mitchell Leisen, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Drama, Film-Noir

In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Read More »
Lady in the Dark (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Drama, Musical, Romance

Ginger Rogers, “Allure” magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. Read More »
Murder at the Vanities (1934) Mitchell Leisen, Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Musical, Mystery, Romance

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities Read More »