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 »
Tag Archives: Mitchell Leisen
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 »