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James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. Film career [ edit ] He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments.
Jun 8, 2021 · MALE AND FEMALE (1919) James Mitchell Leisen was born into an affluent middle-class American family in 1898, right at the twilight of the 19th century. Suburban peace and familial security weren't lasting factors of his childhood, however. By the time Leisen was five, his parents were divorced.
May 7, 2024 · Mitchell Leisen (born October 6, 1898, Menominee, Michigan, U.S.—died October 28, 1974, Los Angeles, California) was an American costume designer, art director, and film and television director. He was considered a “woman’s director” by dint of the affinity he demonstrated for actresses. His motion pictures —almost all of them made at ...
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Oct 20, 2005 · When Mitchell Leisen died at the Motion Picture Country Home in 1972, both he and his films were largely forgotten. One of a host of old-style Hollywood directors who had not been rediscovered, re-interpreted or (in some cases) recreated as an auteur by Cahiers du cinéma, Leisen was remembered – grudgingly – as a minor artisan. A dress ...
Dec 30, 2010 · Oscar Profile. Comments. Born in 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, James Mitchell Leisen was trained as an architect, but worked in Hollywood form his early twenties as a set designer, art director and costume designer. Associated throughout the 1920s with Douglas Fairbanks and Cecil B. DeMille, he designed the costumes for Fairbanks’ Robin Hood ...
Bibliography. David Chierichetti, Photoventures Press (1995) Long neglected by critics and film historians, director and art director Mitchell Leisen underwent a reexamination in later years, leading to more appreciation of his work. While not on par with contemporaries like Ernst Lubitsch or Preston Sturges, Leisen did helm a number of notable ...
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Nov 14, 2012 · Though the elegant, urbane and sophisticated director would recoil in horror at the comparison, Mitchell Leisen is the Rodney Dangerfield of golden age Hollywood directors. He simply can’t get ...
