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Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments. He directed his first film in 1933 with Cradle Song and became known for his keen sense of aesthetics in the glossy Hollywood melodramas and screwball comedies he turned out.
May 13, 2008 · TWO BY MITCHELL LEISEN. The very model of the crack studio director, Mitchell Leisen spent much of his career at Paramount, where he tackled projects as radically different as the archly ...
Mitchell Leisen. Mitchell Leisen, nome artístico de James Leisen ( Menominee, Michigan, 6 de outubro de 1898 - Los Angeles, Califórnia, 28 de outubro de 1972) foi um figurinista, diretor de arte e cineasta norte-americano. Seu nome está associado ao que há de mais sofisticado e glamuroso em Hollywood.
P roducer-director Mitchell Leisen was also a well-known designer and decorator of homes.. Leisen attended attended Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and worked in the advertising art department of the Chicago and as an architect in Chicago before coming to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
Mitchell Leisen - 1940s Films, Director, Producer: Leisen’s first film of the 1940s, Remember the Night (1940), featured a funny script by Sturges and starred MacMurray again, this time opposite Barbara Stanwyck, playing a recidivist shoplifter who gets caught at Christmastime. A softhearted prosecutor (MacMurray) takes her home during the court’s holiday recess to his family in Indiana ...
Apr 6, 2012 · A House Is a Home, and a Prison, Too. MITCHELL LEISEN’S 1950 “No Man of Her Own,” which Olive Films has recently released on DVD, combines two genres that are often considered antithetical ...
Leisen worked on such notable films as Cecil B. De Mille's Male and Female (1919), Ernst Lubitsch's Rosita, and the Douglas Fairbanks actioners Robin Hood (1922) and The Thief Of Bagdad (1924). As a set designer for De Mille in the late '20s and early '30s, Leisen's credits included The King of Kings (1927), Madam Satan (1930), and The Sign of ...
