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James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.
Mitchell Leisen was born on 6 October 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was a director and art director, known for Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Mating Season (1951) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941).
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Jun 8, 2021 · That of an acclaimed queer artist whose legacy was systematically tarnished, if not downright erased, in a gesture of barely concealed homophobia…. 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.
May 7, 2024 · Mitchell Leisen 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 Paramount—were often dominated by strong female leads such.
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Oct 20, 2005 · Painted him as a flamboyant gay aesthete, who preferred décor to drama, party dresses to pithy dialogue. Who deleted pages of script at the whim of his leading lady – focusing instead on a vase of white lilies on a table, a muscular Grecian statue in a corner of the Grand Salon.
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