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Nov 1, 1972 · Mitchell Leisen, who as a youth lived in St. Louis and Kansas City, had hopes of be coming an actor when he first went to Hollywood, Instead, al chance meeting at a social occasion with Cecil B ...
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 ...
Jan 1, 1995 · In a list of now-forgotten great American directors, Mitchell Leisen would be right on top (together with Rouben Mamoulian and Gregory La Cava). His films are seldomly seen; none of them is available on DVD and some of the best, like "Hold Back the Dawn", one of the best melodramas ever done, and the Kurt Weill musical adapation "Lady in the ...
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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.
Nov 1, 2022 · Mitchell Leisen, el director invisible. Publicado el 1 de noviembre de 2022 por Jose Miguel García de Fórmica-Corsi. ¿Quién rayos es Mitchell Leisen ?, me pregunté durante muchos años. Teniendo en cuenta que la primera película que pude ver de él, Una chica afortunada (1937), fue rondando la veintena, y que desde los diez o doce años ...
1. Midnight (1939) Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance. A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver. Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer.
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.
