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Easy Living: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni. When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Added: Aug 4, 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6659084. Source citation. Motion picture director of classic comedies. Among his films: Death takes a holiday (1934), Hand across the table (1935), Easy Living (1937), Midnight (1939), Remember the Night (1940), Arise, My Love (1940), Take a Letter, Darling (1941), No Time For Love (1943), Lady In ...
Dec 30, 2010 · 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 (1920) and The Thief of […]
Apr 28, 2021 · Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Though Mitchell Leisen’s name is less well-remembered today than those of his flashier Paramount colleagues Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges—both of whom Leisen helmed scripts by before they got their own shot in the director’s chair—he was a true cinematic artist who brought an unmistakeable elegance ...
"If Mitchell Leisen has received too little critical attention it is the fault of the auteur theory - deftly orchestrating the svelte flow of pre-war studio comedies, he made Paramount pictures not Leisen movies, and his lasting reputation has suffered for his efforts.
Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl ...
Born James Mitchell Leisen on October 6, 1898, into a prosperous Midwestern family in Menominee, Michigan, he relocated to St. Louis, Missouri while still a child, after his parents divorced and his mother remarried. Much of Leisen's boyhood was spent in isolation. He was a sickly child who was often bedridden and
