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Mitchell Leisen is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Assistant Director, Art Direction and Costume Design American born on 6 october 1898

Mitchell Leisen

Mitchell Leisen
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Birth name James Leisen
Nationality USA
Birth 6 october 1898
Death 28 october 1972 (at 74 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Mitchell Leisen (born October 6, 1898, Menominee, Michigan–d. October 28, 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

Biography

Créateur de costumes, surtout pour les films de Cecil B. DeMille, au début des années 1920 mais aussi pour ceux d’Allan Dwan, Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh, décorateur par la suite, il devient assistant réalisateur avec Cecil B. De Mille pour Le Signe de la croix. Il commence une carrière de réalisateur pour la Paramount Pictures à partir de 1933 tout en continuant ses travaux de costumier et de décorateur.

Best films

I Wanted Wings
I Wanted Wings
(1941)
(Director) To Each His Own
To Each His Own
(1946)
(Director) The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross
(1932)
(Assistant Director) Frenchman's Creek
Frenchman's Creek
(1944)
(Director)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(23 films)
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
(10 films)
Victor Young
Victor Young
(18 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(15 films)
Alma Macrorie
Alma Macrorie
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mitchell Leisen (59 films)

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Actor

Miss Tatlock's Millions
Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
, 1h41
Directed by Richard Haydn
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert Stack, Monty Woolley, Richard Haydn
Roles Himself
Rating67% 3.386693.386693.386693.386693.38669
Tim Burke, movie stuntman, is approached by a fellow named Denno Noonan with a peculiar offer. Noonan identifies himself as an employee of the eccentric millionaire Schuyler Tatlock, who moved to Hawaii and has not been seen in public for years.
Hold Back the Dawn
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
, 2h5
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Rosemary DeCamp
Roles Mr. Saxon
Rating72% 3.6417853.6417853.6417853.6417853.641785
Georges Iscovescu (Boyer) recounts his story to a Hollywood film director at Paramount. He is a Romanian-born gigolo who arrived in a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel. After six months he is broke and unhappy. He runs into his former professional "dance partner" Anita Dixon (Goddard) who explains she obtained US residency by marrying an American, who she then quickly divorced.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, Martha Raye
Roles Man in Radio Station Hallway (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.00023.00023.00023.00023.0002
Murder at the Vanities
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
, 1h29
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Carl Brisson, Gertrude Michael, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Roles Orchestra Leader (Uncredited)
Rating64% 3.245293.245293.245293.245293.24529
Jack Ellery (Oakie) is staging a lavish musical revue, starring Eric Lander (Brisson), Ann Ware (Carlisle), and Rita Ross (Michael), supported by a cast of a hundred background singers/dancers (almost all women, and many scantily clad) and two full orchestras. On opening night, just before the show, somebody tries to kill Ware several times. Ellery calls in police lieutenant Murdock (McLaglen) of the homicide squad to investigate. During the show a private detective and then Rita are murdered. Ellery hides this from the rest of the performers, claiming the victims are just sick, and talks Murdock into investigating while the revue continues on, otherwise Ellery will go broke.

Director

The Girl Most Likely
The Girl Most Likely (1958)
, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Kaye Ballard, Tommy Noonan, Una Merkel
Rating58% 2.9496152.9496152.9496152.9496152.949615
Dodie lives with her parents and dreams of marrying a millionaire. At home in California, near the ocean, her boyfriend Buzz is a real-estate agent of modest means. He proposes marriage and she accepts, but tells her pal Marge that she has doubts.
Bedevilled
Bedevilled (1955)
, 1h25
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Anne Baxter, Steve Forrest, Victor Francen, Simone Renant, Maurice Teynac, Joseph Tomelty
Rating47% 2.3779052.3779052.3779052.3779052.377905
Gregory Fitzgerald and his friend Tony are leaving New York to fly to France, where they will study for the priesthood. On the plane, French fashion designer Francesca flirts with the handsome Greg, unaware of his vocation, and gives him her phone number.
Young Man with Ideas
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
, 1h24
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel, Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran, Ray Collins
Rating59% 2.9967152.9967152.9967152.9967152.996715
Maxwell Webster is a Montana attorney whose career isn't going as well as wife Julie feels it should be. She gets tipsy at a country club and praises her husband's work in front of colleagues, then urges him to ask boss Edmund Jethrow for a partnership. Instead, he loses his job.
Darling, How Could You!
Darling, How Could You! (1951)
, 1h36
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman, Peter Hansen, Angela Clarke, Angela Clarke
Rating61% 3.097043.097043.097043.097043.09704
In late 1906, brother and sister Cosmo and Amy Grey have not seen their parents for many years, their father being a doctor who has been in Panama during work on the canal. Their housekeeper sends them to see a play, Peter Pan, but by mistake they end up seeing a rather sophisticated family drama instead.
The Mating Season
The Mating Season (1951)
, 1h41
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Larry Keating
Rating73% 3.6903153.6903153.6903153.6903153.690315
Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio. Val has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney). To help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook. Ellen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her. After the party, Val follows her home and persuades her to move in with them.
No Man of Her Own
No Man of Her Own (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Rating73% 3.6924653.6924653.6924653.6924653.692465
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
, 1h22
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Alan Ladd, Joseph Calleia, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Celia Lovsky, Frank Puglia
Rating64% 3.238273.238273.238273.238273.23827
A group of agents of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency) is sent to German-occupied Italy during World War II to knock out the German-held Italian railroad system. In accomplishing this mission, most of them are killed because of an inside betrayal.