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May 31, 2021 · Mitchell Leisen – Midnight (1939) The ice went out of the river at the Paramount yesterday, and Spring came laughing in with “Midnight,” one of the liveliest, gayest, wittiest and naughtiest comedies of a long hard season. Its direction, by Mitchell Leisen, is strikingly reminiscent of that of the old Lubitsch.
Jan 1, 1995 · Mitchell Leisen's career in films started with the legendary Cecil B. DeMille, for whom he designed sets and costumes. Eventually he began staging silent sequences for DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), and when that was over Paramount Pictures gave Leisen the chance to collaborate with director Stuart Walker on Tonight is Ours .
- David Chierichetti, Dorothy Lamour
Jan 1, 2001 · Mitchell Leisen's career in films started with the legendary Cecil B. DeMille, for whom he designed sets and costumes. Eventually he began staging silent sequences for DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), and when that was over Paramount Pictures gave Leisen the chance to collaborate with director Stuart Walker on Tonight is Ours .
Mitchell Leisen (n. 6 octombrie 1898 — d. 28 octombrie 1972) a fost un regizor și director de imagine american. Filmofrafie. Cradle Song (1933) Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Murder at the Vanities (1934) Behold My Wife! (1934) Four Hours to Kill! (1935) Hands Across the Table (1935) 13 Hours by Air (1936) The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Leisen seldom slipped below a self-imposed standard of visual elegance, nor rose above a stylish superficiality... That he is remembered by Cahiers du cinéma as little more than "a great couturier" and by other reference books more for the writers and performers he directed is a fate suffered by many artists of Hollywood's 1930s cinema, stronger on wit and taste than self-advertisement."
1927 The King of Kings (uncredited) 1926 The Volga Boatman. 1925 The Road to Yesterday. 1922 Saturday Night. 1920 The Prince Chap (as James Mitchell Leisen) Hide Costume designer (17 credits) 1968 Off to See the Wizard (TV Series) (1 episode) - Alexander the Great (1968) ... (as Mitch Leisen)
