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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
Mitchell Leisen. James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American art director, costume designer, and film director during The Silent Age of Hollywood and The Golden Age of Hollywood. Largely overshadowed by the talents of other directors or writers, he nevertheless was a popular director and has been rediscovered ...
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."
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.
Swing High, Swing Low is a 1937 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.. It is the second of three film adaptations of the popular 1927 Broadway play Burlesque by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins, after The Dance of Life (1929) and before When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948).
Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer whose career in Hollywood spanned from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is best known for his sophisticated and elegant comedies, dramas, and romantic films, which often feature strong female characters and a keen sense of visual style.
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 .
