Search results for "Mitchell Leisen"

The Girl Most Likely (1958)

The Girl Most Likely (1958)

The Girl Most Likely (1958)
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98

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Tonight We Sing (1953)

Tonight We Sing (1953)

Tonight We Sing (1953)
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109

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It stars David Wayne and…

Genre: Music
Young Man with Ideas (1952)

Young Man with Ideas (1952)

Young Man with Ideas (1952)
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84

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Mating Season (1951)

The Mating Season (1951)

The Mating Season (1951)
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101

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
No Man of Her Own (1950)

No Man of Her Own (1950)

No Man of Her Own (1950)
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98

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Captain Carey U.S.A. (1950)

Captain Carey U.S.A. (1950)

Captain Carey U.S.A. (1950)
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82

Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey,…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, War
Bride of Vengeance (1949)

Bride of Vengeance (1949)

Bride of Vengeance (1949)
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92

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia’s Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister’s husband and makes…

Golden Earrings (1947)

Golden Earrings (1947)

Golden Earrings (1947)
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95

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy’s mate.

To Each His Own (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)
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122

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she…

Genre: Drama
Masquerade in Mexico (1945)

Masquerade in Mexico (1945)

Masquerade in Mexico (1945)
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96

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker’s wife. They hatch a scheme whereby…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Kitty (1945)

Kitty (1945)

Kitty (1945)
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103

Pickpocket Kitty’s life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

Frenchman’s Creek (1944)

Frenchman’s Creek (1944)

Frenchman’s Creek (1944)
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112

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into…

No Time for Love (1943)

No Time for Love (1943)

No Time for Love (1943)
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83

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Lady Is Willing (1942)

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

The Lady Is Willing (1942)
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92

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
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116

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Arise My Love (1940)

Arise My Love (1940)

Arise My Love (1940)
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110

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)
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94

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn’t have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)
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94

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
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94

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Easy Living (1937)

Easy Living (1937)

Easy Living (1937)
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88

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife’s just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Swing High Swing Low (1937)

Swing High Swing Low (1937)

Swing High Swing Low (1937)
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92

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hands Across the Table (1935)

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Hands Across the Table (1935)
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80

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Murder at the Vanities (1934)
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89

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Mystery
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
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79

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of…