Search results for "Mitchell Leisen"
The Mating Season

The Mating Season

The Mating Season
IMDb: 7.4
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
Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico
IMDb: 5.8
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
The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross
IMDb: 6.8
124

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are…

Genre: Drama, History
Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings
IMDb: 6.7
95

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

Murder at the Vanities

Murder at the Vanities

Murder at the Vanities
IMDb: 6.6
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…

No Time for Love

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
IMDb: 6.9
83

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

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low
IMDb: 6.2
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…

The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man
IMDb: 6.4
107

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of…

Genre: Drama, Western
Madam Satan

Madam Satan

Madam Satan
IMDb: 6.5
116

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Bob is an unfaithful husband. Angela has a plan to win back his affections.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Frenchman’s Creek

Frenchman’s Creek

Frenchman’s Creek
IMDb: 6.2
110

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

Remember the Night

Remember the Night

Remember the Night
IMDb: 7.6
94

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn
IMDb: 7.4
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
The Girl Most Likely

The Girl Most Likely

The Girl Most Likely
IMDb: 6
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
Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.
IMDb: 6.2
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: Thriller, War
The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938
IMDb: 6.3
94

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

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Kitty

Kitty

Kitty
IMDb: 7
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.

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love
IMDb: 6.8
110

In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta ‘Gusto’ Nash, for a scoop, aids…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own
IMDb: 7.4
98

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

Genre: Drama
The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
IMDb: 7
73

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Tonight We Sing

Tonight We Sing

Tonight We Sing
IMDb: 5.8
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

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
IMDb: 6
84

A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table
IMDb: 7
80

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Midnight

Midnight

Midnight
IMDb: 7.9
94

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

Genre: Comedy, Romance
To Each His Own

To Each His Own

To Each His Own
IMDb: 7.7
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
Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday
IMDb: 7
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…

Easy Living

Easy Living

Easy Living
IMDb: 7.6
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