Direction: Mitchell Leisen
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mitchell Leisen. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Midnight
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · John Barrymore · Mary Astor
Plot Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the...
7.8
2K votes
7.8
2K votes
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Charles Boyer · Olivia de Havilland · Paulette Goddard · Victor Francen
Plot 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...
7.6
1K votes
7.6
1K votes
To Each His Own
1946 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Mary Anderson · Roland Culver · Virginia Welles
Plot An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
7.4
489 votes
7.4
489 votes
Remember the Night
1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Beulah Bondi · Elizabeth Patterson
7.3
658 votes
7.3
658 votes
Easy Living
1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Jean Arthur · Edward Arnold · Ray Milland · Luis Alberni
7.3
650 votes
7.3
650 votes
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter
Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.
7.2
519 votes
7.2
519 votes
Hands Across the Table
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn
Plot Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get...
6.8
349 votes
6.8
349 votes
The Mating Season
1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Gene Tierney · John Lund · Miriam Hopkins · Thelma Ritter
Plot White-collar working stiff but upwardly mobile Val McNulty meets, quickly falls in love and marries socialite Maggie Carleton, who has no money of her own. Thus, they live in a...
6.8
282 votes
6.8
282 votes
Death Takes a Holiday
1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander
Plot Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian...
6.7
513 votes
6.7
513 votes
No Time for Love
1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Ilka Chase · Richard Haydn
Plot It tells the story of an engineer Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) and a female photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert), who gets him fired from a tunneling job. She feels responsible...
6.6
223 votes
6.6
223 votes
Arise, My Love
1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Claudette Colbert · Ray Milland · Dennis O'Keefe · George Zucco
Plot 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...
6.6
432 votes
6.6
432 votes
The Twilight Zone: People Are Alike All Over (TV)
1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Roddy McDowall · Susan Oliver · Paul Comi · Byron Morrow
Plot Biologist Sam Conrad is scheduled to go on a mission to Mars and is genuinely concerned about what they will find there. The mission commander, Mark Marcusson, tells him there's...
6.6
149 votes
6.6
149 votes
Take a Letter, Darling
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Rosalind Russell · Fred MacMurray · Macdonald Carey · Constance Moore
Plot Struggling painter Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive, A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell). While working to obtain an account from a...
6.5
181 votes
6.5
181 votes
Kitty
1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Patric Knowles · Reginald Owen
Plot London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. He paints her as an "anonymous lady" who excites the interest of his...
6.5
86 votes
6.5
86 votes
The Twilight Zone: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (TV)
1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Ida Lupino · Martin Balsam · Jerome Cowan · Ted de Corsia
Plot The washed up actress Barbara Trenton is a woman stranded in her past, worshiping and watching her movies of twenty-five years ago in her glorious days. Her housemaid Sally is...
6.4
246 votes
6.4
246 votes
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Richard Barthelmess · Joe Morrison · Gertrude Michael · Helen Mack
Plot A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.
6.3
45 votes
6.3
45 votes
Golden Earrings
1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Ray Milland · Marlene Dietrich · Murvyn Vye · Bruce Lester
6.2
213 votes
6.2
213 votes
The Lady is Willing
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Fred MacMurray · Aline MacMahon · Stanley Ridges
6.1
386 votes
6.1
386 votes
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Alan Ladd · Wanda Hendrix · Francis Lederer · Joseph Calleia
Plot Webb Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several villagers. His old love Julie, whom...
6.1
119 votes
6.1
119 votes
Swing High, Swing Low
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn
Plot 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...
6.0
139 votes
6.0
139 votes