Direction: Leigh Jason
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Leigh Jason. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 21
The Mad Miss Manton
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Sam Levene · Frances Mercer
Synopsis Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young...
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374 votes
5.8
374 votes
The Bride Walks Out
1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Gene Raymond · Robert Young · Ned Sparks
Synopsis Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit her job. She soon finds that the two of them cannot make ends meet on his salary alone, so she gets a job and...
5.5
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5.5
59 votes
Lady for a Night
1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Joan Blondell · John Wayne · Ray Middleton · Philip Merivale
Synopsis Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder.
5.4
46 votes
5.4
46 votes
Nine Girls
1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Ann Harding · Evelyn Keyes · Jinx Falkenburg · Anita Louise
Synopsis One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, fellow sorority girl Mary O'Ryan decides to do some sleuthing on her own to unmask the killer.
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The Man from Texas
1948 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast James Craig · Lynn Bari · Johnny Johnston · Una Merkel
Synopsis James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe (Bari). Throughout the film, he tells his worried wife "just one...
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Carolina Blues
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Kay Kyser · Ann Miller · Victor Moore · Jeff Donnell
Synopsis Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter...
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Meet Me on Broadway
1946 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Marjorie Reynolds · Frederick Brady · Jinx Falkenburg · Spring Byington
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Okinawa
1952 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Pat O'Brien · Cameron Mitchell · Richard Denning · Rhys Williams
Synopsis Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese suicide planes---the Kamaikazes---and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U.S. war-department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels..and...
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Dangerous Blondes
1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Allyn Joslyn · Evelyn Keyes · Edmund Lowe · John Hubbard
Synopsis A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.
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Lost Honeymoon
1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Franchot Tone · Ann Richards · Tom Conway · Frances Rafferty
Synopsis When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But the father, now a successful architect, claims not to...
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Model Wife
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Charles Ruggles · Lee Bowman
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The Thin Man (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Rudolph · Don Weis · Andrew McCullough · William Asher
Cast Peter Lawford · Phyllis Kirk · Jack Albertson · Patricia Donahue
Synopsis Nick Charles, an ex-private detective, marries Nora and lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Nick's former underworld friends still hang around and get him involved in a number of crimes that he solves. Beatrice Dane...
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High Gear
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast James Murray · Joan Marsh · Jackie Searl · Eddie Lambert
Synopsis When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to...
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Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Herbert L. Strock · Paul Guilfoyle · Eddie Davis · Henry S. Kesler
Cast Truman Bradley · Marshall Thompson · Michael Fox · Peter Hansen
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Three Girls About Town
1941 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Joan Blondell · Robert Benchley · Binnie Barnes · Janet Blair
Synopsis Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to...
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The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series)
1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction John Peyser · Paul Landres · Harold Daniels · Gilbert Kay
Cast Charles Bickford · Joel Aldred · Norman Rose · Paul Brinegar
Synopsis Stories taken from the files of various law-enforcement agencies, including city, county and state police, park rangers, military police, etc.
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm · Roy Kellino · Ted Post · Jus Addiss
Cast Irene Dunne · Arthur Franz · Lee Van Cleef · John Doucette
Synopsis TV Series (1951-1959). 8 seasons. 363 episodes. An anthology series.
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That Girl from Paris
1936 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Lily Pons · Jack Oakie · Gene Raymond · Herman Bing
Synopsis Nikki Martin, a parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love leaving her arranged husband to be at the alter. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean and his band the 'McLean Wildcats'. Windy immediately...
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Wise Girl
1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Ray Milland · Walter Abel · Henry Stephenson
Synopsis Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her...
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The Festival Girls
1961 · Movie · 76 min. · Italy
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Barbara Valentin · Alexander D'Arcy · Scilla Gabel · Alain Dijon
Synopsis Barbara runs into a rich guy who funds Alexander and Barbara's movie. In order to sell the movie, Alexander takes the players and the movie to the festival circuit.
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