Mitchell Leisen Movies

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

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives...

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

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...

Harpo and Chico play Harry and Nick, two inept would-be robbers who try to pull a jewelry heist.

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

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...

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

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 struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

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

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...

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...

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

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

An adaptation of Henry Van Dyke's classic tale of Artaban, a Persian believer who spends 33 years seeking the Christ child only to finally reach him...

A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.

After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the...

A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

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...