Former costumer and decorator, prolific filmmaker Mitchell Leisen specialized in the genre of the sophisticated and crazy comedies. His work is stylized, light, detail-oriented, and gently perverse, the touch of an artist that contributed to the golden age of Hollywood with films such as Easy Living, Midnight, or To Each His Own. 

Featured Works:

Cradle Song (1933); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933); Tonight Is Ours (1933); Behold My Wife (1934); Bolero (1934); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Hands Across the Table (1935); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); Thirteen Hours by Air (1936); Easy Living (1937); Swing High, Swing Low (1937); Artists and Models Abroad (1938); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); Midnight (1939, pictured); Arise, My Love (1940); Remember the Night (1940); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); I Wanted Wings (1941); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); No Time for Love (1943); Frenchman's Creek (1944); Lady in the Dark (1944); Practically Yours (1944); Kitty (1945); Masquerade in Mexico (1945); Golden Earrings (1947); Suddenly, It's Spring (1947); Dream Girl (1948); Bride of vengeance (1949); Song of Surrender (1949); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950); No Man of Her Own (1950); Darling, How Could You! (1951); The Mating Season (1951); Young Man with Ideas (1952); Tonight We Sing (1953); Bedevilled (1955); The Girl Most Likely (1957); The Twilight Zone: "Escape Clause" (1959), "The Sixteen Millimiter Shrine" (1959), "People Are Alike All Over" (1960)

Program information:

Retrospective Mitchell Leisen

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