Romance blossoms between a war reporter and a pilot.
(Country: US; Year: 1940; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Charles Brackett, Benjamin Glazer, Hans Székely, Jacques Théry, Billy Wilder; Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Dick Purcell, George Zucco, Frank Puglia, Esther Dale, Paul Leyssac, Ann Codee, Stanley Logan)
Death Takes A Holiday
The grim reaper decides to take a spin at being a mortal.
(Country: US; Year: 1934; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Alberto Casella, Walter Ferris, Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman; Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander, Gail Patrick, Helen Westley, Kathleen Howard, Kent Taylor, Henry Travers, G.P. Huntley, Otto Hoffman)
Easy Living
Screwball comedy about a rich financier whose grand gesture against his spoilt wife has unexpected repercussions.
(Country: USA, IMDb USA section; Year: 1937; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Vera Caspary, Preston Sturges; Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash, Franklin Pangborn, Barlowe Borland, William Demarest, Andrew Tombes, Esther Dale, Harlan Briggs)
Romcom about a manicurist aiming to marry for money. Showing as part of the 2006 EIFF's Mitchell Leisen retrospective.
(Year: 1935; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Norman Krasna; Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Marie Prevost)
An immigrant enters a marriage of convenience... but his wife has no idea that she's purely a means to an end.
(Country: US; Year: 1941; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Ketti Frings, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard Maibaum, Manuel Reachi; Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp, Eric Feldary, Nestor Paiva, Eva Puig, Micheline Cheirel)
The Lady Is Willing
A Broadway babe surprises everything by coming home with a foundling.
(Country: US; Year: 1942; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: James Edward Grant, James Edward Grant, Albert McCleery; Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, Arline Judge, Roger Clark, Marietta Canty, David James, Ruth Ford, Harvey Stephens, Harry Shannon)
Midnight
A millionaire tries to break up his wife's affair.
(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Charles Brackett, Edwin Justus Mayer, Franz Schulz, Billy Wilder; Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Rex O'Malley, Monty Woolley, Armand Kaliz, Eugene Borden)
Romantic comedy sees a tough cookie reporter falls for a labourer.
(Country: US; Year: 1943; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, Warren Duff, Claude Binyon; Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc, Marjorie Gateson, Murray Alper, Faith Brook, Rod Cameron, Ken Christy)
Practically Yours
Farce about a pilot who finds himself romantically linked to a radio operator... despite the fact they've never met.
(Country: US; Year: 1944; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Norman Krasna; Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway, Robert Benchley, Tom Powers, Jane Frazee, Rosemary DeCamp, Isabel Randolph, Mikhail Rasumny, Stanley Andrews)
Remember The Night
An assistant DA falls for a shoplifter after he takes pity on her and takes her home for Christmas.
(Country: US; Year: 1940; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Preston Sturges; Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway, Charles Waldron, Paul Guilfoyle, Charles Arnt, John Wray, Thomas W. Ross)
Swing High, Swing Low
A feckless ex-soldier goes from a honky-tonk to success... and has his head turned along the way.
(Country: US; Year: 1937; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: George Manker Watters, Arthur Hopkins, Virginia Van Upp, Oscar Hammerstein II, Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin; Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour, Harvey Stephens, Cecil Cunningham, Charles Arnt, Franklin Pangborn, Anthony Quinn, Charles Judels)
To Each His Own
A woman gives up her illegitimate son for adoption... but can't stop following his life.
(Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Mitchell Leisen; Writer: Charles Brackett, Charles Brackett, Jacques Théry, Dodie Smith; Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin, Virginia Welles, Victoria Horne, Griff Barnett, Alma Macrorie, Bill Ward, Frank Faylen)
