Mitchell Leisen Articles

HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring's story Oscar Movies Recommended Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard, Hold Back the Dawn Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen's melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket [...]

TO EACH HIS OWN (1946) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry; from a story by Brackett Oscar Movies Recommended Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, To Each His Own Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in the 1941 melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, returns to the wartime milieu in [...]

Remember the Night (1940) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Screenplay: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway   Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night   A holiday delight that resonates from a Preston Sturges screenplay, Remember the Night assays familiar moral territory inconspicuously. As he did with the scripter’s classic Easy Living (1937), Mitchell Leisen directs. In [...]

A digitally restored version of Remember the Night, the 1940 classic written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is one of Turner Classic Movies' Christmas presentations this December. Remember the Night will air several times throughout the month, including on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. (PT). “It’s one of those quirky twists of fate that a film [...]