Mitchell Leisen

Movies6

• Movie5.6

  MusicMystery

  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 lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.

  Murder at the Vanities

  1934 · 14 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

  Hold Back the Dawn

  1941 · 51 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  Essentially an advertisement for Murder at the Vanities (1934). Features Chico Marx, W.C. Fields, Duke Ellington and many others.

  Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

  1934

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

  The Big Broadcast of 1937

  1936 · 6 votes

• Movie6.3

  RomanceComedy

  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 estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.

  Miss Tatlock's Millions

  1948 · 5 votes

• Movie6.5

  MusicComedy

  Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

  Variety Girl

  1947 · 12 votes