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Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Write a TCM-Inspired Musical

Edit The Wrap 25 Mar 2016
Delmer Daves and Mitchell Leisen, not to mention D. W ... “Bright Star” is about all these things. an illegitimate baby, bad parents, money, and greed ... Also Read ... “Bright Star” not only serves up Daves’ clichés but recycles much of the plot from Leisen’s 1946 weeper, “To Each His Own,” in which an unwed mother loses her baby only to turn herself into a successful and rather bitter career woman....

Classic Hollywood: My favorite Ray Walston and the underrated Fred MacMurray

Edit The Los Angeles Times 01 Jan 2016
Happy New Year! This is Susan King, a 25-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times and guardian of the Golden Age of Hollywood galaxy ... Like Ray Walston. I have to admit I was terrified of Walston when I saw him when I was 4 in "Damn Yankees," in which he played the role of the wily devil Mr. Applegate to perfection ... "It's a wonderful part ... 3 ... On tap for Saturday are two of my favorite Mitchell Leisen-directed films ... (Jan ... 6)....

'Remember the Night,' a gem with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, gets anniversary screening

Edit The Los Angeles Times 10 Dec 2015
Four years earlier, the actors starred in another, very different kind of gem in "Remember the Night," a delicate, sweet Christmas tale written by the legendary Preston Sturges and beautifully directed by Mitchell Leisen ... Though Leisen directed Sturges' script for the 1937 comedy "Easy Living," the writer was not thrilled with the cuts Leisen made in "Remember the Night."....

Tuesday, November 24

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 18 Nov 2015
Vince decides to investigate, but are his actions supportive of the missing criminal, or is he doing a King David and trying to get rid of a rival? It’s a fabulous premise, even if the film isbudget poor, listlessly directed and uninspiringly performed.A much better film with a similar angle is Mitchel Leisen’s Remember the Night ......

GUILLERMO DEL TORO AND DUPLASS BROTHERS LEAD ACADEMY’S FALL PROGRAMMING SLATE (Academy Awards - Academy ...

Edit Public Technologies 25 Sep 2015
(Source. Academy Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) ... An Evening with Jay and Mark" and "In the Labyrinth ... AN EVENING WITH JAY AND MARK ... PASSING BEAUTY ... AMARCORD ... With impeccable performances from such venerable actors as Beulah Bondi and Sterling Holloway, a warm and sharp-witted script by Preston Sturges, and deft direction by Mitchell Leisen, "Remember the Night" serves up a true holiday treat....

How 'The Age of Adaline' gets eight decades of historical minutiae right

Edit Newsday 17 Apr 2015
Add comment Reprints + -. Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) and Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) in "The Age of Adaline." Photo Credit. Diyah Pera. advertisement . advertise on newsday ... attention to detail ... To that end, he said, various eras were re-imagined via the technology available to them ... It's not just an individual who's immortal in Mitchell Leisen's film, but all of humanity -- when Death takes off to woo the woman he loves, nobody dies ... ....

Claudette Colbert chases millionaires in screwball masterpiece ‘The Palm Beach Story’

Edit New York Post 21 Jan 2015
It’s a classic meet-cute, at least as far as a smitten Vallée is concerned, but there are a couple of obstacles ... She’s fled with only the clothes on her back (just as Claudette’s character did on a train to Paris in Mitchell Leisen’s “Midnight,” which would make a great double feature with this) after an argument with Tom (an impeccable Joel McCrea) at the Park Avenue apartment that neither of them can afford ... . Randolph Scott ... 10 ... ....

‘Easy Living’ Is Part of ‘Screwball Romance’ Series at IFC Center

Edit New York Times 18 Dec 2014
“Easy Living”, a 1937 movie directed by Mitchell Leisen, is to be screened as part of the weekend series “Screwball Romance” at the IFC Center. ....

Madcap Romance at Its ’30s Zenith

Edit New York Times 18 Dec 2014
“Easy Living”, a 1937 movie directed by Mitchell Leisen, is to be screened as part of the weekend series “Screwball Romance” at the IFC Center. ....

2 Frank Capra classics get gorgeous Blu-ray facelifts

Edit New York Post 25 Nov 2014
Smith’’ prominently includes the great Thomas Mitchell, who won ... Mitchell Leisen’s “Remember the Night’’ (1939) is a terrific comedy-drama about an assistant DA (Fred MacMurray) who brings a Manhattan woman he’s prosecuting for shoplifting (Barbara Stanwyck, in the first of their four teamings) to his small town home during a recess over Christmas....

Packard Campus Theater Features Holiday Classics, Douglas Fairbanks (The Library of Congress)

Edit noodls 25 Nov 2014
(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456. Public contact. Rob Stone (202) 707-0851. Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov. November 24, 2014. Packard Campus Theater Features Holiday Classics, Douglas Fairbanks. The work of Douglas Fairbanks Jr ... Main St ... This rediscovered Christmas classic was directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Preston Sturges....

Steven Spielberg’s wacky World War II epic ‘1941’ explodes onto Blu-ray

Edit New York Post 27 Oct 2014
They were inspired by a pair of historical incidents in late 1941 ... The Extraterrestrial,’’ “Jurassic Park” and “The Lost World ... The Universal Vault Series has also disgorged a couple of titles from the not-on-DVD lists I published earlier this year — Mitchell Leisen’s “Frenchman’s Creek’’ (1944) starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone; and Robert Mulligan’s “The Great Imposter’’ (1961) with Tony Curtis and Karl Malden ... ....

60-year-old Korean War drama appears in original 3-D for first time on Blu-ray

Edit New York Post 16 Oct 2014
Bob Furmanek of the 3-D Archives is responsible for this eye-popping restoration and transfer of an Allied Artists programmer that’s of above-average interest ... Some other notable films (all black-and-white) also making their debuts on Blu-ray this week. ... Corral ... Fox ... 3, 1941 ... 3 ... a high-def upgrade for Mitchell Leisen’s “Remember the Night’’ (1938) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, which TCM released on DVD under this label in 2010....
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