Mitchell Leisen Movies

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

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...

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

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...

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her...

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the...

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to...

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.