UCLA Film & Television Archive To Showcase the Films of Director Mitchell Leisen
This looks to be a really great line up of films. If you are in L.A. I definitely recommend you head out to these. I am a big fan of Easy Living, Death Takes a Holiday and Midnight, but if you can only see one of these films make it 1945’s Kitty with Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland. Basically, it is Pygmalion, but with prostitutes. It’s not on DVD and it’s a real treat.
- Midnight (1939); Easy Living (1937) November 16, 2012 – 7:30 pm
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934) November 18, 2012 – 7:00 pm
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941); Swing High, Swing Low (1937) November 30, 2012 – 7:30 pm
- No Man of Her Own (1950); The Mating Season (1951) December 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm
- Lady in the Dark (1944); Take a Letter, Darling (1942) December 9, 2012 – 7:00 pm
- Kitty (1945); Frenchman’s Creek (1944) December 10, 2012 – 7:30 pm
- Remember the Night (1940); Hands Across the Table (1935) December 14, 2012 – 7:30 pm
- To Each His Own (1946); No Time For Love (1943) December 16, 2012 – 7:00 pm
Posted on November 7, 2012, in Classic Film and tagged Easy Living, Kitty, Midnight, Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, UCLA. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
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Did an entry on this upcoming series the other day, noting the irony that a Mitchell Leisen retrospective would be held at the Billy Wilder Theater, given that Wilder loathed Leisen… http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/555212.html