Mitchell Leisen Movies

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees...

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

Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt....

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

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...

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

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved...

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

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

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

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...

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

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

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...

Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army...

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

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

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a...