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Mitchell Leisen
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Director, Producer, Art Director, Costume Designer, Production Designer Born: October 6, 1898 in Menominee, MI Death: October 28, 1972 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:After being trained as an architect and working as an interior designer, "Mitchell Leisen" began work in Hollywood as a costume designer. Leisen worked on such notable films as "Cecil B. De Mille"'s "Male and Female" (1919), "Ernst Lubitsch"'s "Rosita", and the "Douglas Fairbanks" actioners "Robin Hood" (1922) and "The Thief Of Bagdad" (1924). As a set designer for De Mille in the late '20s and early '30s, Leisen's credits included "The King of Kings" (1927), "Madam Satan" (1930), and "The Sign of the Cross" (1932). Leisen began directing in the mid-'30s, scoring with the allegory "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934) and the bizarre mystery musical "Murder at the Vanities" (1934). He showed a special flair for comedy in the late '30s and early '40s, especially when his scripts were written by "Preston Sturges" ("Easy Living" [1937], "Remember the Night" [1940]) or "Charles Brackett" and "Billy Wilder"... Full Biography
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