Mitchell Leisen Collection (6 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set ( Midnight / Easy Living / Remember the Night / Arise, My Love / No Time for Love / Lady in the Dark ) ( Mid night / Arise My Love )

Mitchell Leisen Collection (6 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Midnight / Easy Living / Remember the Night / Arise, My Love / No Time for Love / Lady in the Dark
Alternate Title: Mid night / Arise My Love
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
530 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1937 - 1944 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mitchell Leisen

Written By:
Charles Brackett
Billy Wilder
Preston Sturges
Vera Caspary
Robert Lees
Frederic I. Rinaldo
Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett

Actors:
Claudette Colbert ..... Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny
Don Ameche ..... Tibor Czerny
John Barrymore ..... Georges Flammarion
Francis Lederer ..... Jacques Picot
Mary Astor ..... Helene Flammarion
Elaine Barrie ..... Simone
Hedda Hopper ..... Stephanie
Rex O'Malley ..... Marcel Renaud
Monty Woolley ..... The Judge
Armand Kaliz ..... Lebon - Eve's Lawyer
Jean Arthur ..... Mary Smith
Edward Arnold ..... J.B. Ball
Ray Milland ..... John Ball Jr.
Luis Alberni ..... Mr. Louis Louis - the testy hotel manager
Mary Nash ..... Mrs. Jenny Ball
Franklin Pangborn ..... Van Buren
Barlowe Borland ..... Mr. Gurney
William Demarest ..... Wallace Whistling
Andrew Tombes ..... E.J. Hulgar
Esther Dale ..... Lillian
Harlan Briggs ..... Mr. Higginbottom - Office Manager
William B. Davidson ..... Mr. Hyde
Nora Cecil ..... Miss Swerf
Robert Greig ..... Graves - J.B. Ball's Butler
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Lee Leander
Fred MacMurray ..... John Sargent
Beulah Bondi ..... Mrs. Sargent
Elizabeth Patterson ..... Aunt Emma
Willard Robertson ..... Francis X. O'Leary
Sterling Holloway ..... Willie Simms
Charles Waldron ..... Judge in New York
Paul Guilfoyle ..... District Attorney
Charles Arnt ..... Tom
John Wray ..... Hank
Thomas W. Ross ..... Mr. Emory
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones ..... Rufus
Tom Kennedy ..... 'Fat' Mike
Georgia Caine ..... Lee's Mother
Virginia Brissac ..... Mrs. Emory
Claudette Colbert ..... Augusta Nash
Ray Milland ..... Tom Martin
Dennis O'Keefe ..... Shep
Walter Abel ..... Phillips
Dick Purcell ..... Pink
George Zucco ..... Prison Governor
Frank Puglia ..... Father Jacinto
Esther Dale ..... Susie
Paul Leyssac ..... Bresson
Ann Codee ..... Mme. Bresson
Stanley Logan ..... Col. Tubbs-Brown
Lionel Pape ..... Lord Kettlebrook
Aubrey Mather ..... Achille
Cliff Nazarro ..... Botzelberg
Claudette Colbert ..... Katherine Grant
Fred MacMurray ..... Jim Ryan
Ilka Chase ..... Hoppy Grant
Richard Haydn ..... Roger Winant
Paul McGrath ..... Henry Fulton
June Havoc ..... Darlene
Marjorie Gateson ..... Sophie
Ginger Rogers ..... Liza Elliott
Ray Milland ..... Charley Johnson
Warner Baxter ..... Kendall Nesbitt
Jon Hall ..... Randy Curtis
Barry Sullivan ..... Dr. Brooks
Mischa Auer ..... Russell Paxton
Phyllis Brooks ..... Allison DuBois
Mary Philips ..... Maggie Grant
Edward Fielding ..... Dr. Carlton
Don Loper ..... Adams
Mary Parker ..... Miss Parker
Catherine Craig ..... Miss Foster
Marietta Canty ..... Martha
Virginia Farmer ..... Miss Edwards
Fay Helm ..... Miss Bowers

Synopsis:

Midnight (1939)
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who's attracted to Eve. Helene's scheming husband Georges enlists Eve's aid in taking Picot away from his wife.

Easy Living (1937)
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 the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith.

Remember the Night (1940)
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He gets the trial postponed because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time.

Arise, My Love (1940)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape.

No Time for Love (1943)
Sandhog Jim Ryan is suspended from his job helping to dig a tunnel beneath a river because of an incident while being photographed for a story by Katherine Grant.

Lady in the Dark (1944)
Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.

Midnight (1939)
Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film merges Brackett and Wilder's early emphasis on repartee and masquerade with ex-costume designer Leisen's flair for high style and sophistication. American Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert), a wily ex-showgirl, must impersonate Hungarian royalty in order to infiltrate the Parisian jet set. Midnight begins during a midnight rainstorm as Eve arrives penniless at Paris' Gare de L'Est, owning only the gold lamé gown on her back. She attracts the attention of Hungarian cab driver, Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), but walks out on their budding romance; Eve will no longer make the mistake of dating for love rather than money. Instead, she finds shelter from the downpour by crashing a socialite's late-night soirée using a pawn ticket and a pseudonym, the Baroness Czerny (the cab driver's surname). There, Eve meets aristocrat Georges Flammarion (John Barrymore), who entices her with a place in society if she agrees to remain disguised as the Baroness and seduce his wife's playboy lover. Meanwhile, Tibor Czerny has not given up his search for Eve. When he locates her whereabouts and discovers the fact that she is using his name, Tibor also travels to the Flammarion estate - to win back Eve, and to pose as her husband, the Baron. What ensues is quintessential screwball comedy, full of deception, love, quadruple entendre, and outright farce. Midnight remains Leisen's most heralded directorial effort, as well as one of Brackett and Wilder's earliest successes.

Easy Living (1937)
Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) - known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" - may be one of the wealthiest investment bankers in the country, but he also knows the value of a dollar. And when his wife (Mary Nash) spends 50,000 of them on a sable coat, he is driven into such a fury in the ensuing argument on the roof of their Fifth Avenue townhouse, that he throws the coat into the street - where it promptly lands on the head of Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), a clerk-typist on her way to work, riding on the upper deck of a double-decker bus, ruining her hat in the process. She jumps off the bus to try to return the coat, but Ball insists that she keep it. What she really needs, however, is not a 50,000-dollar sable coat so much as a ride to work - as she doesn't even have a dime for bus fare - and perhaps a new hat...

Remember the Night (1940)
A romantic comedy drama directed by former art director Mitchell Leisen and based on a skillful Preston Sturges screenplay. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Lee Leander, a New York City shoplifter who is arrested just before Christmas after trying to filch an expensive piece of jewelry. Her trial delayed until after the holiday, Lee comes to the attention of an assistant district attorney, John Sargent (Fred MacMurray). Although he will be expected to prosecute Lee in a few days, John takes pity on the prisoner, who is from his home state of Indiana. He arranges for her to be released for the holidays and escorts her home, but her mother (Georgia Caine) is not interested in a reunion. So John takes Lee to his own festivities, where Lee is bowled over by the love and affection of the Sargent family, particularly John's mother (Beulah Bondi), who is so unlike her own. Lee and John fall in love, but their return to the Big Apple and Lee's trial loom large over their romance.

Arise, My Love (1940)
A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to find an elusive notorious rebel and write a hard-new first-hand-account of the Spanish Civil War. This lively romantic comedy chronicles her adventures after she finds him and saves him from prison by pretending he is her husband. After the break-out, they fly to France in a stolen plane. At first she only cares about her story and resists the advances of the amorous renegade. As soon as her tale hits the front page, she accepts an assignment in Berlin. She boards a train and takes off. She meets her "hubby" once again when the train accidentally runs into his car. At this point she realizes that she loves him. The two decide to hole up for a few days in a nearby French inn. While they tryst, WW II begins and she misses the scoop. That's okay, because all she and he care about now is each other. Their attitudes change dramatically when their New York-bound ship is torpedoed.

No Time for Love (1943)
Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract" - but only after three or four reels. Claudette Colbert is Katherine Grant, an upper-crust fashion photographer who has a gang of admirers snapping at her heels. When her vindictive editor tries to teach her a lesson for her snobbishness by giving her an assignment - photographing lower-class workers digging a tunnel, she falls for Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray). Ryan is also attracted to her, so when she leaves her camera tripod in the tunnel, Ryan obligingly returns it to her. When Ryan returns to the job site, he is ribbed by his co-workers. Ryan loses his head and gets into a fight and is subsequently suspended from his job. Katherine, feeling guilty about Ryan being suspended from his job (and also looking for an excuse to have him around), hires him as her assistant. But in his new job, Ryan starts to put the make on one of Katherine's flirtatious models, Darlene (June Havoc). Katherine must now find a way to overcome her superior attitude and make her true feelings known to Ryan.

Lady in the Dark (1944)
Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a popular fashion magazine. Despite her beauty, wealth, and success in business, Liza is unhappy and out of sorts. And while three men are vying for her affections - advertising director Charley Johnson (Ray Milland), newly single Kendall Nesbitt (Warner Baxter), and youthful and handsome Randy Curtis (Jon Hall) - Liza has been unlucky in love, and she feels that she's come to the end of her emotional rope. She begins seeing Dr. Brooks (Barry Sullivan) in hopes of resolving her emotional crises and finding happiness, and her self-searching explorations of her past take the form of a handful of musical numbers.

Midnight (1939)
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who's attracted to Eve. Helene's scheming husband Georges enlists Eve's aid in taking Picot away from his wife. It works well... at first. Meanwhile, lovestruck Tibor searches for Eve. But then he learns she's calling herself Baroness Czerny!

Easy Living (1937)
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 the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Remember the Night (1940)
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He gets the trial postponed because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmastime. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?

Arise, My Love (1940)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

No Time for Love (1943)
Sandhog Jim Ryan is suspended from his job helping to dig a tunnel beneath a river because of an incident while being photographed for a story by Katherine Grant. Feeling responsible, Katherine hires Ryan to assist her during his suspension. She is elegant and sophisticated, while he is outspoken and down-to-earth. This combination leads to conflicts, and ultimately romance.

Lady in the Dark (1944)
Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.

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