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- In Mitchell Leisen: Films of the 1930s…film, the elegantly made allegory Death Takes a Holiday (1934), that Leisen first made his mark as a director. In it Fredric March played Death incarnate, who visits an Italian villa to observe humanity in action and then falls in love with a woman (played by Evelyn Venable) who willingly…Read More
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- In Marcia Gay Harden…Black (1998), loosely based on Death Takes a Holiday (1934), and in Clint Eastwood’s adventure movie Space Cowboys (2000). Harden’s performance as the gifted artist Lee Krasner, wife of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, in the biopic Pollock (2000) earned her the Academy Award for bestRead More
Directed by
Mitchell Leisen |
Writing Credits
Maxwell Anderson | ... | (screenplay) and |
Gladys Lehman | ... | (screenplay) |
Alberto Casella | ... | (play) |
Walter Ferris | ... | (english adaptation) |
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Fredric March | ... | Prince Sirki / Death | |
Evelyn Venable | ... | Grazia | |
Guy Standing | ... | Duke Lambert (as Sir Guy Standing) | |
Katharine Alexander | ... | Alda | |
Gail Patrick | ... | Rhoda | |
Helen Westley | ... | Stephanie | |
Kathleen Howard | ... | Princess Maria | |
Kent Taylor | ... | Corrado | |
Henry Travers | ... | Baron Cesarea | |
G.P. Huntley | ... | Eric (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) | |
Otto Hoffman | ... | Fedele (as Otto Hoffmann) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Anna De Linsky | ... | Cora - the Maid (uncredited) | |
Hector V. Sarno | ... | Pietro - the Gardener (uncredited) | |
Phillips Smalley | ... | Manager of Casino (uncredited) | |
Frank Yaconelli | ... | Flower Vendor (uncredited) |
Produced by
Emanuel Cohen | ... | associate producer (uncredited) |
E. Lloyd Sheldon | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Bernhard Kaun | ... | (uncredited) |
John Leipold | ... | (uncredited) |
Milan Roder | ... | (uncredited) |
Cinematography by
Charles Lang | ... | (photographed by) |
Art Direction by
Hans Dreier | ... | (uncredited) |
Ernst Fegté | ... | (uncredited) |
Costume Design by
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Travis Banton | ... | (uncredited) |
Edith Head | ... | (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Harold Lewis | ... | sound recording engineer (uncredited) |
Visual Effects by
Gordon Jennings | ... | technical effects |
Camera and Electrical Department
Cliff Shirpser | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Music Department
Karl Hajos | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
W. Franke Harling | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |