Death Takes a Holiday
film by Leisen [1934]
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discussed in biography
- 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…
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“Meet Joe Black”
- 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
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