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  1. Oct 23, 1971 · Death Takes a Holiday: Directed by Robert Butler. With Yvette Mimieux, Monte Markham, Melvyn Douglas, Myrna Loy. Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

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    • Drama, Fantasy, Romance
    • Robert Butler
    • 1971-10-23
  2. Now it turns out that if Death is taking a holiday, no one else receives him as a visitor, and we see news reports of people not dying during fires and other accidents.

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    • Fredric March
    • Mitch Leisen
    • Fantasy
  3. Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (1891–1957), as adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.

  4. Death Takes a Holiday. 1971. 1 hr 13 mins. Drama, Fantasy. NR. Watchlist. Story with Death taking human form to study man's lust for life. Yvette Mimieux, Monte Markham, Melvyn Douglas,...

  5. When the Grim Reaper (Fredric March) goes on a three-day holiday, he takes the form of a visiting prince and falls for a woman both in love with life and infatuated with death.

  6. Jan 16, 2024 · Directed by Mitchell Leisen, and based on an Italian play called La Morte In Vacanza, Death Takes A Holiday revolves around our titular protagonist who’s spent eternity wondering why people are afraid of him.

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  8. Jan 24, 2017 · Death Takes A Holiday at Charing Cross Theatre until 4 March. More theatre reviews on theartsdesk. @mkmswain. The Grim Reaper seeks the meaning of life in this lush but ludicrous musical. Theatre review by Marianka Swain.

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