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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.
Death Takes a Holiday: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander. The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1934-03-30
In the pre-code classic Death Takes a Holiday, the Grim Reaper (Fredric March) pays a visit to a family of wealthy socialites though he is not there on his u...
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.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Robert Butler
- 1971-10-23
Death Takes a Holiday is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. The story is adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella , which was adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.
Feb 3, 2023 · Death takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.Noted playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote... Skip to main content We’re fighting to restore access to 500,000+ books in court this week.
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Apr 7, 2023 · According to Charles Tranberg, author of Frederic March – A Consummate Actor, Death Takes a Holiday was a huge success both commercially and critically and was Paramount’s second-highest grossing film for 1934. I find that surprising for a film which is highly philosophical in nature, but for a world recovering from World War I it must have struck a deep chord.
