Directed by:
Mitchell LeisenCinematography:
Charles LangCast:
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander, Gail Patrick, Kathleen Howard, Helen Westley, Kent Taylor, Henry Travers, Frank Yaconelli (more)Plots(1)
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 usual business. Intent on entering the human world for a three-day holiday, Death takes the form of a visiting prince, and assumes all the pleasures and pains that go with flesh and blood existence. Experiencing, for the first time, all that humanity has to offer, he becomes enamored of Grazia (Evelyn Venable), a woman both in love with life and infatuated with death. But soon, in Death's absence, life is running dangerously and unexplainably rampant, and knowing that he must return to his eternally grim world, he conceives a plan, involving Grazia, to allow him to take back some of what he has learned and yearned for. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Fredric March
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Hombre (1967)
Evelyn Venable
USA
Best movies:
Pinocchio (1940)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
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Guy Standing
UK
Best movies:
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Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Katharine Alexander
USA
Best movies:
Double Wedding (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
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Gail Patrick
USA
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Love Crazy (1941)
Stage Door (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Kathleen Howard
Canada
Best movies:
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Laura (1944)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Helen Westley
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Show Boat (1936)
Heidi (1937)
Kent Taylor
USA
Best movies:
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The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Henry Travers
UK
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
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Frank Yaconelli
Italy
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Otto Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Mad Love (1935)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Texas (1941)
Phillips Smalley
USA
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Sunrise (1927)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
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Hector V. Sarno
Italy
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
G.P. Huntley
USA
Best movies:
Beau Geste (1939)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)