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Leigh Jason (born Leigh Jacobson) was an instructor at UCLA before entering the film business in 1924 as an electrician. He turned to screenwriting in 1926, then changed his name to Leigh Jason when he started directing in 1928. He turned out numerous shorts and B pictures, mainly thrillers and light comedies, up to the 1950s, when he began to devote most of his energies to directing TV series, although he still directed a feature every now and then. He was the brother of director Will Jason.
Date of Birth 26 July 1904, New York City, New York
Date of Death 19 February 1979, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
Most Popular Leigh Jason Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
31 December 1937
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village.
07 July 1939
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
07 April 1939
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight.
06 July 1961
Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.
29 April 1935
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires.
06 March 1948
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe.
23 September 1943
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them.
17 February 1944
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
09 September 1928
A French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer.
23 October 1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it.
05 January 1942
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
30 November 1961
A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner.
21 April 1947
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love.
10 December 1927
Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.
28 April 1929
John Hueston, a wealthy newspaper publisher, plans to publish an exposé of a criminal gang but is silenced by a bullet.
19 April 1934
In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up.
13 November 1926
Dorothy McGuire, owner of the Bar V Ranch, is rescued from a fall before a runaway by Angus Dickinson, a bronco buster whom she engages to tame an outlaw horse on her ranch.
20 December 1944
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
28 February 1952
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt.
21 October 1938
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.
06 March 1936
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
15 February 1935
In the futuristic Utopian society of 1976, people, who have numbers instead of names, no longer have to work.
01 January 1956
The Go-Getter (1956)
14 September 1934
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett being.... Super Stupid....
15 February 1934
A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills.
26 December 1925
A 1925 silent Western
06 October 1933
A Preferred List is a 1933 American Pre-Code short comedy film produced by Lou Brock. At the 6th Academy Awards, held in 1933, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
07 April 1934
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
26 January 1946
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club.
31 December 1936
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee.
19 October 1934
Scantily clad, irreverent nurses keep things cheerful by singing
04 June 1935
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
26 March 1935
A man gets hit on the head and decides to give his fortune to artists.
29 March 1947
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
10 July 1936
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
17 April 1941
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
02 July 1937
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties.
21 March 1933
When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.
20 November 1927
During a protracted drought, Larry Day and his riders from the Bar None find and rescue Professor Parkinson, an alleged rainmaker.
28 April 1934
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.
09 March 1934
In the province of Bullvania, the President loses important papers and war is almost declared. Detective Shemp Howard and his partner come to the rescue.
14 July 1929
Boxer Jack Townsend and wrestler Paul Steinert, at odds with each other, fight a benefit match.
