Death Takes a Holiday
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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 30, 1934 |
Starring:
Evelyn Venable, Fredric March, G.P. Huntley, Gail Patrick, Guy Standing, Helen Westley, Henry Travers, Katharine Alexander, Kathleen Howard, Kent Taylor
Summary:
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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The film retains a certain power and is ripe for rediscovery. Its theatrical morbidity and poetic earnestness could make it a favorite of moony teenage depressives everywhere, especially as Grazia -- like Romeo and Juliet -- appears to prefer Death to a compromised life. [25 Dec 1998, p.12]
It is the kind of story and picture that beckons the thinker, and for this reason is likely to have greater appeal among the intelligentsia. [27 Feb 1934, p.17]
So unwatchably creaky that it's hard to believe director Mitchell Leisen filmed
Murder at the Vanities (with its wildly demented Sweet Marijuana
production number) the same year. [04 Dec 1998]
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