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Fredric March and Evelyn Venable. 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.
The play was previously was adapted into a 1934 film of the same name starring Fredric March, which was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black. [1] The story follows the personification of Death, who takes the form of a handsome young prince to understand human emotion. He falls in love with an engaged young woman and learns about love and sacrifice.
Death Takes a Holiday (1934) as Alda; The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) as Arabel Barrett; Operator 13 (1934) as Pauline; The Painted Veil (1934) as Mrs. Townsend; Enchanted April (1935) as Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot; After Office Hours (1935) as Julia Patterson; Cardinal Richelieu (1935) as Queen Anne; Alias Mary Dow (1935) as Evelyn Dow
Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as Grazia in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday.In addition to acting in around two dozen films during the 1930s and 1940s, she was also the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani.Celebrating his 65th birthday, businessman and devoted family man Bill Parrish is visited by Death, who wants to know what it's like to be human in return for giving Bill extra days of his life.
Kent Taylor (born Louis William Weiss; May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor of film and television.Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), I'm No Angel (1933), Cradle Song (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on ...
Cast Genre Notes 365 Nights in Hollywood ... Death Takes a Holiday: Mitchell Leisen: Fredric March, ... Fashions of 1934: William Rees: William Powell, Bette Davis ...
Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 film starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. Death Takes a Holiday may also refer to: Death Takes a Holiday; Death Takes a Holiday "Death Takes a Holiday", an episode of the ninth season of M*A*S*H "Death Takes a Holiday", an episode of the fourth season of Supernatural