Trailer for Death Takes a Holiday.
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.
2 min 24 sec
Views
4,266
Posted On
February 14, 2013
Mitchell Leisen
Writer
Maxwell Anderson
Studio
Universal Pictures
Release
March 30, 1934
Fredric March
Evelyn Venable
Guy Standing
Kent Taylor
Helen Westley
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