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Mervyn LeRoy. Highest Rated: 100% Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Lowest Rated: 14% Any Number Can Play (1949) Birthday: Oct 15, 1900. Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA. Former actor and ...
Quo Vadis: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann. With Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov. After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Madame Curie. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943), directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Random Harvest (1942), based on James Hilton ’s novel, was a big box-office success. A soldier (Ronald Colman) is left with amnesia and shell shock after World War I, but his frustration melts away under the tender ministrations of a dancer (Garson ...
Mervyn LeRoy, a stalwart of Hollywood’s Golden Age, was a director renowned for his incredible versatility and role in defining the American film industry.LeRoy directed a wide array of films across various genres, from romantic comedies to gangster films to musicals and social dramas.
Childhood & Early Life. Mervyn LeRoy was born on October 15, 1900 at San Francisco, California to Jewish parents Edna (née Armer) and Harry LeRoy. His paternal grandfather was a successful businessman in San Francisco and owned a departmental store. However, the great earthquake of 1906 completely destroyed the shop and the family was ...
LeRoy left Warners and moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1939 to serve as both director and producer. Perhaps his most notable achievement as a producer is the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and actor. In his youth he played juvenile roles in vaudeville and silent film comedies.
Died Sept. 13, 1987 in Beverly Hills, Calif. O scar-winning producer-director Mervyn LeRoy set the tone of Hollywood moviemaking for 40 years with such films as "Little Caesar," "The Wizard of Oz," "Quo Vadis" and "Gypsy." He had been a full-fledged director at First National (later Warner Bros.) for only three years when his handling of ...
