The Wizard of Oz
1939
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In 1938, LeRoy proposed a film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Louis B. Mayer purchased the rights to the property from Samuel Goldwyn for $50,000. Mayer limited LeRoy's role to producer and ultimately Victor Fleming was enlisted as credited director.
Mervyn LeRoy (15 October 1900 – 13 September 1987) was the man who produced the classic 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. LeRoy started out as an actor in silent movies; he made a successful transition to directing in the late 1920s, and then to producing in the 1930s.
Mervyn LeRoy. Producer: The Wizard of Oz. The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer.
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Jul 11, 2018 · In the nineteen-seventies, the producer of “Oz,” Mervyn LeRoy, recalled that he wanted to amass a group of “little people who were little and cute and looked perfect.”
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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
He produced (and partly directed, without credit) that studio's classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), although it was not a classic at the box office when first released. Its poor reception convinced LeRoy to quit producing pictures and go back to directing them.
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Mervyn LeRoy was an American motion-picture director whose wide variety of films included dramas, romances, epics, comedies, and musicals. He also produced films, including the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939).
