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Three on a Match: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William. Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Description. Also known as. English. Mervyn LeRoy. American film director and producer (1900–1987) Mervyn Le Roy.
The career of Mervyn LeRoy, one of the most successful in the heyday of the studio system, is a reflection of that system. When at Warner Brothers, through most of the 1930s, LeRoy was a master of the style dominant at that studio, demonstrated in the fast-paced toughness of films like his Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
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. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two Kids and a Piano".
Little Women is a 1949 American comedy-drama film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version. Based on Louisa May Alcott 's 1868–69 two-volume novel of the same name, it was filmed in Technicolor and was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. [2] [3] The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman ...
Little Women: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor. The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Mervyn começou no Teatro de Vaudeville, onde estreou ainda criança ao lado da mãe. Em 1924, por intermédio de um primo, o produtor Jesse Lasky, empregou-se no Famous Players onde trabalhou no laboratório, como assistente de câmara e escritor de gags, até 1927. Seu sonho era dirigir um filme e ele conseguiu a proeza em 1927 ao realizar No ...
