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Leo McCarey was an Academy Award winning American film director known for films like ‘Duck Soup’ and ‘The Awful Truth.’ Having built a reputation as a maker of screwball comedies during the 1930s, he was one of the most popular comedy directors in the pre-World War II Hollywood.
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Leo McCarey produced, wrote, directed, and/or supervised countless comedy shorts at Hal Roach Studios. There are too many to list here, not to mention that, because credit was not always properly given, the authorship of many of these films is subject to debate. As such, only McCarey’s features are listed. All films as director, unless otherwise in...
Peter Bogdanovich, “Leo McCarey”, Who The Devil Made It, Ballantine, New York, 1997, pp. 379-436 Sidney Carroll, “Everything Happens to Leo McCarey”, Esquire, May 1943 Jean-Pierre Coursodon, “Leo McCarey”, American Directors, Volume 1, McGraw Hill, New York, 1983 Bing Crosby and David Butler, “Remembering Leo McCarey”, Action, Sept-Oct 1969, p. 11-...
Compiled by the author and Albert Fung Leo McCarey Retrospective. Dec 27, 2002 – January 9, 2003 To be held at the Walter Reade Theater. McCarey Damien Bona’s, “Leo McCarey and the Sacred Region of Romantic Love” discusses Make Way for Tomorrow and The Awful Truth. Richard W. Bann, “Leo McCarey at Hal Roach Studios” An article on McCarey’s film car...
3 days ago · Leo McCarey was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth (1937) and Going My Way (1944). Leo was the son of Leona and Thomas McCarey. His father was born in Illinois, and was a prominent boxing promoter. His mother was a French immigrant from Paris. Leo’s brother, Ray, also became a film director.
A biography and filmography of Leo McCarey, the award-winning film director, producer and writer, and the man responsible for the original pairing of Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy.
Jul 15, 2016 · In “Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCarey,” the Museum of Modern Art surveys the portfolio of an often overlooked early Hollywood director who in his prime was one of the industry’s ...
Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
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Dec 15, 2002 · THE director Leo McCarey would have earned immortality just for putting Laurel together with Hardy. But in ''Duck Soup,'' he also constructed a cinematic world that was mad enough for the Marx...
