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Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer, and sometime actor. LeRoy worked in costumes, processing labs and as a camera assistant until he became a gag writer and actor in silent films, including The Ten Commandments in 1923.
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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Gypsy: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace. Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
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Waterloo Bridge: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field. Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid.
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Here is a set of Lobby Cards from The Bad Seed (1956), directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
Leroy began his career hawking newspapers in San Francisco at the age of ten after his father's death. Soon he got a bit part in a play, beginning his love affair with show business. Winning a stage contest for the best imitation of Charlie Chaplin earned for him a solo act stint with Sid Grauman's gaudy midway show.
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.
