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  1. Mervyn LeRoy
    American film director and producer

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  1. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 2882. Source citation. Motion Picture Director, Producer, Studio Executive. He was the only child of a well-to-do Jewish couple, his mother left when he was five years old to marry another man. The next year, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire financially ruined the family when their department store was ...

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    LeRoy was born on October 15, 1900, in San Francisco, California, the only child of Edna (née Armer) and Harry LeRoy, a well-to-do department store owner of Jewish descent. [6] Both his parents' families had fully assimilated, residing in the Bay Area for several generations. LeRoy described his relatives as "San Franciscans first, Americans ...

  3. Sep 14, 1987 · Mr. LeRoy was a keen, adaptable director who made mostly taut, punchy, socially critical films at Warner Brothers for a decade and then - for 14 years at M-G-M - mostly romantic, sentimental films ...

  4. Sep 14, 1987 · Sept. 14, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Oscar-winning producer-director Mervyn LeRoy, the one-time San Francisco newsboy who set the tone of Hollywood movie making for 40 years with such ...

  5. Dec 23, 2021 · Mervyn LeRoy (15 Oct 1900–13 Sep 1987), Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Sources . ↑ 1.0 1.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #2882; Wikipedia: Mervyn_LeRoy "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch ( : 26 November 2014), Mervyn Leroy, 13 Sep 1987; Department of Public Health Services ...

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    • October 15, 1900
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    • September 13, 1987
  6. Mervyn LeRoy (born October 15, 1900, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died September 13, 1987, Beverly Hills, California) 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).

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  8. When Mervyn LeRoy was born on 15 October 1900, in San Francisco, California, United States, his father, Harry Marcus Levy, was 33 and his mother, Edna Armer, was 23. He married Elizabeth Edna Murphy on 18 December 1927, in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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