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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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Childhood & Early Life. Mervyn LeRoy was born on October 15, 1900 at San Francisco, California to Jewish parents Edna (née Armer) and Harry LeRoy. His paternal grandfather was a successful businessman in San Francisco and owned a departmental store. However, the great earthquake of 1906 completely destroyed the shop and the family was ...
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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“Mervyn LeRoy spent virtually all of his long career with two of the leading Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and MGM. He went about as far as it was possible for a contract director to go during the peak studio years of the 30s and 40s and, when the 50s decline set in, he attempted to continue as an independent producer-director for a time ...
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 ...
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake. To make money, young Mervyn sold newspapers and entered talent shows as a singer.
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 ...
