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Mervyn LeRoy. Highest Rated: 100% Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Lowest Rated: 14% Any Number Can Play (1949) Birthday: Oct 15, 1900. Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA. Former actor and ...
1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis.
Mervyn LeRoy (as told to Dick Kleiner) (1974) Former actor and comedy writer who began a prolific directing career in 1927. LeRoy did his best work at Warner Bros. in the 1930s, turning out a string of grittily realistic films which reflected the hardships of Depression-era America. His 1930 gangster film, "Little Caesar," launched Edward...
Died Sept. 13, 1987 in Beverly Hills, Calif. O scar-winning producer-director Mervyn LeRoy set the tone of Hollywood moviemaking for 40 years with such films as "Little Caesar," "The Wizard of Oz," "Quo Vadis" and "Gypsy." He had been a full-fledged director at First National (later Warner Bros.) for only three years when his handling of ...
Mervyn LeRoy was born on October 15, 1900, into a Jewish family in San Francearlyisco. His childhood was troubled as his mother deserted the family when Mervyn was five, and a year later the large department store in the city which his father owned was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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 ...
Madame Curie. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie (1943), directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Random Harvest (1942), based on James Hilton ’s novel, was a big box-office success. A soldier (Ronald Colman) is left with amnesia and shell shock after World War I, but his frustration melts away under the tender ministrations of a dancer (Garson ...
