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Quo Vadis: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann. With Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov. After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
- 2 min
- 141
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.
- 4 min
- 94
In 1974, he published his memoirs, "Mervyn LeRoy: Take One" (Hawthorn Books), which were credited as being "by Mervyn LeRoy as told to Dick Kleiner." He was married three times with one wife being Doris Warner, daughter of Warner Bros. co-founder, Harry Warner; he was the father of four children.
LEROY, Mervyn. Nationality: American.Born: San Francisco, 15 October 1900. Education: Attended night school, 1919–1924.Family: Married 1) Doris Warner, 1933 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Little Women is a 1949 American comedy-drama film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version. Based on Louisa May Alcott 's 1868–69 two-volume novel of the same name, it was filmed in Technicolor and was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. [2] [3] The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman ...
