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Dec 28, 2010 · Leo McCarey (1898–1969) reached his creative peak in 1937, the year of The Awful Truth and Make Way for Tomorrow. He had already written and directed countless Hal Roach shorts, discovered the wacky chemistry between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and handled the likes of Eddie Cantor, Mae West, and the Marx Brothers.
Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that “Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director.” Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school […]
View All. Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their ...
Dec 15, 2002 · THE director Leo McCarey would have earned immortality just for putting Laurel together with Hardy. But in ''Duck Soup,'' he also constructed a cinematic world that was mad enough for the Marx ...
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Dec 8, 2004 · Leo McCarey directed Laurel and Hardy in their first team efforts, Carey Grant and Irene Dunne in the Awful Truth, and Bing Crosby in Bells of St. Mary's, to cite just a few examples from a film career spanning 1920 to 1963.
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Leo McCarey, who had left the Hal Roach Studio in 1929 to become a freelance director, made films for several independents including Joseph Schenck (Indiscreet, 1931) and Sam Goldwyn (The Kid From Spain, 1932). McCarey hit pay dirt at Paramount directing the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933), and at Columbia with the blockbuster The Awful Truth ...
