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| Mervyn
LeRoy |
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| Director
/ Producer |
| 1900 - 1987 |
| Born October 15,
San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key
Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres: Drama,
Melodrama, Crime Drama |
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Collaborators: Cedric
Gibbons (Production Designer), Herbert Stothart (Composer), Glenda
Farrell (Leading Character Player), Sol Polito (Cinematographer), Greer
Garson (Leading Player), Sidney Franklin (Producer), Hal Wallis
(Producer), C. Aubrey Smith (Leading Character Player), Harold Rosson
(Cinematographer), Joseph Ruttenberg (Cinematographer), Harold F. Kress (Editor) |
| Highly
Recommended: I
Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), They
Won't Forget (1937) |
| Recommended: Little
Caesar (1930), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Random Harvest (1942) |
| Worth
a Look: Five Star Final (1931), Three on a Match
(1932), Waterloo Bridge (1940), Johnny Eager (1941), Madame Curie (1943), Thirty Seconds Over
Tokyo (1944), East Side, West Side
(1949), Mister Roberts (1955) [co-directed by John
Ford], The Bad Seed (1956) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Films
of the Golden Age Bio ] [
Classic Film and
Television Home Page ] [
Bright Lights
Film Journal: "The Bad Seed" ] |
| Books:
[ Mervyn
LeRoy: Take One ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) |
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"The
career of Mervyn LeRoy, one of the most successful in the heyday
of the studio system, is a reflection of that system...Prolific,
versatile (at home in action films, women's films, musicals,
historical spectacles), LeRoy's fluency marks him as the kind of
director who validates collaborative creativity. Sensitive to
the particular individuals with whom he works, and to the
wide-ranging needs of the various materials he treats, LeRoy
offers us an image of the Hollywood technique during the
development of the classic Hollywood narrative." -
Charles Affron (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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"From Little
Caesar to Gypsy, Le Roy has converted his innate
vulgarity into a personal style. As long as he is not mistaken
for a serious artist, Le Roy can be delightfully entertaining." -
Andrew
Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968) |
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"LeRoy
established his reputation in the 30s when he directed for
Warner Bros. and their subsidiary First National several
powerful social dramas...LeRoy's reputation declined somewhat
after WWII, when he turned out a string of mediocre
entertainment films, for MGM, but it revived when he returned to
Warners in the mid-50s. He retired in the mid-60s, ending a long
and on the whole distinguished career that was frequently
studded with commercial and critical successes." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"The story's the thing with LeRoy. The material dictates the
style of this fine director, as exemplified by the grit of I
Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (32) and the romantic aura
of Random Harvest (42)." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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