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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 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 G. Robinson into stardom and inaugurated the genre with which Warners would make its name. In 1938 LeRoy switched to MGM and turned his hand to glossier and, for the most part, less satisfactory fare. His other achievements include producing "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), taking over the direction of "Mister Roberts" (1955) from an ailing John Ford and introducing Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 86% Gold Diggers of 1933
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100% 75% Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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100% 63% At the Circus
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96% 91% I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
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96% 75% Little Caesar
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93% 84% Mister Roberts
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91% 79% Five Star Final
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88% 69% Madame Curie
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86% 68% Million Dollar Mermaid
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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy EAST SIDE WEST SIDE, director Mervyn Le Roy, Barbara Stanwyck, on-set, 1949 HARD TO HANDLE, director Mervyn LeRoy, James Cagney on set, 1933 MADAME CURIE, Greer Garson, director Mervyn LeRoy, 1943 MADAME CURIE, director Mervyn LeRoy, cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg on set, 1943 THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, Robert Bice, Bill Williams, Van Johnson, Tim Murdock, (in cockpit), director Mervyn LeRoy, (beneath camera), 1944 QUO VADIS, director Mervyn LeRoy (left) with visitor Elizabeth Taylor (center) on set, 1951 QUO VADIS, director Mervyn LeRoy on set, 1951 ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY, Frank Morgan, Alexis Smith, director Mervyn LeRoy, on set, 1949 THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, director Mervyn LeRoy, Phyllis Thaxter, Van Johnson, on-set, 1944 View more photos

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Moment to Moment 1966 Director, Producer Mary, Mary 43% 1963 Director, Producer Gypsy 64% 74% 1962 Director, Producer A Majority of One 67% 64% 1961 Director, Producer The Devil at 4 O'Clock 67% 55% 1961 Director Wake Me When It's Over 50% 1960 Director, Producer The FBI Story 60% 47% 1959 Director Home Before Dark 85% 1958 Director, Producer No Time for Sergeants 60% 80% 1958 Director, Producer The Bad Seed 63% 82% 1956 Director, Producer Toward the Unknown 55% 1956 Director, Producer Strange Lady in Town 1955 Director, Producer Mister Roberts 93% 84% 1955 Director Rose Marie 27% 1954 Director Latin Lovers 33% 1953 Director Lovely to Look At 33% 1952 Director Million Dollar Mermaid 86% 68% 1952 Director Quo Vadis? 84% 73% 1951 Director Any Number Can Play 14% 63% 1949 Director Little Women 75% 83% 1949 Director, Producer East Side, West Side 43% 74% 1949 Director Homecoming 88% 1948 Director Desire Me 38% 1947 Director Without Reservations 54% 1946 Director The House I Live In 67% 1945 Director
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