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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Mervyn LeRoy
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moment to Moment | Director | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Mary, Mary |
Director, Producer |
- | 1963 |
64% |
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Gypsy |
Director, Producer |
- | 1962 |
67% |
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A Majority of One | Director | - | 1961 |
80% |
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Wake Me When It's Over |
Director, Producer |
- | 1960 |
60% |
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The FBI Story | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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Home Before Dark |
Director, Producer |
- | 1958 |
60% |
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No Time for Sergeants |
Director, Producer |
- | 1958 |
63% |
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The Bad Seed |
Director, Producer |
- | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Toward the Unknown |
Director, Producer |
- | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Lady in Town |
Director, Producer |
- | 1955 |
93% |
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Mister Roberts | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Rose Marie | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Latin Lovers | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Lovely to Look At | Director | - | 1952 |
86% |
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Million Dollar Mermaid | Director | - | 1952 |
84% |
|
Quo Vadis? | Director | - | 1951 |
14% |
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Any Number Can Play | Director | - | 1949 |
75% |
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Little Women |
Director, Producer |
- | 1949 |
43% |
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East Side, West Side | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Homecoming | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Desire Me | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Without Reservations | Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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The House I Live In | Director | - | 1945 |
100% |
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Director | - | 1944 |
88% |
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Madame Curie | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You, John Jones! | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Johnny Eager |
Director, Producer |
- | 1942 |
82% |
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Random Harvest | Director | - | 1942 |
33% |
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Blossoms in the Dust | Director | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Can't Fool a Camera | Self | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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Unholy Partners |
Director, Producer |
- | 1941 |
83% |
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Waterloo Bridge | Director | - | 1940 |
60% |
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Escape |
Director, Producer |
- | 1940 |
100% |
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At the Circus | Producer | - | 1939 |
98% |
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The Wizard of Oz | Producer | $5.5M | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stand Up and Fight | Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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Fools for Scandal |
Director, Producer |
- | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dramatic School | Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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They Won't Forget |
Director, Producer |
- | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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The Great Garrick | Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The King and the Chorus Girl |
Director, Producer |
- | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marry the Girl | Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Men on a Horse | Director | - | 1936 |
18% |
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Anthony Adverse | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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I Found Stella Parish | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oil for the Lamps of China | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Page Miss Glory | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hi, Nellie | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Heat Lightning | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Happiness Ahead | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Sweet Adeline | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Hard to Handle | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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Tugboat Annie | Director | - | 1933 |
100% |
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Gold Diggers of 1933 | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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Elmer the Great | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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The World Changes | Director | - | 1933 |
96% |
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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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Two Seconds | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heart of New York | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big City Blues |
Director, Producer |
- | 1932 |
83% |
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Three on a Match | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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High Pressure | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentleman's Fate | Director | - | 1931 |
91% |
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Five Star Final | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet |
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Tonight or Never | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Young to Marry | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Local Boy Makes Good | Director | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadminded | Director | - | 1931 |
92% |
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Little Caesar | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Numbered Men | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Top Speed | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Playing Around | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Show Girl in Hollywood | Director | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadway Babies | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harold Teen | Director | - | 1928 |
No Score Yet |
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Ella Cinders | Writer | - | 1926 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |