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Tag Archives: Mervyn LeRoy
Broadminded (1931) Mervyn LeRoy, Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr.
Jack’s father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. Read More »
Unholy Partners (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold
Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. Read More »
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) Mervyn LeRoy, Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir
An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company’s interests. Read More »
Tugboat Annie (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Read More »
Happiness Ahead (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Dick Powell, Josephine Hutchinson, John Halliday
Joan’s parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. Read More »
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) Mervyn LeRoy, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon
Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian swimming sensation Annette Kellerman Read More »
Rose Marie (1954) Mervyn LeRoy, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Musical
Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. Read More »
Hi, Nellie! (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. Read More »
Little Women (1949) Mervyn LeRoy, June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. Read More »
Anthony Adverse (1936) Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods
In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. Read More »
Numbered Men (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Bernice Claire, Conrad Nagel, Raymond Hackett
Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo Read More »
Wake Me When It’s Over (1960) Mervyn LeRoy, Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Margo Moore
Gus Brubaker has been drafted… again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island Read More »
The World Changes (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon
An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business Read More »