Gender: Male
Born: 15th October 1900
Died: 13th September 1987
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Majority of One,
Anthony Adverse,
Any Number Can Play,
Big City Blues,
Blossoms in the Dust,
Broadminded,
Broadway Babies,
Desire Me,
East Side, West Side,
Elmer, the Great,
Escape,
Five Star Final,
Fools for Scandal,
Gentleman's Fate,
Gold Diggers of 1933,
Gypsy,
Happiness Ahead,
Hard to Handle,
Heat Lightning,
Hi, Nellie!,
High Pressure,
Home Before Dark,
Homecoming,
Hot Stuff,
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,
I Found Stella Parish,
Johnny Eager,
Latin Lovers,
Little Caesar,
Little Women,
Local Boy Makes Good,
Lovely to Look At,
Madame Curie,
Mary, Mary,
Million Dollar Mermaid,
Mister Roberts,
Moment to Moment,
No Time for Sergeants,
Numbered Men,
Oh, kay!,
Oil for the Lamps of China,
Page Miss Glory,
Quo Vadis,
Random Harvest,
Rose Marie,
Show Girl In Hollywood,
Strange Lady in Town,
Sweet Adeline,
The Bad Seed,
The Devil at 4 O'Clock,
The FBI Story,
The Green Berets,
The Heart of New York,
The House I Live In,
The King and the Chorus Girl,
The Wizard of Oz,
The World Changes,
They Won't Forget,
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo,
Three Men on a Horse,
Three on a Match,
Tonight or Never,
Top Speed,
Toward the Unknown,
Tugboat Annie,
Two Seconds,
Unholy Partners,
Wake Me When It's Over,
Waterloo Bridge,
Without Reservations,
You, John Jones!Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer and sometime actor.
Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake. (His paternal grandfather owned a successful San Francisco department store that was destroyed in the quake; the store was heavily insured, but the insurance company went bankrupt in the aftermath of the earthquake.) To make money, young Mervyn sold newspapers and entered talent shows as a singer. Through this he worked his way into vaudeville. When his act broke up, he and his cousin, Jesse Lasky, went to Hollywood.
LeRoy worked in costumes, processing labs and as a camera assistant until he became a gag writer and actor in silent films. His first directing job was in 1927's No Place to Go. When his movies made lots of money without costing too much, he became well-received in the movie business.
In 1931 he directed two key films which launched Edward G. Robinson into major stardom, the Oscar-nominated critique of tabloid journalism Five Star Final, and the classic gangster epic Little Caesar. From that point forward, LeRoy would be responsible for a diverse variety
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