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Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer and occasional actor.
LeRoy was born in San Francisco, to Jewish parents Edna (née Armer) and Harry LeRoy. 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, including The Ten Commandments in 1923. LeRoy credits Ten Commandments director, Cecil B. DeMille, for inspiring him to become a director: "As the top director of the era, DeMille had been the magnet that had drawn me to his set as often as I could go." Leroy also credits DeMille for teaching him the directing techniques required to make his own films.
Actors: Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Robert Higden (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), James Brolin (actor), John Bourgeois (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Daniel Pilon (actor), Frank Moore (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,Actors: Fred Coby (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), Jack Benny (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Raymond Burr (actor), William Challee (actor), James Conaty (actor),
Plot: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Keywords: based-on-novel, gas-station, love-at-first-sight, orchid, train, writingMervyn LeRoy, a movie director and producer discusses his philosophy of what makes a good story, and discovering stars in Hollywood's golden age. From his humble beginnings selling newspapers outside the Alcazar Theater and introduction into vaudeville, LeRoy went on to direct his first movie at age 28. He made his career producing films like "Little Caesar" and "The Wizard of Oz." Taped at KCET in Los Angeles. Day at Night originally aired on public television from 1973-1974. This episode was restored by CUNY Television. CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of Nationa...
Special guests: William Holden, Frances Bergen, and Mervyn LeRoy. Jack introduces Holden, Bergen, and LeRoy in the audience, and has Frances come on stage and talk about a film offer she's had. When she tells Jack that the reason he doesn't get drama roles is that he has no sex appeal, he tries to prove her wrong by improvising a lame love scene with her. Holden comes onstage to show Jack how it's done; after a kiss from Holden, Bergen goes limp.
Training Webinar with Special Guest Mervyn Barrett. Talking about the power of your mind and how to get on the court in the game of life. Learn what it takes to take yourself on. Contact: Mervyn Barrett for free coaching session Tel: +44796 1406240 Skype: mervyn.barrett Leroy E. Lawson Tel +447902 025564 http://LeroyLawson.com
Little Women is a 1994 American drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong. The screenplay by Robin Swicord is based on the 1868 Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name. It is the fifth feature film adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a 1933 George Cukor-directed release, a 1949 adaptation by Mervyn LeRoy, and a 1978 television adaptation by Gordon Hessler.
Eduardo Torres-Dulce presenta la película "Soy un fugitivo" ((I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, USA, sonora), (1932), de Mervyn Le Roy. (89 minutos), dentro del ciclo de Cine Mudo "El paso del cine mudo al sonoro", en la Fundación Juan March. 15 de marzo de 2013. http://www.march.es/conferencias/detalle.aspx?p3=2869&l;=1 Inspirada en un caso histórico acaecido en Georgia y protagonizada por Paul Muni, muestra con gran realismo y patetismo las duras condiciones presidiarias y las disfunciones judiciales en un caso ocurrido en los Estados Unidos. Audio completo de la conferencia: http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?id=2869
Nació el 7 de noviembre de 1867 en Varsovia (Polonia), hija de un profesor de física. En 1891 partió hacia París, donde cambió su nombre por Marie. En 1891 se matriculó en el curso de ciencias de la Universidad par isiense de la Sorbona. Pasados dos años, finalizó sus estudios de física con el número uno de su promoción. En 1894 conoció a Pierre Curie. En este momenrto, los dos trabajaban en el campo del magnetismo. Con 35 años, Pierre Curie era una brillante esperanza en la física francesa. Se enamoró enseguida de aquella fina y casi austera polaca de 27 años que compartía su fe altruista en la ciencia. Después de que Pierre Curie le propone matrimonio y la convence para que viva en París, celebran el 26 de julio de 1895, su boda con una sencillez extrema: ni fiesta, ni alianzas, ni vesti...
Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, this is the powerful story of a Roman soldier whose romance with a beautiful woman puts him at deadly odds with Emperor Nero. Based on the classic novel by Henry Sienkiewicz, it features stupendous battle scenes. Starring Robert Taylor ("Ivanhoe"), and Oscar-winners Deborah Kerr ("The King and I," "From Here to Eternity") and Peter Ustinov ("Spartacus"), who was nominated along with Leo Genn ("Henry V") for Best Supporting Actor. Directed by Oscar-winner director/producer Mervyn LeRoy ("The Wizard of Oz," "Little Caesar"). Be on the lookout for cameos by screen icons Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren.
Priest aided by three convicts saves the lives of the children in a South Sea island mountain top leper hospital by leading them through fire and lava flow to the coast and a waiting schooner after volcano erupts. Based on novel by Max Catto. (Original TItle - The Devil At 4 O'clock) © 1961, renewed 1989 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Hosted by Ken Murray with a Special appearance by Kirk Douglas. Features footage of: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Mary Astor, Lew Ayres, Max Baer, Lucille Ball, Richard Barthelmess, Rex Bell, Edgar Bergen, Sally Blane, Humphrey Bogart, John Boles, Pat Boone, Eddie Borden, Hobart Bosworth, Clara Bow, William Boyd, Fanny Brice, Paul Brooks, Joe E. Brown, Johnny Mack Brown, Virginia Bruce, Rory Calhoun, Leo Carrillo, Charles Chaplin, Lew Cody, William Collier Jr., Russ Columbo, Gary Cooper, Jackie Cooper, Jeanne Crain, Robert Cummings, Linda Darnell, Marion Davies, Joan Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Dolores del Rio, Cecil B. DeMille, Jack Dempsey, Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Marie Dressler, Iren...
Oscar-winning legend Spencer Tracy ("Adam's Rib," "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"), Emmy-winner Van Johnson ("Battleground"), Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum ("Cape Fear," "Ryan's Daughter") and Robert Walker ("Strangers on a Train") star in this classic Oscar-winning fact-based World War II picture about General Jimmy Doolittle's efforts to train American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan. Oscar-winner Mervyn LeRoy ("The Wizard of Oz," "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang") directed. Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and director Mervyn LeRoy reminisce about their years working together in this rare 1976 TV interview promoting "That's Entertainment II". Appearing with them are Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
William Friedkin presents the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Mervyn LeRoy at the 48th Academy Awards. Hosted by Gene Kelly. Watch more of the 1976 Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDPydq4p8oTiYNgA0sGA4YYX
Hester Adams weds Stephen Chase, but she’ll soon discover he already has a wife. He’s married to his job with Atlantis Oil, acting as the company’s roving man in China as it taps into a burgeoning market. Based on a bestseller and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Oil for the Lamps of China follows Chase (Pat O’Brien) as he obeys the dictates of the corporate hierarchy. He’ll betray a friend. Abandon his wife in childbirth to attend to a business emergency. Sacrifice one life and risk his own to protect a trifling amount of Atlantis’s wealth. Critics noted the film did not wholly match the novel’s anti-industry broadside. Yet even today there’s enough here for anyone who’s ever faced the conflict of career and personal life.
Perennial co-stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon followed their triumph in the Oscar-winning Mrs. Miniver, with this memorable biographical classic. Garson portrays the young Polish physics student Marie, who soon falls in love with and marries Dr. Pierre Curie (Pidgeon), in whose lab she had worked. On their honeymoon they decide to investigate a strange effect Professor Becquerel (Reginald Owen) has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for Marie's dissertation, and they determine there must be additional radioactive elements causing it. After years of experimentation in a makeshift lab at the University, they are finally able to isolate a few grains of a new element, radium, from 7 tons of raw material. Unfortunately, at the height of their success, tragedy strikes. The grand succes...
MERVYN LEROY - QUO VADIS, 1951 PETER USTiNOV AS NéRON MéGALOMANiE iMPéRiALE ET LYRiSME NéRONNiEN... DE LA CATHARSiS...
A young Frank Sinatra is in the studio with a full orchestra. He records a take of 'If You Are But a Dream,' then breaks for a smoke. From the studio, he steps into an alley where he sees nearly a dozen kids chasing one smaller boy. Frank stops them, asks why, and they tell him it's because of the boy's religion. So Frank asks them if they're Nazis and explains a few things about America, blood banks, World War II, and teamwork. Then he sings 'The House I Live In' for them. Off the lads scamper, and the kid Frank's saved gives him a look of gratitude. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037792 Please consider helping the channel grow by making a donation : https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=SHWZFCCLS7BLG