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Mervyn LeRoy. Director: Gypsy. The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two Kids and a Piano". After the act broke up he contacted his cousin ...
“Mervyn LeRoy spent virtually all of his long career with two of the leading Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and MGM. He went about as far as it was possible for a contract director to go during the peak studio years of the 30s and 40s and, when the 50s decline set in, he attempted to continue as an independent producer-director for a time ...
In 1974, LeRoy published a very engaging autobiography entitled Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (Hawthorn Books), credited as being "by Mervyn LeRoy as told to Dick Kleiner." A year later, LeRoy was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the Irving Thalberg Life Achievement Award -- ironically, by that time, he was one of the very few directors or producers still around who had ...
Read More. 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 ...
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer, and sometime actor. 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 ...
Mervyn LeRoy nació de padres judío americanos en San Francisco, California. Su familia, que tenía unos grandes almacenes, se arruinó con el terremoto de 1906 ocurrido en esa ciudad. Para ganar dinero, LeRoy vendió periódicos y luego empezó a cantar, hasta trabajar en un vaudeville. Inicio en el cine mudo
14. Sept. 1987 · Mervyn LeRoy was born on Oct. 15, 1900, in San Francisco, the only child of Harry LeRoy, a department-store owner, and the former Edna Armer. His mother left when he was 5 to marry a hotel ...
