Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy

October 15, 1900 · 126 years old

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, fo…

Known For

27 titles
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The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

1939 · 1h 42m · Movie

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others...

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Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

1955 · 2h 3m · Movie

In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irrita...

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Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

1951 · 2h 51m · Movie

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

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The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed

1956 · 2h 9m · Movie

A woman realizes her daughter was born to kill.

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932 · 1h 32m · Movie

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove hi...

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Little Caesar

Little Caesar

1931 · 1h 19m · Movie

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

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The Green Berets

The Green Berets

1968 · 2h 22m · Movie

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

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Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

1940 · 1h 48m · Movie

Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.

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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · 1h 37m · Movie

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

7.7
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Little Women

Little Women

1949 · 2h 2m · Movie

The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.

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Random Harvest

Random Harvest

1942 · 2h 6m · Movie

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

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Gypsy

Gypsy

1962 · 2h 23m · Movie

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944 · 2h 18m · Movie

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

7.2
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At the Circus

At the Circus

1939 · 1h 27m · Movie

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

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No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants

1958 · 1h 59m · Movie

Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.

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The FBI Story

The FBI Story

1959 · 2h 29m · Movie

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

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Madame Curie

Madame Curie

2h 4m · Movie

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

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The Devil at 4 O'Clock

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

1961 · 2h 6m · Movie

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

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Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

1936 · 2h 21m · Movie

In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

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Million Dollar Mermaid

Million Dollar Mermaid

1952 · 1h 55m · Movie

Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

6.5
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Tonight or Never

Tonight or Never

1931 · 1h 20m · Movie

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

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Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play

1949 · 1h 52m · Movie

Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.

6.9
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Desire Me

Desire Me

1947 · 1h 31m · Movie

Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans and seduces the grieving woman, but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.

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Elmer, the Great

Elmer, the Great

1933 · 1h 12m · Movie

Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.

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Strange Lady in Town

Strange Lady in Town

1955 · 1h 52m · Movie

Greer Garson plays a female doctor who plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor.

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Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment

1966 · 1h 48m · Movie

A psychiatrist's wife thinks her French Riviera lover is dead.

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Happiness Ahead

Happiness Ahead

1934 · 1h 26m · Movie

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

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