Movies: Mervyn LeRoy
- 1941
You Can't Fool a Camera (1941)
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This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground. We are then brought to the present, where...
- 1930
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
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Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego....
- 1938
Dramatic School (1938)
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Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect...
- 1963
Mary, Mary (1963)
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Sparks fly when a recently-divorced couple is forced back into proximity to sort out a tax matter....
- 1924
The Chorus Lady (1924)
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When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold...
- 1931
Tonight or Never (1931)
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A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer....
- 1928
Harold Teen (1928)
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Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a sc...
- 1923
Prodigal Daughters (1923)
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Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, whi...
- 1932
Big City Blues (1932)
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An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed....
- 1923
Little Johnny Jones (1923)
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Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?...
- 1934
Sweet Adeline (1934)
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In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with th...
- 1929
Little Johnny Jones (1929)
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Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swi...
- 1938
Fools for Scandal (1938)
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An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London....
- 1930
Top Speed (1930)
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An order clerk poses as a millionaire....
- 1931
Too Young to Marry (1931)
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In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies h...
- 1924
Broadway After Dark (1924)
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Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set....
- 1936
The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936)
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Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film....
- 1929
Hot Stuff (1929)
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An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man....
- 1927
No Place to Go (1927)
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Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it....
- 1943
You, John Jones! (1943)
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John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occurs....