Movies: Mervyn LeRoy

Sparks fly when a recently-divorced couple is forced back into proximity to sort out a tax matter....

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture....

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner....

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the des...

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career....

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....

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego....

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street....

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...

An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London....

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers....

Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film....

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When F...

Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it....

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...

John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occurs....

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?...

Going Up (1923)...

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured....

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...