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Screwball and Beyond. Leo McCarey directed many of Hollywood’s prominent comic stars of the 1920s and 1930s, from Laurel and Hardy to the Marx Brothers and Cary Grant. In the 1940s and 1950s he helmed such major hits as Going My Way and An Affair to Remember. Soon after, however, his reputation suffered a period of decline, as his subsequent ...
Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up ...
Leo McCarey "Irreverence and a blithe, refreshing disregard for the conventions of a genre characterized the work of McCarey, one of America's golden men of the 1930-1945 period... He made wild comedies of character full of lovely telling moments - comic, touching or exciting - and even the weepies, although maudlin by today's tastes, brim with warmth and humour."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director." Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo ...
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy. Wes D. Gehring. Scarecrow Press, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 22 pages. Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck Soup, McCarey directed.
Leo McCarey. (Los Ángeles, 1898 - 1969) Director de cine estadounidense. Entre los cineastas que contribuyeron a reafirmar el estilo clásico de Hollywood, bañado por el glamour de las estrellas y una contagiosa alegría de vivir, Leo McCarey ocupó un espacio muy singular. Prototipo de artesano eficiente, con una insuperable capacidad para ...
15 de jul. de 2016 · Film series. Jul 15–31, 2016. The son of a fight promoter, and a graduate of USC law school, Leo McCarey was nevertheless drawn to the rich new art form taking shape in his native Los Angeles. Starting as a humble gagman, he rose to head of production at the Hal Roach Studios in the 1920s, making a major contribution to the development of Roach’s distinctively realistic, slow-burn style of ...
