Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy was born in San Francisco in 1900, and the 1906 earthquake ruined the family business. A newspaper seller, then a singer and pianist in a vaudeville act, he entered the cinema by folding costumes, became an assistant cameraman, and moved into directing at the age of twenty-seven. He spent most of his career at Warner, where he made gangster films and social dramas, then became a producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the late thirties. He died in Beverly Hills in 1987.

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• CinemaGold Diggers of 1933Mervyn LeRoy · 1933Cinema