Movies by Director - Mervyn LeRoy (72 [Missing: 12]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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No Place to GoNA | 1927 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
Flying RomeosNA | 1928 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
Harold TeenNA | 1928 | | Comedy,Family,Romance | | | Not Available |
Oh Kay!NA | 1928 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
Broadway BabiesA Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead. | 1929 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Musical | 6.2 (195 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Hot StuffNA | 1929 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
Little Johnny JonesNA | 1929 | | Comedy,Drama,Music | | | Not Available |
Naughty BabyNA | 1928 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
Too Young to MarryNA | 1931 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
Little CaesarA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Action,Crime,Drama | 7.2 (13K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Numbered MenMary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail. | 1930 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama | 4.8 (147 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Playing AroundNew York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and never seems to notice that he might by shady, unti | 1930 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Music | 6.0 (262 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Show Girl in Hollywood'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Holl | 1930 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 6.2 (328 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Top SpeedAn order clerk poses as a millionaire. | 1930 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.0 (232 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
BroadmindedJack's father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They decide to go to California and the trip is | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 5.8 (297 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
The Heart of New YorkNA | 1932 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
Five Star FinalThe City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Gentleman's FateJack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive but dying of lead poisoning. His father sent him away, twenty years before, to keep him out of the rackets. But no | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama | 6.4 (794 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Local Boy Makes GoodJohn is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter s | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Action,Comedy,Romance | 6.2 (217 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Tonight or NeverA young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Big City BluesYoung man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama | 6.1 (765 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
High PressureGar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to inv | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy | 6.7 (575 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.2 (13K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Three on a MatchAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Romance | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Two SecondsA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Elmer the GreatCountry 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. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Family,Romance | 6.1 (485 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 7.7 (8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Hard to HandleSmall time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series o | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.7 (799 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Tugboat AnnieAnnie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy | 7.0 (669 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
World Changes, TheAn ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 6.7 (486 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Happiness AheadSociety 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. | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.7 (289 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Heat LightningIn the Mojave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of Geor | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama | 7.1 (774 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
Hi, NellieThe managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story. | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.9 (544 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Sweet AdelineIn 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 amount | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Musical,Romance | 5.6 (279 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
I Found Stella ParishA theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop. | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 6.7 (450 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Oil for the Lamps of ChinaAn American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of fiction. The oil business was chosen because | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama | 6.5 (249 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Page Miss GloryA chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love. | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Anthony AdverseIn 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves. | 1936 | Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
Fools for ScandalAfter meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress. | 1938 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Music,Romance | 6.0 (485 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
EscapeIn 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp. | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 7.0 (986 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Waterloo BridgeMyra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the wars unspoken casualties. | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance,War | 7.8 (9.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Blossoms in the DustAfter losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children. | 1941 | Mervyn LeRoy | Biography,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Johnny EagerThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned. | 1941 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Film-Noir,Mystery | 7.1 (3.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Unholy PartnersA tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner. | 1941 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama | 6.5 (502 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Random HarvestAn 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. | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 8.0 (7.5K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Madame CurieDespite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium. | 1943 | Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Biography,Drama,Romance | 7.2 (2.9K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoIn 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. | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,History,War | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 138 | 20220414 |
Without ReservationsEn route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel. | 1946 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
HomecomingAt the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter. | 1948 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.8 (927 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Any Number Can PlayGambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. | 1949 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 6.8 (931 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
East Side, West SideA vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself be be seduced by a former girlfriend. | 1949 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Little WomenThe four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War. | 1949 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Family,Romance | 7.3 (7.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Quo VadisAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Biography,Drama,Romance | 7.2 (14.8K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
Lovely to Look AtThree Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show, hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their | 1952 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 6.3 (684 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Million Dollar MermaidBiopic 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. | 1952 | Mervyn LeRoy | Biography,Drama,Musical | 6.6 (1.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Latin LoversNA | 1953 | | Comedy,Music,Romance | | | Not Available |
Rose MarieTomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes to "learn to be a lady", she meets outlaw trapper James Duval, who also falls in love with her. But Duva | 1954 | Mervyn LeRoy | Musical,Romance,Western | 5.8 (432 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Mister RobertsIn 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 irritatio | 1955 | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Comedy,Drama,War | 7.7 (16.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Strange Lady In TownGreer 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. | 1955 | Mervyn LeRoy | Western | 6.2 (497 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Bad Seed, TheRhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. When her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible. | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Horror,Thriller | 7.5 (14.1K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
Toward the UnknownAt the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit. | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,History,Romance | 6.5 (594 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Home Before DarkSimmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution. | 1958 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 136 | 20220806 |
No Time For SergeantsWill 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. | 1958 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,War | 7.6 (4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
FBI Story, TheA dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies. | 1959 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,History | 6.5 (3.2K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
Wake Me When It's OverGus Brubaker has been drafted... again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island where everyone is bored to death. So Gus decided to build a hotel and hire locals to run the place. | 1960 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy | 6.4 (380 votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Devil at 4 o'Clock, TheA 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. | 1961 | Mervyn LeRoy | Adventure,Drama,Thriller | 6.4 (2.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Majority of One. AA gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness. | 1961 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Family | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
GypsyBased on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose. | 1962 | Mervyn LeRoy | Biography,Comedy,Drama | 7.1 (6.2K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
Mary, MaryNine months after they split up Bob and Mary meet at his New York apartment to sort out some tax matters. He's getting married to healthy-eating Tiffany as soon as the divorce becomes final, and she is attracted by fellow tenant Dirk | 1963 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.1 (397 votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Moment to MomentRomantic melodrama of an unfaithful wife who thinks she has killed her lover. He is only stunned and, suffering from amnesia, consults her psychiatrist husband. | 1966 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Thriller | 6.4 (280 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
You, John Jones!John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and contemplates how lucky he is in America, ... | 1943 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Short,War | 6.5 (366 votes) | 11 | 20240121 |
You, John Jones!NA | 1943 | | | | | Not Available |
Your Air Raid WardenNA | 1942 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |