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Mervyn LeRoy Filmography
Complete filmography of Mervyn LeRoy: 36 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Moment to Moment | 1,966 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 4.8 | 14 | English | When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back. |
| Gypsy | 1,962 | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.3 | 74 | English | Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. |
| The Devil at 4 O'Clock | 1,961 | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 45 | English | A 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. |
| A Majority of One | 1,961 | Comedy, Drama | 5.7 | 15 | English | A 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. |
| The FBI Story | 1,959 | Drama, Crime | 6 | 42 | English | A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies. |
| No Time for Sergeants | 1,958 | Comedy, War | 7.2 | 51 | English | Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will? |
| Home Before Dark | 1,958 | Drama | 7 | 22 | English | A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital. |
| The Bad Seed | 1,956 | Thriller, Drama, Horror | 7.1 | 255 | English | Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels. |
| Toward the Unknown | 1,956 | Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 12 | English | Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities. |
| Million Dollar Mermaid | 1,952 | Drama, Music | 6.4 | 26 | English | After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent. |
| Quo Vadis | 1,951 | Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 | 444 | English | After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. |
| Little Women | 1,949 | Romance, Drama, Family | 7.4 | 226 | English | Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
| East Side, West Side | 1,949 | Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 24 | English | A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend. |
| Any Number Can Play | 1,949 | Drama | 6.9 | 12 | English | When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts. |
| Homecoming | 1,948 | Drama, Romance, War | 7 | 10 | English | Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home. |
| Without Reservations | 1,946 | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 19 | English | Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author. |
| The House I Live In | 1,945 | Drama, Music | 6.2 | 23 | English | Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance. |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1,944 | War, Drama | 6.6 | 62 | English | In 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. |
| Madame Curie | 1,943 | Drama, Romance, History | 7.2 | 50 | English | Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure. |
| Random Harvest | 1,942 | Romance, Drama | 7.3 | 113 | English | Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last. |
| Johnny Eager | 1,941 | Crime, Drama | 6.1 | 48 | English | A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love. |
| Blossoms in the Dust | 1,941 | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 34 | English | Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children. |
| Waterloo Bridge | 1,940 | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 173 | English | On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. |
| Escape | 1,940 | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 15 | English | An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape. |
| They Won't Forget | 1,937 | Drama, Mystery | 5.6 | 30 | English | A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher. |
| Anthony Adverse | 1,936 | Drama, History, Romance | 5.7 | 34 | English | Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost. |
| Heat Lightning | 1,934 | Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 16 | English | Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped criminals stop for a bite to eat, Olga is reminded of the past she left behind. |
| Hi, Nellie! | 1,934 | Comedy, Drama, Crime | 6.5 | 10 | English | Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money. |
| Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1,933 | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 168 | English | When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going. |
| Hard to Handle | 1,933 | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 | 16 | English | A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads. |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1,932 | Drama, Crime | 7.8 | 224 | English | A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang. |
| Three on a Match | 1,932 | Crime, Drama | 6.2 | 70 | English | Although 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. |
| Two Seconds | 1,932 | Drama, Crime | 6 | 22 | English | A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures. |
| Big City Blues | 1,932 | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 | 11 | English | 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. |
| Little Caesar | 1,931 | Drama, Crime, Action | 6.9 | 291 | English | A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there? |
| Five Star Final | 1,931 | Crime, Drama | 6.5 | 44 | English | Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved. |
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