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Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood...
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Going My Way
Going My Way, a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy/drama about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran (Barry Fitzgerald). Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was...
Initial release date:
- May 3, 1944
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Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in the Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson , adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year , and made into a movie several times...
Initial release date:
- 1935
Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic...
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- 1937
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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Love Affair
Love Affair is a 1939 romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.
Love...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Runtime:
- 87 min (52 hs )
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Duck Soup
Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17,...
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- 1933
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Runtime:
- 68 min (41 hs )
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Pass the Gravy
Pass the Gravy is a 1928 short comedy silent film in which neighbors argue over their pet chickens and their children, who are in love. It stars Max Davidson, Gene Morgan, Spec O'Donnell, Martha Sleeper, and Bert Sprotte.
The movie was directed by...
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- 1928
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The Bells of St. Mary's
The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down. It stars Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. The character of Father...
Initial release date:
- Dec 6, 1945
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Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
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An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.
The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The movie was a remake of McCarey's 1939...
Initial release date:
- 1957
Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Big Business
Big Business is a 1929 silent Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker script. The film was deemed culturally significant and entered into the United...
Initial release date:
- Apr 20, 1929
Runtime:
- 19 min (11 hs )
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We Faw Down
We Faw Down is a 1928 two-reel silent comedy starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by Leo McCarey. It was shot in August and September 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 29 of that year, with synchronized music and sound effects...
Initial release date:
- Dec 29, 1928
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in....
Initial release date:
- 1937
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! is a 1958 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The title comes from a line in the song "Battle Cry of Freedom".
Set in the fictional town of Putnam's...
Initial release date:
- 1958
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Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
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Sugar Daddies
Sugar Daddies is a 1927 short comedy silent film starring Jimmy Finlayson, and a pre-teamed Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Initial release date:
- Sep 10, 1927
Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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The Finishing Touch
The Finishing Touch is a 1928 short comedy silent film produced by Hal Roach, directed by Clyde Bruckman and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot in November and December 1927 and released February 25, 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film has...
Initial release date:
- Feb 25, 1928
Runtime:
- 19 min (11 hs )
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Should Married Men Go Home? is a silent two-reel comedy produced by the Hal Roach Studios and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was filmed in March and May 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 8 of that year. It was the first Roach...
Initial release date:
- Sep 8, 1928
Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus is a 1928 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy as grave-robbers hired by a mad scientist. Although silent, it was released with a music and effects track long thought lost. The missing soundtrack turned up in the 1990s...
Initial release date:
- Dec 1, 1928
Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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Liberty
Liberty is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as escaped convicts who, while trying to change pants, wind up on a skyscraper in construction.
Initial release date:
- Jan 26, 1929
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Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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Wrong Again
Wrong Again is a 1929 two-reel comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot in October and November 1928, and released February 23, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Although it is a silent film, it was released with a synchronised music...
Initial release date:
- Feb 23, 1929
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Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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Belle of the Nineties
Belle of the Nineties was Mae West's fourth motion picture. It was released by Paramount Pictures in 1934 and directed by Leo McCarey. Johnny Mack Brown and Katherine DeMille were also in the cast.
Initial release date:
- Sep 21, 1932
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Runtime:
- 75 min (45 hs )
The Milky Way
The Milky Way is a 1936 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Directed by comedy veteran Leo McCarey, the film was written by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell based on a play of the same name by Lynn Root and Harry Clork which was...
Initial release date:
- Feb 7, 1936
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Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Mighty like a Moose
Mighty Like a Moose (1926) is a Charley Chase short silent film that was directed by Leo McCarey. It was released on July 18, 1926.
In this short silent comedy, a homely husband and his equally unsightly wife improve their looks with plastic surgery...
Initial release date:
- Jul 18, 1926
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Runtime:
- 25 min (15 hs )
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Isn't Life Terrible? is a 1925 film starring Charley Chase and featuring Oliver Hardy and Fay Wray.
Initial release date:
- Jul 5, 1925
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Runtime:
- 20 min (12 hs )
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Long Fliv the King
Long Fliv the King is a 1926 comedy film starring Charley Chase and featuring Oliver Hardy and Max Davidson in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 1920 Harold Lloyd film His Royal Slyness, about a young man who accidentally becomes the King of a...
Initial release date:
- Jun 13, 1926
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Runtime:
- 25 min (15 hs )
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Crazy Like a Fox
Crazy Like a Fox is a 1926 short film starring Charley Chase and considered one of Chase's finest comedies.
This two-reel silent comedy stars Chase as a young man who feigns insanity in order to get out of an arranged marriage - only to find out...
Initial release date:
- Aug 22, 1926
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Runtime:
- 25 min (15 hs )
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Bromo and Juliet
Bromo and Juliet is a 1926 film starring Charley Chase and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Initial release date:
- Sep 19, 1926
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Runtime:
- 24 min (14 hs )
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Be Your Age
Be Your Age is a 1926 film starring Charley Chase and features Oliver Hardy in the cast.
Initial release date:
- Nov 14, 1926
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Runtime:
- 22 min (13 hs )
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Should Men Walk Home?
Should Men Walk Home? is a 1927 film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Initial release date:
- Jan 30, 1927
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Why Girls Say No
Why Girls Say No is a 1927 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
Initial release date:
- Feb 20, 1927
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) is a romantic comedy/drama starring Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant and Walter Slezak, directed by Leo McCarey, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an...
Initial release date:
- Nov 27, 1942
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Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
Eve's Love Letters
Eve's Love Letters is a 1927 film featuring Stan Laurel.
Initial release date:
- May 29, 1927
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Runtime:
- 22 min (13 hs )
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Indiscreet
Indiscreet (1931) is a American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon. The screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, based on their story Obey That Impulse, originally was written as a full...
Initial release date:
- 1931
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Good Sam
Good Sam is a 1948 film starring Gary Cooper as a Good Samaritan who is helpful to others at the expense of his own family. The film was directed by Leo McCarey and produced by McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions.
Initial release date:
- 1948
Satan Never Sleeps
Satan Never Sleeps (1962), a film directed by Leo McCarey (returning to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)), is his final film. It is about a priest, Father O'Banion (William Holden), who...
Initial release date:
- Mar 23, 1962
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Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
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