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Los Angeles-born Leo McCarey was, along with Frank Capra, one of the most popular and successful comedy directors of the pre-World War II era. Unlike Capra, however, McCarey's success endured well after World War II, and like Capra, his work was still influencing filmmakers in the 1990s.
MARY'S, Director Leo McCarey, Ingrid Bergman, Bing Crosby, the 3 Academy Award Winners for 1944, are reunited & filming a scene, 4/6/1945 PROSPERITY, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler, 1932 GOING MY WAY ...
Leo McCarey. : 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.
Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at ...
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."
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."
2 de nov. de 2023 · Ensayo fundamental de la literatura cinéfila española, en el Leo McCarey de Miguel Marías sigue brillando, inalterable al paso del tiempo, la incisiva y cultivada pluma de uno de nuestros mejores críticos y uno de los principales expertos mundiales en su obra. A partir de una familiaridad desacostumbrada con la filmografía del director ...
