The Village Voice: The Peculiar Evolution of Leo McCarey, One of Cinema’s Most Assured Voices
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Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, My Son John, and An Affair to Remember.
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entertainment · American film director (1898–1969) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · director · also Leo McCarey, Leo Mac Carey, McCarey
Born 3 October 1898 · Died 5 July 1969 · Q332530
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2014· 1 entry
IndieWire: Criticwire Classic of the Week: Leo McCarey’s ‘Duck Soup’
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2008· 1 entry
Moviefone: Directed by Leo McCarey (2008) - Where to Watch
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1993· 1 entry
The hugely popular romantic comedy film Sleepless In Seattle by Nora Ephron made such frequent references to An Affair To Remember that it gave the older film a whole new lease on life in revivals, cable TV, and video, w
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1978· 1 entry
Leo McCarey's production records, including scripts, budgets and correspondence were donated to the Charles Feldman Library at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills
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1969· 1 entry
Died 1969-07-05.
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “An Affair to Remember”.
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Going My Way (1945).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Story for Going My Way (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
Directed Going My Way, a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O'Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar and Crosby won a Best Actor Oscar
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1940· 2 entries
Prevented him from directing My Favorite Wife, a kind of follow up to The Awful Truth with the same two stars, so it was turned over to Garson Kanin though McCarey worked on some of the editing
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McCarey was quoted as saying, "Whatever success I have had or may have, I owe to his help because he taught me all I know
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth (1938).
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1937· 1 entry
McCarey earned his first Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
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1923· 1 entry
After McCarey had impressed him with his sense of humor following a handball game at a sports club
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-10-03.
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