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It was McCarey's boyhood friend, the actor and future fellow director David Butler, who referred him to Browning. Browning convinced McCarey, despite his photogenic looks, to work on the creative side as a writer rather than as an actor. McCarey then honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios.
Leo McCarey morì all'età di settant'anni il 5 luglio 1969 di enfisema e fu sepolto all'Holy Cross Cemetery di Culver City. Suo fratello, il regista Ray McCarey, era morto 23 anni prima.
Personal Life & Legacy He married Stella Martin in 1920. The couple had a daughter, Virginia, and remained married for almost five decades until McCarey’s death in 1969.
Leo McCarey was an American director and writer who was perhaps best known for his light comedies, notably the classics Duck Soup (1933) and The Awful Truth (1937), but who also made several popular romances and sentimental films.
- Michael Barson
12 dic 2002 · Such details of McCarey’s life are worth mentioning because he repeatedly used his personal history as source material from his days at Hal Roach Studios through his last works. One of the first known instances is the bow tie gag that recurs through the early films (McCarey could not tie a bow tie), (10) but almost every film has ...
22 mar 2011 · The movie has left us happy, for in the wonderfully romantic world of Leo McCarey circa 1939 (as the orphans’ song goes), “wishing will make it so.” The director’s prominence was as fleeting as the tenuous equipoise between his very genuine talent and his increasing Catholic sentimentality.
Leo McCarey è nato il 3 Ottobre 1898 a Los Angeles, California, USA. Regista, Produttore, Autore: biografia, film, premi e altre informazioni.
