Mervyn LeRoy
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American film director and producer, born in 1900. One of Hollywood's most successful directors, he helmed Little Caesar (1931), which helped define the gangster genre, and later produced The Wizard of Oz (1939). His directing credits span from the silent era through the 1960s and include I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Quo Vadis. He died in 1987.
Directed
Crime, Drama
The landmark gangster film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson in the role that made him a star. Robinson plays Caesar Enrico Bandello, a small-time hood who rises to become a crime boss in the city's underworld, only to be destroyed by his own ambition and the inevitable betrayal of those around him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. co-stars as his friend Joe Massara, a dancer torn between loyalty and going straight. Alongside The Public Enemy and Scarface, Little Caesar defined the gangster genre in early sound cinema. The film is in the public domain.
Crime · Drama
Little Caesar
1931 - Crime
Drama, Music
A ten-minute short film starring Frank Sinatra, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Albert Maltz. While on a break from a recording session, Sinatra stops a group of boys from chasing a Jewish youngster and talks to them about racial and religious tolerance, singing the Earl Robinson-Abel Meeropol song "The House I Live In." Commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, the film received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe in 1946. It was selected for the National Film Registry in 2007. The film is in the public domain.
Drama · Music
The House I Live In
1945 - Drama