Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: Moviemakers Mervyn LeRoy and David Loew; Planemaker Donald Douglas; Firestone's Leonard Firestone; TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce. Acting as individuals, Luce and seven other TIME Inc. executives and directors bought a total of 14.6% of the stock...
...Irgun terrorists had chosen a forest preserve south of the seaside, town of Natanya for their revenge. There, a voice informed Tel Aviv newspapers by telephone, Sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin could be found. And there, in a clearing heavy with the stench of death, the searchers found them. Their bloodied, blackened bodies swung to & fro from eucalyptus trees. Their shirts were wrapped around their heads. Through their clothes and flesh were pinned Irgun "communiqués" accusing the sergeants of "anti-Jewish crimes." They had died slowly, by clumsy strangulation...
...include an undistinguished musical-biography (Night and Day), a couple of tired remakes (Of Human Bondage, One More Tomorrow), two thin little comedies (Janie Gets Married, Two Guys from Milwaukee). Gone to other studios are Warner's oldtime skilled craftsmen Darryl Zanuck, Hal Wallis, Ernest Lubitsch, William Dieterle, Mervyn...
...Without Reservations is a pleasure to watch because it is written, directed and played with uncommon competence. Director Mervyn LeRoy, another seasoned Hollywoodman, knows that the first thing a good movie must do is move. Result: the film has the rare virtues of sustained mood and sustained pace...
...Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...