Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Charles Vidor,* 45, director of plushy, gilt-edged films (Cover Girl, A Song to Remember); and Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, daughter of cinema Tycoon Harry B. Warner and former wife of Director Mervyn LeRoy; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hollywood...
This well-meaning project is part of a larger Sinatra crusade (TIME, Oct. 1). It was staged with free help from topflight Hollywood talent: Producer Frank Ross, Director Mervyn LeRoy, Writer Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines). They got the idea for the picture when they learned that Sinatra had been making spontaneous visits to high schools where he preached little sermons on tolerance. The short's message should be clear enough to anyone. To keep the bobby-sox trade in their seats, Sinatra tosses in two songs, If You Are But a Dream and a ballad with...
Divorced. Mervyn LeRoy, 44, M.G.M.'s short, cigar-smoking producer-director (Little Caesar, Anthony Adverse, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo); by Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of Hollywood's three Warner Bros.; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...Angeles outdid the earlier receptions. But a crowd fully as big as Boston's turned out to cheer California's Patton and Co-Hero Jimmy Doolittle. That night, 100,000 crowded into the Coliseum for a mammoth reception engineered by Hollywood Producer Mervyn...
...high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...