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...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...
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...