Showing posts with label Mervyn LeRoy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mervyn LeRoy. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2021

Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me


THE BAD SEED

1956
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by John Lee Mahin (based on the play by Maxwell Anderson based on the novel by William March)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Have you considered a centrifuge?


MADAME CURIE

1943
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Paul Osborn, Paul Rameau, Walter Reisch, and Aldous Huxley (based on the book by Éve Curie)

Spoiler alert: inapplicable

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Try hitting him with the car again, that usually works in cases like these


RANDOM HARVEST

1942
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, and Claudine West (based on the novel by James Hilton)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, September 4, 2021

You killed Charlotte! You bastards!


BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST

1941
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Anita Loos and Ralph Wainwright

Spoiler alert: inapplicable? though Edna Gladney is not, I daresay, actually well-known, plus they make up a whole lot of stuff, so "moderate"

I loved you, I've never loved anyone else, I never shall


WATERLOO BRIDGE

1940
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, and George Froeschel (based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood)

Spoiler alert: moderate (and severe, I suppose, for the 1931 film of the same name, which I recommend you never watch for fun)

Monday, January 11, 2021

All I ask is just one more chance—just one more dance?


LOVELY TO LOOK AT

1952
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Vincente Minelli
Written by George Wells and Harry Ruby (based on the musical play Roberta by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Deur Miller)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Busby Berkeley: Old Man Depression, you are through, you done us wrong


GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

1933
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Erwin S. Gelsey, James Seymour, Ben Markson, and David Boehm

Spoiler alert: moderate