Movies: Mervyn LeRoy

Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, whi...

Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swi...

Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance....

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past....

Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American track. Manuel gives a party in her honor, where she is insulted by one of the guests. Manuel knocks ...

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio....

Going Up (1923)...

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail....

A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich....

An order clerk poses as a millionaire....

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him....

An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil....

Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it....

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured....

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome....

Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?...

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go....

When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold...

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man....

John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occurs....