Leo McCarey
Leo MCCAREY (1896-1969, USA) was born in Los Angeles, California as Thomas Leo McCarey. He studied law and tried his luck in mining, boxing, and songwriting before entering the film industry in 2019. Throughout his career he was involved in over 200 films, united Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy and won three Oscars. He shifted his focus from screwball comedies like Duck Soup (1933) in the 1930s to find similar success making more socially conscious and overtly religious films from the 1940s onwards.
Filmography
(selection) Part Time Wife (1930), Duck Soup (1933), The Milky Way (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939), Going My Way (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), My Son John (1952), An Affair to Remember (1957), Satan Never Sleeps (1962)