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Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director."
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30 November 1930
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams).
17 November 1932
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk.
24 August 1929
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
29 July 1929
Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
22 June 1924
Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.
21 February 1927
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
19 July 1924
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe.
11 May 1929
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
17 December 1927
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
26 July 1924
The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
29 January 1927
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale.
23 October 1927
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
07 January 1928
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men.
18 January 1925
Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) and his wife find a baby left at their door. They happily take the baby in but find themselves at a loss when they want to sleep but the baby cries all night.
19 July 1930
Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Hog Wild (1930).
09 May 1937
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
31 August 1924
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
13 September 1924
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas.
09 May 1926
A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit.
11 July 1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
19 September 1926
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
02 July 1927
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him.
10 November 1928
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
15 November 1925
Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.
05 July 1930
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
26 August 1923
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer.
25 April 1931
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
12 October 1924
Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
12 November 1933
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs.
04 May 1924
Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up.
13 June 1926
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne.
10 May 1929
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring.
21 October 1994
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll.
01 August 1925
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
19 December 1963
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific.
02 November 1929
Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
28 June 1930
Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.
14 March 1925
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework.
17 May 1940
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying.
01 January 1944
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy.
08 February 1930
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
08 April 1952
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
10 October 1925
The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the great Charley Chase in a case of multiple incarnations!
01 September 1928
Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short
26 August 1926
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station.
18 February 1928
Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
04 April 1926
Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.
27 May 1927
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
21 October 1937
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
16 October 1926
Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce by getting photos in a compromising situation.
27 February 1926
A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
