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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.
11 July 1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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.
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.
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.
19 July 1930
Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Hog Wild (1930).
31 August 1924
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
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.
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.
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.
01 January 1944
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy.
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.
26 August 1923
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer.
05 July 1930
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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.
18 May 1929
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel).
01 June 1929
Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
14 December 1929
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
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.
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.
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.
08 March 1935
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron.
02 November 1929
Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
03 December 1927
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
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.
27 December 1945
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
08 April 1952
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
26 April 1930
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood.
01 September 1928
Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short
27 November 1942
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
29 December 1928
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
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.
07 September 1929
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in.
08 September 1928
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
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.
23 February 1929
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse.
