Leo McCarey
Birthday: 3 October 1896, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Thomas Leo McCarey
Height: 176 cm
Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Thomas Leo McCarey. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and The Bells o ...Show More
[on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy] [Laurel] was one of those rare comics intelligent enough to invent Show more
[on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy] [Laurel] was one of those rare comics intelligent enough to invent his own gags. Laurel was remarkably talented, while Hardy wasn't. This is the key to the Laurel-Hardy association. Throughout their lives (I was one of their intimates), Laurel insisted on earning twice as much as Hardy. He said he was twice as good and twice as important, that he wrote the film and participated in its creation, while Hardy was really incapable if creating anything at all -- it was astounding that he could even find his way to the studio. Hide
You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hol Show more
You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. Hide
People stimulate me, and I work along with them. Ideas come that never would have developed from a s Show more
People stimulate me, and I work along with them. Ideas come that never would have developed from a struggle with my own or some other writer's imagination. Besides, I never belonged to the school which holds that a director should stop thinking the moment he starts shooting. Hide
[on Cary Grant whom he directed in three films] I still don't know what makes him tick. Of the sixte Show more
[on Cary Grant whom he directed in three films] I still don't know what makes him tick. Of the sixteen hours a day when he's awake I don't think there are twenty minutes when he is not complaining. I've never seen a man more constantly in turmoil. Hide
[on Joan Collins]: I thought she was going to be a big star. At the start, she had no confidence in Show more
[on Joan Collins]: I thought she was going to be a big star. At the start, she had no confidence in herself, but, little by little, she confided in me. I told her I'd only do this film with her if she'd send her psychoanalyst away and allow me to take over. I said, "If you want to stretch out on a couch, come over to mine." She laughed, but she did send the analyst away. Hide
I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audi Show more
I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in. Hide
[on accepting his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth (1937)] Thanks, but you gave it to me for Show more
[on accepting his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth (1937)] Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture. Hide
I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find Show more
I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things. Hide
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little Show more
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. Hide
Leo McCarey's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (2)
as Director (3)
as Creator (1)
