Director Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember, The Bells of St. Mary's) wanted his viewers to leave the theaters with a smile on their faces.

3. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Probably McCarey’s most curious film, not without its monotonous stretches but as cogent and joyous a celebration of love as anything from the era. The film ...

Leo McCarey's initial production for RKO as a producer-director offers an entirely new approach to accepted technique. Basically, it's the regulation formula of boy-meets-girl [story by McCarey ...

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant pick up the thread of marital comedy at about the point where they left off in The Awful Truth. With these two stars working again with Leo McCarey, a surefire laughing ...

The success of Leo McCarey’s film seems similarly illogical. It was released in 1937, at the height of the Great Depression. In The New York Times, reviewer B.R. Crisler critiqued the film, ...

McCarey’s first unquestioned masterpiece, Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), emerged just as Hollywood was codifying the conventions of cutting and framing that gave filmmakers power to regulate the ...

Leo McCarey's second career lasted 40 years (1921-62) and resulted in a series of gleeful film comedies that featured the best screen performances of Laurel and Hardy, and Cary Grant. Yet it was ...

And Leo McCarey had skirted the edge of disapproval by the narrowest of margins to score his great triumph with Father O’Malley. Now it was nuns! As a class, nuns are defenseless people.

Synopsis. An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable.