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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

MoMA’s “Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCarey” traces the peculiar evolution of one of the American cinema’s most assured voices, from his two-reeler origins to Oscar-winning comedies ...

Satan Never Sleeps (20th Century-Fox). God, in Director Leo McCarey's movies, is always good-especially for business. McCarey's most famous religious pictures (Going My Way, The Bells of St.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.