Also credited on1 work
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Years later in Hollywood—it was 1958, to be exact—I received a call from film director Mervyn LeRoy. He had seen me in a couple of appearances on television and asked if I would meet with him. I was in my early twenties and just getting started, so naturally I was thrilled by his interest. He suggested that I come out to the Warner Bros.…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
- Not wanting Jimmy Stewart or Mervyn LeRoy to realize this was an accident, I decided to head for the door, hoping (praying) they’d think I’d done this for a laugh. I didn’t look back. I proceeded to drag that bucket, my right foot still in it, clear across the soundstage, about five miles. The whitewash was squishing away in my ruined sho…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
- Lovely to Look At. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Marge and Gower Champion, and Ann Miller. MGM, 1952.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
- And then, while the show was nearing the end of its Broadway run, the news was announced: Rosalind Russell would play Rose in the Warners film. It was the most stunning shock of Ethel’s career; she had naïvely thought Mervyn LeRoy to be a man of his word. Jack Klugman recalled that Ethel was heartbroken: “Mervyn LeRoy came to see the play…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
- “Mervyn LeRoy came to see the play nine times…” Jack Klugman, interview with author, August 5, 2003ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
- Our producer-director was Mervyn LeRoy, who was a very famous and powerful man in Hollywood. He was on the Hollywood Museum board as well as many other show business committees and associations. He was similar to Mike Todd—rough around the edges of his strong personality. Mervyn was at the end of his directing career and spent a lot of ti…ebooks/Reynolds, Debbie/B0089LOHFG EBOK - Debbie Reynolds & Dorian Hannaway.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.