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Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy stand beside a car in formal attire, with Laurel at center left and Hardy at far right, in a scene from the 1929 film Liberty. Ralph Bellamy, Cary Grant, and Irene Dunne sit at a restaurant table dressed in formal evening wear in a scene from the 1937 film The Awful Truth. Bing Crosby, in casual clothes, stands beside Barry Fitzgerald, dressed as a priest, in a garden scene from the 1944 film Going My Way. Lobby card for Duck Soup (1933) showing Harpo Marx in a blue uniform, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, and Groucho Marx with a painted mustache and glasses, standing together. The Marx Brothers-Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpo-stand in a row holding rifles in a chaotic room, dressed in comic military uniforms in a scene from the 1933 film Duck Soup.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Jul 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 29, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 22, 2024
Added cross-references to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. May 01, 2023
Modified title of Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Leo McCarey. Apr 08, 2020
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Leo McCarey. Jun 27, 2019
Added photograph. Jun 11, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Leo McCarey. Apr 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Leo McCarey. Apr 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Leo McCarey. Apr 02, 2014
Article thoroughly revised. Oct 29, 2013
Media added. Jan 08, 2007
Article revised. Jan 05, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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