Leo McCarey: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Thomas Leo McCarey
Born	October 3, 1898 • Los Angeles • California
Died	July 5, 1969 (aged 70) • Santa Monica • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1938)
Notable Works	“An Affair to Remember” • “Duck Soup” • “Going My Way” • “Good Sam” • “Love Affair” • “Make Way for Tomorrow” • “My Son John” • “Once Upon a Honeymoon” • “Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys!” • “Ruggles of Red Gap” • “Satan Never Sleeps” • “Six of a Kind” • “The Awful Truth” • “The Bells of St. Mary’s” • “The Milky Way”

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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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