Leo McCarey (1898 - 1969)

American film director, screenwriter and producer.

* October 3, 1898 Los Angeles, California, USA
 as Thomas Leo McCarey
 July 5, 1969 Santa Monica, California, USA


Vintage magazines

Photoplay, January 1933

Books on Leo McCarey

Wes D. Gehring
Leo McCarey, From Marx to McCarthy
Lanham, Maryland, 2005

Wes D. Gehring
Leo McCarey and the Comic Anti-Hero in American Film
New York, 1980

Books with substantial mentioning of Leo McCarey

John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume Two
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Andrew Sarris You ain't heard nothin' yet Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Peter Bogdanovich
Who the Devil Made It
New York, 1997

Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller The Screwball Comedy Films Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Stanley Hochman (ed.)
A Library of Film Criticism, American Film Directors
New York, 1974

Books with an entry on Leo McCarey

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Glenn Mitchell A-Z of Silent Film Comedy Glenn Mitchell
A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion
London, 1998

Glenn Mitchell The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia Glenn Mitchell
The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia
London, 1996

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles on Leo McCarey

Nick Bradshaw, Killing with Kindness, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 11, 2010 pp. 38-40

Wes D. Gehring, Leo McCarey, The Man Behind Laurel & Hardy, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 543-549