Editing Mervyn LeRoy (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Mervyn and Doris LeRoy.jpg|thumb|LeRoy with his second wife Doris Warner in 1934]]
LeRoy married three times and had many relationships with Hollywood actresses. He was first married to Edna Murphy in 1927, which ended in divorce in 1932. During their separation, LeRoy dated [[Ginger Rogers]], but they ended the relationship and stayed lifelong friends. In 1934, he married Doris Warner, the daughter of Warner Bros. founder, [[Harry Warner]]. The couple had one son, [[Warner LeRoy]] and one daughter, Linda LeRoy Janklow, who is married to [[Morton L. Janklow]].<ref name="upi">{{cite news|title=Producer Mervyn LeRoy dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GK9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=5479,1483867&dq=mervyn+leroy+dies&hl=en|access-date=May 12, 2017|work=Lodi News-Sentinel |via=Google News|agency=United Press International|date=September 14, 1987|page=3}}</ref> His son, Warner LeRoy, became a restaurateur. The marriage ended in divorce in 1942. In 1946, he married Kathryn "Kitty" Prest Rend, who had been previously married to Sidney M. Spiegel (the co-founder of [[Essaness Theatres]] and grandson of [[Joseph Spiegel]]); and to restaurateur [[Ernie Byfield]].<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-08-mn-33760-story.html Los Angeles Times: "Kathryn LeRoy; Philanthropist, Civic Leader"] February 8, 1996</ref><ref name=CJH>[http://chicagojewishhistory.org/pdf/2006/CJH.2.2006.pdf Chicago Jewish History: "Ernest Byfield: The Pump Room and The Pageant" by William Roth] September 2006</ref> They remained married until his death. LeRoy also sold his [[Bel Air, Los Angeles]], home to [[Johnny Carson]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-johnny-carsons-vol-2-no-22/|title=The Johnny Carsons|last=Zannella|first=Michael|date=November 25, 1974|magazine=People Magazine|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219174228/http://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-johnny-carsons-vol-2-no-22/|archive-date=December 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>Flint, 1987: "Mr. LeRoy was married briefly in the late 1920's to Edna Murphy, a film actress. From his 11-year marriage to Doris Warner, the daughter of Harry M. Warner – one of the three Warner brothers – he is survived by a son, Warner, a New York restaurateur; a daughter, Linda Janklow of New York City; two stepdaughters, Rita Roedling of Beverly Hills and Eugenia Bucci-Casari of Rome, and six grandchildren. He is also survived by his third wife, the former Katherine Spiegel, whom he married in 1946."</ref>

=== Other interests ===
A fan of [[thoroughbred]] [[horse racing]], Mervyn LeRoy was a founding member of the Hollywood Turf Club, operator of the [[Hollywood Park Racetrack]]<ref name="upi" /> and a member of the track's board of directors from 1941 until his death in 1987.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodpark.com/about/history.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218061534/http://www.hollywoodpark.com/about/history.html|date=February 18, 2009}}</ref> In partnership with father-in-law, Harry Warner, he operated a racing stable, [[W-L Ranch Co.]], during the 1940s/50s.<ref>LeRoy and Kleiner, 1974 p. 117-118: LeRoy reports that Jack Warner "took me into the stables" at the W-L Ranch, a "partnership" that later dissolved, but LeRoy continued under his own "Mervyn Leroy Stables..."</ref>