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=== Sound era === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="width: 4em;" | Year ! Title ! Studio/Distributor ! Screenplay ! class="unsortable" | Photography ! class="unsortable" | Leading Cast ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- ! 1929 | ''[[Hot Stuff (1929 film)|Hot Stuff]]'' | Wid Gunning/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Louis Stevens (writer)|Louis Stevens]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Alice White]], [[Jack Mulhall]] | Released in silent and partial sound versions |- ! 1929 | ''[[Broadway Babies]]'' | [[Robert North (producer)|Robert North]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Monte M. Katterjohn]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Alice White]], [[Charles Delaney]] | Released in silent and sound versions. |- ! 1929 | ''[[Little Johnny Jones (1929 film)|Little Johnny Jones]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Adelaide Heilbron]], [[Edward Buzzell]] | [[Faxon M. Dean]] | [[Edward Buzzell]], [[Alice Day]] | Released in silent and sound versions. Adapted from a [[George M. Cohan]] musical |- ! 1930 | ''[[Playing Around]]'' | [[Robert North (producer)|Robert North]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Adele Comandini]], [[Frances Nordstrom]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Alice White]], [[Chester Morris]] | |- ! 1930 | ''[[Showgirl in Hollywood]]'' | [[Robert North (producer)|Robert North]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Harvey Thew]], [[Jimmy Starr]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Alice White]], [[Jack Mulhall]] | |- ! 1930 | ''[[Numbered Men]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Al Cohn]], [[Henry McCarty (writer)|Henry McCarty]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Conrad Nagel]], [[Bernice Claire]] | |- ! 1930 | ''[[Top Speed (film)|Top Speed]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Humphrey Pearson]], [[Henry McCarty (writer)|Henry McCarty]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Bernice Claire]] | |- ! 1930 | ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]'' | [[Hal B. Wallis]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Francis Faragoh]] | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Edward G. Robinson]], [[Sidney Blackmer]] | |- ! 1931 | ''[[Gentleman's Fate]]'' | [[M-G-M]], [[M-G-M]] | Leonard Praskins | [[Merritt B. Gerstad]] | [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]], [[Leila Hyams]] | |- ! 1931 | ''[[Too Young to Marry (1931 film)|Too Young to Marry]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Francis Faragoh]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Loretta Young]], [[Grant Withers]] | Based on play ''Broken Dishes'' |- ! 1931 | ''[[Broadminded (film)|Broadminded]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Burt Kalmar]], [[Harry Ruby]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Ona Munson]] | |- ! 1931 | ''[[Five Star Final]]'' | [[Robert North (producer)|Robert North]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Edward G. Robinson]], [[Marion Marsh]] | |- ! 1931 | ''[[Local Boy Makes Good]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Dorothy Lee (actress)|Dorothy Lee]] | |- ! 1931 | ''[[Tonight or Never (1931 film)|Tonight or Never]]'' | [[United Artists]] | [[Ernest Vajda]] | [[Gregg Toland]] | [[Gloria Swanson]], [[Ferdinand Gottschalk]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[High Pressure (film)|High Pressure]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Joseph Jackson (screenwriter)|Joseph Jackson]] | [[Robert Kurrle]] | [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Ona Munson]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[The Heart of New York (film)|Heart of New York]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Arthur Caesar]], [[Houston Branch]] | [[James Van Trees]] | [[Smith and Dale|Joe Smith]], [[Charles Dale]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[Two Seconds]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Harvey Thew]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Edward G. Robinson]], [[Preston Foster]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[Big City Blues (1932 film)|Big City Blues]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Ward Morehouse]], [[Lillie Hayward]] | [[James Van Trees]] | [[Joan Blondell]], [[Eric Linden]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[Three on a Match]]'' | [[Sam Bischoff]]/ [[First National Pictures]] | [[Lucien Hubbard]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Joan Blondell]], [[Ann Dvorak]] | |- ! 1932 | ''[[I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang]]'' | [[Hal B. Wallis]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Howard J. Green]], [[Brown Holmes]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Paul Muni]], [[Glenda Farrell]] | |- ! 1933 | ''[[Hard to Handle (film)|Hard to Handle]]'' | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]]/[[Warner Bros.]], [[Vitaphone]] | [[Wilson Mizner]], [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] | [[Barney McGill]] | [[James Cagney]], [[Mary Brian]] | |- ! 1933 | ''[[Tugboat Annie]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Zelda Sears]], [[Eve Greene]] | [[Gregg Toland]] | [[Marie Dressler]], [[Wallace Beery]] | |- ! 1933 | ''[[Elmer, the Great]]'' | [[First National Pictures]] | [[Tom Geraghty]] | [[Arthur L. Todd]] | [[Joe E. Brown]], [[Patricia Ellis]] | Remake of ''Fast Company'' (1929) |- ! 1933 | ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Erwin Gelsey]], [[James Seymour (screenwriter)|James Seymour]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Warren William]], [[Joan Blondell]] | Dance director: [[Busby Berkeley]] |- ! 1933 | ''[[The World Changes]]'' | [[Hal B. Wallis]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Edward Chodorov]] | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Paul Muni]], [[Mary Astor]] | |- ! 1934 | ''[[Heat Lightning (film)|Heat Lightning]]'' | [[Sam Bischoff]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Brown Holmes]], [[Warren Duff]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Aline MacMahon]], [[Ann Dvorak]] | |- ! 1934 | ''[[Hi, Nellie!]]'' | Robert Presnell/[[Warner Bros.]] | Ahem Finkle, Sydney Sutherland | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Paul Muni]], [[Glenda Farrell]] | |- ! 1934 | ''[[Happiness Ahead (1934 film)|Happiness Ahead]]'' | [[Sam Bischoff]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | Ahem Finkle, Sydney Sutherland | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Dick Powell]], [[Josephine Hutchinson]] | |- ! 1935 | ''[[Oil for the Lamps of China]]'' | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] (w/[[Cosmopolitan Productions|Cosmopolitan]]/[[First National Pictures]]) | [[Laird Doyle]] | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Josephine Hutchinson]] | |- ! 1935 | ''[[Page Miss Glory (1935 film)|Page Miss Glory]]'' | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] (w/[[Cosmopolitan Productions|Cosmopolitan]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]], [[Delmer Daves]] | [[George Folsey Jr.]] | [[Marion Davies]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] | |- ! 1935 | ''[[I Found Stella Parish]]'' | [[Harry Joe Brown]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Casey Robinson]] | [[Sid Hickox]] | [[Kay Francis]], [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]] | |- ! 1935 | ''[[Sweet Adeline (1934 film)|Sweet Adeline]]'' | [[Edward Chodorov]]/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Erwin S. Gelsey]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Irene Dunne]], [[Donald Woods]] | |- ! 1936 | ''[[Anthony Adverse]]'' | [[Jack L. Warner]], [[Henry Blanke]]/ [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Sheridan Gibney]] | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Fredric March]], [[Claude Rains]] | |- ! 1936 | ''[[Three Men on a Horse (film)|Three Men on a Horse]]'' | Frank Bischoff/ [[First National Pictures]] | [[Laird Doyle]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Frank McHugh]], [[Joan Blondell]] | |- ! 1937 | ''[[The King and the Chorus Girl]]'' | Frank Bischoff/ [[First National Pictures]] | Norma Krasner, [[Groucho Marx]] | [[Tony Gaudio]] | [[Fernand Gravet]], [[Joan Blondell]] | |- ! 1937 | ''[[They Won't Forget]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy/ [[First National Pictures]] | [[Robert Rossen]], [[Aben Kandel]] | [[Arthur Edeson]] | [[Claude Rains]], [[Gloria Dickson]] | |- ! 1938 | ''[[Fools for Scandal]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy/ [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Herbert Fields]], [[Joseph Fields]] | [[Ted Tetzlaff]] | [[Carole Lombard]], [[Fernand Gravet]] | |- ! 1940 | ''[[Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)|Waterloo Bridge]]'' | [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[S. N. Behrman]], [[George Froeschel]] | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[Vivien Leigh]], [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] | |- ! 1940 | ''[[Escape (1940 film)|Escape]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Arch Oboler]], [[Marguerite Roberts]] | Robert Planck | [[Norma Shearer]], [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] | Reissued as ''When the Door Opened'' |- ! 1941 | ''[[Blossoms in the Dust]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy//, [[Irving Asher]] /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Anita Loos]] | [[Karl Freund]], [[W. Howard Greene]] | [[Greer Garson]], [[Walter Pidgeon]] | LeRoy's first color film |- ! 1941 | ''[[Unholy Partners]]'' | [[Samuel Marx]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Earl Baldwin]], [[Lesser Samuels]] | [[George Barnes (cinematographer)|George Barnes]] | [[Edward G. Robinson]], [[Edward Arnold (actor)|Edward Arnold]] | |- ! 1941 | ''[[Johnny Eager]]'' | John W. Considine, Jr. /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[John Lee Mahin]], [[James Edward Grant]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], [[Lana Turner]] | |- ! 1942 | ''[[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]]'' | [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]]/[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Claudine West]], [[George Froeschel]] | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[Greer Garson]], [[Ronald Colman]] | |- ! 1944 | ''[[Madame Curie (film)|Madame Curie]]'' | [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]] /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Paul Osborn]], [[Hans Rameau]] (Paul H. Rameau) | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[Greer Garson]], [[Walter Pidgeon]] | |- ! 1945 | ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]'' | [[Sam Zimbalist]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Dalton Trumbo]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Van Johnson]], [[Spencer Tracy]] | |- ! 1946 | ''[[Without Reservations]]'' | [[Jesse L. Lasky]] /[[RKO Pictures]] | [[Andrew Solt]] | Milton H. Krasner | [[Claudette Colbert]], [[John Wayne]] | |- ! 1948 | ''[[Homecoming (1948 film)|Homecoming]]'' | [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]] /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Paul Osborn]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Clark Gable]], [[Lana Turner]] | |- ! 1949 | ''[[Little Women (1949 film)|Little Women]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Andrew Solt]], [[Sarah Y. Mason]] | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[June Allyson]], [[Peter Lawford]] | |- ! 1949 | ''[[Any Number Can Play]]'' | [[Arthur Freed]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Richard Brooks]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Clark Gable]], [[Alexis Smith]] | |- ! 1950 | ''[[East Side, West Side (1949 film)|East Side, West Side]]'' | [[Voldemar Vetluguin]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Isobel Lennart]] | [[Charles Rosher]] | [[Barbara Stanwyck]], [[James Mason]] | |- ! 1950 | ''[[Quo Vadis? (1951 film)|Quo Vadis?]]'' | [[Sam Zimbalist]] [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[John Lee Mahin]], [[S. N. Behrman]] | [[Robert Surtees (cinematographer)|Robert Surtees]] | [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], [[Deborah Kerr]] | |- ! 1952 | ''[[Lovely to Look At]]'' | [[Jack Cummings (director)|Jack Cummings]]/ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[George Wells (screenwriter)|George Wells]], Harry Robin | [[George Folsey (cinematographer)|George Folsey]] | [[Kathryn Grayson]], [[Red Skelton]] | |- ! 1952 | ''[[Million Dollar Mermaid]]'' | [[Arthur Hornblow, Jr.]] /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Everett Freeman]] | [[George Folsey (cinematographer)|George Folsey]] | [[Esther Williams]], [[Walter Pidgeon]] | |- ! 1952 | ''[[Latin Lovers (1953 film)|Latin Lovers]]'' | [[Joe Pasternak]] /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Isobel Lennart]] | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[Lana Turner]], [[Ricardo Montalbán]] | |- ! 1954 | ''[[Rose Marie (1954 film)|Rose Marie]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Ronald Millar]], [[George Froeschel]] | [[Paul C. Vogel]] | [[Ann Blyth]], [[Howard Keel]] | |- ! 1955 | ''[[Strange Lady in Town]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Frank Butler (writer)|Frank Butler]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Greer Garson]], [[Dana Andrews]] | |- ! 1955 | ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]'' | [[Leland Hayward]] (Orange Productions)/[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Frank Nugent]], [[Joshua Logan]] | [[Winton C. Hoch]] | [[Henry Fonda]], [[James Cagney]] | with [[John Ford]] |- ! 1956 | ''[[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|The Bad Seed]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[John Lee Mahin]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Nancy Kelly]], [[Patty McCormack]] | |- ! 1956 | ''[[Toward the Unknown]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy (Toluca Productions) /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Beirne Lay Jr.]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[William Holden]] | G.B. tltle: Brink of Hell |- ! 1958 | ''[[No Time for Sergeants (film)|No Time for Sergeants]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[John Lee Mahin]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Andy Griffith]], [[Myron McCormick]] | |- ! 1958 | ''[[Home Before Dark (film)|Home Before Dark]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | Eileen Bassing, Robert Bassing | [[Joseph F. Biroc]] | [[Jean Simmons]], [[Dan O'Herlihy]] | |- ! 1959 | ''[[The FBI Story]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Richard L. Breen]] | [[Joseph F. Biroc]] | [[James Stewart]], [[Vera Miles]] | |- ! 1960 | ''[[Wake Me When It's Over (film)|Wake Me When Its Over]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Richard L. Breen]] | [[Leon Shamroy]] | [[Dick Shawn]], [[Ernie Kovacs]] | |- ! 1961 | ''[[The Devil at 4 O'Clock]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Columbia Pictures]] | [[Liam O'Brien (screenwriter)|Liam O'Brien]] | [[Joseph F. Biroc]] | [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Frank Sinatra]] | |- ! 1961 | ''[[A Majority of One (film)|A Majority of One]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Leonard Spigelgass]] | [[Harry Stradling]] | [[Alec Guinness]], [[Rosalind Russell]] | |- ! 1962 | ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Leonard Spigelgass]] | [[Harry Stradling]] | [[Rosalind Russell]], [[Natalie Wood]] | |- ! 1963 | ''[[Mary, Mary (film)|Mary, Mary]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[Richard L. Breen]] | [[Harry Stradling]] | [[Debbie Reynolds]], [[Barry Nelson (actor)|Barry Nelson]] | |- ! 1965 | ''[[Moment to Moment]]'' | Mervyn LeRoy /[[Warner Bros.]] | [[John Lee Mahin]] | [[Harry Stradling]] | [[Jean Seberg]], [[Honor Blackman]] | |} ==== Producer ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="width: 4em;" | Year ! Title ! Studio/Distributor ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Photography ! class="unsortable" | Leading Cast |- ! 1937 | ''[[The Great Garrick]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[James Whale]] | [[Ernest Haller]] | [[Brian Aherne]], [[Olivia de Havilland]] |- ! 1938 | ''[[Stand Up and Fight (film)|Stand Up and Fight]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[W. S. Van Dyke]] | [[Leonard Smith (cinematographer)|Leonard Smith]] | [[Wallace Beery]], [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] |- ! 1938 | ''[[Dramatic School (film)|Dramatic School]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Robert B. Sinclair]] | [[William H. Daniels]] | [[Luise Rainer]], [[Paulette Goddard]] |- ! 1938 | ''[[At the Circus]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Edward Buzzell]] | [[Leonard Smith (cinematographer)|Leonard Smith]] | [[Groucho Marx]], [[Harpo Marx]] |- ! 1939 | ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Victor Fleming]] | [[Harold Rosson]] | [[Judy Garland]], [[Frank Morgan]] |} ==== Uncredited contributions ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="width: 4em;" | Year ! Title ! Studio/Distributor ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Photography ! class="unsortable" | Leading Cast ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- ! 1932 | ''[[The Dark Horse (1932 film)|The Dark Horse]]'' | [[Sam Bischoff]]/[[First National Pictures]] | [[Alfred E. Green]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Warren William]], [[Bette Davis]] | Unspecified contributions |- ! 1933 | ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | [[Lloyd Bacon]] | [[Sol Polito]] | [[Warner Baxter]], [[Ruby Keeler]] | Assisted in one of the musical numbers |- ! 1947 | ''[[Desire Me]]'' | [[Arthur Hornblow Jr.]]/[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[George Cukor]] | [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | [[Greer Garson]], [[Robert Mitchum]] | LeRoy made extensive reshoots for the film |- ! 1949 | ''[[The Great Sinner]]'' | [[Gottfried Reinhardt]]/[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Robert Siodmak]] | [[George Folsey (cinematographer)|George Folsey]] | [[Gregory Peck]], [[Ava Gardner]] | Re-shot and re-edited portions of the film |- ! 1968 | ''[[The Green Berets (film)|The Green Berets]]'' | [[Michael Wayne]]/[[Batjac Productions]] | [[John Wayne]], [[Ray Kellogg (director)|Ray Kellogg]] | [[Winton C. Hoch]] | [[John Wayne]], [[Jim Hutton]] | Assisted Wayne during 5 months of production |}
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