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Leo McCarey (Thomas Leo McCarey) was born on 3 October, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA, is a director,writer,producer. Discover Leo McCarey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Thomas Leo McCarey
Occupation director,writer,producer
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 3 October, 1896
Birthday 3 October
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of death 5 July, 1969
Died Place Santa Monica, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Leo McCarey Height, Weight & Measurements

At 73 years old, Leo McCarey height is 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) .

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Height 5' 9¼" (1.76 m)
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Who Is Leo McCarey's Wife?

His wife is Stella Martin (1914 - 5 July 1969) ( his death)

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Wife Stella Martin (1914 - 5 July 1969) ( his death)
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Leo McCarey Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Leo McCarey worth at the age of 73 years old? Leo McCarey’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from United States. We have estimated Leo McCarey's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)$25,000

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1890

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 739-747. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

1896

Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Thomas Leo McCarey.

1923

During the period he was under contact at Hal Roach Studios between 1923 and 1929, McCarey supervised the production of about 300 comedy shorts including two-reelers of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase.

1926

He has directed seven films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Mighty Like a Moose (1926), Big Business (1929), Duck Soup (1933), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), The Awful Truth (1937) and Going My Way (1944). He has also production supervised one film that is in the registry: Pass the Gravy (1928).

1931

Corresponding Secretary for the Catholic Motion Picture Guild of America. The two other corresponding secretaries for the organization were, at the time, Ina Mae Merrill and June Collyer (per the 1931 Motion Picture Almanac).

1935

Directed five Academy Award Best Picture nominees: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939), Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Going My Way won Best Picture in 1944.

1937

He accused Cary Grant of ripping off his persona while shooting The Awful Truth (1937), saying that the star's style and personality was just like his. McCarey and Grant worked together several times after that but never fully extinguished their long-standing antagonism resulting from McCarey's comments.

1944

Directed 6 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Ralph Bellamy, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya , Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Ingrid Bergman. Crosby and Fitzgerald won for their performances in Going My Way (1944).

1957

He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Stella Martin.

1972

In The Godfather (1972), his name appears outside of Radio City Music Hall, which is playing his popular film The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), as Michael is walking with Kay and reads about his father's attempted assassination from a newspaper headline.

1976

The opening sequences of Nickelodeon (1976) in which Ryan O'Neal's character, Leo Harrigan, a lawyer who intentionally loses a case and is chased out of the courtroom by his enraged client, are inspired by actual events that happened to McCarey, who was once a criminal defense lawyer and was defending a wife-beater who chased him out of the courtroom and down the street.

1997

Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

2002

Biography in: "American National Biography." Supplement 1, pp. 392-393. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

2006

In August 2006, an Oscar statuette described as McCarey's Best Director award for Going My Way (1944) was going to be auctioned online, and was expected to sell for at least $100,000 (US). The auction was canceled after the award was found to be counterfeit. McCarey's daughter said she still had all three of her father's Oscars. The base was authentic, but the original nameplate had been removed and replaced with a fake one. The statuette also weighed about a pound more than a real one.