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Leo McCarey has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s.
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Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Dir. Michael Gordon · With Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
Dir. Leo McCarey · With Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh