Mervyn LeRoy’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Mervyn LeRoy has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1950s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
Recurring themes

Love Affair
1939
Drama · Romance

Dodsworth
1936
Drama · Romance

Now, Voyager
1942
Romance · Drama

A Star Is Born
1937
Drama · Romance

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
Drama · Romance

An Affair to Remember
1957
Drama · Romance

Summertime
1955
Drama · Romance

Ballad of a Soldier
1959
Drama · Romance

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
Dir. John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy · With Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell