One of the most celebrated Hollywood directors of the Thirties and Forties, Leo McCarey honed his aesthetic in service of silent comedians like Laurel & Hardy and Charley Chase, performers who stood ...

For the past few weeks, the Music Box has been running a special weekend matinee series dedicated to the Marx Brothers. This weekend it’s screening the great Duck Soup, which is not only their best ...

In “Seriously Funny: The Films of Leo McCarey,” the Museum of Modern Art surveys the portfolio of an often overlooked early Hollywood director who in his prime was one of the industry’s biggest names.

The awful truth is that husband and wife Jerry and Lucy Warriner love each other, but, as Lucy notes, there’s “nothing less logical than the truth.” Indeed, Jerry and Lucy’s love seems to defy logic.

Adding comedy lines, music, color and CinemaScope, Jerry Wald and Leo McCarey turn this remake of the 1939 Love Affair into a winning film that is alternately funny and tenderly sentimental. An Affair ...

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore from 1974 was Martin Scorsese's first studio film. She liked it, and Warner Bros. agreed to do it. "It was early in the woman's movement, and we were all just waking up ...

“There are few American films as subtle, moving and bursting with human truth as Leo McCarey’s ‘Make Way for Tomorrow’ (1937), and few that have been as unjustly forgotten,” writes Dave Kehr in the ...

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Satan Never Sleeps (20th Century-Fox). God, in Director Leo McCarey’s movies, is always good-especially for business. McCarey’s most famous religious pictures (Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary’s) ...

This is a bedroom farce of split-level thinking in split-level housing. The film version of Max Shulman's bestseller is unmistakably a Leo McCarey picture. Some of the gags are elaborate and as ...

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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and ...