Ray McCarey
Birth : 1904-09-06, Los Angeles, California, USA
Death : 1948-12-01
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Raymond Benedict "Ray" McCarey (September 6, 1904 – December 1, 1948) was an American film director, brother of director Leo McCarey.
McCarey began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. He also worked with Roscoe Arbuckle, the Three Stooges, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge among many others. Most of his feature film work consisted of "B" pictures and low-budget films. He directed 62 films between 1930 and 1948.
He was the brother of director Leo McCarey and was occasionally billed as Raymond McCarey but usually as Ray McCarey.
On December 2, 1948 Ray was found dead kneeling beside his bed. According to the San Bernardino County Sun two empty prescription bottles were found by his bed. His older brother, director Leo McCarey, said he had been in ill health for several months. The official cause of death was suicide.
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Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
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Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
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In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
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A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
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In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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A British war widow travels to Berlin to assassinate Hitler.
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Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values. Director Ray McCarey's 1941 comedy stars Lynn Bari, Cornel Wilde, Charles Ruggles, Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Greenwood, Alan Mowbray and Chester Clute.
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A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
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A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
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A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
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A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
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A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
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A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
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A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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A film producer's daughter attends a finishing school.
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A broadcasting musical.
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This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard at 45 mph.
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An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
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Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
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The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
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A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.
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The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
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This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real time, then in slow motion.
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When a man's wife inherits $50,000, he quits his job and assumes that he can now take life easy. However, his newly rich wife has her own ideas of how he is going to spend his time.
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Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.
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A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.
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Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starring Bert Lahr in the title role.
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Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
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A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.
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An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance.
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Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.
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Songwriter Harry Warren performs several of his own compositions, including "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" and "Shadow Waltz."
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In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.
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Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side.
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Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Short comedy starring Rose Marie
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In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
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Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.
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A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
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Tennis champion Bill Tilden gives two tennis players tips on the proper grip, footwork, body position, and other ways to improve their tennis game.
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The Globe Broadcasting Company does a radio broadcast from Dutch New Guinea, with the aborigines as performers.
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This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
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The kids help capture a family of thieves.
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This short subject was done by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm boys shortly after they finished The King of Jazz where lead singer Bing Crosby made his motion picture debut. Shortly afterwards the trio broke up and Bing went solo and the rest was history. When a well-liked tailor is about to lose his story his daughter and a young singing group try to save it.
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To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
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Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
