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30: 100 Men and a Girl
[N recent years I have worked with most of the good directors in Hollywood— such men as Leo McCarey, Frank Capra, William Wellman, Gregory LaCava, Sarri Wood, Henry Koster, Jack Conway, Louis Milestone, and others. Today's top directors are very different from the exhibitionists who. once roamed Hollywood, wearing riding breeches, berets, and megaphones. They have good taste, good judgment, and real creative ability. It is a pleasure to work with them.
Many of these directors have stopped working for the big studios and have set up their own companies in order to shoot the sort of pictures they like without the supervision that they feel hampers their efforts. One of these is, Leo McCarey, who recently won a second Academy award for his direction in Going My Way.
Leo is an Irishman with a pixy sense of humor and a great creative talent. He was formerly an attorney in Los Angeles but gave up the practice of law to become a director of two-reel comedies.
I have known Leo almost since the day he started in pictures. We played golf and poker together, but I never worked in one of his pictures until about two years after Verree and I were married, when he called us both to play in a comedy starring Harold Lloyd, called The Milky Way.
I soon discovered that Leo often creates new scenes and new situations while he is shooting. He is always ready to take time to experiment and to try out new ideas. Sometimes they don't work, but more often they add new sparkle to the picture.
One morning Leo walked onto the set of The Milky Way full
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