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"The Directors Wife"
Mrs. Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn and Doris LeRoy, one of Hollywood's truly successful real-life "teams": Mervyn as outstanding director, Doris as charming wife, influential hostess, and mother of LeRoy, Jr. Right, a family group including the LeRoys and Mrs. LeRoy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Warner. Right, below, the director with his two current stars, Fernand Gravet and Joan Blondell, rehearsing a scene for "The King and the Chorus Girl."
When Doris Warner LeRoy interviews a prospective domestic for the staff of the elaborate LeRoy estate in Bel Air, she usually says in effect : "Our name is LeRoy. We are picture people. We live here, just the two of us with the baby. We want to be happy in this home, and we want you to be happy in our service."
I am quoting it now because I think, more than anything else, it explains the atmosphere of charm and warmth within the walls of one of the colony's most impressive show places.
Just as Mervyn LeRoy, who doesn't look a day over twenty-five, even with his new honors of producerdirector resting modestly on his shoulders, is more than "just another Hollywood director," so is Doris Warner LeRoy more than "just a director's wife."
They are of the movies, for them, and by them. Their marriage five years ago united two houses rich in the tradition of the show world. The Warner name, trademark of the famous producing brethren, is too well known to need detailed resume here, and Doris is a daughter of that house. Mervyn, nephew of Jesse Lasky, has known nothing but the life of the theatre ever since he could understand "shop" talk.
The approach to the LeRoy estate high on a Bel Air