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First Edition & First Printing signed copy. SIGNED by Leroy on front endpaper.

"This is the frank, intimate autobiography of one of Hollywood's most consistently successful motion picture directors-a giant in the film industry with more than seventy- five pictures to his credit, including such classics as Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Quo Vadis, Oil for the Lamps of China, Waterloo Bridge, Tugboat Annie, Anthony Adverse, The Wizard of Oz, Random Harvest, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, No Time for Sergeants, Johnny Eager, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Little Women, The FBI Story, Gypsy, and Madame Curie. He also has the unique distinction of having had twenty pictures shown in Radio City Music Hall.
Leroy began his career hawking news- papers in San Francisco at the age of ten after his father's death. Soon he got a bit part in the play Barbara Frietchie, which cast the die for his love affair with show business. Winning a stage contest for the best imitation of Charlie Chaplin earned for him a solo act stint with Sid Grauman's gaudy midway show. Then he joined with Clyde Cooper to play the vaudeville circuits billed as "LeRoy & Cooper, Two Kids and a Piano."
After World War I he left vaudeville to try his luck in Hollywood, starting off as a ward- robe assistant and graduating to a job with William DeMille. He finally found his true role when he was assigned to direct Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes in No Place to Go, followed by Harold Teen-and the rest is his- tory: a span of eventful years that comprises the most memorable era in the industry and shows in graphic detail LeRoy moving serenely in the company of such giants as Jesse Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Jack L. Warner, Irving Thalberg, and Louis B. Mayer in addition to Hollywood's greatest stars and several whom he discovered (such as Clark Gable and Lana Turner).

Book is in very good condition, with good dust jacket there is a some tiny tears on top edge, top corner and top of spine, top edge of DJ fans out slightly, overall clean with very good bright hardback, silver boards/blue cloth. With 32 pages of photographs.