Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Zigler Leonard was an American film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent star Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won. Known by his nickname Pop, Leonard was brought in late by MGM as a reliable director who could get its Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, onto the big screen. One of the more unusual credits in his filmography is the film noir thriller The Bribe with its sleazy settings, slippery characters, and steamy atmosphere.
Robert Leonard died in 1968 in Beverly Hills, California of an aneurysm. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, near his wife Gertrude Olmstead.
Legacy
On February 8, 1960, Robert Leonard received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the motion picture industry, at 6370 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography
Director
Sally Scraggs, Housemaid The Ruby Circle The Master Key Christmas Memories Judge Not The Crippled Hand The Plow Girl The Love Girl Little Eve Edgarton The Eagle's Wings Secret Love On Record A Mormon Maid The Primrose Ring At First Sight Princess Virtue The Bride's Awakening Danger, Go Slow Her Body in Bond Face Value Modern Love Big Little Person The Miracle of Love The Scarlet Shadow The Delicious Little Devil The Way of a Woman What Am I Bid? Stronger Than Death April Folly The Restless Sex Heedless Moths The Gilded Lily Peacock Alley Fascination Broadway Rose Jazzmania The French Doll Fashion Row Love's Wilderness Mademoiselle Midnight Circe, the Enchantress Cheaper to Marry Time, the Comedian Bright Lights Dance Madness Mademoiselle Modiste The Waning Sex A Little Journey The Demi-Bride Adam and Evil Tea for Three The Cardboard Lover A Lady of Chance Baby Mine Marianne Marianne In Gay Madrid Let Us Be Gay The Divorcee The Bachelor Father Five and Ten It's a Wise Child Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) The Son-Daughter Strange Interlude Dancing Lady When Ladies Meet Peg o' My Heart Outcast Lady After Office Hours Naughty Marietta Escapade A Tale of Two Cities The Great Ziegfeld Small Town Girl Piccadilly Jim The Firefly Maytime The Girl of the Golden West Broadway Serenade New Moon Pride and Prejudice Third Finger, Left Hand Ziegfeld Girl When Ladies Meet Stand by for Action We Were Dancing The Man from Down Under Marriage Is a Private Affair Week-End at the Waldorf The Secret Heart Cynthia B.F.'s Daughter In the Good Old Summertime The Bribe Duchess of Idaho Nancy Goes to Rio Grounds for Marriage Too Young to Kiss Everything I Have Is Yours The Clown
Actor
The Sea Urchin Shon the Piper Sally Scraggs, Housemaid The Ruby Circle Christmas Memories The Crippled Hand Married Flirts Show People The Firefly