Movies
The death over the weekend of Mervyn LeRoy at the age of 86 is a reminder of just how young, on the scale of history, the movies still are.
Sept. 15, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Funeral services for Academy Award-winning director Mervyn LeRoy will be held at 2 p.m.
Services were held at Forest Lawn on Wednesday for director Mervyn LeRoy, who died Sunday.
Sept. 18, 1987
Sports
There are horses that racing fans like to see running, and then there are those that, for the animals’ own sakes, the fans would rather see scratched by post time.
May 21, 1988
Oscar-winning producer-director Mervyn LeRoy, the one-time San Francisco newsboy who set the tone of Hollywood movie making for 40 years with such films as “Little Caesar,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Quo Vadis” and “Gypsy”--and co-founded Hollywood Park race track--died Sunday at his home in Beverly Hills.
Sept. 14, 1987
No trainer has won the Mervyn LeRoy Handicap more often than Bobby Frankel.
May 5, 2001
Horse racing: Trainer elects to skip Mervyn LeRoy Handicap, but might run Big ‘Cap winner in the Californian.
April 28, 1997
Al Mamoon, unbeaten in his only two races this year and an in-the-money finisher in 16 of his 22 lifetime starts, heads a field of eight entered in Sunday’s $150,000-added Mervyn LeRoy Handicap at Hollywood Park.
April 26, 1986
They presented a large, well-decorated cake to Eddie Delahoussaye in the jockeys’ room at Hollywod Park just prior to Sunday’s feature race.
May 23, 1988
With a quarter of a mile to run in the $106,200 Mervyn LeRoy Handicap on Saturday at Hollywood Park, trainer Mike Chambers thought Hesabull was finished.
May 4, 1997