Directing

Ray McCarey

Born — Died

1904-09-06 — 1948-12-01

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raymond Benedict "Ray" McCarey (September 6, 1904 – December 1, 1948) was an American film director, brother of director Leo McCarey. McCarey began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. He also worked with Roscoe Arbuckle, the Three Stooges, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge among many others. Most of his feature film work consisted of "B" pictures and low-budget films. He directed 62 films between 1930 and 1948. He was the brother of director Leo McCarey and was occasionally billed as Raymond McCarey but usually as Ray McCarey. On December 2, 1948 Ray was fou…

Known for

Behind the camera

Sunset Range poster
6.0

Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.

Sunset Range

1935

Oh, Doctor poster
7.0

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

Oh, Doctor

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A film producer's daughter attends a finishing school.

Three Cheers for Love

1936

Hizzoner poster
10.0

In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.

Hizzoner

1933

Hot Tip poster
7.0

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Hot Tip

1935

No artwork available
10.0

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Olympic Events

1932

Pack Up Your Troubles poster
6.8

The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1932

Pack Up Your Troubles poster
6.8

The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1932

The Gay Intruders poster
6.7

Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.

The Gay Intruders

1948

Water Sports poster
6.5

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard at 45 mph.

Water Sports

1935

Henry the Ache poster
3.5

Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starring Bert Lahr in the title role.

Henry the Ache

1934

Two Plus Fours poster
5.1

This short subject was done by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm boys shortly after they finished The King of Jazz where lead singer Bing Crosby made his motion picture debut. Shortly afterwards the trio broke up and Bing went solo and the rest was history. When a well-liked tailor is about to lose his story his daughter and a young singing group try to save it.

Two Plus Fours

1930

Pro Football poster
7.0

This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real time, then in slow motion.

Pro Football

1934

The Cowboy and the Blonde poster
7.0

A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.

The Cowboy and the Blonde

1941

Life Begins with Love poster
6.7

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.

Life Begins with Love

1937

That Other Woman poster
6.7

A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.

That Other Woman

1942

Wild People poster
7.7

The Globe Broadcasting Company does a radio broadcast from Dutch New Guinea, with the aborigines as performers.

Wild People

1932

I Scream poster
7.0

Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.

I Scream

1934

Just Around the Corner poster
6.0

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.

Just Around the Corner

1933

You Can't Fool Your Wife poster
5.5

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

You Can't Fool Your Wife

1940

The Falcon's Alibi poster
5.4

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

The Falcon's Alibi

1946

In the Dough poster
6.5

A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.

In the Dough

1933

Scram! poster
7.2

Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.

Scram!

1932

So This Is Washington poster
5.3

Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.

So This Is Washington

1943

Tomalio poster
5.5

Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.

Tomalio

1933

A Gentleman at Heart poster
7.5

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

A Gentleman at Heart

1942

The Devil's Party poster
5.4

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

The Devil's Party

1938

Millions in the Air poster
10.0

The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.

Millions in the Air

1935

Let's Make a Million poster
7.5

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Let's Make a Million

1936

It Happened in Flatbush poster
5.4

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

It Happened in Flatbush

1942

Love in a Bungalow poster
10.0

A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.

Love in a Bungalow

1937

Little Orvie poster
8.5

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Little Orvie

1940

Girl o' My Dreams poster
4.8

A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.

Girl o' My Dreams

1934

No artwork available
5.0

Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.

Hip Zip Hooray

1933

Torchy Runs for Mayor poster
5.9

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

1939

Strange Triangle poster
4.1

In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.

Strange Triangle

1946

Free Eats poster
7.1

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Free Eats

1932

The Mystery Man poster
5.6

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.

The Mystery Man

1935

Three Little Pigskins poster
7.1

The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.

Three Little Pigskins

1934

Murder Among Friends poster
7.0

A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.

Murder Among Friends

1941