Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town
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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

About this book

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio executive, he contributed substantially to the success of the industry during the challenging period of the Depression and also in the period of realignment and readjustment that followed the end of World War II. This book offers chapters devoted to individual films such as Little Caesar, Waterloo Bridge, 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Gypsy, and Quo Vadis.

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Yes, you can access Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town by Murray Pomerance,R. Barton Palmer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film Direction & Production. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Unauthorial Eye | R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
  6. 1 Little Caesar, Original Gangster | Matthew Solomon
  7. 2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | David Desser
  8. 3 The Forgotten Number: Sexual Economics, Politics, and PTSD in Gold Diggers of 1933 | Linda Badley
  9. 4 Tugboat Annie: Cogs in the Wheel of Industry | Kristen Hatch
  10. 5 What Makes Anthony Adverse? | Neil Badmington
  11. 6 They Won’t Forget: Mervyn LeRoy Goes Deep South | Matthew H. Bernstein
  12. 7 Dance by Candlelight: Extinguishing the Everyday in Waterloo Bridge | Steven Rybin
  13. 8 The Cells of Johnny Eager | Mark Osteen
  14. 9 Random Harvest: “You Haven’t Even a Memory” | Lawrence Napper
  15. 10 His Finger on the Public Pulse: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | R. Barton Palmer
  16. 11 On the Street Where You Live: Mervyn LeRoy’s East Side, West Side | Adrian Danks
  17. 12 Trendsetting Quo Vadis | R. Barton Palmer
  18. 13 Mervyn LeRoy’s Feminist Tale of a Million Dollar Mermaid | Rebecca Bell-Metereau
  19. 14 The Palm at the End of the War: Mister Roberts | Brenda Austin-Smith
  20. 15 In Fertile Soil: The Bad Seed | Dominic Lennard
  21. 16 Playing the Agent in The FBI Story | Daniel Varndell
  22. 17 A Friend Out of an Enemy: Screen Space and the Traversal of Sociocultural Boundaries in A Majority of One | Matthew Cipa
  23. 18 “Nothing to Hit but the Heights”: Mervyn LeRoy’s Gypsy | Murray Pomerance
  24. 19 Minute to Minute, Moment to Moment | Tom Conley
  25. Works Cited
  26. Notes on Contributors
  27. Index