Mervyn LeRoy comes to town / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer.
| Other author | Pomerance, Murray, 1946- |
| Other author | Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2025] |
| Description | volumes cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the unauthorial eye / R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- Little Caesar, original gangster / Matthew Solomon -- I am a fugitive from a chain gang / David Desser -- The forgotten number : sexual economics, politics, and PTSD in Gold diggers of 1933 / Linda Badley -- Tugboat Annie : cogs in the wheel of industry / Kristen Hatch -- What makes Anthony adverse? / Neil Badmington -- They won't forget : Mervyn LeRoy goes deep south / Matthew H. Bernstein -- Dance by candlelight : extinguishing the everyday in Waterloo Bridge / Steven Rybin -- The cells of Johnny Eager / Mark Osteen -- Random harvest : "you haven't even a memory" / Lawrence Napper -- His finger on the public pulse : Thirty seconds over Tokyo / R. Barton Palmer -- On the street where you live : Mervyn LeRoy's East Side, West Side / Adrian Danks -- Trendsetting Quo vadis / R. Barton Palmer -- Mervyn LeRoy's feminist tale of a million dollar mermaid / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- The palm at the end of the war : Mr. Roberts / Brenda Austin-Smith -- In fertile soil : The bad seed / Dominic Lennard -- Playing the agent in The FBI story / Daniel Varndell -- A friend out of an enemy : screen space and the traversal of sociocultural boundaries in A majority of one / Matthew Cipa -- "Nothing to hit but the heights" : Mervyn LeRoy's Gypsy / Murray Pomerance -- Minute to minute, moment to moment / Tom Conley. |
| Abstract | "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 a half 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 WWII. This book offers chapters devoted to individual films such as Little Caesar, Waterloo Bridge, 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Gypsy, and Quo Vadis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024046343 |
| ISBN | 9781978838376 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781978838383 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |