Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

MURRAY POMERANCE is an independent scholar living in Toronto and the author of numerous books, including Edge of the Screen and Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience, as well as the editor or coeditor of dozens of books, including Autism in Film and Television: On the Island.   R. BARTON PALMER is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, where he founded the World Cinema program. Among numerous books and multi-author volumes, he is the coauthor of Major Performers in Hollywood Noir and Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar Hollywood, as well as the author of Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Space.

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