Mervyn Leroy Comes to Town

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

Introduction: The Unauthorial Eye | R. Barton Palmer
and Murray Pomerance 1
1 Little Caesar, Original Gangster | Matthew Solomon 11
2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | David Desser 21
3 The Forgotten Number: Sexual Economics, Politics,
and PTSD in Gold Diggers of 1933 | Linda Badley 33
4 Tugboat Annie: Cogs in the Wheel of Industry |
Kristen Hatch 45
5 What Makes Anthony Adverse? | Neil Badmington 57
6 They Won’ t Forget: Mervyn LeRoy Goes Deep South |
Matthew H. Bernstein 69
7 Dance by Candlelight: Extinguishing the Everyday
in Waterloo Bridge | Steven Rybin 81
8 The Cells of Johnny Eager | Mark Osteen 91
9 Random Harvest: “ You Haven’ t Even a Memory” |
Lawrence Napper 103
10 His Finger on the Public Pulse: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
R. Barton Palmer 113
11 On the Street Where You Live: Mervyn LeRoy’ s
East Side, West Side | Adrian Danks 125
12 Trendsetting Quo Vadis | R. Barton Palmer 137
13 Mervyn LeRoy’ s Feminist Tale of a Million Dollar Mermaid |
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
149
14 The Palm at the End of the War: Mister Roberts |
Brenda Austin-Smith
161
15 In Fertile Soil: The Bad Seed | Dominic Lennard 173
16 Playing the Agent in The FBI Story | Daniel Varndell 185
17 A Friend Out of an Enemy: Screen Space and the Traversal
of Sociocultural Boundaries in A Majority of One |
Matthew Cipa 197
18 “ Nothing to Hit but the Heights” : Mervyn LeRoy’ s Gypsy |
Murray Pomerance 209
19 Minute to Minute, Moment to Moment | Tom Conley 221
Works Cited 233
Notes on Contributors 247
Index 253