This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and director (Duck Soup, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way, and The Bells of St. Mary's) explores the director's life as filtered through his art. Gehring maintains that McCarey's films were often a reworking of his antiheroic self. In addition, the apparent diversity of his films actually represents an interrelated web of various comedy genres and a pattern of antiheroic characters and themes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Prologue
Chapter 4 1. The Early Years
Chapter 5 2. Silent Film Beginnings and Charley Chase
Chapter 6 3. McCarey Teams and Molds Laurel & Hardy
Chapter 7 4. The Early Features
Chapter 8 5. Eddie Cantor, Ernest Hemingway, and the Marx Brothers
Chapter 9 6. From Personality Comedians to an Attempted Kidnapping
Chapter 10 7. Laughton, Lincoln, and Lloyd
Chapter 11 8. Rethinking a Career and a Memorable 1937
Chapter 12 9. A Cowboy, A Cruise, A Crash, and Cary
Chapter 13 10. From Dark Comedy to Father O'Malley
Chapter 14 11. From O'Malley to McCarthy
Chapter 15 12. Old Projects and Final Films
Chapter 16 Epilogue
Chapter 17 Filmography
Chapter 18 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 19 Index
Chapter 20 About the Author
