Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town
Murray Pomerance editor R Barton Palmer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:13th May '25
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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.
"A studio director in the best and sometimes worst sense of the term, in this book Mervyn LeRoy finally gets his due—and then some: nineteen compact essays redress decades-old snubs, together rehabilitating the reputation of the director of such classics as Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town revisits old-school auteurism to help readers appreciate and understand the work of an unpretentious American artist." - Jon Lewis (author of Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture) "By offering the first sustained look at the career of Mervyn LeRoy, this book does something new, showing what a director-driven study can be like without the neo-romanticism of traditional auteur theory." - Patrick Keating (author of Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting)
ISBN: 9781978838376
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 18mm
Weight: 454g
276 pages