Foreword -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- Actors and Actresses -- In the State of California -- The Lost Movie of Errol Flynn -- How a Cinema Legend Was Born -- The Screen Testing of Kim Novak -- The Search for John Barrymore -- Innocence Protected -- Uncensored Garbo -- Will Rogers -- Part II -- Great Pairs -- Those Bubsy Berkeley and Astaire-Rogers Depression Musicals -- The Screwball Satirists -- Part III -- Directors -- Kubrick, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, and Film Noir -- The Twilight World of Roland West -- William Wellman -- The Wellman Westerns -- Part IV -- From Silents to Sound -- The Squaw Man Returns -- The Birth of a Nation -- Innocence Abroad -- The Big Parade -- The Jazz Singer -- From Silence to Sound -- Important Words from a Film Pioneer, Made at the Beginning of the Era of Sound -- Part V -- Films -- King Kong and the Military -- The Other Authors of Gone with the Wind -- Citizen Kane on the Drawing Board -- Val Lewton's The Ghost Ship -- Knockout in Paradise -- John Ford's Wagon Master -- "I Want Stone-Age Faces!" -- Project RXM -- Part VI -- Film History -- Charlie Chan Meets OWI -- Disney Out-Foxed -- Alice's Looking Glass -- The Singing Screen -- Red Alert -- The Rise and Fall of the California Motion Picture Corporation -- Walt Disney and "The Gremlins" -- Appendix: List of American Classic Screen Feature Articles -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.