Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- Actors -- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle -- George Bancroft -- Warner Baxter -- Ralph Bellamy -- The Film Career of George M. Cohan -- Boris Karloff -- Robert Redford -- Mickey Rooney -- Kidflicks -- Cornel Wilde -- Part II -- Actresses -- Dear Beulah -- Surviving Mother Hollywood -- Charlotte Henry's Adventures in Wonderland -- Siren Song -- A Countess in Hollywood -- The Birth of a Sex Symbol -- Marilyn -- Eleanor Powell -- Natalie Wood -- Part III -- Hollywood Pairs -- Bette Davis and Claude Rains -- Cukor and Hepburn -- Making Movies with James Cagney -- Part IV -- Behind the Camera: The Directors -- Charles T. Barton -- The Elusive Cecil B. DeMille -- Joseph H. Lewis -- Seastrom -- Part V -- Behind the Camera: The Craftsmen -- Walter Plunkett -- "Mr. Electricity" -- Coming to Light -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.