Contents -- Foreword, by Sidney Poitier -- Foreword, by Elmore Leonard -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. My Family -- 2. The University of Wisconsin -- 3. Los Angeles and Monogram -- 4. Allied Artists -- 5. The 1950s -- 6. The Screen Producers Guild -- 7. Back at Allied Artists -- 8. Moulin Productions, Inc. -- 9. William Wyler and Friendly Persuasion and Billy Wilder and Love in the Afternoon -- 10. On Our Own -- 11. Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot -- 12. John Ford and The Horse Soldiers -- 13. John Sturges and The Magnificent Seven -- 14. The 1960s -- 15. West Side Story -- 16. One, Two, Three and Other Projects -- 17. William Wyler, Elvis Presley, and John Sturges -- 18. A Big Hit and a Few Misses -- 19. Blake Edwards and The Pink Panther -- 20. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- 21. 633 Squadron, a New Corporate Entity, and Unrealized Projects -- 22. The Start of a Jinx and Cinerama -- 23. Hawaii -- 24. A New Relationship with Norman Jewison -- 25. In the Heat of the Night -- 26. A Western, a Comedy, a Drama, and a Caper -- 27. Personal Matters-Familial and Corporate -- 28. Dark Days for the Film Industry -- 29. Billy Wilder and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Avanti! -- 30. Fiddler on the Roof -- 31. Goodbye to United Artists -- 32. Hello to Universal -- 33. The Return of Peter Sellers -- 34. The 1980s and 1990s -- Epilogue -- Filmography -- Career Milestones and Awards -- Index.