Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Sound Comes In, Vaudeville and Silent Pictures Go Out -- The Warner Brothers and the Movie Industry -- Vaudeville and the Movies -- The Jewish Question -- Early Movie Theaters -- Early Movie Stars and Charlie Chaplin -- Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer -- Eddie Cantor, the Backstage Musical, and the Early Stars of Talking Pictures -- Busby Berkeley Goes Hollywood -- Conclusion -- 2 From Broadway to Hollywood with Groucho, Fred, and Ginger -- The Movies and the Depression -- The Movies and the Regulatory Impulse -- The Marx Brothers -- The Marx Brothers on Broadway -- The Marx Brothers at Paramount -- The Marx Brothers at MGM -- The Marx Brothers in Decline -- The Rise of Fred Astaire -- Ginger and Fred -- Conclusion -- 3 Radio Nights -- Bing Crosby and the Crooners -- The Origins of Commercial Network Radio -- The Network and the Sponsor -- Amos 'n' Andy -- The Rise of Jack Benny -- The Jack Benny Show -- Conclusion -- 4 From the Thirties to the Forties with Kate, Bud, and Lou -- The Rise of Katharine Hepburn -- The Fall of Katharine Hepburn -- An Excursion into Screwball Comedy -- Hitting Bottom -- The Revival of Katharine Hepburn -- Hepburn in the 1940s -- Abbott and Costello -- Radio News and Debate on the Draft -- Abbott and Costello at the Movies: The Return of Slapstick -- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood -- Conclusion -- 5 Bogie, Bob, and the Boys at War -- The Wartime Musical -- The War Movie -- Casablanca -- The Long Rise of Humphrey Bogart -- Bogart Becomes a Star -- Humphrey Bogart as Hollywood Citizen -- Bob Hope -- Bogart and Bacall -- Conclusion -- 6 The Postwar Movie Scene -- Postwar Problems -- The Industry Responds -- In Congress and on the Waterfront -- Musicals -- Marilyn Monroe -- Some Like it Hot.

The Apartment -- Conclusion -- 7 Make Room for TV -- The Diffusion of Television -- From Radio to Television with Jack Benny -- Groucho Marx Redux -- Here's Lucy -- Hollywood and Lucy -- The Movie Industry and Television - The Adult Western -- Perry Mason and American Freedom -- A Slight Change in the Climate -- Calling Doctor Kildare -- Conclusion -- 8 Putting It Together Walt Disney Introduces the Baby Boom to Television -- Walt Disney's Rise to Fame -- Snow White and the First Feature-ength Cartoons -- The Strike -- Disney's Return to Full-length Features -- Disneyland on TV -- True Life Adventures -- The Mickey Mouse Club, Davy Crockett, and Disneyland -- Disneyland the Theme Park -- Expanding the Empire and Consolidating Success -- 9 The End of an Era? -- Radio in the Post-Network Age -- Movies and Movie Stars in the Post-Studio Era - The Case of Woody Allen -- Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, and the Return of the Hollywood Musical -- The Graduate -- Television in the Modern Age -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1. Sound Comes In, Vaudeville and Silent Pictures Go Out -- 2. From Broadway to Hollywood with Groucho, Fred, and Ginger -- 3. Radio Nights -- 4. From the Thirties to the Forties with Kate, Bud, and Lou -- 5. Bogie, Bob, and the Boys at War -- 6. The Postwar Movie Scene -- 7. Make Room for TV -- 8. Putting It Together: Walt Disney Introduces the Baby Boom to Television -- 9. The End of an Era? -- Movie, Radio, and TV Listings -- Index.