Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Critic -- 'Too Utterly Utter': Reviews from The Granta -- A Critic's Testament -- Coronation Equals Big Scene -- Film - Past and Future -- Tarzan Meets Schubert -- Remember the Writer -- Here Comes Arthur Edeson -- Refugees -- The Merry Widow -- 'That Dreadful American' -- Sound Unrefined -- Continental Snobbery -- Strictly Confidential: Broadway Bill to Win -- Women in White -- Proving the Twentieth Century Doesn't Exist -- The Symbol Called Garbo -- 'I'm Enjoying It Immensely' -- Hollywood Virus -- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer -- The 39 Steps -- Goin' to Town -- 'Delicate' Play and Indelicate Movie -- Abyssinia -- The March of Time -- Mark of the Vampire -- Garbo and Anna Karenina -- Coalmining in Hollywood -- A Turning Tide -- Alice Adams -- 'Our Common Language' -- Edith Fellows: Small Genius -- A French Film Director -- Ruggles of Red Gap -- Jimmy Cagney: The St Louis Kid -- Housing Problems -- Fred Astaire on the Wing -- Coming to Terms with the Movies -- Chaplin, Ancient and Modern -- Mr Wells Sees Us Through -- Journalism on the Screen -- Magnificent Obsessions -- Thinking about the Boer War -- The Last Journey -- Lubitsch Times Two -- Requiem for the Amenities -- Ah, Wilderness! -- Maytime in Carlisle -- The Missing Face -- In Praise of Shirley Temple -- Fritz Lang + 8,000,000 = Fury -- Hollywood Through the Customs -- Technicolor Strikes Again -- How to Understand the Marx Brothers -- High Lights of Broadway -- Do We Want Fine Speaking? -- Help! Murder! -- Mr Deeds Goes to Town -- A Gift from the Gods -- Technicolor Versus Monochrome -- We Who Are About to Die -- The Night I Saw Ernte -- High Trumpets for Mr DeMille -- Will the Real Katharine Hepburn Please Stand Up? -- The Hurricane -- A Damsel in Distress -- Knocking a Man Upstairs -- The Longest Trailer Ever Made.

Ballyhoo in Old Chicago -- Grumpy Reports on Snow White -- Ordinary Hat Versus Lobsters -- Starring Anthony Eden -- The Baby and the Butler -- Mr Chaplin as Dictator -- Goodbye to All This -- Reporter -- 1942: Hollywood at War -- Jamming the Sombrero Back On -- Testing Americans' Taste and Thoughts -- Movies That Are Like Life: Brief Encounter -- Mr Bogart Defends His Own -- The Other Hollywood -- This Is Cinerama -- A Hollywood Ex-Communist -- The French Line: Morality Squad at Work -- Is US Television Killing the Movies? -- DiMaggio and Monroe -- The Dispatch from Muskegon -- A McCarthy Legacy -- How Television Has Hit the Cinema in the USA -- Hollywood Stars on the Rack -- The Death of the Movies? -- Annual Parade of Leading Film Stars -- Showing Mr K the 'Real America' -- The Script That Got Away -- First Night for Doomsday: On the Beach -- The End Is Nigh -- Dignified Hollywood Awards its Oscars -- Mr Zanuck Triumphs -- Cleopatra, a Working Girl's Dream -- Men Zsa Zsa Did Not Want to Meet -- Festivals of Blood and Guts -- The Video-cassette Recorder -- People -- Charlie Chaplin Talks -- Messrs George Cukor and C. Aubrey Smith -- A Remarkable Man -- Chaplin at Work and Play -- Ho! Buicks! -- The First Comment on American Life -- The Making of 'Doug': The Athlete -- To Iris Barry (1895-1969) -- Will Hays: An Appreciation -- Bogart and the Age of Violence -- For Nunnally Johnson -- Georgia Boy at the Hollywood Bash -- Preston Sturges: The Man Who Succumbed to Hollywood -- The Positive Demise of G and S -- Archetype of the Hemingway Hero -- Marilyn Is Dead -- The Bacall of a Wild Martini -- Genius as an Urchin -- Yakima Canutt Is Dead -- Garbo and the Night Watchman -- Longevity -- Meeting the Stars -- Envoi -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.