This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and director (Duck Soup, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way, and The Bells of St. Mary's) explores the director's life as filtered through his art. Gehring maintains that McCarey's films were often a reworking of his antiheroic self. In addition, the apparent diversity of his films actually represents an interrelated web of various comedy genres and a pattern of antiheroic characters and themes.
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Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Prologue Chapter 4 1. The Early Years Chapter 5 2. Silent Film Beginnings and Charley Chase Chapter 6 3. McCarey Teams and Molds Laurel & Hardy Chapter 7 4. The Early Features Chapter 8 5. Eddie Cantor, Ernest Hemingway, and the Marx Brothers Chapter 9 6. From Personality Comedians to an Attempted Kidnapping Chapter 10 7. Laughton, Lincoln, and Lloyd Chapter 11 8. Rethinking a Career and a Memorable 1937 Chapter 12 9. A Cowboy, A Cruise, A Crash, and Cary Chapter 13 10. From Dark Comedy to Father O'Malley Chapter 14 11. From O'Malley to McCarthy Chapter 15 12. Old Projects and Final Films Chapter 16 Epilogue Chapter 17 Filmography Chapter 18 Selected Bibliography Chapter 19 Index Chapter 20 About the Author
