Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

Mervyn LeRoy was a well-known director and producer during the Golden Age of Hollywood, working on many highly memorable productions. He was also crucial in developing the method of production for the period, ultimately working on over sixty films across five decades.

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer and features a compilation of essays that discuss LeRoy’s films. This is the first book that is entirely dedicated to examining the career of LeRoy and offers many illuminating chapters about his work during the early years of sound cinema, World War II, and the Post-War Era.

This book is highly recommended to scholars interested in the work of and stories behind productions led by LeRoy.


Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is available for purchase via Rutgers University Press.

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About Annette Bochenek

Dr. Annette Bochenek of Chicago, Illinois, is an avid scholar of Hollywood’s Golden Age. She manages the Hometowns to Hollywood blog, in which she writes about her trips exploring the legacies and hometowns of Golden Age stars. Annette also hosts the “Hometowns to Hollywood” film series throughout the Chicago area. She has been featured on Turner Classic Movies and is the president of TCM Backlot’s Chicago chapter. In addition to writing for TCM Backlot, she also writes for Classic Movie Hub, Silent Film Quarterly, Nostalgia Digest, and Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine.
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