Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than a half century.  As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio executive, he contributed substantially to the success of the industry during the challenging period of the Depression and also in the period of realignment and readjustment that followed the end of WWII. This book offers chapters devoted to individual films such as Little Caesar, Waterloo Bridge, 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Gypsy, and Quo Vadis.

Contributions by: Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Linda Badley, Kristen Hatch, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper, R. Barton Palmer, Adrian Danks, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Brenda Austin-Smith, Dominic Lennard, Daniel Varndell, Matthew Cipa, Murray Pomerance, Tom Conley