About the Author

Bernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books, including The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television; The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes; That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical; The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War; The President's Ladies: Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis; Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young; and Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, all published by University Press of Mississippi.