Acknowledgments

Platinum Blonde is published with cooperation of Peter Swerling on behalf of the Jo Swerling Estate.

It Happened One Night is published with kind permission of the Samuel Hopkins Adams Estate.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is published with kind permission of the Clarence Budington Kelland Estate.

Lost Horizon is published with kind permission of the James Hilton Estate.

Special thanks to Michael Hodgson, Nat Segaloff, Ned Comstock at USC, Leith G. Johnson at Wesleyan, Su Lesser and Tracy Fabrick in Licensing at Columbia/Sony, J.D. Brown, for diligent editing, and Ernest Callenbach of the UC Press, who gave the green light.

Photographs are courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the University of Southern California Cinema-Television Archives (the Fay Wray/Robert Riskin collection), and the Cinema Archives, Wesleyan University (the Frank Capra collection).

Continuity transcripts were furnished through the gracious cooperation of William A. Evans, New York State Archives, Cultural Education Center.

Authorized permission to publish this collection of screenplays was granted by Fay Wray, Frank Capra, and Columbia Pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment).