Leo McCarey

This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer producer and director (<I>Duck Soup</I> <I>My Favorite Wife</I> <I>An Affair to Remember</I> <I>Going My Way</I> and <I>The Bells of St. Mary's</I>) 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.