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Without the persistent advice and encouragement of Patrick McGilligan, this book would never have been finished. I would also like to thank the University Press of Kentucky—Leila Salisbury and Anne Dean Watkins and my anonymous readers—for their many and helpful comments along the way. I am particularly grateful to Chris Horak, without whose advice this would have been a lesser book; I haven't acknowledged his interventions on every occasion but they are threaded through everything I have written. Like everyone who has ever conducted archival research, I am indebted to the expertise of librarians. For their generous assistance, I wish to thank Ned Comstock at USC Special Collections and the staff at the Columbia University Archives, Margaret Herrick Library, Kiesler Stiftung Wien, New York Public Library, the UCLA and USC archives, and the Wien Bibliothek. Most of all, I would like to thank Rick Berg at USC for his enthusiasm, comments, and DVDs.

Many others also helped with answers to personal queries and assistance with research. Special thanks to Charles Amirkhanian; Marie-Theres Arnbom; Susanne Bach; Thomas Balhausen; Marlis Schmidt and Peter Spiegel, Austrian Film Archive Vienna; Matthew Bernstein; Christian Cargnelli; Kathleen Choo, Seminole County Library; Cordula Döhrer and Gerrit Thies, Deutsche Kinemathek; Martha Eggerth and Marjan Kiepura; Scott Eyman; Tag Gallagher; Jeanpaul Goergen; Stefan Grissemann; Anton Haslinger; Col. David Hughes; Gertrude Kittel; Jií Horníek, The National Film Archive in Prague; Noah Isenberg; Marie Karney; Fabienne Liptay; Diana Long, City of Altamonte Springs Library; Puppe Mandl; Terry McDonald, Trinity College Dublin Library; Barbara Obermaier; Tatjana Okresek; Mauro Piccinini; Ursula Prutsch; Richard Reilly; Rainer Rigele; Christian Rogowski; Florian Seebohm; Elyse Singer; Peter Paul Sint; Chuck Stansel; Richard Thorpe; Michael Tilson Thomas; Aris Venetikidis for Photoshop assistance; Anthony Weller; and Michael Wilson.

Research in the Cecil B. DeMille archives was carried out by McKenna Kirkpatrick. I am very grateful to him for his assistance.

Shortly after starting work on this project, I moved from University College Dublin to Trinity College Dublin (TCD). I would like to thank D. G. Fisher, Conn Holohan, Paula Quigley, and Kevin Rockett for their collegiality, and the research program at TCD for the financial assistance that enabled me to conduct the research for this book.

Most of all I would like to thank my family—my parents-in-law, John and Clare, my mother, Anne Barton, and my husband and three sons. This book is dedicated to them, with love.