Introduction
The writer from Wahoo
The writer in Hollywood
The sound (literally) of music
The musical recession
"Naughty, bawdy, gawdy, sporty Forty-Second Street"
On the twentieth century
The hyphenated studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
The last days of Fox Film
Zanuck's first blonde: Alice Faye
The long goodbye
The Zanuck musical as woman's film
The musicalized film: Shirley Temple, Sonja Henie, and Centennial Summer
Replacement blonde: Betty Grable
Zanuck's Broadway
The lady with the million dollar legs
The pocket Grable: June Haver
The cherry blonde: Vivian Blaine
Pin down girl
"I hated Marilyn Monroe!"
The blonde exception: Mitzi Gaynor
Four from Rodgers and Hammerstein: State Fair, Carousel, The King and I, and The Sound of Music
Richard Zanuck's follies: Doctor Doolittle, Star!, and Hello, Dolly!
Fade-out
Notes
Filmography
Index.