Bernard F. Dick
Bernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books, including 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; Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell; and Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
The Screen Is Red
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
A treatment of cinema’s long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism
Forever Mame
The Life of Rosalind Russell
A biography of the full and rewarding life of a Golden Age star
That Was Entertainment
The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
The extraordinary story of Arthur Freed and the mighty musical genius of MGM
- Copyright year: 2018
The President’s Ladies
Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis
Three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), Jane Wyman (1917–2007), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921–2016)
Hollywood Madonna
Loretta Young
The first comprehensive biography of the talented devout Catholic who deceived the world by falsely adopting her love child
Claudette Colbert
She Walked in Beauty
A biography of the award–winning and versatile star of screen, stage, and television
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
The first book to explore the impact the innovative studio executive had on American movie musicals
The Musicals of Cole Porter
Broadway, Hollywood, Television
A pivotal examination of one of America’s greatest songwriters, his lyrics, and his lifelong attempt to define the nature of love
- Copyright year: 2025