Alan Dale worked at a Los Angeles talent agency before earning a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey
Preface
xi
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble
1
(30)
Chaplin as Proteus, Low-Down and High Up
31
(28)
Junior: Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton
59
(33)
Girl Heroes
92
(40)
The Marx Brothers: The Buoyant Refuse of Our Teeming Shore
132
(29)
Preston Sturges: Girl in a Jam, Boy in a Jam
161
(29)
Jerry Lewis: The Once and Future King of Comedy
190
(23)
Coda
213
(8)
Notes
221
(16)
Works Cited
237
(10)
Index
247
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