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289 Acknowledgments First, my thanks to Leatrice Gilbert Fountain for giving me her blessings for this book about her father (and about her mother) and for not asking to peruse and approve it before publication. I nervously hope she likes it. This book certainly could not have been written without the help of James Zeruk Jr., the best researcher I have ever known. James is a historian and writer himself—his biography of Peg Entwistle promises to be amazing—so he knew just what would be useful to me and what would not. He is enthusiastic, tireless, good-humored, and altogether a dream of a researcher. As usual, my thanks to Richard Kukan for editing, fact checking, spell checking, and generally de-stupiding my manuscript. I would be lost without him. My appreciation as well to Michael Ankerich, Kate Anthony, Charles Cisneros, Willam M. Drew, Scott Eyman, Lorin Hart, Dorinda Hartman (the Library of Congress), Richard Lamparski, Donna Lethal, Joan Myers, Mel Neuhaus, Scott O’Brien, Stephen “Tad” O’Brien, the late Anita Page, James Robert Parish, Robert Pinals, Charles Silver (the Museum of Modern Art), Zoran Sinobad (the Library of Congress), Sheryl Stinchcum, and Ashley Swinnerton (the Museum of Modern Art) for their specific contributions. Thanks to everyone who supplied me with copies of John Gilbert films via DVD and VHS: Mel Neuhaus, James Robert Parish, Scott Eyman , Dennis Payne, Eric Monder. Thanks too to the good folks who arranged screenings for me at the Museum of Modern Art (Cameo Kirby, His Hour) and the Library of Congress (Golden Rule Kate, Happiness, The Hater of Men, His Glorious Night). ...

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