Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Bloody Idiots Who Couldn't Learn Their Lines
2 Marriages and Mustard Gas
3 An Actor Abroad
4 Invisibility and After
5 Mr. Rains Goes to Burbank
6 Now, Contract Player
7 MacGuffins, Deceptions, Domestic Recriminations
8 New Stages and Final Curtains
Appendix: The Work of Claude Rains
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index