Kathleen A Feeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen A Feeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Feeley |
| SIGNATURE | FEELEY K A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Inestimable Value to All of Us”
In 1943, Hollywood actor Olivia de Havilland, with her union the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) as amicus curiae, sued her employer, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., for release from her seven-year studio contract, which she had signed in 1936 and now considered fulfilled. Warner Bros., with Jack Warner as head of production, disagreed. The legal question at stake in De Haviland [sic] v. Warner Bros. (1944) was whether a California law limiting personal se…
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
In Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley offers not a biography of Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894)—one of the leading mid-twentieth-century American intermedia performers, editors, and producers—but a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny's persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. Fuller-Seeley not only a…
The antithesis of the film magnate’
As a powerful, high-profile member of Los Angeles’ Jewish and German-American communities and a founder of MGM, the native-born, middle-class Irving Thalberg was framed as a ‘better, finer’ Jew as compared to his older, immigrant, US film industry mentors. This essay sheds new light on Thalberg’s hybrid identity as German-Jewish-American, asking how it shaped his life, work, popular persona, and memory. As MGM production chief, Thalberg’s work in…
When Private Talk Goes Public
Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines
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When Private Talk Goes Public
Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines
The antithesis of the film magnate’
As a powerful, high-profile member of Los Angeles’ Jewish and German-American communities and a founder of MGM, the native-born, middle-class Irving Thalberg was framed as a ‘better, finer’ Jew as compared to his older, immigrant, US film industry mentors. This essay sheds new light on Thalberg’s hybrid identity as German-Jewish-American, asking how it shaped his life, work, popular persona, and memory. As MGM production chief, Thalberg’s work in…
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
In Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley offers not a biography of Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894)—one of the leading mid-twentieth-century American intermedia performers, editors, and producers—but a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny's persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. Fuller-Seeley not only a…
Of Inestimable Value to All of Us”
In 1943, Hollywood actor Olivia de Havilland, with her union the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) as amicus curiae, sued her employer, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., for release from her seven-year studio contract, which she had signed in 1936 and now considered fulfilled. Warner Bros., with Jack Warner as head of production, disagreed. The legal question at stake in De Haviland [sic] v. Warner Bros. (1944) was whether a California law limiting personal se…
Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Culture of the United States (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hollywood (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)