Mildred Pierce

Albert J. LaValley, associate professor of film and English at Rutgers University, was, at the time this book was published, visiting associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.