Table of Contents Prologue vii Part I: The Road to Stardom (1951-1959) 1. Down Among the Z Men 2 2. The Ladykillers 6 3. The Smallest Show on Earth 11 4. The Naked Truth 16 5. tom thumb 21 6. Up the Creek 25 7. Carlton-Browne of the F.

0. 28 8. The Mouse That Roared 32 9. I'm All Right, Jack 37 10. The Battle of the Sexes 42 Part 11: The Best Sellers List (1960-1964) 11. Two-Way Stretch 48 12. Never Let Go 51 13. The Millionairess 56 14.

Only Two Can Play 61 15. Waltz of the Toreadors 67 16. Lolita 70 17. The Wrong Am of the Law 78 18. Heavens Above! 83 19. The Pink Panther 88 20. Dr. Strangelove 94 21.

The World of Henry Orient 104 22. A Shot in the Dark 108 Part 111: The Lost Decade (1965-1974) 23. What's New, Pussycat? 116 24. The Wrong Box 121 25. After the Fox 125 26. Casino Royale 131 27. The Bobo 137 28. The Party 142 29.

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 147 30. The Magic Christian 154 31. Hojhan 157 32. There's a Girl in My Soup 161 33. Where Does It Hurt? 166 34. The Blockhouse 170 35. The Optimists of Nine Elms 173 36.

Ghost in the Noonday Sun 178 Part IV: A Sellers Market (1975-1980) 37. The Return of the Pink Panther 184 38. Murder by Death 190 39. The Pink Panther Strikes Again 195 40. The Revenge of the Pink Panther 198 41. The Prisoner of Zenda 205 42. Being There 209 43. The Fiendish Plot of Dr.

Fu Manchu 217 44. Epilogue 222 Part V: Interview with Blake Edwards 225 Notes 245 Index 255.