"The purpose of this Guide is to introduce scholars, students, and general readers to a remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932), which has enjoyed considerably high esteem but remains less familiar than other acknowledged classics of its era. The Guide will devote individual chapters to the work's genesis and development of the screenplay, the songs, the instrumental numbers, the role censorship has played in the history of the film, and the film's reception from its time to ours. All of these topics will be informed by extensive archival holdings in several major library collections as well as the indispensable resources housed at the Paramount Studio archives. While the Guide does not ignore the many notable cinematic aspects of this film that have been so ably explored by film scholars, it will allow more space for the musical, literary, and dramatic dimensions that have received less emphasis in previous film studies. It is hoped that this added musical emphasis will shed new light on why Love Me Tonight merits this kind of scholarly study as well as critical attention and respect"--