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Sins come in all sizes and have unseen consequences. Death is no escape of God's requirement to forgive as Roger Dale, Thomas Winslow, and Donna Morris soon learn. Roger Dale lived the prototypical Southern Baptist lifestyle. He had the perfect wife, the perfect job, two wonderful children, remembered to go to Church on Sundays, and sinned at will with the certain knowledge that Heaven was his reward. Thomas Winslow was a hardworking trucker that never got a break in life. Two failed marriages and dead end jobs made him bitter toward the world. Donna Morris married the wrong man, but made the best of it. She lived her entire life trying to atone for a teenage mistake. When they met their final fates much too young, they awoke in a strange world where they faced every person they ever sinned against, relived each sin in excruciating detail, and sought forgiveness before facing their own final judgment. Only then did they realize the pervasiveness of sin and the true meaning of forgiveness.

This is the autobiography of one of Hollywood's most consistently successful motion picture directors--a giant in the film industry with more than 75 pictures to his credit, including such classics as Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Quo Vadis, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, and No Time for Sergeants, plus, as MGM's head of production, the decision to make The Wizard of Oz. Leroy began his career hawking newspapers in San Francisco at the age of ten after his father's death. Soon he got a bit part in a play, beginning his love affair with show business. Winning a stage contest for the best imitation of Charlie Chaplin earned for him a solo act stint with Sid Grauman's gaudy midway show. After World War I he left vaudeville to try his luck in Hollywood, starting off as a wardrobe assistant. He finally found his true calling when assigned to direct Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes in No Place to Go, and the rest is history: the golden years of Hollywood, in the company of such giants as Jesse Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Jack L. Warner, Irving Thalberg, and Louis B. Mayer, in addition to Hollywood's greatest stars and several whom he discovered, including Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum and Lana Turner.--Adapted from dust jacket.

See "Unemployment in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1946" (U2720B001.0050-1947) for description of contents.