Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

 

Acknowledgments
Introduction
On Characters: Preston Sturges’s Ensemble
My Two Oscars: On Wit and Melancholy
Celeste Holm Syndrome: The Eyes of Sister Scholastica
Double Take: Jack Carson Agonistes
Comedy and Pain: Eric Blore, with a Side of Franklin Pangborn
Ma: Five Movie Mothers, with a Coda on Hitchcock
My Family Romance: Edward Everett Horton and Jessie Royce Landis
Martin Balsam: The Best Possible Arnold Burns

David Lazar is a professor at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms (Nebraska, 2017), Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy? An Essay on Love, and Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013). He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika.