"Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship" – Choice In a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thoroughly enjoyed your 'McCarey vs Capra' article [included in the anthology]. I must also tell you that we were intimate friends. " WES D. GEHRING is the Distinguished Professor of Film at Ball State University and associate media editor of USA Today Magazine , for which he also writes the column "Reel World." Author of 40 film books, their reception has resulted in speaking engagements from the Paris-Sorbonne University, to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Since 2017 he has also been one of Turner Classic Movies' (TCM) on-screen scholars for their summer online classes.