Citizen Welles : a biography of Orson Welles
Language: English Publication details: London Hodder & Stoughton 1990 Description: xiii, 655 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 0340513896Subject(s): Welles, Orson, 1915-1985Summary: 0340513896Summary: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: A decade in the research and writing, biographer Frank Brady's Citizen Welles is the first comprehensive life story, definitive for our time, of Orson Welles through to his death in 1985. Welles's influence on several generations of American filmmakers, from Kubrick to Spielberg, for example, is incalculable. Welles's creative achievements, from the best known - his all-time great movie Citizen Kane and his notorious radio show The War of the Worlds - to his pioneering presentations in the popular theatre of the classics of Shakespeare, Shaw, Ionesco, and his stardom as an actor are at the heart of Brady's biography. But Brady tells, too, the more personal side of Welle's life, such as his amours with Rita Hayworth and Dolores Del Rio and the confounding tragedy of Welles's sad final years, in part, Brady shows, the consequences of early success.Summary: 2022| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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0340513896
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A decade in the research and writing, biographer Frank Brady's Citizen Welles is the first comprehensive life story, definitive for our time, of Orson Welles through to his death in 1985. Welles's influence on several generations of American filmmakers, from Kubrick to Spielberg, for example, is incalculable. Welles's creative achievements, from the best known - his all-time great movie Citizen Kane and his notorious radio show The War of the Worlds - to his pioneering presentations in the popular theatre of the classics of Shakespeare, Shaw, Ionesco, and his stardom as an actor are at the heart of Brady's biography. But Brady tells, too, the more personal side of Welle's life, such as his amours with Rita Hayworth and Dolores Del Rio and the confounding tragedy of Welles's sad final years, in part, Brady shows, the consequences of early success.
2022
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