Orson Welles: A Biography - Softcover

Leaming, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140096205 ISBN 13: 9780140096200

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986

Synopsis

Based on two years of interviews and research, this biography portrays the flamboyant American genius onstage, behind the camera, in love, and under the gun

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From the Back Cover:

Here is a firsthand portrait of the flamboyant American genius who became a titanic figure in twentieth-century popular culture. Orson Welles revolutionized theatre, terrified a nation of radio listeners, and made cinematic history with Citizen Kane, regarded by many as the greatest American film ever made. Building on two years of uninhibited, in-depth interviews with Welles, and on painstaking research in archives and among Welles's contemporaries, Barbara Leaming tells the full story - from Welles's childhood to his glory days in New York and Hollywood, through the years of European exile to his haunting twilight and, in a new epilogue, his death. Publication of this book was, and is again, a major event.

Synopsis:

Here is a first-hand portrait of the flamboyant American genius who became a titanic figure in twentieth century popular culture. Orson Welles revolutionised theatre, terrified a nation of radio listeners, and made cinematic history with Citizen Kane, regarded by many as the greatest American film ever made.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140096205
• ISBN 13: 9780140096200
• Binding: Paperback