This Is Orson Welles - Softcover

Orson Welles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030680834X ISBN 13: 9780306808340

Publisher: DaCapo Press, 1998

Synopsis

Innovative film and theatre director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, Macbeth, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight , Welles was a master storyteller, as expansive as he was enigmatic. This Is Orson Welles , a collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into Welles's radio, theatre, film, and television work Hollywood producers, directors, and stars and almost everything else, from acting to magic, literature to comic strips, bullfighters to gangsters. Now including Welles's revealing memo to Universal about his artistic intentions for Touch of Evil, (of which the "director's edition" was released in Fall 1998) this book, which Welles ultimately considered his autobiography, is a masterpiece as unique and engaging as the best of his works.

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Product Description:

This is Orson Welles This collection of conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into Welles' radio, theatre, film and television work, and Hollywood producers, directors and stars. The book also includes Welles' revealing memo to Universal about his artistic goals for "Touch of Evil". Full description

From the Back Cover:

Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, Macbeth, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight, Welles was a master storyteller. This is Orson Welles, a collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into: Welles' radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars; and almost everything else, from acting to magic, literature to comic strips, bullfighters to gangsters.

About this edition

• Publisher: DaCapo Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 030680834X
• ISBN 13: 9780306808340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592