Orson Welles

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"Barbara Learning's biography of Orson Welles is utterly fascinating: a beautifully researched, valuable study of one of America's most influential and mysterious artists. But what makes this book remarkable is Welles's own contribution. His comments, opinions, interviews cut in and out of the narrative with an almost cinematic force." —Patricia Bosworth, author of Diane Arbus: A Biography
The publication of Barbara Learning's Orson Welles is a major event. Here, for the first time, is a firsthand portrait of a flamboyant American genius—onstage, behind the camera, in love, or under tfie gun—written with its subject's complete cooperation.
Orson Welles is a titanic figure in twentieth-century popular culture, and the list of fiis achievements is unmatchable: as director of the so-called "Voodoo Macbeth" for the WPA, and of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and the fascist Julius Caesar for his own Mercury Theatre, he revolutionized American drama; as The Shadow and—more... Tovább

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"Barbara Learning's biography of Orson Welles is utterly fascinating: a beautifully researched, valuable study of one of America's most influential and mysterious artists. But what makes this book remarkable is Welles's own contribution. His comments, opinions, interviews cut in and out of the narrative with an almost cinematic force." —Patricia Bosworth, author of Diane Arbus: A Biography
The publication of Barbara Learning's Orson Welles is a major event. Here, for the first time, is a firsthand portrait of a flamboyant American genius—onstage, behind the camera, in love, or under tfie gun—written with its subject's complete cooperation.
Orson Welles is a titanic figure in twentieth-century popular culture, and the list of fiis achievements is unmatchable: as director of the so-called "Voodoo Macbeth" for the WPA, and of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and the fascist Julius Caesar for his own Mercury Theatre, he revolutionized American drama; as The Shadow and—more infamously—as the creator of the sensational "War of the Worlds" broadcast, he threw a nation of radio listeners into a terrified frenzy; as a director and actor, he made cinematic history with movies like Citizen Kane, The Lxidy from Shanghai, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Third Man; as a political columnist, speech-writer, and aspiring candidate, he helped to steer the course of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 presidential campaign and to advocate the cause of international reconciliation in the postwar period. He found time, too, for a passionate attachment to Dolores Del Rio, a stormy marriage to Rita Hayworth, an affair with Judy Garland, a deep and close Vissza