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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
xii, 562 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Genius, artist, monstre sacré, Orson Welles had one of the most brilliant and tempestuous careers in show business. Here he confides his most intimate feelings and recollections of his extraordinary life. With remarkable detail and intimacy, Barbara Leaming reveals the private Welles: from child prodigy and young lion in Dublin and New York, to the succès de scandale of his The War of the Worlds broadcast; from his auspicious directing debut with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"George Orson Welles (1915-1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in his Academy Award-winning debut film Citizen Kane (1941). His innovative and distinctive directorial style-nonlinear narratives, unusual camera angles, deep focus shots, and long takes-continues to be emulated by directors and cinematographers to this day....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 466 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The third volume of Simon Callow's acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (19471964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil. In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles's life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory...
7) Orson Welles
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996-<2006>
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
v. <1-2> : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur. There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure Orson Welles and an immensely entertaining story of growing up as his daughter in the unreal reality of Hollywood, enhanced by Welles Feder's collection of many never-before-seen family photographs.
12) The cutting room
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Like the hero in a classic Hitchcock thriller, the innocent movie buff at the center of this witty and suspenseful novel finds his ordinary life suddenly transformed when he's plunged into a harrowing game of intrigue, duplicity, and danger. Spurred into a frantic race from New York to Hollywood to Barcelona and back, he'll encounter enough hairpin twists, shocking surprises, white-knuckle tension, and sinister characters to give even the master of...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Extraordinary Image takes readers on a fascinating journey through the lives and films of three great directors-Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick-seeking to identify the qualities that made them cinematic visionaries. Offering a deeply personal set of reflections on three artists who have changed the way he understands movies, acclaimed scholar Robert P. Kolker leads readers on an exploration of how movies work, what they mean,...
16) RKO 281
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With narrator Rusty Redburn-a feisty second-string gossip columnist...
18) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Two disc special edition. Standard version. Newly remastered picture and sound.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (232 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The battle over Citizen Kane: Examines the lives of William Randolph Hearst, the powerful newspaper magnate, and director/actor Orson Welles as they clashed over Welles first film: "Citizen Kane". Hearst's reaction upon learning about the film, which portrayed him unfavorably, was to work to suppress it and destroy Welles. Major movie theater chains refused to show "Citizen Kane", and Welles' masterpiece virtually disappeared for almost 25 years....
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
[Widescreen].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young student finds love in the theater after being cast in a production of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles.
Home use only.
Publisher
Cinemanx Films ; distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009, 2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter, theater-loving teen Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when famous director Orson Welles (Christian McKay) gives him a small role in his 1937 production of "Julius Caesar." Unexpectedly thrust into the heady world of the stage, Richard finds himself surrounded by ambition, clashing egos and sheer brillance.
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