Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans

Name: Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans
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ISBN: 9780140275179

ISBN-10: 0140275177

ISBN-13: 9780140275179

Edition: N/A

Authors: Simon Callow

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As a man and an artist, Orson Welles was larger-than-life--vivid, energetic, unpredictable, and riveting. But in this first volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Simon Callow finally captures the chameleonic genius whole, as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here, brilliantly placed in its historical and social setting, is Welles's prodigious childhood; his youth in New York, with its fraught partnership with John Houseman and the groundbreaking triumphs of his all-black Macbeth and his modern-dress Julius Caesar; the pioneering radio work that culminated in the notorious 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds"; and finally,…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.42" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface



Tarzan Triumphs



Orson Ascendant



Pampered Youth



The Best Man in Hollywood



Carnival



Only Orson and God



Pomona



Turning a Bad Koerner



Four Men on a Raft



Look Who's Laughing



Plain Talk by the Man from Mars



Ceiling Unlimited



It All Comes Out of the Tent of Wonder



Unrehearsed Realities



Actor Turns Columnist



An Occasional Soapbox



Welleschmerz



The S. T. Ranger



Full, Complete and Unrestricted Authority



Wellesafloppin'



Officer X



If I Die Before I Wake



The Forces of Darkness



The Welles of Onlyness



The Charm's Wound Up


The Stage Productions


The Radio Broadcasts


The Films


The Writings


The Records


References


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index