Orson Welles

  • Orson Welles: A Biography
    By Barbara Leaming

    Orson knew that he had plenty of serious preparation to do for his goodwill lecture tour (including studying elementary Portuguese for his stay in Rio), so he dispatched Miriam Geiger to gather background information on the South ...

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans
    By Simon Callow

    At the same time, the book gives full weight to the almost bewildering range of his activities beyond Hollywood.

  • Orson Welles: One-Man Band
    By Simon Callow

    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 ...

  • Orson Welles: One Man Band
    By Simon Callow

    In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the ...

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans
    By Simon Callow

    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 ...

  • Orson Welles
    By Barbara Leaming

    Tras cada episodio de su vida contada parece oírse la voz de Orson Welles , comentándola, reinvetándola, casi reescribiéndola con Barbara Leaming quien sabe registrarlo todo con habilidad para nuestro mayor deleite.

  • Orson Welles
    By Simon Callow

    In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the ...

  • Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
    By Simon Callow

    If anyone can properly be called larger than life, it is Orson Welles. His career was spectacular--publicity-ridden, brilliantly inventive, and controversial. From first to last, Orson Welles was a star....

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans
    By Simon Callow

    The first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by "Entertainment Weekly." Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the...

  • Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Scene by Scene
    By Randy Rasmussen

    In The Magic World of Orson Welles James Naremore remarks that the great variety among the types of people and occupations on display in this shot contributes to our impression of diversity (Naremore, p.¡57). Music originating from the ...

  • Orson Welles
    By Joseph McBride, British Film Institute

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  • Orson Welles: Interviews
    By Orson Welles

    This book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye.

  • ORSON WELLES
    By Ben Walters

    Orson Welles (1915-1985) fue el niño prodigio que electrizó a Broadway a los 21 años de edad, que aterrorizó a Norteamérica con su emisión radiofónica de La guerra de los...

  • Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
    By Charles Higham

    Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius

  • Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
    By Simon Callow

    A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.

  • Orson Welles: A Biography
    By Barbara Leaming

    "...[A] beautifully researched, valuable study of one of America's most influential and mysterious artists. ...[What] makes this book remarkable is Welle's own contribution.

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    Orson Welles

  • Orson Welles
    By Santos Zunzunegui

    Dos grandes interpretaciones suelen manejarse para explicar la peculiar carrera cinematográfica de Orson Welles (1915-1985): una, la que lo presenta como un artista incomprendido y genial, víctima propiciatoria de un sistema incapaz de ...

  • Orson Welles: Actor and Director
    By Carole Marsh

    Orson Welles was many things - actor, radio personality, director, writer and producer.

  • Orson Welles: A Critical View
    By André Bazin

    French critic André Bazin was 28 when Orson Welles's Citizen Kane opened in Paris. Four years later he wrote his first book with Welles as its subject; it would quickly...