Vanity Will Get You Somewhere - Hardcover

Cotten, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916515176 ISBN 13: 9780916515171

Publisher: Mercury House, 1987

Synopsis

The noted actor traces his life from his tidewater, Virginia beginnings and goes behind the scenes of his stage plays and movies with intimate stories of his adventures with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Katharine Hepburn, and others

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Cotten was born in Petersburg, Virginia. After becoming a stage actor he joined the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles, which led him to Hollywood and starring roles in sixty films, including Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Shadow of a Doubt and Gaslight.

From Publishers Weekly:

This engagingly humorous and touching memoir describes Cotten's modest beginnings: birth in 1905 and growing up in Virginia, struggling for acting roles as a youth in New York and a significant meeting during the early 1930s with radio actor Orson Welles. Their ongoing friendship and professional association was established at the Mercury Theatre, leading to film landmarks like Citizen Kane and The Third Man. Cotten also recalls his stage role in Katharine Hepburn's Broadway record-breaker, The Philadelphia Story and his subsequent performances in movies. There are vivid accounts of his years in Hollywood and his relations with celebrities to whom he pays generous tributes. The book movingly expresses Cotten's feelings of loss at the deaths of his closest friends, David O. Selznick and Orson Welles. Photos not seen by PW. 40,000 first printing; first serial to American Film magazine; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mercury House
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0916515176
• ISBN 13: 9780916515171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32