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Examines the life and work of the distinguished actor and filmmaker, detailing his influence on others in the film business, his troubled careers, and his tragic final years
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Brady's quiet but unrelenting passion for his subject pulsates beneath his variegated and vastly human portrait of stage, radio and film genius Orson Welles. In addition to vivid behind-the-scenes accounts of such acknowledged Welles landmarks as his innovative Mercury Theatre productions, the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast and film masterpieces Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons , Brady, biographer of Streisand, Hugh Hefner et al., unsparingly chronicles Welles's professional descent in a commercially oriented Hollywood that consistently turned a blind eye to the iconoclastic artist in its midst. Ironically, like his most enduring character, Charles Foster Kane, whom he once described as "fighting a losing battle with the twentieth century," Welles, in Brady's candid depiction, ends up a somewhat embittered, bewildered victim of the same fate. Photos.
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Welles personified the cliche "bigger than life." His overwhelming persona and unfulfilled promise have been much written about, but little has been revealed about the man. Welles said he did not want an accurate description of himself but a flattering one, and he was not above embroidering the truth. Despite exhaustive research, this long and densely detailed biography, with its lengthy re-created conversations and minutiae, does not really succeed in finding the man beneath the legend. It is, however, quite readable despite Brady's tendency to pun and deserves a place beside Barbara Leaming's authorized biography, Orson Welles (Viking, 1985). It is superior to Charles Higham's somewhat superficial Orson Welles (LJ 12/1/85).
- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
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- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0340513896
- ISBN 13 9780340513897
- BindingHardcover
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