ORSON WELLES: RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN GENIUS - Hardcover

Charles Higham

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9780450392849: ORSON WELLES: RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN GENIUS
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0450392848 ISBN 13: 9780450392849
Publisher: New English Library, 1986

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Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius

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This is the second full-length biography of one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century show business. The other, Barbara Leaming's recent study ( LJ 8/85), had the advantage of Welles's cooperation. Not only that, but it is better written and better researched and provides a generally more reflective look at its subject. Higham's book is curiously shaped; it spends an inordinate amount of time tracing Welles's genealogy, but gives a mere 30 pages to the last 35 years of his life. Only an exceptionally comprehensive collection would require this. Thomas Wiener, ``American Film,'' Washington, D.C.
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Publisher
New English Library
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0450392848
ISBN 13 
9780450392849
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
392
Rating
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