Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles - Softcover

Brady, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385267592 ISBN 13: 9780385267595

Publisher: Anchor, 1990

Synopsis

Discusses the life and work of widely-acclaimed actor Orson Welles, revealing the private man behind the public persona

About this title

From Library Journal:

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
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

"Brady's quiet but unrelenting passion for his subject pulsates beneath his variegated and vastly human portrait of stage, radio and film genius Welles," observed PW. Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385267592
• ISBN 13: 9780385267595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 655