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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458140203321

Autore

Skal David J

Titolo

Claude Rains [[electronic resource] ] : an actor's voice / / David J. Skal ; with Jessica Rains

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2008

ISBN

0-8131-3885-X

1-282-93731-6

9786612937316

0-8131-7218-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Screen classics

Altri autori (Persone)

RainsJessica

Disciplina

791.4302/8092

B

Soggetti

Actors - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Bloody Idiots Who Couldn't Learn Their Lines; 2 Marriages and Mustard Gas; 3 An Actor Abroad; 4 Invisibility and After; 5 Mr. Rains Goes to Burbank; 6 Now, Contract Player; 7 MacGuffins, Deceptions, Domestic Recriminations; 8 New Stages and Final Curtains; Appendix: The Work of Claude Rains; Notes and Sources; Bibliography; Index; Photographs

Sommario/riassunto

Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains ""was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself."" In Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly-released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the actor nominated multiple times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This portrait of a universally respected Hollywood legend also benefits from the insights of his daughter, Jessica Rains, who provides firsthand accounts of the enigmatic man b