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UNINA9910458140203321 |
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Autore |
Skal David J |
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Titolo |
Claude Rains [[electronic resource] ] : an actor's voice / / David J. Skal ; with Jessica Rains |
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Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2008 |
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0-8131-3885-X |
1-282-93731-6 |
9786612937316 |
0-8131-7218-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Actors - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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