02819nam 2200625Ia 450 991045814020332120200520144314.00-8131-3885-X1-282-93731-697866129373160-8131-7218-7(CKB)2560000000054905(EBL)792236(OCoLC)697175236(SSID)ssj0000434518(PQKBManifestationID)11252840(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434518(PQKBWorkID)10395438(PQKB)11488542(MiAaPQ)EBC792236(MdBmJHUP)muse3064(Au-PeEL)EBL792236(CaPaEBR)ebr10438030(CaONFJC)MIL293731(EXLCZ)99256000000005490520080613d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClaude Rains[electronic resource] an actor's voice /David J. Skal ; with Jessica RainsLexington University Press of Kentuckyc20081 online resource (337 p.)Screen classicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8131-2432-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.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; PhotographsLate 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 bScreen classics (Lexington, Ky.)ActorsUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Actors791.4302/8092BSkal David J1046507Rains Jessica1046508MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458140203321Claude Rains2473459UNINA