LEADER 02819nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910458140203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-3885-X 010 $a1-282-93731-6 010 $a9786612937316 010 $a0-8131-7218-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054905 035 $a(EBL)792236 035 $a(OCoLC)697175236 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000434518 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11252840 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434518 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395438 035 $a(PQKB)11488542 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792236 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3064 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL792236 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438030 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293731 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054905 100 $a20080613d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClaude Rains$b[electronic resource] $ean actor's voice /$fDavid J. Skal ; with Jessica Rains 210 $aLexington $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 1 $aScreen classics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8131-2432-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index. 327 $aFront 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 330 $aLate in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains ""was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself."" In Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly-released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the actor nominated multiple times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This portrait of a universally respected Hollywood legend also benefits from the insights of his daughter, Jessica Rains, who provides firsthand accounts of the enigmatic man b 410 0$aScreen classics (Lexington, Ky.) 606 $aActors$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aActors 676 $a791.4302/8092 676 $aB 700 $aSkal$b David J$01046507 701 $aRains$b Jessica$01046508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458140203321 996 $aClaude Rains$92473459 997 $aUNINA