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

• Autore: Skal David J
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/8092; B
• Soggetto topico: Actors - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RainsJessica
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Claude Rains
• ISBN: 0-8131-3885-X; 1-282-93731-6; 9786612937316; 0-8131-7218-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458140203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)