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Autore: | Skal David J |
Titolo: | Claude Rains [[electronic resource] ] : an actor's voice / / David J. Skal ; with Jessica Rains |
Pubblicazione: | Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.4302/8092 |
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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 |
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