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Title: Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
Author: Charles Higham
IBSN: 9780450411229, 0450411222
Publisher: New English Library
Publication Year: 1986
Page count: 377
Format: Hardcover
Description:

Orson Welles is probably known as the creator of Citizen Kane, the controversial masterpiece against which all other movies are compared. As an actor he will also be remembered for his part in The Third Man, and for Shakespearean roles in his own productions, including an astonishing Macbeth. But Orson Welles led one of the most unusual lives ever documented.

A teenage prodigy, Wlles earned fame quickly when he made the radio broadcast America has never forgotten - the notorious War of the Worlds. A restless, maniacally driven innovator, he had revolutionised the theatre, films and radio before he was thirty.

But life was troublesome for this witty, bold, ruthlessly ambitious young man. He opposed and satirised the powerful and rich on stage and screen and was otracised from their world. He drove himself and his casts and crew mercilessly. He married several beautiful women, including Rita Hayworth, but his marriages failed.

With Orson Welles' death in 1985, cinema and stage lost a superstar of seemingly limitless talent. Charles Higham's biography, painstakingly researched from thousands of documents and sources, tells the story of this remarkable man accurately and completely for the first time, contradicting everything that Welles ever said about himself in print!

This complete look at America's greatest actor/writer/director is bound to take its rightful place among the classic biographies and books on film and theatre.

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