Hello Americans

by Callow, Simon (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140275179
• ISBN10: 0140275177
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-27
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

The first volume of Simon Callow’s magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a splendidly entertaining, definitive work” by Entertainment Weekly. Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years following Citizen Kaneup to the time of Macbeth, in which Welles’s Hollywood film career unraveled. In close and colorful detail, Callow offers a scrupulous analysis of the factors involved, revealing the immense and sometimes self-defeating complexities of Welles’s temperament as well as some of the monstrous personalities with whom he had to contend.

Author Biography

Simon Callow is an actor, director, and writer. His film appearances include the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral. He is the author of Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, and a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Tarzan Triumphs
Orson Ascendant	p. 3
Pampered Youth	p. 18
The Best Man in Hollywood	p. 43
Carnival	p. 57
Only Orson and God	p. 78
Pomona	p. 86
Turning a Bad Koerner	p. 104
Four Men on a Raft	p. 113
Look Who's Laughing	p. 130
Plain Talk by the Man from Mars
Ceiling Unlimited	p. 155
It All Comes Out of the Tent of Wonder	p. 180
Unrehearsed Realities	p. 201
Actor Turns Columnist	p. 222
An Occasional Soapbox	p. 252
Welleschmerz
The S. T. Ranger	p. 265
Full, Complete and Unrestricted Authority	p. 280
Wellesafloppin'	p. 303
Officer X	p. 323
If I Die Before I Wake	p. 347
The Forces of Darkness	p. 382
The Welles of Onlyness	p. 402
The Charm's Wound Up	p. 414
The Stage Productions	p. 445
The Radio Broadcasts	p. 447
The Films	p. 457
The Writings	p. 461
The Records	p. 463
References	p. 465
Bibliography	p. 491
Acknowledgements	p. 495
Index	p. 499
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