Claude Rains : an actor's voice /
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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2008.
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Series: | Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
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Summary: | 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 behind |
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Item Description: | Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 290 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813172187 0813172187 9780813138855 081313885X 1282937316 9781282937314 9786612937316 6612937319 |